American U. investigates fraternity’s offensive emails

WASHINGTON — Emails and text messages that included talk about raping women and doing drugs, as well as racist, sexist and homophobic language, have prompted an investigation at American University.

Seventy pages of documents were anonymously sent to university leaders and others, along with a message urging AU to take action against the people who wrote them.

Campus newspaper The Eagle reports the conversations appear to be between members of Epsilon Iota, a fraternity that lost its charter in 2001 but students say still exists.

The scandal, dubbed “Fratergate,” has prompted a

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