But while McCue's death stunned students on campus, it certainly didn't stop them. And Bailey and Kelly's marathon-drinking session took place just weeks after McCue's death. Many students feel pressure to drink, Bailey says. Kelly had always been against drinking, Kelly says. Students continued to drink that year, convinced they knew their limits.
Alcohol can be dangerous in other ways as well.
In the fall of 1998, University of Michigan's Courtney Canter went to a frat party, where alcohol was being served. CBS Courtney Canter died in what may have been an alcohol-related accident. Sometime after she got back to her room at 3 a.m., she slipped and fell out of a sixth-floor dorm window. She was found dead hours later. While her blood-alcohol level was well below the legal limit, some people, including her father, think that alcohol played a role in her death.