PAT’S PLEASURE PARLOR PREMIERES ON LSC PLAZA | PAGE 5 THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN Fort Collins, Colorado COLLEGIAN Volume 117 | No. 61 Tuesday, November 4, 2008 www.collegian.com THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891 CORRECTION CROSSING THE NATION McCain hits seven states in last day DONNELLY HOFFMAN The voter guide in Monday’s issue campaign push of the Collegian incorrectly labeled the party affi liations of Tom Donnelly and Roger Hoffman in the race for County By BETH FOUHY Commissioner District 2. Tom Donnelly The Associated Press is affi liated with the Republican Party and Roger Hoffman is affi liated with the INDIANAPOLIS – John McCain of- Democratic Party. ten tells campaign audiences he doesn’t hide from history. He surely didn’t on Monday, undertaking an energetic march across seven battleground states on the last day of a long presidential contest the opinion polls all said he was UPDATE trailing. “I’m an American, and I choose to Latest poll results fi ght!” McCain proclaimed at rallies Source: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/ in Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana and National Poll Colorado Poll just outside Virginia. It was a pledge of 5% 3% defi ance amid a blizzard of late polls Obama showing Barack Obama leading in most McCain Unsure competitive states, leaving McCain with 50% 45% only the narrowest possible path to vic- 44%44% 51% 52% tory Tuesday night. “When I’m president,” he said again and again through the day, fi lling in a litany of the good things to follow: More Latest campaign stops jobs, lower energy costs. A president Source:http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presiden- who would bring change and not just tial-candidates/tracker/ talk about it. “When I’m president, we’re going to win in Afghanistan, win in Iraq, and our troops will come home with victory and honor.” GENE J. PUSKAR | AP Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., fl anked by Sen. Joe Lieberman, See ELECTION on Page 5 I-Conn., left, and former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, right, speaks in a hangar at Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon Township, Pa., Monday. John McCain - Tampa, Fl at 9 a.m. Bountville, TN at 10:45 a.m. Moon Township, PA at 1:45 p.m. Indianapolis, IN at 4 p.m. Roswell, NM at 6 p.m. Henderson, NV at 8 p.m. CSU community Markey visits students Prescott, AZ at 11 p.m. Barack Obama – Jacksonville, FL at 8:30 a.m. By TREVOR SIMONTON Charlotte, NC at 5:30 p.m. refl ects on race The Rocky Mountain Collegian Manassas Park, VA at 9 p.m. Fourth Congressional Dis- trict candidate Betsy Markey, Latest Quote in U.S elections D-Fort Collins, visited the Lory Source: http://labs.google.com/inquotes/ Student Center Plaza Monday to By SHAYNA GRAJO for the president of the U.S. take the last hours before Elec- “I’d like to congratulate The Rocky Mountain Collegian After more than 40 years tion Day to personally shake the Senator McCain on this of civil rights and voting re- hands of the student voters that endorsement (from will fi lter into voting booths to- Ethnic studies professor form, CSU students prepare U.S. Vice President Dick day. Richard Breaux swiveled in for Election Day in an age Cheney) because he “I’ve been up on the stage his offi ce chair and recalled some say is numb to racial really earned it. … Do before, so this time I just want- how his grandmother was discrimination. you think John McCain ed to walk around and be more not allowed to vote in the Breaux and three black and Dick Cheney have personal,” she said. OBAMA state of Arkansas. It was not students shared a snapshot been talking about how to Markey is running against until 1965 that poll taxes, of thoughts about what it shake things up, and get incumbent Republican Marilyn strict literacy tests and other means for the fi rst black man rid of the lobbyists and Musgrave in the intensely com- mechanisms to prevent Afri- to claim the Democratic Par- put Halliburton on the petitive race for the 4th Con- can Americans from voting ty’s nomination for president sidelines and put an end gressional District Seat in Colo- became illegal in the south- in history. to the old boys club in rado, which has reached over $4 ern states. Washington? Come on.” million in combined campaign Two and three gen- The African American spending. TREVOR SIMONTON | COLLEGIAN – Bloomberg erations back, Breaux said, vote By her side was campaign many thought they’d never “The belief often is … Af- Fourth Congressional District Democratic “But we cannot spend the manager Ben Marter, who said see the day when any ma- rican Americans are going to candidate Betsy Markey, right, speaks with next four years as we have jor party would nominate a 22-year-old Marissa Smith, who holds a spent much of the last See VISIT on Page 3 sign in support of Markey. black man as its candidate See RACE on Page 3 eight: waiting for our luck to change. We have to act immediately. We have to fi ght for it.” MCCAIN – Gather Obama’s grandmother dies just before Election Day Latest stories on Collegian.com Obama on election eve: A guy who expects to By HERBERT A. SAMPLE there is great joy as well as tears. I’m win The Associated Press not going to talk about it too long be- Barack Obama acts like a guy who expects to win. cause it is hard for me to talk about.” Just look at his election eve schedule. While John HONOLULU – Barack Obama’s But he said he wanted people to McCain rushed around to seven states for last- grandmother, whose personality and know a little about her — that she minute campaigning on Monday, Obama didn’t lived through the Great Depression appear before voters until after 11 a.m., the fi rst bearing shaped much of the life of the of just three events for the day. Democratic presidential contender, and World War II, working the latter on Palin rallies supporters in Ohio, Missouri has died, Obama announced Monday, a bomber assembly line with a baby at Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin one day before the election. Madelyn home and a husband serving his coun- offered optimism to a boisterous crowd in an Ohio Payne Dunham was 86. try. He said she was humble and plain Democratic stronghold and pepped up a huge rally Obama announced the news from spoken, one of the “quiet heroes that in conservative central Missouri on an election eve the campaign trail in Charlotte, N.C. we have all across America” working dash through fi ve contested states. The joint statement with his sister hard and hoping to see their children Maya Soetoro-Ng said Dunham died and grandchildren thrive. Voting Deadlines late Sunday at her Honolulu apart- Obama learned of Dunham’s death Mail-in ballots must be received by the Elections ment after a battle with cancer. Monday morning while he was cam- Department (or at a drop off site) no later than 7 “She’s gone home,” Obama said as paigning in Jacksonville, Fla. The fam- p.m. today. tens of thousands of rowdy supporters ily said a private ceremony would be Postmark dates do not count as received. at the University of North Carolina- held later. Charlotte grew silent in an evening “So many of us were hoping and AP drizzle. praying that his grandmother would This undated photo released by Obama for America shows Ba- Go to www.collegian.com all day “And she died peacefully in her rack Obama with his grandparents, Stanley Armour Dunham and sleep with my sister at her side. And so See DEATH on Page 5 Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham in New York City. for Election Day coverage. PAGE 6 PAGE 8 PAGE 8 Students take Student from Rams beat to the polls for Mozambique works for Chadron State their fi rst time her Ph.D. at CSU Monday night Record numbers expected Fatima Arthur talks about her After fi rst exhibition homeland’s history. game, Rams know they for youth vote. have much to work on. 2 Tuesday, November 4, 2008 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian WEATHER NOTICE CAMPUS EYE Taft Hill Road will be closed to all traffi c from Suffolk Street Today to Prospect Road, beginning Mostly cloudy Monday, Nov. 3 through Sunday, Nov. 9 for stormwater construction work. In conjunction 63 | 36 with this project, Castlerock Drive also will be closed from Prospect Wednesday Road to Lake Street during this time and will reopen on Tuesday, Showers/ wind Nov. 11. 43| 31 CALENDAR Today Thursday International Photo Exhibit 7 a.m. Mostly cloudy 1st Bank gallery at the Morgan Library 43 | 30 This premiere of the photo contest, “Where in the World is CSU From?” highlights the diversity of CSU’s student body, while displaying students’ cross-cultural perceptions and perspectives. Don’t know where to travel next? Want to revisit faraway places you miss? Stop by Morgan Library to see where in the world is CSU from. Don’t miss the most diverse, colorful 7 p.m. exhibition on campus! There will Modern Rock be 219 photos from 91 countries. 9 p.m. El Dia de los Muertos 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Woody’s Jazz Lory Student Center Sesh’ El Dia de los Muertos is not KATE STEVENS | COLLEGIAN a Mexican Halloween, but a A long tunnel provides safe passage to pedestrians underneath the busy College Avenue Monday.