By Jack Farrell | Staff Writer-
Forty four Salve Regina students are laughing and having a good time at a campus activities event, but you wouldn’t know they were being educated on the dangers of alcohol as well.
This past Wednesday the Campus Activities Board presented the funny but informative maximize your buzz. The seminar goes around the country to colleges and talks to students about the dangers of drinking beyond your limit.
The seminar had numerous opportunities for the audience to become actively involved ranging from games called drunk or buzzed to help students learn the difference of the two, to educational facts that can keep them safe.
Although the seminar incorporated fun into the education, it did also allow some serious conversations such as asking questions of what the most important things in someone’s life are, and some personal stories about the times anyone was drunk. Some of the stories had humor to them such as kids fighting over a slice of bread, and another where someone almost knocked over a television.
The activities showed students they need to know the short term consequences as well as the long term ones and how they can affect them personally.
This was a theme reoccurring throughout the seminar where students would scream “it’s about who you are” emphasizing the point the decision to drink is an individual one, and not a group one.
Sophomore Kathleen Blais found the seminar “entertaining and informative as it gave a realistic approach to the teaching on how to drink responsibly and how to take care of it.” She also compared the seminar to the lecture every freshman receives here at Salve from the experts over at the University of Rhode Island, and notes that Salve should try to engage the students in a way where they feel more involved instead of being lectured at.
Members of Salve’s Campus Activities Board even felt this was a good program that students should take advantage of. Alex DiMauro, a sophomore member of CAB saw a video of the seminar online and was inspired to have them visit Salve. He was able to plan this whole event on his own as he felt it would benefit the community. DiMauro said this was a good seminar to bring to campus as it “was a free way to educate about the dangers in a way that’s a judgmental free zone.”
Maximize your buzz is a part of Neon Entertainment which has been running for twelve years at college campuses as a part of Neon’s alcohol awareness program. Neon has been around for twenty years offering the services of entertainers and interactive services.
