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Jammin’ for wins
Both men’s and women’s teams snag wins
at the annual Pape Jam in Portland. Page 9
Monday, November 26,2001
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University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 63
Fears about flying don’t stop holiday air travelers
■The usual holiday crowds filled
Northwest airports this weekend,
but faced new security measures
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Thanksgiving is the biggest travel
time of the year for the airline industry,
and although the number of people
traveling by plane has declined in the
last two months, the Eugene Airport re
mained busy over the holiday.
There were no reported security in
cidents at the airport, but other
Northwest airports had long delays
Saturday. In Seattle, a metal detector
at the airport was discovered to be
broken, causing a three-hour shut
down to allow security officials to re
screen passengers. But some passen
gers had already boarded planes,
causing delays at other West Coast
destinations when those passengers
arrived. A section of Oakland’s air
port was also shut down for 90 min
utes Saturday so passengers could be
rechecked, according to the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. The incidents did
not cause any delays in Eugene.
“Our Thanksgiving business has
picked up a little bit,” said Tiffany
Smith, an employee at Plane Travel
ers, the gift shop at the Eugene Air
port. The store has seen a decline in
business since Sept. 11, and Smith
said customers have been doing more
browsing and less buying. She added
that customers aren’t buying travel
scissors and sewing kits at the shop
any more, because they can be confis
cated at the airport’s security check
point.
Airport officials advise travelers to
arrive two hours ahead of time and
plan for long lines at security check
points.
“It’s been a pain in the ass,” said
Scott Reed, a New Mexico resident
who was traveling back home Sunday.
“I have to wake up two hours early.”
Reed has been on three flights since
Sept. 11, and says flying isn’t any
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Jonathan House Emerald
Sleep disorders hit home with college students
■ Insomnia and other problems
can interrupt daily life for many,
but fortunately there are cures
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
Twenty-year-old Taylor Rutledge, a
college junior, said it’s normal for him
to not fall asleep until 5 or 6 in the
morning. It’s not because he’s out with
his friends or studying for exams —
Rutledge has a sleeping disorder.
“It’s almost like my body forgot how
to sleep,” he said.
He isn’t alone. Dr. Victoria Skellcerf
of the University Health Center said the
majority of sleep problems she treats in
college students between the ages of 18
to 26 are related to anxiety or depres
sion. And she said these problems are
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Jonathan House Emerald
Juan Knutson,
a supervisor at the
Sleep Disorders
and Neurology
Clinic, helps a
patient into bed
prior to a battery
of tests. The clinic
diagnoses and
treats sleep
disorders like
insomnia.
Marines
to secure
airfield in
Kandahar
■The Marines’ action marks
the first significant commitment
of U.S. ground forces
By Drew Brown & Steven Thomma
Knight Ridder Newspapers
KHANABAD, Afghanistan (KRT) —
Opening a new and perhaps final phase
of the war in Afghanistan, American
forces airlifted several hundred Marines
to the edge of Kandahar on Sunday and
prepared to hunt down terrorists and
Taliban leaders now that the regime is
cornered.
Coming just after dusk, the Marine
landing followed a day in which the
Northern Alliance took the city of Kun
duz, the Taliban's last stronghold in the
northern part of the country, and U.S. air
strikes helped put down a violent riot by
about 300 foreign Taliban supporters in
a prison compound. Hundreds of the
prisoners were killed.
Waves of helicopters delivered the
Marines to an airfield 12 miles south of
Kandahar, the spiritual home to the Tal
iban and its leader, Mullah Muhammad
Omar. It was the first significant com
mitment of U.S. ground forces in a cam
paign that until now has relied largely
on American air power and local
Afghan resistance on the ground.
The Marines, from the 15th and 26th
Marine Expeditionary Units based on
Navy ships in the Arabian Sea, were be
ing flown onshore in CH-5'3 and CH-46
helicopters from the assault ships USS
Bataan and USS Peleliu, a senior admin
istration official said Sunday night.
The advance guard of a force of ap
proximately 1,000 Marines, the troops
immediately set out to secure the air
field and establish the first American
military base inside Afghanistan, ac
cording to the official, who spoke only
on the condition of anonymity.
Once the airfield is secure, other
forces and equipment may be flown in
on Air Force C-130 or C-17 transport
planes. The Marines are supported by
Harrier jump jets, Cobra attack helicop
ters, Navy fighters from aircraft carriers
in the Arabian Sea and Air Force AC
130 gunships.
U.S. special forces had surveyed the
location and established contact with lo
cal Pashtun military leaders who are
fighting the Taliban in Kandahar, the
U.S. official said.
The official stressed that the base is a
temporary one, and that it's intended
primarily to enable U.S. forces to pursue
Osama bin Laden and the remnants of
his al-Qaeda terrorist organization more
quickly and aggressively. Both Marine
Expeditionary Units include Force Re
connaissance Marines, the service's
most elite commandos.
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