Word: alphas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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James Callahan, an 18-year-old Rutgers University student, dies after consuming 24 ounces of hard liquor in less than an hour as part of a pledging ritual at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, according to an April 26 article in The Record. A separate article reported on Aug. 28 that this incident prompted a five-year shutdown of his fraternity...
Joel A. Harris, an 18-year-old student at Morehouse College and one of 19 students pledging for Alpha Phi Alpha, collapses and dies after drinking and being beaten during pledging rituals, a July 24, 1990 article in the Los Angeles Times said...
Matthew P. Garofalo, a first-year at the University of Iowa, is found dead in his fraternity house. A pledge to the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, Garofalo dies after inhaling his own vomit following a night of drinking activities. His blood alcohol level was 0.188. Following Garofalo's death, a four-month alcohol ban was imposed by the University on Greek organizations, and the campus chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha was suspended, said The Chronicle of Higher Education in Sept...
Officials at Bowdoin College shut down both the Chi Delta Phi and Alpha Kappa Sigma fraternities after an underage student from the University of Maine was discovered dead outside of their houses in April. Cameron Brett, whose blood alcohol level was nearly twice the legal driving limit, fell three stories to his death while trying to climb onto the roof of the fraternity during a party, reported an April 26 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education...
Benjamin Wynne, a 20-year-old Louisiana State University student and Sigma Alpha Epsilon plegde, dies of acute alcohol poisoning as a result of a fraternity drinking binge at several parties. Wynne's blood alcohol level was measured at 0.588, six times the legal limit, according to an Aug. 30 article in the Advocate in Baton Rouge...