DDS searches for
designated home
■The campus group has
been sharing the ASUO
Executive’s office but will
need new space this fall
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
Almost a month after the Des
ignated Driver Shuttle moved its
operations into the ASUO Exec
utive office following an attack
on a dispatcher, the DDS staff
and ASUO leaders are still look
ing for a new permanent home
for the popular program.
ASUO President Jay Breslow
said DDS can continue to share
the ASUO’s office space over the
summer, but will have to find a
new home after that.
“We’ll probably have to figure
something else out come fall
time,” Breslow said.
Former ASUO Vice President
Mitra Anoushiravani had invit
ed DDS to set up a temporary of
fice in the ASUO Executive of
fice in the EMU after the attack.
A dispatcher working a night
shift was alone in the shuttle’s
former office in EMU Suite 20
when an unidentified male hit a
hole through the office’s only
window. He stared at the DDS
employee for several seconds be
fore running away.
While the dispatcher was not
hurt during the incident, the at
tack was the latest in a series of
frightening encounters with the
public that DDS employees had
experienced and it sparked co
director Brian Wise’s decision to
move to a safer work environ
ment.
Breslow said he plans to help
DDS find a permanent office.
Sharing the ASUO Executive of
fice has not been a problem in
the past weeks, he said, and will
work over the summer while
some of the ASUO’s staff will be
gone. But Breslow also said the
current arrangement is not a
long-term solution.
DDS will continue to operate
regularly during the summer,
said DDS dispatcher Renee Bed
ney, a junior majoring in journal
ism. Bedney said DDS would
like to share office space with a
student group that does not use
the space during DDS operating
hours, which are from 10 p.m. to
3 a.m. seven days a week.
“This EMU is packed to the
brim and the waiting list for
Time line
April BO A passenger rid ing the
DDS van pulls a gun on DDS driver
and navigator when he wants the
van to stop
May2An unidentified male
punches hole through the window
of the DDS office and stares at DDS
dispatcher
May 4 DDS moves into the ASUO
Executive office in the EMU
May 30 DOS is still sharing the
space of the ASUO Executive off ice
and is looking for a permanent lo
cation for its office
DDS Summer Hours
During the summer the shuttle
will continue to operate from 10
p.m. to 3 a.m. seven days a week
space is a mile long,” she said.
Bedney said it has been chal
lenging sharing the ASUO Exec
utive’s office, but so far it has
worked and each group has re
spected the other’s space.
“ASUO hasn’t given us the
boot,” she said.
ASUO Vice President Holly
Magner said that although EMU
space is limited, she is confident
that the ASUO will be able to
help DDS find suitable office
space that meets the shuttle’s
needs as far as hours and access
•go.
“Our biggest concern is that
they need to be in a safe place
with outside access,” Magner
said. “I’m sure we’ll find some
thing somehow.”
Anoushiravani said the EMU
Board is making an effort to help
DDS find a new permanent
home and although space is lim
ited, she said she is confident
there will be a solution by fall
term.
“There really isn’t much of an
option,” she said.
While she said that sharing
the office with DDS during the
last few weeks of her term as
ASUO vice president did not
cause any problems, the ASUO
Executive office is not designed
to be shared by several groups.
“It’s been OK, but I think it
definitely cramps everybody’s
style,” she said. “It’s fine for a
short time, but it’§ definitely not
the place to have another stu
dent group.”
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