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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?’