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Charles H. Yoo was pledge leader for the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity in September 1997 when Scott Krueger, a freshman pledge, died of alcohol-poisoning at a fraternity party...
Over a year after a pledge at MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity died from alcohol poisoning, MIT has revoked the diploma of Charles H. Yoo, a 1998 MIT graduate who was the fraternity's pledgemaster at the time of the incident...
...officials declined to comment on whether the school had ever rescinded a graduate's diploma in previous cases, but Yoo said he was not aware of any such prior incident...
...Yoo said that although the incident occurred in 1997, MIT did not take disciplinary action against him until this year because MIT--unlike Harvard--has a policy of not pursuing disciplinary cases until criminal investigations of the matter are resolved. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office charged the fraternity with manslaughter last year, but the fraternity disbanded in order to avoid the charge...
...Yoo said that while his job as a foreign currency trader at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange is secure despite the revocation, he fears MIT's decision may prevent him from attending graduate school...