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"News laws / 2004
Parents allowing teen drinking parties could go to
jail" (Sacramento Bee, Dec 31, 2003) --
A new California law allows parents to be jailed for
knowingly allowing their homes to be used for teenage
drinking that subsequently leads to a traffic accident.
Beginning on Thursday, AB 1301 will permit parents or
legal guardians to be incarcerated for up to one year
and fined up to $1,000. The bill is an attempt to close
what Assemblyman Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, considers a
loophole in existing state law. ID# 7549
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"DRUNKEN DRIVERS"
(Chicago Tribune, Dec 29, 2003)
-- Here are states ranked by the percentage change in
alcohol-related fatality rate between 1998 and 2002,
according to the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration. The rate is calculated as deaths per 100
million vehicle miles traveled. ID# 7545
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"Giving Holiday Imbibers a Break"
(Los Angeles Times, Dec 27, 2003)
-- MEXICO CITY The first
man caught in the drunk-driving dragnet was a
32-year-old Spaniard who had been guiding his car down
this city's Avenida Reforma, apparently confident that
as long as he kept going straight, no one would stop
him. After being pulled over at a checkpoint
staffed by police, doctors and human rights monitors,
Juan Jose Martinez puckered up to a Breathalyzer
machine, put in place by a city program that is slowly
changing attitudes about drinking and
driving. ID# 7547
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"Butte judge blazes trail in DUI cases"
(Sacramento Bee, Dec 26, 2003)
-- Day after day, Judge
Darrell Stevens saw the same people coming into his
courtroom charged with the same offense -- driving under
the influence. "I'd put them on probation.
They'd violate and we'd go through the whole thing
again," said the Butte Superior Court judge.
"I thought, this is insane. Something has to be
done." ID# 7544
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"17 States See Rise in Alcohol-Related Traffic
Deaths"
(Join Together Online, Dec 23, 2003)
-- A state-by-state report from the U.S.
Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA) finds that alcohol-related
traffic deaths decreased in 32 states during the last
five years, but increased in 17 others, according to a
Dec. 18 press release. The report looks at traffic
deaths linked to alcohol from 1982 to 2002. It also
includes alcohol-related traffic fatalities on the
county level for 2002. ID# 7546
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"Making city safer, one DUI arrest at a time"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Dec 26, 2003)
-- Drinking and driving don't
mix especially on Officer Tom Broxtermann's
beat. In his 18 years with the San Diego Police
Department, Broxtermann has arrested more than 2,400
suspected drunken drivers, by far the most of any
officer on the force, officials say. ID#
7543
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"Stopping drunken drivers"
(Sacramento Bee, Dec 23, 2003)
-- Re "A mother's question for drunk drivers 'When
will they ever learn?' " Dec. 7 Diana Griego
Erwin's column on California's drunken driving campaign
correctly identified hard-core drunken drivers and
repeat offenders as the source of today's drunken
driving problem but mistakenly identified roadblocks as
the solution. ID# 7542
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"Alcohol too easy for teens to obtain"
(Asia Journal, Dec 12, 2003)
-- I recently proposed, and the City Council passed, an
ordinance aimed at holding adults responsible for
underage drinking parties on private property. The
ordinance will make it a criminal offense for adults to
knowingly serve alcohol to minors. ID# 7539
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"Wine producers, wholesalers fight over online wine"
(Sacramento Bee, Dec 23, 2003) --
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - California vintners are hoping
mail-order and online sales will deliver new profits
this season, with more states than ever allowing
consumers to have wine shipped to them direct from the
producer. "There'll be lots of wine in people's
stockings, I hope," said Tom Shelton, president of
Joseph Phelps Vineyards in St. Helena. "I think
we've made extraordinary progress this year."
ID# 7538
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"Mexico City confronts first holiday season with
Breathalyzer"
(Sacramento Bee, Dec 21, 2003) --
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Police are coming down hard on
drunken drivers in Mexico City this holiday season, but
not on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. The two
exempted days may seem like good news for the
over-indulgent, but they add a fresh layer to the
controversy that has surrounded the use of checkpoints
and breath tests since they were introduced in the
capital in September. ID# 7532
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"Diana Griego Erwin When the driver really isn't
drunk, Roseville officers are delighted"
(Sacramento Bee, Dec 21, 2003) -- They
stride purposefully toward their cars, waists heavy with
the tools of the trade hanging from thick leather belts
like modern-day gunslingers. They are Roseville's
finest, but tonight, a weekend night, they all are
members of a holiday "Saturation Patrol"
looking for intoxicated drivers. There's the usual
banter over who will nab an impaired motorist first.
Really, though, they'd be just as happy to find the
streets quiet tonight as a relentless mist falls over
the city. ID# 7533
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"Mind Your 'Cheer'"
(Washington Post, Dec 21, 2003) -- Tis the
season to be jolly. But precisely how jolly?
Having spent decades on a university campus (no, it
didn't take me that long to graduate; I was on the
faculty), I have heard quite a bit about what the
students call "partying hearty" or "hard
partying." ID# 7535
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"Lake Elsinore checkpoint nets 12 arrests"
(North County Times, Dec 20, 2003) -- More
than 400 vehicles passed through the checkpoint at
Mission Trail and Malaga Road between 830 p.m. Friday
and 145 a.m. Saturday, McKinney said Saturday. ID#
7529
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"Fight over alcohol stops 7-Eleven"
(North County Times, Dec 20, 2003) -- Local
residents, including Murrieta Valley Unified School
District board member Kris Thomasian, and the city
protested the convenience store chain's application to
sell alcohol at that location, which is across the
street from a residential neighborhood and Glen Arbor
Park. ID# 7528
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"Galardi club liquor license is taken away"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Dec 21, 2003) --
LAS VEGAS Clark County officials have pulled the
liquor license from a second striptease club formerly
owned by a man who has pleaded guilty to federal
corruption charges. The Dec. 17 decision to deny
new owner Jack Galardi's request to serve liquor at the
Leopard Lounge had little immediate effect because the
club has been closed for remodeling since Galardi bought
it Nov. 13 from his son, Michael. ID# 7531
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"2 liquor licenses are suspended"
(Chicago Tribune, Dec 19, 2003) -- NORTH
AURORA -- The liquor licenses of two gas stations were
suspended for two weeks after clerks at each allegedly
sold alcohol to minors during police stings last month,
Village President Mark Ruby said. Ruby handed down
the suspensions this week in his role as the village's
liquor commissioner. The suspensions against Thornton
Oil, 418 S. Illinois Highway 31, and Speedway, 15 N.
Randall Rd. started Thursday and will be effective until
Jan. 1. ID# 7512
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"Holiday drunken-driving crackdown begins"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Dec 19, 2003) -- The
California Highway Patrol and local police kicked off an
annual holiday crackdown on drunken driving this week
with a "coptail" party featuring nonalcoholic
drinks at a pub. Fourteen law enforcement agencies
in San Diego County will target drunken drivers with
beefed-up patrols and sobriety checkpoints beyond New
Year's Day. ID# 7511
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"Air Force Academy won't expel cadet for taking
drink, officials say"
(Sacramento Bee, Dec 18, 2003) -- AIR
FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) - An Air Force Academy cadet
who turned herself in after taking a sip of whiskey
won't be expelled, as had been threatened, officials
said. Academy commanders had demanded that
Christina Fifer, a sophomore, reveal the name of a
senior female cadet who gave her the alcohol in
September, or face expulsion. Fifer, 19, turned herself
in three weeks after the incident - following the
school's honor code, which says cadets cannot lie, cheat
or steal or tolerate others who do. She refused to
identify the other cadet. ID# 7503
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"Diageo to Put Nutrition Labels on Liquor"
(New York Times, Dec 18, 2003) -- Diageo,
the British liquor company whose brands include Johnnie
Walker, Guinness and Smirnoff, said yesterday that it
would put nutrition labels on its products to detail how
much alcohol and how many calories and carbohydrates are
in each bottle. Executives at Diageo North America
said the labels, which will be introduced next year,
would also list serving sizes and the amount of other
macronutrients, like sugar and fat. ID# 7506
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"65 Percent of Teens Get Alcohol From Family,
Friends, According to The Century Council"
(Yahoo News, Dec 18, 2003) -- The
Century Council wants parents across the country to make
a New Year's Resolution to keep their teens safe and
alcohol-free in 2004. The Council is providing tips to
parents in an effort to prevent underage drinking and to
highlight the strong influence that parents wield in
their teens decisions to say no to alcohol. Last year,
2,902 youths under the age of 21 died in alcohol-related
traffic fatalities, accounting for nearly 17 percent of
all alcohol- related traffic fatalities on our nation's
roads during 2002. These numbers do not include the
countless injuries, and liquor- law violations related
to underage consumption of alcohol. All of these tragic
deaths, injuries, and violations are avoidable. ID#
7507
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"Data Show Little Change in DUI Rates"
(Yahoo News, Dec 18, 2003) -- The
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (news
- web sites)'s report, which was being released
Thursday, calculated the fatality rate per 100 million
miles driven. NHTSA considers a crash alcohol-related if
a driver had anything above a 0.01 blood-alcohol level,
which is far lower than the 0.08 legal limit in 45
states. South Carolina saw the greatest increase
in its death rate during the four-year period, followed
by Kansas, South Dakota, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. The
states with the highest numbers of alcohol-related
deaths per miles traveled were Montana, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Nevada and Louisiana. ID# 7508
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"Survey Finds Program Reduces Alcohol, Tobacco,
Marijuana Use among 7th and 8th Graders"
(Join Together Online, Dec 17, 2003) --
Thirty percent of middle school kids have tried alcohol,
tobacco or drugs. But many middle schools often have a
mix of children from different ethnic groups. Should
these schools have to use drug prevention programs that
are targeted to each individual group? According
to a study published in the December issue of Prevention
Science, middle schools with a mix of Euro- American,
Mexican-American and African-American children can use
one multicultural curriculum (keepin' it REAL) to help
prevent and delay first-time use of alcohol, tobacco and
drugs. Keepin' it REAL, developed by Penn State
University and Arizona State University, teaches kids
skills to "refuse, explain, avoid and leave,"
drug use in a way that reflects their traditions,
culture and values. ID# 7501
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"'Alcohol Facts' Label Proposed for Beer, Wine, and
Liquor"
(Yahoo News, Dec 16, 2003) -- WASHINGTON,
Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- A proposal for a uniform
"Alcohol Facts" label was submitted today by
the National Consumers League (NCL), the Center for
Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), and others in a
petition to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade
Bureau. The petition urges the agency to require a new
label for alcoholic beverages that would give consumers
clear information about alcohol content, serving sizes,
calories, and ingredients. The groups argue that
"Alcohol Facts" labels will do for alcoholic
beverages what Nutrition Facts labels have done for
packaged food provide readable information that would
empower consumers to make informed decisions about the
products they consume. ID# 7496
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"NMSU says no to alcohol"
(El Paso Times, Dec 13, 2003) --LAS
CRUCES -- No alcohol sales will be allowed at New Mexico
State University's Corbett Center. NMSU's Board of
Regents on Friday narrowly voted to turn down the
proposal despite efforts by proponents, who said it was
the next logical step, given the ongoing sales at other
campus locations. "We shouldn't put the
alcohol here in front of the students," Regent
Robert Gallagher said. "Parents who will be sending
their kids to this university won't expect that, and we
shouldn't do it." ID# 7497
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"Barona's push for liquor license is boosted by
sheriff's reversal"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Dec 16, 2003) -- BARONA
INDIAN RESERVATION It took 15 months and a reversed
opinion from the Sheriff's Department, but the Barona
Indian band has cleared the first hurdle for a state
license to sell liquor in certain areas of its casino,
hotel and golf course. Steven Ernst, who heads the
state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control's San
Diego office, said he would pass Barona's application to
his superiors today with a recommendation of approval.
An administrative hearing probably will be scheduled
within three months, he said. ID# 7494
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"Publishing names may not be a deterrent" (Los
Angeles Times, Dec 14, 2003) -- I
kind of felt like taking a day off my column and sure
enough our readers came through. You see, when I
asked for opinions about the weekly list of names we
publish of those arrested on suspicion of drunken
driving, well, let's just say there was no shortage of
opinions. So, instead of me blathering on more
about the topic, I'm going to step back and let the
readers do most of the talking. ID# 7492
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"Thanks to Cable, Liquor Ads Find a TV Audience"
(New York Times, Dec 15, 2003) -- Amost
two years ago, an experiment to allow American liquor
marketers access to the biggest, most powerful
advertising medium of all - national broadcast network
television - ended in acrimony. Since then, those
advertisers have pieced together an alternative, virtual
TV network, enabling them to expose consumers to more
pitches for vodka, gin and whiskey than ever
before. ID# 7493
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"Checkpoint a sobering experience"
(North County Times, Dec 13, 2003) -- Using
stationary sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols, the
goal of those officers is to get as many impaired
drivers off the road as possible. The first
checkpoint of the season was conducted by Temecula
police along busy Pechanga Parkway. From 7 p.m. Friday
to 2 a.m. Saturday, officers arrested six suspected
intoxicated drivers, said Sgt. Mike Pino, who heads the
department's traffic division. ID# 7487
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"Mexico City gives drivers a break from
Breathalyzers on Christmas eve and New Year's Eve"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Dec 12, 2003) -- MEXICO
CITY Police plan to give Mexico City drivers a break
from alcohol breath tests on two of the most celebrated
days of the holiday season, the Mexico City police
department announced Friday. Mexico City started
breath testing drivers for intoxication for the first
time in September, in part of a get-tough campaign
toward drunken driving across Mexico. ID# 7489
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"Protecting them from themselves"
(Los Angeles Times, Dec 12, 2003) -- The
Laguna Beach Unified School District and the Police
Department have held a meeting with parents to forge a
team to make sure that teenage partying is legal and not
fatal. The consequences of how the kids party, with
whom, what and where were laid out for the
parents. "Kids will party," said Capt.
Danell Adams of the Laguna Beach Police Department.
"We have to recognize that. But someone has to be
responsible. ID# 7485
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"Brown Jug aims to
turn ID busts into life lessons"
(Anchorage Daily News, Dec 8, 2003) -- One
evening last fall, a man tried to buy wine coolers,
vodka and Mike's Hard Lemonade for a couple of
15-year-old girls. The head of security at Brown Jug
made a citizen's arrest, handcuffing the buyer. Police
came. The man was busted, and so were the girls. That
may seem a fitting end to the store's role. But Brown
Jug, one of the state's biggest liquor retailers, has a
reputation for being extra aggressive in preventing
sales to kids as well as adults who buy for them. ID#
7484
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"Wal-Mart now closer to liquor license"
(Sacramento Bee, Dec 11, 2003) -- Wal-Mart
is a step closer to obtaining a beer and liquor license
for its new store in Country Club Centre. The
Arden Arcade Community Planning Advisory Council voted
7-2 on Dec. 4 to recommend that Wal-Mart be granted the
license, with the condition that alcohol be sold in its
original packaging. Mariam Montesinos, a lawyer
representing Wal-Mart, said at the meeting that Wal-Mart
would not sell beer but only wine and wine coolers,
which would be sold on five shelves near register
clerks. ID# 7480
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"Infineon Raceway to hold annual Holiday Sobriety
Challenge"
(Sacramento Bee, Dec 10, 2003) -- SONOMA--
Northern California mayors and police chiefs will be
drinking and driving at Infineon Raceway, all with the
blessing and endorsement of the California Highway
Patrol. The facility will host the 7th annual
"Holiday Sobriety Challenge" on Friday, Dec.
19, from11 a.m.-2 p.m.The event features a controlled
wine and beer tasting experiment that graphically
illustrates how alcohol consumption affects driving
performance, even at levels well below the legal limit
(.08-percent). ID# 7481
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"DUI listings not a real deterrent"
(Los Angeles Times, Dec 11, 2003) --
Weighing in on the DUI issue again, I take readers back
to December 2001 when the Daily Pilot published the two
letters of mine that follow. Under the headline of
"Why print DUI arrests, but no other
offenses?" I wrote the following "Would
the Daily Pilot please offer some thoughtful explanation
that would justify the practice of systematically
publishing the names of persons arrested for driving
under the influence, and little or no exposure to those
arrested for other offenses. "Your almanac
section of the paper tells us only that they are
innocent until proven guilty, but we already knew that.
I would hope that your reasons don't include some
third-grade psychobabble that the public exposure could
motivate them to curtail their alcohol abuse. It may or
may not. ID# 7483
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"Hispanics target of drunk-driving project"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Dec 11, 2003) -- WASHINGTON
For the first time, the government is launching a
drunken driving campaign targeting Hispanics, who are at
higher risk of death in alcohol-related accidents.
Alcohol-related crashes account for half of all traffic
deaths of Hispanics, according to the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration. In the general
population, alcohol-related crashes accounted for 41
percent of traffic deaths in 2002. ID#
7479
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"Holiday Alcohol Enforcement Underway"
(Yahoo News, Dec 8, 2003) -- SACRAMENTO,
Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- While law enforcement
serve non-alcoholic drinks to lunch patrons Tuesday in
Old Sacramento as part of California's Drunk and Drugged
Driving (3D) Prevention Month, the Department of
Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) will be serving up a
Holiday message of its own to liquor licensees --
"obey the law when selling and serving
alcohol." Acting Director Jerry R. Jolly said
ABC is working through the Holidays to make sure alcohol
retailers comply this Holiday season. ID# 7465
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"Air Force Academy crackdown could cost cadet her
career"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Dec 9, 2003) -- AIR
FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. In a striking example of how
discipline is changing at the Air Force Academy in the
wake of its sexual assault scandal, a cadet may be
expelled after turning herself in for taking a single
sip of whiskey. New commanders, trying to erase the
image of a school that ignored assault victims, have
demanded that sophomore Christina Fifer, 19, reveal the
name of the senior cadet who gave her the alcohol. They
accused her of showing "misplaced loyalty" by
refusing a direct order. "I'd rather leave with my
integrity intact than stay without it," Fifer, of
Inverness, Fla., said in an interview with The
Associated Press. ID# 7466
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"SUVs and drunken drivers"
(Sacramento Bee, Dec 9, 2003) -- Re
"Students mourn 'beautiful woman'/The suspected
driver has a lengthy record of DUI convictions and petty
crimes," Dec. 4 Another person is killed by a
driver under the influence of alcohol and The Bee
reports that the driver was driving a Ford Explorer
rather than finding out the brand of beverage led to the
death of this student. What is it that makes the
alcohol beverage industry off limits to the product
liability lawsuits that have affected so many other
companies? Where are the lawyers that are looking for
the next big class-action lawsuit? ID # 7466
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"Diana Griego Erwin A mother's question for drunk
drivers 'When will they ever learn?'"
(Sacramento Bee, Dec 9, 2003) -- That's
California's sobering slogan in its ongoing public
awareness campaign to try to get motorists to think
before they climb behind the wheel impaired by drugs or
alcohol. While drunken-driving fatalities and injuries
dropped significantly in the early 1990s,
alcohol-related accidents have risen 32 percent since
1998. Last year, the upward trend meant 1,416
people were killed in alcohol-related accidents,
compared with 1,308 in 2001. ID# 7467
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"Liquor and beer ads are not the problem"
(Chicago Tribune, Dec 8, 2003) -- Hardly
a week passes without a reminder that the state tobacco
lawsuits have had an enduring and corrupting effect on
the rule of law. The legal travesty du jour involves yet
another "sin" industry. This time the trial
lawyers are hounding the purveyors of alcoholic
beverages because of ads ostensibly targeted,
"deliberately and recklessly," at underage
consumers. ID# 7469
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"Putting a cork in underage merriment"
(Chicago Tribune, Dec 7, 2003) -- With
batches of eggnog, cider and other alcoholic drinks
being passed around during the holidays, kids might be
tempted to sneak a taste. Well-meaning grandparents also
might offer kids "just a sip" the way adults
did when they were children.Either way, the pressure to
eat, drink and be merry like adults is something that
parents must prepare their children for before the
holidays begin, said Gilbert J. Botvin, a professor of
public health and psychiatry at Weill Medical College of
Cornell University and director of Cornell's Institute
for Prevention Research. ID# 7470
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"Influence of DUI list an important topic"
(Los Angeles Times, Dec 7, 2003) -- TONY
DODERO It's a phone call that we get every once and
awhile, but it's never a good one. I got one again
recently. Someone, usually a friend of the paper,
gets picked up by local police on suspicion of drunken
driving and wants to know if we could do them a favor
and take them off "the list." The list
is the Daily Pilot's weekly tally of people arrested by
the Costa Mesa and Newport Beach police departments on
suspicion of driving under the influence. ID# 7473
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"Draining Beer-Flooded Campuses"
(Washington Post, Dec 9, 2003) -- Brandon
Busteed still remembers vividly the low point in his
quest to reduce college drinking. It was the night of
Feb. 5, 1998. Curled up in a ball, he was weeping on the
floor of his girlfriend's Duke University dorm
room. He was sober, of course. This had nothing to
do with a late-night bender. His tears were from
embarrassment and frustration. His plan to provide a
healthy and exciting alternative to the traditional
drunken post-basketball bonfire celebration at Duke had
fizzled in a spectacular way. He was convinced that his
reputation as a student leader was shot and his effort
to drain the 20-proof poisons from college life was a
failure. ID# 7474
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"Wal-Mart requests license to sell wine"
(Reuters Health, Dec 4, 2003) --
Heavyweight chain store Wal-Mart will request a wine and
beer liquor license for its new store in the Country
Club Centre on Watt Avenue. The Arden-Arcade
Community Planning Advisory Council will discuss the
request at 7 p.m. today at the Arden-Dimick Library, 891
Watt Ave. ID# 7468
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"Families must help stop teen drinking"
(North County Times, Dec 9, 2003) -- Re
"Police seek source of liquor in teen's
death," Oct. 24. In the wake of a fatal crash that
was apparently caused by alcohol, it's great that police
are asking where the alcohol came from. And it's good
that students learn about the dangers of drinking and
driving from their teachers, according to the Escondido
school superintendent. But cops and teachers can't
solve the problem of underage drinking. As friends and
relatives we have to do our part as well. ID#
7464
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"Teen drinking high in Mountain Empire"
(The Guardian, Dec 3, 2003) -- Some
parents assume that drinking alcohol is something all
students, at least by high school age, will do. They
sometimes tolerate it (or at least look the other way)
if they feel that their child is relatively safe and
responsible in their drinking behaviors.T he
problem is that safety, responsibility, and alcohol dont
mix, especially for teenagers. Good judgment is one of
the first skills to go when people drink. Drinking
patterns for youth tend to be vastly different than
those of most adults. Research shows that, in general,
kids dont drink to be social; they drink to get
drunk. During a period in their lives when they have
many self-doubts, drinking helps them feel like they fit
in. If they drink enough, they dont care if they fit
in which feels even better. ID# 7462
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"Outside Panel to Review Campaign for Alcohol"
(New York Times, Dec 5, 2003) -- Another
large marketer of alcoholic beverages has agreed to
having its advertising reviewed by outsiders as part of
efforts to defuse the growing criticism of the
industry's sales tactics. Allied Domecq Spirits
North America in Westport, Conn., a unit of Allied
Domecq that sells brands like Beefeater gin and
Stolichnaya vodka, said yesterday that it had formed an
outside review board to help ensure its advertising is
responsible and aimed only at consumers of legal
drinking age. The panel, made up of three executives,
will also examine any complaints against the company in
areas like inappropriately targeting under-age drinkers.
ID# 7463
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"Highway safety chief says new effort needed to
curb drunken driving"
(Sacramento Bee, Dec 2, 2003) -- WASHINGTON
(AP) - Efforts to curb drunken driving, which have
stalled in recent years, need to be jump-started, the
government's top highway safety official says.
Among Dr. Jeffrey Runge's suggestions more prosecutors
and courts dedicated to drunken driving cases.
Runge, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, told The Associated Press on Tuesday
that the country needs to overhaul the way it fights
drunken driving. ID# 7460
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"State police focus on drunken driving"
(Chicago Tribune, Dec 3, 2003) -- Seeing
is believing. At least that's what the state police who
patrol Illinois toll roads are counting on in a new
anti-drunken driving campaign that uses high-tech
goggles and a golf cart to illustrate the effects of
operating a vehicle while under the influence. The
Partnership to Reduce Intoxicated Student Motorists, or
PRISM, uses so-called fatal vision goggles on
participants to simulate intoxication with a
blood-alcohol level of 0.16, twice the legal limit.
Participants are then directed to drive a golf court on
a course to see how much their skills are
impaired. ID# 7461
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"Padres get stadium naming rights"
(North County Times, Dec 2, 2003) -- The
agreement, passed 8-0 with Councilman Charles Lewis
absent, also establishes guidelines for non
advertising-related signs on the ballpark exterior and
its entry gates. Several community members had
asked the council not to allow advertising for alcoholic
beverages at the ballpark, saying it would influence
minors to drink. ID# 7458
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"Council OKs plans for East Village project,
signage at ballpark"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Dec 3, 2003) -- A
master plan for a three-block development next to the
downtown ballpark was approved by the San Diego City
Council yesterday. The council also approved a
plan to include advertising on the exterior of the
ballpark. The council voted 6-2 to adopt the
master plan for East Village Square, on J Street just
north of Petco Park. The project will include two
high-rises one residential and the other office
restricted to 22 stories. ID# 7459
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"Alcohol commercials should appeal to women who
drink"
(Daily Aztec, Dec 2, 2003) --
Recently I have been noticing something on television
that really bothers me. As advertisements for alcohol
are being aired on late-night television and beer ads
are on around the clock, some of the companies seem to
be making a certain message clear These products are not
for women. This is guy stuff. As a beer drinker, I
feel shunned. ID# 7454
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"Study Fewer Alcohol Ads Would Lower Underage
Drinking"
(Join Together Online, Dec 2, 2003) -- New
research concludes that eliminating alcohol advertising
would lower underage drinking and binge drinking,
according to the National Bureau of Economic
Research. The Alcohol Advertising and Alcohol
Consumption by Adolescents Working Paper, by authors
Henry Saffer and Dhaval Dave, also said that doubling
the prices of alcoholic products would lower underage
drinking by 28 percent and reduce underage binge
drinking by 51 percent. ID# 7455
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"Holiday DUI
Arrests Rise 15%"
(Los Angeles Times, Dec 1, 2003) -- While
on the lookout this Thanksgiving weekend for motorists
not wearing seat belts, the California Highway Patrol
made 15% more DUI arrests compared to last year, the
agency said. From Wednesday 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. this
morning, CHP tallied 1,667 DUI arrested across the
state, with the largest concentration in the Los Angeles
area, with 349. Last year during the same period, CHP
made 1,444 DUI arrests, with the largest number again
coming in the Southland, with 328. ID# 7456
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"DUI sweep nets 11 arrests in Lake Elsinore"
(North County Times, Nov 30, 2003) --
The crackdown was part of an ongoing countywide campaign
called "Avoid the 30" in which officers from
30 law enforcement agencies in Riverside County hit the
streets several times a year with the goal of curbing
deaths and injuries from drunken driving. From 6
p.m. Saturday to 4 a.m. Sunday, officers from the task
force patrolled five areas of the county looking for
impaired drivers, officials with the Sheriff's
Department said in a release Sunday. ID# 7448
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"Program hopes to reduce drinking among students"
(Daily Aztec, Nov 25, 2003) --
In 2000, San Diego State gave out 639 referrals for
liquor law violations on campus, according to the U.S.
Department of Education. The department also states in
2001, 486 referrals were given out for the same
violation while 434 more were handed out in 2002. ID#
7445
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"Marine road deaths a big concern"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Nov 27, 2003) -- CAMP
PENDLETON Base safety officials are wondering what
to try next following the deaths of six Marines since
Nov. 11. Excessive speed and/or alcohol played a
part in five of the deaths, including crashes Friday and
Sunday that took four lives, according to David Barragan,
director of base safety. ID# 7452
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"ALCOHOL INDUSTRY SUED FOR MARKETING TO CHILDREN"
(Ad Age, Nov 24, 2003) -- WASHINGTON
(AdAge.com) -- In a legal strategy similar to how state
attorneys general successfully pursued tobacco
companies, a class action lawsuit has been filed to
recover "billions of dollars in ill-gotten
profits" from alcohol makers that falsely denied
their ads targeted underage drinkers. ID#
7453
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"Ohio State University Bans TV Alcohol Ads"
(Join Together Online, Nov 26, 2003) --
Starting next year, there will be no alcohol
advertisements during local broadcasts of Ohio State
University games, the Cincinnati Post reported Nov.
22. "We can be accused of hypocrisy if we're
sending one message at one level and doing something
else at another," said Andy Geiger, the school's
athletic director. ID# 7447
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"Program hopes to reduce drinking among students"
(Daily Aztec, Nov 25, 2003) --
In 2000, San Diego State gave out 639 referrals for
liquor law violations on campus, according to the U.S.
Department of Education. The department also states in
2001, 486 referrals were given out for the same
violation while 434 more were handed out in 2002. ID#
7445
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"Study finds
alcohol use lowers with diversity"
(Daily Aztec, Nov 25, 2003) --
Binge drinking is a problem on many college campuses,
however, a new study reports drinking rates are
significantly lower on campuses with a larger number of
women, minorities and older students In the study,
"Watering Down the Drinks The Moderating Effect of
College Demographics on Alcohol Use of High-Risk
Groups," which was completed by the College Alcohol
Study at the Harvard School of Public Health,
researchers examined the role of college student
demographics and diversity in moderating binge drinking
among high-risk students. ID# 7444
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"Winning idea Drop beer ads in college sports"
(Chicago Tribune, Nov 23, 2003) --
Football coaches talk so much about "game
plans" that the term is part of our everyday
language. But the most successful coaches will tell you
that winning often requires making the proper
adjustments to your plans at halftime. It factors in the
latest and most relevant information about your
opponent. George Hacker is no football coach, but
he understands making real-time adjustments to his
master plan. ID# 7441
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"Firefighter says drinking common at San Francisco
stations"
(North County Times, Nov 21, 2003)
-- The claim has prompted investigations by
the city's fire department, department of human
resources and city attorney's office, and the fire chief
says he's determined to spread the message that alcohol
has no place in firehouses. Twenty years ago, such
behavior would have been tolerated. But times have
changed, Chief Mario Trevino said Friday. ID#
7439
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"Game planning needed for Ballpark District"
(San Diego Downtown News, Nov 6, 2003) --
After years of planning, litigation delays and all
the construction, we can actually see the promise of a
new and beautiful downtown ballpark. Soon we will be
attending Major League Baseball and other events at a
state-of-art venue in which we can all take pride.
However, before we take our seats, lets give some
thought to the neighborhood that will be home for Petco
Park. There are many East Village businesses and
residents, and more will come paving ideas about the
revitalization of East Village. ID# 7438
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"Trips put student
safety at risk"
(North County Times, Nov 20, 2003) --
Rancho Buena Vista High School's Principal Alderson is
the kind of principal who deserves not only our praise,
but our support. We hope other principals, as well as
parents, will join him in his efforts to protect
students from irresponsible promoters like John Duby
("Principal battles class trip pitches," Nov.
3). ID# 7435
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"National City
changes alcohol rules"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Nov 20, 2003) --
NATIONAL CITY After months of debate and community
protests, city leaders have changed alcohol sales rules
to lure restaurants to a $20 million downtown education
complex under construction. Tuesday night, City
Council members exempted the education complex, called
Education Village, from a city ordinance restricting
alcohol sales near schools while also expanding
community input requirements for new alcohol licenses.
ID# 7437
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"Students often overpour alcohol"
(Red & Black Online, Nov 18, 2003) --
LOS ANGELES -- A recent study by researchers at Duke
University Medical Center has shown that college
students drink more alcohol than they may realize.
"We asked students to pour different types of
drinks into cups of various sizes. We found that, in
most cases, students are way too liberal in their
definitions of single servings of alcohol," wrote
Dr. Aaron M. White, assistant research professor in the
department of psychiatry at Duke University Medical
Center, in an e-mail. ID# 7431
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"College Drinking Impacts Neighborhoods"
(Join Together Online, Nov 18, 2003) --
As more college students choose to live off campus,
tension is growing between homeowners and students
living in nearby rental properties, the Muncie Star
Press reported Nov. 16.In Muncie, Ind., for instance,
residents near Ball State University fear for their
safety with students partying in neighborhoods near
campus or returning home from all night drinking at a
local bar. Recently, a 21-year-old Ball State student
was shot and killed by police after trying to force his
way into the wrong house after a night of
drinking. ID# 7432
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"France's Wine Industry Encourages Drinking and
Driving"
(Join Together Online, Nov 17, 2003) --
In an effort to counter a government campaign against
drinking and driving, French winemakers are unveiling
their own campaign saying that it's okay to have a drink
or two before driving, the Associated Press reported
Nov. 15. ID# 7424
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"Mother found guilty in hazing"
(Chicago Tribune, Nov 15, 2003) --
A woman was found guilty Thursday of allowing Glenbrook
North High School students to drink beer in her
Northbrook home in the hours before the teenagers
participated in a violent hazing in a forest
preserve. ID# 7423
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"Mothers Against Drunk Driving working with
elementary schools"
(North County Times, Nov 11, 2003) --
The San Diego chapter is now working to teach first-
through fifth-graders the damaging effects of
alcohol. "Instead of learning to 'Just Say
No,' they're learning about the science of their
brains," said MADD San Diego County chapter
President Cynthia Roark. ID# 7417
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"Former Coaches Ask Colleges to Reject TV Alcohol
Ads"
(Yahoo News, Nov 12, 2003) --
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Universities that make money from
alcohol advertisements aired during televised college
sporting events foster underage drinking on campus, even
as administrators work to discourage the practice,
former college coaches and a consumer advocacy group
said on Wednesday. ID# 7416
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"Consequence of teen drinking is death"
(North County Times, Nov 11, 2003) --
It is with great sadness that I read about the death of
Alex Hernandez in a traffic crash on Oct. 15. The
17-year-old victim was a senior and football player at
Escondido High School. Another 17-year-old, the driver
of the car in which Alex was a passenger, was arrested
and charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving
under the influence of alcohol. Two young men's lives
destroyed - one dead and one facing criminal
charges. ID# 7409
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"BYOB isn't as easy as ABC"
(Los Angeles Times, Nov 12, 2003) --
Brooke Williamson had worked her way up through the
kitchens at Michael's and Boxer and she'd won
considerable acclaim as the chef at Zax, and now at
25 she was a partner in her own restaurant, Amuse
Cafι in Venice. Business was booming, the critics were
raving, and every night the room had both the loud buzz
of the hip "in" place and the reassuring
warmth of the neighborhood hangout. Then, without
warning, came The Call. It was an investigator
from the state department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
on the phone. Someone had complained that Williamson was
allowing customers to bring in and drink their
own wine and beer, even though her application for an
ABC license had not yet been approved. ID# 7410
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"Police Leaders Say Officers Shouldn't Moonlight at
Bars"
(New York Times, Nov 11, 2003) --
New York City police officials came out strongly
yesterday against a proposal that would allow off-duty
officers to work extra jobs providing security outside
bars and nightclubs. The City Council initiative,
backed by rank-and-file officers, who stand to earn more
money, and by bar owners, who would pay them, is seen by
its supporters as a way to get more police officers on
the street without the city having to foot the bill. The
presence of a uniformed officer would discourage
fighting, public drinking and other problems, supporters
of the measure say. ID# 7407
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"Police plan sting"
(Sacramento Bee, Nov 9, 2003) --
Police officers soon will send teenagers to Elk Grove
stores to try to buy beer. The teens, ages 18 and
19, are part of an upcoming undercover sting program
aimed at stopping the sale of alcohol to minors.
The decoys all appear to look much younger than 21,
according to a Police Department press release. They
will try to purchase alcoholic beverages from local
stores licensed to sell them. ID# 7401
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"Chula Vista needs to take drunken driving
seriously"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Nov 6, 2003) --
The two separate arrests in October of retired National
City Police Chief Skip DiCerchio on drunken driving
charges suggest a serious problem, and not just for
DiCerchio himself. Obviously, DiCerchio needs
help. He said following his first arrest he would seek
treatment for an alcohol problem. We hope he's in
residential treatment right now. ID# 7397
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"Statutes no help in controlling alcohol outlets"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Nov 6, 2003) --
As the chairman of the San Diego Alcohol Outlet Density
Workgroup, I was pleased to see an article addressing
the complicated issues regarding alcohol outlets in
areas such as Pacific Beach. The work group was created
to look into issues that affect our communities. ID#
7399
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"Principal battles class trip pitches"
(North County Times, Nov 3, 2003) --
At the center of the principal's anguish are
brightly-colored brochures floating around campus,
promising students the time of their life in places like
Mexico, Hawaii and the Bahamas. They're the kind of
trips that are popular with new graduates because there
are no chaperones and access to beer and booze come with
the territory. ID# 7396
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"VOA detox center is where it should be"
(San Diego Union Tribune, Nov 5, 2003) --
It's discouraging to read in "What's that detox
center doing there?" (Letters, Oct. 14) that some
downtown residents and businesses are trying to force
the Volunteers of America detox center and
rehabilitation facility to move from its present
location on Island Avenue not far from the new
ballpark. ID# 7394
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"Local organizations crack down on parties"
(Daily Aztec, Oct 2, 2003) --
Fifteen San Diego organizations joined forces in an
effort to crack down on loud parties. While the
majority of the project -- the SDSU College Area Party
Plan -- took place during the first two weekends of
school, the University Police Department at San Diego
State has been continuing its efforts to help keep
problems in the College Area community at a
minimum. ID# 7395
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"100 teens turned away from Mexico"
(IV Press Online, Oct 25, 2003) --
CALEXICO Police here stopped 100 youths 17 years old and
younger from entering Mexico without permission from
their parents Thursday as part of an operation to keep
teens from imbibing alcohol.The majority of the youths
were stopped after 10 p.m., the city's curfew
hour. ID# 7391
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"Police set to crack down on teens crossing into
Mexico to party hearty"
(IV Press Online, Oct 24, 2003) --
CALEXICO Police here will conduct an operation starting
tonight and running though the weekend to stop teenagers
age 17 and under from crossing into Mexico without their
parents.The operation is connected to an ongoing concern
that youths are crossing into Mexico to party in clubs
that provide alcohol to underage drinkers. ID#
7390
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"NU code of conduct counts off campus too"
(Chicago Tribune, Nov 3, 2003) --
As a longtime Evanston resident who lives just blocks
from Northwestern University, Pat English said she hopes
two new policies aimed at bolstering students'
neighborly behavior will improve life on her
street. "We've seen beer bottles in our yard,
on the parkway ... loud music, loud voices, cursing,
screeching, screaming," said English, 58.
"We're hoping these policies are going to change
things." ID# 7381
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"Police Arrest 70 in Isla Vista"
(Los Angeles Times, Nov 2, 2003) --
Halloween revelry that attracts thousands to UC Santa
Barbara's Isla Vista neighborhood each year ended early
Saturday with officers arresting about 70 people,
issuing a 100 citations and treating many for injuries,
mostly alcohol-related. The early-evening
downpours and a university campaign declaring the
parties "over" in e-mails and letters sent
out to students at the university and other California
college campuses did not keep people away from the
1-square-mile town's crowded streets and house
parties. ID# 7385
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"We must help teens make good decisions"
(North County Times, Nov 2, 2003) --
Re "Police seek source of liquor in fatal
crash," Oct. 24. Thank you to Jo Moreland and the
North County Times for addressing a critical question
Where did a teenage driver arrested for vehicular
manslaughter and driving under the influence get his
alcohol? At this point, there are more questions
than answers, but asking the questions in a public forum
like the North County Times brings needed attention to
the serious problem of underage drinking. Too often
these cases get minimal coverage and are perceived by
the public to be another tragic accident. ID#
7373
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"Stop using movies to sell beer"
(North County Times, Nov 1, 2003) --
I thought beer companies weren't supposed to target
minors with their advertising. Coors has been
helping to advertise for "Scary Movie 3," as
well as having some product placement in the movie.
These advertisements are just as much advertisements for
beer as they are for the movie. ID# 7375
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