 Beta Theta Pi was suspended by the college on three occasions in the 1990s . An incident of hazing in 1994 led to a year @-@ long period of derecognition . In the summer of 1995 , a member of Beta Theta Pi read a poem aloud during a house meeting that was deemed to be racist and sexist , and resulted in many calling for derecognition of the fraternity . In 1996 , a Coed Fraternity Sorority Council judiciary committee found Beta Theta Pi guilty of six violations of college and fraternity policies . The College derecognized Beta Theta Pi permanently on December 6 , 1996 . The Hanover Police Department reported that the brothers of Beta Theta Pi did an estimated $ 15 @,@ 000 in damage to the property soon after hearing of the permanent derecognition decision . It returned to campus as a local fraternity , Beta Alpha Omega , in the fall of 2008 . 
