Samford University Apologizes Over Sorority’s T-Shirt (AL)
By NBC News
Published: May 15, 2016, 12:41 pm
An Alabama university has issued an apology after one of its sororities printed T-shirts with racist connotations that “repulsed” the school’s president.
The shirts were designed for the Alpha Delta Pi formal last month at Samford University in suburban Birmingham and depict a map of the state of Alabama containing several scenes — including a black man eating watermelon and a slave picking cotton. University officials said they rejected the design, but the shirts were produced anyway ...
The sorority .. chapter president told NBC affiliate WVTMthe sorority is “horrified” by the oversight ...
Samford is a private university with an enrollment of just over 5,200 students, the majority classified as white ...
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