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UO signs contract with Coca-Cola Vending machines on campus will sell Coke products exclusively for the next five years By Brooke Adams Freelance Reporter The University signed a new contract with Coca-Cola in Au gust for the dispensing of vend ing machines around campus. Late last spring, the University sent out requests for proposals in a competitive bid process to con tract the service of a major busi ness. The University publicly an nounced specific proposals expressing their basic needs from a bidder, and Coca-Cola and Pep si were the two companies who fully completed the application process. Coca-Cola was chosen because it has a “well-received product” and fulfilled the proposal’s re quirements, EMU Director Dusty Miller said. Miller said there are many as pects to these contracts. Aside from the strictly business consid erations of such a contract, the Coca-Cola company and the Uni versity agreed to a list of finan cial and non-financial support that the company will offer to the University. The monetary al lowances include financial assis tance to student financial aid, residence halls and contests such as the College Bowl. This specific contract allotted $38,000 for the University to use at its discretion. The ASUO and EMU Board of Directors are co funding the new developments of the EMU Amphitheater. The total construction will cost $415,000. The EMU is funding $50,000, and the ASUO is fund ing $335,000 of the project. Thirty thousand dollars of the discretionary money was devot ed to complete the EMU Am phitheater. The ASUO, EMU and University Board of Directors agreed this was the best use of the funds for this year. The remaining $8,000 will be used for programming funds to underwrite EMU programs and speakers for the University. This is the first year that the five-year contract, enacted in August, will take effect. MIT student dies after binge drinking This is the second alcohol-related death at a U.S. school since the school year started By Jon Marcus The Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A fresh man found unconscious amid vomit and empty liquor bottles at a Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology fraternity has died of an al cohol overdose. Scott Krueger, 18, of Orchard Park, N.Y., died late Monday, three days after the fraternity pledge was discovered in his basement room at the Phi Gamma Delta house. His parents said his blood-alco hol level had reached .410 per cent — five times the legal limit for drivers in Massachusetts. Au thorities say that means he con sumed about 16 drinks. The med ical examiner said Tuesday that Krueger died of an alcohol over dose. “You’d think people here would be smarter than that. But in some cases, tragic things just hap pen,” said John Fries, 18, an MIT freshman. It was at least the second such death at at an American universi ty this semester. In August, a Louisiana State University frater nity pledge died at a hospital after a night of drinking. A clean-cut three-letter athlete who graduated in the top 10 of the 325 students in his high school class, Krueger had attended a par ty at the fraternity earlier that night where he was paired off with a “big brother,” and where alcohol was served, school offi cials said. Police have begun a criminal investigation, and licensing au thorities in Boston, where the fra ternity is located, have charged it with serving alcohol to minors, al lowing an overdose of alcohol and other violations. The drink ing age in all states is 21. MIT has also suspended Phi Gamma Delta from participating in campus social activities. Students said Phi Gamma Delta promoted an image of itself as MIT’s “Animal House” frat. Sev eral said they had been offered beer there during the freshman summer rush week, despite uni versity regulations banning alco hol at the event. Officers of the MIT chapter and the fraternity’s national headquar ters declined to comment. MIT’s other fraternities and its dormitory council have agreed to ban alcohol indefinitely, and the school is sending letters to stu dents, holding seminars and ask ing resident advisers to counsel freshmen. Jon Tong, 21, an MIT senior, said the heightened awareness won’t last long. "Two years down the road, I question whether people will re member this incident,” he said. “My personal opinion is that things will just continue as they were.” Congress extends eviction deadline The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Congress acted with just hours to spare Tuesday and gave thousands of illegal inuni grants three more weeks to seek legal residence in stead of having to leave the country immediately. The reprieve — through Oct. 23 — was included in a bill keeping federal agencies financed for the start of fiscal 1998, which begins Wednesday. The Senate approved the overall measure without debate by 99-0, with only Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., missing the vote. President Clinton will sign the bill “whenever we get it,” said White House spokesman Joe Lockhart. The House approved the measure Monday by 355 57. Final congressional action came as lawyers, chari table organizations and other groups were flooded by thousands of calls from immigrants worried that the grace period was about to expire. A 1994 law lets some undocumented immigrants file in the United States for legal status instead of at U.S. consulates abroad. To do so, they must pay a $1,000 fine. The provision applies only to illegal immigrants who are eligible for legal residence, either because they’re already in line for visas or are the spouse or minor child of a U.S. citizen. 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