Damien Brosnan, president of the
InterFraternity Council, says Krueger's death has changed the way MIT students spend their weekends and has made them more aware of caring for their fellow students.
"There has been an incredible change in social awareness of alcohol," said Brosnan, who was a good friend of Krueger. "People look out for each other. People are out to have a good time, and not just to get drunk."
The Krueger settlement is the largest to date given by a university in a case of alcohol-related injury or death. In 1993, a $475,000 settlement was given in the death of and University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Jeff Knoll, a Phi Gamma Delta pledge who fell from the fraternity house's third floor window after being forced to drink large amounts of alcohol.
MIT spokesperson Ken Campbell did not return several phone calls seeking comment yesterday.