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The William Mason High School

Volume 6

TODAY StuGo selling Halloween candy at lunch Students can buy fistfuls of candy at lunch today. Student Government will have the candy for sale during each lunch for 50 cents per handful.

Seussical tickets half-price The Children’s Theatre of Mason will debut their latest production, Seussical, in the Mason High School auditorium tonight. The show will start at 7 p.m. after some Halloween festivities. Tonight only, student tickets will be half-price at the door ($4 instead of $8). “It’s a really fun show,” junior Grace Eichler, part of the Seussical cast, said. “We are putting all of Dr. Seuss’s work together. There are a lot of high school kids involved in the production. It’s really cool to meet kids from all over Mason and see them all come together.” “I love working with the younger kids and being a mentor,” Eichler said. “I love the show.”

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Swingers

Campaigns sweep region in bid to capture crucial swing state

photo by Chuck Liddy from Raleigh News & Observer/MCT

The artwork of thirteen Mason High School students has been selected for display in Xavier University’s Biennial Regional High School Art Exhibition from November 14 through December 5. The show will be held at Xavier’s Cohen Building and will feature fewer than 100 student works. The students’ work will also be eligible for competition in an awards reception on November 21. The reception will honor artists with commemorations from Xavier faculty and the XU student art club, The Society of Visual Arts. Since Mason students have participated in the competition, this year marks the most students from MHS ever to qualify. Work featured in the show from Mason students includes photography, drawing, sculpture, computer art and painting. To be accepted, students were allowed only one entry to represent themselves. This year’s qualifiers from Mason were: Jessica Brown, Tyler Fewell, Glorimar Garcia, Rebecca Kroeger, Whitney McCoy, Sam Mink, Friederike Mueller, Ossian Mendoza, Sara Olson, Alyssa Ross, Meg Roussos, Seth Simmons and Danni Wu.

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photo by Dennis Tennant from Newport News Daily Press/MCT

NEWS BRIEF

October 31, 2008

Area caught in the campaign crossfire as candidates battle for Ohio Mandy Chiara | Senior Staff Writer Ellen Duffer | Associate Editor Inconsistent past voting patterns and election results have determined that Ohio is neither constantly Democratic nor Republican. Polls currently indicate that Obama has leads in Cleveland and urban areas, while McCain is ahead in conservative strongholds like the northern Cincinnati suburbs. A candidate’s state of origin and vice presidential choice play a role in Ohio’s turnout, but still aren’t enough

to predict which party will win Ohio’s electoral votes. So, Ohio, along with about 18 other states, is a swing state -- up for grabs to either political party every year. No Republican has ever reached the White House without winning Ohio’s 20 electoral votes. Beginning as early as January this year, Ohio has been pelted with political propaganda. Advertisements overflow mailboxes, signs pop up in front yards as presidential candidates sweat to sway us to their side. Both parties constantly poll Chillicothe,

a city that is an absurdly perfect match of the Democrat and Republican ratio in the entire state. In recent past elections, the opinions in Chillicothe have paralleled and almost predicted the election outcome. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin visited West Chester on October 17 and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama visited Dayton on October 9. Mason High School junior Allison Linn attended the Palin rally on the 17th with her mother and younger sister. See RALLIES on page 2

Some fear early voting in Ohio may lead to voter fraud Rachel Schowalter | Staff Writer

Some Ohio voters who decided to vote early admit that voter fraud is possible in the 2008 election. Between September 30 and October 6, the state allowed citizens to register and vote in the same day. Because it did not require identification to be checked and validated before voting, this had the potential to encourage voting with counterfeit addresses and names. According to the Ohio Secretary of State website, Ohioans previously had to wait at least

30 days after registration before voting. Jennifer Brunner, Ohio’s Secretary of State and key supporter of this new policy, said that over 13,141 Ohioans voted early during this weeklong window. Senior Jordan Reeves said he decided to vote early in this year’s election when he went to register with his mother. “I was at school one day and [my mom] said we were going to vote early,” Reeves said. “But then I thought about it more and I got really excited. I just feel like this is my first election and I want to do it big.

photo by Red Huber from Orlando Sentinel/MCT

Early voting continued this election despite fears of fraud. I wanted to make a difference and I wanted to vote early.” Reeves said that voting early was more time effective than voting in November because

he didn’t have to wait in the long lines characteristic of voting stations. “We were out in about ten See EARLY VOTING on page 2


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