Spring break — when students go wild (here are photos to prove it)
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Spring break is a time when hedonism runs rampant. Here is what it has looked like in the past for University of Arizona students and others.
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Anheuser Busch Marketing Rep Alex Durazo, 25, from Los Angeles, poses for a photo with a group of teenagers from Chapparal High School in Scottsdale. Durazo was in Rocky Point, Mexico promoting Budweiser beer with the Budweiser Party Patrol. Photo by Jeffry Scott / Arizona Daily Star. Photo taken on 3/15/98.
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Dancing to a song which includes the lyrics: "let's have group sex" during a spring break binge at the Sunset Cantina in Rocky Point, Mexico. Photo by Jeffry Scott / The Arizona Daily Star Photo taken on 3/13/98.
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Katye Havens, 18, a student at Chapparal High School in Scottsdale, gets a temporary tattoo applied to her breast by Anheuser Busch Marketing Rep. Alex Durazo, 25. Durazo, a rep from Los Angeles was in Rocky Point, Mexico to promote Budweiser, which was just recently introduced to Mexico. His job, with the Budweiser Party Patrol, was to promote brand awareness and loyalty to the kids attending Spring Break. The ttatoos were applied with an ice-cube, which Durazo would place in his mouth. Photo by Jeffry Scott / The Arizona Daily Star
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Anheuser Busch Marketing Rep Alex Durazo, 25, from Los Angeles, seals a freshly applied temporary tattoo with a kiss onto 18-year-old spring breaker, Meagan Brenner, from Chapparal High School in Scottsdale. Durazo was in Rocky Point, Mexico promoting Budweiser beer with the Budweiser Party Patrol. Photo by Jeffry Scott / Arizona Daily Star. Photo taken on 3/15/98.
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Maggie VanBuhler, 21, takes a break from her UA studies for a shot of tequila at the Pink Cadillac bar in Rocky Point, Mexico. The molecular and cellular biology major said this is her second year going to Rocky Point for Spring Break. Photo by Jeffry Scott. . Photo taken on 3/14/98.
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Jeff Smith, 22, of Wyoming dances with 17-year-old Meagan (last name unavailable) who got into the Pink Cadillac bar with a fake ID during Spring Break 1998 in Rocky Point, Mexico. Photo by Jeffry Scott / The Arizona Daily Photo take 3/14/98
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Brittany Bennett, 18, of Paradise Valley, Ariz. and a student at Chapparal High School, gets a temporary tattoo placed on her breast by Anheuser Busch Marketing Rep. Alex Durazo, a 25-year-old from Los Angeles. Durazo placed an ice cube in his mouth to help stick the tatoo to the skin. He was in Rocky Point for spring break to help raise brand awareness. Photo by Jeffry Scott / The Arizona Daily Star Photo taken 3/15/98
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Cindy Lawn, 23, a Tempe waitress, gets her buns played like a bongo by a spring breaker in Rocky Point, Mexico. Lawn was at the Sunset Cantina dancing and enjoying herself during her first spring break visit. Photo Jeffry Scott / Arizona Daily Star. Photo taken on 3/14/98.
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Anheuser Busch Marketing Rep Alex Durazo, 25, from Los Angeles, applys a temporary tattoo onto a spring breaker from Chapparal High School in Scottsdale AZ. Durazo was in Rocky Point, Mexico promoting Budweiser beer with the Budweiser Party Patrol. Photo by Jeffry Scott. Photo taken on 3/15/98.
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Tim Harmon, 19, a student at Arizona State University and Alexis Burkett, 17, of Highland High School dance in the hormone infested air at the Pink Cadillac bar in Rocky Point, Mexico. The two were enjoying Spring Break. Photo by Jeffry Scott / Arizona Daily Star Photo taken on 3/14/98
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Jeff White, 19, of Tempe, and Nicole Smith, 17, cope with the wind at Rocky Garden Restaurant and Bar in Rocky Point, Mexico. Photo by Jeffry Scott / The Arizona Daily Star Photo taken on 3/13/98
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A contestant in the Sunrise Cantina's wet t-shirt contest didn't bother to wear the provided t-shirt before undoing her bikini top to the delight of the mostly male crowd of college students. Photo by Jeffry Scott / Arizona Daily Star. Photo taken on 3/14/98.
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Pink Cadillac. students in Rocky Point, Mexico, for Spring Break. Photo by Jeffry Scott / Arizona Daily Star Photo taken on 3/14/98
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Kiara Lange, 19, of Tucson dances on Campeche Street with David Haman, 24. Lange attends Pima Community College and Haman attends UA. The two were partying in Rocky Point, Mexico for Spring Break. Photo by Jeffry Scott / Arizona Daily Star Photo taken on 3/13/98
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Jacob Carrillo, 20, a student at Arizona State University dances at the Pink Cadillac in Rocky Point (taken sometime between 11:30 p.m. and 1:30a.m. on 3/16/01 and this woman did not want to give her name) (Tricia McInroy/Tucson Citizen)
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A spring breaker writhes in pain after slipping and falling on spilled beer at the Sunset Cantina in Rocky Point, Mexico. Photo by Jeffry Scott / Arizona Daily Star Photo taken on 3/14/98
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Anheuser Busch Marketing Rep Alex Durazo, 25, from Los Angeles, applies a temporary tattoo with an ice cube in his mouth to the bottom of a spring breaker from Chapparal High School in Scottsdale. Durazo was in Rocky Point, Mexico promoting Budweiser beer with the Budweiser Party Patrol. Photo by Jeffry Scott / Arizona Daily Star Photo taken on 3/15/98
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Graduate student Zohra Yaqub tries to cope with the disorienting effect of a pair of Fatal Vision goggles that simulate having a blood alcohol level of .07-.10 during the University of Arizona's Spring Break Safety Fair, Tucson, AZ ., Monday, Mar. 10, 2008 . The Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety and their "Beer Goggles" test were among the agencies with tables on the school's mall trying to caution the students before the start of spring break. Kelly Presnell /Arizona Daily Star
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