[media-credit name=’BRYAN FAUST/Herald photo’ align=’alignnone’ width=’648′][/media-credit]The Madison Police Department is investigating an alleged sexual assault at a University of Wisconsin fraternity party last semester. Partygoers who attended a December event at Zeta Psi, located at 132 Breese Terrace, are being investigated for the alleged sexual assault of a UW student who has since dropped out of school, according to Dean of Students Lori Berquam. "It's devastating when this happens to anybody, but it happened to one of our students," Berquam said. "We're very concerned." Madison's WKOW-TV reported Tuesday on an exclusive interview with the woman who attended the party, who WKOW said was 20 at the time. Interim Associate Dean of Students Elton Crim told The Badger Herald Tuesday that WKOW's coverage was the first knowledge UW officials had of the alleged incident. "It was not [the way to be informed] of our choosing," Crim said. "We have not had any contact with the victim — we certainly would be interested in meeting with her." Now that UW has been informed of the MPD investigation into possible suspects, UW officials will launch their own investigation into the allegations. Although possibly investigating the same individuals, the university's investigation will steer clear of the police, Crim said. "We're talking to people, we're making communications and trying to gather as much information as we can to decide which direction to go," Crim said. "We'll try to do it in such a way that our investigation doesn't interfere with their investigation." No spokesperson was available for comment Tuesday night from the MPD. UW administrators, including Student Advocacy and Judicial Affairs, will meet today to discuss a course of action, Crim said. He also said removing the fraternity from the campus is a possible sanction depending on the severity of the citations. "We are going to follow our policies. If there are individuals responsible, we will be looking into code of conduct," Crim said. "If we need to talk to some of [the students] in the reports, we'll do that." Crim said he had not heard of any other recent incidents with Zeta Psi, adding that the organization is fairly new to campus. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Zeta Psi member described the fraternity's reputation as "stellar," said the group has had "no problems whatsoever," and predicted that public reaction to the incident will reflect poorly on the entire UW Greek system. A recent UW graduate and former member of Zeta Psi said he was shocked when he heard about the incident. Also speaking on condition of anonymity, the graduate said Zeta Psi tends to separate itself from fraternities that have bad reputations. "It's not your typical fraternity," he said. "Usually they don't like the practices by the fraternities on Langdon." National Zeta Psi representatives in New York were not immediately available for comment late Tuesday. Berquam said the alleged sexual assault comes after many efforts to inform Greek members about dating violence and assault. "That's the unfortunate thing — they do some wonderful things," Berquam said of the Greek community. "But it's one step forward and two steps back."