Traffic tie-up

September street construction plans 
inconvenient but vital, 
officials say

By Angela Mull
State Press
	September street construction at the 
intersection of 
McClintock and University Drives may 
inconvenience 
drivers, but should decrease traffic 
accidents, Tempe officials 
said Thursday. 
	"The intersection improvement safety 
project needs to 
be done to reduce the accident rate," said 
Lee Quaas, city 
engineer, adding that drivers will not be 
horribly 
inconvenienced.
	Howard Hargis, assistant city engineer, 
agreed.
	"Whenever you are under construction in 
a major 
intersection you will have some impediment in 
traffic, but I 
wouldn't call it a major concern," he said.
	Intersection improvements include 
installing new 
traffic signals, widening the intersection, 
adding a median 
control to separate left-turn lanes from 
other lanes and 
adding more left-turn lanes. Construction at 
the intersection 
is scheduled to begin in mid-September but 
should be done 
in December. 
	Adding left-turn lanes on each side of 
the intersection 
is necessary because the intersection ranks 
fourth-highest for 
traffic accidents in Tempe, said David 
Walker, senior traffic 
engineering technician.
	In 1993, there were 47 accidents at 
McClintock and 
University Drives for a traffic rate of 1.58 
accidents per one 
million vehicles, Walker said. This placed 
the intersection 
behind Broadway and Rural Roads with 52 
accidents at 1.67 
per one million vehicles; Price Road and 
Southern Avenue 
with 33 at 1.76; and Apache Boulevard and 
Price Road with 
28 at 1.85. Figures from 1994 were not 
available.
	The intersection will remain open during 
construction 
with barricades blocking off one lane at a 
time, Quaas said. 
Construction could have started earlier, but 
was delayed to 
coincide with the September opening of the 
Red Mountain 
Freeway at Price Road, he said. 
	Sgt. Richard Wilson of ASU's Department 
of Public 
Safety said the barricades may cause problems 
for ASU 
students.
	"I'm sure it will be disruptive simply 
because an 
obstacle is an obstacle and when there is an 
activity, people 
tend to slow down to see what's going on," he 
said, but added 
that this can be mitigated if drivers use 
alternate routes.
	Other improvements to the city include 
cleaning and 
painting the Mill Avenue Bridge and adding 
new street lights 
and moving power lines underground at Rural 
Road from 
University Drive to the Rio Salado Parkway. 
Neither will 
require street closures and, once completed, 
the areas will be 
more "aesthetically pleasing," Quaas said. 
	The NFL did not ask the city to make the 
improvements, although all modifications are 
scheduled for 
completion in December, Hargis said.
	"They were in the works anyway, but 
we're certainly 
timing them so they'll be done before the 
Super Bowl," he 
said.

'Miserable' DPS facility to get much-needed repairs

By RuthAnn Hogue
State Press
	ASU's Department of Public Safety will 
soon be 
checking out of the decaying Campus Inn while 
the 
University works to remedy a termite-infested 
roof and other 
architectural maladies. 
	Construction will begin "any time now," 
said DPS Lt. 
Bennett Rowe. Funding for the project was 
approved earlier 
this year, and the building will include 
4,000 more square feet 
of office space than the current building and 
an upgraded 
computer system when it opens next fall. 
	The renovations are necessary because 
wiring in the 
old Campus Inn is insufficient for most 
computer systems. 
Additional space to house evidence is also 
needed, and with 
a leaky roof, termites and a backup-prone 
sewer system, the 
new facility will be welcomed, Rowe said.
	"It's a miserable facility. We're so 
astounded to be 
getting this new facility," Rowe said. "The 
building is so old it 
can't be automated, and it's unhealthy 
besides that."
	In addition to housing and processing 
evidence, the 
new complex will be a booking facility, a 
place to test drivers' 
alcohol levels in DUI cases and a holding 
facility for juvenile 
offenders.
	Cecelia Risius, senior business manager 
for DPS, said 
she eagerly awaits the new complex.
	"It is definitely something we are all 
looking forward 
to," she said. "We are now housed in what 
used to be an old 
hotel. It's termite-infested, and the roof 
leaks when it rains. It 
will be a dramatic improvement not only for 
us, but for the 
public that ends up coming over here."
	Funding for the first phase, which will 
cost about 
$688,000, was not easy to come by. DPS 
submitted several 
plans to the Arizona Board of Regents during 
the past three 
years before they got final approval.
	"Anything is difficult to get a 
government entity to 
approve," Rowe said. "It was painfully 
difficult for our 
department to get it funded. It took a 
tremendous amount of 
effort to do that. Government bodies that 
control purse 
strings are not likely to free up money real 
fast."
	An improved reception area, a community 
meeting 
room and an employee break room will also be 
added 
beginning next year if additional funding is 
approved.
	Cost figures for the next two phases 
were not 
immediately available. 
	"I don't want to say they are finalized, 
for sure, but 
they are under serious consideration and are 
looking good," 
Rowe said.

Computer classes speed ASU to Internet savvy

Brian Anderson
State Press
	The threat of eating dust on the 
information 
superhighway has left a growing number of 
students and 
faculty just spinning their wheels.
	But never fear, free computer classes 
are here.
	Student Internet Users Group (SIUG), a 
volunteer 
based student group, and ASU's Computer 
Assistance Center 
(COMPASS) are offering free computer classes 
for both the 
computer literate and those who have never 
heard of the 
World Wide Web. 
	Both of the groups hold several e-mail 
and Internet 
training classes. For a moderate fee, COMPASS 
also teaches 
about other programs like Microsoft Word and 
Excel. 
	Currently, COMPASS operates 11 free 
classes and six 
classes that cost between $30 and $60. Topics 
range from e-
mail training to spreadsheet instruction, 
said Alice 
Larrington, administrative assistant for 
Computing and 
Network Consulting Services.
	"We are in the process of getting some 
new Internet 
training materials ready," Larrington said. 
"I'm trying to 
negotiate with some trainers to get some 
Macintosh classes."
	SIUG focuses exclusively on Internet 
training and e-
mail.
	Mike Emerson, SIUG's organizer, said the 
group is a 
necessity for all people who want to merge 
into the fast lane 
of the information age. 
	"If you ever want to do cool stuff on 
the Internet and 
don't know where to turn to, we're trying to 
be that group," 
he said.
	Hans Kugler, a volunteer instructor, 
said the course 
will especially benefit those who have never 
surfed the Net. 
	"We're teaching them how to play with 
(the Internet) 
without destroying their account." 
	Kugler said that demand so far this 
semester has 
outstripped their resources because they have 
a small room 
and only 12 computers. 
	"Right now, at the beginning of the 
semester, we can 
go en masse and take charge of another 
classroom. But in a 
week we can't do that." 
	Classes meet at 5:30 p.m. two nights per 
week in 
Computing Commons, Room 223.
	COMPASS offers four, one-hour PINE and 
e-mail 
classes for the first two weeks of the 
semester. After that, they 
will scale back the number of classes, said 
Steve Berry, senior 
support systems analyst. 
	Berry said the first couple days of the 
semester have 
been slow, but he expects business to pick up 
as more 
students find their way to the Computing 
Commons. 
	"I expect it to increase as teachers 
tell students to turn 
their assignments in on e-mail," he said. "It 
really varies. 
Sometimes we might have three or four, 
sometimes we might 
have 20 packed in there." 
	Both groups offer training classes on a 
first-come, first-
serve basis, with seating limited to about 16 
people per class. 
	Students should call COMPASS at 965-5939 
or Hans 
Kugler at 965-2410 for more information. 
	People who attend the classes should 
have already 
created a computer account and have access to 
it in time for 
the class, Kugler said. 
	"If (students) don't have an account, 
they can't log in 
and do this stuff," he said.

ASU journalism scores in top 3 nationally

By Tim Baxter
State Press
	ASU's Walter Cronkite School of 
Journalism became 
the only school in the country to finish in 
the top three at a 
national college journalism competition in 
both print and 
broadcast news.
	The Cronkite School took third place 
overall at the 
35th annual William Randolph Hearst 
Foundation Journalism 
Awards, finished third in the intercollegiate 
writing rankings 
and third in broadcasting.
	This is the sixth consecutive year ASU 
has finished in 
the top five at the competition. It also 
finished in the top five 
at the broadcasting competition four of the 
past five years.
	Eight ASU students finished in the top 
10 in the 
competition:
	* Lisa Gonderinger, 1st place, sports 
writing and 
finalist, national writing championships;
	* Jake Batsell, 2nd place, national 
writing 
championships and 3rd place, personality 
profiles;
	* Sheri Foote, 4th place, personality 
profiles;
	* Kerri-Lee Halkett, 4th place, 
television news;
	* Monique Brouzes, 5th place, in-depth 
writing;
	* Ethan Miller, 6th place, 
photojournalism;
	* Dan Weege, 6th place, radio news;
	* Mike Hahn, 10th place, radio news.

ASU Art Museum road trips to Italy

Exhibit featured in 'the Super Bowl of the 
art world'

By David J. Kovacs
State Press
	The ASU Art Museum received 
international 
recognition this summer when it represented 
the United 
States at the 1995 Venice Biennale in Venice, 
Italy.
	Celebrating its 100th anniversary, the 
Biennale is 
considered the oldest and most important art 
show in the 
world, with contemporary art exhibits from 69 
different 
countries. It opened June 11 and runs through 
October 15.
	"It's considered the Super Bowl of the 
art world," said 
Heather Lineberry, curator of education at 
the museum.
	The museum was chosen to present the 
work of video 
artist Bill Viola following the selection of 
museum director 
Marilyn A. Zeitlin as U.S. commissioner to 
the Biennale. 
Previous university museums chosen to 
represent U.S. artists 
include Cornell University and the University 
of Nebraska, 
McAllister said.
	According to U.S. Pavilion statistics, 
attendance at the 
U.S. exhibit reached 24,172 people in June.
	"It's wonderful for the (ASU) museum, 
but the honor 
really goes to Marilyn," said senior curator 
Linda A 
McAllister. 
	The ASU museum staff was responsible for 
the 
transport and construction of all materials 
and equipment for 
the show - right down to the walls of the 
American Pavilion 
itself, she said.
	A total of eight ASU art museum staff 
members went 
to Venice for this year's show. Heather 
Lineberry, an assistant 
museum professional, said the crush of people 
and press was 
amazing. 
	"It was incredible," she said. "Everyone 
is wearing 
black. They call them the 'Art Mafia.' "
	Sometimes, she got more than she 
bargained for at the 
show.
	"I had to act as a bouncer at one 
point," she said, 
adding that clearing the room as a security 
measure so the 
U.S. ambassador to Italy could have a private 
showing may 
have been above and beyond the call duty.
	The ASU Art Museum will be showing Bill 
Viola's 
Biennale exhibit beginning next March. Titled 
Buried Secrets, 
the video images cover such basic themes as 
life and death, 
Lineberry said.
	Americans in Venice: The Biennale Legacy 
is now 
showing at ASU. It includes artists from past 
Biennale shows, 
including Keith Haring and Julian Schnabel.

Editorial: Boos & Bravos

BOO - To ASU and the NFL for kicking students 
out of Lot 59 
for three weeks during the grand high 
festival of Super Bowl 
XXX. Seems that when corporate bucks come 
rolling in, the 
administration is perfectly willing to make 
students commute 
a mile from their parking spots.
	Thanks a lot, ASU. Nice to know you give 
a damn.

BRAVO -  To Shannon Faulkner, recent drop-out 
from the 
Citadel. There are still some bastions of 
blatant 
discrimination in this country, and the 
Citadel is one of them. 
Faulkner's fight forced the school - a public 
institution - to 
open its doors to any qualified applicant, 
regardless of 
gender. Since it receives South Carolina tax 
dollars, there was 
no reason for it to be segregated in such a 
sexist manner. 
And, while we're at it, we'll give a really 
big BOO to the dear 
lads at the Citadel who ran through the rain 
yelling and 
screaming in joy when Faulkner left. It is 
painfully obvious 
that these young men, by carrying on in such 
a shameful 
manner, lack the sense of honor that a 
military education is 
supposed to instill.

BOO -  To the boxing world, for putting on a 
shameful 
spectacle in Las Vegas last week. It should 
serve as a 
damning commentary on a society that paid a 
convicted 
rapist $25.5 million to pummel some other guy 
for 90 seconds 
- and paid the other guy hundreds of 
thousands of dollars to 
take it.

BRAVO -  To O.J. Simpson judge Lance Ito, for 
his recent 
threat to yank the cameras from the 
courtroom. Too bad he 
didn't carry it out - we need someone to save 
us from this 
three-ring circus of adjudication. And we 
thought soap 
operas were hard enough to endure.

BOO - To all of the hype, hype, hype 
surrounding Bill Gates' 
new Holy Grail of computing, Windows 95. 
Let's see if we've 
got this straight - we've got to spend nearly 
a thousand 
dollars to buy more RAM and a bigger hard 
drive, just so we 
can use our PCs like a Macintosh? We smell 
conspiracy here. 
Our advice - keep the old Windows for awhile, 
or just buy a 
Mac.

BRAVO -  To ASU DPS, for opening its third 
community 
outreach station, this one in Tempe Center. 
This area is one of 
the worst crime areas in the ASU vicinity. 
Not only is 
shoplifting common, but now assaults and 
armed robberies 
are beginning to pop up in the area. A patrol 
officer on duty 
at all times should go a long way toward 
reducing crime in 
the center, something we'll all be glad to 
see. Besides, it'll be 
nice to see DPS go after criminals other than 
those 
committing the insidious horror of parking at 
the Tempe 
Center and leaving the area.

BOO - To the Philip Morris Companies, Inc., 
which cockily 
ran a full-page ad in newspapers Thursday 
rubbing ABC's 
nose in its recent apology to the tobacco 
conglomerate. Was 
ABC wrong? Any time you lie or exaggerate in 
a news story, 
you are wrong. But that doesn't change the 
fact that Philip 
Morris knowingly sells a product directly 
responsible for the 
deaths of nearly 400,000 Americans a year. 
Get off your high 
horse, Philip Morris. You won this battle, 
but it doesn't 
change the fact that you make huge profits 
from a product 
that kills.
	ABC, too, deserves a BOO for backing - 
no, running - 
away from its story at the threat of a costly 
lawsuit, leading 
us to believe that the network feared a 
decline in its profit 
more than it feared the possibility that the 
story was wrong. 
Sounds like a Mickey Mouse deal to us. 

Column: Faulkner shunned by own gender

	Liz Montalbano
Columnist
	When everyone's favorite conservative 
Newt Gingrich 
stated earlier this year that women shouldn't 
be permitted in 
combat because they would "get infections" 
after spending 
numerous days in a foxhole, I thought that I 
had experienced 
the most perfect example of misogyny ever 
known.
	I was wrong.
	The photos splashed across newspapers 
and 
magazines around the country of bare-chested 
young cadets 
raucously celebrating Shannon Faulkner's 
withdrawal from 
the Citadel were an even more disgusting 
display of 
testosterone.
	And as reports from Faulkner indicate, 
women 
themselves seem to be all-too-quickly leaping 
onto the 
misogyny bandwagon 
	Sure, Faulkner fought her way into the 
notoriously 
patriarchal (and as one critic put it, "tin-
pot" and "second-
rate") military academy, only to drop out 
after less than five 
days. 
	And yes, she didn't exactly appear fit 
as a fiddle, as the 
press's oh-so-flattering pictures of her 
pudgy and pale form 
prove. But did she really deserve the 
condemnation and 
outright hatred she was subjected to not only 
by her fellow 
cadets and the press, but also, and most 
sadly, by fellow 
women?
	I think not.
	In a television interview on ABC 
Wednesday night, 
Faulkner called her ordeal "Two and a half 
years of hell." She 
claimed she received numerous threats not 
only against her, 
but also against her family. Some, she 
asserted, were from 
cadets at the Citadel, though the school's 
officials deny that 
their students' behavior was anything but 
gentlemen-like.  
	Even more disturbingly Faulkner said 
that the worst 
insults she received were from women, who 
barraged her 
with taunts, calling her, among other things, 
a whore and a 
lesbian. And in the television footage aired 
Wednesday, some 
of those wearing shirts advertising the 
Citadel as a school 
with "1,952 bulldogs and one bitch" were 
indeed those of the 
female gender.
	It's no secret that military exercises 
can be ridiculously 
life-threatening. Pentagon statistics show 
that for every 
soldier killed in combat since 1989, seven 
soldiers have died 
in training maneuvers. In the murderously 
high heat and 
humidity of South Carolina in August, it's 
not surprising that 
Faulkner suffered from the physical distress 
that prompted 
her withdrawal from the academy after less 
than five days.
	For those of us so quick to point out 
that Faulkner 
appeared less than fit to perform the 
rigorous exercises of 
"Hell Week," let us remember that some bodies 
(particularly 
women's bodies) are not so predisposed to 
apparent muscle 
tone or slenderness, and that one's physical 
appearance does 
not always constitute their level of health 
or physical fitness.
	I am not surprised by the male cadets' 
reaction to 
Faulkner's withdrawal. The military itself 
has a tradition of 
male hierarchy, and young men choosing to 
attend an 
academy that prides itself on its "no females 
allowed" rule 
can hardly be expected to regard women as 
autonomous, 
intelligent and able-bodied creatures. As 
much as men like to 
believe they've evolved, behavior like this 
simply proves that 
they still have a long way to go.
	But women's reaction to Faulkner puzzled 
and 
saddened me. Sure, those of us who are female 
are 
disappointed by her withdrawal, but she has 
not actually 
harmed us in any way by giving up.
	And her desire to attend the Citadel did 
not mean that 
she was trying, in any way, to transcend or 
deny her 
womanhood.
	Can anyone name even one of the other 30 
cadets who 
joined Faulkner in withdrawing from the 
Citadel during the 
first week of school?
	I didn't think so. To tell you the 
truth, neither can I.
	But I can nearly guarantee that none of 
them were 
under the tremendous pressure that rested on 
Faulkner's 
shoulders.
	Shannon Faulkner never claimed to be a 
heroine. She 
is simply a woman who wanted the opportunity 
to attend the 
college of her choice. It is not for us to 
judge her motives or 
her actions.
	She was not the first woman to ever 
fight against the 
barricade of male oppression to get what she 
wanted, and she 
certainly won't be the last.
	Let's hope that next time, those of her 
gender will be 
the ones helping her over the wall.

Liz Montalbano is an M.F.A. student studying 
Ceative 
Writing

Column: Republicans hop on 2 bandwagons

Steve Forsberg
Columnist
	The religious right has played an 
important role in the 
rise of the Republicans to majority party 
status. It has 
provided the party with a block of loyal 
voters who have 
proven fund-raising capabilities, and a moral 
voice that adds 
a much needed human touch to the Republicans' 
traditional 
dollars and cents
platforms.  
	What seems to have gone unnoticed, 
however, is that 
the religious right is namely a rhetorical 
tool that allows the 
Republicans to gather votes from a far wider 
spectrum of the 
American public. Just as the impassioned 
speeches of the 
minority rights movement once gave the 
Democrats powerful 
verbal weapons, the rhetorical strategies of 
the modern-day 
Christian conservatives have given the 
Republicans a much-
needed boost.
	The strategy, which appears to be some 
weird twist on 
the Hegelian dialectic, is to make the 
listener believe two 
contradictory things at the same time, or at 
least to present 
two contradictory positions within a speech 
and hope that 
those listening will pick out one and ignore 
its mutually 
exclusive other.
	This strategy is illustrated every day 
on Pat 
Robertson's Trinity Broadcast Network. At 
first the speaker 
will talk of how true Christians are an 
endangered breed 
being exterminated by a seemingly unstoppable 
coalition of 
liberals, the media, government and 
multiculturalists. Those 
listening are encouraged to take action today 
because things 
are so dicey that there might not be a 
tomorrow. 
	Only moments later, however, the same 
speaker will 
shift to an entirely contradictory stance: 
The conservative 
Christians are a vast majority, an 
unstoppable force, and are 
winning decisively. Those listening are 
encouraged to join up 
today, lest they be rendered irrelevant by 
the tidal wave of 
conservative victory. 
	The point, of course, is that the two 
positions appear to 
be mutually exclusive. Such rhetoric is 
nothing new to 
Christianity. For hundreds of years pastors 
and priests have 
been giving sermons in which the devil is 
alternatively 
portrayed as a powerful and dangerous enemy 
to be feared 
or, conversely, as a weak and comical 
character to be laughed 
at. One day it is "turn" the other cheek and 
the next "an eye 
for an eye." It is not uncommon for a 
congregation to be 
described as meek "lambs of God" at the start 
of the sermon, 
and as mighty "soldiers in Christ's army" at 
the end.
	How does this religious method fit in 
with modern 
politics? Such tactics appear to be very 
effective at motivating 
two types of people who make up a significant 
portion of 
today's electorate: the apathetic and the 
band-wagoners. The 
"we are about to be overrun" portion of the 
delivery is 
designed to get couch potatoes out of their 
chairs and to 
appeal to those who root for the underdog. 
The "we are 
winning" portion is aimed at those who might 
not really 
know or care that much about the issue at 
hand, but want to 
be on the winning side, whatever it might be. 
If you doubt 
the size of this constituency, simply note 
how a sports team 
that appears to be destined to win a 
championship suddenly 
acquires hordes of fans, regardless of its 
past popularity.
	Rush Limbaugh, for example, appears to 
have 
mastered this strategy of painting wildly 
contradictory 
pictures. One moment the "feminazis" are a 
powerful clique 
that is ruining America, the next they are a 
tiny band of 
insignificant weirdos to be laughed at. One 
can never tell 
from moment to moment if liberalism will be 
treated as a 
grave threat that is trampling the U.S., or 
if it will be 
dismissed as a weak fringe movement. Indeed, 
Limbaugh's 
vacillating positions with regard to 
liberalism are uncannily 
similar to those taken by successful 
evangelicals with regards 
to Satan.
	There is nothing inherently wrong with 
political 
figures borrowing the successful motivating 
strategies of 
religious leaders, but there is a danger in 
the use of this 
particular one.  
	How does one translate rhetoric that 
holds contrary 
opinions, sometimes in the same paragraph, 
into an 
implementable policy? The conservative 
movement may be 
high on this rhetorical strategy, and indeed 
may ride it to 
victory at the polls, but the electoral 
success will provide little 
insight into what voters really want. In what 
direction did the 
Republicans say they would take the country? 
Why, both, of 
course. 

Steve Forsberg is a senior in history.

Column: Wanted: Colorful ASU football staff and media

Enrique Chaurand
Columnist
	In the middle of August I attended media 
day for the 
ASU football team. It was my first time. I 
was excited to be in 
the same room with the rest of the media. 
	I was one of the first reporters to 
arrive, so I began 
walking around the press box and introducing 
myself to 
everyone and anyone.
	Soon the room began to fill and the 
players made their 
way to the tables with the coaches. Except 
for the football 
players, there were almost no people of color 
in the room. As 
far as press and ASU football staff, I could 
count them all on 
one hand.
	I'm from the Midwest, where there are 
not as many 
Latinos in the media. In Arizona almost every 
media outlet 
has a Latino on it's staff. I just find it 
hard to believe that there 
are no qualified minorities (especially 
Latinos) to cover 
sports. I also find it hard to believe that 
there are no qualified 
Latinos to work in the ASU public relations 
people athletic 
department.
	The Latinos in the room were the kitchen 
personnel 
and three football players. Other than that, 
not a single soul 
was brown in that room. 
	I wonder what goes through the minds of 
the officials 
who do the hiring in the athletic department. 
Don't they 
realize the large population of Latinos in 
the Valley? You 
would think that they would want to include 
their 
participation in athletic events, as well as 
those educational 
events that we are more often than not 
overlooked.
	I'm no marketing major, but the Latino 
market is an 
important market and one of the most rapidly 
growing ones. 
The name of the game now in college athletics 
is money. With 
all the scandals happening this year alone, 
like the Alabama 
program and Miami of Florida programs going 
on probation, 
it's hard not to see that money is the 
driving factor. 
	A significant number of Mexican-
Americans in the 
Valley have grown up with ASU athletics and 
are some of the 
biggest fans. Secondly, many are alumni from 
this University 
and are active boosters for ASU sports. 
	The first, second and third generation 
Latino families 
in this country have many of the same likes 
and dislikes as 
mainstream America. I'm not saying we are the 
same as 
mainstream America, because we do have 
different 
perspectives and cultural intricacies that 
hold us unique as a 
race. 
	But for the most part, we (Latinos) like 
football, 
basketball, baseball and of course soccer. It 
just blows my 
mind that ASU doesn't realize the large 
population that plays 
a significant role in supporting it's sports 
programs. The 
athletic department would do itself a great 
service by hiring a 
Latino to identify with an audience that is a 
large supporter, 
but gets little thanks. 
	Maybe it should take a little advice 
from Bill Bidwill of 
the Cardinals. I know he has many faults, but 
he does market 
heavily in Latino neighborhoods and 
businesses. If the 
Cardinals have seen the value of this market 
and they have 
been here for less than 10 years, where has 
ASU been all this 
time? Just something to think about.

Enrique Chaurand is a senior in journalism.

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Money still speaks louder

The State of Arizona, Tempe, and ASU 
encourage 
people to ride-share, bike, walk or take the 
bus. Most agree 
that there is a traffic problem, if not a 
pollution problem. 
However, the arrival of Super Bowl XXX brings 
to the 
forefront a  more important concern for 
business: MONEY. 
	Tempe's and ASU's parking problem 
indicates Super 
Bowl patrons are tolerated over Lot 59. 
Students might be 
more willing to use alternative methods if 
Tempe 
aggressively seeks a rail, or some mass 
transit for these two 
weeks in January and for ASU in the future. 
Wasn't it Tempe 
that objected to opening Route 202's ramps on 
Rural and 
McClintock Rd before Route 202 was complete? 
	The recent work on University was done 
also out of 
concern about reducing heavy traffic. But 
alas, the only lesson 
to be learned is that money speaks louder 
than any talk about 
reducing traffic and air pollution.

Bob Mitchell
Nursing

Sun Devils collide in intersquad scrimmage

By Dan Miller and Damian Shaw
State Press
	With the ASU football team's season 
opener against Washington less than 
two weeks away, the time has come for the 
starters to fine-tune their games, 
while a handful of others remain on the 
bubble.
	The Sun Devil coaching staff took 
another critical look at both stages of 
development at a closed intersquad scrimmage 
at Sun Devil Stadium Thursday 
night.
	The starting offense and defense both 
saw significant action in simulated 
game situations against scout teams. The Sun 
Devils also practiced live punts, 
field goals, the two-minute drill and extra 
points.
	"This will be one of our more valuable 
practices even though the tempo 
was a little bit tempered because we were 
going up against scouts," said Head 
Coach Bruce Snyder, whose team closed its 
annual Camp Tontozona retreat with 
an open scrimmage last Saturday. 
	Junior quarterback Jake Plummer was 
sharp, completing 10 of 14  pass 
attempts for 120 yards and one tipped 
interception.
	"Our whole team had a lot of errors but 
we have cut down on some of 
them since the last scrimmage," said Plummer, 
who is statistically the top 
returning quarterback in the Pac-10 
conference. "We're running againt the scout 
team which isn't as good as the first defense 
and we broke a few plays... They 
wanted to keep us in a game situation to see 
how we responded as an offense."
	Several Sun Devil starters appeared to 
be reaching season form as they 
recorded solid numbers in the scrimmage.   
	Junior receiver Isaiah Mustafa caught 
three passes for 47 yards; junior 
receiver Keith Poole grabbed three balls-one 
of them one-handed while falling to 
the ground-for 19 yards; senior tailback 
Chris Hopkins carried seven times for 77 
yards and three touchdowns; and sophomore 
second-string tailback Michael 
Martin continued to impress coaches, rushing 
six times for 86 yards.
	"He (Martin) made his presence known," 
said Snyder, who was equally 
pleased with Hopkins. "He's hard to bring 
down. There's something about him 
that makes him a very difficult man to 
tackle." 
	Notes:
	* Inside lineback Justin Dragoo, who 
took a blow to the head and reported 
seeing stars, did not finish the scrimmage.
	* Junior right tackle Shawn Swayda was 
removed from the remainder of 
the scrimmage for fighting after a play 
ended.
	* Senior right cornerback Marcus Soward, 
who injured his groin last week, 
did not play. Junior Traivon Johnson took his 
place on the first team.
	* Snyder said the team will be kept out 
of pads for the next two days to 
recuperate.
	* Sophomore inside linebacker Ty Wade is 
no longer 
with the team for reasons Sndyer did not 
disclose.

LaDuke takes life, new job one day at a time

By Damian Shaw
State Press
	"Duuuuke", the fans used to cheer, with 
the elongated 
'u' making the crowd sound like it was 
booing. Of course, 
they weren't. 
	Nathan LaDuke used to give ASU fans 
plenty of 
reason to cheer. His 238 solo tackles ties 
him with Brett 
Wallerstedt for the all-time lead at ASU. He 
was also the 
runner up for the Jim Thorpe Award for the 
best defensive 
back in the nation two years in a row.  
	 But that was a few years ago. This 
season LaDuke will 
be on the sidelines once again, not as a 
player, but as assistant 
to the head coach, a position newly created 
this year. 
	"I'm really pleased that he's on our 
staff," said Head 
Coach Bruce Snyder. "I didn't have the 
pleasure of coaching 
him while he was here. I coached against him 
while I was at 
(the University of California) and he was a 
heck of a player."
	 LaDuke left ASU in 1990 after receiving 
All-America 
status his last two years. 
	"What I've discovered about Nathan in 
the two months 
that he's been here is that he brings some of 
the tradition and 
allows us to focus on what is great about our 
program 
because he was a part of that," Snyder said.  
	LaDuke, 26, who was drafted in the 11th 
round of the 
1991 NFL draft, twice just missed making the 
Arizona 
Cardinals. After two stints on the Arizona 
Rattlers in the 
Arena Football League, LaDuke was offered the 
position at 
ASU.
	"I'm there to allow the coaches to do 
nothing but 
coach," said LaDuke, who played with the 
Rattlers this 
season before leaving, "so they don't have to 
do any of this 
administrative stuff and they don't have to 
deal with a lot of 
these things that take up a lot of time."
	 A 1987 graduate of Phoenix's Alhambra 
High School, 
LaDuke has a new respect for coaches now that 
he is getting a 
look at the other side of the ball.
	"It's totally different. I'm seeing 
things from a whole 
new perspective," he said. "When you're a 
player, you just 
show up and everything's already provided for 
you. When 
you're on this side of the ball, you see how 
much effort and 
how many things go into running football 
operations. It's 
really been an eye-opener for me."
	LaDuke said he hasn't thought much about 
where he'll 
be in the future, and while he hasn't 
dismissed the idea of 
himself in a coaching position, he prefers to 
focus on his 
immediate job. 
	"I certainly have some interest in it 
(coaching), but one 
of the team mottos here is 'one at a time,' 
and I'm trying to 
live that in my personal life," LaDuke said. 
"My focus goes 
into my daily responsibilities and activities 
that pertain to 
this football team, so whatever I can do 
right now to help this 
team is what I focus on on a day-to-day 
basis."

Kush decks the halls

Former ASU coach to be inducted into Hall of 
Fame

By Ron Matejko
State Press
	Frank Kush, whose name has become 
synonomous 
with ASU's football tradition, will have his 
long list of 
accomplishments truly recognized when he is 
inducted into 
the College Football Hall of Fame in South 
Bend, Ind. today.  
		Kush, who was involved in the Sun 
Devil 
football program from 1955-79, will be the 
121st coach to earn 
this elite honor.
	"I fantasized about it when I was a 
young coach," said 
Kush, 66, who will be one of 12 inductees 
honored today. 
	Kush modestly deflects credit for his 
success to 
various coaches and community members who 
have helped 
him along the way. During his playing days at 
the high 
school and college levels as well as his 
early days as an 
assistant, Kush said he was always a part of 
successful 
programs. 
	 "I was constantly around tough, winning 
coaches," he 
said. "But education always came  first, then 
football." 
	This was a  philosophy he used during 
his coaching 
days at ASU.
	Kush also enjoyed success as a player, 
achieving All-
American status as a lineman and as a member 
of a n NCAA 
championship team at Michigan State.
    Kush first came to ASU in 1955 as an 
assistant to Hall of 
Fame coach Dan Devine. He took over as head 
coach three 
years later at the age of 29 and held the 
position until he was 
fired in 1979. During his ASU career, he 
accumulated a record 
of 176-54-1 and the Sun Devils won 76 percent 
of their games. 
He also coached ASU to nine Pac-10 conference 
titles and 
holds a 6-1 record in bowl games. The Sun 
Devils' 17-14 
Fiesta Bowl victory over Nebraska in 1975 
capped their 
second undefeated season under Kush. The win 
gave ASU a 
No. 2 ranking, which is still the highest 
they have ever been 
ranked at the end of a season.
	 The legendary coach has produced 
several pro players 
including Mike Haynes, Charley Taylor and 
Danny White.
     Kush credits football for affording him 
many 
opportunities he never thought possible, 
including meeting 
three presidents.
	  "I'd probably be dead of a miner's 
disease if it wasn't 
for football,"  he recollected, referring to 
the miner's town in 
Pennsylvania in which he was raised. 
     Kush regarded himself as a coach that 
cared for the 
player's well-being. 	
	"Players would come in to talk to me 
every week," he 
recalled. "We would have get-togethers at the 
house after 
games."
	 Although he readily admits he was 
tough, Kush said 
he always had the best intentions and wanted 
to see every 
player perform to the best of his abilities.
     When he reflects on his stringent 
coaching styles, he said 
there is no regret, but added today's 
athletes need stronger 
direction from their coaches.
	 "It's easier to be lenient," he said. 
"Coaches assume the 
players will take care of themselves."  
	Although Kush is still emotionally 
attached to the ASU 
football program, he is unhappy with the 
current direction 
college football is taking toward a playoff 
system. He said it 
would add to the pressures already on the 
team and would 
be detrimental to the players'  education. 
Kush also said 
schools place too much importance on teams to 
earn the 
potential revenue now available through the 
many bowl 
games. This puts more pressure on the coaches 
to win, which 
slides the player's non-game related needs 
back. 
    Today Kush continues to devote himself to 
bettering 
others. For the past five years, Kush has 
been executive 
administrator of Arizona Boys Ranch, a 
residential 
rehabilitation center for delinquent boys. He 
is also involved 
with the National Football Foundation, which 
sponsors the 
College Hall of Fame. 

Kush's Sun Devil Career
1958: 7-3-0
1959: 10-1-0
1960: 7-3-0
1961: 7-3-0
1962: 7-2-1
1963: 8-1-0
1964: 8-2-0
1965: 6-4-0
1966: 5-5-0
1967: 8-2-0
1968: 8-2-0
1969: 8-2-0
1970: 11-0-0
1971: 11-1-0
1972: 10-2-0
1973: 11-1-0
1974: 7-5-0
1976: 4-7-0
1977: 9-3-0
1978: 9-3-0
1979: 3-2-0*

*Replaced after 5 games

ASU police reported the following incidents 
Thursday:
* Someone unlawfully entered a room in the 
University 
Activity Center and stole five pairs of Nike 
shoes, four Nike 
travel bags and two black leather briefcases.
* Seven bikes were reported stolen.
Tempe police reported the following incidents 
Thursday:
* A 47-year-old man was arrested for 
aggravated assault with 
a firearm, endangerment, criminal damage and 
trespass after 
he assaulted his ex-wife. The man pointed a 
gun at her and 
said, "I'm going to kill you." He then put 
the barrel of the gun 
in his mouth. His ex-wife closed the carport 
door and the 
man broke the door glass, causing a cut on 
her left wrist. He 
was taken to the Tempe City Jail.
* A 34-year-old man was arrested for 
disorderly conduct after 
he was involved in a fight with another 
customer at Rockin' 
Rodeo Bar, 7850 S. Priest Drive. The man said 
the other 
patron started the fight by pushing him in 
the chest. After he 
was pushed, the man began to wrestle with the 
other 
customer on the floor. Bouncers broke up the 
fight and sent 
the two men outside, where they began 
fighting again. The 
other customer was also arrested for 
disorderly conduct.
Compiled by State Press reporter Greg Zemeida

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* Asian Bible Fellowship - Join us for 
sharing, fellowship and 
fun at the weekly meeting. Coconino Room 
(224) in the 
Memorial Union; 7:30 p.m. 
* Baptist Student Union - "Arizona Luau." 
Welcome back 
party with free food at the BSU, 1322 S. Mill 
Ave; 7 p.m.
* Devil's Juggling Club  - Weekly gathering 
to learn to juggle 
or just improve skills. West Lawn, on top of 
Hayden Library; 
5:30 p.m.
* MUAB Comedy Committee - Farce Side and 
Barren 
auditions. MU Programming Lounge; 5 p.m.
* Role Playing Game Club - First meeting of 
the semester and 
new members are welcome. Membership and 
activities will 
be discussed. If you can't make it, call Ed 
Gookin at 967-0963. 
Gila Room (214) in the Memorial Union; 5:30 
p.m.
Saturday:
* Malaysian Student Association - General 
meeting. All new 
and old students are welcome. Gold Room in 
the Memorial 
Union; 10 a.m. 
* Salle Diablo Fencing Club - Fencing 
practice and training. 
Small gym B in the Student Recreation Center; 
1:30 p.m.