Camarillo, Calif., March 4, 2009 鈥� Students at 91吃瓜 will present 鈥楨very 15 Minutes,鈥� an on campus DUI collision simulation, at 1:15 p.m., Tuesday, March 10 as a part of Alcohol Awareness Week. The mock collision will be located on Ventura St. between the Anacapa and Santa Cruz Village housing complexes.
The 鈥楨very 15 Minutes鈥� program was conceived fall 2007 in Dr. Alan Pasternak鈥檚 Peer Education class as a student activism project designed to show students and the campus community the perils of drinking and driving. The event includes a dramatization of extracting a DUI collision victim from a mangled vehicle using the Jaws of Life by the Ventura County Fire Department. A grant from the Office of Traffic Safety was obtained by the Division of Student Affairs to help fund the two-year project. The first simulation took place in March 2008 in front of the Bell Tower building.
鈥淭he benefit of this event is to show students a live re-enactment that is very impacting and all too real. We hope it will influence them to think twice before they drink and drive or get in a car with someone who has been drinking,鈥� said Diana Garay, one of the students spearheading the program.
For additional information about the 鈥楨very 15 Minutes鈥� program, contact Diana Garay at diana.garay@csuci.edu.
For media inquiries please contact Nancy Covarrubias Gill, Director of Communication & Marketing at CSU Channel Islands, 805-437-8456 or nancy.gill@csuci.edu.
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