Word: phi
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Charles H. Yoo was pledge leader for the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity in September 1997 when Scott Krueger, a freshman pledge, died of alcohol-poisoning at a fraternity party...
...September 1997, the Boston City Licensing Board shut down MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity after first-year pledge Scott Kreuger died from alcohol poisoning at one of the fraternity's parties. Every since, the news media has given MIT fraternity antics national attention. That attention is currently being lavished on a recent rash of stupidly self-destructive stunts...
Last Wednesday, an MIT sophomore involved in a prank to publicize a fraternity Halloween party ended up hospitalized after a pyrotechnic device exploded in his hands. A costumed group of students entered a crowded MIT lecture hall to promote Phi Kappa Sigma's upcoming Halloween party that raises money for the Leukemia Society of America. The packed lecture hall watched as the sophomore in question, hoping to add to the aura by creating a theatrical puff of smoke, ended up with deep gashes on his hand...
...board closed MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity in September 1997 in the wake of the death of Scott Krueger, an 18-year-old first-year. Kreuger drank himself into a coma at a fraternity party...
...incident was part of a prank intended to promote a biannual Halloween party sponsored by the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, according to an MIT spokesperson...