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While local universities have recently seen several alcohol-related deaths, most notably the tragic death of MIT first-year Scott Krueger, these were a result of unsafe party and fraternity environments, rather than underage drinking. Laws governing the purchase of alcohol have been around for quite a long time. Never before has the CPD exhibited such zeal with regard to their enforcement. If the problem of underage drinking had worsened recently, this might be understandable. "Cops in Shops" is a crackdown that is not justified by any real threat to public safety...
There is a certain hypocrisy to the "Cops in Shops" program insofar as that before Scott Krueger's death, allocating valuable police resources to bust first years for buying a couple of 12-packs was not a priority for the Cambridge Police Department. And it should not be now. However, it is the staff that is being underhanded here, by pretending that it has logistical problems with the program when all it really wants is the right to buy booze illegally...
...most recent allegation of underage drinking at MIT comes less than a week after the Boston Licensing Board voted to temporarily close another fraternity's house because of the drinking-related death of first-year Scott Krueger, who in September fell into a coma after a party at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Krueger later died at Beth Israel...
Bill Martin, the national executive director of Phi Gamma Delta, announced in September that the fraternity had decided before Krueger's death to ban drinking in all of its chapters, beginning...
...Suspending the fraternity is a step in the right direction," said William W. Burke-White '98, Krueger's cousin, in an interview last night...