IDS editor in chief arrested for driving while intoxicated

Indiana Daily Student Editor in Chief Adam VanOsdol was arrested early Saturday morning on charges of driving while intoxicated. \nVanOsdol, 20, was booked into Monroe County Jail at 1:03 a.m. with bond set at $500 surety and $500 cash. He said he was initially pulled over for not having his headlights on.\n"I regret the decisions that led to me getting behind the wheel Friday night," VanOsdol said. "I am ashamed and prepared to deal with the consequences." \nIDS Publisher Dave Adams said VanOsdol did not work at the paper Sunday and will face a tough road to overcome his legal troubles. \n"When I realized the name and the age and that is was Adam, and I just thought I better call him and tell him I'm sorry this happened and make sure he's okay," Adams said. "We talked about the need for him to recuse himself from editor (Sunday) and that we should cover this as aggressively as we would other student leaders involved in similar situations. I think he's learned a very tough lesson, and my guess is all this won't be put behind him as easily as one might think."\nAdams said he's confident VanOsdol will be treated just like any student leader in a similar situation. \n"We have had other staffers -- certainly not as high as editor -- who have appeared on the IUPD blotter or the BPD blotter," he said. "Different staffs treat these different ways, but I think it's important to make sure what we do to other student leaders is also done to our own when they run afoul of the law."\nA BPD shift supervisor did not return phone messages Sunday night.\n-- Contact campus editor Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.