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Students
at Brigham Young University-Idaho are watching out for
their own.
For
the second year in a row, the student government is running its “Survive
the Drive” campaign on campus. The goal of the campaign is to limit
the number of accidents involving students traveling for the Thanksgiving
break.
Student
body secretary Adam Piner and Nicole Devenny, the student representative on the BYU-Idaho
Safety Committee, are spearheading the efforts that include placing wrecked
cars and signs around campus, ads in the school paper, and various other
activities leading up to the holiday. The signs feature original slogans
such as “Watch for falling eyelids” and “Minimum sleep
limit: 8 hours” designed to look like traditional road signs.
“We
want to help students gain an awareness of the hazards of unsafe driving,”
Piner says. “It would be great if we didn’t
have to come back from Thanksgiving weekend and read an article in the
Scroll about another student that died.”
Piner says the focus of the campaign is simple: “We
just hope that students will be more careful over the Thanksgiving weekend.”
He
says, “We realize that students get excited about going home, and
they forget to get enough sleep before they go, or they speed because they
want to get there sooner. The major focus of the campaign is to get enough
sleep, wear your seat belt, not to speed, and to stop somewhere if you’re
getting tired. It’s when you’re not doing those things that
accidents are more likely to happen.”
The
campaign will run to Nov. 25 with the student government planning on
repeating the campaign before each of the major school breaks in the
future.
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