WASHINGTON: The president of a major US university on Tuesday expelled two students whose racist chant has roiled the campus in the Midwestern state of Oklahoma.
President David Boren announced the expulsion on Twitter, saying the two men who were expelled played a "leadership role" in singing the chant.
A video recording of the fraternity members singing the chant was released on the internet over the weekend.
The chant uses a racial slur, refers to the lynching of blacks and their exclusion from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity.
"I have emphasized that there is zero tolerance for this kind of threatening racist behaviour at the University of Oklahoma," Boren said in a statement.
"I hope that the entire nation will join us in having zero tolerance of such racism when it raises its ugly head in other situations across our country."
Boren had indicated Monday that expulsions were possible.
The fraternity was immediately evicted from its fraternity house near the campus in Norman, Oklahoma, and members were told to remove their belongings by midnight Tuesday.
The video emerged Sunday after being reportedly leaked to the student newspaper at the university, which has an enrolment of more than 30,000. – dpa
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