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Easton police made dozens of arrests on the same weekend a student died. Does the school need to do more?

Easton police arrested 32 people at a large drinking party near Lafayete College's campus over the weekend. Police Chief Carl Scalzo told the Express-Times that the number seemed higher than usual for the weekend of the Lafayette's end-of-semester All-College Day. Of the arrests, 11 of them were for underage drinking. These arrests occurred on the same day that Lafayette freshman Everett Glenn died after being found unresponsive. Glenn's mother has said her son died as a result of drinking alcohol, although that hasn't been confirmed by authorities. "He did sound like he had been drinking," Joanne Glenn told a New York CBS affiliate, describing their last conversation. "We told him that we were concerned about that and he said to me, 'Mom…

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Website Remembers Lafayette's Everett Glenn

Lafayette freshman died Saturday on his 19th birthday.

A website has been set up to remember Everett Glenn, the Lafayette College freshman who died Saturday after being found unresponsive in his dorm. The site -- rememberingeverett.com -- had eight pages of photos and 264 comments from people paying their respects as of Monday afternoon.  Some comments came from people who knew Glenn from the college, or from his New Jersey high school. Others were anonymous, people who'd never met him but were touched by the way the campus responded to his death.  "I met him once, through a mutual friend, and from that one chance encounter, he brought me a little bit of joy during a fencing tournament that would have otherwise been very routine and boring," one of the commenters wrote. Another said: "Everett …

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