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SIJJSP^B ^^ M Bowling Green State University MONDAY October 4, 2004 • • • • Green rolls past Temple, ^ \ | | 1 1 MOSTLY SUNNY 81K70-16;PAGE6 |1 f -1 mm \ XJ f I KJ HIGH: 60 LOW: 30 jL www.bgnews.com —U VJ "" VOLUME 99 ISSUE 32 Rock the vote energizes youth By Tiflani McKenne of the younger generation taking has launched a student voting These other polls sure aren't Q: What do you think of the registration form. If CAMPUS NEKS (OlIOB advantage of their right to vote. campaign at rockthevote.com. calling cell phones to ask their Ohio Secretary of State revamp- they don't get that I le spoke of the pressing issues Q: Is it safe to say that youth questions. 1 think they miss ing the ballot paper in order to verification, they need to In an online chat forum with prevent new-time voters from Jehmu Greene, president of driving the youth to participate voters have been more active this young voters. re-register and not allow their and RTV's goal to help them over- election than in past elections? Q: What sort of role has registering? What do you plan to votes to not be counted. Rock the Vote 2004, editors "I political music played in your do to counteract it? college newspapers around die come any barriers in Uieir way of A: The war in Iraq, the job Q: Do you think that the getting their voice heard. market and the rising cost of efforts to expand the youth A: Ever since 18-year-olds got nation asked questions regard- college are driving young people voter pool? Have you enlisted the right to vote in 1972, we've major news networks have been ing student participation in the Q: Are students being ignored to pay closer attention to the any bands to help reach young seen efforts to suppress their adequately covering issues upcoming election. Some of the during this election? election. potential voters? votes. All of our voter registra- important to younger voters, and newspapers included the "Daily" A: Not by their parents, teach- Q: What do you think about A: In a lot of ways we live in tion in Ohio has been done the youth vote movement itself? of the University of Washington, ers and die candidates. Students newspaper polls? a celebrity driven society - and with the national voter registra- A: The youth vote has gotten a "The Orion" at Chico State and are more engaged and the can- A: IiiV and Pace" University they help to get massive media tion fonn, which does not fall tremendous amount of coverage under this paper rule. When RTV' the "iiaily Athenaeum" at the didates cannot afford to ignore will be releasing a poll of new attention, liven lada Pinketl Uiis election cycle. They have a University of West Virginia voters shortly and I think there Smith has been registering helped to pass the motor-voter them. Students have to fight real opportunity to do so as we Throughout the conversation for their right to register on will be some new information voters at churches with us in Los law, it gave organizations the Greene stressed the importance campus this year - and so RTV about where these voters stand. Angeles. ability to use the national voter head into the debates. CELEBRATE Mount Saint Helens threatens to erupt Hazard level upped at Mount St. Helens, hundreds cleared from area By David Ammons IH[ ASSOCIAHO PRESS MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL MONUMENTWash. - Asscientists warned that an eruption of Mount St. Helens appeared imminent yesterday, eager tourists camped out along park roads, hoping to catch a glimpse of the seething volcano without being overcome Sttw «mt»!M AP Photo by ash and smoke. ERUPTION: Mount St. Helens erupted for the first time in 18 years Fnday. A second long tremor belching a huge column of white steam and ash after days of rumblings yesterday and an increase in under the mountain. volcanic gases strongly suggest magma is moving inside, research- operates the park. "It's beyond amazing," said ers from the U.S. Geological Some experts had Bald Steven Uhl, 31, a self-described Survey said. The mountain's alert Saturday that an explosion would volcano nut from Everett, "lust was raised to Level 3, the highest probabiy happen within 24 to be here is almost a religious possible, after a volcanic tremor hours. But as the hours passed, experience' was detected Saturday for the first Othera cautioned that the timing is At midday, the mountain time since before the mountain's difficult to predict. was outwardly quiet. Clouds of 1980 eruption. "No one is predicting it as a dust rose occasionally, caused "I don't think anyone now sure thing," said Bill Steele at by rockfaU from the towering thinks diis will stop with steam the University of Washington's canyon walls. But earthquakes explosions." geologist Willie Scott seismology lab in Seattle. "This were occurring "multiple times said yesterday at the Geological could be going on for weeks." per minute," Steele said, peaking Survey's Cascades Volcano Crowds garnered at what was even few minute at magnitudes Observatory in Vancouver, Wash., said to be a safe distance - about as high as 3. Scientists were unsure how about 50 miles south. 8.5 miles from the mountain explosive the eruption may be; At this point, scientists do - to see what happens next. On depending on the gas content not expect anything close to the Saturday, hundreds of people of the magma and conditions, devastation of the May 18, 1980 were cleared from a popular it could range from a passive explosion, which killed 57 people tourist observatory following a emission to an explosion that and coated much of the northwest tremor and brief release of steam. throws up a column of ash, Scott with ash. At the Coldwater Ridge Visitors said. B«nSwan|»r BGNem "Of course the volcano reserves Center, the wraparound veranda Besides lava flows, ash and the right to change its mind," said was jammed with people in lawn BIG PLAY: Running back P.I. Pope, left, celebrates with wide receiver Cole Magner after a monument scientist Peter Frenzen chairs, almost all with cameras at VOLCANO.PAGE 2 touchdown catch by Pope in the first half Saturday. The Falcons beat Temple 70-16. See page with the U.S. Forest Service, which die ready. 6 for full coverage of Saturday's game. BG NEWS Latinopalooza celebrates Hispanic heritage BRIEFING By Zach Herman The carnival-themed outdoor Northwestern SENIOR REP0R1ER event featured a magician and a The Latino Student Union live DJ, as well as a moonwalk and student dies after kicked off Hispanic Heritage free popcorn and beverages. collapsing at game Month Friday evening with the Many campus and community EVANSTON, III. (API—A eighth-annual Latinopalooza, groups, including multicultural Northwestern University student a lively bash featuring food, fraternity Sigma Lambda Beta, had collapsed and died during a cel- entertainment and musical information tables at the event. ebration of the football team's vic- performances from regional acts. The more traditional indoor tory over Ohio State school offi- Students, faculty and city activities began shortly after H p.m., cials said yesterday. officials packed the Union with remarks by LSU President Frederick E. Lieb, 20, was in Ballroom for the organization's Raquel Colon and Mike Zickar, the stadium late Saturday when signature annual event. The night University associate professor he and a friend ran to join others jump-started a month-long series and Bowling Green city council celebrating the victory. Lieb, who of campus events designed to member. had a pacemaker from a previ- ously diagnosed heart condition, celebrate Latin culture. Zickar read a proclomation, signed by Bowling Green Mayor collapsed shortly after arriving on The festivities began at 4 p.m. the field. in the courtyard between Williams John Quinn, declaring October Security workers and a doctor and Moseley Halls. as Hispanic Heritage Month BriKiMcRobwts BGNews gave CPR before he was taken to For the first time, portions ENTERTAINMENT: Magician Allen Wilkenson, right, entertains students at Latinopalooza outside of Evanston Hospital, where he was of Latinopalooza were held LATINOPALOOZA, PAGE 2 the Union Friday. The event kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month. pronounced dead, school officials outdoors. said. WEDNESDAY FOUR-DAY FORECAST TUESD*¥ Sunny High:59* Sunny Showers High: 70' The four-day forecast is taken Low: 45' from weather.com Low: 33* FOR ALL THE NEWS VISIT WWW.BGNEWS.COM 2 Monday. October 4.2004 WWW.BGNEWS.COM Scientists experience St. Helens' "roller coaster ride" VOLCANO, FROM PAGE 1 ing gritty pulverized rock and rotten eggs, said leff Wynn, chief silica that could damage aircraft scientist for volcano hazards ruck-throwing, an eruption could engines and the surfaces of cars at the U.S. Geological Survey's cause melting of the volcano's and homes. Cascade Volcano Observatory.