Sprinkle some love
Feminist porn star Annie Sprinkle graces
the University with her presence. Page 8
A record year
The Oregon soccer team missed NCAAs,
but seta school record in wins. Page 9
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Wednesday, Novemberl 4,2001
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 57
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■ Eugene will celebrate the
Beaujolais Nouveau along with
wine lovers across the globe
By Jen West
Oregon Daily Emerald
Each third Thursday of November,
wine lovers from all corners of the
world turn their eyes to France. They
brave cold, wind, rain and snow in an
ticipation of that magic hour when the
clock strikes midnight.
With corks popping and fireworks
dazzling in the sky the first bottle of
2001 Beaujolais Nouveau will be
opened. The festival for Beaujolais
Nouveau celebrates its 50th anniversary
Thursday, in both France and Eugene.
Beaujolais Nouveau is a red wine
specially known for its light, fruity
taste, and is produced after harvest just
once every year.
Originally, there was no official date
for the distribution of the Beaujolais
Nouveau wine, and French villages cel
ebrated the end of harvest at various
times in October and November.
According to www.intowine.com, af
ter many years of debated regulations
and restrictions over the distribution of
the Beaujolais Nouveau, the French
government in 1951 officially recog
nized Nov. 15 as the release date for the
special wine. The Web site also said the
date was then changed in 1985 to the third
Thursday in November in order to incorpo
rate the weekend.
Oregon began celebrating Beaujolais Nou
veau in the late 1980s, according to Simon Si
monton, premise manager at Columbia Dis
tributing Company in Eugene, and then grew
Jonathan House Emerald
to include wine samplings of the Oregon
Pinot Noirs.
“(Beaujolais Nouveau) is a celebration of
wine, friends and family,” he said.
Today, the Beaujolais Nouveau festival is
celebrated over the long weekend in France
by thousands of people whose only common
Jan Albrecht
attends a wine
tasting event
Saturday at
Sundance Wine
Cellars. This
week marks the
50th anniversary
of the Beaujolais
Nouveau,
a French wine
featured at
Sundance
on Friday.
thread may be their shared love
of wine. From store windows to subway
walls, posters announce that the Beaujolais
Nouveau has arrived — “Le Beaujolais Nou
veau est arrivee!”
Turn to Beaujolais, page 4
Final teach-in explores impact of media coverage
■A political science professor
takes issue with what is called
‘coverage’ of the ongoing
situation in Afghanistan
By John Liebhardt
Oregon Daily Emerald
Jerry Medler, an associate pro
fessor of political science, will be
one of the speakers at today’s “Af
ter September 11” teach-in spon
sored by the political science de
partment and ASUO. Medler, who
is currently teaching a class on the
role of mass media in American
politics, will speak on press cover
age of the U.S.-led invasion of
Afghanistan. Medler spoke with
the Emerald in a QfrA session
about his presentation. His words
have been edited for brevity and
clarity.
How difficult is it for reporters
to gather information in
Afghanistan and Pakistan?
There are lots of people on the
ground in Afghanistan and Pak
istan, but their positions from a
journalistic perspective are com
promised. I don’t think they are ly
ing, and I don’t think they are be
ing fed a line, but they are
constrained or managed in such a
way that they are not getting any
useful information. My favorite
coverage is of the ground troops
maneuvering in northern
Afghanistan. The reporters don’t
say how they get their informa
tion, but they don’t deny it either.
In their stories, there is usually a
phrase built into a sentence in the
middle of the third paragraph that
says ‘by satellite telephone.’
So, these journalists are sitting
in some reasonably air-condi
tioned, safe-drinking-water locale,
and that is not to say that they are
either safe or unhappy, but they
are certainly not at the front. At
the end of the day, the warlord of
the Northern Alliance takes the
satellite phone the reporters have
given him, dials the number and
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tells the reporters what wonderful
things the Northern Alliance did
that day. Some people actually use
an Afghanistan byline, yet I hon
estly don’t know what that means.
I assume it means they are stand
ing inside the border. I assume
they are probably under the
purview of the Northern Alliance
or the American military.
I think there have been some
cases, although very few, where
some people have been guests of
the Taliban. But there has been
very, very little on the ground re
porting. But, it has been very hard.
I can’t tell where this information
is coming from. But it is clear that
this information is second- and
third-hand. It is reports on reports,
basically.
Should people he skeptical of
this information?
I wouldn’t give a nickel for a
bushel of this kind of information
— particularly since we know the
Bush administration is trying to
stall the Northern Alliance, and
Turn to Teach-in, page 4
U.S. fights
Oregon’s
suicide law
■The Death with Dignity Law,
twice approved by Oregon voters,
has come underfire by U.S.
Attorney General John Ashcroft
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Physicians in Oregon can still write
prescriptions that terminally ill patients
can use to end their lives—for now. Local
advocates on both sides of the issue are
preparing for a court battle that they say
will go all the way to the Supreme Court.
Kevin Neely, spokesman for Oregon
Attorney General Hardy Myers, said that a
temporary restraining order filed last
Thursday assures the legality of physi
cian-assisted suicide, as specified in Ore
gon’s Death with Dignity Law. The order
expires on Nov. 20, at which time there
will be a hearing in U.S. District Court to
determine whether to grant a preliminary
injunction that would allow Oregon’s law
to function while the case is in court.
Attorney General John Ashcroft
brought Oregon’s law into question last
week with a memo to the Drug Enforce
ment Agency that bars physicians from
prescribing lethal doses of federally con
trolled substances.
Derek Humphry, the founder of the
Hemlock Society, believes that the case
will go all the way to the Supreme Court.
Humphry, a resident of Junction City, has
founded or been a part of more than 80
chapters of the Hemlock Society and has
been advocating physician-assisted sui
cide since 1980.
“Our goal has always been to help peo
ple who are dying at the moment,”
Humphry said. The secondary goal of the
group is to legalize physician-assisted sui
cide in all 50 states. Humphry added that
Turn to Assisted suicide, page 4
Big 10 sports
wants athletic
expenses cut
■ Resolution supporters hope
to limit commercialization of
college sports and keep academics
a priority in higher education
By Eric Martin
Oregon Daily Emerald
A Big 10 Conference committee
passed a resolution earlier this month
aimed at halting exorbitant athletic
spending and curtailing the overcom
mercialization of college sports. The
committee’s decision follows in the
footsteps of policymakers at eight Pacif
ic 10 Conference schools who passed a
similar resolution in the spring.
Turn to Resolution, page 5