Police: No foul play in Wabash College student's fatal fall-10/29/07	Article
	Patrick M. Woehnker, 19	Wabash Mourns the Loss of Woehnker-10/28/07	Article
	October 28, 2007,	Kendallville Native Dies at Wabash College10/29/07	Article
	Wabash College	Crawfordsville Police & Wabash College Administration Investigate Freshman Death-10/29/07	Article
		Gentleman's Rule doesn't stop the drinking-12/13/08	Article
	Article Summaries and Excerpts Below	Does this need to happen to Patrick and others?

Police: No foul play in Wabash College student's fatal fall

By SOPHIA VORAVONG                                              Top of  page
svoravong@journalandcourier.com

October 29, 2007

Reported that Wabash College student Patrick M. Woehnker fell from the roof of a campus building.  Patrick was on the roof with four other students  when he slipped and fell. The autopsy determined that Patrick died of blunt force trauma caused and that he had a preliminary blood-alcohol content of 0.04 percent.

 

Wabash Mourns the Loss of Woehnker

Wabash College                                                    Top of  page

October 28, 2007

Reported that Patrick Woehnker and four other students gained access to the College’s utility tunnels, which carry electrical, network, and steam-heating line and proceeded through the tunnel into Goodrich Hall. The group ascended to the roof of the building when Patrick became separated from the others and eventually fell.

Kendallville Native Dies at Wabash College
October 29, 2007                                                       Top of  page

Reported on the death of Patrick Woehnker and provided remembrances of freinds.

Crawfordsville Police & Wabash College Administration Investigate Freshman Death
Oct 29, 2007 06:58 PM                                                    Top of  page

Reported by: Renetta DuBose

Reported on the investigation of the incident by Wabash College Administrators .

""We believe that 5 students gained access somehow and, we're not sure, to underground tunnels on campus that contain our steam heating lines and our electrical lines.  Many of those tunnels open up into academic buildings," said Jim Amidon, Public Affairs and Marketing Director at Wabash College."

Gentleman's Rule doesn't stop the drinking
December 5, 2008     Top of  page

Reported that "Patrick E. White has a problem. White has been president of Wabash College for only two years, and each autumn Wabash has lost a freshman to an alcohol-related death on his campus."  The campus has "no alcohol policy, only a "Gentleman's Rule" by which students are expected to act as gentlemen at all times. This includes obeying the laws that preclude underage drinking."

After describing the circumstance of the two students deaths (Patrick Woehnker and Johnny Smith) the author concludes "It is clear that the Gentleman's Rule is not working. But what is?"

The article also reports on the Amethyst Initiative, its supporters and detractors.

"If they can't drink responsibly at 21, critics ask, what makes you think it will be better at 18?"

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