THE DAMAGE DONE STUDENTS GET GRAPHIC LOOK AT DRINKING'S COST.ACTON - Vasquez High School students got a graphic depiction Thursday of the dangers of drinking and driving - a mock crash staged in front of the campus. Before the mock crash, 20 teens were pulled from their classes one-by-one by a school staffer dressed in a black hood and robe as the Grim Reaper, signifying Signifyin' (slang) is an African-American rhetorical device featuring indirect communication or persuasion and the creating of new meanings for old words and signs. Signifying, in this sense, includes repetition and difference, implication and association, combining words and the rate at which Americans die in drunk-driving crashes. ``The students at first were a little bit lighthearted light·heart·ed adj. Not being burdened by trouble, worry, or care; happy and carefree. See Synonyms at glad1. light about it but as the second and third students were pulled out of class, the impact was a little more real,'' said Denyce Evert e·vert v. To turn inside out or outward. evert to turn inside out; to turn outward. , Vasquez's Athletic and Administrative secretary and co-organizer of the program. ``We have had students end up crying. It's been pretty real for them.'' Called ``Every 15 Minutes'' for the nationwide frequency of drunk-driving fatalities, and part of a national effort, the event also included a sheriff's deputy entering classrooms behind the Grim Reaper, reading obituaries written by the teens' parents earlier in the week. School workers called the participants' parents at work or home Thursday and told them their child was killed in a collision with a drunk driver. Knowing ahead of time that it is just a school program doesn't make the call easy to take, Evert said. ``They know it's a mock accident but seeing their child last that morning and then to get that call,'' Evert said. ``It sends chills up the spine.'' Today the school will hold a gymnasium gymnasium In Germany, a state-maintained secondary school that prepares pupils for higher academic education. This type of nine-year school originated in Strasbourg in 1537. assembly to show a videotape videotape Magnetic tape used to record visual images and sound, or the recording itself. There are two types of videotape recorders, the transverse (or quad) and the helical. of Thursday's event. Guest speakers will urge the students to make the right choices. ``What we want to get across is that we want them to make mature decisions,'' Evert said. ``What happens to them doesn't just affect them but a number of people, friends and family.'' CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Vasquez High School student Karen Glos, 16, pretending to be a drunk driver, is arrested by CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan Officer Rusty rust·y adj. rust·i·er, rust·i·est 1. Covered with rust; corroded. 2. Consisting of or produced by rust. 3. Of a yellowish-red or brownish-red color. 4. Moore. (2 -- 4 -- color) Above, a Fire Department helicopter lands at a mock crash site at Vasquez High School during ``Every 15 Minutes,'' a campaign designed to show the tragic effects of drunk driving. Left, The Grim Reaper comes for mock crash victims Shawnee Moore and Stefanie Harbeson, in the ``Every 15 Minutes'' campaign. Below, After protecting the ``victim'' of a drunk-driving crash with a tarp, firefighters cut the roof off a vehicle. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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