Pack football: MADD: 'They're not getting it.'
By Dan Hinxman
"There is only one way to explain how three Nevada football players can be arrested for DUI in a 24-hour period, and then two more can get locked up for the same offense in the following months, Laurel Stadler said."
"'They're not getting it,' said the Nevada director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. 'The crime of DUI is pervasive in our society, and that is evidenced by the approximately 300 or more people who are sentenced each month in the Truckee Meadows. For there to be five out of however many there are on a football team is a huge percentage...'"
"Stadler, a volunteer with MADD since 1990, is more concerned about what's being done to curb such behavior rather than what's being done afterward..."
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