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To: jbe who wrote (47939)	7/30/1999 12:55:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

I signed the petition anyway, I like the old version. The Beta wa on the other night and it SUCKED big time...

To: jbe who wrote (47939)	7/30/1999 12:56:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Go2Net is making SI format Go2Hell.

To: jbe who wrote (47939)	7/30/1999 5:19:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

New Topic. Have you seen this from Yahoo news? MIT Said To Pull Graduate's Diploma BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken back the diploma of a 23-year man accused of providing alcohol at a 1997 fraternity party that left a freshman dead from alcohol poisoning, his lawyer says. The school's decision was made Wednesday, after Charles Yoo and attorney Timothy Burke attended a hearing before the MIT Committee on Discipline, Burke said. Yoo now works as a stockbroker in Philadelphia. Yoo, 23, who graduated in 1998, will sue MIT, Burke said. School officials declined to comment on the decision. Police said Scott Krueger died in September 1997 after he was forced to drink huge quantities of liquor as part of a pledge contest at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house. Krueger's blood alcohol level of .401 was five times the legal limit. Yoo was the pledge trainer at the fraternity and provided freshman - including Krueger - with whiskey and beer, authorities say. Burke said MIT's punishment of Yoo was too harsh, and could cost Yoo his job. He added that the student who gave Krueger a bottle of rum was only suspended for a semester. ''MIT needed to scapegoat someone,'' Burke said. I think it's a travesty. Certainly there was a tragedy in the fraternity. If laws were broken, they should be enforced. If suspension or expulsion had been in order, they should have been imposed. But to let him go on, finish the degree requirements, grant the degree, then somehow say "oh, we take it back..." Are they going to refund his tuition, and his four years spent in getting his degree?