By Maureen Quinlan, News Correspondent
The Office of Prevention and Education at Northeastern (OPEN) will begin its annual Alcohol Week Saturday. The week will run through Oct. 21 with events promoting alcohol awareness, including a bartending challenge and a date auction.
“The purpose of alcohol week is to increase awareness on campus,” said Ana Mascagni, an OPEN social work intern and Boston College social work graduate student. “Alcohol is so heavily used in college, we want students to not think drinking is bad; we just want them to think critically about it.”
The week begins with Red Watch Band Training where OPEN, University Health and Counseling Services (UHCS) and Sigma Phi Epsilon will present CPR certification and peer education on alcohol use.
An information fair will be held Monday, Oct. 18, in the Library Quad from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The fair will include booths for Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR), OPEN, UHCS, the state police and activities such as trivia with prizes, a bartender challenge and information about medical amnesty and social host liability.
The fair will also have a booth for the Impact Project, where students can anonymously write on a person-shaped cutout about how alcohol has affected their lives. Afterwards, the cutouts will be hung on the windows of Curry Student Center (CSC).
Mike Green, a traveling alcohol awareness speaker and former college athlete, will also speak Monday in the CSC Ballroom about the effects of alcohol and drugs in an interactive presentation.
OPEN will hold a trivia night Tuesday in 448 CSC at 6 p.m.
There will also be a live concert by 2am Club with The Blue Pages and Media Made at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at afterHOURS as an alternative, alcohol-free activity.
The Zero Proof Date Auction benefiting STEP, Inc. will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, at afterHours presented by Pi Kappa Alpha and the Resident Student Association (RSA).
To wrap up the week, The Improbable Players will be performing Real People-Real Stories: Amazing and Inspirational Stories of Change and Recovery Thursday Oct. 21 in afterHOURS at 7 p.m.
