Hofstra Students Force Dog to Drink Beer From Keg

UPDATE: According to CBS, officials have said the dog is doing fine.

HEMPSTEAD, NY – A Hofstra University fraternity has been ordered to suspend its activities after video of Alpha Epsilon Pi members forcing a dog to drink beer from a keg at an off-campus party was shared across social media.

In a five-second video that has been viewed nearly 100,000 times on Twitter, one student can be seen holding a small dog over a keg while another squirts beer into the dog's mouth. At least two students in the background can be heard yelling, "Let's go." The video which was recorded at an off-campus fraternity house on Kernochan Avenue in Hempstead, was initially posted on Snapchat by an Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity member Saturday afternoon.

"The behavior seen on the video is unacceptable and in violation of the University’s Community Standards Code," a spokesperson for Hofstra University said, adding that any students identified in the video will be subject to disciplinary action for violating the code.

The Nassau County SPCA told Patch Monday morning there was an ongoing investigation into the video. It's unclear if Nassau Police are involved.

Asked for comment on the video, Jon Pierce, a past international president of Alpha Epsilon Pi, and the fraternity’s media spokesman, told Patch: "Alpha Epsilon Pi International has placed our chapter at Hofstra University on ‘cease and desist’ due to suspected violations of our health and safety policies. During this investigatory period, there can be no chapter activities."

Alpha Epsilon Pi was founded at New York University in 1913 and calls itself "the world's leading Jewish social fraternity."

"We hope that we are able to use this as a teaching moment to help build better young men who are committed to our policies and our mission of developing the future leaders of the world’s Jewish communities," Pierce said.