“America’s Deadliest Frat” Allegedly Attacks Jewish Frat at U. Arizona
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the fraternity whose icy ‘torture’ of pledges that evoked Tarantino films and has led to its moniker of “America’s Deadliest Frat”, is now facing another new crisis.
The University of Arizona put the fraternity on an interim suspension while it investigates a report that members attacked a Jewish frat.
According to Tucson News Now, police determined an SAE member he had taken “dozens” of his brothers on Nov. 14 to an apartment where several Alpha Epsilon Pi members live, where they banged on the door and shouted racial slurs. Four members of Alpha Epsilon Pi, or AEPi, a Jewish fraternity, were assaulted.
SAE is now being investigated for violating the UA code of conduct on charges of “endangering/threat/ cause harm, off campus behavior, and discriminatory activities,” according to the university’s Greek life website. SAE was already on probation for an alcohol violation. AEPi is also on an interim suspension for a potential violation of the alcohol policy.
Police said this attack is not being investigated as a hate crime.
Gideon Rafal, president of the UA chapter of AEPi, said at fraternity conference he experienced a similar attack in March. Rafal said he asked someone he didn’t know to leave his fraternity, and the guy raised his hand saluting Hitler, before rounding up a couple dozen other people to come back and attack Rafal.
University Of Arizona's Sigma Alpha Epsilon Allegedly Attacked Jewish Fraternity (The Huffington Post)
Comments
What I would like to see is a big student demonstration where this act is condemned and students, faculty and administrators make clear statements that Jewish students are welcome on campus and anti-Semitism is to be rejected. I would like to see the same reaction to this as we have seen at other schools like UC San Diego and UC Irvine when other groups have been victimized.
I am not holding my breath.
Gary Fouse
Adj teacher
Univ of Calif at Irvine Ext
“Four members of Alpha Epsilon Pi, or AEPi, a Jewish fraternity, were assaulted.”
I wish those students had been armed. A few perforations in their attackers might have done a great deal to permanently cool the ardor of that fraternity.