It's kind of like second hand smoke. There are things that people do when drunk that affect those around them, even though the people around them may not have been drinking at all.

This group should allow students to take control and ownership of their campus and their lives, and then the faculty and staff will not have to be the enforcers of behavior. Also, students will not have to put up with the annoying after effects of people who have been drinking over the limit.

We sent a preliminary interest e-mail out to some students about this group, and we hope to get more members through word of mouth.

All the support from the people in Brown City, friends, family and coworkers, I can't put into words how much that means to me. How kind everyone's been, I was amazed by it.

Some people suffer differently from it. It attacks the organs like the kidneys and liver, eyesight; people just respond to it differently.

It's not too little, too late. Now we've rescued people, the next stage is emerging. People are extremely weak. They're traumatized and exhausted. We've got to support them while the water goes down.