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www.dailyemerald.com Novrn I lie i 11,2000 Volume 102, Issue 53 An independent newspaper Weather TODAY Almost there 4 Oregon has a chance to clinch the Rose Bowl Saturday, but a pesky Cal stands in its way. Inside Exploring diversity University students will participate in a diversity development retreat. PAGE BA MOSTLY CLOUDY high 52, low 30 History in the making—slowly but surely The race for President hinges on overseas votes and the fate of Florida’s polls By Ron Fournier The Associated Press George W. Bush’s lead against Al Gore in Florida slipped to less than 300 votes in a re-count Thursday, as Democrats threw the presidential election to the courts, claiming “an injustice unparalleled in our history.” Chaos reigned. It may take weeks to un tangle the legal and political webs and de termine the nation’s 43rd president. “The presidential election is ... on hold,” said James A. Baker III, the secre tary of state in the Bush administration. Gore wants a follow-up re-count in four Florida counties and perhaps a new elec tion in the Palm Beach area — ideas the Bush camp said amounted to “politiciz ing and distorting” the electoral system. Amid a flurry of charges and counter charges, Gore campaign chairman William Daley said his party will sup port legal actions by voters and support ers who say a confusing ballot may have led them to vote accidentally for Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan. The Bush campaign fired back by stak ing its own claim to a Florida victory and questioning Gore’s motives. Still, Repub licans eyed re-counts elsewhere in case Gore prevails in Florida, raising the specter of a lengthy, multistate battle. “One of the options that they seem to be looking at is new elections. Our dem ocratic process calls for a vote on Elec tion Day - it does not call for us to con tinue voting until someone likes the outcome,” Bush campaign chairman Don Evans said in Austin, Texas. Both sides dispatched dozens of lawyers and political operatives to Florida and geared up fundraising drives to finance what is exploding into a post-campaign re-count campaign. An unofficial tally by The Associated Press showed that Gore had cut Bush’s lead to 229 votes with 66 of 67 counties recounted. The official total lagged be hind, and Secretary of State Katherine Harris said it could be Tuesday — a week after the election—before the state certi fies ballot results from all 67 counties. She pointed out that it would take even longer — at least until Nov. 17—to tabulate bal lots cast by thousands of Floridians over seas and postmarked by Election Day. “Nobody ever said that democracy was simple or efficient,” said election board member Bob Crawford. Turn to History, page 3A Nader supporters optimistic ■ With the votes tallied, Nader supporters remain positive and look forward to the future By Andrew Adams Oregon Daily Emerald Oregon supporters of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader are resolute that their campaign had a significant impact on the presi dential election, despite Nader’s failed attempt to get 5 percent of the national vote. If Nader had met that goal, he would have secured matching political funds for the Green Par ty for future elections. Some polls placed Nader at just less than 10 percent of Ore gon’s votes before the election, but the latest results, with 99 percent of total ballots counted, show Nader with only 5 percent, or 68,175 votes. Vice President Al Gore leads Texas Gov. George W. Bush by 3,375 votes in Oregon, although early returns during the past two days had the Republican candi date leading. The results also discount the widely reported “Nader factor,” which many recent speakers on campus said would throw the election into Bush’s favor. Green Party volunteer and Eu gene resident Mark Robinowitz said the election will not disap point him, even if Bush, whom he described as a “swaggering dunce-head,” wins in Oregon. “Personally I would hav *voted for ‘none of the above,’ so I’m not a vote away from Gore,” he said. Robinowitz said Nader’s role in the election was to place the Green Party’s agenda in the na tional spotlight. The party’s plat form includes ending the war on drugs and putting a halt to clearcutting. The major political parties routinely ignore these is sues, Robinowitz said, and so the attention that Nader and the Turn to Nader, page 3A Divided responses By Lisa Toth Oregon Daily Emerald As tension continues to build in the presi dential race between Vice President A1 Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, University professors dis agree on how it will be remembered.In some previ ous elections, the electoral vote has not reflected the popular vote. Professors came to different con clusions about the significance of the 2000 election and how it will affect future elections. Political science professor Priscilla Southwell said the days ofthe Electoral College are numbered. “There will be an abolishment or reform of the Electoral College before 2004,’’ she said. Southwell said an Illinois Democrat is working on a bill to change the election process because the race has generated concern about the Electoral Col lege. While Gore is leading the popular vote, a win for Bush in Florida will place him in the lead with electoral votes, which will ultimately de cide the presidency. “No matter what the actual output of the pres idential election, no one wants to run the risk of it happening again,” Southwell said. History professor James Mohr said the elec toral system is still effective because of the laws Turn to Responses, page 3A . Catharine Kendall Emerald Churchill High School student Ryan Ritchey, a Nader supporter, watches election updates at the Lane County Fairgrounds Election 2000 Celebration Tuesday evening. Law symposium addresses Alternative Dispute Resolution Coordinators gather a panel of respected members of the law profession to discuss mediation By Kristy Hessman Oregon Daily Emerald A hot topic in the justice system, Al ternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), will be the focus of a University law symposium that will be open to the public today through Saturday. “ADR is an alternative to litigation,” said Lisa Kloppenberg, program coor dinator of the University ADR pro gram. “The emphasis is mediation from a third-party, neutral person.” Kloppenberg said this type of medi ation gives people the chance to talk to each other in hopes of settling issues outside the courtroom. University graduate Gary Galton and his wife Anne Marie donated more than $211,000 to the law school to cre ate the ADR program in June. The pro gram educates students about various ways in which disputes can be re solved, including negotiation, media tion and arbitration. Part of the contribution will help fund the symposium, which will in elude five panels of experienced judges and lawyers. “The panelists for the symposium are fabulous,” said Anne Aiken, an ADR program board member. Ninth Circuit Appellate Court Judge Dorothy Nelson will deliver the keynote address from 4 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. today. “Dorothy is really the mother of this program.” Aiken said. When Nelson began to teach ADR at USC in the early 1960s, she was the only law faculty member who taught an alternative dispute resolution pro gram. “When people would ask what I taught they would say, ‘Oh, it’s that women thing,’” Nelson said. “But now it’s one of the hottest topics in the jus tice system.” Nelson will speak about the quali ties of ADR and make suggestions to the law school about how to provide Turn to Symposium, page 4A
