University of Iowa's 'Vodka Samm' to be featured on '20/20'

A University of Iowa student who became known as “Vodka Samm” will be featured Friday on ABC's 20/20 after garnering national attention in August with a series of Tweets following her arrest at Kinnick Stadium.

A summary of the program, scheduled to air at 9 p.m. on KCRG TV-9, gives this description: “This past Labor Day weekend, 22-year-old Samantha Goudie gained notoriety – and a lot of Twitter followers – after being arrested for public intoxication at a University of Iowa football game and then drunk Tweeting about her exploits and frighteningly high blood alcohol content from jail using her Twitter handle, Vodka Samm.”

Goudie, according to UI police, was arrested at 1:21 p.m. Aug. 31 after trying to enter the field during the Hawkeyes' home opener. She was reportedly “unsteady on her feet,” and officers reported her blood alcohol content at .341 – more than four times the legal limit.

After her release, Goudie wrote a series of Tweets, including, “Just went to jail,” “Blew a .341 in jail,” and “I'm going to get .341 tattooed on me because its so epic.”

Goudie's Tweets went viral, and her story ended up in dozens of media outlets – including the Huffington Post, the New York Post and Deadspin. She was labeled by some as the “world's drunkest college student.”

One company made a T-shirt mocking the incident, and UI President Sally Mason responded, telling the Des Moines Register, “That's not who we are.”

Following the incident, the number of people following Goudie on Twitter jumped from 2,000 to more than 20,000 before she deleted her account.

In her first public interview about the incident last month, Goudie told The Daily Iowan, “I care about my life … I didn't come to college to drink and be ‘Vodka Samm.'”