tl20001109-000 "Thursday www.thetowerlight.com 0 WWI Published twice-weekly by students of Towson University 11/9/00 Lambda Chi coming back 3 Students vote in first election 9 TV shows still sell sex appeal 11 Tigers get best of Sweden 17 Departments News 3 Campus briefs 5 A&E 11 Wrasslin' Weekly 14 In a Theater Near You.15 The High Road 15 Sports 17 Fast Break 17 Op/Ed 1 Race still too close to call Students watch history in the making, as Florida is still in limbo with recount ongoing Todd Jacobson The Towerlight Sophomore Sam Wolf admits he is a casual observer of most presidential elections, and in years past, he didn't give more than passing interest to the ritu-al that takes place every four years. However, like many Towson students, the sophomore English major became entranced with Tuesday's rollercoaster election and found himself bleary-eyed and sleepy, but still excited, at 6 a.m. yesterday morning. ""I sat around and about six of us were watching the TV like it was a football game waiting to see who would 'take the lead next,"" said Wolf, whose friends bailed around 2 a.m., leaving him to flip back and forth between various television net-works .and surf the Internet for election info. What those who went to bed early Tuesday night missed was possibly the most exciting � and certainly the closest � pres-idential election in history. Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush bat-tled throughout the night for the necessary 270 electoral votes to lock up the election. Twice television networks threw viewers curveballs, first announcing key battleground state Florida and its 25 electoral votes as a Gore state around 8 p.m., rescinding that prediction two hours later, and then virtu-ally giving Bush the election win around 2:20 a.m. when it looked that the governor had carried the Sunshine State. However, in an almost pre-dictable twist to an election day that capped off a back and forth campaign with more than its share of surprises, the networks * 0 61111111M rul, 1111..74 AMP Wv4111111111w 31111111111111111111111111111111111111116., . - � � p Imam)FiviE FAG fl GOP A SUPER-5111d lillUagaTY. MO* w 41E TO THAT_ i A NIASEIJESS COUPUMNIT.� A FEDERAL A, 71. � r _ a -.or ticw4t. � - 1, woo. ifoi 04:1 t MISS � Chns Handros Newsmakers Observers gather in Times Square in New York City to watch the results of the presidential election. which was still too close to call yesterday. retracted that prediction around 4 a.m. as the margin between the two candidates narrowed to less than 1,000 votes. At one point, Gore called Bush and conceded, only to call back a short time later and See CLOSE, page 7 Florida and its 25 electoral votes will decide the presidential election once all its votes are recounted today. Candidates wait out one of closest elections in U.S. presidential history Ron Fournier The Associated Press In an election for the history books, George W. Bush cau-tiously declared victory yester-day over Al Gore and promised to ""unite the nation"" after the wildest White House finish in decades. Gore promised to abide by the final results but insisted, ""We still do not know the out-come of yesterday's vote."" It was a fitting finale of tumult and tension for two men who spent eight months and $240 million on the campaign trail, only to finish less than 2,000 votes apart in a single piv-otal state. If Bush ends up winning Florida and Gore's lead in the national popular vote holds, Bush would be the fourth man in history � the first in more than a century � to win the See ELECTION, page 6 Today High 63 Low 52 Friday High 67 Low 40 Saturday High 59 Low 37 Sunday High 56 Low 35 "
