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. Parents of adult chil
dren who are U.S. citizens also can apply.
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