At 1:45 a.m. on a Sunday morning at Boston College (BC), the brightest lights in sight come from the headlights of a police car.
Sgt. Timothy M. Kervin of the Boston Police Department and William R. Mills, Jr., Associate Director for Community Affairs at BC, sound wistful in the driver's and passenger's seats as they circle around the same group of dark dormitories.
"These four buildings, a couple years ago, there were parties every floor," recalls Mills.
On the fourth circuit around these dorms, there is a glimmer of excitement.
"This one with the lights on," Kervin says in a quiet monotone, and pulls his cruiser closer, hoping to find a wild party in hiding. Moving in, they discover that the room is silent.
"We've put ourselves out of business," Kervin quips.
Mills was remembering the neighborhood before MIT first-year and fraternity pledge Scott Krueger died of alcohol poisoning in the fall of 1997.
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