Bob and Darlene Krueger told The Boston Globe that in order to prevent similar tragedies they decided to decline confidential settlement offers and demand that the terms of the settlement be disclosed.
"We were looking to make people aware of what was going on in the college and to keep it from happening to someone else," Bob Krueger said. "We can only try and bring some good out of our son's death."
The Kruegers' lawyer, Leo V. Boyle, told the Boston Globe that the Kruegers will soon file a civil action suit against the local and national chapters of Phi Gamma Delta. Boyle said the settlement with MIT was unusual because the university apologized and gave monetary compensation even though the Kruegers neither sued nor promised the university confidentiality.
After Scott Krueger's death, five fraternities--Sigma Nu, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta and Phi Kappa Sigma--adopted alcohol-free resolutions.
Ash Somani, president of MIT's Phi Beta Epsilon fraternity, said Krueger's death was a wake-up call to the campus.
"The social scene, the party scene, is a lot different now than from when I was a freshman," Somani said.
"The important part [of the settlement] is not the money involved but the changes that are happening. And those changes are pretty visible," he added.
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