Samantha Spady was president of her class and on the honor roll in high school.

She was the homecoming queen and the captain of the cheerleading team.

After graduation, she went to Colorado State University with the hopes of owning a car dealership and moving west.

But she never got the chance.

Her dreams ended after a long night of binge drinking.

Spady was found dead in the guest room of the CSU Sigma Pi fraternity house Sept. 5, 2004. She was 19 years old.

One of the fraternity members found her unconscious while giving a tour of the house. She was thought to have been dead for 12 hours.

An educational program will be held in Buzzard Auditorium today from 7-9 p.m. sponsored by Sigma Pi. The program will show “Death by Alcohol – The Sam Spady Story.”

A member of the Health Education Resource Center will talk about alcohol awareness.

Mike McKenna said he thinks the program will be influential and help educate students.

“She was just like one of us,” said McKenna, president of Sigma Pi. “She got good grades and partied on the weekend, which ended up bad.”

According to the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1,400 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die each year from alcohol-linked occurrences.

“Liquor is different today,” said Barry Bortnick, filmmaker of “Death by Alcohol – the Sam Spady Story.” “There’s a different flavor of it; it tastes like soda. Kids feel like they’re bulletproof to that.”

Spady’s parents sent her away to college with confidence she would make educated choices, but they didn’t realize the environment in which she was caught up.

Their mission is to educate parents and students of the dangers of alcohol, risks of large consumption and signs and symptoms of alcohol poisoning.

Samantha’s parents have created awareness cards to help educate students about what to do in situations when someone has had high alcohol consumption.

For example, the first thing to do is call 911 if someone cannot be woken by yelling or pinching.

A sign that someone might have alcohol poisoning is if they have cold, clammy or discolored skin.

Patty Spady, Samantha’s mother, said knowing more about alcohol could help other students avoid Samantha’s fate.

“I’m not trying to kill your college experience,” she said. “I just want you to survive it.”