Alcohol Deaths

Shock Fraternities

Two fraternity chapters have been suspended at the University of Oklahoma following separate incidents involving dangerous binge drinking among young students.

The most recent suspension was the Delta Upsilon chapter after a student was taken to the hospital vomiting and in a state of incoherence, but he was lucky. The Sigma Chi house has been closed for the remainder of the academic year by OU president David Boren and all activities scheduled for the fraternity have been suspended following the death of 19 year-old OU student Blake Hammontree.

The tragedy marked the fifth one across the nation involving a college fraternity in the fall of 2004. Earlier deaths included Virginia Tech student Thomas Ryan Hauser, Bradley Barrett Kemp at the University of Arkansas, Colorado State University sophomore Samantha Spady, and University of Colorado freshman Gordie Bailey.

Bailey was a pledge for the Chi Psi fraternity, and while he was dying of alcohol poisoning during his initiation other fraternity members wrote racial and sexual vulgarities on his arms, legs and face.

With the national attention on the topic mounting, many colleges are now focusing more efforts into awareness campaigns. Since the chapter at the University of Oklahoma has been suspended, the Sigma Chi fraternity at Oklahoma State University is holding a week-long seminar on the effects of alcohol consumption with experts on the topic and fraternity alumni as guest speakers.

Among the list of specialists is Bobby Newman, a supervisor at Narconon Arrowhead, which is one of the nation's most successful alcohol and drug education and rehabilitation programs and uses the drug-free methodology developed by L. Ron Hubbard. Newman was a former football player at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma who left school because of drug and alcohol abuse. Knowing what the consumption of dangerous toxins can do to an individual and what it takes to overcome it, Mr. Newman has since become a professional in the field and is now in charge of Narconon Arrowhead's drug education department, which is fresh off presentations to thousands of students during Red Ribbon Week in Oklahoma and at the Drug Enforcement Administration's anti-drug museum in New York City.

Research suggests 1,400 deaths occur each year due to alcohol poisoning, related car wrecks and other accidents, like Mandy Morrison who fell to her death from her dorm window at Colorado University. According to the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA) more than half a million students are also assaulted each year in some way by a fellow student under the influence of alcohol.

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