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...assume you have heard of the MIT first-year who died on Monday Sept. 29 after going into an alcohol induced coma last Friday. Scott Krueger was my maternal cousin and I spent the past weekend with him and our family at the hospital...
...Scott Krueger is dead, the victim of collegiate binge drinking, and MIT president Charles Vest must now answer two former fraternity pledges who asked him in a letter in 1993, "When a student is killed or dies at an MIT fraternity, how will MIT explain its full knowledge of dangerous and illegal practices persisting unchecked over a period of years...
...Krueger's tragic death has brought important issues to light concerning binge drinking (defined as consuming five or more drinks in an evening for men and four or more for women) on college campuses and fraternities as social institutions; and it has left students, families and administrators searching for culpability...
...incident occurred at a celebration for pledges of the Greek society Phi Gamma Delta. Krueger reportedly consumed 16 drinks during the festivities...
Although authorities have yet to conclude whether Krueger was forced to drink, the incident-along with other recent alcohol-related fatalities on campuses nation- -wide--has raised questions about the role of drinking in the initiations of American fraternities and sororities...