Ex-University of Okla. students apologize for racist video

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Source: Associated Press

Updated 3:06 pm CST, Tuesday, January 22, 2019

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — University of Oklahoma students demanded more from their campus administrators Tuesday, hours after the school released public apologies from two former students who were involved in a video in which one of the women wore blackface and used a racial slur.

About 1,000 students and faculty members gathered at a campus rally Tuesday during which administrators condemned the video in which a white woman is seen with black paint on her face as another white woman laughs. But as students took their turn at the microphone, many said they need to see more from campus leadership.

Student Courtney Patterson echoed calls from the campus Black Student Association to add a zero-tolerance policy on hate speech to the student code of conduct and for the hiring of more African-American faculty and staff.

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The university said the written apologies, in which both women said they never intended to hurt anyone, were sent to the Office of University Community on Saturday, a day after the video surfaced . University President James Gallogly announced Monday — noting it was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which honors the slain black civil rights leader — that both women had voluntarily withdrawn from campus.

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