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Video: Florida Students Seek Alcohol Amnesty
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Students at the University of Central Florida are voting this week on a new alcohol emergency policy. The rule change, proposed by the Student Government Association, would mean that anyone who puts in an emergency call because of their own dangerous alcohol intoxication—or someone else's—would be made exempt from any punishment, other than mandatory alcohol awareness classes. "You'll get overly intoxicated people and their friends worried about whether they should call an ambulance or 911 or not in fear of themselves and their friends getting kicked out of school," said one student. If the vote is passed, the policy will go before the school's administrators—who have yet to take a stance on the matter—for final approval. This approach is already being applied at other Florida schools like the University of Florida and Rollins. An 18-year-old UCF nursing freshman named Ann Hefferin died a month ago after drinking at a frat party.
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