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Originally posted by Tom Earp
Whether She was checked on or not just shows that if there was a party going on, then there just might have been Booze there and no one was going to check on her.
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The article said she was found around 6:20 p.m. and had been dead for 12 hours, and was in a little-used room in the house.
That means that she may have died around 6 a.m.
Which means that the brothers doing the checks were probably doing so around midnight, 2 a.m., even 4 a.m.
At which point, they possibly stopped checking because they probably went to bed, not that they stopped because they were partying too hard.
I know that I would have assumed, if I'd checked and saw that she was unconscious but still breathing, that she would have slept it off and wouldn't still be there when I woke up around ten or eleven a.m.
That assumption, and my lack of experience, and my potential own level of alcohol, would have led me to not tell others that she was in that room drunk and passed out, would have led me not to call 911, would have led me not to check on her the next morning, but would have led me to think that she must be fine, and that I'd call later on that afternoon to see if she was feeling better.
Please keep in mind that she and many of the fraternity brothers were only 18-21 years old. Not many of us really know how to deal with weird situations at that age. The fact that the police said that there was booze all over the fraternity house does not necessarily mean that she did drink there. Maybe she was on the way home and felt woozy, and felt that the house would be a safe place to crash for a few minutes, rather than calling a cab ($$$), or trying to walk home by herself.
My point being, we don't know all of the details, and until/unless we do, maligning the brothers and the young lady won't bring her back. I personally don't need to know why she chose to leave her sorority-- that's her business and her chapter's business, not my business.
A better response is to contact our nationals and our local chapters, as well as our college campuses, and bring this issue to light-- have our chapters discuss what happened, and what should be done if our friends get into that kind of a situation. It isn't just greeks who get alcohol poisoning, or drive drunk, or make other stupid and uninformed choices.