On college football game days, efforts to deter binge drinking

By Pat Borzi

"Shortly before the kickoff of the Minnesota-Illinois college football game at the new TCF Bank Stadium this month, two Minnesota students - one male, one female - slipped into an unmarked entrance about five minutes apart. They dressed appropriately for the unseasonably warm and sunny day, in short-sleeve maroon-and-gold Gophers attire. And they greeted Amy Barsness, a university official, like an old friend."

"Then Barsness offered each of them something an old friend usually does not offer: a small, rectangular box with a straw. A Breathalyzer. ..."

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