The InterFraternity Council officially welcomed Zeta Beta Tau as a recolonized fraternity last night.
The IFC voted to allow ZBT to rejoin the umbrella organization for fraternities as a colony with provisional membership.
ZBT initiated 12 members at the end of October. It has also set up bylaws, elected officers and held events, which made it eligible for the vote, said IFC president and College senior Max Dubin.
The fraternity can petition the IFC for full membership in as little as four months, though Dubin said he did not expect that to happen for at least a year.
ZBT will now benefit from "the support the school and the IFC gives the fraternities," he said.
The fraternity was expelled from campus in January 2004 after participants at an unofficial pledge event were sent to the emergency room for alcohol poisoning and bodily injuries.
It was the fraternity's fourth policy violation in three years.
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