It's a sad but recurring campus story: This autumn, students are again drinking themselves to death. Colorado State student Samantha Spady had consumed as many as 40 drinks when she was found dead at a fraternity house in September. Lynn Gordon Bailey Jr., Gordie to his friends, had been taken to the mountains near the University of Colorado with fellow Chi Psi fraternity pledges and told not to leave until several bottles of whiskey were finished. At a University of Oklahoma fraternity house, Blake Hammontree had a blood-alcohol content more than five times the legal limit. Bradley Barrett Kemp of the University of Arkansas had downed a dozen beers and, friends said, possibly other drugs.
Members of the Chi Omega sorority hold candles during a vigil
in Fort Collins, Colo., for Samantha Spady, 19. Spady was found
dead at a fraternity house. Police said drinking contributed to
her death. Those deaths - three of which have been officially
ruled alcohol poisoning - are only the most prominent. The vast
majority of the estimated 1,400 alcohol-related deaths each year
among college students come in automobile accidents.
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