I The Behrend Beacon Florida prepares for wrath of Wilma MIAMI, Florida: Thousands of residents prepare to flee as Hurricane Wilma inches ever closer to landfall on the Florida Coast. Many hurricane veterans, who had at first decided to sit and wait this one out like any other, abruptly changed their minds after Wilma intensified into the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record on Wednesday. Even the Navy is not taking any chances as it evacuates personnel and equipment from its bases on the Florida Keys. "You hear it was the biggest storm on record, and yeah, that was the clincher right there," said Mark Carara, whose family was vacationing in Florida. "It was time for us to go." Hurricane Wilma has since weakened from its status as the most powerful hurricane into a smaller, but still exceedingly dangerous, Category 4 storm. Experts from the National Hurricane Center claim that Wilma may weaken further or re-intensify before making landfall in Mexico, Cuba or Florida. "Believe me, this is still a very, very powerful hurricane," said Max Mayfield, director of the center. "Don't minimize this just because it's no longer a Category 5." At its strongest, Wilma has sustained winds of up to 175 miles per hour and is capable of drop ping as much as 40 inches of rain in isolated areas. Time running out in hard-hit Pakistan UNITED NATIONS: The earthquakes that affected Pakistan and surrounding areas on Oct. 8 have left millions homeless and in danger of death as winter approaches. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan reported that the situation is desperate and that the disas ter has been overlooked by a large portion of the world. "There are no excuses," said Annan. "If we are to show ourselves worthy of calling our selves members of humankind, we must rise to this challenge. Our response will be no less than a measure of our humanity." Only eight percent of needed relief materials have been pledged or donated for a disaster that happened over two weeks ago. Various relief agencies have declared that materials are desper ately needed, including 45,000 winterized tents, millions of blankets and sleeping bags, water, sanitation equipment, food supplies and toiletries. Annan said that the three million homeless now face "a second wave of massive death" as winter draws closer and important humanitarian goals have not been met. ehren • •' • I t C H t F.Ak 4 Ak.o . 11 4.4 1,04, By Ashley Bressler staff writer The parking lots will most Bru, likely be filled, so Police and a.m. An I._ Safety have issued that all cars this year will be in the Reed Union parking lot aimed to increase the fc. Prospective Behrend stu- should be removed by 5 p.m. population at Penn State Erie. .‘nts will he coming to the on Friday. The Reed Union Women who have registered impus for a weekend Open and Erie Hall parking lots will have been invited to take part louse this Saturday, Oct. 22. he blocked off during the in a breakfast meeting with 'his time of year marks the Open House hours to ensure current, female, student volun nnual migration of prospec- that visitors have adequate teers. If the visiting women are ve students who are led in parking. Parking in these des- interested, they can be paired mall guided groups supplied ignated lots will be reissued to up with one of the female stu vith a blue PSU folder in one students and faculty Saturday dents to correspond with as the land and the infamous white, evening. year progresses and the pres dastic hag reading "We Are Some of the events that will sure of choosing a college ) Cllll State" in the other. be taking place on Saturday increases. In addition to the Saturday's Open House will are traditional to Behrend breakfast, the prospective un from IO a.m. to 2 p.m. Open Houses, such as the women students will be given there will he guided tours opportunity to have pictures the opportunity to spend the riven throughout the day. taken with the Nittany Lion. night with a female volunteer Some of the tour spots include: There are some exciting new who lives on campus. )n-campus housing (the tradi- features as well. The campus Through this program, Penn tional residence halls, Senat tours will be given by the Lion State Erie hopes to reach out Hall, the suites, and the apart- Ambassadors and will take to prospective women and ments), the Wintergarden, the place from 10 a.m. to 1:30 show them that there is a place Reed Union building, the p.m. The five schools, Sam for each and every woman Junket - Center, the Roche Hall and Irene Black School of here at Penn State Erie! Engineering Complex, and the Business, School of Hopefully the events of the Nick and Hammermill build- Engineering and Engineering open house will not cause any ings. The majority if the Technology, School of inconveniences to Behrend planned CA CMS will take place Humanities and Social students, and the Behrend in the Reed Union Building Sciences, School of Science community will instead give and Eric Hall. There are 275 and the Education Pre- the prospective students a students registered, and Certification Program, will all deserving welcome to the approximately 8(X) will be be giving presentations to the wonders that Behrend has to attending. The vast majority of Open House attendees. The offer. the attendees are high school, participants will be given the but some are adult learners and opportunity to eat lunch at transfer students. either Dobbins dining hall or arb27l psu.edu Classifieds "Charity isn't a good substitute for justice." Jonathan Kozol,American journalist and author (b. 1936) .411111HallaMita* Center - *Monsen 6' Civility likk_ Source: CNN.com, Yahoo! News \~ ~~. Bird flu spreads; world health concerns grow LONDON, United Kingdom: The spread of the avian flu to parts of Europe has triggered emergency meetings of health officials all over the world. While many had hoped that natural and geological barriers would keep the disease from spreading from Asia to Eastern Europe, cases recently detected in Romania have shown that those barriers have been breached. This form of the flu, which has killed dozens of people in Asia, can for now only be trans mitted directly from birds to humans with some difficulty. A growing fear among health offi cials is that, as the virus spreads through generations of reproduction, it will mutate into a form that will be easier to catch from avians and will be passable from human to human. If such mutations were to occur, the virus' resistance to antiviral drugs and vaccinations could cause a deadly worldwide epidemic. World Health Organization officials, who are monitoring the situation and carrying out quar antines and bird exterminations, are trying to remain optimistic about the situation. "The World Health Organization confirmed that there had been no increase in the risk of pan demic flu," said British Secretary of Health Patricia Hewitt. "But of course we have to ensure we are prepared in each of our countries." "Cheeseburger bill" passes U.S. House of Representatives WASHINGTON: A bill aimed at protecting retailers of fast food from obesity lawsuits was passed in the House and now moves on to the Senate. Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), member of the House Judiciary Committee, claimed that the bill was an important and overdue piece of legislation. "As one judge put it, if a person knows or should know that eating copious orders of super-sized McDonald's products is unhealthy and could result in weight gain, it is not the place of the law to protect them from their own excesses." The bill only protects food makers and fast-food service restaurants from sweeping class action lawsuits and not individual claims of food poisoning or false advertisement. However, some rep resentatives still think the bill was unnecessary, citing the rapid growth of childhood obesity in recent years as a sign that reform is needed. "Congress has allowed the need of big corporations before the need of our children," said Rep Bob Filner, a Democrat from California. The House bill passed easily 307-119, but success in the Senate is by no means assured, as a similar bill was passed in previous years never was approved by the Senate. 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