A little Duck bashing
Barometer columnist Carole Chase shares
her love for all things Eugene. Page 2
Bring it on, Beavers
The Ducks are rested, resolute and ready
to reclaim Civil War bragging rights. Game Day
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Volume 103, Issue 67
Youth and AIDS
in the 21st
Century’
■ Saturday is the 14th annual World AIDS Day,
and students should begin to pay attention
By Leon Tovey
Oregon Daily Emerald
Ana Haase-Reed doesn’t think she’s any more
at risk for HIV or AIDS than anyone else, but that
didn’t stop her from getting tested. The 19-year
old University sophomore said she was tested a
couple of years ago just for “basic safety.”
World AIDS Day is Saturday, and as the event
reaches its 14th year, health care professionals
in the United States are concerned that
HIV/AIDS awareness among the college-age
population isn’t what it should be.
“I’d say I’m about average; I did pay attention
in school,” said Haase-Reed,
a public relations major who
said she was only vaguely
aware that there was such a
thing as World AIDS Day. “I
don’t think about it a lot, not
having ever known anybody
(with HIV or AIDS), but I do keep
it in mind — it’s always in the back of my head.”
Twenty-one-year-old junior Brian Stutzman ex
pressed similar feelings.
“I would say most people have it in the back of
their minds, but don’t think about it very much,”
Stutzman said. “It’s probably not as pressing as
it should be.”
Stutzman, a general science major, said he
doesn’t know anyone with HIV or AIDS per
sonally and isn’t sure if anyone he knows
has ever been tested. He said that he has
n’t and isn’t worried about it because
he’s always been careful. Stutzman
said while he feels there are risks, he
never really thought about HIV or
AIDS at the University.
“I assume with all the party
ing, there’s a lot of unsafe
sex,” Stutzman said. “But I
don’t think AIDS in partic
ular (is a problem).”
According to Dr. Ger
Inside
Area health workers
are trying to raise
AIDS awareness
among students.
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World
AIDS Day
The 14th annual World
AIDS Day will be observed
Saturday.
On Campus: The University Peer
Health Educators will hold a ceremony
at noon today to rededicate the World
AIDS Day Tree in front of the University
Health Center. The dedication will feature a
performance by the University music school’s
Saxophone Quartet and a poetry reading.
In the Community: The HIV Alliance will host a memorial
service from 6 to 7 p.m. at the First Congregational Church
at 1050 E. 23rd Ave. A candlelight procession to
University Park will follow.
Source: University Health Education and the HIV Alliance.
Duck football
brings fans,
money to town
■ Oregon’s success makes a $2.3 million economic
impact on the local community—every game
By John Liebhardt
Oregon Daily Emerald
When football fans hear the sound of the foghorn
announcing another Oregon touchdown, local business
owners hear the sweet sound of profits.
During an average football Saturday, campus area bars
report long lines and throngs of fans wanting to see the
Ducks on TV. Tim Shipley, a bartender at Taylor’s Bar and
Grille, said fans begin to line up at the bar a few hours be
fore game time and don’t leave until late in the night.
“We are extremely busy during football games, especially
when the game is later in the day,” he said.
That sentiment was echoed at other campus area bars. Lo
cal restaurants also feel the effects of football Saturdays.
The Hungry Duck, a restaurant and lounge near Autzen
Stadium, is “very busy a couple hours before the game and a
couple hours after the game,” said Marci Laursen, the general
manager. “It gets pretty crazy.”
Eugene business leaders say the area restaurants, bars and
hotels should not have been caught off guard. The hype —
and success — of this year’s football team has brought more
fans, and their dollars, to the Eugene area.
“The success of the team does help to bring in more visi
tors to the area,” said Lisa Lawton, director of community
relations at the Convention and Visitors Association of
Lane County. “We are a successful team, we have the rank
ings, and this generates more interest and tends to bring in
more visitors.”
The football team has been an important money maker in
the community for years, said Dave Hauser, president of the
Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce.
“Oregon football is a pretty significant economic engine,”
he said. “It would be difficult to imagine what it would be
Turn to Booster, page 4A
Harrington remains
strong through family
■Although he’s currently something of a celebrity, Joey
Harrington just wants to be an ordinary college student
UND
HELMET
By Anne Le Chevallier
Oregon Daily Emerald
Try visiting JoeyHarrington.net, and
the pre-game motorcycle revs while
an image of the 23-year-old Univer
sity of Oregon quarterback appears.
In his green No. 3 uniform, Har
rington stands tall and confident.
He stood even taller in the six
story “Joey Heisman” mural that
graced Times Square in New York City this summer, and
he appeared more daunting" on the Aug.
13 cover of Sports Illustrated.
Clouded by this sports marketing and
media blitz, fans may not be able to see
Harrington’s true self. And with a college
bowl ring, the Davey O’Brien Award and
a National Football League career as fu
ture possibilities, the real Joey Harring
ton guards his privacy and counts on his
family ties to keep him grounded.
In 1997, Harrington almost landed at
Stanford University, but the football
Turn to Harrington, page 4A