MIT student alcohol death

Used as evidence that "the world looks to MIT for leadership" beyond technical matters. Scott Krueger case (1997), though Tom doesn't name him.

You can go back and read this. I wanted to get a pithy beginning: "The world looks to MIT for leadership, and this leadership is not limited to science and technology." A kid drank himself to death and they gave his parents millions of dollars. He'd only been at MIT for six weeks. He drank a fifth of Southern Comfort in two hours, choked on his own vomit, and all of a sudden this place was in an uproar. We were on the front page of the New York Times, the Washington Post. How could someone from MIT, the best and the brightest, drink themselves to death? Well, your parents taught you how to drink before you got here for six weeks. We didn't teach you. But nonetheless, MIT was blamed for it. They paid millions of dollars to his parents. I'm sorry he died, but gifted people aren't supposed to do this.