[DeltAlum]

When I met Mrs. DA, she was singing with a campus rock group as a Freshman.

She was also dating the lead singer.

She was the Prom Queen at her high school, a class officer, an area student council queen, Buckeye Girls State delegate, Outstanding Senior Bandsman, Musical Theater lead, commencement speaker and a number of other awards.

She grew up on a farm in a very small town.

Does all of this sound a little familiar?

She also had little or no experience with alcohol.

One night (actually just before we met) she went out to a party with her lead singer date and drank way too much and ended up with alcohol poisoning.

Thank goodness someone had the good sense to get her to the Health Center. I really don't know if it was the people she was drinking with or her dorm mates. In any event, she was lucky.

I'm not pointing the finger of blame at the Sigma Pi brothers. However I do want to point out that there are several potential mistakes here -- perhaps caused by inexperience -- that may have cost this young woman her life.

By the way, she still won't drink sloe gin to this day.