With all due respect to the dead and his family, this is no. This beer would have had little to no impact on drinking, Greek letter organizations, or students in general at VCU. College kids get housed on shitty beer and liquor because that’s what they can afford in large quantities. VCU getting its own microbrew would not have changed that. And the thing about hazing, if you actually want to do something about stopping it, is that there are so many other ways to do it than just making a pledge drink to death. Just as an example, when I was at UVA, some poor guy was made to drink a bunch of soy sauce and nearly died from that. They shut down that fraternity, but I believe it happened again at a different frat a couple of years later. The jerks who want to do things like that will find a way. You’re not saving anyone by shutting down a beer that would primarily have been a nice thing for alums.