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Article: A Texas college battles the party culture.(USA)(Going Dry)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 29, 1999
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Not too long ago, Southwest Texas State University had a reputation as the state's "party school." On weekend nights, beer flowed from dorm-room and fraternity kegs like the cool waters of the nearby San Marcos River. Grades - and graduation - were sometimes an afterthought.
But on Feb. 6, 1999, after the death of one fraternity pledge and the near death of another student in separate alcohol-related incidents, university officials acted swiftly. They suspended all 12 fraternity houses and ordered them to be alcohol free by September 2000 in order to regain university recognition. They also vowed to make the entire campus dry by the same year.
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