Who was at fault in the MIT tragedy? Current social norms. " the collegiate culture of drinking seems to be moving from keg parties to industrial-strength guzzling." Right in tune with the move over the last quarter century to more-more-more. "We have to be/do/have more than they were/did/had." I'm politically very progressive-liberal, but some things need to roll back, to return to a time when common sense played a central role. College kids always have, always will drink... College elders -- IFCs, seniors and even Deans -- need to stop drinking practices that are potentially fatal. Would a fraternity president allow a pledge to drive after a kegger? No. (P.S. -- I went to college, belonged to a fraternity and drank like hell in the late '60s; I've also been clean and sober since 1987. I know a little of where I speak.)