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A Lehigh University fraternity has been dissolved for four years for hazing and for providing alcohol to underage members. This is a photo of the university's main Asa Packer Campus.

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A Lehigh University fraternity has been dissolved for four years for hazing and for providing alcohol to underage members.

Delta Phi can't have a chapter at Lehigh through at least Feb. 21, 2019, the university's Office of Fraternity & Sorority Affairs' Committee on Discipline ruled Saturday.

The hazing activities included coerced consumption of alcohol, lineups, servitude, and restrictions on sleep, contact and behavior, as well as degrading actions taken towards new members, the committee found.

Specifically, the fraternity required pledges to kneel for a sustained period and recite facts and to attend an event called "The Game," where pledges would be invited over to the fraternity for a football game but would instead be forced to clean up food and garbage all over the house, according to the committee's ruling.

Many of the pledge requirements the committee considered hazing were laid out in the fraternity's new member education notebook, which Delta Phi used both in spring 2011 and spring 2014, the committee found.

Delta Phi was found responsible on six charges but not responsible for a seventh, unhealthy consumption of alcohol. The fraternity had been accused of requiring each pledges to share an entire bottle of liquor with his "big brother" but was found not responsible on that charge, the committee report says.

The fraternity admitted to the six charges for which it was found responsible, Delta Phi national Executive Director Donald Beeson said. The fraternity, however, disagrees with the Lehigh sanction and plans to appeal it, he said.

The national organization also is considering its own possible sanctions against the Lehigh chapter, Beeson said.

In addition to hazing, the chapter was found responsible for providing false information during the university's investigation.

A representative of Lehigh's Delta Phi chapter did not immediately return an email for comment Monday.

Students currently living in the Delta Phi house are permitted to remain for the rest of the semester but no alcohol is allowed and Lehigh officials will be conducting periodic walk-throughs, according to the discipline committee ruling.

Following the four-year dissolution, Delta Phi will be eligible to apply for Lehigh re-recognition upon approval of the next Interfraternity Council expansion process, the committee said.

The committee's entire decision can be found online here.

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