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UNG joins movement to stop texting while driving

Sallie Sorohan, right, speaks with Lisa Lemay, left, and other University of North Georgia students Thursday at Drive 4 Pledges Day, an event held at the Dahlonega campus to persuade students not to text while driving. Sorohan lost her grandson, Caleb Sorohan, to a texting and driving incident in 2009. Sorohan was a student at then-North Georgia College & State University. - photo by Carly Sharec

0920texting1 — Sallie Sorohan, right, speaks with Lisa Lemay, left, and other University of North Georgia students Thursday at Drive 4 Pledges Day, an event held at the Dahlonega campus to persuade students not to text while driving. Sorohan lost her grandson, Caleb Sorohan, to a texting and driving incident in 2009. Sorohan was a student at then-North Georgia College & State University. - photo by Carly Sharec

“No text is worth dying for.” That was the message repeated by President Bonita Jacobs and others Thursday at the University of North Georgia’s participation in Drive 4 Pledges Day. Thursday would have been Caleb Sorohan’s 22nd birthday.