If the membership is indeed all white (or even disproportionately white beyond school demographics) then the chant is an explicit admission of racial discrimination.
Which is very much actionable by the University, at both the organizational and individual level. And has been well established as such within US law and legal precedent since the 1960s Civil Rights Acts.
I wouldn't go that far. I would check and see if any applicants had been unfairly rejected before I would start arguing that there was racial discrimination. It could be that no black people wanted to join that fraternity because they wanted to join a different one. That fraternity may not have been regarded as "cool" enough. I don't know.
The chant is evidence that they need to be scrutinized, but it doesn't necessarily prove anything in and of itself. I don't know how many members they have, but I don't think I seem more than ten or so in that video.
Surely the other people in that fraternity should not be painted with such a broad brush just because of the actions of those few?
But yeah, they need to be looked at.
Which is very much actionable by the University, at both the organizational and individual level. And has been well established as such within US law and legal precedent since the 1960s Civil Rights Acts.
If it can be demonstrated that they were violating Federal law in their practices then the University can probably take some sort of official retaliatory action.
But I have some concerns about this philosophy/principle of forced association. It is another form of "You don't have a right to believe that."
They are starting to apply it to queers, transgenders, and other mental cases.
Right.....freedoms of free assembly & association be damned!
To my mind these rights demand that private individuals and groups can freely assemble & associate with and without whom they please.