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Radford University lifted the suspension of Alpha Sigma Phi, the final fraternity penalized during an investigation of goat abuse — and the fraternity’s leaders wasted no time in blasting the school for its handling of the matter.

On Tuesday, Alpha Sigma Phi’s national president and CEO, Gordy Heminger, said the Carmel, Indiana-based organization was “strongly considering filing a defamation suit” against the university.

Heminger said that in nearly 20 years in higher education he had “never seen a conduct process run so poorly.”

He criticized the university officials who enforced conduct rules and wrote in a prepared statement that fraternity “members have suffered irreparable damage to their reputations and that of the chapter and Alpha Sigma Phi.”

“This whole situation was incredibly stressful,” Alpha Sigma Phi chapter President Andrew Friedman wrote in a media release. “To be falsely accused by the university; to spend most of December, when we should have been preparing for exams, meeting with the university. This has been a huge distraction and disruption for every student in Alpha Sigma Phi, and we are glad to finally be cleared.”

Heminger said he hopes that university officials will apologize to fraternity members.