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Wednesday, February 19, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local Icohol awareness 'ew organization promotes responsible drinking atA&M By SUE A. KRENEK Reporter ■Texas A&M is to become the of the newest chapter of a na- 1 Hnal student organization that has Hed theme parties, fun runs and ed- \ uiational seminars to promote re- Isponsible alcohol use. pjHHeather McBreen, a student assis- tant to A&M’s Alcohol Awareness jHGgram, savs that an attempt to ^ Istaita BACCHUS chapter here two iy years ago was unsuccessful. BAC- AfchUS is an acronym for Boost Alco- v'poi Consciousness Concerning the. \ ypfcalth of University Students. AlMBut now, legal and social changes v ' ha\e provided greater need for a \Hident alcohol education group, she says. ; ■“We’re not here to advocate ^'Nwrinktng or not drinking,” she says. “Were advocating alternatives to ■inking.” HMcBreen says one of her motives for starting the chapter is to provide ■>re student input into the alcohol awareness programs already spon- scred by the University. ■She says she hopes the group can jhelp students adapt to new alcohol ■licies, especially the change in the dlinking age from 19 to 21 that will tale place Sept. 1. w—■“! felt like in order to help stu- C Bins adapt to the change, we had to i ■rt educating them now,” McBreen says. “Part of the responsible use of alcohol is using alcohol within the limits of the law. So at one point BACCHUS is going to have to advo cate not drinking if you’re not of age. “I think that we’ll have a really strong role in advocating alterna tives to the use of alcohol as the focal point of entertainment.” McBreen says the organization hopes to work with area bar owners and students to ease the effect of the shift in the legal drinking age. She says a smooth transition also will benefit the owners because it may lessen the economic impact of the age change. BACCHUS may be able to represent student concerns in the face of that change, she says. Jan Winniford, assistant director of student affairs, says although the new legal drinking age is the most visible of the recent alcohol reforms, BACCHUS also wants to educate students about changes in drunk driving laws. In a 1984 survey by Dr. Wayne E. Wylie, an A&M assistant professor of health and physical education, 84 percent of the A&M students sur veyed said they drank, and of those, 56 percent said they had driven while intoxicated. Winniford says driving while drunk now carries stiffer penalties, thanks to new state laws. “It’s easier now to get a convic tion,” she says. “Before, there were lots of loopholes and ways to get out of it. For example, before the new laws went into effect, you could re fuse to take a breath test when ar rested but the fact that you refused was never admissible as evidence. Now that is admissible.” In addition, she says, the convic tion for drunk driving can no longer be wiped off a person’s record once he has served a successful parole pe riod. But both Winniford and McBreen say BACCHUS also wants to educate students about social host liability, the area that could have the greatest immediate impact on students. Social host liability, or third-party liability, is a new legal concept that allows hosts to be held liable if an in toxicated guest leaves the party and causes an accident. Winniford says although the host must be proven negligent to be lia ble, the courts are Finding more peo ple negligent in these cases than ever before. This affects any organization that serves alcohol at its parties. She says social host liability is, to a large ex tent, behind the current national trend toward dry rush for fraterni ties. “I think that most organizations, residence hall groups and fraterni ties and sororities are forced to be aware of what could happen if they’re not responsible and don’t prevent people who aren’t of age from drinking and don’t keep peo ple who are intoxicated from driv ing,” she says. BACCHUS was founded in 1976 at the University of Florida, and since that time has grown to include over 200 chapters at campuses in 44 states and Canada. Winniford says at A&M, BACCHUS will act as a stu dent arm of the Alcohol Awareness Program sponsored by the Depart ment of Student Services. “We’re not here to tell people they shouldn’t drink or to give up their vices,” she says. “We’re just here to try to make them be a little more careful about what they do.” :e First lady praises drug program grads ; prof; B I’idffiiM Associated Press tUfoMFORT WORTH — First lady N; ncy Reagan, in Texas for a visit by Br .tin’s Prince Charles, handed out 11 diplomas Tuesday to graduates of a drug rehabilitation program, gup sating “the best things in life don’t me I ■ne easy.” itvaiiiH’The past two years have been High for you graduates . . . but in | M:king it out to the end, each of you atiRTftav learned a lesson . . . the best tr rfwMngs in life are worth working for,” .olutenlHeagan said. ranCtilB Rea g an v i s * te d Cenikor Foun- ■tion, a nonprofit program that ■ovides treatment and education spenutror people with drug and alcohol problems. ers. I to y® ntafe intftf Fundi-I P olitm ist fe 1 “The past two years have been tough for you graduates . . . but in sticking it out to the end, each of you has learned a lesson . . . the best things in life are worth working for. ” — First lady Nancy Reagan. Before the ceremonies, the first lady participated in a group session with 10 members of Texans’ War on Drugs, an anti-drug abuse group, and clients at Cenikor. Reagan said, “If we can get all the young people involved (in prevent ing drug abuse), we've got a big leg up. “We need all these young people, but we need you clear-eyed and clear-headed. “We don’t need you all drugged up,” Reagan said. Members of Texans’ War on Drugs are mostly high school stu dents who visit schools to speak against using drugs. Karl Dunn, a Cenikor resident, said solving the drug abuse problem is his chief goal in life. “It’s nice to know that someone is running the front line, because it’s needed,” he said. 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