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Unit 1 Scott Kruger: Binge Drinking 1. Who was Scott Kruger? What kind of person was he? What kind of family did he come from? What had happened to him shortly after he entered MIT? Scott Kruger was a brilliant young college student who is from a loving supportive family. He was smart, was particularly gifted in math and science. He was also an athlete and a student leader. By all accounts he was a well-disciplined and remarkable young man. His family is close and private one and there are four children in the family with Scott and his twin sister in the middle. He died shortly after he entered MIT, the leading Engineering Institute in the country. 2. Say something about the fraternity house that Scott chose to live in. The fraternity house Scott chose to live in is called Fiji house. It has a notorious track record of binging which Scott had no knowledge of before his selection. There is one tradition of the Fiji house called “animal house night”, in which new members of the house are paired off with the senior members and have to collectively finish the amount of alcohol decided by the seniors. 3. Can you describe what happened that night that caused Scott’s death? Why did his story touch the people nation-wide? Scott had been drinking with the rest of the members of the fraternity that night. When he was passed out he was removed to the basement and out onto the couch, where he threw up and inhaled his own vomit. When the other members came down to the basement to check on him, he was purple and unconscious. When he was finally rushed to the hospital, he was in cardiac arrest. Despite the effort by the medics and doctors to save him, Scott still died from alcohol poisoning. The case of Scott touched the people nation-wide because it got people thinking about why such a brilliant kid with such promise ended up in such a tragedy shortly after he entered the nation’s NO.1 leading university. The death of Scott tells a lot about university fraternity management and