Believe it or not, a university in Pennsylvania is doing the unthinkable—they are conducting random breathalyzer inspections at their Spring Fling in the Quad. According to the Division of Public Safety as well as the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives, a number of students at Wharton are claiming that the schools actions are violating their First Amendment rights by forcing certain students to conduct these random tests on campus.

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League private university business school with close to 5,000 students receiving their schooling there in a given year. Not only will there be breath tests on campus for the Spring Fling, there will also be AlliedBarton guards posted at all the entrances in order to prevent outsiders from entering into the school event. The Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush claims that these drastic measures are being implemented after months of meetings with the school administrators and it is a means of reducing the number of accidents that are school related at this event. Last year it was reported that there were a total of 45 students sent to the hospital after this event that the school believes to be heavily linked to the consumption of alcohol.

Rush reports that their goal is to prevent accidents from happening with students who are underage who choose to experiment with alcohol at the school sanctioned event. The night's breathalyzer test will check students at random and if an adult of legal age is caught with a high BAC will be asked to leave the premises and anyone under the legal age found with a .10% BAC will be subject to disciplinary action as well as have their rom searched for more alcohol.

While there are many students who are claiming that their rights are being violated by their school, there are also a number of students who believe it is time that the school started taking new steps to improve the safety of the students on campus and after events. A junior at Wharton claims that his job as an RA will be made much easier because of this new rule, though as a student it makes him sad because he can't drink with his friends at the event. Others feel that this policy is unfair because they drink on any other day of the week, so what would make this specific event something that the school can hyper enforce?

All that to say, underage drinking and college drinking in general can lead to devastating accidents if these individuals choose to get behind the wheel of the car. According to various studies, one in five college students admit to getting behind the wheel of their car under the influence of alcohol and another 40% admit that they willing got in a car with a drunk driver. The likelihood of a college student driving drunk also significantly increases once they hit the legal drinking age. Because of these ever present dangers of those who get behind the wheel of a car drunk, law enforcement officials are doing whatever they can to catch those who are breaking the law and placing both themselves and others on the road at risk.

If you have been arrested for drunk driving, do not hesitate in contacting a DUI attorney in your area, because it could be a matter of your future. Depending on the field of study you are in as a college student, if you are arrested for a DUI and convicted there are programs that will not allow you to continue and it can harm your ability to participate in various things later on in life. Take these arrests seriously, and contact a defense lawyer immediately.