Harvard College has suspended the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra’s social calendar for the rest of the fall semester following a complaint of alleged hazing.

“It is an unfortunate and very unexpected situation,” said Federico Cortese, the student-run orchestra’s music director and conductor.

“I fully agree with Harvard’s strict anti-hazing policy (I really do, and I really mean it),” Cortese added in an emailed statement. “In this sense I consider this incident a very serious mistake and a very poor choice of the students.”

News of the suspension came shortly after the orchestra’s annual retreat, which happened off-campus Sept. 6 at the Greenwood Music Camp in Cummington, according to The Harvard Crimson , which first reported the sanction. Harvard did not respond to a request for c

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