University officials expelled the Delta Tau Delta fraternity Tuesday after determining it has hazed pledges physically, mentally and emotionally for the past three years.
The ruling, which officials announced in a news release last night, came after an anonymous phone call tipped off officials about the practices two weeks ago.
Members of the fraternity will have until the end of the month to move out of the chapter's house on Fraternity Row, and university officials revoked its charter.
The news release did not go into specifics about the fraternity's hazing practices but did cite "abusive alcohol consumption" as a factor.
Repeated attempts to reach the university's director of fraternity and sorority life Mike Hayes yesterday were unsuccessful, but in an interview last month Hayes said more serious incidents of hazing - especially ones that involved severe duress, alcohol or life threatening practices - would face more serious penalties.
The Delta Tau Delta decision marks the second time this year the university has found a fraternity guilty of hazing.
When the university last month concluded that the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity injured a new member, the fraternity received ten months' probation.
In the Zeta Beta Tau incident, fraternity elders seated new members in a circle and forced them to chant the names of Zeta Beta Tau's founders. When they misspoke, fraternity brothers poured water over their heads. At one point in the night, they mixed water with Shout gel and placed it in a new member's hair, injuring him.
According to the release, the fraternity's international office cooperated with the investigation and did not contest the charges.
Delta Tau Delta has 48 undergraduate members and 10 members in the current pledge chapter. The fraternity has had a chapter at the university since 1948.
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