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For all the roses ** After a week of hype, the time to finally play the highly anticipated Civil War is here. SECTION B Hoops tips off The Oregon men’s basketball team begins its season, with a home game tonight at Mac Court. PAGE 5A \ biNCE 19U1J University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Friday November 17,2000 Volume 102, Issue 58 Weather today 48, low 27 Uncertainty about Florida re-counts persists Re-counts in Florida continue, but whether the results will be included in the final total is unclear By Anne Gearan The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Flori da’s high court gave the go-ahead Thursday to ballot re-counts in the state’s chaotic presidential elec tion but left unanswered the ques tion of whether the results will matter. “There is no legal impediment to the re-counts continuing,” the court said in a case brought by Palm Beach County. Within min utes, county officials announced they would join adjacent Broward County in reviewing hundreds of thousands of ballots by hand. The Palm Beach count began Thursday evening. A state judge was to decide as early as Friday whether to overturn the Republi can secretary of state’s decision to reject any further re-count totals from Democratic-controlled coun ties. In the overtime campaign be tween Bush and Al Gore, the rul ing was a victory for the vice presi dent, who had pressed for manual re-counts in four counties in hopes of overturning the Texas governor’s 300-vote lead. About 2,600 overseas absentee ballots re main to be counted, but so far there is no dispute about them. Bush running mate Dick Ch eney said the state’s official count and re-count showed Bush was the winner — with the overseas absentees still to come — and bar ring any change he expected Sec retary of State Katherine Harris to declare Bush the winner on Satur day. The seven-member Florida court, all chosen by Democratic governors, issued its unanimous, one-paragraph order as Bush lawyers looked to a federal ap peals court in Atlanta to stop the re-counts altogether. Turn to Election, page 3A ELECTIONS Contributing editor of Ptay- rami boy magazine, author of u tu Co-founc., “The Playboy Book” ‘, mbassador t0 the California Cooler expand a leader i a amas the wine cooler industry Ron Fraedrick Owner/Founder, Taco Time International Katie Miller/Laura Smit Emerald uon rearo toiiey Television star of “Starsky and Hutch,” “The Bionic Woman,” “Night Gallery.” Understudy James Earl Jones. Mill! Ddlliruil First woman to reach the rth Pole by dogsled in 1986. Voted woman of the year by Ms. Magazine ■ A number of famous-and not-so famous- people have called the University home By Beata Mostafavi Oregon Daily Emerald The University has had some mighty ducks — and they include more people 1 moiuuo lilUiO 1 C than just the graduate who became the head honcho of Nike. Uther alumni, including U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Eugene, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and profession al golfer Peter Jacobson called the University home at one time. Plenty of prominent Ducks have made their way in a variety of fields. But others have claims to fame that are simply too intriguing to be forgotten. They have left their marks through odd twists of fate. Paul Simon went to the Univer sity. So did Ann Bancroft. But nei ther had anything to do with the movie “The Graduate.” The two alumni share their names with the singer who lent his voice to the movie soundtrack and the actress who made the film’s Mrs. Robinson famous. Yet through their own accomplishments, these alumni have made names for themselves. Simon is a former U.S. representative and senator from Illinois who attended the Uni versity for one year. He actually met Paul Si mon — the singer — because of the numer ous times they’ve been mixed up. . In 1988, the two appeared together on Sat urday Night Live in a debate about who was the “Real Paul Simon.” Alumnus Simon said he’s received several requests from groups that want him to sing for them. “I ask them if they’re sure they want me to sing,” he said. “My wife doesn’t even like it when I sing in the shower.” Simon said he sang “Hello Dolly” once at his daughter’s school, and news spread after ward that Paul Simon performed at a school. “I sent Paul Simon a letter that said his repu tation was getting ruined,” he said. “And he Turn to Alumni, page 4A Grandson of Gandhi visits Eugene to promote peace ■A tree lecture at Beall Hall is intended to promote non-violence through music and culture By Eric Martin Oregon Daily Emerald The grandson of spiritual leader and out spoken pacifist Mahatma Gandhi will speak at the University Saturday and Sunday to promote non-violence. The speech is held in conjunction with “The Festival of the Millennium: Waging Peace Through the Arts,” a four-day cele bration promoting peace through music. But Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi, didn’t always subscribe to a philosophy of non-violence, according to an official biog raphy compiled by the MK Gandhi Insti tute. Growing up in South Africa, he toned and built his muscles so that he could one day fight back against the children who beat him black and blue because he was Indian, the biography said. His parents did not ap prove and sent him to be with his grandfa ther. After 18 months with his grandfather, Arun Gandhi’s outlook changed, creating the foundation for his life of promoting peace through lectures, work shops and community outreach. He brings this mes sage to the University in a free speech at 8 p.m. Saturday in Beall Hall and in a workshop from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, also at Beall Hall. “Any time you get to hear a great speaker of international stature ... issues of international concern are brought to a local level,” said Scott Barkhurst, publicity director for the Uni versity’s school of music. “To see them and to hear them in person, it adds more impact Turn to Gandhi, page 3A GANDHI Speaker discusses necessity of ending destructive cycle ■Alan Carter spoke Thursday about society’s harmful effects on the environment By Brooke Ross Oregon Daily Emerald The Green Party’s popularity in Oregon was evident in the recent election, but people worldwide support the political group’s prin ciples. Alan Carter, head of the University of London Philosophy Department at Heythrop College, spoke to an audience of 20 at the Uni versity Thursday evening about his belief that Green Party policy needs to be stronger in order to combat pollution. His presentation, “Some Theoretical Foundations for Radical Green Politics,” was an elaboration of his theories on the ways in which society harms the environment and how the actions of people today determine the existence of future people. “If environmentalists are right,” Carter said, “we’re compromising the nation’s in tegrity by drowning future children in life threatening pollution.” Laura Smit Emerald Following his lecture, Alan Carter, a University of London professor, talks with Mark Hudson, Ph.D. Carter opened his presentation with a com parison of the moral obligation to save a child from drowning and the need to end pollution. He then used a theory he calls the Environ mentally Hazardous Dynamic from his book “Radical Green Political Theory,” to illustrate the cycle that causes environmental destruc tion within democracies. Carter argued democracies are so concerned with strengthening their economies to increase military power that they use technology dam aging to the environment. Turn to Environment, page 4A
