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shirt made?”
Dreiling said some of his stu
dents designed the class project af
ter hearing about Occidental’s
campaign, and they formed a
group called the Campus Coalition
for Fair Labor. The students have
gathered signatures for support of
the no-sweat zone. He said the
project is in line with the Univer
sity’s mission statement, which is
dedicated to making students
“think critically, act creatively,
and live ethically.”
He said it is hard for students to
live by the University’s mission
when they do not even know
where the bookstore’s products are
made. The no-sweat zone will
make students think about the is
sue when purchasing merchan
dise, he said.
“Consumers can begin to under
stand that some products are
made under certain conditions
and some are not,” Dreiling said.
Dreiling also expressed concern
about the State Board of Higher
Education’s decision to pass a pol
icy governing business agreements
last February. The “business prac
tice policy” says the seven Oregon
University System institutions
cannot “adopt limits” on business
agreements unless based on the
"ability to perform, evidence of il
legal activities" or other criteria.
This prevents universities from
being members of labor monitor
ing groups such as the Worker
Rights Consortium and Fair Labor
Association.
“That policy made it difficult for
the University to uphold its mis
sion,” he said. “Which ethic do we
stand by ... The free flow of com
merce or the right of humanity?”
Erik Amos, a senior sociology
major working on the campaign,
said he is excited for the no-sweat
clothing to be available.
“Most of the clothing we’re
wearing was made under sweat
shop conditions,” he said. “The
no-sweat zone is a place where all
products are union-made so we
know conditions are decent.”
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people’s allergies.
“Allergies are a tough thing to
predict,” she said. “You can’t tell
from one day to the next if it’s go
ing to be rainy or sunny.”
Dewsnup said Eugene’s grass
pollen count was very high last
week. “The weather and the grass
pollen just soared last week,” she
said.
Pat McCormick, the health cen
ter’s medical records supervisor,
said about 275 patients suffering
from allergies visited the health
center last week. She said this is a
higher number of patients than the
health center has had in past
weeks, but overall she does not
think it is unusual for this time of
year.
{ i Last week was a really
bad week for allergies.
Gerald Fleischli
director,
University Health Center
n
“I don’t think this number is dif
ferent from past years,” she said.
McCormick also said weather is
a significant factor in making peo
ple sick.
“This week the numbers will
probably drop off because we’ve
had the rain,” she said.
Dr. Gerald Fleischli, the director
of the health center, said running
out of allergy medicine is not that
serious a problem for the health
center because it can reorder deliv
eries every day. He said this is
nothing like last winter’s shortage
of the flu vaccine.
“With allergies it’s a very
short-term thing,” he said. “Last
week was a really bad week for
allergies.”
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been referred to the second level of
the program for repeat offenders.
"It has worked pretty well," Mace
said.
Next year, Mace said, the course
will continue to be held as often as
demand is high enough to fill the
class. And beginning in the fall, stu
dents who receive University Hous
ing alcohol citations will be required
to go through the BUSTED program
as well.
Mace said she believes part of the
reason why the program has been
successful is that it focuses on raising
awareness of alcohol-related issues
without being judgmental of those
who choose to drink.
Because the EPD is not directly in
volved with the BUSTED program,
police spokeswoman Pam Alejandre
said she could not comment on the
effectiveness of the course.
But, she said, “The Eugene Police
Department is very supportive of any
program whose goal is to reduce al
cohol use among minors. ”
The ten-hour course is open to any
one cited for being a minor in posses
sion of alcohol, for furnishing or sell
ing alcohol to a minor, or for
contributing to the alcohol consump
tion of a minor.
In return, participants can earn
University credit, and their fine is re
duced to a court fee of about $50. If it
is a first offense, the violation will not
appear on a criminal record.
Although students must also pay a
class registration fee of $35, the cost is
still lower than the fines they would
pay in court. The fine for an MIP can
be up to $250 — and for violations
such as furnishing alcohol to minors,
offenders can pay up to $5,000.
Mace, who teaches the class, said
she tries to dispel many popular
myths about drinking. For example,
she said, many people believe that
when a person "passes out" after
drinking too much, they have simply
fallen asleep. In fact, she said, it is an
alcohol-induced coma.
The point of the class is not to dis
courage people from drinking, Mace
said, but to tell them "if you choose to
drink, these are the ways in which
you can be safe."
Kristen Grbavac, a junior exercise
and movement science major, attend
ed the class winter term and said be
cause much of the class focused on
alcoholism, many of the issues dis
cussed did not seem to apply to her
own life.
But she said she is appreciative
that the program allowed her to pay a
lower fine and to avoid having the ci
tation on her criminal record.
“I’m glad it was there because it
kind of made the whole thing go
away,” she said. “It wasn’t painful or
anything.”
Abby Kment, a junior education
major who received an MIP citation
last year, said the BUSTED program
seems to be a fairer and more effective
way to deal with students cited for al
cohol violations.
"Being a poor college student," she
said, "I wish that option was available
to me at the time."
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few weeks — people are ready to see
the rain again,” said Jean Jensen, a
registered nurse with the Allergy and
Asthma Research Group.
Much of the high concentration of
pollen in Eugene and the Willamette
Valley can be attributed to the climate,
the “closed air shed” — so called be
cause the area is sandwiched between
mountain ranges — and the fact that
the area grows about 90 percent of the
world’s grass seed, Jensen said.
Intensity differs every year based
on the previous year's weather, cur
rent weather and other environmen
tal factors. Most people in the profes
sion who deal with allergies said this
year is not any worse than others, but
that the onslaught of pollen came
quite suddenly.
The Sacred Heart Ask-A-Nurse hot
line has seen a significant increase in
the number of calls regarding allergies
as well. “This is definitely the season,”
said one of the hotline nurses, who is
required to remain anonymous. “We
give people comfort measures they can
take to help them feel better until they
can take more permanent actions.”
The hotline fields an estimated 75
calls a day regarding allergies, many
pertaining to medications that are not
working effectively or from callers
who have not been officially diag
nosed but want to know what meas
ures they can take to feel better.
During May, pollen levels in
creased from just 2 grains per cubic
meter to 356, then peaking June 1 at
502 grains. The Allergy and Asthma
Research Group in Eugene takes
pollen counts three to five times per
week, Jensen said.
Depending on the cause of a per
son’s allergies, the section of the coun
try and the pollination periods, sea
sonal allergic rhinitis may occur in the
spring, summer or fall and last until
the first frost, according to the NAB.
When an allergen, such as pollen, is
absorbed into an allergic person’s
body, that person’s immune system
views the allergen as an invader and a
chain reaction starts. White blood
cells produce antibodies, which at
tach themselves to special cells,
called mast cells, causing a release of
potent chemicals such as histamine,
the NAB says in the “frequently asked
questions” section of its Web site.
The NAB estimates that there are
more than 18 million office visits to
primary care physicians resulting in
a diagnosis of sinusitis each year.
Allergy specialists agree that over
the-counter medications can help
sufferers, but they recommend any
one experiencing chronic symp
toms see a physician.