TL20061113-01 "Sharon Leff News Editor With the weather turning colder, some on-campus resi-dents have been sharing their rooms with more than just their roommates. Junior Nicole Williams lives in the Towson Run A p a r t m e n t s and about a month ago she started noticing mice scurrying through her apartment. �We found one, and we set traps, and two days after that we caught three and we were freaking out a little bit,� she said. Shayna Baddock, Williams� roommate, said she knows students on other floors have been having the same problem. Knowing there were mice in the apartment did not make for a pleasant living situation. �We were really disgusted and didn�t want to live there,� she said. W i l l i a m s said she and her roommates contacted the residence life coordinator in the building but were told that the mice were coming in because of the chang-ing weather and the only thing they could do for them was set traps. Despite the traps that main-tenance and the roommates set Brian Stelter Editor in Chief Tracy Miller�s bid for a seat in the Md. House of Delegates ended Friday, three days after Election Day. Miller ran as a Democrat in District 42. The initial vote count on Tuesday night showed her in third place, just seven votes ahead of incumbent Republican William Frank. But a subsequent count of absentee ballots boosted Frank and fellow Republican Dilip Paliath, with Miller coming in fifth place. The top three candidates in the district become delegates. Miller, an academic advisor and the only full-time Towson University employee to run for office this year, said she had no regrets. �I think it was a good campaign,� Miller said Sunday. �My campaign was not about what other people didn�t do, it was about what I wanted to do and what I felt needed to be done. I�m very proud of what I did and what [the volunteers] did.� She isn�t ruling out a future run for office. The news of Miller�s loss disappointed some Towson faculty, staff, and administrators who had supported her campaign. Miller was inspired to run for office after the 2004 death of her son Nicholas Ziolkowski in Iraq. She said she had been absolutely delighted by the students who helped with the cam-paign. Brian Ward, a junior political science major and College Democrats president, was her field director. Nov. 13, 2006 www.thetowerlight.com The Towerlight Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice-weekly Volleyball finishes regular season with five straight wins before this weekend�s CAA Tournament Sports, page 24 Monday INSIDE Calendar.....3 Perspectives.....4 News.....7 Vote.....10 Beyond.....11 Arts.....21 Puzzles.....19 Classifi eds.....20 Sports.....24 on the Unwanted mice, bugs f ind home at Towson Miller�s initial lead fails to capture seat HOUSING & RESIDENCE LIFE See MICE, page 11 See MILLER, page 10 We found one, and we and two days we caught three and we were freaking out a little bit. Nicole Williams Towson Run resident on set traps, an after that w h d Outside the University Union students can be seen talking with their friends, eating their lunches or doing last-minute homework. They can also see Zachary Gelbart walking a tightrope. Gelbart has adopted a piece of land on the grassy hill outside the Union where the senior from San Diego has been setting up a tightrope between two trees at about chest height. Then he practices walking back and forth. The rock climber has been slack lining for a number of years, but didn�t start practicing until this past summer. While practicing, people ask him what he�s doing and even ask if they can try it too. �Nobody can really do it on their first shot so I always hold their hand and help them walk across it,� he said. �All you really need is the knowledge to set it up. I can teach anyone to do it in a few minutes.� Gelbart says the balance practice from slack lining also helps him with his climbing. �People think of climbing as such a physical sport but there�s a large mental aspect to it,� he said. --Sharon Leff Balancing while on break Kris Marsh/The Towerlight Cold weather encourages pests into warm apartments, dorms "
