This article (from today no less) should provoke some interesting reaction.
Holbrook receives award for changing game-day culture - tOSU News and Information
12-8-2004
Contact: Shannon Wingard, (614) 247-6821
Holbrook receives award for changing game-day culture
President Karen A. Holbrook will be honored with the Presidents Leadership Group Award for her efforts in changing the culture surrounding game-day behavior. Ohio First Lady Hope Taft will be among the attendees when Holbrook receives the award at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday (12/9) in the Blackwell Inn, 2110 Tuttle Park Place.
The award ceremony is a part of the CHOICES Implementation Training program, a daylong alcohol prevention program that trains university professionals on how to help college students make low-risk choices when they are drinking. Approximately, 90 people from Ohio State and universities throughout the state will be trained to become facilitators of the program on their respective campuses.
Following disturbances at the 2002 Ohio State – Michigan game in Columbus, Holbrook convened a task force with Mayor Michael B. Coleman that included university and city administrators, students, community leaders and representatives from the media and business. The charge to the task force was to get to the root of the problem while developing game day policies and practices and changes to the neighborhood environment to prevent future disturbances.
Beginning last season, local law enforcement officials have stepped up their enforcement of open-container laws on football Saturdays. Reports of assaults, vandalism and physical and verbal abuse are down significantly.
The Presidents Leadership Group Award is presented by the Center for College Health and Safety, a part of Education Development Center Inc., an internationally known educational research and development organization.
WHAT: President Karen A. Holbrook will be honored with the Presidents Leadership Group Award
WHEN: 3:30 p.m. on Thursday (12/9)
WHERE: Blackwell Inn, 2110 Tuttle Park Place
WHY: The award recognizes her efforts in changing the culture surrounding game-day behavior.