Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Clackamas Print
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COHOL: Awareness brings out 500
Continued from ALCOHOL, Page 1
The Clackamas County
Sheriff’s department, Clackamas
County Fire, and EMTs volun
teered at the event to talk about
the dangers of drinking and driv
ing. The EMTs also brought along
a pair of goggles that impair the
vision the same way alcohol
would. Students were asked to
put the goggles on and try to walk
in a straight line, most failed.
Clackamas County Fire
Lieutenant Spencer Lambing
shared that most of the accidents
he saw on a regular basis were
people in their teens to early
twenties and specifically male.
“I would say in the late teens
to twenties, there is a fair share of
underage drinking. Those tend to
be the worst accidents.”
Lambing who participated in
the crash reenactment, also said
that not having a lot of experience
driving and showing off plays
a big part in the severity of the
crashes he sees.
The day was considered a suc
cess by ASG, however for some
All photos by Lydia Emily Bashaw Clackamas Print
■ieutenant Spencer Lambing calls for extra help with
^Krash reenactment outside the Bill Brod Community
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WASG member Greg Robertson sings Flo Rida’s Low
Booking hotdogs during the Alcohol Awareness Week
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^■Members of the Assosiated Student Government hand
^■e‘Don’t Drink and Drive’ shirts to students Wednesday
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Clackamas students it was hit and
miss.
“I felt that it was some big
party,” said John Dacneliye,
two-year Clackamas student. “It
seems weird to have music play
ing, give away free food and act
like everything is happy-go-lucky
at an event aimed to teach stu
dents about the dangers of driv
ing drunk. How is playing rap
music that glorifies drinking and
partying a lesson to anyone?”
Angela Mitchell disagreed with
Dacneliye’s statement, claim
ing that the event was incredibly
interesting, especially the memo
rial to Bethanie Adamson, a for
mer ASG member who died in
a drunk driving accident earlier
this term.
“It was very heartfelt to me to
see someone special from cam
pus remembered on a day like
this,” said Mitchell. “I felt that
no student could walk through
that event without questioning
whether or not they were being
safe every time they went out.”
Grace
Kennedy
had
mixed reactions to the event,
including a bit of doubt over
ASG’s bias in holding the event.
“I can’t help but wonder how
many people just showed up
for the T-shirts and free food,”
Kennedy said. “I came to learn
more about the numbers and the
seriousness of this type of thing.
Part of me looks at it like an
event that ASG should have been
throwing for themselves, after
their drunken escapades earlier
this year. They couldn’t possibly
not think about that while plan
ning this.”
Kennedy, who stayed for the
whole day, did say that there were
parts of the event that were worth
seeing and overall she took some
thing away from it.
“The personal statements at the
end and the reenactment really hit
home for me,” she said. “I know
that anyone who saw that would
think twice the next time they go
out drinking, and I think that was
the main purpose of the event.”
For more information on drunk
driving and it’s consequences visit
www.madd.org or www.alcohola-
lert.com.