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Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 address to Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Society bears serious consideration by today's Harvard students. The address is an encomium to the title-less man and an attack on the institutional one. It is praise for those famous men who become famous of their own doing, who arrive at their own conclusions, who stand on feet unbuttressed by typical modes of external recognition...
...saying that it takes a village to raise a child. If something were to go wrong, why should one single person or group be blamed, instead of the whole village? Why is it that the tragic death of Scott Krueger is wholly blamed on the members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at MIT (Editorial...
...Phi Gamma Delta does deserve some blame, but I do not hold the fraternity or its members primarily accountable. In this litigious world, people are too quick to absolve themselves and point the finger at someone or some group instead of trying to determine how they may have played a role. RUSSELL D. RIVERA...
...outcome of this case is disappointing, to say the least. We accept that the culture of binge drinking is widespread, and that Phi Gamma Delta members were perhaps acting only as irresponsibly as many other college organizations. However, the failure to hold individual members responsible not only denied the Krueger family their day in court, but also sent the wrong message to the myriad fraternities and final clubs which populate America's campuses. "Drink, haze, disband, and move on" is a message that makes a mockery of the judicial process...
Instead of trumpeting the unprecedented, but fundamentally flawed, charges brought against the fraternity, the District Attorney's office should have focused on the people who are most directly responsible for Krueger's death--the former officers of the now-defunct Phi Gamma Delta chapter. These officers should be held accountable for creating an environment in which Krueger was not only hazed but was subsequently carried by fraternity members to the fraternity's basement and left alone in a medically precarious condition while the fraternity partied...