If I do not drink, I still experience the same uncertainties and insecurities as anyone else. I may even be ridiculed for abstaining. But Scott Krueger didn't die from housing, he died from drinking that began as social drinking.
Community standards define social drinking.
One of the problems at MIT and many other colleges is that we consider excessive drinking to be socially acceptable. I hope he has stopped using that phrase. The joking and winking need to end. Alcohol is by far the most frequently abused drug throughout society and on campus. But there is little evidence so far that MIT's community standards on alcohol consumption are changing.