The University of South Florida Police Department will host a Sobriety Checkpoint on the USF Campus beginning at 12:00 midnight on March 29, 2008, and lasting until 2:00 a.m. on March 29, 2008. During this time, USF Police Officers will use the Sobriety Checkpoint to identify impaired drivers in an effort to keep our streets safe. Impaired drivers that are identified will face arrest and prosecution. This operation is part of a comprehensive, collaborative approach to traffic safety by the USF Police Department.

Did you know?  Drinking continues to be a pervasive problems among college campuses across the country.  According to http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov:
- 1,700 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die each year from alcohol-related unintentional injuries, including motor vehicle crashes.

- 599,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are unintentionally injured under the influence of alcohol.

- More than 696,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are assaulted by another student who has been drinking.

- More than 97,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape.

- 400,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 had unprotected sex and more than 100,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 report having been too intoxicated to know if they consented to having sex.

- About 25 percent of college students report academic consequences of their drinking including missing class, falling behind, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.

- More than 150,000 students develop an alcohol-related health problem and between 1.2 and 1.5 percent of students indicate that they tried to commit suicide within the past year due to drinking or drug use.

- 2.1 million students between the ages of 18 and 24 drove under the influence of alcohol last year.

- About 11 percent of college student drinkers report that they have damaged property while under the influence of alcohol.

- More than 25 percent of administrators from schools with relatively low drinking levels and over 50 percent from schools with high drinking levels say their campuses have a “moderate” or “major” problem with alcohol-related property damage.

- About 5 percent of 4-year college students are involved with the police or campus security as a result of their drinking and an estimated 110,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are arrested for an alcohol-related violation such as public drunkenness or driving under the influence.

- 31 percent of college students met criteria for a diagnosis of alcohol abuse and 6 percent for a diagnosis of alcohol dependence in the past 12 months, according to questionnaire-based self-reports about their drinking