Alcohol awareness activities set Oct. 16-21

11:40 a.m., Oct. 14, 2005--UD will mark National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, Sunday-Friday, Oct. 16-21, with a campus-wide awareness program focusing on responsible alcohol use.

Featuring free lectures, self-assessment clinics, informational fairs and alcohol-free parties, the weeklong event offers a broad range of activities geared for students living both on and off campus.

The following events are planned.

An address on drinking and driving by Mark Sterner, a nationally known speaker, at 5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 16, at the Bob Carpenter Center, will inform UD athletes and Greeks about the dangers of drinking and driving.

An alcohol and drug use self-assessment clinic from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Monday, Oct. 17, on the concourse of the Perkins Student Center, will give individuals a chance to gauge their alcohol consumption and chat with UD substance-abuse counselors and clinicians from Connections Inc.

Love Your Body Day, a daylong, multiple-venued event on Wednesday, Oct. 19, will feature presentations, information kiosks and self-care workshops that address body image and personal well-being issues, as well as issues related to drug- and alcohol-abuse and eating disorders. Scheduled Love Your Body Day events include:

An informational kiosk in the food court of the Trabant University Center, staffed from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. by representatives from the Office of Women’s Affairs, Wellspring and the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, will offer showings of short films and informational literature on Wellspring programs and the National Organization for Women. Prize giveaways and a raffle for a self-care kit also will be offered at the kiosk, with proceeds from the raffle going to a local Girl Scout troop;
Healthy Mothers Equal Healthy Daughters, a presentation sponsored by UD’s Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, from noon-1 p.m., in rooms 209-211 in the Trabant University Center, will feature guest speaker Sharon Cooper, a licensed clinical social worker with the Brandywine Center in Wilmington. Cooper will lecture on how mothers affect their daughters’ body images and will address the role that media plays in shaping women’s standards for beauty;
How to Love Your Body, a panel discussion on the many aspects of body image, from 1:10-2:20 p.m., in the Multipurpose Room in the Trabant University Center, will include discussions by Cooper, Marie Laberge, historian and UD assistant professor of women’s studies, and Linda Santoro, a registered nurse at the Brandywine Center. The trio will comment on historic and cross-cultural aspects of women’s body image and strategies to nurture self-acceptance;
Voices of Recovery, a documentary film and subsequent discussion about eating disorders, will take place from 2:30-4 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room in the Trabant University Center. Representatives from the ABIDE Peer Educators of Wellspring program and Ashleigh Brown, graduate assistant for the Office of Women’s Affairs, will facilitate the post-film discussion; and
Workshops in yoga, belly-dancing and massage therapy will cap the day at the Perkins Student Center. The yoga workshop, taught by yoga instructor Eleanor Mazzio, will run from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Ewing Room. The belly-dancing workshop, taught by Almaaza, a veteran Middle Eastern dance performer, will run from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Gallery. And the massage therapy workshop, led by Tammy Woodward, a certified massage therapist, will run from 8:30-10 p.m. in the Ewing Room.

Fight for Your Right to Party...Responsibly, an alcohol-free event featuring music, mocktails and party treats, will take place at 8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 20, in Harrington D/E Lounge.

Get Wacky, Not Wasted, from 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Friday, Oct. 21, at the Perkins Student Center, will bring National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week to a close with a soirée featuring juggling and balloon art lessons, casino and arcade games, crafts, cookie decorating, body art and tie-dying activities, a caricaturist, a DJ and swing dancing on the patio.

All National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week events are free and open to members of the University community on a first-come, first-served basis.

Article by Becca Hutchinson

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