According to the Duluth News Tribune, a $150,000 settlement has been reached between 3 members of a University of Minnesota rugby team and the family of an engineering student who died of exposure after the team members provided him with alcohol. The Duluth News Tribune reported that the incident took place in 2001. The young man, who was not of legal drinking age, became inebriated and fell into a creek while walking home from a party where he had participated in a team initiation ritual. The University of Minnesota had also been listed as a defendant in the wrongful death lawsuit, but a judge ruled that the university had no obligation to guarantee the student's safety at an off-campus activity.