CROSS COUNTRY HEADED TO MWC CHAMPIONSHIPS | COLLEGIAN.COM THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN Fort Collins, Colorado COLLEGIAN Volume 117 | No. 59 Friday, October 31, 2008 www.collegian.com THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891 UPDATE Latest poll results Source: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/ SCARY NIGHTMARES National Poll Colorado Poll 7% 2% Obama Students scare McCain Unsure for charity, 43% 50% 45% 53% fi re dept. Latest campaign stops Source:http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presiden- tial-candidates/tracker/ By JESSICA CLINE The Rocky Mountain Collegian CSU students are volunteer- ing for the eighth annual Nocturnal Nights Haunted House to raise funds to cure a 7-year-old leukemia patient and benefi t the Wellington Fire De- partment. The haunted house originally started eight years ago to raise mon- ey for the WFD cadet program. The program is volunteer-based, John McCain - 6 p.m., Mentor, Ohio and all profi ts go to the volunteer Barack Obama – 9:30 p.m., Columbia, Mo. See CHARITY on Page 6 Latest Quote Source: http://labs.google.com/inquotes/ “At a moment like this, the last thing we can afford is four more years of the tired, old theory Famous that says we should give more to billionaires and big corporations and hope that prosperity hauntings OBAMA trickles down.” – International Herald of FoCo Tribune By KELLY BLECK “Senator Obama voted The Rocky Mountain Collegian for billions in corporate giveaways to the oil companies. We’re going With Halloween upon us, the my- to invest in all energy thology, traditions and rumors that technologies.” surround Old Town and the CSU cam- pus are bound to come to the surface. – International Herald Underground catacombs running MCCAIN Tribune the length of Old Town and beneath MIKE KALUSH | COLLEGIAN campus, sightings of ghosts and cult Natalie Bradshaw, 9, and her older sister Alexia Evans run away in fear from an actor in the Noc- activities are all being explored Latest stories on Collegian.com turnal Nightmares Haunted House on Thursday. The haunted house will be open from 6-9 p.m. this See HAUNT on Page 6 Obama approaches lawmaker about White evening. Check out NocturnalNightmares.com for more information. House post Barack Obama’s campaign has approached Il- linois Rep. Rahm Emanuel about possibly serving as White House chief of staff, offi cials said Thurs- da as the marathon presidential race entered its fi nal, frenzied stretch with a Democratic tilt. Palin looks past Tuesday to her political future With days still to go in the White House race, backers of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin are taking her up as a possible contender in 2012, speculation that irritates other Republicans who contend she’s a ‘Far-fetched’ candidates vie for presidency drag on the ticket and that her lightweight image – unfair or not – will be hard to shed. By TREVOR SIMONTON Media focus remains almost The Rocky Mountain Collegian solely on the back-and-forth Voting Deadlines bickering between the Demo- As presidential candidates cratic and Republican parties, The last day to request a mail-in ballot for the Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and and many across the country Nov. 4 General Election is: Democrat Sen. Barack Obama largely ignore candidates like race for the vote this week, 14 Pacifi st Party founder Bradford Today, if you would like to pick up the ballot in other candidates are also vy- Lyttle, who said he believes that person. ing for what many call the most the only way to avoid world war Mail-in ballots must be received by the Elections powerful position in the world is to simply disband the Ameri- Department (or at a drop off site) no later than 7 –– and many voters will not can p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 4. hear about them until they en- ALLEN LYTTLE McKINNEY MOORE ter the voting booth. See ELECTION on Page 8 Postmark dates do not count as received. ASCSU, Facilities Management purchase more than 100 bike racks Kefalas, McCluskey battle special By MADELINE NOVEY interests, negative advertisements The Rocky Mountain Collegian By TREVOR SIMONTON Accountability for Colorado, an inde- Early last month, CSU sophomore Elizabeth The Rocky Mountain Collegian pendent organization, has sent out a Abajian noticed a trend among her peers –– the series of mailers to Fort Collins voters lack of parking for bikes on campus had become a As Colorado attracts national atten- questioning McCluskey’s voting history problem they’d been complaining about since the tion for its swing-state status, the more and asking voters to call and tell him to start of the semester. local House District 52 election exem- “stop putting women’s lives at risk.” Instead of just listening to their feedback, the plifi es the highly competitive nature of The mailers referred to a 2003 bill senator for the College of Applied Human Scienc- statewide elections, which at this point that would allow insurers to refuse cov- es for the Associated Students of CSU took it upon have no clear-cut winners. erage for mammograms. herself to determine where the greatest need for Incumbent Rep. John Kefalas, D- Accountability for Colorado is a 527 bike racks was. Fort Collins, has served the district KEFALAS organization and gets its name from After a three-day comprehensive evalua- for two years and is now campaigning its federal tax code and is a common tion of the CSU community, Abajian and ASCSU against former Republican Rep. Bob entity in a political campaign. These Vice-President Quinn Girrens collaborated with McCluskey for re-election to an offi ce groups are not authorized to directly Jennifer Johnson, a groundskeeper and bike rack that has changed hands from Republi- advocate on behalf of a specifi c can- coordinator for Facilities Management, to add can to Democrat repeatedly in the last didate, so they spend money assailing a minimum of 100 bike racks to high-traffi c and 25 years. the opposing candidate’s reputation to high-congested areas on campus this year. And like many campaigns this year, impact local elections. the race for House District 52 is not Unlike personal campaign spend- Abajian narrowed her search down to eight CAITLIN KINNETT | COLLEGIAN high-traffi c “problem areas” on campus that she without attack ads. ing, there is no limit on the amount of believed needed the immediate addition of bike Nichi Hamilton, a senior majoring in soci- Although Kefalas has not endorsed money these 527s can spend on racks. These included areas on both sides of the oloy, searches for a place to lock her bike or been the source of any negative in the campus bike rack near the library, on advertisement against his opponent, See ELECTION on Page 3 McCLUSKEY See BIKE on Page 3 Wednesday. PAGE 8 PAGE 6 PAGE 12 Native American Fort Collins hosts Rams prepare to Awareness Month events for Halloween battle BYU this kicks off weekend Guide to safe Halloween CSU organizations host events that will sure to CSU football looking 26th annual POW WOW please all ages. forward to more wins after beating San Diego State. 2 Friday, October 31, 2008 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian WEATHER CLARIFICATION CAMPUS EYE Today A story in Thursday’s issue of the Collegian about a possible Sunny student voting member on the CSU System Board of Gover- nors should have been more 75 | 44 clear about funding shifts in the university. It should have Saturday said increases in funding for administration are higher than Partly cloudy increases going to academics. 71 | 44 DEADLINES Today Sunday Spring 2009 web regristration Partly cloudy begins for juniors. 69 | 43 CALENDAR Today Native American Awareness Month Kick Off 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lory Student Center Plaza Come and join the CSU offi ce of Native American Student Services and the American Indian Science & Engineering Society in national recognition 7 p.m. of Native American Awareness Ms. Peach Show month. The kick-off will include a frybread sale ($2), drum group performances by Midnight 9 p.m. Express & Young Bird and a BRANDON IWAMOTO | COLLEGIAN Guilty Pleasures traditional performance by Native Indie Years American dancers. Sophomore civil engineering major Nick Ortiz, left, watches as freshman biology major Daniel Wood reaches the halfway point of his shift on the stationary bike during the “Fiji 500,” a fundraising effort by the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity for the American Red Trick-or-Treating in the Lory Cross. Members of the fraternity will be riding the bike until 11 a.m. today to complete the 48-hour effort on the corner of Plum 11 p.m. Student Center and Meridian. 2 Metal 4 U 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Lory Student Center Bring your little goblins and princesses to trick-or-treat State at Moby Arena. Visit performers, and designers CSU Volleyball v. Air Force The CSU Rams Cycling Team throughout the Lory Student www.CSURams.com for more the opportunity to show their Noon to 2 p.m. and the Fort Collins Velodrome Center. The merchants and information. creativity and passion for dance. Moby Arena Association are sponsoring fi ve offi ces in the Lory Student Center Hike & Spike - $3 tickets by Sundays of track races on the will hand out candy to trick-or- Student Dance Concert Saturday showing 11/1 CSU vs. BYU Oval. treaters in a warm, safe and dry 8 to 9:30 p.m. 26th Annual POW WOW football ticket. environment for your little ones. University Dance Theatre in the 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Theatre Production: The This year’s theme is “Dr.