Research Blog #8

Case:

A chief example i am using in order to illustrate my argument is the death of an MIT freshman named Scott Krueger. In 1997 MIT freshman and pledge of Phi Gamma Delta reportedly was hazed by means of alcohol consumption to death. The event that he drank at was called animal house night and featured a showing of the movie. The events that occurred prompted pledges to drink a bottle with their big and sing a drinking song.  Scott was found to have a BAC of .4 which 5x the legal limit in Massachusetts and died due to alcohol poisoning. The president of Phi Gamma Delta was charged with manslaughter and hazing. This speaks to the debate because the fraternity was mimicking behaviors from Animal House and if they did not mimic the behaviors by means of observational learning than Scott would not have died. On the MIT news website there is an article written about this individual and the full story http://news.mit.edu/1998/da_0923.