11-18-2003, 05:05 PM
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The GrandDaddy of them all!
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How methodists get hazed
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SMU pledge critical after chugging water
Associated Press
DALLAS -- A 21-year-old student at Southern Methodist University remained hospitalized in critical condition Monday after chugging water in an off-campus competition with fraternity members.
Braylon Curry, a pledge with Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, drank an unknown amount of water from a gallon container early Saturday morning and was hospitalized hours later after becoming dazed and incoherent, Dallas police said.
Authorities said they were continuing their investigation but had not ruled out hazing.
"Preliminarily it would appear so, but until we know the details, we can't make that final judgment," said Jim Caswell, vice president of student affairs.
SMU officials and Dallas police still were trying to determine details of the incident Monday. According to a police report, some alcohol was consumed at the competition but Curry drank only water.
The fraternity, which only this spring was reinstated at SMU after a three-year suspension for hazing, has been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation, Caswell said.
Caswell said he does not know how many of the fraternity's seven members were at the competition. He refused to discuss specifics on the fraternity's prior hazing incident.
The fraternity's national office in Baltimore declined comment.
"This was a complete surprise, and in allowing them to return, there was a complete understanding they would comply with all the policies and their own national policies," Caswell said.
The day before the incident, the school held an anti-hazing event on campus and produced a half-page advertisement that defined hazing and outlined its consequences, Caswell said.
Curry, a junior business major, transferred from Austin College to SMU this fall.
Excessive consumption of water can be fatal, causing pulmonary edema, a condition in which water enters the lungs, and hyponatremia, a sodium imbalance brought on by excess fluid consumption.
The average person can consume up to 15 liters of water in a 24-hour period, but drinking too much too quickly can swell brain cells and cause head pressure, said Dr. Greg Blomquist, an emergency room doctor at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
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a water drinking contest? what kinda frat is this? must've been an extremely religious frat or something.
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