Word: licensee
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The Boston Licensing Board suspended the fraternity's housing license on Wednesday for eight months, beginning Jan. 15. The unanimous decision comes in the wake of the Sept. 27 alcohol-related death of Scott Krueger, a first-year Phi Gamma Delta pledge.
"When we license a fraternity, we want to make sure that public safety is intact," Rooney said.
During that time, parents and students bombarded the commissioners with letters. Most of them asked that the fraternity be allowed to retain its license, according to Rooney.
According to Rooney, it is unusual to suspend a fraternity's license. Rooney, a commissioner since 1992, said that the licenses of two New England fraternities were suspended in the 1980s for reasons that current board members could not recall.
It's hard to imagine what kind of justice was at work the night of March 3, 1993, in Silver Spring, Md., when contract murderer James Perry suffocated eight-year-old quadriplegic Trevor Horn and fatally shot his mother Mildred Horn and nurse Janice Saunders. Perry was hired by Lawrence...