Buoyed by mounting evidence that alcohol consumption is decreasing on college campuses across the country, the University of Southern Mississippi observed Alcohol Awareness Week this past week. But the good news was tempered by the reality that alcohol consumption is still affecting people's lives, often in tragic ways.
People have to understand the consequences of irresponsible drinking.
Thursday, Goodman and several other Southern Miss students attended a Remembrance Walk at the Payne Center on campus. Once there, they were confronted with pictures of Mississippians, many of them children, who had lost their lives to drunken drivers. A picture really is worth 1,000 words. It was a very powerful story. I think the alcohol awareness efforts on campus are doing the job.