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November 28,2000
Volume 102, Issue 63
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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.
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International student drinking
twice a week ici the
,
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67 percent
54 percent
7 percent
12 percent
5 percent
Drinking around
the world
International Drinking Age Limits*
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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.
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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