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Volume 104, Issue 130
Forces take two more cities
Patrick Peterson Jonathan S. Landay
and Martin Merzer
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Two more Iraqi strong
holds — the northern oil cities of Kirkuk and
Mosul — fell Thursday as U.S. and allied forces
pursued the remnants of Saddam Hussein’s
army and closed in on his ancestral hometown.
At the same time, combat and anarchy flared
in Baghdad and elsewhere, illustrating the diffi
culty of engineering a smooth transition from
dictatorship to democracy:
• A suicide bomber seriously wounded four
U.S. Marines late Thursday in the capital. To the
south, an angry crowd hacked to death two cler
ics at a Shiite Muslim shrine in Najaf. To the
north, looting swiftly followed liberation in
Kirkuk and Mosul.
• In Kirkuk, anti-Hussein Kurdish forces swept
into the city virtually unopposed, followed by
U.S. troops. In Mosul, Iraqi forces and Baath Par
ty officials simply slipped away, replaced Thurs
day night by U.S. Special Forces.
• U.S. officers said four Iraqi army divisions,
with up to 30,000 men, signaled their readiness
to surrender. The northern oil fields were
almost entirely undamaged.
By early Friday, U.S. forces stood within 60
miles of Hussein’s home city of Tikrit, where
large numbers of Republican Guard forces and
other Hussein loyalists were thought to be gath
ering for a last stand.
U.S. military strategists concentrated their ef
forts on tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers said
to remain in the north. U.S. warplanes repeated
ly struck their units. The Iraqis’ will to fight
could not be assessed.
“They are the last significant formations on
Turn to Forces, page 3
Health precautions
Lindsay Sauve
Family/Health/Education Reporter
Patients visiting the University Health
Center with cold or flu symptoms may be
surprised when they are asked to use an al
ternate entrance.
In an attempt to prevent any possible trans
mission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syn
drome, University health officials have been
following strict quarantine guidelines imposed
by the World Health Organization and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As of Thursday, the number of cases of
SARS worldwide was 2,781, with 154 in
the United States, according to the WHO
Web site. No SARS-related deaths have yet
been reported in the United States, but
111 people worldwide have died as a result
of the disease.
SARS, a pneumonia-like disease of un
known origin, was discovered in late Febru
ary in Hanoi, Vietnam. International trav
elers to affected areas — such as Canada,
Singapore, China and Vietnam — are ad
vised to be aware of the main symptoms of
SARS, including a fever higher than 100.4
degrees, dry cough and shortness of breath
or breathing difficulties.
Anne Mattson, the University Health Cen
ter’s director of nursing, said patients who
call in with symptoms of a fever and a cough
will be directed to use the west entrance,
near the counseling center, where they will
ring a bell and be greeted by a nurse in a res
piratory mask. The patients will then be tak
en into an isolation room where the nurse
will ask them a series of questions about
their travel history and specific symptoms.
“We explain carefully to the patient what
Photo illustration by Mark McCambridge Emerald
To prevent the spread of SARS, a disease similar to pneumonia, students with SARS-like symptoms will
be directed to the west entrance of the University Health Center.
we are doing and why we are taking these
precautions,” said Mattson. “The patients
we’ve seen have been very understanding.”
Mattson said for patients to be counted as
a possible SARS cases, they must have a
chest X-ray that tests positive for pneumo
nia and have traveled in one of the affected
areas. All possible cases of SARS are re
ferred to the Oregon Department of Health
and Human Services.
Various departments around campus are
also providing resources for anyone who
has questions about SARS. Tom Hicks, as
sociate director of the University Depart
ment of Public Safety, said their Web site
has a link with frequently asked questions
about SARS. Other departments, such as
Human Resources and University Housing,
are in the process of creating links to the
Health Center and the CDC.
Abe Schafermeyer, an adviser at the Of
fice of International Programs said he has
received a few inquiries about SARS from
Turn to SARS, page 4
Candidate
files ASUO
elections
grievance
ASUO elections
Student Senate Seat 1 candidate
Damion Meany is penalized for
violating a rule by campaigning
within 50 feet of a voting booth
Jennifer Bear
Campus/Federal Politics Reporter
There is a sordid history behind ASUO
elections: improper postering, vote-buy
ing and assorted hanky-panky. It can
sometimes seem like the elections begin
the day the first grievance is filed. If that’s
the case, the 2003 elections have begun.
Adrian Gilmore, a
candidate for ASUO
Student Senate Seat
1, filed a grievance
Thursday against
Damion Meany, one
of his competitors,
for violating ASUO
election rules by
campaigning within 50 feet of a voting
booth.
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Gilmore said there was chalking in
support of Meany’s candidacy in front of
the Student Recreation Center on
Wednesday and Thursday. The cam
paign sidewalk chalking is a two-fold
rule violation.
First, it is against ASUO election rules
to campaign within 50 feet of a voting
booth while the election is going on. The
message telling people to vote for Meany
was written 20 feet away from a comput
er in the lobby of the rec center that al
lows students to log onto Duck Web.
Second, chalking is against University
policy unless you clear it through Uni
versity Scheduling, but the Scheduling
Office’s rules prohibit chalking to pro
mote ballot measures or candidates or
any other sort of political campaigning.
ASUO Elections Coordinator Andrea
Hall said she had spoken with Meany, in
structing him that he needed to remove
the chalking, but Meany left her a message
Turn to Grievance, page 3
Vietnamese student finds strength
through cross-cultural learning
Asian experience
Phong Chan and his family left a life
of luxury in Vietnam in 1988 for educational
opportunities and a brighter future
Roman Gokhman
Campus/City Culture Reporter
What would parents do in order to ensure their chil
dren receive a good education?
For the parents of Phong Chan and his four brothers,
it meant leaving a comfortable life and learning every
thing all over again.
Chan’s family left their home in Saigon, Vietnam, in
1988 when Phong was 10 years old, and they arrived in
the United States two years later.
Anh Lu, Chan’s mother, said her family left most of
their belongings and lives behind.
“I wanted my children to have a good future,” Lu said.
“I wanted my children to go to school.”
Chan, now 22 and an architecture student at the Uni
versity, went from a life of luxury to being the odd child
out in elementary school in Portland, and he is just now
starting to feel comfortable in his Asian skin.
In Saigon, his parents owned several bakeries and
a restaurant and were of high social status — they had
Turn to Vietnamese, page 4
Alongwith
his family,
Phong Chan
left behind
life in
Vietnam
for a brighter
future in the
U.S., which
Chan now
enjoys as an
architecture
major at the
University.
' Mark
McCambridge
Emerald
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