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Read this university president’s candid reaction on Twitter to frat-house racism on his campus

By Sonali Kohli
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A Kappa Sigma fraternity member at University of Maryland, College Park is being investigated by the university for a racist, sexist email sent to six other students at the school over a year ago. Early this morning, the university’s president put out an official statement about the school’s response to the email, which references raping women during rush week and uses offensive language to describe black, Indian and Asian women.

President Loh followed that tweet with others, which he said were not him speaking as college president, but “as a person.” This is what he said:

Then Loh asked for student input.

The main photo in this post is by Flickr user Chris Hsia. The image has been cropped.

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