SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Two Syracuse University students are being charged with hate crimes, one of them accused of crashing a fraternity’s Rosh Hashanah dinner and throwing pork on the walls and floor.

The student is 18-year-old Samuel Patten, the Onondaga County District Attorney said.

The second student, 18-year-old Kyle Anderson, is accused of driving Patten to and from the fraternity house until being caught by police, the DA and Syracuse University administrators said.

In a statement to the campus community Tuesday night, the SU administration explained what happened: “At approximately 6 p.m., brothers of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity were gathered in their chapter house to celebrate the first night of Rosh Hashanah when a student, who is not part of the fraternity, reportedly e

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