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Another IU Fraternity Suspended for Bad Behavior

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WOWO): For the second time this year, a fraternity at IU Bloomington is in trouble for bad behavior. 

The national headquarters of Phi Kappa Psi says it's chapter at IU has been suspended for two years due to “student code of conduct” violations. The suspension came via a mutual agreement with the university after the Indiana Daily Student reported the fraternity engaged in hazing and drug use, including two specific incidents that occurred during the fall semester. 

“The Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity regrets the negative impact its members had on the Indiana University community,” read a statement from the fraternity's national headquarters. 

Phi Kappa Psi surrendered its IU chapter charter to national headquarters on December 19. The fraternity has had a chapter at the Bloomington campus for 146 years – it was started just seven years after the fraternity's first chapter was founded at Jefferson College in Pennsylvania in 1852. 

The fraternity's suspension comes two months after IU's Alpha Tau Omega chapter was shut down when cell phone video of a sex incident at fraternity party was made public. The incident was believed to be connected to hazing. 

Phi Kappa Psi says it plans on reorganizing at IU-Bloomington in the fall of 2017.

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