NEW BRUNSWICK — After nearly 75 years on campus, Rutgers University's Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has been shut down after an incident involving a severely drunk student, fraternity and school officials said yesterday.

An intoxicated 20-year-old fraternity member was taken to the hospital from the Sigma Phi Epsilon house in November, officials said. The fraternity was suspended by the university after the incident and was awaiting the results of a campus disciplinary review.

But, university officials were notified over the weekend that Sigma Phi Epsilon's national headquarters had suspended the chapter with no immediate plans to reinstate it, said E.J. Miranda, a Rutgers spokesman.

Without the backing of the national fraternity, the disciplinary review is finished and Sigma Phi Epsilon is no longer recognized by the university, Miranda said.

Sigma Phi Epsilon officials said the alcohol incident involving an underage student led to the shut down of the chapter.

"SigEp takes health and safety violations extremely seriously, and we have indefinitely suspended operations of this chapter," said Rob Jepson, senior communication manager for the fraternity's national headquarters in Virginia.

Sigma Phi Epsilon's national headquarters will suspend chapters that violate university policies, Jepson said.

"If an individual member violates one of these policies, they face sanctions including expulsion from our fraternity," Jepson said. "Further, we are unwilling to allow chapters that pose a risk to student safety to continue to operate."

Neither the student president of the Rutgers chapter nor leaders of its local alumni corporation responded to requests to comment.

Sigma Phi Epsilon opened its chapter at Rutgers in 1914. The fraternity held a highly visible spot on campus in recent years, renting an 18-bedroom mansion on College Avenue directly across the street from Winants Hall and Old Queens, the university's main administration buildings.

On Nov. 1, a 20-year-old member of the fraternity was drinking in the house when he was taken to the hospital due to his "intoxicated state," Jepson said. Neither fraternity officials nor Rutgers officials named the student.

The student's hospitalization in November came less than six weeks after another Rutgers student died after drinking at a nearby fraternity house on College Avenue. Caitlyn Kovacs, 19, of Monmouth Junction, died of alcohol poisoning after friends took her to the hospital at 3 a.m. after a party at the Delta Kappa Epsilon house.

Rutgers is home to 86 recognized fraternities and sororities, said Miranda, the university's spokesman. Six fraternities and one sorority are currently under review for alleged alcohol violations.

Delta Kappa Epsilon, the fraternity where Kovacs was allegedly drinking before her death, has been suspended and is facing a university disciplinary review, Miranda said.

In a separate incident, Rutgers' Omega Phi Beta sorority had its new member program suspended pending a review, Miranda said. But the chapter's other activities are permitted to continue.

Miranda declined to name the five other Rutgers fraternities undergoing disciplinary reviews because the allegations against them had not been proven. But all five have also been accused of violating the university's alcohol policy.

"Rutgers is committed to maintaining a healthy and safe campus environment and takes alcohol and other substance abuse by students very seriously," Miranda said. "When chapters affiliate with Rutgers, they accept the rights and responsibilities of membership in the university's academic and social community. They are expected to maintain the standards of behavior set by the Code of Student Conduct and the university takes appropriate measures to ensure these organizations operate in accordance with those standards."

Nationwide, about 1,825 college students die of alcohol-related injuries each year, according to the federal government's National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Another 599,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are injured while drinking.

At Rutgers, there were 766 reports of underage possession of alcohol on or near the New Brunswick-Piscataway campus in 2013, according to the university's latest available crime statistics.

It is unclear what will happen to Sigma Phi Epsilon's house on College Avenue now that the chapter has been suspended indefinitely. The fraternity was renting the three-story, 10,000-square-foot house from Zeta Psi, another fraternity that no longer has a chapter on campus.

It will be up to the local Zeta Psi alumni association to decide whether to sell the property or rent it to another organization, said M. David Hunter, executive director of Zeta Psi's national headquarters in New York.

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