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Wed Sep 23, 2020, 01:44 AM Sep 2020

Fraternity at University of Georgia Is Suspended After Racist Messages Are Exposed

As the coronavirus spread around the University of Georgia and her fellow students partied, Arianna Mbunwe, a junior, took to Twitter to call them out.

“GETTING COVID-19 w the GIRLYS,” she said in one post, mocking sorority sisters who were posing for photos, without masks, in a bar.

She had been tipped off to the pictures as her account became an impromptu source for critiques on other students’ coronavirus practices. (Later, one of the women in Ms. Mbunwe’s post messaged her threatening to sue.)

“Lambda Chi it would be a shame if someone found out about your little parties,” Ms. Mbunwe said in another Twitter post of a message that said the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity’s chapter at the university was hosting parties.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/fraternity-university-of-georgia-suspended-racist.html

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