Party at the Paseo-UTSA
Party at the Paseo-UTSA – The UTSA Office of Student Activities will host the third annual “Party on the Paseo: Roadrunners Fiesta Sober” from 6:30 to 10:30 pm, Thursday, April 14 at the University Center paseo on the Main Campus. Free and open to the UTSA and San Antonio communities, the alcohol-free, unofficial Fiesta San Antonio event will include food, prize drawings, Mr. and Ms. UTSA, and live music from Castle Lights and The Hooch. Chili’s Too in the University Center will offer specials during the event. Visitor parking will be available at a reasonable rate in the nearby parking garage. Participants can meet artist Cecilia Mujica, UTSA alumnae and designer of the official 2011 Fiesta San Antonio poster; she will be available to sign autographs and posters. Presented the same night as the unofficial college night at Fiesta’s “Night in Old San Antonio” (NIOSA), Party on the Paseo is credited with a dramatic decrease in alcohol violations on campus during Fiesta. In the first year of the program, violations decreased from 14 to seven — and were reduced to one last year. The activities will share the message of enforcing laws regarding alcohol use and avoiding drunk driving. Last November, the event was named Outstanding Creative Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program at the national conference of BACCHUS, an international association of university peer education groups that creates programming on health and safety issues. “Party on the Paseo is an opportunity to celebrate Fiesta in a safe and …
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