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.”
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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
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“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.
Kathy Weatherford, another resi
dent, said her drinking, which began
at age 15, led to some drug use.
“I ended up in Cenikor because I
had been convicted of felony theft,”
she said.
About 50 percent of Cenikor resi
dents are referred to the program by
courts, said Tyrone Evans, assistant
to the president of Cenikor.
The program currently has 450
residents, who receive up to 30
months of treatment, Evans said.
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