DUI: A Powerful Lesson
Mark Sterner
Monday, 08 Apr 2013 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Mark Sterner helps students realize the choice they make to drink and drive can have a lasting impact on their friends, families and themselves. Just three months before graduation, Mark and four of his best friends headed to Spring Break. On the final night they decided the least drunk would drive home. The next morning, three of the men were dead, and Mark lay in the hospital critically injured and facing three felony counts of DUI manslaughter. Instead of being the first in his family to graduate from college, Mark ended up the first member of his family to go to prison for his role in the tragic death of his three friends.Iowa State personnel will be available to offer risk-management resources and services specific to this campus following the talk.
Mark Sterner has been a keynote presenter for the Northeastern Greek Leadership Association, Association of Fraternal Leadership & Values-Central, Association of Fraternal Leadership & Values-West, CHAMPS Life Skills, the BACCHUS and GAMMA Peer Education Network’s General Assembly and the Mid-American Collegiate Health Association’s conference. He received the Tau Kappa Epsilon Excellence in Education Alumni Award at the 2011 Conclave.
Cosponsored By:
- Collegiate Panhellenic Council
- Gamma Phi Beta
- Interfraternity Council
- Tau Kappa Epsilon
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
Stay for the entire event, including the brief question-and-answer session that follows the formal presentation. Most events run 75 minutes.
Sign-ins are after the event concludes. For lectures in the Memorial Union, go to the information desk in the Main Lounge. In other academic buildings, look for signage outside the auditorium.
Lecture Etiquette
- Stay for the entire lecture and the brief audience Q&A. If a student needs to leave early, he or she should sit near the back and exit discreetly.
- Do not bring food or uncovered drinks into the lecture.
- Check with Lectures staff before taking photographs or recording any portion of the event. There are often restrictions. Cell phones, tablets and laptops may be used to take notes or for class assignments.
- Keep questions or comments brief and concise to allow as many as possible.