Case Settled in UT Student's Binge Drinking Death

The July 15, 2008 Houston Chronicle covers the $4.2 million settlement in the case against Lambda Phi Epsilon national and Austin chapters and specific fraternity members in the hazing/binge drinking death of a former UT student ("Houston family settles suit in son's binge-drinking death"). Jack Phoummarath, 18, died of alcohol poisoning after a fraternity initiation party. His autopsy blood alcohol level was over five times the legal limit for adults.

Review selected library titles related to hazing and binge drinking available now at LSC-CyFair Branch Library. Click the title of a book, select the "Request" button in the listing, and enter your library card number and PIN for each title you want to reserve for pick up at the library. Call the library at 281-290-3218 to check your PIN if you do not remember it. Use these subject words to find more in the library catalog:

• college students alcohol
• binge drinking
• ethanol poisoning
• alcoholic intoxication
• hazing

From Binge to Blackout: A Mother and Son Struggle with Teen Drinking by Chris Volkmann and Toren Volkmann - New American Library, 2006
call number: 616.861 Vol

Talking with College Students about Alcohol: Motivational Strategies for Reducing Abuse by Scott T. Walters, John S. Baer - Guilford Press, 2006
call number: 362.292 Wal

Dying to Drink: Confronting Binge Drinking on College Campuses by Henry Wechsler and Bernice Wuethrich - Rodale: Distributed to the book trade by St. Martin's Press, 2002
call number: 362.292 Wec

Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking by Hank Nuwer - Indiana University Press, 2001, 1999
call number: 378.198 Nuw

Women and Alcohol [videorecording] produced by ABC News - Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2006
call number: DVD Nonfiction 362.292 Wom

International Response to Darfur Genocide

The Online NewsHour from PBS reported on July 14 that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague charged the Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir with "genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur" (Sudanese President Charged with Genocide in Darfur). In an effort to eliminate native African tribes opposing his government, al-Bashir is accused of leading the movement to exterminate over 300,000 people and displacing 2.5 million from their homes. The announcement by the ICC is seen as an independent effort to quell the violence and bring world support to find solutions to the Sudanese conflict.

Review selected library titles related to the genocide in Sudan available now at LSC-CyFair Branch Library. Click the title of a book, select the "Request" button in the listing, and enter your library card number and PIN for each title you want to reserve for pick up at the library. Call the library at 281-290-3218 to check your PIN if you do not remember it. Use these subject words to find more in the library catalog:

• history Darfur
• genocide Sudan
• ethnic conflict Sudan
• atrocities Sudan
• politics Darfur
• humanitarian assistance Sudan

The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari, as told to Dennis Michael Burke and Megan M. Mckenna - Random House, 2008
call number: B Hari

Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gérard Prunier - Cornell University Press, 2007
call number: 962.704 Pru

The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur by Brian Steidle - Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2007
format: OverDrive eAudio Book available for download at http://hcpl.lib.overdrive.com/. (See also the title DVD at end of list.)

Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by Jen Marlowe with Aisha Bain and Adam Shapiro - Nation Books: Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2006
call number: 962.704 Mar

Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle & John Prendergast - Hyperion, 2007
call number: 962.704 Che

The Devil Came on Horseback [videorecording] produced by Docurama: distributed by New Video Group, 2007
call number: DVD nonfiction 962.704 Dev (See also the book title near top of list.)