One other student reported being in a group of minority students that didn’t get into the party Friday night and four others accused the frat of blocking them out on other occasions.
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However, another student who was also afraid to be identified (largely because of the group’s influence on campus) said he was initially turned away because of his sexual orientation.
“If this did happen, and it sounds as if it may (have) – and I’m looking for confirmation on that – what do we do?” “If there is a violation of policy, then that would be something that we would refer to the Executive Committee, like any other violation of University policy”. Holloway declined to comment on the recent allegations against SAE, though he said his office is looking into the matter.
The student who made the “white girls only” claim, Neema Githere, refused to elaborate to the Daily on what happened Friday night, but in her Facebook post, she claims the frat also kept her out of a party on the same grounds a year ago. According to the initial investigation, the frat brothers were complying with a police-received noise complaint when they stopped admitting guests, the statement said.
On Saturday, the day after the party, Yale student Naeema Githere posted on Facebook about the incident, receiving over 900 likes and accounts of alleged incidents of discrimination by fraternities and sororities in the comments.
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The chapter president says people were turned away, but not due to race. He added that he held individual meetings with every member of SAE, and that no brothers described an incident similar to the one Petros-Gouin recounted.
According to the Washington Post, a fraternity brother present at the party who asked to remain anonymous says that the allegations of racism are false.
She wasn’t surprised that the fraternity would be screening, or that pretty girls might have a better chance of getting in.
“A group of girls came up who were predominantly black and Hispanic”, Sofia Petrol-Gouin, a visiting student from Columbia university told the Washington Post.
“When I first came up to the door they said, ‘Who the [expletive] do you think you are – you’re clearly gay.'”
A Yale University fraternity is under the microscope after reportedly throwing a halloween party themed “White Girls Only”. “We’re only looking for white girls”. That brother is African-American, he said, and others working the door at the time are Portuguese and Costa Rican.
A woman of color, Petros-Gouin said she was separated from her White friends as she tried to get into the party. Mueller said at that point SAE was not letting in any more students as per instructions from Yale Police.
Yale’s S.A.E. chapter, which was already banned from on-campus activities previous year, denied the allegations to the Yale Daily News. The fraternity’s president, Grant Mueller, told the college newspaper that he was “shocked and flabbergasted” and upset because the fraternity tries “to be so incredibly accepting and take pride in our diversity”.
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The national chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon has been investigating the allegations, it said in a statement on its website.
