DUI Charge Comes After Pa. College Student Complained About Media Coverage
POSTED: 10:53 am CDT September 16, 2007
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. -- Just weeks after saying the media had unfairly portrayed students as irresponsible, Bloomsburg University's student government president has been charged with drunken driving.
Christopher Bevan, 21, was pulled over last weekend after a campus police officer said he saw the student driving more than 50 mph in a 15-mph zone.
Authorities said a breath test showed Bevan's blood-alcohol level was .147 percent. Pennsylvania's legal limit for drivers is .08 percent. Bevan was charged with driving under the influence, driving at an unsafe speed and careless driving.
Bevan recently wrote a letter to the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg about media coverage of the central Pennsylvania college's annual Block Party, which have described as rowdy and alcohol-fueled.
The stories have "painted BU students with a broad and negative brush and are both inaccurate and extremely unfair to the thousands of responsible, mature Bloomsburg students who are an asset to the school and this community," Bevan wrote.
Bevan has declined to say if he would step down from his position.
