HURSDAY NOVfMBtR 16 1995 INDEX Editorial 2 Letters 3 News 4 Sports Classifieds Crossword 11 O eak w ithout , skirting the issues that affect students > - WEATHER C lt>ut/\ with scattered shower* Ht^h near AO. Smokers snuff out tobacco for today ■ SMOKING: Nationl event attempts to help addicts kick the nicotine habit By Jennifer Carter Student Activities Reporter It's a familiar scene on cam pus — people smoking on their way to class, people smoking while they drink their morning coffee, people smoking every where. Today. University smokers and smokers across the country are being asked to participate in the Great American Smokeout by not tuking a puff on a ciga rette all day. Lindall McIntyre, a peer health educator in the Student Health Center, said the event is an annu al. nation-wide event that focus es on educating smokers about the health risks associated with smoking and options to smoking. "The Smokeout is a good wav to put out information about the effects of smoking," she said. “It's a good day to stop smoking." Mi Inlyre and two other peer health educators are coordinat ing a Smokeout education table today m the EMU. Smokers can pick up information about end ing their habit and become a part Turn to SMOKING. Page 8 The Senate race vviII have a greater impat t on college students than some may think, ASUO president says By Marcelena Edwards Community CiMtx Many students at the University Ho not believe they have a personal ■stake in the upcoming mail-in bal lot election to fill the seat of for mer Sen Hob Packwood, the ASUO president said Hut lennifer Williamson, president for the student body at the University, wants students to know that viewpoint is wrong, students have a big stake in who con trols the vote from Oregon, The new state senator will he making dot isioris on financial aid. higher-educe lion funding and research money The t S Congress is making major cuts in funding that tamaHt post secondary education. Turn to VOTE Page 7 UNIVERSITY of OREGON UAIW IN WIN CHWafnwHl Grasping food with hand, Noella Valente. a freshman English major, participates In the National Oxfam Benefit Banquet at Chi Omega Wednesday night. The fund raising will help the homeieea in Eugene Sorority hosts a banquet for hungry ■ EVENT: OSPIRG and Chi Omega team up to raise public awareness By Jennifer Carter ShKkttM AcPvrfitf* About 50 people gathered togelhei in ttit: dining room of Chi Omega Sorority Wednesday night to do something many people don't usually get to do — eat. Hut what these people ate and the ways they ate it demonstrate t*d a lot about those pimple who go hungry in America and around the globe everyday. The banquet was designed bv OSPIRG in conjunction with National Hunger and Homeless ness Awareness Week to demonstrate the disparity between the amount of fixal pro duced and the amount of people who receive it. Julia Stands, QSI’lRli's com in it tee chairperson for home lessness and hunger, said the dinner visually t«a< hes people about hunger on a glottal level "It gives us all idea of how things are really going on it) the world,” she said. Banquet participants ait; divided into three groups: Tile wealthy eat gourmet meals on u regular basis, the middle and lower class people eat mediocre meals like beans and rice regu larly. and the poor eat a howl of rice, in many cases a cause for celebration In the sorority's dining room, people were divided into these groups by where they sat and how they ate: at a table with sil verwaru, in chairs with forks or on the floor with their fingers The separation between the wealthy and the non-wealthy became apparent even before they ate their meals, Cheryl Crurnhley. the market ing coordinator for Food for Lane County, talked before the dinner guests about Eugene's growing hunger problem "Who's hungry In Lune Coun ty is very much like who is him gry around the U S ," she said "It's not unemployment that's the problem, it's underemplov men!.'' Crurnhley said Food furlame County provides food to thou sands of families each month Sfie said 75 peri on I of these poo pie have at least one working family member and that many are dual-income families. Mora people an also looking for f«K)d assistance because gov ernment programs are being cut, she said. The United States Department of Agriculture com Turn to EVENT, Page 8