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013943 Applying Psychology to the Real World Department of Psychology, Summer Session, 2002 Join us for an exciting summer of Psychology! Our summer classes are small and are geared towards investigating real life issues. Course offerings include: Evolutionary Psychology • Psychology of Trauma • Adolescent Development • Psychology of Gender • Persuasive Computing • and many others. Several courses also fulfill social science, science and multicultural requirements. Registration begins Monday, May 6, 2002. For a complete course listing and more information, please visit our web page: http://psychweb.uoregon.edu/summer J Re-Elect DciVICi Kd 1^ City Council Ward 3 www.councilorkelly.org info@councilorkelly.org 686-3343 Land Use Planning advocated for the new code encouraging compact urban growth Neighborhoods increased funding for neighborhood newsletters Economic Development supported dedicated funding for a program assisting local small businesses Working with Students working with ASUO to improve the condition of rental housing Environmental Quality received a 100% rating from the Oregon League of Conservation Voters Chirac takes win in French election By Andrea Gerlin Knight Ridder Newspapers PARIS (KRT) — Fearing a set back to democracy, French voters handed incumbent center-right President Jacques Chirac a land slide victory Sunday in a resound ing rejection of far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen's candidacy. With 96 percent of the vote counted, Interior Ministry figures gave Chirac 82 percent, the largest margin of victory in the history of France's Fifth Republic, its method of governance since 1958. The next highest margin occurred in 1969, when Georges Pompidou won 58 percent. Chirac's reelection had been widely expected after two weeks of nationwide demonstrations and debate, prompted by the controver sial Le Pen's second-place finish in the first round of voting April 21. Still, the triumph by Chirac, 69, was reluctantly accepted by his left-wing opponents Sunday, some of whom dressed in black as they cast ballots to defeat Le Pen, head of the National Front. Clad in black clothes at his polling station in Paris, leftist local council member Gilles Alayrac de scribed Sunday as a dark day for France. “It was very difficult, but I did it for a good reason,” Alayrac said after voting for Chirac. “For the National Front to be second in the first round is quite worrying. ” Chirac, whom many French vot ers viewed as an unsavory alterna tive to Le Pen because of corrup tion allegations against him, moved immediately to reassure the country that he would use his next five years in office to address the issues that enabled Le Pen's rise. He promised to reaffirm principal French values by improving secu rity, reducing taxes and eliminat ing discrimination. “I heard and understood the peo ple’s message to keep the republic alive and the fact that the people wanted a change in politics,” Chirac told supporters of his Rally for the Republic party gathered at his campaign headquarters in Paris. “I feel in charge of all of that now that I've been elected.” Le Pen, who had threatened last week to demand a recount if he received less than 30 percent of the vote, went before television cameras last night and accused Chirac of using “Russian meth ods” to win. He issued another challenge to Chirac. “He got his victory as in a Russ ian vote, where people are made to vote,” said Le Pen, who at age 73 is unofficially considered ineligible to run again. “I'm ready to wait for him at the legislative elections” next month. The parliamentary vote deter mines the prime minister and the shape of government, and this year it will decide whether Chirac gets a center-right majority or the left rebounds and retains control of the government. © 2002, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. Solidarity Patriotism The United States and Israel are united in a quest for victory over the forces that seek to undermine our shared democratic values and hopes for the future. Come hear prominent international speakers explain why what happens to Israel matters to you. It's your freedom—make it count. Hear David Zev Harris Bureau Chief of Media Line News Services, Former BBC Reporter Thursday, May 9, 2002 Program begins at 1:00pm, Doors open at 12:30pm University of Oregon Erb Memorial Union • Grand Ballroom, Upper Level All welcome • Please R.S.V.P. • Free admission and reception presented by: CARAVAN for DEMOCRACY ( ♦ Israel and America: Sharing hopes. Sharing values. -fr) For more information about Caravan for Democracy and to R.S.V.P., e-mail caravan@jnf.org, visit www.caravanfordemocracy.org or call 1-800-969-5585 x 247. Caravan for Democracy is supported by: NATIONAL FUND JNF College Activists Department www.jnf.org HEDIAWATCH www.honestreporting com Co-sponsors: OREGON HILLEL: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, Jewish Student Union, Club Israel, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, Temple Beth Israel of Eugene, and Tzedek Hillel
