Student leader charged with drunken driving

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. – Bloomsburg University’s student government president was charged with drunken driving just weeks after saying the media has unfairly portrayed students as irresponsible.

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.

A breath test showed Bevan’s blood-alcohol level was .147 percent, authorities said. The legal limit for drivers in Pennsylvania is .08 percent.

Bevan recently wrote a letter to the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg complaining about media coverage of the central Pennsylvania college’s annual Block Party, an event critics have described as rowdy and alcohol-fueled.