The College placed Gamma Delta Chi fraternity on social probation for the rest of the academic year Thursday afternoon -- a move that may amplify allegations that administrators are attempting to eliminate the Greek system.
The sanctions resulted from a variety of alcohol and social policy violations that Gamma Delt allegedly committed during Fall term.
The probation, the longest such sanction in recent memory, comes soon after the College dispensed 18 weeks of social probation to Bones Gate fraternity for alcohol policy violations.
Gamma Delt President Mario Avila '04 expressed regret over the violations but said he believes the sanctions are only part of a larger "crackdown on the Greek system."
"We know as an organization that we did not return that keg and we have some flaws in our house, but those were four completely different incidents," Avila said. "The school just wants to make an example of us."
In the earliest cited violations, Safety and Security officers reportedly found an empty, unreturned keg from a registered party and a funnel in the Gamma Delt basement during a safety inspection conducted while the house was uninhabited over Thanksgiving break.
In a separate, later incident, officers on another administration-run safety inspection reported an unregistered keg "sticking out of a closet."
Avila said a College alumnus had left the keg in Gamma Delt's physical plant two-and-a-half weeks prior to the inspection without the knowledge of the house's members.
During the house's College discipline proceedings, the alumnus reportedly wrote a letter to in support of Gamma Delt's statements.
Finally, the house was cited for giving alcohol to a minor. Gamma Delt had been previously acquitted of a separate charge of giving alcohol to a minor earlier Fall term.
"It's frustrating because we try very hard to obey all the rules," Gamma Delt member Corbin Churchill '05 said.
Under the terms of the College's sanction, Gamma Delt will be prohibited from registering social events or having alcohol in house social spaces until the Summer term.
Avila said he expects that the restrictions will make Greek recruitment substantially more difficult for the house, which typically received most of its new members during the Spring term.
Representatives from the Office of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs were unavailable for comment Thursday.