By Selena Stevens

A highlight event will be "Reality Check," in which students don "fatal vision" goggles that impair vision in ways similar to alcohol intoxication.

Oct. 22, 2001 (Lexington, Ky.) -- University of Kentucky students will observe the 18th annual National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week this week.

Student can attend lectures, sporting events and recreational activities - all 100 percent alcohol free - to prove that college students can have good times without drinking.

A highlight event during the week will be "Reality Check" sponsored by The CAUSE - UK's College Alcohol Use Student Educators - and UK Police and held Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Rose Street across from the Chemistry/Physics Building, between the parking structure and the Mining and Minerals Building. During this event, students put on "fatal vision goggles," which impair vision in ways similar to alcohol.