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—Q—o-L—b—e w e h ^ www.dailyemerald.com An independent newspaper ■ jamming at Pape # The Oregon men and women play at the Portland Rose Garden in the Pape Jam Saturday. PAGE 9 Moving faster Internet makes traveling on the information superhighway more efficient. PAGE 7 Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Friday December 1,2000 Volume 102, Issue 66 Weather today MOSTLY CLOUDY high 50, low 41 HIV and AIDS statistics in the United States by state AIDS and HIV cases by state, reported through December 1999. 153013471 Maryland Washington D.C 14472 §PP§3 states have individual laws requiring theij^Hlepoft iome blank spaces in the map above. AH statesHtJHfuireci irtment of Heall 10582 21628 AIDS misconceptions still abound This is the third of a three-part series highlight ing World AIDS Day, which is today. Wednesday: University raises money for the cause Thursday: Lack of local concern worries HIV Alliance Today: Student copes with loss of family member ■ Despite widespread AIDS education, many still don’t recognize the danger of the disease By Beata Mostafavi Oregon Daily Emerald When junior Eric Zentmyer found out his uncle was HIV positive a couple of years ago, he and his family were in dis belief. His uncle had kept his dis ease a secret and passed away only nine months after he fi nally told his family and friends. “It was very quick,” Zent myer said. “And it sent shock waves through the entire fami ly.” But his uncle had another secret that came out at the same time as the news of his disease: He was gay. Because of his uncle’s strong religious back ground, Zentmyer’s family was especially surprised. And be cause his uncle’s age and lifestyle d i ffere d from his, Zentmyer found it harder to make a personal con nection between himself and the disease. “I think I’d have been more affected if someone my age with my sexual preference had acquired AIDS,” he said. Today is the 13th annual “World AIDS Day,” estab lished to raise awareness about the disease and support the more than 34 million people in the world who live with HIV and AIDS. Despite continuous efforts to educate the public about the risks of transmitting AIDS in the last two decades, miscon ceptions about the disease still exist. According to the HIV Al liance, many people — espe cially college students — still Turn to AIDS, page 8 Ballots speed to Tallahassee ■ Gore makes a last-ditch effort for ballot re-counts as Bush prepares for the presidency By Ron Fournier The Associated Press A1 Gore’s lawyers battled for his political survival in the Florida and U.S. supreme courts Thursday, pleading against delaying fresh vote re-counts “even one day” as a half-mil lion ballots sped by rental truck to Tallahassee. GOP law makers jockeyed in the state capital to award the presidency to George W. Bush in case the judges wouldn’t. “When the counting stops, we want to be prepared to lead this na tion,” Bush said in Texas between transition meetings with retired Gen. Colin Powell — the star of his Cabi net-in-the-making. Officials said the meeting cemented Powell’s position as secretary of state in a presumptive Bush administration. In Florida, the GOP-dominated state Legislature drew a step closer to appointing its own slate of presi dential electors as a committee urged leaders to call a special ses sion. Democrats called that “a brazen power play,” while they worked elsewhere to keep Gore in the game. Bush, whose brother is governor of the state, raised no ob jection to the Legislature’s actions, and his lawyers defended the lawmakers’ right to name a GOP slate. “It’s time to get some finality,” Bush said in an appearance with Powell at his Crawford, Texas, ranch. Hundreds of miles away in Florida, Lt. Jim Kersey’s squad car headed the ballot brigade as it passed a handmade sign reading “No chad zone.” Then they passed Disney World. “Oh my God,” he said. “The whole world is watching.” And what sights to see: Lawmakers cussed and fumed in a legislative committee room; the two could-be presidents plotted their transitions to power; legal briefs ricocheted be tween the nation’s courts; and the banana-yellow rental truck — swarmed by police and media vehicles on Ronald Reagan Turnpike — carried contested ballots to Circuit Judge N. Sanders Sauls’ court. The re-count convoy was captured by television cameras in helicopters, giving Americans a birds-eye view all the way from Palm Beach to Tallahassee. Sauls could need the ballots if he sides with Gore after a hearing Saturday on the merits of re-counts in three coun ties. The vice president is trying to overturn the official re sults of Florida’s election, which give Bush a 537-vote lead Turn to Elections, page 8 NATIONAL ELECTIONS Holidays spent with family needn’t be overly stressful ■ Eugene families and individuals feeling holiday tension can seek help in the community By Rebecca Newell Oregon Daily Emerald ‘Tis the season — but not just for brightly wrapped presents, Christmas lights and a break from school. For many people, the holidays present a time of frenzied shopping, trips to visit rela tives and stress, stress, stress. For some families, the stress of financial strain, extended periods of time indoors and hyper children home from school can bring the holiday season to the boiling point, where love and festivities are the last things on a person’s mind. “During the holidays, the number of fami ly problems go up,” said Christel Thomas, volunteer coordinator at Eugene’s White Bird Clinic. “People feel stressed out and we tend to take things out on the people we care about.” However, help is near, and it’s not clad in a furry red suit. The White Bird Clinic is just one of sever al places families can seek help if the holi day season becomes too much to bear. White Bird offers a 24-hour crisis line and crisis in tervention. These services are not only for families experiencing tough times, but also for individuals who are lonely or depressed Turn to Family stress, page 8 Students questioned by DPS during diversity recruitment ■ Campus leaders believe the high school students were identified because of racial stereotypes By Jeremy Lang Oregon Oaily Emerald Department of Public Safety officers in vestigating a suspected drug deal stopped and questioned three black high-school stu dents as they walked through campus Thursday morning, an incident that has left administrators and students questioning the level of racial tolerance on campus. Students and faculty who work with di versity issues said they don’t accuse the de partment of racial profiling, but many said what happened Thursday was an act of dis crimination that must be addressed imme diately. According to DPS Director Tom Fitz patrick, a campus employee in Carson Hall called DPS at 10:15 a.m. Thursday to report three students wearing “urban clothes” who had made a drug deal. Three DPS officers found the three stu dents, who matched the physical and cloth ing descriptions, five minutes later in the EMU, questioned them outside the EMU Fishbowl and released them without giving a citation. “We contacted them based on their cloth ing,” Fitzpatrick said. The students were among about 600 mi nority high-school seniors who were on Turn to Racism, page 6
