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Scott Krueger was found unconscious in the basement of MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity with a blood alcohol level more than five times the legal driving limit. He died after three days in a coma. MIT has since banished Phi Gamma Delta from 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...
...certain Paul Wellstone of Arlington, Va., scored lower than 800, out of a possible 1,600, on his SAT test. But the University of North Carolina accepted him anyway, and he went on to graduate Phi Beta Kappa. Now he's a fiery U.S. Senator fighting against the high stakes that attach to standardized tests. "Some students," he says, "just think and learn in a different...
...Bush children seemed capable of making a name for himself the old-fashioned way, it was brother Jeb. He was the one on the fast track, the serious son, the Phi Beta Kappa, the one with the ambition and focus that W. disdained. A family adviser explains the relationship this way: "W.'s kind of like the guy who spends the night before the test in his Corvette, running around with two cheerleaders, and drives by the brainiac's house and says, 'Jeb, can I have your notes?' The brainiac gets an A, but W. slides by with...