The university of oklahoma says the first two students to be expelled likely won’t be the last campus newspaper says one of them is a dallas jesuit graduate parker rice fox 4 news has confirmed rice was one of the students on the bus In response to this video jesuit’s president calls rice’s actions inexcusable england is first on fox with what else jesuit’s president had to say well clarice mike ersing told me today in his opinion that video hurts everybody and this is the time to make it clear it is unacceptable he only wishes his former
Student would have considered that first i’ll be frank i’m appalled at that kind of stuff going on i mean i’m saddened by it because i think it hurts everybody mike ersing’s reaction today swift and with no holes barred the president of jesuit college prep dallas says he saw online posts revealing the unfortunate
News about a former student 2014 jesuit grad parker rice while not identified but named as one of the players chanting racist lyrics in the now famous video of ou sigma alpha epsilon fraternity members nice young man but that doesn’t excuse his behavior for what happened on the bus the private
School leader says he did not communicate with the rice family before releasing a statement and giving me his opinion i mean i know there have been people say well you know he’s a he’s a freshman he’s you know 18 or 19 he’s a pledge for that sorority or fraternity
So what i mean it doesn’t excuse his behavior while sae members pack up and heed a midnight deadline to leave the o.u frat house the educator who remembers parker rice has some advice my advice would be to ask themselves the question about why did they allow themselves to be put in that position
You know i’m a firm believer that evil is alive in the world and i think you have to really work hard if not putting yourself in that kind of position now mike irsing points out jesuit became the first school in dallas to integrate something it considers a major statement
As to where it stands on injustice of any kind he adds some people no matter what for unexplainable reasons will make poor decisions clarice dionne thank you this is obviously not just an embarrassment and shameful incident for the students but also for the families as well sure is uh clarisse i’ve been
Talking and having a conversation with the father of a freshman on that bus and he’s really echoing what mike ersing says why did this happen why did they allow themselves to be put in that position he says the song was not written by these freshman pledges it was not taught
Inside their homes they learned it in norman oklahoma but he also told me they knew it was reprehensible a reprehensible song it’s not defensible we can’t say because we were taught this song by upperclassmen that it’s okay it’s not and then he added this which i thought
Was very powerful he said i wish it was my son who had stood up and said hey we’re not doing this we’re not saying this it’s not right then he said find me an 18 or 19 year old who can do that
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