For More Information:
Matt Vogel
Community Health Specialist
608-785-8977 (Ph)
vogel.matt@uwlax.edu
CAMPUS ALCOHOL TASK FORCE
Campus Alcohol Advisory Committee
Tri-Campus Community Advocacy Group
Mayor's Alcohol Task Force
CAMPUS ALCOHOL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The effort to combat underage drinking was significantly increased during the past year through campus and community coalitions. Three groups used evidence based environmental management strategies to bring about positive changes in the environment.
MISSION: The Campus Alcohol Advisory Committee will make the campus community more aware of, and responsive to, issues involving alcohol consumption and the resulting negative consequences associated with high risk drinking.
Campus Alcohol Advisory Committee Chairs: Matt Vogel & Sara
Burton
Tri-Campus Community Advocacy Group
In response to the serious societal problem known as "binge drinking," leaders of Viterbo University, Western Wisconsin Technical College, and UW-L decided to collaborate on ways to reduce binge drinking in the 7 Rivers Region. The group was expanded to include members of local health care agencies, the media, and businesses.
The following is an abridged version of the August 20, 2004 Vision Statement, which was forwarded to the Mayor’s Task Force on Alcohol in support of their final recommendations.
Tri-Campus Community Advocacy Group
Citizens Committed to Curbing High-Risk Drinking
August 20, 2004
Statement of the Problem
The community of La Crosse has suffered, in many ways and for many years, the problems and tragedies associated with a culture that encourages excessive high-risk alcohol consumption, including binge drinking. It is well documented that high-risk drinking is harmful and potentially lethal. The citizens of this community deserve a healthier and safer environment.
The Tri-Campus Community Advocacy Group seeks to focus its attention on those areas needing to be addressed by the community which would lead to the curbing of high-risk drinking by college students. In addition, we will recommend action steps that are designed to reduce excessive alcohol consumption.
Purpose of the Tri-Campus Community Advocacy Group
The Tri-Campus Community Advocacy Group exists to create a safer community by fostering an environment that discourages excessive high-risk alcohol consumption among college students. We will identify, recommend, and, when appropriate, implement action steps that are intended to reduce binge drinking and other alcohol-related consequences. We share the opinion that effective and consistent education, environmental management, collaboration between community organizations and municipalities and the strict enforcement of existing laws will significantly reduce the factors that contribute to excessive high-risk drinking, including binge drinking.
Goals, Objectives, and Actions
The goal of the Tri-Campus Community Advocacy Group is to reduce excessive high-risk alcohol consumption, including binge drinking, among our students by 50 percent by the year 2010.
We believe that binge drinking among our students will be reduced only by a comprehensive community initiative directed at doing so.
We are committing resources of our three local colleges/universities to this initiative.
We will actively partner with other persons, groups, organizations, and institutions to develop, support, and sustain this initiative.
We commit to the following four objectives and their related actions:
- Enhance Policies on Our Campuses
- Partner with Other Current Community Initiatives
- Support Responsible Vendors
- Pursue All Available Legal Remedies
Members: Dave Beal, RoseMary Boesen, Steve Burgess, Scott Chorski, Rusty Cunningham, Daniel Duquette, Anne Ellefson, Laura Franzke,
Joe Gow, Cary Heyer, Peter Hughes, Jerry Kember, William Medland, Bud Miyamoto, Kathy Morland, Rob Nesse, Ron Paczkowski, Ruth Purcell, James Quinlan, J. Lee Rasch, Charles Roth, Jeff Schroeder, Barb Schulz, P. Stephen Shultz, G.E. Smith, Pat Smith, Jeff Thompson, Denise Vujnovich, Jodie Wagner, Stephen Webster,
Rick Artman
Mayor’s Alcohol Task Force
http://www.cityoflacrosse.org/taskforce.htm