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An independent newspaper___nnvw.dailyemerald.com Since 1900 | Volume 106, Issue 50 | Thursday, November 4, 2004
★ AMERICA VOTES 2004 ★
Eugene protests election results
Lauren Wimer | Senior photographer
Thirty-year resident of Eugene Alice Doyle demonstrates her opposition to the results of the election in front of the Eugene Federal Building.
Citizens gather in opposition
to war on terror, Bush election
Demonstrators said Measure 36 equates to writing
discrimination into the Oregon Constitution
BY JARED PABEN
& MEGHANN M. CUNIFF
NEWS EDITOR & NEWS REPORTER
A group of about 100 people congre
gated in front of the Eugene Federal
Building Wednesday evening, holding
‘peace’ flags, signs and waving to pass
ing motorists in a call to peace and an
end to the ongoing war in Iraq.
The gathering came hours after Presi
dent Bush told the nation he will “help
the emerging democracies of Iraq and
Afghanistan so they can grow in strength
and defend their freedom” during his
next four years in the White House.
“With good allies at our side, we will
fight this war on terror with every re
source of our national power so our
children can live in freedom and in
peace,” Bush said in his victory speech.
But 65-year Eugene resident Betsy
Steffensen, who attended the rally,
disagreed.
“These people are out here because
they want to let everyone know that we
haven’t given up on world peace and
peace for the nation,” said Steffensen,
who is president of the local Million
Mom March.
Steffensen said news of Sen. John
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Sen. Kerry avoids court-decided
election, concedes presidency
Bush retains his seat in the White House with 51
percent of popular vote and 2 74 electoral votes
BY AYISHA YAHYA
NEWS EDITOR
George W. Bush is still the presi
dent of the United States. After an in
tensive election season that polarized
the nation, Democratic candidate
John Kerry conceded to the Republi
can incumbent, who Americans
chose by a clear majority, on Wednes
day morning.
Bush received greater than 3.5 mil
lion more votes than Kerry, giving
Bush 51 percent of America’s popular
vote and 274 electoral votes. Kerry
garnered 48 percent of the popular
vote and 252 electoral votes.
In his acceptance speech in
Washington, D.C., yesterday, Bush
said he would work every day to ful
fill his duties to America and lead
the country forward.
He said the United States had faced
various tasks in the last four years
with “strength and courage.”
“Our people have restored the vig
or in this economy and showed re
solve and patience in a new kind of
war,” Bush said. “Our military has
brought justice to the enemy and
honor to America. Our nation has
defended itself and served the free
dom of all mankind.”
He said he would continue to
work on national issues, fight the
war on terror with “every resource
of our national power” and help
the “emerging democracies of Iraq
and Afghanistan.”
“To make this nation strong and
better, I will need your support, and I
will work to earn it,” he said, adding
that he will do all he can to preserve
the people’s trust.
It was a sweet victory for Bush
supporters. One grinning supporter
carried a giant Bush/Cheney sign
down East 13th Avenue, crossing
paths with a number of disappoint
ed Kerry supporters.
“This is a decisive, clear-cut victo
ry,” said Anthony Warren, the Univer
sity College Republicans membership
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Nicole Barker | Photographfr
University student Carissa Christenson, ieft, marches with LGBTQA Events
Coordinator Erin Dougherty, middle, in response to Measure 36 passing.
Students protest
gay marriage ban,
march on campus
Chanting slogans and carrying rainbow-colored
yam, marchers criticize 'backing discrimination'
BY PARKER HOWELL
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi
sexual, Tbansgender, Queer Alliance
and supporters marched around
campus for about an hour Wednes
day afternoon to protest Tliesday’s
passage of Measure 36, which de
fines marriage in Oregon as a union
between one man and one woman.
Holding rainbow flags and
hand-painted signs, about 40
marchers shouted anti-Measure
36 slogans as they toured cam
pus. Many bystanders clapped
and shouted encouragement as
the marchers passed; the demon
stration also drew wary and be
wildered looks.
The marchers, who traveled to
gether by holding onto a rainbow
colored strand of yam, circled cam
pus during the march, trekking
through Johnson Hall and the Lillis
Business Complex on their route.
“Two, four, six, eight, Lane
does not discriminate,” marchers
yelled in unison with the aid of a
bullhorn. “Discriminate against a
few and this democracy is
through.”
One marcher, Student Senator
Emily Sousa, said she was angered
and frustrated by the passage of the
measure, which she said is an at
tempt to deal with a topic people
don’t want to address.
“As much as things may be leg
islated, it doesn’t mean they’ll go
away,” she said. “We’re still here
and we’re still fighting.”
She said the march comprised “a
lot of enraged people who were af
fected” by the measure, adding that
she thought many people who vot
ed for the measure are probably not
directly affected by it.
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