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www.dailyemerald.com Tuesday An independent newspaper A lesson for all seasons Students celebrate Kwanzaa by honoring the past as they look hopefully toward the future. PAGE 5 New horizons Northwest Christian College makes expansion plans with the help of a new fundraising drive. PAGE 3 November 28,2000 Volume 102, Issue 63 Weather TODAY RAIN LIKELY high 55, low 45 Gore insists vote count is not yet complete uespite busn s Florida win, Gore continues to look for more votes declaring him the winner By Terence Hunt The Associated Press WASHINGTON — After nearly three weeks of uncertainty, Americans are growing rest less. Al Gore faces the tough challenge of per suading the court of public opinion, as well as the legal courts, that his presidential quest is still legitimate. “I don’t think there’s any question but that he’s got an uphill fight,” former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, a Democrat, said Monday. “Everything is operating against him now,” presidential historian Henry Graff said. Time is running out as court cases stack up. Gore is on the defense, searching for more votes and voters’ patience, while Republican George W. Bush tries to act presidential, reaching for the keys to the White House and beginning to assemble a Cabinet. A day after Bush was certified the winner in Florida, Gore sought to counter the impres sion that the contest was over. “If every vote is counted,” Gore said in a phone call with De mocratic allies, “there are easily more than enough to change the outcome and decide the election in our favor.” Gore’s court filings went a step further, say ing not only that all the votes should be count ed but that the vice president already should be declared the winner. Gore’s lawyers asked a Tallahassee court to “certify that the true and accurate results of the 2000 presidential elec tion in Florida” show Gore and running mate Joseph Lieberman as the winners. Turn to Elections, page 4 International student drinking twice a week ici the , ! 67 percent 54 percent 7 percent 12 percent 5 percent Drinking around the world International Drinking Age Limits* t &-y- *9 O A brief sampling of alcohol laws from around the world JH CountryMinimum Drinking Age jy uiina Germany HI! I No ptnimum drinking age Wine MDA Is 21. In the United States, 90 enfs consent The Age of Reason Some International students feel the strict drinking age enforcement in this country is ineffective By Lisa Toth Oregon Daily Emerald Santiago Ruiz, a junior journalism major, said his hometown of Quito, Ecuador has no restric tions on who can buy alcohol. Ruiz is one of many international students at the University who thinks American regulations of the con sumption of alcohol and drugs should be changed. Peer Health Education Coordinator Annie Dochnahl, who works at the University Health Center, said a recent survey conducted by the Oregon Survey Research Laboratory shows in ternational students are drinking less than do mestic students, and domestic students are in jured more from drinking than international students. Seven percent of international students had five or more drinks twice a week in the past two weeks, while 12 percent of domestic students had five or more drinks twice a week in the past two weeks. “Givpn that international students may be more challenged than domestic students to feel a sense of belonging, there could be a sense of using alcohol to fit in or belong, but the study doesn’t pan that out,” Dochnahl said. Dochnahl said University students tend to drink to be socially accepted and to manage stress. “Even though our drinking age is 21 in the U.S., we are bombarded by the alcohol industry messages that associate alcohol with the good life,” Dochnahl said. “That may have a greater impact on drinking choices than the drinking ages.” Ruiz said he remembers buying alcohol at age 13 for his family reunions. But despite the lack of regulations, he said the percentage of alco holics in the South American country is much lower than in the U.S. “In my country, you have the opportunity to get alcohol anytime, but you also have morals, values and religion that tell you what is the lim it,” Ruiz said. Turn to Drinking, page 4 UO Health Center short on vaccines ■The Student Health Advisory decides who gets flu shot priority, leaving some students and faculty members out in the cold By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald The first recorded case of influenza in Oregon struck a University student last week, but the first shipment of flu vaccinations for healthy students and faculty won’t arrive at the Student Health Center until today or Wednes day. Drug manufacturer Wyeth sent two 300-dose shipments to the health cen ter on Nov. 6 and Nov. 13 and were ad ministered to students and faculty deemed “at-risk” because of diseases like diabetes — and to the athletic de partment. The men’s and women’s basketball teams and reserve players on the foot ball team received 50 of the health cen ter’s first 300 vaccinations, a decision based on a long-standing relationship between the health center and the ath letic department, according to Medical Director Gerald Fleischli. The other 250 flu shots went to at risk students with diabetes, asthma, a weak immune system or other ail ments that can make a case of the flu life-threatening. Fleischli said the decision was safe and there have been enough doses to avoid any shortages, even though the health center normally gets 3,000 vac cinations in the first shipment. “We kept enough in reserve that there were no problems,” he said. Fleischli and the Student Health Ad visory Council decided that at-risk fac ulty and staff should have preference over healthy students for the second 300-dose shipment, which arrived a week later. He also denied a request by the athletic department for 50 more from that shipment. “If one faculty member is sick, 100 to 200 students could be missing out on their education,” Fleischli said. “The next priority after that is healthy students and faculty.” One of those healthy students, ASUO Vice President Holly Magner, said she is disappointed that sports players were vaccinated before at-risk faculty members, and she called the decision an example of how athletes Turn taFlu, page 4 If one faculty member is sick, 100 to 200 students could be missing out on their education. The next priority af ter that is healthy students and faculty Gerald Fleischli Medical Director
