"Towards the end of the night, it gets a little sloppy," says GUARD Dogs student volunteer dispatcher Amy Lockmiller.

She is sitting on a small couch in the student ride organization's single-room office on the first floor of Wilson Hall. A phone in her lap rings every few minutes.

"Hello, GUARD Dogs," says Lockmiller, picking up the phone. "You are in Carriage [House Apartments]? Where do you want to go? She doesn't know where she wants to go!"

"It takes them time to answer questions," Lockmiller said. "You ask them where they are going, and they don't know."

GUARD Dogs is intended to provide students with rides home on two of the big party nights, Friday and Saturday. GUARD stands for Giving UConn A Responsible Driver. On this night, only two of the four vans the program has rented are on the roads, because of a lack of volunteer drivers. The dispatchers sometimes take the phone off the hook, because the vans are both busy.

GUARD Dogs is different from the UConn Police Department's Husky Watch student escort program, because GUARD Dogs will pick up students who have been drinking. Husky Watch has a policy of not picking up students who have been drinking.

"It is a good cause," said student volunteer dispatcher Jill Huber. "I think everyone should have a sober ride. There should not be any drunk driving on campus. They should have a bus. We just had Carlee Wines. Do you want people to die again?"

Wines, a UConn student, was killed while crossing North Eagleville Road on campus by convicted hit-and-run driver Anthony Alvino. Alvino had come from a party where people were drinking, and some of his passengers were drunk, but because he fled the crash scene he could not be tested for alcohol consumption.

"We don't do this to make ourselves out to be holier than thou," Huber said. "We party like anybody else. I'm not an advocate of not drinking. I'm an advocate of safe drinking."