Spring Break
Sobering Consequences
Dallas band advocates drunken driving prevention, awareness through music
Elizabeth Sehon
Issue date: 10/19/07 Section: Features
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According to The Texas Department of Transportation, every five hours a person is killed in an alcohol-related accident.
The song may be interpreted several ways but getting behind a wheel after drinking is conveyed in the lyrics, Lindsey said. The pain surrounding an event involved with drunken driving and the inability to take back time are powerful, she said.
"Young people just don't get it," Lindsey said. "They don't understand the actual effects until something drastic happens to them."
Lindsey said insufficient awareness on alcohol and its effects remains in college areas.
"No one seems to be promoting these things," she said. "It's so important."
Lindsey said support for alcohol awareness lies with deans and high officials of these schools.
"Call upon the deans and see what it would cost the school to get cabs driving these students around," Lindsey said.
She believes the school's faculty should feel an obligation to promote such ideas that could possibly lessen the effects of drunken driving by students.
"Listen, college students are going to drink, no doubt about it, and they need to be guided," Lindsey said. "The faculty of universities should look in to this more."
The song may be interpreted several ways but getting behind a wheel after drinking is conveyed in the lyrics, Lindsey said. The pain surrounding an event involved with drunken driving and the inability to take back time are powerful, she said.
"Young people just don't get it," Lindsey said. "They don't understand the actual effects until something drastic happens to them."
Lindsey said insufficient awareness on alcohol and its effects remains in college areas.
"No one seems to be promoting these things," she said. "It's so important."
Lindsey said support for alcohol awareness lies with deans and high officials of these schools.
"Call upon the deans and see what it would cost the school to get cabs driving these students around," Lindsey said.
She believes the school's faculty should feel an obligation to promote such ideas that could possibly lessen the effects of drunken driving by students.
"Listen, college students are going to drink, no doubt about it, and they need to be guided," Lindsey said. "The faculty of universities should look in to this more."
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