Word: vomiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picking up a beer at parties and even figuring out how to operate the tap on the keg after a while. Yet I remained torn. That November, the night after The Game, I walked down Mt. Auburn Street shaking my head at the beer-induced chaos around me--the vomit on the street, the police cars everywhere, the bodies collapsing onto one another as they fell out of the final clubs. I was still reluctant to be a part of that scene...
...Renamo in October 1992, Felfiel escaped and walked for three days back to Taninga. The village allowed him to undergo the forgiving rites of traditional cleansing. Felfiel's mother went to the spiritual guardian for a muti, a physical and psychological purgative. It took three days for Felfiel to vomit up the "bad things" he had done and earn atonement. After the cleansing, Felfiel stopped having nightmares, and his neighbors embraced him once again...
...clear violation of College-wide policy. It cannot be condoned in any House event. But more seriously, it brings with it the worst nightmares of House Masters: the call at 4 a.m. to rush to Holyoke Center, because a young woman has choked in bed on her vomit and died; or a young man has fallen from a balcony after drinking excessive amounts of beer and is on life-support...
...whom he or she happens to be drinking, as well. Krueger's reported sixteen drinks were not the only cause of his death. Just as much at fault was the person who carried him, unconscious, to the basement of the fraternity house, where he was found in his own vomit. Knowing warning signs of alcohol poisoning and how to position someone who is vomiting, as well as when a situation warrants calling a hospital, constitute crucial information for all responsible college students...
...thing we can take from Scott Krueger's death is a sense of our own mortality. He did not drink any more last weekend than many college students do regularly; the choked on his own vomit and he suffered from acute alcohol poisoning. Scott Krueger could have been any college first-year excited about being able to make independent choices, inured into the world of college binge drinking. Dr. Charles J. McCabe, associate chief of emergency services at Massachusetts General Hospital, told the Boston Globe concerning a similar case, "A young guy was out for his first time drinking...