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Mills was remembering the neighborhood before MIT first-year and fraternity pledge Scott Krueger died of alcohol poisoning in the fall...
...fallout of Krueger's death, something changed...
After the Krueger incident, the city of Boston started enforcing its drinking age so tightly that many Boston area colleges, especially those in the Allston-Brighton area--BC and Boston University--are losing the classic college Animal House atmosphere...
...message was that Krueger had not drunk himself to death but, rather, his life had been put at intolerable risk by the ungoverned conditions of the freshman pledging event, a risk compounded by the paucity of residential options for MIT first-years, and a risk that could have been avoided if previous studies and warnings of these life-threatening risks had been acknowledged and acted upon by the institution...
...Krueger was an exceptional young man with a beautiful heart and a brilliant mind whose life was taken from him in the first moments of college by life-threatening conditions that did not have to exist. As members of Scott's family as well as of the Harvard community, we take offense and ask that The Crimson desist from ever again referencing Scott Krueger as "a first-year who drank himself to death." And, as MIT President Vest said in his press release, let us "now move on with the healing process...