An MIT undergraduate remains in critical condition at a Boston hospital after lapsing into a coma during an MIT fraternity party on Saturday night.

The fraternity-Phi Gamma Delta has been suspended pending investigation by MIT's administration.

Scott Krueger, an 18-year-old first-year from Orchard Park, New York, was rushed to Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital just after midnight yesterday morning.

According to Kruger's cousin, William W. Burke-White '98, Kruger is in a coma "caused by a lack of oxygen subsequent to alcohol poisoning."

Late Sunday, Krueger was still in intensive care "and will be there for a few days," said hospital spokesperson Maura E. McClaughlin.

In a Web site press release, MIT spokesperson Robert J. Sales said campus police received a call just before midnight from the fraternity house reporting that Krueger was unconscious.

Boston Emergency Medical Services workers arrived soon after the call was placed and transported Krueger to the hospital, the press release stated.

Sales was unavailable for comment yesterday.

MIT's Dean of Student Life Margaret R. Bates said in the release that the university is "obviously very concerned. Our thoughts are with his family."

The Boston Police Department is conducting a joint investigation of the incident in cooperation with MIT police.

"The trademark purple shades at the four-story fraternity house at 28, the Fenway were pulled shut yesterday afternoon. Stacks of plastic glass holders were piled up near the front door.

"Our hearts are with Scott," said a fraternity member in an interview with The Crimson yesterday. The member, who asked to remain anonymous, said he spoke for "Joe Unity"-the collective name for Phi Gamma Delta's first-year inductees.

The member refused to comment on the investigation and the fraternity's suspension.

MIT's InterFraternity Council met in an emergency meeting late yesterday to discuss the incident, said Jennifer E. Lee, the editor-in-chief of the Tech, MIT's student paper.

An MIT sorority member who resides near the Phi Gamma Delta house said that Krueger was at least partially to blame for his condition.

"I don't think it's all [Phi Gamma Delta's] fault," she said. "No one forced him to drink."