Tougher DUI law leaves students with mixed reactions
President Bill Clinton's signing of a bill earlier this week that will set the national standard for drunken driving to a .08 percent blood-alcohol content could possibly result in more campus DUI arrests, a UA police official said yesterday.
UAPD Sgt. Michael Smith said that lowering the state's standard for drunken driving could possibly lead to more arrests - however, officers' patrol habits will be unaffected because they do not know a driver's intoxication level when they pull the person over, he said.
"Typically, when an officer makes a stop, it's for erratic driving, and that won't change," Smith said.
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UA-area bars offer new designated driver service
Volunteers, UA students drive intoxicated patrons home
When patrons leave Gentle Ben's and Xs after an evening of drinking alcohol, they have one fewer excuse to drive while intoxicated.
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Q and A with Coach Bonvicini
Have you been pleased with your team's performance in practice so far?
Yes, I have. I think we have worked extremely hard, and I like our attitude a lot. Those are positives.
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Blood drive not only about rivalry
After four years as reigning champs, ASU finally managed to beat us at something.
In the annual ASU versus UA blood drive, ASU stole our crimson crown by bringing in 1,081 pints of blood.
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Neher Ascending
UA faculty composer, bassist to perform tonight
Creating music is a personal venture for UA music professor Patrick Neher.
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Quoteable: Wednesday October 25, 2000
"The glasses I have on are not rose colored."
-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on the her historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Gong Il
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Today in history: Wednesday October 25, 2000
In 1415, during the Hundred Years' War between England and France, the young King of England, Henry V, leads his forces to victory at the Battle of Agincourt in northern France.
In 1854, in an event alternately described as one of the most heroic episodes in British military history and one of the most disastrous, Lord James Cardigan leads a charge of light cavalry over open terrain against well-defended Russian artillery at Balaclava during the Crimean War.
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