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An independent newspaper
Volume 100, Issue 63
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
IDs to double as debit cards
Campus Cash will allow
students to carry> a balance on
their cards that can be used in
the EMU and other locations
By Peter Breaden
Oregon Daily Emerald
The sound of a pocket jingling full of
arcade-bound quarters will soon be re
placed by the silent efficiency of Campus
Cash, the new University debit card.
With the swipe of the new card, a variety
of EMU services will be accessible to stu
dents, faculty and staff.
At the beginning of winter term 1999,
the UO Card Office, located downstairs
in the EMU, will begin issuing new ID
cards encoded with a debit card feature.
The new cards will carry a same-as
cash balance that can be used at the EMU
ticket office, craft center, recreation cen
ter, convenience store and EMU food ser
vices and food
service cates in
the Knight Li
brary, Lawrence
Hall and
Willamette Hall.
In several
months, video
games in the
EMU Recreation
Center and
vending ma
chines will be
equipped to take
the card.
“If you have
(( Every place
that you can
use it ivill have
a big sign. We
want to make it
as convenient
as possible. ”
Lee LaTour
EMU marketing coordinator
in tne Dank
and $20 on your card, you’re probably
going to go to the EMU and use your
card,” said Student Senator Jessica Tim
pany, who helped test the new card as an
EMU board member.
The Campus Cash system was installed
during last year’s large-scaled EMU reno
vations. The $200,000 installation paid
for new cash registers, the computer in
terface used to encode the cards and a
new check-in system for Physical Activi
ties and Recreation Services.
To open an account, people may sign a
cardholder agreement and disclosure
statement in the Card Office. Room 12,
downstairs in the EMU. There also will
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While one student pays for coffee with cash, another student, participating in a pilot program for a Univer
sity-wide Campus Cash program, buys coffee using her University ID at The Buzz cafe in the EMU.
Bike bridge
to be named
for DeFazio
The naming is in appreciation
of the representative's help in
securing funds for the Ferry>
Street Bridge improvements
By David Ryan
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Eugene City Council voted unani
mously on Wednesday to name the Ferry
Street bicycle bridge, which has not yet
been completed, the DeFazio Bike Bridge.
The new suspension bicycle bridge will
connect pedestrian and bicycle traffic on
the west side of the Willamette to Alton
Baker Park. It is scheduled to be complet
ed in 1999.
Ruth Bascom, former mayor of Eugene,
originally asked the council earlier this
month to change the bridge's name in ap
preciation of Rep. Peter DeFazio’s help in
securing $23.7 million in federal funds for
the $30 million cost of improving the Fer
ry Street Bridge Corridor, which includes
the Ferry Street Bridge upgrade.
Earlier this month, DeFazio was reelect
ed as the congressional representative for
the local House district.
"I believe that his commitment and con
tributions to our community should be rec
ognized by this important symbolic ac
tion,” Bascom wrote in a letter to the
council earlier this month.
Although the vote was unanimous, some
council members needed coaxing, espe
cially Councilwoman Betty Taylor.
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Campaigns hope to discourage students from drunken driving
■ Minimum drinking age laws have saved ap
proximately 16,513 lives since 1975.
M Approximately three out of five people will
be affected by an alcohol-related crash at some
point in their lives.
■ In the past decade, four times as many
Americans have died in drunken driving
crashes as were killed during the Vietnam
War.
Source; National HlgtwayTrafflc and Safely Administration
Young adults age 21-34 have
the highest risk of driving drunk,
especially during the holidays
By Sarah Skidmore
Oregon Daily Emerald
Despite many national campaigns to curb
drunk driving, college students are still
choosing to drive after consuming alcohol.
According to a 1998 University Student
Health Center Survey, 10.3 percent of Uni
versity students have chosen to drive after
consuming three or more alcoholic drinks.
“There is a common delusion that if you
just act more carefully when you are drunk,
it will be OK. That misconception has really
negative implications for innocent by
standers and the drivers,” said Annie
Dochnahl, health educator at the Health
Center.
The holiday season, particularly Decem
ber, are a busy time for anti-drunk driving
campaigns. Many of these campaigns focus
on reducing the number of young adult
drunken drivers.
Nationally, young adults are drinking at
an alarming rate, said Charlie Durrant, of
fice manager for the Lane County Chapter of
Mothers Against Drunk Driving. If all the
beer consumed by all of America’s college
students were stacked end on end, the cans
would reach the moon and surpass it by
70,000 miles, according to MADD.
However, progress has been made, ac
cording to statistics. The number of young
people killed in drunken-driving crashes
went down in 1997, according to the Na
tional Highway Traffic and Safety Adminis
tration.
“There is still work to be done, that is for
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