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    Anti-drug Prize to Cap Festivities


     
     
    Student Health Services' educator Judy Hearsum directs the anti-alcohol program.
    The Alcohol and Other Drug Program at UC Santa Barbara has won a regional grand prize of $5,000 from the American Automobile Association (AAA) and the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention for UCSB's Drinking and Driving Prevention Program.
    AAA executive Steven A. Bloch will present the award on Wednesday, May 30, at 11:30 a.m. in Storke Plaza. Chancellor Henry Yang, student leader Bridget Saltzman, and Santa Barbara County Supervisor Gail Marshall will accept the award.
    Following the awards ceremony, UCSB members of Students Teaching Alcohol and other drug Responsibility (STAR) will hold their 20th annual Safe Graduation event in the plaza.
    The afternoon's activities include games and races with participants wearing Fatal Vision Goggles (glasses that simulate eyesight under the influence of alcohol). Students will have an opportunity to sign pledges promising not to drink and drive. Military Science Department students will rappel from the top of 170-foot Storke Tower.
    STAR was organized two decades ago as part of the Alcohol and Other Drug Program under the auspices of UCSB's Student Health Service's Health Education Division, directed by Judy Hearsum. Aimed at providing information about the dangers of alcohol abuse in general and driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs in particular, STAR is "the cornerstone of our DUI prevention efforts" that garnered the regional prize, said Hearsum.