Looks like the community and the local papers are jumping on this story. The facts are pretty much irrelevant at this point. The story takes on its own life and people will see and hear what they want to as the media looks for sensation to sell papers or draw viewers.
Could this happen at your chapter?
TheBostonChannel.com - News - Another Campus Dealing With Alleged Hate Crime(with video)
Newscenter 5's Jorge Quiroga reported that no students at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house were willing to talk about the fight, which took place early Saturday morning, but a friend of the alleged victim said an argument between an Arab-American student and three fraternity members escalated into a beating.
"They said a racial slur to him, called him an Indian ... he immediately said, 'No, I'm Arab,' at which point the person said, 'That's even worse, you're a terrorist,'" according to Dan McDermott, a student of Irish-Lebanese descent who is friends with the alleged victim, Riyad Mohammed, president of the Arab Students Association.
According to Mohammed, after he walked his girlfriend home Saturday night, he passed the fraternity house, where the argument with three fraternity members allegedly escalated into a racial beating.
"They were screaming, 'Iraqi terrorist, Saddam supporter,' while [he was] being beaten," McDermott said.
Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Tufts rally slams racism, hate
MEDFORD -- Speaker after speaker used different words, but all had a common theme: Hatred hurts, hatred kills, and hatred will not be tolerated at Tufts University, where an Arab-American student alleges that three men attacked him over the weekend, calling him a terrorist and other names as they beat him unconscious.
At a midafternoon rally in front of Tisch Library yesterday, more than 150 people, including students and professors, denounced the alleged attack on Riyadh Mohammed outside Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity early Saturday as another act of racism on a member of the Tufts community.
