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I J I > I www.dailyemerald.com Wednesday An independent newspaper Feeling good Oregon volleyball picks up two straight wins and gains momentum for the home stretch. PAGE 7A Decisions, decisions Check out the myriad options on this year's ballot in the ODE Voter’s Guide. Inside Supplement October25,2000 Volume 102, Issue 41 Weather today high 57, low 45 The price was right Junior Minh Do, a exercise and movement science major, sits in one episode on in which he won will be shown Thursday at 10:00 A.M.. _an Brunei! Emerald previously-recorded University junior Minh Do spent his most recent birthday answering Bob Barker’s call to ‘come on down’ By Lisa Toth Oregon Daily Emerald When Minh Do heard the fa mous line, “Come on down,” he had no idea that Aug. 28 would be his best birthday ever — and end with a payoff of more than $50,000. Do, a junior exercise and movement science major, grew up watching “The Price is Right” with his brother and sis ters whenever the show was on television, but he never im aged he would one day be a contestant and win a Show case Showdown. The show airs at 10 a.m. Thursday on CBS. In August, Do drove to Los Angeles to stay with his sister, Phuong Do, for a week before she started school at Mary mount College in Rancho Palos Verdes. On their tour of Hollywood, they visited the set of the ABC television show “Politically In correct” with Bill Maher on Aug. 24. After making a few in quiries, they also got 10 tickets for “The Price is Right,” filmed at the CBS television studio. While none of their friends were interested in going with them to see the show, Do and his sister were determined to attend. But before they could get on the show, they waited in line for more than 10 hours, he said. “The producers interview everyone on the show,” Do said. “The contestants are not picked at random. The produc ers just have to like you.” Do said he told the produc ers he was a college student at the University of Oregon and he was training for an Iron Man Competition. “I think they liked my look,” Do said, who purposely wore an Oregon sweatshirt during the audition. Seated in an audience of 300 people, Do was the last of six contestants picked to play the games. “I was pretty positive about it,” he said. “I had a feeling I would get picked.” Do’s sister had a different re sponse. “When he got called up on stage, I had a delayed reac tion,” she said. “I saw him get up to walk on stage and then it dawned on me — my brother is on ‘The Price is Right.’ I started screaming. I was so ec static.” But from the minute he set foot on stage, Do said he wasn’t impressed by the national tele vision set. Turn to Price, page4A Political stars will rock EMU ■This week, political activists and musicians convene on the University By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald Political junkies, get ready for your fix. The next three days will be packed with performances and speakers telling students to vote — and who deserves the student vote. Feminist and author Gloria Steinem will speak Wednesday night. Then Thursday, former presidential candi date Bill Bradley and Xander Patterson, co-chair of the Pacific Green Party, are scheduled to speak on campus about the issues surrounding the November election. On Friday, Everclear will rock the EMU Amphitheater in a free show to promote student voting. Sen. Ron Wyden will also speak at the event. Steinem, the co-founder and con tributing editor of Ms. Magazine, will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the EMU Ballroom. She has been touring college campus es throughout the fall, but Oregon is es pecially important to her because the state could go either way in this year’s presidential election. Maureen Britell, executive director of Voters For Choice, said Steinem will stress both the importance of voting for Gore and her belief that a vote for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader is just a vote for Republican candidate George W. Bush. Steinem is also the president of Vot ers For Choice, a national group sup porting Vice President Al Gore in the election specifically because Gore is pro-choice. The next president will be appointing two to four justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, and Gore has said he would appoint justices who are pro choice. On Thursday afternoon, Bradley is scheduled to appear in the EMU Am phitheater to promote voter participa tion in the November election. Bradley ran against Gore in the Democratic pri mary and gained the endorsement of Gov. John Kitzhaber before dropping out of the race. Turn to Speakers, page 5A BRADLEY ALEXAKIS Voters warmly endorse the convenience of mail-in ballots Federal-level candidates are being chosen via mail for the first time Rebecca Newell For the Emerald Oregon residents are making history in the first exclusively vote-by-mail presidential election. With ballots in the mail or al ready in the hands of voters, the next step is awaiting the turnout results for the election. Some bal lots have already started to come in, Lane County Elections Chief Annette Newingham said. “We’re just shy of 190,000 regis tered voters [in Lane County],” Newingham said. “I think the vote-by-mail has the potential of giving us a historic turnout.” The last time a presidential elec tion was close until Election Day was eight years ago, when Lane County had an 85 percent voter turnout. That is a figure Newing ham expects to match during this year’s election, in which the presi dential candidates are in a dead heat. Newingham said vote-by-mail should also boost turnout. “This is the first time in Oregon and in the nation that federal-level candidates have been elected by vote-by-mail,” said Priscilla Southwell, the University political science department chair. In 1996, Oregon performed its first vote-by-mail senate election. In response to public criticism of the process, Southwell performed a survey of the 1996 vote-by-mail election, in conjunction with the Oregon Survey Research Laborato ry. “There are concerns that there is a greater chance of voter fraud and negative domestic influence,” said State Sen. Tony Corcoran, D-Cot tage Grove. “But I think the posi tive outweighs the negative.” Southwell agreed, saying that though there were concerns about vote-by-mail, they are for the most part unfounded. “There was a lot of speculation in the media coverage about vote by-mail, and not a lot of evi Turn to Mail-in, page 5A
