Anyone remember this?

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Bachman enrolled at Tulane University in the fall of 1975, but his time there was rocky and brief, ruptured by a horrific incident in January at the Sigma Chi house, just off campus. Although Bachman was not a member of the frat, he told Friedman he’d been hanging around the house with a friend from Elkins Park, a boy a year older named Ken Gutzeit. Suddenly, a man had appeared with a knife and slashed Gutzeit’s throat. “The word Jamison used was beheaded,” Friedman told me. According to news reports, Gutzeit was killed by a 25-year-old student librarian named Randell Vidrine. The two were said to have been feuding since the previous fall, after Vidrine called campus police on Gutzeit for eating a cheese sandwich among the stacks. (“I know it sounds incredible, but from what we understand they never argued about anything else,” a police spokesperson told a reporter at the time. “It was always about the sandwich.”) Gutzeit stumbled onto the frat-house steps and bled to death, surrounded by Bachman and some two dozen other witnesses. (A grand jury declined to indict Vidrine.)
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Well, um, thanks for creeping me out this afternoon...

Surprised that story hasn't been made into a movie. Although it feels like a lot of it is in a lot of movies already.
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I was at Tulane from 1974-1976 before I left for JYA and I don’t remember it at all. I must have been in a cocoon.
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I pledged Sigma Chi the fall after that happened. There was little said about it to us as freshmen; however, I did hear some stories about the situation.

Gutzeit might have been doing things that could have been tormenting the other guy, according to one account; the other guy was a student worker at the library, and KG did stuff at times because he knew it would bother the guy, who was a "stick to the rules" kind of chap. One day the guy came to the chapter house, called Ken out. pulled out a knife and slashed him. He bled to death before anything could be done. I do not have any more, do not know much more about. I recall that the guy might have had some local ties and pull, which led to the lack of any charges.

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