Driving drunk, shooting basketballs intoxicated, or walking a straight line buzzed–the DUI Awareness Expo at EC combined all of these elements to promote the negative affects that drinking has on a person’s body.

“The expo promotes safe driving, if you are drinking make sure you’re not driving,” Pete Kim, California highway patrol officer, said.

Kim watched as many students attempted to perform many of these easy daily task with goggles on that simulate a .10 blood alcohol level.

Among the many activities the event had to offer was students were allowed to drive a golf cart on the Library Lawn around a course as best they could with the goggles on.

Many students realized that something as simple as a golf cart was not easy to operate around the short track.

“You’re driving and you hit a cone that you thought was farther,” Ebony White, 26, sociology major said.

Nicole Fuerta, undecided major, added that with the goggles off, driving around the track was like a normal course, but once she put the goggles on, it made her realize just how hard it is to operate a vehicle under the influence of alcohol.

“Driving with the goggles it was like 3D vision but blurred; I think it should be a valuable lesson because once you put the goggles on, it really does impair your vision,” Fuerta said.

Fuerta expressed the same sentiments that other students who participated in the expo shared, which is that it shows that alcohol impairs your judgment and normal functioning.

Oscar Giles, 25, undecided major, tried to walk a straight line with the goggles on and felt it was hard to keep balance.

“You’re out of balance, your body is all over the place and as hard as you try to stay in balance, you can’t keep in order,” Giles said.

The DUI Awareness Expo while providing students with a fun event about a serious matter showed students how making bad decisions like drinking while driving is a bigger problem.

“Functioning is a lot harder, everything you do is harder,” Jemelynne Prudencio, 18, sports medicine major, said.