Friday, March 16, 2007
Student group Rock Chalk Responsible Choices has $30,000 at its disposal after the group received a $2.75 million grant given to the NCAA by Anheuser-Busch.
The University of Kansas was one of 15 schools to receive funding. The grant provides $15,000 this year, $10,000 next year and $5,000 the year after that.
Group sponsor Mike Harrity, an employee of the Athletics Department, said the group planned to focus on working with other groups on campus, such as Student Union Activities and the Greek community, to involve as much of the student body as possible in alcohol awareness.
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It’s not ‘don’t drink, don’t drink,’ it’s ‘be responsible when you do,’
-Chelsey Pryor, president of Rock Chalk Responsible Choices
Students serving on the group brainstormed ideas to promote responsible drinking and had them approved by Harrity. Group president Chelsey Pryor, Washington, Penn., senior, said events so far this year included a speaker that shared his personal experience of the tragic results of drunk driving, a controlled drinking activity where students took sobriety tests and a pre-game pep rally before the men’s basketball team played Texas. SUA helped organize the speaker and the Greek Community co-sponsored the sobriety test activity, which was called “Check yourself before you wreck yourself.”
Participants were given one to six drinks and then participated in sobriety tests, demonstrating that even a small amount of alcohol could result in impairment.
“One girl, I think she had about four drinks. She definitely wasn’t passing the test,” Pryor said, adding that the crowd was laughing and joking with her.
Giving out alcoholic drinks and promoting responsibility at the same time may seem to be contradictory, and the same goes for the fact that a beer company provided the money for the group, but Pryor said that wasn’t necessarily so.
“We don’t want people to think this is an alcohol prevention group. We know students are going to drink and have a good time, but there’s no reason to ruin that good time by making a bad decision,” she said. “It’s not ‘don’t drink, don’t drink,’ it’s ‘be responsible when you do,’ “
The group plans to meet with SUA in April to discuss ideas for next year’s projects. Harrity said the group had only used about half the money allotted for this year and that the remainder would carry over for use next year.
Kansan staff writer Kyle Carter can be contacted at kcarter@kansan.com.
— Edited by Trevan McGee
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