This weekend on campus, eight underage consumption tickets were given out and one driver was ticketed and arrested for driving while intoxicated.Early Friday morning, officers reported to a call from an R.A. in the Oakland Apartments. The officer responding found two students who admitted to drinking. Both were cited for underage consumption.
Friday night, an officer pulled over a vehicle in the Oakland parking lot. Although the driver of the car was sober, two other students in the car were cited for underage consumption.
A driver was pulled over on the 1500 block of Woodland Avenue early Saturday morning after carelessly driving and weaving in and out of lanes. The driver was found to have a blood alcohol content over .08, the legal limit, and was arrested. The driver was cited for 4th degree D.W.I., alcohol concentration over .08 or more and failure to drive in a single lane.
BY ERIC LEMKE lemke082@d.umn.edu