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App to help partiers
'Stay in the Blue'
Students develop
app with UHS
to promote safe
drinking
By LIANA ROSENBLOOM
Daily StaffReporter
Stayingsafe during a night out?
There's an app for that.
LSA senior Steve Coffey is
one of three students working
to develop a "Stay in the Blue"
mobile application in partner-
ship with the University Health
System's alcohol safety program.
Beta testing began March 15, and
the app is expected to be available
for download by the end of the
semester.
Coffey previously worked with
UHS on a project for Filmic Pro-
ductions for the "Stay in the Blue"
program, and thought the app
would be a beneficial addition.
He also contacted another Filmic
Productions member, LSA senior
Roddy Hyduk, to help with design
and marketing.
"We're interested in tying the
message and the brandingctogeth-
er because the whole goal of both
pieces isto stay in the blue," Cof-
fey said.
Coffey said while he enjoyed
making videos and doing other
promotions for UHS, he's excited
for atangible, interactive product.
The app, which is still in devel-
opment, uses gender, weight,
drink variety and drink quantity
to calculate blood alcohol con-
centration over a given period of
time.
Users open the application and
are prompted to entertheir weight
and gender. They are then directed
to a beer-bottle-shaped gauge that
will monitor their drink intake.
LSA junior Jennifer Angell,
who worked with Coffey on the
project, said the idea started last
fall when they were given the
class assignment to develop a
smartphone app.
Once the user hits "Start,"
they can select from a list of
drinks that ranges from wine
and beer to local restaurant
specialty drinks. Each time the
user tells the app they've taken
anothrer drink it ecalculates
their BAC. As BAC increases,
the gauge adjusts - beginning
in the "blue," moving into "the
maize" and ultimately into "the
red." As time passes, the app
will appropriately adjust the
BAC level as alcohol dissipates.
The app also has a link to the
ToDoInA2 website, as well as a
list of names and phone numbers
of six popular Ann Arbor cab
companies. Angell said when it's
officially released, it will be free
to download. She hopes it will be
incorporated into the University's
existing smartphone application.
Nursing junior Shelby Epstine
is one of the beta testers for the
application. She used the app on
Saturday and said she had a good
experience.
"It would definitely be some-
thingbthat I would promote in the
Greek community as a good way
to have in your hand your level
of alcohol and when you need to
slow down, or when you are at a
good pace," Epstine said.
Angell and Coffey both said
they are looking forward to get-
ting feedback from the 30 beta
testers over the next few weeks.
They hope the app was used dur-
ing St. Patrick's Day celebrations
and that they will be able to make
even more improvements in the
weeks to come.
Hyduk said there is still alot of
work to be done with the inter-
face design and marketing of the
app, but he's excited to continue
perfecting the project.
Hyduk said he thinks in order
for programs such as "Stay in the
Blue" to be effective, students
need to play an active role in their
promotion.
"I think it's important that
students are involved in produc-
ing this content and delivering
this messaging," he said. "With-
out a student voice in this work,
it's really hard to drive home this
kind of messaging."
Hyduk added that he is glad
to be a part of bringing this new
smartphone app technology
together with an important Uni-
versity program.
"I think this project is kind of
the pinnacle of what a student
could deliver for the program
because it is so cutting edge," he
said.
Marsha Benz, an alcohol and
other drug educator at UHS, ini-
tially helped to develop the "Stay
in the Blue" campaign.
"I absolutely love it when stu-
dents come to us," Benz said.
"The more students own 'Stay in
the Blue' and make it their own,
it's going to get out to students
better. It's coming from students
for students, and I think it is just
brilliant."
-Charlotte Jenkins
contributed reporting.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, second right, walks across the tarmac of Baghdad International Airport as he prepares
to board an aircraft out of the Iraqi capital Sunday.
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BAGHDAD (AP) - Just days
after the 10th anniversary of
the U.S. invasion of Iraq, U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry
confronted Baghdad for con-
tinuing to grant Iran access
to its airspace and said Iraq's
behavior was raising questions
about its reliability as a part-
ner.
Speaking to reporters dur-
ing a previously unannounced
trip to Baghdad, Kerry said that
he and Iraqi Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki had engaged in
"a very spirited discussion" on
the Iranian flights, which U.S.
officials believe are ferrying
weapons and fighters intended
for the embattled Syrian gov-
ernment.
Kerry said the plane ship-
ments - along with material
being trucked across Iraqi ter-
ritory from Iran to Syria -
were helping President Bashar
Assad's regime cling to power
by increasing their ability to
strike at Syrian rebels and
opposition figures demanding
Assad's ouster.
"I made it very clear that for
those of us who are engaged in
an effort to see President Assad
step down and to see a demo-
cratic process take hold ... any-
thing that supports President
Assad is problematic," Kerry
said at a news conference at the
U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after
meeting separately with Maliki
at his office. "And I made it very
clear to the Prime Minister that
the overflights from Iran are, in
fact, helping to sustain Presi-
dent Assad and his regime."
The overflights in Iraq have
long been a source of conten-
tion between the U.S. and Iraq.
Iraq and Iran claim the flights
are carrying humanitarian
goods, but American officials
say they are confident that the
planes are being used to arm
the support the Assad regime.
The administration is warning
Iraq that unless action is taken,
Iraq will be excluded from the
international discussion about
Syria's political future.
U.S. officials say that in the
absence of a complete ban on
flights, Washington would at
least like the planes to land and
be inspected in Iraq to ensure
that they are carrying humani-
tarian supplies. Former Secre-
tary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton secured a pledge from
Iraq to inspect the flights last
year, but since then only two
aircraft have been checked by
Iraqi authorities, according to
U.S. officials.
One senior U.S. official trav-
eling with Kerry said the sheer
number of overflights, which
occur "close to daily," along
with shipments trucked to
Syria from Iran through Iraq,
was inconsistent with claims
they are only carrying humani-
tarian supplies. The official
said it was in Iraq's interest to
prevent the situation in Syria
from deteriorating further,
particularly as there are fears
that al-Qaida-linked extrem-
ists may gain a foothold in the
country as the Assad regime
falters.
The official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity because
the official was not autho-
rized to speak publicly on the
matter, said there are, clear
links between al-Qaida linked
extremists operating in Syria
and militants who are also car-
rying out terrorist attacks in
Iraqi territory with increasing
regularity.
Kerry's comments in Bagh-
dad come as U.S. lawmakers
are calling for President Barack
Obama to do more to stop the
bloodshed in Syria, includ-
ing possible airstrikes against
Assad's aircraft fleet.
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