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...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...
Last Friday night, 18-year-old Scott Krueger was rushed to Beth Israel Hospital after the MIT student was found unconscious amid vomit and bottles in a Boston fraternity house basement. He died three days later...
Until the arrival of the current coach, Schwartz says, teammates would get the Ironman drunk before the workout so that he would be led to vomit once the meet began. The Ironman would also be forced to do shots during the meet...