Two Syracuse University students face discipline charges after they were caught on a cell phone video Thursday shouting racial slurs at a student, SU officials said.



The video posted on YouTube for a short time Friday showed two men engaged in a slur-filled rant. The video was shot and posted by Benjamin Lin, a Syracuse University student from Taiwan.



Lin said the two men called up the stairs of the Walnut Street apartment complex about 2 am. Thursday, asking Lin and others to come "hang out" with them. Lin said he didn't answer.



"A few moments later, the two guys started a rant of racial slurs from the balcony," Lin said. "It didn't stop. It was unbearable. I didn't know what to do but pick up my cell phone and record the attack as proof."



In the video, one man could be seen standing in a stairwell, shouting racial slurs upwards toward the person holding the camera.



Lin posted the video on YouTube, and it spread rapidly across Twitter and blogs on Friday. SU issued a statement Friday saying it was looking into the video, and by 4 p.m. Lin had taken it down. He said the student in the video "apologized to me face-to-face and begged me to take it off YouTube.



"I realized I can ruin his career and family relationships so I called it off and took it down," Lin said. "Everyone deserves a second chance."



Thomas Wolfe, Syracuse University senior vice president for student affairs and dean of students, said in a statement that SU's Department of Public Safety interviewed everyone involved.



"While federal privacy law and university policy prohibit us from providing identifying information about the two responsible students, they will face disciplinary action under the code of student conduct through the university's Office of Judicial Affairs," Wolfe wrote.



Lin said the matter was settled.



"This was a huge issue, and it really affected a large group of Asian-American students," he said. "I felt thankful and protected that the Syracuse University's Zero Tolerance Policy got on it as soon as possible."



Contact Glenn Coin at gcoin@syracuse.com or 470-3251.

Read the statement from Thomas Wolfe, Syracuse University senior vice president for student affairs and dean of students