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November 17,2000
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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
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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