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LTD conducting rider study
■ The transit district will
determine where student
bus ridership is heaviest
By Jessica Blanchard
Oregon Daily Emerald
It may take a little longer for
students to get on the bus this
term, but a little extra time now
may mean shorter lines at bus
stops next year.
Lane Transit District began a
study Monday to determine when
University students, faculty and
staff ride the LTD buses in an ef
fort to improve bus service to the
University community.
Until the study ends March 31,
students along certain routes will
be asked to swipe their student
identification cards in a scanner
as they get on the bus.
The scanner’s counts will be
downloaded each night by LTD
and sent to the University, where
the results will be put into a data
base and analyzed to determine
ridership patterns.
While some students might be
worried about privacy issues,
Michelle Geschke, a marketing
representative for LTD, said the
scanners are merely counting de
vices and no personal student in
formation will be collected.
The point of the study is to de
termine how many University
students are utilizing their bus
passes, and when and where the
high-demand routes are, she said.
“This will allow us to track a
little better which routes students
are riding,” said Rand Stamm, the
University parking and trans
portation manager. “Then we can
look at that transportation infor
mation and look at how to im
prove services.”
“We just want to make sure that
it’s worthwhile [for students] and
that they’re getting the service
they need,” Geschke said.
The study might be a minor in
convenience for some students,
but in the end, they’ll benefit, said
ASUO Vice President Mitra
Anoushiravani. The results of the
study will give the ASUO a better
idea of how many students are us
ing their bus passes, which will
give them more leverage when
bargaining with LTD for future
bus service contracts.
While LTD has been doing rid
ership studies for years, the scan
ners and student identification
cards are new technology that
LTD officials hope will help
speed up the process and improve
its accuracy.
“We finally have the technolo
gy to track who’s using the service
and on what routes,” Geschke
said. “So far, it seems to be work
ing out very well.”
Health center fills empty positions
■ A doctor and a nurse
practitioner join the staff
of the health center
By Ben Romano
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University Health Center
has found replacements for two
practitioners who left in fall of
1999.
Dr. Ben Douglas, a Family Prac
tice Board certified family practi
tioner and Marjorie McDaniel, a
family nurse practitioner, will fill
the health center staff openings,
said Dr. Gerald Fleischli, health
center director.
Douglas is replacing Dr.
William Disher, who retired from
the health center last September
after 12 years of service. Disher,
who was a women’s health spe
cialist, will continue to work one
day a week to follow up on his pa
tients, Fleischli said.
Douglas earned his medical de
gree from the University of Mis
sissippi in 1985. He went on to a
University of California, Davis
program to finish his residency
training in 1988.
Douglas worked in private
practice and the 12-bed Seneca
Hospital in Chester, Calif., before
moving to Eugene four years ago.
He has worked in the emergency
room and assisted in surgery in
addition to his general medical re
sponsibilities.
“We are fortunate to have peo
ple who have had this kind of ex
perience,” Fleischli said.
McDaniel, who began at the
health center Jan. 4, is replacing
Katheryn Brown, who left for the
Peace Corps last October. After
spending 15 years as a registered
nurse, McDaniel returned to Uni
versity of Texas, Austin to earn a
master’s degree and become a
family nurse practitioner.
The major difference between a
registered nurse and a nurse prac
titioner is the ability to write pre
scriptions for medication A nurse
practitioner can diagnose and
treat a variety of acute and chron
ic problems. Advanced training
allows nurse practitioners “to do
80 percent of what a physician
does,” McDaniel said.
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