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Spotlight on Campus Take a closer look at some of the services the University has to offer. Inside Section Harrington hits the books In Oregon’s historic season, Joey Harrington is setting school records. Page 5A Ore independent newspaper httpy/www.dailyemerald.com Wednesday, October 17, 2001 Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Volume 103, Issue 37 ■ Lane Memorial blood bank brings its blood mobile to campus, hoping for many student donors in wake of the Sept. 11 tragedy By Diane Huber Oregon Daily Emerald Deborah Heitter, a nurse with the » Lane Memorial Blood Bank, routine ly asked freshman Eric Griffith what he had for breakfast while she smeared a yellowish-brown liquid on his forearm with a large cotton swab on Tuesday. She said the substance is iodine, used to kill the germs on Grif fith’s arm before she inserts a needle into his skin. Griffith calmly listed off his break fast of sausage, eggs, a bagel, peach and blueberry crepes, and orange juice. He seemed unfazed by the long tube connected to his forearm that methodically pumped his blood. “Is my arm supposed to be feeling weak?” he asked after several min utes. Heitter confirmed that the weak feeling was normal. Griffith is one of many community members who have donated blood since the Sept. 11 tragedy, LMBB com munity relations representative Chris tine Stockdale said. At a time when the nation is pulling together after the tragedy, the blood drive offers students, fac ulty and community members an opportunity to “do their part” in keeping the blood supply at capaci ty, she said. “Donating blood is something people can do. It doesn’t cost much, and it’s saving lives,” she said. Students can give blood today in the EMU Fir Room from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Griffith said this is his first time giving blood. He came to the Fir Room on Tuesday morning for the LMBB’s annual fall blood drive in order to donate his blood and help someone else out. “I don’t have any money to donate, so I decided to donate my Adam Amato Emerald Junior biology major Breanne Pacheco gives blood for her first time Tuesday at the Fir Room in the EMU. Pacheco plans on donating in three months when she is again eligible. blood,” he said. Tuesday was also Sandra Klemm’s first time donating blood. The doc toral student in piano performance said she had always wanted to donate but hadn’t until now. “Our current situation (since Sept. 11) gave me a push,” she said. Tuesday’s turnout was much lower than Stockdale had expected, which she said was surprising. She expects more participants today. Stockdale said that the LLMB doesn’t have an urgent need for blood at the mo ment, but every blood bank is con cerned with maintaining an ade quate blood supply for future needs. “Even though the hospitals in New York and Washington, D.C., have suf ficient blood on hand to treat victims of the attack, we need to remind peo pie that each day more than 12,000 Americans face their own illness or injury requiring blood transfusions,” she said. Heitter encourages students to do nate, she said, because a younger gen eration of donors are needed to re place many of the regular donors, who are getting older. According to a LMBB statistic, she said that 2 to 3 percent of the nation’s population provide blood for the en tire nation. Stockdale said a fear of needles keeps some people from giving blood. Others just don’t think about it and are not aware of the need for blood, she said. “It isn’t until a family member or friend needs blood that people realize Turn to Blood drive, page 4A EPD may bring Party Patrol back ■ If the number of complaints about parties continues to rise, EPD may bring back the squad By Lindsay Buchele Oregon Daily Emerald The Eugene Police Depart ment may have no choice but to increase its patrol of par ties — that is, if the number of minor-in-possession cita tions and party complaints continue at such a high rate, said EPD Sgt. Rob Olson. “There has been a continu ing problem with EPD having to issue MIPs and respond to party calls,” said Olson, who is one of the officers who works in conjunction with the University Department of Public Safety. “If our manage ment sees a need, then we could possibly be reinstating party patrol.” The original Party Patrol ended in March because of budget problems, said EPD Lt. Carolyn Mcdermed, who was a night commander for Party Patrol. She said it was too expensive to have extra officers whose primary duty was to respond to parties. EPD spokeswoman Pam Alejandre said assigning offi cers to patrol parties will not be a reinstatement of the old party patrol system, but will instead be a completely new system. If officers are once again designated to patrol parties, there will be a more balanced work schedule that will elim inate the problem of paying the officers overtime, Mc dermed said. “(Party Patrol) worked great,” she said. “When we could respond with enough officers, it made the situation safer for everyone. We could take the time to make sure the people at the party Citations issued to University students or college-age people (age 18-22) from Sept 24-0ct7 IVlinor in possession: 18 loud party: 27 Possession of marijuana (Jess than one ounce): 14 OUii 5 Open container: 15 Other calis believed to he alcohol related: 12 Other drug-related calls: 3 Source: Eugene PoiSee Department weren’t put into vulnerable situations or weren’t driving home drunk.” Eugene’s special response fee, which requires the host of a party to pay for fees in curred by EPD while re sponding to that party, has still been in effect despite the loss of Party Patrol, Ol son said. “There has been the mis understanding that because Party Patrol went away, en forcement also went away,” he said. “But we still respond to calls and still take action. I know of at least one instance this fall where a response fee was issued.” Alejandre said 18 MIPs have been issued and 27 loud parties required response be tween Sept. 24 and Oct. 7. All the incidents involved people of college age or Uni versity students. “It’s not all happening in the West University neigh borhood, either,” Mcdermed said. “We’ve seen this all over the city, especially in Turn to Party patrol, page 4A Graduate exchange student from Yemen shares perspective ■Today’s ‘After September 11 ’ teach-in will feature discussion leaders such as graduate exchange student Khaled Ishqua Editor’s note: Khaled Ishqua, a first-year international studies graduate student from Yemen, will be one of the speakers at today’s “After September 11” teach-in, sponsored by the political science department and ASUO. Yemen is a country with a population of 18 million people in the southern tip of the Arabic Peninsula. Ishqua spoke to the Emerald about his presentation, the incidents of Sept. 11 and the American re sponse. His words have been edit ed for brevity and clarity. What were your reactions to the attacks of Sept. 11? I can say I share the grief of the families of the 7,000 people in Washington (D.C.) and New York. I don’t think the criminals who did this, who prepared two years to kill civilians, had any respect for human beings. The United States lost 7,000 people, and all of humanity lost 7,000 people. What is the general response in Yemen to the American response to the attacks of Sept. 11? A lot of people there think that the war is not a war against bin Laden. They feel that it is a war against Islam. They remember the previous military actions. If you go back to Iraq, and Saddam Hussein was the main point for making a military action, he should have been brought down, instead of wailing 12 years and after millions of Iraqi people have died of starva tion because of economic sanctions. The whole region is against the war, but that does not mean that they are against bringing terrorism down. That is a different issue. Are people in Yemen fearful that the war could spread throughout the region? They are fearful that World War III is happening. They ask how many other countries can be driv en to such a war — like Palestine, Israel, Pakistan and India. Pakistan is being supported by the U.S. gov ernment. This is going to make an other problem in the Kashmir re gion. This is going to bring that Turn to Teach-in, page 4A ‘After September 11’ Five international students wiH lead today’s discussion at the weekly “After September tr teach-ins sponsored by the political science department and AStlO. The students will present their perspectives on the The teach-in will take place today from 3:30-5 p.m. In 110 Fenton. -v.V;
