MUSE workshops

During the second-to-last week in October, I attended a seminar ran by the student health department designed to educate us about the risks of alcohol when given the opportunity to drive a vehicle. To do this (here's the fun part), we played Mario Kart 64 wearing beer goggles, which are glasses that distort your vision to simulate the experience of being drunk. Although I repeatedly lost, it was both fun and enlightening to not only hear but experience how dangerous it was to drive drunk.

At the beginning of the same month, my friend Kayla and I attended a less entertaining (and more depressing and scary) seminar regarding domestic violence and harrassment. A panel of 11 people, consisting of judges, attorneys, proscutors, mayors, officers, and sheriffs, who all have had experience in dealing with such offenders. They went over the process of how offenders are tried in court and how victims can get help. The air was dead serious, and I didn't dare get out of my seat.