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Freshman Mark Tramontozzi helps set up the driving
course bright and early in the morning so it would be
ready by first hour. About fifty parking spaces were
taken for the simulator. (Jim Morgan)
Senior Joseph Russell is interviewed by reporter Mary
Williams from channel 3 after driving the simulator A student drunk driver knocks down a few cones an d
course . Standing in the background waiting for their learns a very important lesson, which is demonstrated
turns are Seniors James Lyda and Chris Hasselman. by the sign standing at the entrance of the course -
(Jim Morgan) don't dri nk and drive. (Erin Doll)

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Learn Valuable Lesson

Not often does a student hear that on the brakes, made sharp corners at 25
he or she has permission to drive drunk, but miles per hour, and dragged cones across
students were actually encouraged to drive the course.
drunk, sort of. Junior Erin Doll, who helped set up
Mothers Against Drunk Driving and and run the course, said , "Some kids did it
Dodge Daytona sponsored the driving just for fun and really didn't learn anything,
cou rse in which students could experience but others did it so they could learn what it
what it was really like to drive drunk by is really like to drive drunk."
driving a car altered to simulate such condi- Senior Andy Nathan said , "I think
tions. Millard North was the first metro area it was a very effective learning tool because
high school to be visited by the drunk driving it showed what it's like to be in a car with a
simulator. drunk driver. I don't ever want to feel that
Cortney Christensen Students drove a Dodge Daytona out of control again."
twice around a course set up in the parking Some used the simulator for other
lot, on ce "sober", and once "drunk". Each purposes, however. Junior Mike Sandoval
driver was allowed one passenger, who sat said, "I got to drive a neat car and it got me
in the back seat. A staff member entered out of class!"
the driver's weight into a computer, wh ich No matter what the reason was, it
altered the brakes, steering , and accelera- gave students a chance to drive wrecklessly
tion . and be a terrible driver for a good reason,
Squealing tires could be heard all while learning a potentially life saving les-
day in the parking lot, as drivers slammed son .