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November 14, 2017

Hsergay Paw is our Featured DUDE!

Hsergay attends University of Texas Arlington and is actively engaged in U in the Driver Seat through UTA’s Health Services team. She’s currently a freshman studying nursing and plans to graduate in 2021. Hsergay is always the DUDE when it comes to having fun with friends. She hates the smell and taste of alcohol so every time her […]

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October 13, 2017

Krista Gehlhausen is our Featured DUDE

Krista attends Concordia University and is actively engaged in U in the Driver Seat through CTX Alive, a peer-mentoring and advocacy organization dedicated to informing students of healthy decision-making. She’s currently studying Political Science and expects to graduate May 2020. CTX Alive partnered with U in the Driver Seat at their National Night Out Event. […]

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January 13, 2017

Iliana Diaz-Moreno is our Featured DUDE

Iliana attends the University of Texas at Arlington and is actively engaged in the U in the Driver Seat program. She’s currently a nursing students and expects to graduate in 2020. Illiana witnessed a terrible car crash that involved a drunk driver. She saw the car holding a drunk driver and his two drunk friends crash into another vehicle […]

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October 13, 2016

Ashley Argabrite is our Featured DUDE!

Ashley is a Nursing student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi “One of the goals I strive to complete on campus is to host different events to bring awareness about drinking and driving or any impaired driving and the dangers it holds. I wish to bring a realization to all students on campus and hope they […]

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October 13, 2016

A Close Look at the Consequences of Impaired Driving

By: Ashley Argabrite I have been deeply impacted by the consequences of impaired driving. I am fully cognitive of the ability to drive while drunk, cause harm, and not even remember it. Two of my very close friends were hit head-on by a drunk driver. They were both rushed to the hospital, and the driver […]

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March 22, 2016

Dylan Montez is our Featured DUDE!

Dylan is a Kinesiology major at Ranger College. Tell us why you’ve been active in preventing impaired driving with UDS, another organization, or on your own. “I don’t let my friends drive anywhere drunk.” Tell us what you have learned about being a DUDE or helping others be a DUDE. “I learned that you can […]

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