One week after the tragedy, the Boston Globe described these streets as a scene of bacchanalia. "In this teeming college town, at any given moment on any given weekend, there is a party to be had...There's an empty cup to fiddle with until you reach the flowing keg at the start of the line, and when the keg runs dry, there's a bouncer who will hold what he knows is a fake ID up to the light, and let you in anyway."

But in the fallout of Krueger's death, something changed.

College administrators, local cops and alcohol providers are working together to ensure that another local college student does not die of alcohol. But what are the consequences for the thirsty masses under 21? For many, the struggle to get a drink in Beantown has become a little bit harder--and the consequences are hardly a slap on the wrist.

A Death Remembered

Kervin and Mills are just a small part of what may be the nation's largest crackdown on drinking in recent memory.

After the Krueger incident, the city of Boston started enforcing its drinking age so tightly that many Boston area colleges, especially those in the Allston-Brighton area--BC and Boston University--are losing the classic college Animal House atmosphere.

According to Boston Police Department Lieutenant John E. Kervin, who serves in Allson-Brighton and is Timothy Kervin's brother, approximately 250 students have been arrested for alcohol offenses during this academic year in Allston and Brighton alone, about three times the total in past years. The department has also confiscated around five times as many fake IDs from students who have been arrested.

In the years before the Krueger tragedy, the drinking scene at Boston-area colleges differed little from that of colleges anywhere else.