Raise a fond last glass to Dionysus

摘要

When a fraternity at Louisiana State University held a party recently for its newly inducted brothers, the evening ended badly. Some of the revellers became so drunk that the emergency services were called. Twelve students passed out; three were taken to hospital; one died of alcohol poisoning. It has sobered up LSU, a university better known for parties than for scholarship. And that death—with another, also from alcohol poisoning, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on September 30th—has also made people think about the excesses of fraternities.