Pennsylvania State University has suspended the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity at its main campus for three years following an investigation sparked by the disclosure of a lurid, members-only Facebook page.
Damon Sims, Vice President for student affairs at Penn State, said that officials had decided on the punishment after an investigation by the university found "a persistent series of deeply troubling activities within the fraternity," including sexual harassment of several women, hazing that included boxing matches, and the sale and use of drugs, New York Times reported.
Penn State said that its investigation had found that members hazed pledges, forcing them to run errands and clean the fraternity house.
The university said that pledges were required to make stories with pornographic images and "a sex position of the day" where members regularly posted embarrassing photographs of women in "extremely compromising" positions and used demeaning language to describe them.
The national executive director of Kappa Delta Rho, Joseph Rosenberg, said that the fraternity was an organization characterized by devotion to respect for others and ash their Penn State chapter proceeds as a part of the university community, they will continue to require that each of their members honors that principle in all respects at all times.
The council recommended that Kappa Delta Rho be allowed to keep its designation as a campus organization, so long as it agreed to measures to "change the culture" of the fraternity.