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Four representatives from the University’s 11 member chapter attended the four day convention: Jim Ransier, Brad Dunshee, Adam Lutzow and Brian Myers. “It was such a positive experi ence," said Ransier, President of the Eugene chapter. “It was all about leadership, brotherhood, friendship, giving your time to others and helping out.” About 30 chapters from across the nation attended the conven tion, which was hosted by the At lanta chapter. The convention was comprised of workshops and activities. At the workshops, members dis cussed strategies for increasing membership, maintaining mem bership, fostering leadership and effective fund raising. In addition, a workshop was held to encourage safe sex in the gay community. But for Ransier and his other fraternity brothers, the most mem orable part of the trip were the ac tivities. “None of us had ever been to Atlanta before,” said Ransier. “We saw the city, went to Centennial Park and did the whole tourist thing.” The “tourist thing” also includ ed a visits to the Coca-Cola muse um and the CNN center. While the Eugene chapter chose not to at tend a trip to Six Flags, it was a popular item on the itinerary. Members also attended a ban quet at the Carter Presidential Center. “It was a really nice, formal event,” Ransier said. “Everyone dressed up.” At the end of every day’s activi ties, members went to clubs, often finding themselves amongst their fraternity brothers. “We spent a lot of our time get ting to know the national people, meeting names with faces we had been reading forever,” said Dun shee, one of the founders of the Eugene chapter. . “We came home really ener gized,” said Ransier, who is now ecIt was such a positive experience. It was all about leadership, brotherhood, friendship, giving your time to others and helping out. Jim Ransier UO Delta Lambda Phi President eager to work on increasing mem bership and helping start a chap ter in Seattle. Ransier is also working with Delta Lambda Phi alumnus En rique Andrade to reestablish a Portland chapter. Members at the convention dis cussed possible locations for next year’s convention. So far, Min neapolis and Washington D.C. are the main contenders. Wherever next year’s convention is held, Ransier and Dunshee plan to at tend. “It was really a unifying experi ence,” said Dunshee. The University’s chapter has been in existence since April 1996. The Eugene chapter is the only Delta Lambda Phi chapter in the Pacific Northwest. LTD to implement scanning procedures ■ BUSES: Though the new identification cards do not have term stickers, officials warn graduates against using them for bus service By Carl Yeh Associate Editor Students who have recently graduated may want to think twice about using their University ID to ride LTD buses for free. Just because the new ID cards that were issued last fall do not have the term stickers, which prevented non-current students from getting free bus service in the past, doesn’t mean that people can get away with it. “One of the things we’re looking into doing are ‘spot checks’ with handheld scanners," said Andy Vobora, service planning and marketing manager. “We would have fare checkers that would come on the buses randomly. Under current Eugene ordi nances, they can fine people up to $250 and confis cate their card.” However, Vobora said, “We’re not interested in do ing a lot of fines or confiscating cards, but finding out how bad the problem is.” Eventually, LTD may retrofit all of the fare boxes in the boxes with scanners. “We’re watching the technology,” Vobora said. “We have in our budget to retrofit all of the fare boxes sometime in 1999. 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