Natural highs event

If you are tired of waking up on the living room floor and enduring a hang-over after a night of drinking, then walk, stumble, or crawl over to the seventh annual Natural High Fair.

The fair will take place in the Library quad tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The event is meant to promote alternative ways for students to have fun without consuming alcohol.

The Campus Recreation department and the Pepsi Corporation are sponsoring the event, which is part of National College Alcohol Awareness Week.

One event featured at the fair will be the Supervised Intoxication Experiment, which will occur between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Gary Davis, Associated Students Inc. president, Susan Moll, State Hornet copy editor and Paul Mezika , KSSU radio personality will participate in the experiment.

They will consume alcoholic beverages and one student, who has not been chosen yet, will consume non-alcoholic beverages.

They will then take a field sobriety test, administered by a member of the California Highway Patrol, to demonstrate the impairing effects alcohol has on people.

"The experiment will clearly demonstrate how little alcohol it takes for an individual to become intoxicated and the dangers associated with intoxication such as drinking and driving," said Laura Hall, director of Recreational Sports.

"It's a good opportunity to show the visual effects of alcohol and maybe the experiment will hit home with students," said Davis, who will be drinking beer.

Other events scheduled for the event include a bungee run, which is like bungee jumping. Instead of jumping off something, participants run on the ground until they are snapped back by the cord.

In addition, there will be a Velcro-wall, where participants wearing a Velcro suit jump off a trampoline and get plastered to a Velcro wall.

There will also be jousting and sumo wrestling. Primetime Interactive Games will provide the equipment for these activities.

Rocknasium, a local climbing gym, will provide a 30-foot high climbing wall so students can experience the high of climbing.

Campus organizations like the Rowing Club, Peak Adventures, Safe Rides, Christian Students for the Truth and the International Business Organization will be on hand to share information about themselves.

"The event offers fun sobering activities to students, instead of drinking, to let people know there are other things out there that are natural fun," said Erin Saluta, a graduate assistant for Recreational Sports.

For more information on the Natural High Fair, contact Recreational Sports at 278-6321.