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Deadly ‘Animal House’ return outrages Columbia

Poison ivy!

The notorious fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon will be setting up shop at Columbia University next fall, a buzz kill to those who fear it’ll bring the deadly debauchery that seems to follow it at campuses across the country.

“SAE isn’t just notorious for a little bit of hazing,” a poster warns in the comment section of a Columbia paper’s Web site. “They have a reputation for routinely putting students’ lives at risk in supremely idiotic ways.”

Columbia’s Interfraternity Council last week gave its blessing for SAE to form a “colony” on campus in the fall. The frat left the campus in 1961.

“How f–king oblivious can the council be to think it’s a good idea to welcome a notorious, nationally stigmatized organization onto our college campus?” wondered another poster.

The frat was banned from Cornell University after a student died in 2011 after he was tied up and forced to drink, and it has just been slapped with three-term probation at Dartmouth College — after a student whistle-blower revealed the frat’s disturbing hazing rituals.

“I can understand why students, alums and parents at Columbia would be really concerned,” Dartmouth whistle-blower Andrew Lohse told The Post. “If you look at this pattern, it’s really hard to say that these are isolated incidents.”

Lohse, 22, a former SAE brother, said that pledges were forced to chug vinegar, gobble omelettes made of vomit, and binge drink.

“It’s heavily centered around drinking and illegal drugs,” Lohse said.

Other SAE-linked tragedies include a death in a frat house at the University of Kansas in 2009, and a student found dead of a drug overdose in the bedroom of a Southern Methodist University SAE frat house in 2006.

SAE spokesman Brandon Weghorst said the frat’s arrival should “in no way concern” the university community.

A spokeswoman for Columbia refused to comment.

gbuiso@nypost.com