JACKSON, Miss.
A University of Mississippi fraternity has been suspended for a year after a Black student said he was the victim of a racial slur and a physical assault at a fraternity party.
Jeremiah Taylor, an 18-year-old freshman from Southaven, Miss., said he was pushed down the stairs while attending a Delta Kappa Epsilon party Aug. 22 on the Oxford campus, according to Jeffrey Alford, associate vice chancellor for university relations at Ole Miss.
The student newspaper, The Daily Mississippian, reported Friday on its Web site that Taylor said he was called the “n-word” at the fraternity party.
Alford said Taylor filed a complaint on Aug. 24 with the Dean of Students’ office.
“The Dean of Students’ office investigated and brought the information to the council (University Judiciary Council),” said Alford.
Alford said the party got out of hand and people were asked to leave. Taylor told Mississippi Public Broadcasting in a Sept. 10 radio report that he was on his way downstairs, when “a guy in an orange shirt threw a beer can at me and hit me in my left shoulder. When I turned around, two more guys that were right there on the stairwell like pushed, shoved me down the stairs.”
Alford said the judicial council met Wednesday and listened to testimony from 20 people. It met again Thursday to review the case and made its decision which was released Friday during a news conference on campus.
