At MIT, the Party's Over
Newsweek, September, 2000 by John McCormick ( With Daniel McGinn, John Lauerman and Meredith Salisbury)
The high jinks began on "Animal House" Night: 12 new Phi Gamma Delta pledges at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were ordered to watch the iconic Belushi flick while downing beer and Jack Daniel's. Around 11 p.m., they lined up to meet their "big brothers," then everybody sang a boozy fraternity song that ended, "Drink her down, drink her down, drink her down, down, down." According to the local D.A., Scott Krueger's big brother brought a bottle of spiced rum for them to drink down together. By early the next morning, Krueger was in a coma, his blood alcohol content a toxic .40 percent. Two days later he died.
Krueger's 1997 death still haunts his family--and the MIT campus. Last week the university agreed to pay $4.75 million to Scott's parents and $1.25 million...
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