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Tuesday _Q—o_L h e _w e b ^ www.dailyemerald.com Athletes in the NCAA Championships express the rigorous thrill of competition. PAGES 9,12 Participants in the L.E.A.D. 2001 leadership retreat built diversity and new relationships. PAGE 6 Kodak moments Lead on June 5,2001 Volume 102, Issue 163 Weather today high 63, low 48 BUSTED proves successful ■The program to educate students cited for alcohol-related offenses has had positive results in its first year By Kara Cogswell Oregon Daily Emerald It used to be that students cited by po lice for an alcohol-related offense could be pretty sure of paying a hefty fine—not to mention gaining a permanent mark on their criminal records. But since October of last year, students have had another option. Rather than pay the fine, they can instead choose to take part in Beginning Underage Success Through Educational Diversion (BUST ED), a program intended to educate peo ple on the responsibilities and conse quences involved with drinking. Miki Mace, administrator of the Sub stance Abuse Prevention Program, said she approached municipal court judges and members of the Eugene Police De partment with the idea for the program af ter she noticed that many students were repeat offenders. "I kept seeing the same people getting cited over and over," she said. "The fines didn't seem to be a deterrent." Instead, Mace said, she saw education as a better way to encourage students to make responsible choices. And so far, the BUSTED program ap pears to be a success. Out of the 694 stu dents who have gone through the pro gram this year, Mace said only four have Turn to BUSTED, page 4 Btoerald Grass pollen count Eugene pollen readings in 2001 show that pollen levels have jumped sharply in recent days SOU Relational A haven for hay fever ■ Pollen levels in the grass-producing Willamette Valley have shot up during the last week, and allergy sufferers are feeling the effects By Aaron K. Breniman Oregon Daily Emerald According to the National Allergy Bureau, an es timated 40 to 50 million people suffer from allergies in the United States. In the Willamette Valley, where much of the world’s grass seed is grown, seasonal allergic rhinitis—or hay fever—is a big problem. Last week, pollen levels in the Eugene area steadily increased, and Friday the pollen level rose into the very high category with a count of 502 grains per cubic meter, according to National Al lergy Bureau figures. The average count for May was approximately 47 grains per cubic meter. Com mon symptoms of hay fever include sinus conges tion, runny and itchy eyes, sneezing and a burning sensation in the palate and throat. “We’ve been seeing a lot of patients over the past Turn to Allergy, page 4 Allergy medicine runs short ■The University Health Center had a brief shortage of an over-the-counter allergy medicine Thursday By Brooke Ross Oregon Daily Emerald Thursday’s sunny weather and high pollen count did more than just increase business at the University Health Center. After handing out nearly 50 bottles of Opcon-A, an over-the-counter eye drop for allergies, the health center’s pharmacy ran out of its supply May 31. But the allergy medicine was re stocked Friday morning, before many people realized there was a shortage. Julie Dewsnup, the pharmacy man ager at the health center, said even though the pharmacy ran out of the drug, few people were stranded. She said because Opcon-A is an over-the counter product, customers simply switched to another brand or went to a drugstore to find it. “We went through massive quanti ties,” she said. “But people still had options.” Dewsnup said that although they try to keep a supply of 50-100 bottles of Opcon-A on the shelf, it is possible the health center could run out of al lergy medicines again. She said the weather plays a big role in triggering Turn to Medication, page 4 Rally urges students to buy no-sweat UO clothing ■ University students held a no-sweat zone rally encouraging consumers to purchase union-made apparel By Beata Mostafavi Oregon Daily Emerald Professor Peter Dreier told a scattered EMU Am phitheater crowd a “tale of two T-shirts” Monday. Dreier, a visiting political science professor from Occidental College in Los Angeles, held up two shirts. One displayed Occidental’s name, and one carried the University of Oregon logo. “There’s a difference between these shirts,” he said. Holding up the Occidental shirt, Dreier contin ued, “This one was made by workers who get paid $12 an hour, receive health benefits and work in good conditions ... In other words, they don’t work in a sweatshop.” He explained that Occidental’s bookstore has a designated no-sweat zone, which carries only mer chandise made by uryon manufacturers — a goal some students at the University of Oregon also hope to accomplish. Dreier spoke at a no-sweat zone rally held by more than half of Professor Michael Dreiling’s so ciology class called Workers, Consumers and the Global Economy. Lara Skinner, a senior sociology major working on the project, said the campaign’s main goal is to give students the choice to buy apparel they will know for certain was not made in a sweatshop. Twenty-nine students from the class have worked to bring about 200 “no-sweat” shirts to the book store, which were made by Frank Dolittle Manu facturing in Seattle. The shirts should be in the store by June 14, and in the long term students said they hope to create a separate no-sweat zone in the store, Skinner said. Members of the class said they held the rally to make other students aware of the cause and to en courage them to buy the shirts. Jim Williams, the bookstore’s general manager, said he could not make a designated “no-sweat zone” section, but the students will put visible “union-made” tags on the shirts. He said making a separate section would imply that everything else in the store was made in a sweatshop. A few musical groups, including punk band Un der the Stairs, performed at the rally, showing their support for the students’ cause. One student also sat at a sewing machine inside a mock sweatshop made of chicken wire and covered with University Bookstore merchandise. Alongside the “sweat shop” sat a sign that read, “Where was your UO Turn to No-sweat, page4 Adam Amato Emerald Senior Lara Skinner represents a typical sweatshop worker at the no-sweat rally Monday in the EMU Amphitheater. A sign outside the mock sweatshop read, ‘Where was your UO shirt made?’
