Updated 4 p.m. Wednesday with statements from Pi Kappa Alpha chapter and international officials.

A Southern Methodist University fraternity chapter being investigated for possible hazing has been ordered to cease all activities.

The university received information last week that the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter may have violated the school's policy against hazing, an SMU spokesman said. The chapter was ordered Friday to cease activities while the incident is investigated.

The university's code of conduct says hazing, being hazed or failing to report incidents of hazing could subject students to disciplinary action.

"SMU will not tolerate hazing in any form," university spokesman Kent Best said in an email.

No further details about the alleged incident involving Pi Kappa Alpha were available. University police did not respond to requests for police reports related to the alleged incident.

Pi Kappa Alpha President Paul Flynn told SMU's student news organization, The Daily Campus, that the chapter was aware of the investigation and cooperating with school officials.

The chapter was also suspended by international fraternity officials, Pi Kappa Alpha said in a statement released Wednesday. If the hazing allegations are found to be true, international fraternity leaders said they would hold the chapter and individual members responsible "to the fullest extent possible."

The chapter's website says it was founded in April 1916 and is one of the oldest fraternities on campus.

In 2015, an incident involving the same fraternity chapter at SMU was "under review" by administrators after members planned to co-host a racially offensive party, President R. Gerald Turner wrote in a letter at the time. Promotions for the party encouraged attendees to bring out their "inner thug."

Last fall, SMU's Kappa Alpha Order chapter was suspended for forcing its members to wear vomit-covered shirts after making them eat hot peppers and paddling them. That chapter can return to campus after its suspension ends in 2021.

A college freshman pledging Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Northern Illinois University died in 2012 after a night of heavy drinking. During a hazing ritual, 19-year-old David Bogenberger and other pledges were required to go room to room where fraternity and sorority members would ask them questions and give them a set amount of vodka to drink, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in January that Bogenberger's parents can sue the local Pi Kappa Alpha chapter where the hazing occurred, the Tribune reported.

"It's very simple. PIKE does not tolerate hazing," the national fraternity states on its website.

Members should refuse to participate in hazing and refuse to allow hazing activities to be inflicted on them, the group says on its anti-hazing page. If a member is hazed or asked to participate in hazing, he should report it to a chapter officer immediately, the website advises.

The website explains its reasoning for including the information on the site, citing "a remote possibility that some individual may, on the spur of the moment, ignore the Chapter's prohibition on hazing, and attempt a hazing activity with a new member."

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