Questions swirl about live-in adult adviser's role in Piazza death
As the saga surrounding the death of Pennsylvania State University fraternity pledge Tim Piazza continues to unfold, a key question lingers.
What responsibility should be assigned to Tim Bream, the 56-year-old athletic trainer and live-in fraternity adviser who was, by all accounts, at the Beta Theta Pi house the night prosecutors say Piazza was forced to drink himself to the point of stumbling incoherence, a state that led to his death in a series of falls.
While Bream has escaped criminal charges in the case, Piazza’s parents and defense lawyers for some fraternity members say it defies logic that Bream was unaware of the drinking, including a “gauntlet” through which students raced from station to station consuming alcohol.
And if he didn’t know, they ask, as adviser to the fraternity, shouldn’t he have?
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