Hopefully, some students are thinking twice after “Dead Day” was held in the King Memorial Commons yesterday.

Dead Day, which was sponsored by Greeks Advocating the Mature Management of Alcohol (GAMMA), was held to promote alcohol awareness on campus, said Stacey Hagemeyer, in charge of public relations for GAMMA.

Erin McKendry, a junior pre-health major and member of GAMMA said, “People don’t realize what can happen in one night.”

Hagemeyer said every 5.4 minutes someone was pulled aside and told that they died today in an alcohol-related accident. Their names were then written on a tombstone located on the hill in the commons, and they were given a black ribbon signifying their participation in Dead Day, Hagemeyer said.

She said the first 65 people who died were randomly selected from the phone book, and their names were written on the tombstones. The reason for this, she said, was to get people to ask what was going on.

Justin Green, a junior English major and member of Alpha Kappa Lambda, said he was shocked when someone came up to him and said he was dead. “I didn’t know what to expect. They wrote my name on a tombstone, and I received a black ribbon symbolizing I had died.”

Hagemeyer said that the commons was the most effective area to reach the largest number of students to promote alcohol awareness.

“We’ve been out here since 8 a.m., and Dead Day has been going fantastic,” Hagemeyer said. “People have been approaching us asking what we’re doing.”

Hagemeyer said they’ve had a lot of positive reactions from faculty and students. She added that Dead Day was a great way to promote alcohol awareness on campus.

Paula Wester, a junior corporate communications major and a member of GAMMA, said, “I think alcohol awareness is really an important issue. I believe by visually portraying alcohol awareness to people, they’ll be more aware of what’s going on.”