University President Wallace Loh discusses with sophomore communication major Tam-Anh Nguyen about changes he is able to make as president before the Occupy Stamp protest on March 27.

Senior Moriah Ray stood on the sidewalk in front of the Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter house on College Avenue Friday afternoon, leading a group of about 100 students in chants through a bullhorn.

“Hey, hey. Ho, ho. These racist frats have got to go.”

“No justice, no peace. No racist, sexist Greeks.”

The demonstration was part of an event held in protest of a recently surfaced email sent by a former Kappa Sigma fraternity member in January 2014 that included racist and sexist language and the phrase “f— consent.”

“This is not just about the email but the culture that that email represents,” said Ray, a government and politics major and vice president of this university’s NAACP chapter, which helped organize the event.

Students participated in a sit-in at Stamp Student Union’s food court and then marched across the campus and along Fraternity Row before ending at the Kappa Sigma chapter house, which is located off the row.

“Today, we want to stand in solidarity to symbolically say, ‘We don’t support racism, we don’t support sexism and we don’t support rape,’” said Colin Byrd, the chairman of national membership for this university’s NAACP chapter.

A group of student organizations participating in the protest called for this university to increase funding for diversity studies, make the Nyumburu Cultural Center a stop on campus tour routes and require diversity training led by minority student organizations during fraternity and sorority recruitment.

Protesters also called for the renaming of Byrd Stadium. Its namesake, former university President Harry “Curley” Byrd, was known as a strict opponent to racial integration at this university.

“To have that stadium named after him … it’s confusing and objectionable,” said Byrd, a senior sociology major.

University President Wallace Loh attended the sit-in part of the event.

“I am here in solidarity with students who are expressing the core values of this university — of respect, diversity, of safety — and to stand up against racism and sexism,” Loh said.

University officials have responded to the email incident by announcing the creation of a multicultural student advisory group that will work with Loh on diversity issues. The Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life also announced mandatory training programs on sexual assault prevention, multicultural competency, hazing prevention and drug and alcohol education for all Greek life members beginning next year, according to a campuswide email sent Wednesday night by Linda Clement, the student affairs vice president.

Several students confronted Loh during the sit-in, asking why officials did not take harsher action against the writer of the email. They complained this university had not reacted as swiftly as the University of Oklahoma, which expelled two students in that university’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter after a video of its members singing a racist chant went viral in earlier this month.

Loh wrote during a March 13 Twitter chat that the university would follow due process before taking action in response to the email.

“The core value that makes us American is fair process before you make a judgment, and I think you have to have an investigation,” Loh said.

The student who wrote the offensive email will not be returning to the university this semester “by mutual consent between the student involved, his family and the University,” Clement’s email stated.

Department of Fraternity & Sorority Life Director Matt Supple also attended the event, along with University Police Chief David Mitchell. Supple said he wanted to reiterate that Greek life at this university is “no place for hate.”

“We take an oath to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States, and that certainly includes the First Amendment, which is free speech and freedom of assembly,” Mitchell said.

A Shuttle-UM bus and some passing cars on Route 1 honked in support as the crowd of students held up signs and chanted on the march toward Fraternity Row. As students arrived at the row, they shouted to some smiling fraternity members watching from the steps of their chapter houses.

Most of the fraternity members outside sat and watched, though some took selfies and filmed protesters as they passed.

Later, some students not affiliated with the protest laughed and danced to the beat of the protesters’ chants.

“To a lot of people on the other side, they do think this is a laughing matter,” Ray said after encouraging the protesters to leave their signs in front of the Kappa Sigma chapter house. “While they are laughing, hopefully we are working with the university and implementing policies to get rid of the racism and the misogyny on this campus.”

Multiple fraternity members watching the protest on the row declined to comment.

CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, a previous version of this story stated that a campuswide email was sent Thursday night by Linda Clement. The email was sent Wednesday night. This article has been updated.