Word: beers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just weeks after the death of MIT first-year Scott Krueger, three under-age MIT students are facing alcohol-related charges stemming from the delivery of a keg of beer to the Zeta Psi fraternity house...
...more seriously, it brings with it the worst nightmares of House Masters: the call at 4 a.m. to rush to Holyoke Center, because a young woman has choked in bed on her vomit and died; or a young man has fallen from a balcony after drinking excessive amounts of beer and is on life-support...
...culture that embraces excess? A fraternity that allows and might even encourage drinking fatal amounts? An 18-year-old who had had little access to alcohol and who was just trying to fit in? Or an institution that has looked the other way while its students drowned themselves in beer...
...television has been free of cigarette ads. Why? Because TV persuades as nothing else, and we don't want young people--inveterate TV watchers--persuaded. Yet television is bursting with exhortations to drink. TV sports in particular, a staple of adolescents, is one long hymn to the glories of beer...
...Foale has simple tastes: he is apparently looking forward to lasagna, pizza, chocolate and beer when he returns to his wife and children. He may have a while longer for such home comforts. As shuttle commander James Wetherbee said in a call to flight controllers just before bedtime Sunday night: "We'll see you tomorrow, er, maybe we won't see you tomorrow...