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Tuesday, March 28, 2000
Report: UNC Alcohol Incidents Dip
The drop in incidents is due
to alcohol abuse education
and changes in reporting
strategies, officials said.
By Aisha K. Thomas
Staff Writer
University officials say alcohol-relat
ed incidents among UNC students have
decreased thanks to intervention and
prevention strategies focused on educa
tion.
The Office of the Dean of Students
presented an annual report last week to
the Board of Trustees that showed the
number of alcohol-related incidents
decreased from 321 in Fall 1998 to 283
in Fall 1999.
Dean of Students Melissa Exum said
the decrease in incidents was the result
of changes in reporting strategies and
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“Idon’t think we should be
moving towards an alcohol-free
campus but a campus with
responsible alcohol use. ”
Nic Heinke
Student Body President
attempts to educate
students on alcohol
abuse. “We made
two major
changes,” she said.
“The Office of
Dean of Students
would no longer
reply to DWIs, and
we have more con
sistent referrals
from Granville
Towers and local law enforcement from
Durham, Orange and Wake County.”
Law enforcement officials report off
campus alcohol incidents involving stu
dents to the Center for Healthy Student
Behaviors so that University officials are
then able to contact the students, Exum
said.
“Through better and enhanced rela
tionships with enforcement officials we
get better reports,” she said. “If you are
off-campus, we are going to have inter
vention with you.”
Exum said the
educational mes
sages about alco
hol abuse were
also more effective
than simply doling
out punishments.
In fall 1997, the
University intro
duced Fall Fest, a
non-alcoholic alter-
native for students held the night before
classes start. Then in 1999, UNC
launched a program tide “two out of
three blow .00 BAC,” a study which
showed a drop in the alcohol consump
tion on the UNC campus.
“We have been much more consistent
and intentional,” Exum said.
“We are clear about enforcement proce
dures and response to alcohol incidents
happen within 48 to 72 hours for inter
action with students.”
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Assistant Dean of Students Don
Appairius said the goal was not to be
punitive. “It doesn’t educate students on
responsible drinking because there will
come a time when the students will
drink,” he said. “The question is: are we
telling you what to do instead of telling
what is right to do.”
Student Body President and Board of
Trustee ex-officio member Nic Heinke
said there was a positive response to the
report and said it was heartening to see
the focus on alcohol abuse rather than
use. “I don’t think we should be moving
towards an alcohol-free campus but a
campus with responsible alcohol use.”
Exum said the educational approach
of the Office of the Dean of Students
was one that cared about student life.
“Trust us,” she said. “We got your
back.”
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Wednesday
8 p.m. - Legendary civil rights
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Color-Coded IDs Tackle
N.C. Underage Drinking
By Worth Civils
Staff Writer
Students under 21 trying to use a fake
ID to buy a case of beer or get into their
favorite Franklin Street bar could have
even more to worry about
The N.C. Department of Motor
Vehicles began issuing color-coded dri
vers licenses Monday that will be easi
er to identify and harder to duplicate,
but some students say the changes will
not have a significant effect.
The new licenses are colored around
the photo, along the bottom and in a
small DMV logo in the comer. The col
ors will correspond with each different
age group: red for under 18, yellow for
18-20 and green for over 21. The red
licenses will explicitly state “Under 18,”
and the yellow ones will read “Under
21” along the edge of the picture.
Old licenses without the new colors
and age group classifications will still be
valid until the listed expiration date.
N.C. DMV spokesman Jon Parks
said the new licenses resulted from a
joint effort of several state agencies that
wanted to tackle the problem of minors
purchasing of alcohol and tobacco.
“We wanted to raise awareness and
make it as plain and obvious as can be
to any (convenience store) clerk in the
state,” he said.
The new licenses also will make it
easier for bouncers at clubs to quickly
identify patrons who are of age.
Parks and Chapel Hill Police
Lieutenant Marvin Clark both said the
additional information would also make
licenses more difficult to reproduce.
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Parks said that in 1994 the N.C.
DMV switched to a digitized license,
with a hologram on the front and
encrypted information on the back.
More patterns on the license made it
harder to duplicate, Clark said. But he
said he thought even the new licenses
might be reproduced using computers
and printers that could print on plastic.
Students said the change simply
would be more of a convenience for
store clerks and bouncers than a deter
rence to underage drinkers.
UNC sophomore Ben Staton, 20,
said, “As far as cutting down on prob
lems, this (change) won’t have a great
effect.”
Staton said he did not have a fake ID,
but most people he knew who did have
one did not alter their own licenses but
got the license of someone over 21 who
looked like them.
Sophomore Meredith Lynch, 20,
from Pollocksville also said the new
changes would not keep underage
drinkers from obtaining alcohol. “If you
want to get beer or liquor, you can get
someone else to buy it (for you),” Lynch
said.
She said she had made a fake ID by
scratching off a “1” to make her license
read “January” instead of “November.”
Lt. Clark said fake IDs were not a sig
nificant problem but that police did
make many arrests. “Police are pretty
good at spotting IDs,” he said.
“(The new changes) should make a
significant difference.”
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.