when is the last time a school ever took responsibility for a student that was found dead in a dorm?
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Originally posted by IvySpice
This happens all the time. Just off the top of my head at schools I'm close to, MIT is currently being sued for the death of an undergraduate in her dorm room (a suicide). Harvard was raked across the coals in the national press for a murder-suicide that's still impacting its reputation ten years later. NYU is taking a terrific beating at the moment for a number of student deaths on campus, including one that resulted from drug use, and the lawsuits are beginning to roll in.
I can't, however, think of the last time I read about a student found dead of alcohol poisoning in a dorm.
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That doesn't mean the school is taking responsibility. They do everything possible to point the blame elsewhere. If a student drinks in the dorms and eventually dies at a fraternity house then they blame the fraternity because it is their house. If a student drinks at a fraternity and dies in the dorms then the school blames the fraternity becase they served the student.
You went to Penn, right? Do you remember a couple of years ago when a Penn grad died at the FIJI house? He has been drinking all day at the lacrosse game. After the game he went bar hopping. After that he went back to the house and fell down the back steps. The house was owned by Penn. The back steps didn't have a railing which was required by local BOCA codes and Penn's internal memos proved that Penn knew about problem. According to Penn's contract with the fraternity, Penn was responsible for the maintenance of the house. How did Penn accept responsiblilty? They responded by suspending the fraternity.
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