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Volume 102, Issue 66
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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