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ESTABLISHED 1920 A daily independent student press serving THE BG NEWS the campus and surrounding community Wednesday February 20,2008 Ohio Secretary Volume 102, Issue 108 Lunar WWWBGNEWSCOM of State looks Labels on anti- into voting eclipse to depressants list suicide as a risk machines The FDA now requires black out labels to state "suicide By Tim Sampson risk" after studies showed City Editor significant risk of suicide TWo representatives for the in young people | Page 3 Ohio Secretary of State's office BG kicked off a speaking tour at the University yesterday, addressing By Steve Kunkler Nation-wide meat voting machine security. Reporter recall attributed Assistant Ohio Secretary of State Christopher Nance and The lunar eclipse tonight is the to cattle abuse Penn State computer science pro- last one Howling Green residents Release of undercover fessor Patrick McDaniel spoke to will he able to see until 2010. vide6 of workers kicking, concerned citizens in the Union Although there is no way to know whether the eclipse will be shocking and shoving yesterday ahout the findings of a recent study of the state's voting visible to the Bowling Green area cattle at a meat company machines. because Weather.com predicts breaches federal law and Ohio Secretary partly cloudy skies. Ihe eclipse is scheduled to leads to the nation's largest of State lennifer Brunner commis- begin at 8:43 p.m., with a total meat recall | Page 12 sioned the study, eclipse beginning at 10:01 p.m. known as Project The total eclipse will remain Kucinich criticized EVEREST, as way until 10:50 p.m., with a partial to address con- phase ending at 12:08 a.m. the to be a "showman" Patrick cerns raised about next day. i Because of the eclipse, the After leaving his presidential McDaniel voting machines campaign behind, six-term that started with observatory will be open for view- Computer the 2000 Florida ing from 9 p.m. to midnight. Congressman Dennis science presidential elec- The chances of actually see- Kucinich debates against professor at tion recounts, ing the eclipse will depend on his four competitors, a Penn State Nance said. the weather and the geographic "Hanging and location of an area. rarity for a veteran University pregnant chads in The eclipse should be visible politician | Page 7 Honda really got to people if the sky is clear and the toll rolling," he said. He said they are in the right spot to view Addicted to the that election prompted congress By Theresa Scott it. There is a possibility one could to pass the Help America Vote Act Kept miss the eclipse because they Internet in 2002 that helped states switch only last three to four hours. Columnist Levi Joseph over from older punch-card bal- student tries lo access an office According to Dale Smith, director of the planetarium and Wonder examines this lot systems to new computerized hut liui'i because the building is touch screen systems. professor of physics and astron- addiction to the net / \ not wheelchair accessible. A high Ohio was no exception. All Ohio school student skips school every day omy at the University, an eclipse that hits about five to counties currently use some sort is a natural event that is a part of because his classmates make fun of him ten percent of all web of electronic voting machine. the makeup of space. Hut according to Nance, Ohio tin beinggay. People make assumptions "An eclipse is a matter of geom- surfers | Page 4 voters in 2004 and 2006 reported abcail a young woman before meeting etry, when the moon's orbit car- Students armed to problems with the new voting her, only because ol bet fat c. ries [the moonl into the shadow machines. He said the complex- I ln-sc ;irc a leu 'if die ly|x-s nl dis- of the Earth," Smith said. defend themselves ity of the new machines and a i liitiiiwiliun people face, which the According to lohn Laird, chair- deficiency in voter education led man and professor of physics To prevent school to long lines and frustrated poll Ilium I ill Oppression tried io address and astronomy at the University, shootings. Columnist Sean workers on Election Day. vcstt*rdHy afternoon lunar and solar eclipses usually Martin, suggests allowing These problems are why the ihe tunnel ol 'tpprestlon ran from happen about every five to six Secretary of State chose to make .' p.m. until ' |un. yesterday with five months and are separated by students to carry weapons ■ reviewing Ohio's voting machines museum like rooms designed to t;ike two weeks. in order to protect their her top priority upon taking office visilois out ol their minion /one anil laird said there are two weeks campus and for their own in 200fi, Nance said. separating the lunar and solar ask lliiin' lo confront issues such us self defense | Page 4 That is how Project EVEREST eclipses because the moon is in a started. Although several states alileism, sexism, religious oppression, new phase, while a lunar eclipse had already conducted their own tat ism anil homophobia. happens when the moon is full investigations into electronic vot- Residence Hall Director Amanda with the rotation taking about Lady Falcons want ing machine security, Nance said Anderson packed Ohio's is the most comprehensive TUNNEL (',: 7 See ECLIPSE >2 since it employed three separate Toledo has enjoyed teams of corporate and academic the highest MAC researchers to test all three of the attendance the past 17 voting systems currently used in Ohio. years but the Falcons McDaniel and his team spent Castro resigns as Cuban president at 8 can rival that spot with nine months attempting to dis- a full house | Page 9 cover all the different ways a per- son could attack Ohio's voting By Anita Snow Fidel systems. The Associated Press Castro "We basically put our hacker Cuban dictator hats on," he said. HAVANA — Fidel Castro, ail- McDaniel said his team found ing and 81, announced yester- for around 50 numerous vulnerabilities in all day he was resigning as Cuba's years three of Ohio's systems, including president, ending a half-cen- the Premier voting system used in tury of autocratic rule which Wood County. made him an icon in the world the rule of another Castro. The team found that with the of communism and a relentless "My wishes have always Premier system, a voter could opponent of U.S. policy around been to discharge my duties to actually manipulate the machine the globe. my last breath," ("astro wrote to make it go into panic mode and The end of Cast ro's rule — the in a letter published yester- enable the machine to let them longest in the world for a head day in Ihe online edition of I On a road trip, would you vote multiple times, McDaniel of government — frees his 76- the Communist Party daily rather be the driver said. year-old brother to implement Granma. But "it would he a or the passenger? And at a more basic level, one reforms he has hinted at since betrayal to my conscience to of McDaniel's research assistants taking over as acting president accept a responsibility requir- found that they could destroy the when Eidel fell ill in Iuly2006. ing more mobility and dedica- machines paper records by squirt- President Bush said he tion than I am physically able ingliquid into the machine's print- hopes the resignation signals to offer," he wrote. Castro tern- the beginning of a democratic AMANACUBILLOS APKMOTO See VOTING | Page 2 transition, though he doubted See CASTRO | Page 2 EXTRA! EXTRA!: A man leads the latest edition ol Gianma newspaper the official publication that would come about under of the Cential Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, bearing the news about Fidel Castro. SONAEBARNETT Sophomore. Jounaltsm - • "Passenger - I don't have « patience for long trips Campaign chairman makes the case for Clinton I'm more of a sleeper." | Pat* 4 By Dave Herrera But McAuliffe soldiered on. if they agreed to complete com- that McAuliffe came to speak, Senior Editor fielding questions from around munity service during school or but few appeared to have con- 25 students and faculty about after graduation. verted or swung to Clinton's Terry McAuliffe walked into a Clinton's positions. "You Icouldl get paid for it, side. somewhat difficult situation at "I've known Hillary for 25 but if it's deemed community "I'm still up in the air," said the College Democrats' meeting years, it's personal to me," he service, you could use it against Corey Stevens, junior, who asked last night. said. loans," McAuliffe said. McAuliffe several questions dur- McAuliffe, the chairman of Not much of what McAuliffe He emphasized dealing with ing the meeting. Hillary Clinton's presidential said was drastically new — his climate change could be a way "There's st ill a few of my ques- campaign, came to make the talking points included ('Hilton's to restore jobs — possibly hun- tions that I'm not completely TODAY case for Clinton to a room that plan to freeze home foreclosures dreds of thousands of them.