Alcohol Awareness Week events to educate and entertain

(Oct. 15, 2002)--The student organization FACES (Finding Awareness by Creating Educated Students) and the UTSA Alcohol and Other Drugs/Crime Prevention Task Force are sponsoring National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week (NCAAW), Oct. 18-24.

The entire UTSA community is invited to the events, which are centered on the goal of offering healthier choices regarding the use of alcohol. Events will include "mocktail" refreshments, Drunk Driving 101, giveaway items, information tables and music provided by a local radio station. A schedule of events follows.

FACES is part of a nationwide peer education network designed to educate students about how to make better choices in their lives. A goal of the organization is to facilitate a sense of community and to encourage students to participate in campus life.

Organized by UTSA Counseling Services in 1996, FACES promotes university resources that can help students get through difficult times, conducts educational presentations, performs educational skits, distributes educational brochures and conducts discussion sessions. Topics included in their educational efforts include alcohol and drug abuse, safer sex, HIV/AIDS, multicultural issues and date rape.

For more information, contact Heather Ambrose, UTSA Counseling Services, at (210) 458-4140.

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UTSA ALCOHOL AWARENESS WEEK

Friday, Oct. 18

Screen, Swerve and Spike Fest
5:30-7 p.m., Convocation Center parking lot, 1604 Campus
Music from a local radio station, giveaway items, free alcohol screening, Drunk Driving 101 (participants drive a golf cart through an obstacle course while wearing drunk goggles to simulate the difficulty of driving while intoxicated)

UTSA volleyball game
7 p.m., Convocation Center, 1604 Campus

Tuesday Oct. 22

Mocktails
11 a.m.-1 p.m., Frio Street Building Commons, Downtown Campus

Alcohol information table
11 a.m.- 1 p.m., Sombrilla, 1604 Campus

Wednesday Oct. 23

Mocktails
11 a.m.-1 p.m., Sombrilla, 1604 Campus

Alcohol information table
11 a.m.-1 p.m., Frio Street Building Commons, Downtown Campus

Thursday, Oct. 24

Sign the "Contract For Life"
11 a.m.-1 p.m., Sombrilla, 1604 Campus, and Frio Street Building Commons, Downtown Campus

The contract is a pledge not to drive while under the influence of alcohol or other drugs or to allow others to drive while under the influence. Participants can also join in a "street theater" event to raise awareness of the consequences of drunk driving. Those who want to participate will have their faces painted white and a story about a person killed by a drunk driver attached to them.

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