Rhino
08-04-2007, 06:05 AM
Rider University Students, Officials Charged in Alcohol-Related Death of Freshman Student
Friday, August 03, 2007
A pair of schools officials, including the dean of students, and three students from Rider University have been charged with “aggravated hazing” in the death of a freshman student that died following a night of binge drinking at a campus fraternity house late last March, authorities said Friday.
The charges are the end results of an investigation launched into the March 30 death of Gary DeVercelly, 18, of Long Beach, Calif., who died a day after he was admitted into Capital Health System's Fuld hospital in Trenton, N.J., following a night of heavy drinking at a Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house.
His blood alcohol level was .426, more than five times the legal limit, when he was pronounced dead.
"The ramifications of this for colleges and universities in New Jersey, and across the country, is that it will send some kind of message that the standards of college life, when it relates to alcohol, need to be policed carefully," Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph Bocchini Jr. told the Associated Press.
The Times of Trenton previously reported that friends and classmates of the freshman reportedly informed authorities that DeVercelly told them that he would be drinking vodka during a pledge initiation event at the fraternity house....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292074,00.html
Friday, August 03, 2007
A pair of schools officials, including the dean of students, and three students from Rider University have been charged with “aggravated hazing” in the death of a freshman student that died following a night of binge drinking at a campus fraternity house late last March, authorities said Friday.
The charges are the end results of an investigation launched into the March 30 death of Gary DeVercelly, 18, of Long Beach, Calif., who died a day after he was admitted into Capital Health System's Fuld hospital in Trenton, N.J., following a night of heavy drinking at a Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house.
His blood alcohol level was .426, more than five times the legal limit, when he was pronounced dead.
"The ramifications of this for colleges and universities in New Jersey, and across the country, is that it will send some kind of message that the standards of college life, when it relates to alcohol, need to be policed carefully," Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph Bocchini Jr. told the Associated Press.
The Times of Trenton previously reported that friends and classmates of the freshman reportedly informed authorities that DeVercelly told them that he would be drinking vodka during a pledge initiation event at the fraternity house....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292074,00.html