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Administrators and students delivered a string of heartfelt adresses to mark the passing of first-years Umaer Basha and Scott Krueger...
...thing we can take from Scott Krueger's death is a sense of our own mortality. He did not drink any more last weekend than many college students do regularly; the choked on his own vomit and he suffered from acute alcohol poisoning. Scott Krueger could have been any college first-year excited about being able to make independent choices, inured into the world of college binge drinking. Dr. Charles J. McCabe, associate chief of emergency services at Massachusetts General Hospital, told the Boston Globe concerning a similar case, "A young guy was out for his first time drinking...
...there it is. Krueger's death was tragic, but it has happened before and it will happen again, because many students are unfamiliar with their own limits. The onus of preventing alcohol-induced deaths is certainly on administrations to some degree; they must educate students about the risks of consuming large quantities of alcohol and they must encourage responsible drinking. But ultimately, college students must make their own choices. Scott Krueger, now that he's gone, is an example to every current and future college student: if it could happen to him, it could happen...
Basha died a few weeks ago when he fell asleep in his shower and drowned. Krueger died last Monday after lingering in a coma induced by alcohol poisoning the previous Friday night at a Phi Gamma Delta fraternity party...
Many students complained about the media circus surrounding Krueger's death...