OXFORD — Miami University suspended Delta Tau Delta fraternity after officials said Friday they received a “serious and credible report of dangerous hazing.”

“The contents of this report are brutal and deplorable, and have brought us to a tipping point on this campus,” Miami University President Gregory Crawford stated in a letter to the college community, our media partner WCPO-TV reported. Crawford added he was “disheartened and outraged” by the behavior outlined in the complaint.

A Miami University fraternity has been "summarily suspended" amid a "brutal and deplorable" report of hazing, the school's president said Friday in an email to the university community.

In the strongly worded statement, President Gregory Crawford said the allegations against Delta Tau Delta, the fraternity in question, "have brought us to a tipping point on this campus."

All sophomores living in the fraternity are being relocated to residence halls on the school's Oxford campus as a result of the allegations, Crawford wrote.

"The administration will take swift, stern and appropriate action in handling any and all cases of hazing," he wrote, adding he is "disheartened and outraged by the behavior outlined in the complaint."

He called the report serious and credible, but he did not detail the nature of the hazing incident or incidents.

"A decision about the long-term future of Delta Tau Delta will be made once the investigation is finalized and a formal hearing is completed," he wrote.

Officials with the Fishers, Indiana-based fraternity did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.

In a statement forwarded to The Enquirer by Michele Gaither Sparks, a Miami spokeswoman, the CEO of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, Jack Kreman, said Miami chapter members "chose to treat the new members inappropriately."

The misconduct came despite guidance provided by the national organization, Kreman added.

"The Fraternity has no tolerance for such behavior," he said.

Crawford has asked university officials to review the allegations and make recommendations to be implemented across all fraternities and sororities on campus, and he vowed that "nothing is off limits in this evaluation."

This issue isn't new for Miami, which had three fraternities suspended for hazing in 2016 and multiple others placed on probation after nearly two dozen investigations into hazing, alcohol and drug violations that year.

And last year, the university suspended fraternity activity after multiple hazing allegations surfaced.

In February, the Theta Chi fraternity chapter at Miami was suspended after a first-year student was taken to a hospital after drinking with fraternity members, according to The Miami Student.

A university police officer found the student unconscious on a countertop.

Theta Chi remains suspended until the conclusion of the disciplinary process, Sparks told The Enquirer.

She declined to respond to specific questions about this most recent hazing accusation involving Delta Tau Delta, saying the incident remains under investigation.

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