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gon Eugene, Oregon
November 20,2000
Volume 102, Issue 59
Weather
today
MOSTLY CLOUDY
high 45, low 30
The Rose Bowl would have been Oregon’s to cherish with a victory over Oregon State.
Instead, the Beavers dominated, leaving the Ducks’ bowl destination up in the air.
Tom Patterson Emerald
Oregon quarterback Joey Harrington can only look on with despair as Oregon State and its pumped sold-out crowd count down the seconds
until its 23-13 victory is complete. With the win, the Beavers join the Ducks and the Huskies as the Pacific-10 Conference co-champions.
■Oregon’s Rose Bow! hopes come to an end at the hands of its
surging in-state rivals
By jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
CORVALLIS — On one side, there
was jubilation.
On the other, tears.
Oregon’s dramatic season was tar
nished by its 23-13 defeat to in-state
rival Oregon State in the 104th +— and
most significant—edition of the Civil
War.
There will be no trip to Pasadena for
the 2000 Ducks.
“It’s hard now because we didn’t play
our best game,” Oregon head coach
Mike Bellotti said. “In a championship
game at the opponent’s field I don’t
think you can spot them touchdowns. ”
The Ducks did just that in front of a
sold-out Reser Stadium crowd of
36,044, as the Beavers jumped out to
an early 14-0 first quarter lead. Oregon
finally cracked the scoreboard at the
7:38 mark of the second quarter on a
Joey Harrington six-yard touchdown
run to cut the lead to 17-7, but the
damage had been done.
Turn to Basketball, page 4A
Election will be
decided in court
■ Democrat and Republican leaders express
frustration as decisions continue to be delayed
By Ron Fournier
AP Political Writer
Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore mar
shaled their legal forces Sunday for a climactic state Supreme
Court showdown, with GOP lawyers saying it would be un
just “to keep the state and the nation on hold” during inter
minable recounts. Democrats said
the truth can’t be rushed, as jangled
nerves and protests punctuated an
other painstaking day of south
Florida vote counting.
With the long-count presidential
election stretching into a third ago
nizing week, the court strategy of
both camps reached critical mass:
Republicans hope to stop manual
recounts that threaten Bush’s 930
vote lead out of 6 million cast in
make-or-break Florida; Democrat
Gore wants the work to grind away, under rules most favor
able to him, though his aides fretted Sunday over how little
progress they’ve made in the slow-moving recounts.
The candidates kept a low profile as their lawyers prepared
for a momentous Supreme Court hearing Monday. Each went
for a jog and to church.
Calling these “extraordinary times,” Bush’s lawyers argued
in court papers that Republican Secretary of State Katherine
Harris has the authority to certify election results without ac
cepting hand counts. They also said allowing the recounts to
continue in scattered Democratic-leaning counties would vi
olate the constitutional rights of voters elsewhere.
“The selective manual recounts authorize county boards to
engage in arbitrary and unequal counting of votes, and result in
the disparate treatment of Florida voters based solely on where
within the state they happen to reside,” Bush argued.
In a separate brief, Harris tried to distance herself from both
Bush and Gore, even as Democrats pointed to her GOP presi
dential campaigning as a sign of bias. All seven Supreme Court
justices were appointed by Democratic governors.
“It is clear, that for the Democrats and the Republicans, the
object is to win, and that is understandable,” Harris’ brief
said. “The stakes are very high.”
In its paper reply, the Gore team asked the court to set a gen
erous standard for officials to “ascertain the electorate’s will”
when ballots were punched in the disputed presidential elec
tion. They said local election officials in close cases can “deter
mine the voter’s intent” by closely examining the ballot.
Twelve days after America voted, the weekend tally of over
seas absentee ballots lengthened Bush’s tiny 300-vote lead to a
still-minuscule 930.
Turn to Election, page 5
National
Elections
Different kind of'Civil War’
wages on over central Oregon
■Afield studies center in Bend is the
University’s latest tactic
By Eric Martin
Oregon Daily Emerald
University officials dealt the latest blow in
their battle with Oregon State University
over a proposed Central Oregon branch cam
pus recently when it announced plans for a
field studies center in Bend.
The center will serve as a home base for
students and faculty conducting field re
search in six liberal art disciplines, and is a
component of the University’s branch cam
pus plan, said University Vice Provost Jack
Rice. The field studies center has no estab
lished location yet, but Rice said the Uni
versity is looking at several sites close to
Central Oregon Community College in west
Bend.
“This is a nexus for the community out
reach program that will be highly visible,”
Rice said. “It will improve education oppor
tunities for students in Eugene and on the
[Central Oregon Community College] cam
pus.”
The announcement has intensified what
has become a “Civil War” between the Uni
versity of Oregon and OSU to offer their four
year degree programs in Central Oregon
Turn to Bend, page 4
Flu vaccinations ready only
for at-risk students, staff
■After a long delay, flu vaccines are
available for those who need it most
By Brooke Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University Student Health Center has
begun to receive the flu vaccine and stu
dents and faculty can now receive flu shots
on campus. Shipments of 300 doses will
continue to arrive at the center every week
for the rest of fall term.
All of the health center’s 3,000 doses
should be delivered by Dec. 18.
Currently, the vaccines are only being ad
ministered to at-risk students and faculty
who suffer from asthma, diabetes, immune
system weaknesses or are older than 65.
Health Center Director Dr.
Gerald Fleischli said he is
particularly concerned that
all at-risk students get their
shots. Fleischli said at-risk
cases will be taken care of
first because they could face
serious health problems if
not treated. He said the
health center has enough vaccine for the at
risk cases, but does not yet have enough for
Turn to Vaccines, page 4