Delta Upsilon International has suspended its University of Missouri chapter until at least fall 2018 for �repeated violations of Delta Upsilon policy� for incidents at three parties this semester, according to a news release.

All operations at the local chapter have stopped indefinitely, and all the MU members now are on suspended status, the release said. The suspension was unrelated to the Sept. 27 incident at Delta Upsilon�s MU house, 711 Tiger Ave., in which members of the Legion of Black Collegians reported that people shouted racist and sexist slurs at them. The fraternity headquarters also said �unsubstantiated claims of predatory drug use, which have been refuted by the international fraternity� were not factors in the suspension.

Undergraduates living in the house will be allowed to stay there through the end of the spring semester but cannot represent themselves as a Delta Upsilon chapter because of the terms of the suspension.

MU spokesman Christian Basi said the university has not taken any recent action against the fraternity, which was temporarily suspended by the university Sept. 28 because of the incident with the Legion members. Delta Upsilon International also placed the local branch on temporary suspension after that incident.

The infractions at parties cited in the international organization�s latest action occurred Aug. 27, Sept. 9 and Sept. 16, according to the release, and then the MU chapter held �two more events that violated the terms of its temporary suspension.�

Columbia police reported several incidents at or concerning the fraternity the night of Sept. 9, according to MU documents obtained by the Tribune through a records request. Those incidents included a woman falling and hitting her head at her dorm after leaving the Delta Upsilon house, a police call to the house for a 20-year-old woman who had drunk too much, a police call about a man being pushed down a flight of stairs and an MU Police Department traffic stop in which a passenger jumped from a car and ran into the house.

The release noted fraternity members and members of the Legion of Black Collegians have been working together in a mediation process with MU�s Office for Civil Rights and Title IX and that the process should be resolved soon. Ashley Martin, a spokeswoman for Delta Upsilon International, said the fraternity will make no statement other than the release.

A member on Tuesday morning said the local chapter president declined to comment.

Delta Upsilon International�s Board of Directors decided to suspend MU�s branch after a Nov. 19 hearing during which it met with eight undergraduate members and two alumni advisers. Members of the fraternity here were notified of the decision Monday after the details of the suspension were worked out between MU and the fraternity�s headquarters.

�The decision to close any chapter is extremely difficult,� Justin Kirk, executive director of the international organization, said in the release. �The Missouri chapter has been an important part of the fraternity and the university community for decades. However, in recent years, the chapter has struggled to follow fraternity policy despite unprecedented levels of support from staff, alumni and the university.�

The MU branch was created in 1924, Martin said in an email.

A local alumni association owns the branch�s MU house, and it is unclear what, if anything, the association plans to do with the building. The release said the parent organization and MU have negotiated the chapter�s potential return as early as the fall 2018 semester. The Tribune was not able to reach any alumni association members Tuesday morning.

Construction on the fraternity�s current house was finished in the fall 2015 semester and cost $5.5 million, according to the fraternity�s website.

Delta Upsilon�s MU branch was sanctioned at least 18 times by the university between August 2015 and its disciplinary suspension at the end of September. Other sanctions involved an assault, a theft, being uncooperative with police and at least four incidents of providing alcohol to minors. The allegations of �predatory drug use� the release refers to is a report to the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX in August that members were giving pledges pills and directing them to use the drug to incapacitate and take advantage of women. There have been other allegations of women being drugged at the house, but none has been substantiated at this point, according to documents from MU.

The fraternity is not alone in its problems this year. In mid-November, MU revoked Kappa Alpha�s recognition as a student organization for five years. MU officials placed Kappa Alpha on temporary suspension after a pledge was found unconscious Sept. 28 and hospitalized after participating in a vodka-chugging contest. Kappa Alpha already was on disciplinary probation after a previous incident involving alcohol.

Kappa Alpha�s other infractions, according to MU, include physical abuse, threatening behaviors, hazing and other violations of university policy.