Penn State Judicial Affairs will begin interviewing individual members from Delta Sigma Fraternity this week because of a hazing conviction by the Penn State Fraternity and Sorority Life Review Board in early December.

Joe Puzycki, director of Judicial Affairs, said he has received police reports involving some fraternity members.

"Once a student meets with us in a discipline conference, if appropriate, he could be charged with a code violation," Puzycki said.

He added that a hearing would follow if a student were to dispute the charges.

"We have an obligation to respond to these complaints," Puzycki said.

The State College Police Department could not comment on the police reports by press time yesterday, because the investigating officer was unavailable.

Delta Sigma Fraternity, formerly located at 508 Locust Lane, had a ritual-related incident late in the evening on Nov. 7 at the fraternity

house causing a student pledging the fraternity to be admitted to Mount Nittany Medical Center for several days.

Delta Sigma Chapter Adviser Tom Daubert said the decision to disband the fraternity last month was not based on one specific incident.

"We still say the medical thing did not have much, if any, to do with [the decision]," Daubert said, referring to the hazing charge brought against the fraternity last month. "It was a mixture of things over the last couple of years and the university came down very hard."

Kevin Kerr, director of fraternity and sorority life, said to his knowledge, Delta Sigma did not file an appeal to the hazing conviction and will remain disbanded. The members still have the option of rejoining Delta Sigma Phi, Kerr said, which they were previously affiliated with in the 1990s.

In a previous interview with The Daily Collegian, former Delta Sigma President Louie Torres said Delta Sigma would attempt to rejoin Delta Sigma Phi.

Kerr said rejoining a national chapter is not just an easy way out of Penn State's sanctions.

"There is much more than a name change," Kerr said. "There would be all sorts of things they would do."

He added that the fraternity's alumni control board banned all members of the fraternity from residing in the house this semester.

Daubert said he remains optimistic about the fraternity's request to merge with Delta Sigma Phi.

"I think things will work out well and [the fraternity] will open up in the fall," he said. "If they should accept, they can decide who becomes members and who shouldn't."