DUI: A Powerful Lesson

Augusta State will celebrate Alcohol Awareness Week October 14-20, and highlighting the week's activities will be a hardhitting free program on drunk driving Sunday, October 14, at 7 p.m. in Washington Hall Café. Mark Sterner will relate his personal experience of a crash that killed three passengers in a car he was driving.

Sterner and three fraternity brothers were celebrating their final night during a spring break in Florida when he, as the "least drunk," was chosen to drive. A video camera they had taken along to record their evening was running until 15 minutes before the crash, and Sterner uses this in his presentation. He suffered serious injures and served three years in prison. He was paroled in 1996 and now lectures extensively on the dangers of drinking and driving.

Other activities during the week include Mocktails on Monday, October 15, from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. in Butler Hall. Information, giveaways and Twister will be available from 9 a.m. - noon on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at Butler Hall and on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 17 and 18, in front of Reese Library. For more information, contact the Office of Student Activities, 737-1609.