Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last year's Springfest, alcohol consumptionwas permitted only in a fenced off area away fromthe festivities...
While complaints about mental health care and concerns about how health services deals with alcohol-related emergencies have been voiced in recent years, some say adequate treatment is hard to come by across the board...
...case against Phi Gamma Delta, the MIT fraternity where first-year Scott Krueger died as a result of alcohol poisoning, effectively concluded last week with the frat's disbanding. With no individual fraternity member named in the indictment, the closing of the fraternity chapter effectively absolved its (ex-)members of any criminal responsibility for Krueger's death...
...need for such a clear delineation of responsibility for final clubs and for other organizations is all the more urgent now as the shock of Krueger's death is replaced by indifference. Such delineation, we hope, will go some way towards restraining the sort of alcohol abuse on Harvard's campus that resulted in Krueger's tragic and avoidable death...
...support his allegation that club members and guests abuse alcohol, Dean Lewis asserted that "many believe that if a death like that of MIT's Scott Krueger were to occur to a Harvard student, the most likely locus would be a final club." Does this anonymous and ambiguous "many" have any expertise on alcohol consumption to warrant this bold prediction? If they do have such expertise, Dean Lewis should have listed their qualifications. More than likely, however, the phrase "many believe" is a cover for the phrase "I believe," but worded in a sufficiently vague manner so that Dean Lewis...