Wednesday, October 8,2003
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 105, Issue 29
Schwarzenegger
projected to win
California recall
After beingthe nation’s second-ever winner
of a gubernatorial recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger
stands poised to take Gov. Gray Davis' place
By John Simerman
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — California voters hoisted Republi
can Arnold Schwarzenegger to the state's highest political office
Tuesday, trampling Gov. Gray Davis underfoot in a historic recall
election that wasn't close.
Schwarzenegger, the action movie star who turned a stunning
recall campaign into a wild frenzy watched
across the globe, is expected to take office
within weeks.
He far outpaced Lt. Gov. Cruz Busta
mante, the Democratic fallback candidate in
case voters yanked Davis from office.
They yanked hard.
The recall is expected to pass by a dou
ble-digit margin, as voters chose to pull Davis from office less
than a year after his re-election.
Secretary of State Kevin Shelley said he must first certify the re
sults before Schwarzenegger can take office. He said that would
be done by Nov. 15. Legal challenges are expected.
Schwarzenegger, making his virgin bid for public office, led a
field of 135 replacement candidates that added equal parts con
fusion and comic relief to the unprecedented recall process.
Hours before the polls closed at 8 p.m., Davis backers were re
signed to defeat.
The mood was subdued at a downtown Los Angeles hotel,
where Democratic Party officials and labor leaders held an elec
tion-night wake. Davis kept to a suite upstairs with family mem
bers and advisors.
Bob Mulholland, a top Democratic bulldog, blamed a national
economic malaise for the recall's success.
- "Anger by voters, anger," he said in summing up the result." But
1 say that's across the country."
At the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, Republican
leaders celebrated.
Jim Brulte, the state Senate Republican leader, said
Schwarzenegger's campaign has had a transition team in place for
10 days.
"This is a huge wake-up call," Brulte said. '"Ibis is the voters of
California saying to Sacramento, TVe don't like what you guys
have been doing.'"
INSIDE
Page 4: Analysis
of California’s
economic troubles
Turn to ELECTION, page 12
KRT
Schwarzenegger campaigns in San Jose, Calif, on Tuesday.
Adam Amato Photo Editor
Gerald Berk, head of the political science department, speaks to his PS 201 class about U.S. government on Tuesday in Fenton Hall.
As no official University
code exists, debate about
faculty political opinion
in the classroom continues
By Ayisha Yahya
News Editor
Pro-Bush or anti-Bush, pro-global
ization or anti-capitalism, conserva
tive or liberal, there are opinions ga
lore voiced in the University's
classrooms. And while the University
has set guidelines for the faculty's po
litical expression, it does not have offi
cial rules that curtail what professors
can or cannot say.
With staggering global challenges
— including the war in Iraq, terror
ism, economic crises, social inequali
ties and environmental degradation
— people have various convictions
they want to share in and outside the
classroom. Some professors are partic
ularly vocal about their political ide
ologies, and whether their values may
be different or even offensive to some
students, they do have the academic
freedom to voice them.
Vice President of Academic Affairs
Lorraine Davis said the University
can't restrict professors because free
exchange of ideas is vital to the goals
of the school.
"As an institution, one of our pur
poses is to be able to discuss all sides
of an issue and represent all compo
nents," Davis said. "Universities need
to be places where different ideas can
be expressed and explained."
Still, the University does have
some expectations of teachers. Ac
cording to the faculty handbook,
teachers "are entitled to freedom in
the classroom in discussing subjects,
but they should be careful not to in
troduce into their teaching contro
versial matter that has no relation to
the subject." The handbook also
states that "(i)n the exercise of this
freedom of expression, faculty mem
bers should manifest appropriate re
straint, should show respect for the
opinions of others and should make
every effort to indicate that they are
not institutional spokesmen.”
Associate English Professor Shari
Huhndorf, who also teaches Native
American Studies, said having hard
and fast rules that restrict political
speech would be dangerous. In her
teaching, her political opinions do
find their way into class discussion.
Turn to POLITICS, page 6
Study: Female smokers face greater risks
A recent study finds that the
number of 18 to 24-year-oid
female smokers in Oregon
exceeds the national average
By Ali Shaughnessy
Senior News Reporter
To University junior Chelsea Williams,
smoking a cigarette comes just as natural
ly as breathing.
She isn't alone. Out of more than
10,000 females attending the University,
20 percent of them smoke, according to
a University Health Center survey.
But female smokers, including young
women at the University, may be at
greater risk than previously thought.
A recent report found that smoking is the
leading cause of preventable death among
women. The study — co-sponsored by the
Center for Women's Health at Oregon
Health and Science University and the Na
tional Women's Law Center — found that
nearly 2,000 women die of smoking-related
causes, including lung cancer and cardio
vascular disease, each year in Oregon. The
national number reaches 178,000.
The study also found that in the 18-to
24-year-old range, 26 percent of women
smoke in Oregon, which is a higher per
centage than the national average.
Michelle Berlin, an associate professor
of obstetrics, gynecology, public health
and preventative medicine, was one of
the primary authors of the report. She
said the study's results deliver deplorable
news for Oregon women.
"A lot of women are dying, and we
can and should be doing more to
Turn to SMOKERS, page 10
WEATHER
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HIGH
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INSIDE
Campus buzz.6
Classifieds.10-11
Commentary..2-3
Crossword.11
Nation & World.4
Sports.7
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