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DEATH AT WABASH COLLEGE
Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com
Early in October Johnny Smith was found dead in a pool of his own vomit in the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house at Wabash College. The Indianapolis Star reports that the County Coroner labeled alcohol as a contributing factor. In the aftermath, Delta Tau Delta has suspended its Wabash College Chapter. While members will be permitted to continue to live in the house, all fraternity activity has been suspended and the college has placed two of its employees in the house as residents.
Smith was a freshman whose relatives are reported to believe that he was pressured into consuming too much alcohol.
It’s tragedies like this which will continue to harm the reputation of fraternities and sororities in general, even those which work hard to prevent them.