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November 14,2000
Volume 102, Issue 55
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War on the horizon m
Joey Harrington and the No. 5 Ducks begin their
week-long preparation for No. 8 OSU. PAGE 7
Sustainable showcase
A symposium held today in the EMU will highlight
environmentally-conscidus modes of use. PAGE 3
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene,
Oregon
Nation waits as Florida recounts ballots
■A federal judge granted per
mission to continue the manu
al recount in four Florida
counties
ByAnneGearan
The Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) — George W. Bush
lost a round Monday in the post
election legal battle, when a federal
judge let contested ballot counts go
forward in the aftermath of Florida’s
close-as-can-be presidential voting.
Meanwhile, Democratic oppo
nent Al Gore went to a different
court to stave off a deadline for fin
ishing the Florida count.
A federal judge rejected the Bush
campaign’s attempt to cut off manu
al recounts requested by Democrats
that both sides say could favor Gore.
U.S. District Judge Donald Middle
brooks said election mechanics are
state responsibilities and challenges
to them must be handled by state
courts. Republicans did not immedi
ately say whether they will appeal.
“A federal court has a very limit
ed role and should not intervene,”
Middlebrooks said.
The Bush campaign is expected
to make a decision on appealing the
federal judge’s ruling Tuesday.
Two options under consideration
are appealing to the 11th Circuit
Court of Appeals in Atlanta or mak
ing an emergency appeal directly to
the U.S. Supreme Court, according
to a Republican source familiar with
the Bush campaign’s legal strategy.
The day’s le
gal clashes put
the unresolved
Nov. 7 election
before state and
federal courts
and increased
the sense that
judges will con
trol the eventual
outcome. Both
sides have said
they feared the election could get
caught in a legal tit-for-tat, yet both
campaigns put their names on law
suits in recent days.
Florida’s 25 electoral votes hang
in the balance, and will likely deter
mine who becomes president.
Middlebrooks, a Clinton nominee,
issued his ruling from the bench
shortly after Florida’s top election of
ficial said she would require all coun
ties to submit their vote totals by
Tuesday at 5 p.m., a deadline she said
was fixed in state law.
Democrats suggested Secretary of
State Katherine Harris was motivat
ed by her Republican affiliation.
Senior Gore adviser Warren
Christopher acknowledged that the
legal back-and-forth “seems to be
getting a little bit argumentative,”
but said his side kept its powder dry
until forced into court by Harris.
“We want to be able to defend our
selves, to defend the rights of the vot
ers of Florida to have a fair outcome.”
Under Florida law, manual re
counts are allowed if a candidate
meets a post-election deadline to re
quest them and the local election
board agrees. Democrats asked for
recounts last week in four heavily
Democratic areas of the state, in
cluding Palm Beach County.
A local judge, James Carlisle, re
cessed himself Monday from con
sidering lawsuits filed by voters
who said they were confused by
Palm Beach County’s ballot.
Lawyer Harry Winderman, who
was in court on another matter, ac
Turn to Elections, page 4
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Catherine Kendall Emerald
Stadium security officers keep a watchful eye on crowds of football fans in case the excitement gets out of hand.
Drunk with Victory
■The Ducks’final home
game packed Autzen
with fans, but some
celebrated a bit early
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
The first ejection of Satur
day’s football game between
the Oregon Ducks and the Cali
fornia Bears didn’t happen to a
player on the field.
It occurred at halftime when
Crowd Management Services
and the Eugene Police Depart
ment removed an angry, intoxi
cated student from the Autzen
Stadium grandstands.
The unidentified student,
who recently turned 21, wasn’t
cited, but EPD Sgt. Tim Me
Carthy took over, handcuffed
the student and placed him un
der protective custody because
the student was verbally resist
ant.
Police confiscated a flask of
alcohol, the student received a
criminal trespass warning and
police escorted him off stadi
um property.
Monday’s EPD crime log fea
tured 14 incidents from Satur
day’s game, which don’t in
clude ones such as Sgt.
McCarthy’s when no citation is
given. Similar to past week
ends this season, EPD and CMS
worked to handle a fight in the
student section, remove beach
balls thrown onto the football
field and arrest a student who
was fined for possession of mar
ijuana and alcohol.
When enthusiasm turns to
chaos in the middle of 45,845
screaming fans, the Star Plex
Crowd Management firm and
the EPD are expected to step in
and take necessary enforcement
measures. But in the massive
crowd, some students said ma
jor problems are overlooked by
those in charge.
Jill Methvin, a junior educa
tion major, said she twice re
ported to CMS that a rowdy
group of students next to her
were smoking marijuana and
drinking alcohol.
Methvin said CMS told her
they would keep an eye on the
group, but when they patrolled
the aisles, Methvin said they
Turn to Crowds, page 4
Repeated police visits
will now carry fines
■ DespiteASUO input, EPD’s
Special Response Fee gets
unanimous council support
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
After carefully considering the opin
ions of University students, the Eugene
City Council voted unanimously Mon
day night to pass the Special Response
Fee Ordinance, which will fine Eugene
residents for repeated police response to
parties at their home.
Proposed by the Eugene Police Depart
ment, the ordinance has been under re
view of the council for more than a year
before its final revision was approved.
A unanimous vote was also cast for
the Emergency Clause to the ordinance,
which puts it into effect immediately.
ASUO community outreach director
Christa Shively and ASUO President Jay
Breslow both spoke to the council during
the public forum before the vote was cast.
“We do not feel [this ordinance] is the
best form of action and we would not sup
port it,” Shively said. “However we know
the ordinance will pass, so we just ask that
the work we have done with the council
will be taken into consideration. ”
Discussion of the ordinance began after
police found themselves responding
more frequently to problematic parties.
These parties often involve excessive
noise, obstruction of public streets or side
walks, minors in possessions of alcohol,
serving alcohol to minors, littering, fights,
and disorderly conduct.
Modeling the ordinance after similar
ones in Berkeley, Calif, and Corvallis,
Ore. Lieutenant Carolyn McDermed
and Lieutenant Rick Gilliam are two of
ficers who set out to provide Eugene
with a way to respond to fees incurred
by responding to local parties.
“We’ve been having to pull officers
from other parts of the city and hire ad
ditional officers just to respond to out of
control parties,” McDermed said.
Turn to Response fee, page 3
Council passes Eugene smoking ban
■ In a 7-1 vote late Monday, the
Eugene City Council banned
smoking in local bars
By Rebecca Newell
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Eugene City Council ended a
plethora of public controversy by ban
ning smoking in bars, taverns and bingo
parlors at Monday night’s meeting. Ef
fective July 31,2001, all business estab
lishments in Eugene with two or more
employees will be smoke-free.
“I wasn’t sure if it would pass and I’m
relieved it did,” Councilor Betty Taylor
said. “It was the right thing to do.”
Despite a lengthy consideration of ex
emptions for smoking rooms by the
council, the measure passed without
any changes. A motion by Councilor
Gary Papd to exempt facilities which
have a separate smoking room did not
receive support to put it to a vote. Mayor
Jim Torrey’s suggestion to allow bars,
taverns and bingo halls to allow a sepa
rate smoking room utilized only for
smoking, not for eating or drinking, was
also voted down.
“[The separate smoking room] is not
enforceable and workers would feel
pressured to go into those rooms and
serve patrons,” Councilor Bonnie
Bettmansaid.
Councilor Gary Rayor added that a
letter from the Oregon Liquor Control
Commission says a separate smoking
room would be difficult to enforce —
such as keeping the doors shut and
keeping patrons from drinking in the
smoking room. Rayor also said air
quality would also be hard to control
or monitor.
Councilor Pat Farr, who registered
the lone ‘no’ vote against the ordi
Turn to Smoking ban, page 3