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South Eugene and U of 0 Springfield, Duck's Village, Chase Village and University Commons Santa Clara/River Road 746-PAPA (7272) 461-PAPA (7272) we accept uo purchase orders ■LARGE PIZZ with up to 2 toppings Say “Papa Size” it! 30% more pizza only $2 more. - Additional toppings extra OHIy _ ! expires 12/15/01J 2. GOOD TO BE TRUE TWO LARGE 2-TOPPING PIZZAS “Papa Size” it for only $2 per pizza. Additional toppings extra |^tvaii^witfWothei^ttej^specid^L.nmtedDelivervAr^a^^^B only Anthrax update continued from page 1 tors await the results from environ mental tests of 19 congressional buildings. So far, nine people in Florida, New York, New Jersey and now Washington have fallen ill from anthrax exposure, three of them with the more-dangerous pul monary version. The list of victims illustrates the insidious nature of the attacks, which in every case has failed to infect the apparent in tended target, such as NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw. Instead, most victims have been mail handlers or staff aides. The anthrax has claimed only one life, that of Robert Stevens, a photo editor at American Media Inc. in Boca Ra ton, Fla. Officials would not release the name of the latest victim, the first in the nation’s capital. The U.S. Postal Service imme diately closed the city’s central mail-processing center where the infected employee worked. Offi cials also closed a Maryland air mail-processing facility near Bal timore-Washington International Airport, which the employee fre quented. Anthrax screenings for about 2,200 postal employees from both locations began Sunday at a city government building and will con tinue Monday at District of Colum bia General Hospital. Those em ployees will each be given a 10-day supply of the antibiotic Cipro until results of their nasal swab tests are confirmed. The stricken employee went to the hospital on Friday complaining of a fever, chest pains and similar flu-like symptoms. When hospital personnel learned he was a postal worker, the man was tested for an thrax, admitted to the hospital and immediately placed on antibiotics. On Sunday the test results con firmed the man had inhaled an thrax spores. The prognosis for a U.S. air attacks not confirmed, officials say By Drew Brown & Andrew Maykuth Knight Rldder Newspapers WASHINGTON (KRT) - U.S, combat jets appeared to pound front-line Taliban troop positions north of the Afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday in what would be the first strike of that kind. A Pentagon spokesman would not confirm the attack, but two American jets were seen streak ing overhead in Jibal Saraj inside rebel-held territory about 15 miles north of Bagram air base. Explosions were heard in the dis tance a short while later. The jets flew in from the north and appeared to be hitting posi tions on the other side of Bagram, toward Kabul, though there was no official confirmation that they hit the Taliban front lines. If the jets hit the Taliban front lines, it would be the first time that air strikes have been used to support a ground offensive by the anti-Taliban rebel army known as the United Front and the North ern Alliance. Such cooperation would signal a widening of the U.S.-led campaign to oust the Tal iban from power and destroy Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida ter rorist network. Since U.S. and British military strikes began in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, U.S. military officials have avoided lending direct aid to Unit ed Front rebels while diplomatic efforts are focused on building a post-Taliban coalition government. Pakistan, a key partner in the U.S.-led anti-terrorism alliance, wants to replace the Taliban but staunchly opposes a takeover by the United Front. American and Pakistani officials hope Afghanistan's 86-year-old former king can forge a post-Taliban coalition government. Experts say that Special Forces soldiers are likely to help train and equip rebel forces and possi bly to coordinate U.S, air strikes as the rebels advance on Kabul and other Taliban-held territory. © 2001, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. person with inhaled anthrax is “not great,” said Dr. Anne Peterson, Vir ginia Health Commissioner. In and around the U.S. Capitol on Sunday, officials continued scouring for evidence of anthrax in congressional buildings; a letter opened last Monday in Daschle’s offices had sent anthrax spores into the air. Twenty-two congres sional aides and six police officers were exposed to the anthrax in that letter, though none have shown evidence of infection. Up to 5,000 people on Capitol Hill have been tested for exposure to anthrax since the Daschle letter was discovered. Four locations near the Capitol have tested positive for anthrax. They include the area around Daschle’s two-floor office suite in the Hart Office Building; the mail-handling facility in the Dirk sen Office building next door; a Capitol police mail-intake facility that examines congressional mail about 15 blocks from the Capitol; and the Ford Office Building, which sorts mail for the House of Representatives. Authorities remained at a loss to explain how the anthrax traces got inside the Ford Office Building or in the mail facility. “We’re not at a point where we can render an opinion as to whether there is cross-contamina tion” from the Daschle letter, said Lt. Dan Nichols, the Capitol police spokesman. Eugene Kiely of the Philadelphia Inquirer contributed to this story from Trenton, N.J.; Cassio Furtado contributed from New York, N.Y. © 2001, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. News briefs Cell phone tower put on hold The construction of a cell phone communications tower at 15th Av enue and Villard Street has been temporarily halted by the city of Eugene. The application Sprint PCS sub mitted to construct a tower a block away from campus is incomplete, said city planner Kent Kullby. While the project itself has not been denied, Sprint will need to finish the application process before the company can proceed, he said. Sprint has been trying to get a tower constructed in the campus area for the past several months. There are currently no locations available for siting on campus, Uni versity Planner David Barta said. Barta has been working closely with the company to find a site on campus to give students better cell phone reception. Barta said the ideal spot would have been atop Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, but there is already too much communications equip ment there. The University is drawing up guidelines for any future siting projects, but the guidelines won’t be done for at least six months, Bar ta said. If the application for the 15th Avenue and Villard Street lo cation is approved, students and lo cal residents will have 30 days to offer feedback on the project. — Brook Reinhard r.T9 s i*. Architecture school announces endowments In an attempt to lure top interi or design and architecture profes sionals to the University, the School of Architecture and Allied Arts announced a new endowed professorship and a visiting lec tureship. The endowed professor ship, named after University grad uate Margo Grant Walsh, will initially establish a visiting pro fessorship with plans to eventual ly become a resident position within the department. The Fin row Distinguished lectureship will support an annual lecture by the Walsh professor. The lecture is a gift from Gunilla Finrow, di rector of the University Interior Architecture program from 1988 95, and her husband, Jerry, the former dean of the School of Ar chitecture and Allied Arts. “Our program in interior archi tecture is recognized nationally for its superb program,” said ar chitecture dean Robert Melnick. “The Grant Walsh Professorship and Finrow Lecture will enable us to advance the program’s quality and long-term impact on the prac tice, theory and teaching of interi or architecture.” —John Liebhardt University alumna discusses liberal education According to Gail Fullerton, a liberal arts education isn’t that dif ferent from the Hopi Indian rain dance. Fullerton, who was the first woman ever to receive a doctorate in sociology at the University, said both have a manifest and latent purpose. During a discussion on the lead ership value of a liberal arts educa tion in the EMU Boardroom on Fri day, Fullerton said the manifest purpose of the rain dance is to bring rain; the latent purpose is to bring solidarity to the group. A liberal arts education’s manifest purpose is to get a degree, she explained; the latent purpose is to gain a better un derstanding of how to interact with people. “Communication skills are better with a liberal arts education,” she said. Fullerton, the former president of San Jose State University, further explained that classes in the hu manities and social sciences give students the ability to understand group behavior. “People behave differently in small groups. If you understand that, you can mold their opinion,” she said. Bill Bankhead, the career liaison of social sciences for the Career Center, elaborated on the concept of understanding group behavior. “To be able to find the strengths of others in group interaction is an important leadership skill,” Bankhead said. Fullerton also discussed the im portance of oral communication skills and the ability to speak in front of groups. — Helen Schumacher Recycling makes a world of a difference.
