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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1995)
New shuttle service operating Amy Columbo O«gort l%<a*v f trwakJ Friday night will mark (ho maiden voyage. no (o sjieak. for the University’s designated dri ver shuttle Really, it's the old .S/iferide van with a fresh coot of white paint The program is designed to serve ns an alternative to drink ing and driving. The van is to let used ns a last resort for University students who need a ride home from a licensed drinking establishment The van will operate from 0 j> in til l a m on 1 r:■ t.»s .on! Saturday nights for the rest of the term The van will pn k stu dents up at liars and deliver them to their doorsteps within a 10 mile radius of i ampus Hides are »vliable to both men and women Students must present a valid University identification card to use the service "We don’t encourage extes sive drinking and we really want to encourage responsibili ty.” said Hill Washburn, props ! coordinator of the designated driver program. The project includes an edu cational component to advocate the responsible consumption of alcohol The von is only half of the props t Washburn said the pro ject will also include work shops in the residence halls ami the grts-k system on drinking responsibly Funds for the designated dri The University * designated driver shuttle will make Its maiden voyage Friday night The bu* will run from Friday and Saturday nights ver shuttle were provided by a sjvm lal request of more than $3,(KX) from this Student Senate, a Sri(H) contribution from the lame County chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and b commitment from the University administration to pay for lire cost of advertise ments and posters The van was donated by Safende and the Office of Public Safety paid $ sot) to pain! the van. "I feel like the one place where men had a legitimate beef with Safende was when they were drunk, so Saferide felt like it was a great thing to support a program," said jen Reed, interim director of the Designated Driver Shuttle and former co-director of Saferule Thoms wsl! be a driver ami a navigator in the van at alt times The |H«itions pay S'* 50 an hour and shifts am six hours long The van is con needed via radio to a dispatcher at all times Dispatch positions pay $4.75 an hour Reed said students in the van an* paid more because they " ill have to deal with drunk people and they have to lx* prepared. If students are interested in driving or dispatching for the designated driver shuttle they can contac t Ri*ed or Washburn Tin* designated driver shuttle service can lx* reached at :mi> ;tHHH Basket found near coast indicates prior earthquake Brian Womack You could say they dug up wmc evident e For the past 10 voars or so, scientists have been digging around the coastal areas of Oregon for evident e of past earthquakes in this region They finally hit the (at kpot at Nehalem Hay Geologists from the U.S Geologic al Servo t*s found a i(K) year-old basket left in the area of the Tillamook Indians, whe i, pros tded further proof of earthquakes m Oregon's his tory Het ause the basket was found submerged in so much water, it suggested an earth quake had tx < aired. The sea level has been rising for thou sands of \e.trs now. ami dis covering a Iwsket intact indl tales a tsunami caused the msi lesel to rise abruptly Although it s obviously not in [xirfet t condition, the lias ket is still a significant find “Things like this are just never preserved at sites in western Oregon.'* said Thomas Connolly, chief archaeologist • It the t Ini vanity *t Museum of Natural History The basket was able to be preserved beuuise it was sub merged below the water line “It adds to the body of evi dence we have for the earth quakes, hut it is also interest •«* T A, if Mr** * *M to. f "-fX) Geologists think this basket Is proof of a large earthquake ing because it inserts the human element {into the earthquakes!." Connolly said. After the conifer-made bas ket was found. Connolly and Rit k Minor, an archaeologist, examined it. "The weaving tor hnique and materials wen* very typ ical of a basket from tin* area {around Nehalem Bay)," ('.on noily said. 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