AOL.com Article - Fraternity shuts Ole Miss branch after noose tying
A national fraternity group has closed its University of Mississippi
chapter after three members were accused of tying a noose around the
neck of a statue of the first black student to enroll in the Southern
college that was all-white at the time.
The university announced Thursday that the national office of Sigma Phi
Epsilon, based in Richmond, Va., had closed its Ole Miss chapter.
Besides the noose, someone draped a pre-2003 Georgia state flag with a
Confederate battle emblem in its design on the face of the James
Meredith statue in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 16. Meredith's enrollment
in 1962 set off a violent attack by anti-integration protesters on
federal authorities, leaving two people dead and scores injured.
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