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Last week, MIT paid $4.75 million in damages to the family of Scott Krueger, a MIT first-year who died of alcohol poisoning while rushing Phi Gamma Delta in 1997. In addition to the damages, the university endowed a $1.25 million scholarship and promised to drastically revamp its housing and drinking policies. For MIT, the settlement sheds harsh light on a negligent attitude that should have been fixed long ago. To colleges and universities across the nation, it is a concrete reminder they are responsible, at some minimum level, to provide a safe environment for their students...
...Somani, president of MIT's Phi Beta Epsilon fraternity, said Krueger's death was a wake-up call to the campus...
...Kruegers' lawyer, Leo V. Boyle, told the Boston Globe that the Kruegers will soon file a civil action suit against the local and national chapters of Phi Gamma Delta. Boyle said the settlement with MIT was unusual because the university apologized and gave monetary compensation even though the Kruegers neither sued nor promised the university confidentiality...
After Scott Krueger's death, five fraternities--Sigma Nu, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta and Phi Kappa Sigma--adopted alcohol-free resolutions...
...Krueger settlement is the largest to date given by a university in a case of alcohol-related injury or death. In 1993, a $475,000 settlement was given in the death of and University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Jeff Knoll, a Phi Gamma Delta pledge who fell from the fraternity house's third floor window after being forced to drink large amounts of alcohol...