FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Tequila, beer and vodka.
Samantha Spady would say yes to all three during the final hours of her life.
When the sophomore at Colorado State University went out Saturday during Labor Day weekend, she and her friends knew where they wanted to party and where they wanted to drink, according to police.
But no one — not Spady nor her companions — had a clue that Spady was drowning in alcohol.
On Friday, Fort Collins police and the county coroner released the results of an investigation that began when Spady was found dead in the Sigma Pi fraternity house on Sept. 5.
The police and coroner say Spady consumed at least 30 to 40 beers along with vodka. The 19-year-old died of "acute ethanol poisoning" with a blood-alcohol level of 0.436 percent.
Spady's death sparked the formation of an alcohol abuse task force on campus, the disbanding of the Sigma Pi fraternity and a pledge by all other fraternities to ban alcohol.
On Wednesday, 19 people were cited for alcohol-related offenses stemming from the investigation into Spady's death, including buying liquor for a minor.
On Friday, a University of Colorado freshman who was pledging at a fraternity house party was found dead at the house.
Lynn Gordon Bailey, 18, of Dallas died following an initiation ceremony for Chi Psi fraternity pledges Thursday night, according to several students and fraternity members. Witnesses reported heavy drinking at the initiation ceremony.
Spady's death "is not just a Fort Collins issue, (it) is a national issue," said Dennis Harrison, Fort Collins' police chief. "The question is what have we told our kids about alcohol. Alcohol education is completely amiss in our society."
CSU officials have halted all beer sales at home football games. The Spady tragedy should force students, faculty, police and parents to take a harder look at the culture of alcohol that dominates CSU and other campuses, Harrison said. "I don't think we have to live with it."
Two days before she died, Spady said on Web sites that she wanted to get drunk over the Labor Day break, which also coincided with the annual CU-CSU football game.
But investigators said Friday that she intended to stay relatively sober over those three days because she was going to be driving a lot.
Sometime that Saturday evening, she changed her mind.
After attending parties most of night, she wound up at the Sigma Pi fraternity house just after midnight Sept. 5. By 5:30 a.m., her speech was slurred, and she was unable to stand, police said. Two friends carried her into a spare room at the house to sleep off her revelry.
The 5-foot-6, 126-pound CSU sophomore was last seen lying on the couch on her stomach, using her hands as a pillow.