The Daily Collegian Students speak out in silence By Micah Wintner COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER For Natalie Plumb, Tuesday was a day to stand up for the rights of those unable to stand up for themselves. Plumb (junior-journalism) par ticipated in the Pro-Life Day of Solidarity, a project that aims to educate others about the conse quences of abortion. Students who participated in the event went through the day with red tape over their mouths, symbolizing the silenced voices of aborted babies. Students participating passed out flyers explaining what they were doing, since they were unable to explain vocally. According to the flyer, 4,000 fetuses a year "have their lives ended in the name of choice.” The event was hosted by Penn State Students for Life, but is a project of Pro-Life Ministries, a religious organization based out of Ohio. Last year Students for Life part nered with the Center for Bio- Observers: Onorato won debate By Peter Jackson /■-SO'IAiLD PRESS HARRISBURG. Pa. Democratic nominee Dan Onorato won the final debate of Pennsylvania's gubernatorial campaign on technical points, political observers said Tuesday. But he failed to weaken Republican rival Tom Corbett's status as lront-runner or shatter the monotony of the race, they added. Onor .'o. the elected executive of Allegheny County and Corbett, the state attorney general, squared off for the third and last time in Philadelphia on Monday night. "Onorato s a better debater. He has more facility with the lan guage. He has more command of the issues. Corbett is just steady as she goes cautious and very plainspoken." said G. Terry Madonna, a pollster at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster. Last fall 1.393.829 copies of The Daily Collegian ' ■•''■■■- were picked 1 U P <>'! -§S& campus, j* . 4> Collegian Our Advertising Works. Call (814) 865-2531 Today! LOCAL, STATE & N Ethical Reform and held up pic tures of aborted babies to show how abortion is similar to the Holocaust and genocide, Students for Life Vice President David Ogar said. Ogar (senior-health policy and administration) said Students for Life did not show the pictures this year because the cost of bringing the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform back to campus was too high. Despite the controversy caused by the pictures last year, Ogar said they will be back soon. “I believe the pictures are worth a thousand words,” he said. Stephanie Dißello, Students for Life president, said the club is against anything that “hinders people’s lives from conception to natural life,” such as suicide and abortion. “ [The event] would be a success if we got some people to just think about the issue a little bit more if they saw us and found out what was going on,” Dißello said. Dißello said some students opted to fast instead of tape their mouths, and some students who Matt Rourke' Associated Press Candidates for Pennsylvania governor Dan Onorato, left, and Tom Corbett debate at the WPVI-TV studio in Philadelphia on Monday. Two weeks out from the Nov. 2 election, Onorato “... needs some thing that startles and motivates his voters” if he hopes to win, Madonna said. Christopher Borick, a professor and pollster at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, said neither candidate was “clearly superior,” but Onorato claimed a tactical advantage. “In terms of a head-to-head per formance, Onorato presented himself better than Corbett.... But in terms of the big picture ... Tom Corbett could be very satisfied with the way the night went,” Borick said. l JiJf Affordable ■iiii : aii i mm-ir.ii4 i l'J l Hi i H IWm Suit [sls9*l [sl99* Packages suitoniy lin sh,,i _iii Sal. 10-6, Sun. 12 5 130 S. Allen St. | 814-237-5462 . . Stay up to date on deadlines and promotions! www.twitter.com/inycollegianad were not talking would break their silence if it was necessary. “Sometimes it makes sense to break your silence and tell [peo ple] about it,” she said. “It makes more sense to talk if they’re going to miss out if you don’t say any thing.” According to the event’s official website, 3,847 colleges were regis tered for the event. Registration was not limited to the United States, and included participants from Ukraine and Australia, among others. Bryan Kemper, president of Stand TYue Ministries, said the Pro-Life Day of Solidarity has been going on for seven years Penn State was one of the first schools to register for the event when it first started. Kemper said he was pleased with the number of colleges regis tered for the event. He said he received word that his organization was responsible for seven canceled abortions Tuesday. To e-mail reporter: maws43B@psu.edu In Monday night's hourlong debate in Philadelphia, the candi dates broke little new ground. “Each of them has a goal," Madonna said. “Corbett's goal is to make no mistakes, do no harm. Onorato's goal is to try to make the differences big enough to move voters, to change the cam paign.” Onorato questioned Corbett's repeated tweaking of his no-new taxes pledge and charged that Corbett’s opposition to a new tax on natural gas drilling reflects the more than $350,000 the industry has contributed to his campaign this year. twitter 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. j STATE COLLEGE 1613 North Atherton Street Across from Walmart j, 814-238-1066 ATI ON SMOKE SIGNALS The Penn State Smoke School truck gives a demonstration to a group looking to get their smoke reading certification. The truck was used in a course at the Penn Stater Conference Center. Military to accept openly gay recruits SAN DIEGO The military is accepting openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation's his tory. even as it tries in the courts to slow the movement to abolis h its “don't ask. don't tell" policy. Some gay activist groups were planning to send people to enlist at recruiting stations to test the Pentagon's Tuesday announce ment. Meanwhile, a federal judge in California whose ruling last week brought the 17-year policy the closest yet to being over turned was likeiv to reject the government's latest effort to halt her order telling the military to stop enforcing the law. The Justice Department will likely appeal if she does not sus pend her order. The Defense Department has said it would comply with U S. District Judge Virginia Phillips' order and had frozen any dis WE TREAT INJURIES AND ILLNESSES FOR ALL AGES i- JUST WALK IN ALWAYS A PHYSICIAN ON SITE + MOST INSURANCE ACCEPTED BUT NOT REQUIRED - X-RAYS, LABS, EKGs, IVs MINOR SURGERY. 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