Just months after final clubs began restricting guests' access to their facilities, the Harvard social scene will be expanding in a different direction when the Delta Upsilon fraternity opens a campus chapter later this month.

The fraternity, which met informally as a chapter for the first time Sunday night, is likely to be reinstated on April 24 in New York, when the national chapter convenes for its annual meeting, Delta Upsilon members said.

"The main thing that they want to see is that we're a functioning fraternity at Harvard before they grant the national charter," said Jeremiah B. Mann '01, one of the students involved in the planning.

In early March, Justin E. Porter '99 began the push to bring Delta Upsilon back to campus, and the core group of six has since grown in size substantially.

"We've been having sort of personalized rushes, interviewing guys and bringing them in one at a time," Mann said. "There are probably about 35 guys by now."

There were about 30 people at Sunday night's meeting, Porter said.

Because Porter will be graduating in June, Michael A. Tringe '01 has taken the reins of the group.

Delta Upsilon wants to work on building "deeper friendships," Tringe said.

"We really are going to be focusing on the fraternity, and working on friendship and brothership," said J. Alejandro Longoria '01, who is also a Crimson business executive.