GREENCASTLE, Ind. — DePauw University’s president yesterday ordered a sorority off campus by fall after Delta Zeta kicked out nearly two dozen members and drew accusations that only attractive, popular students were asked to be members.

The school’s president, Robert Bottoms, said the values of the sorority did not fit with the 2,200-student private college in Indiana.

The Delta Zeta sorority has said the 23 evictions were based on the members’ lack of commitment to recruiting new members. But those asked to leave have charged that they were removed because of their appearance, contending they were active and supportive members of their sorority.

Mr. Bottoms said the school was unhappy with Delta Zeta’s policies and actions, and with some of the postings on its Web site in response to the controversy that followed the evictions.

“I came to the conclusion that our approaches to these issues are just incompatible,” he said in a news conference.

He did not elaborate on the policies with which the school disagreed. The sorority had previously defended its actions on its Web site and criticized DePauw’s reaction to the issues. The Web site was not operating yesterday.

Four messages left yesterday for the sorority’s national president, Deborah Raziano, and the executive director of its national headquarters in Oxford, Ohio, were not returned.

The sorority’s members have long had a reputation as being known more for academics than partying, and their chapter was widely known among students as the “dog house.”

The chapter started the school year with 35 women, two-thirds empty on a campus where 70% of students join the Greek system.

Efforts to improve those numbers — and, some contend, the sorority’s image — prompted Delta Zeta’s national leadership to conduct a review to determine members’ commitment to recruiting.