Selected History of SAE Fraternity




















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HISTORY OF THE SAE FRATERNITY
Sigma Alpha Epsilon (ΣΑΕ, also SAE) is one of the largest North American Greek-letter social college fraternities. It was founded at the University of Alabama on March 9, 1856.
In 1982 SAE members at the University of Cincinnati were suspended for a racially insensitive party corresponding with Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
The founding chapter at the University of Alabama was suspended in 1988 on cocaine-trafficking charges and for violating the university's code against drug use and trafficking. The suspension was lifted in 1990, but with a checklist of improvement goals that the chapter was required to fulfill; in 1992, the chapter was suspended again for failing to meet the outlined goals.
In 1997, the LSU chapter was suspended after one member died from alcohol poisoning. One member was praised for rescuing more than a dozen of his passed out brothers from death by ferrying them to the nearest hospital single handedly.[citation needed]
In 2002, Syracuse University officials suspended the SAE chapter after a member appeared in blackface. The member was expelled from the university.The chapter returned after the suspension and in 2006 was found guilty of hazing a new member by the university's Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.
In 2014, a rape allegedly took place at an SAE party at Loyola Marymount University. The national organization reacted by closing the chapter.
In 2013, SAE members at Washington University in St. Louis were suspended for singing racial slurs to African-American Students.
In 2014, the chapter at Clemson University hosted a "Cripmas" party in reference to Southern California based African-American crips gang. The chapter "suspended all activity indefinitely", according to the SAE national office.Also, in 2014, SAE members at the University of Arizona were suspended for attacking Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity.
In October 2014, the University of Southern California chapter was closed for reportedly "violating members' health and safety".
In December 2014, Stanford University announced a two-year suspension of SAE housing due to reports of sexual harassment.
In January 2015, a victim was hospitalized following allegations of sexual assault at a party at a SAE Iowa State University party. The incident is under investigation by police and the chapter suspended the member suspected of the assault.
The Yale University chapter faces a ban against use of the university email and bulletin board system as well as association of the fraternity name and the university following "inappropriate comments" made by SAE members.
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