Student-planned satellite prepares for the 'real world'

Kelly Wendel
State Press
	ASU's satellite program faces a thorough 
trial of the 
unit's systems in the upcoming week, and a 
successful test 
will move the team one step closer to space.
	"This qualification testing is an 
important milestone 
from Orbital Sciences Corporation point-of-
view," said 
graduate student Joel Rademacher, ASUSat-1 
program 
manager.
	Orbital Sciences donated space aboard a 
Pegasus 
rocket to the ASU Satellite program. But 
before OSC will add 
the ASU satellite to the Dec. 15 launch, it 
must undergo a 
rigorous agenda of tests.
	The testing consists of vibration and 
shock analysis 
replicating lift-off and the stresses of 
space flight, as well as a 
thermal-cycle test that will take the unit to 
extremes of heat 
and cold.
	"OSC is going to look at the results, 
and that will help 
them decide if we are going to be on board 
with them. It will 
tell OSC that we are safe. We are not going 
to fly apart and 
break their satellite, which is a 
multimillion dollar satellite," 
Rademacher said. "This testing will make sure 
nothing 
breaks, comes off, or freezes."
	"One of the big problems of going from a 
paper design 
to an actual design is (that) you find there 
are things that 
cannot be built or are too expensive and 
complicated to be 
built," said Jordi Puig, an adviser for 
ASUSat-1. "Building this 
satellite is a good opportunity to prepare 
students for the real 
world."
	The student-designed and constructed 
satellite weighs 
just 10 pounds and cost less than $200,000 to 
build. Costs 
were cut by using student-designed parts, 
saving the 
program thousands of dollars.
	"The cost of hardware was pretty low," 
said 
Rademacher. "We got a lot of things donated 
to us, and lot of 
things at a reduced cost." The team also 
received technical 
and engineering advising from Honeywell Space 
Systems 
Group, transmitters from the Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory and 
other support from area businesses.
	Orbiting the earth at an altitude of 
more than 160 
miles, the satellite will measure the 
concentration of ions - 
electrically-charged particles smaller than 
atoms - in the 
atmosphere as a way to generate energy, and 
test an 
electrostatic attitude-control system. 
	Students will also observe the decay of 
the satellite's 
orbit by marking its location relative to the 
earth's geography 
using Global Positioning technology and 
micro-chip cameras.
	The satellite will orbit the earth for 
at least 22 days, 
gradually falling back down to the planet. 
However, the 
satellite could last for as long as four 
months with minimal 
solar-flare activity, which creates ions that 
give the satellite 
more resistance in the outer reaches of the 
atmosphere. 
	When the satellite drops far enough, it 
will burn up in 
earth's atmosphere and glow like a shooting 
star.
	"I sure would like to see that shooting 
star," 
Rademacher said.

Magazine ranks School of Design as No. 1

By Brian Anderson
State Press
	ASU's School of Design received top 
honors from a 
group of 78 distinguished interior design 
educators in a 
recent magazine poll.
	In the August issue of Interior Design 
magazine, the 
design school was ranked first out of more 
than 500 schools 
across the country. 
	Bob Wolfe, director of the School of 
Design, said he 
was elated that the school received such high 
praise because 
industry professionals will gain more respect 
for the 
program. 
	"(The ranking) will get us recognition," 
he said. "It will 
then continue to gain respect for the program 
and respect for 
the students who are graduating from the 
program." 
	Wolfe said voters were asked which 
schools they 
thought were the most professional, had the 
most 
comprehensive program, gave students the most 
marketability and had the highest success 
rate in terms of 
graduation and post-graduation employment 
rates. ASU's 
School of Design placed first in the overall 
category. 
	Michael Kroelinger, interior design 
coordinator, said 
he was thankful that others in the industry 
are aware of 
ASU's program. 
	"We're extremely pleased that our peer 
faculty at other 
institutions recognize the caliber of the ASU 
program and the 
contributions the faculty and students make," 
he said. "I 
certainly believe it's a worthwhile milestone 
for us."
	Kroelinger said ASU's School of Design 
is so good 
because of the outstanding work of the 
faculty and students.
	"We have an excellent faculty that works 
together as a 
team," he said. "We believe we have 
outstanding students 
entering the upper division of the program 
and their 
individual performances go a long way toward 
helping the 
program."
	Angelo Carpinelli, an industrial design 
major, said he 
was excited about the survey results, but he 
didn't need a poll 
to inform him that the design school is top 
notch. 
	"I'm actually extremely satisfied," he 
said. "One of the 
reasons I chose to come to ASU is because I 
knew that the 
school was progressive. I really felt that I 
had a lot to learn 
from a university like (ASU)."
	Carpinelli said one of the problems with 
some design 
schools is they concentrate too intensely on 
artistic factors. 
	"A lot of schools just focus on the art 
end of it," he said. 
"In industrial design, there's just so much 
more to it than just 
art. I just view ASU as being the most well-
rounded school 
for design." 
	Paul Fife, also an industrial design 
major, said the 
instructors are the people who make the 
School of Design a 
great institution. 
	"In general, it's the dedication of the 
teachers to their 
craft of teaching," he said. "They have a 
deeper commitment 
than just getting the students through. They 
want to make 
sure that the students have the skills to go 
out into the 
workplace and be competitive." 
	Carpinelli said he recommends that 
prospective 
students visit ASU before deciding to attend 
another school 
because the School of Design offers a well-
balanced 
curriculum.
	Kroelinger said the results of the 
survey will 
eventually make graduates of the school more 
marketable.
	"In essence, it is an indication to 
potential employers 
that we are well known and that by and large 
(students) 
should be a hot commodity in the 
marketplace," he said. 
	Calls from several East Coast firms 
expressing interest 
in developing internship programs with the 
School of Design 
have already been coming in. 
	Wolfe added that the importance of the 
survey is that 
students are the ones who will benefit in the 
end.
	"The whole purpose of (the survey) is to 
benefit the 
student," he said. "There's no reason to get 
your degree 
somewhere if its not going to get you a job."

Classes need more profs, fewer TAs, provost says

By Cody V. Aycock 
State Press
	University administrators want more 
professors to 
teach lower-division classes, but are 
concerned the move 
would hurt upper-division and graduate 
programs, said ASU 
Provost Milton Glick.
	Glick, addressing the Arizona Board of 
Regents Friday 
in Tucson, discussed cutting the number of 
classes taught by 
teaching assistants. 
	Regent George Amos said increased 
exposure to 
ranked faculty is one of the most important 
concerns facing 
undergraduate students. 
	"(Being taught by teaching assistants) 
is one of the 
biggest complaints that I get," he said. 
	However, by decreasing the number of 
TAs, 
administrators face the problem of balancing 
professors' 
workloads between lower- and upper-division 
classes, Glick 
said.
	"We don't have any choice at upper-
division and 
graduate level - we have to use ranked 
faculty," Glick said. "It 
is one of those restraints in the ecology 
that we need to worry 
about." 
	ASU has 4,100 freshman; the number of 
seniors and 
graduate students exceeds 25,000, he said.
	Glick noted that the University must 
remain mindful 
of graduate students' needs, while at the 
same time work to 
improve the undergraduate program.
	"We must be cautious when trying to 
improve the 
undergraduate experience that the University 
not take away 
from the graduate experience," he said.
	University President Lattie Coor also 
cautions students 
against stereotyping TAs based on a bad 
experience in the 
past. Rather, students should consider the 
class they are 
taking and whether a TA is capable of 
effectively teaching the 
material, he said. 
	Currently, 78 percent of lower-division 
students have 
two or more courses taught by full 
professors. Officials want 
to increase the number to 95 percent by fall 
1998. 
	Glick said the University is looking for 
ways to 
improve its curricula, while effectively 
managing the faculty 
workload. 
	"We have to make sure we do a good job 
at every 
level, and we know that the higher we go, the 
more critical it 
is to have tenured faculty teaching," Glick 
said. "I see our 
responsibility as to make sure we deploy our 
resources to 
maximize every student's learning."

Law student wins cultural diversity essay contest

By David Kovacs
State Press
	Second-year ASU law student Fidelis 
Garcia has won 
the first Judge Thomas Tang Writing 
Competition for his 
essay, "No Mexicans, Blacks or Dogs Allowed."
	The inspiration for the essay's title 
was a sign that 
hung in a northern Arizona restaurant where 
his father 
worked as a busboy when he was a young man, 
Garcia said.
	In the essay, Garcia emphasized the need 
for patience 
and objectivity by the Arizona legal system 
in creating 
diversity within its profession.
	"I didn't write my essay to favor any 
group," Garcia 
said. "The scales of justice are supposed to 
be blind whether 
you're black or white or Hispanic." 
	Garcia will receive a $1000 scholarship; 
however, he 
said money wasn't his motivation for entering 
the 
competition. 
	"I wrote the essay to challenge 
thought," he said, 
adding he has been considering it for about 
three years.
	The competition, sponsored by the State 
Bar of 
Arizona, was designed to promote cultural 
diversity within 
the law profession. Both Arizona law schools 
submitted 
essays.
	To make diversity a reality in the 
Arizona legal 
profession, Garcia said employers must 
recruit and promote 
qualified minorities. In turn, minorities 
must offer substantial 
contribution to the legal profession, he 
said.
	"Education is very important in my 
family," Garcia 
said.
	Garcia said providing diversity is an 
emotional issue 
that needs to be considered intellectually.
	"We need to take a step back and look at 
it objectively," 
he said. "We want to see results today but 
it's an evolutionary 
process."
	The Tang award was created to honor the 
late Judge 
Thomas Tang, said Rebecca Winer, director of 
public 
relations for the State Bar of Arizona. He 
was the senior judge 
of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. His 
opinions 
influenced legislation concerning job 
discrimination, equal 
pay and drug testing.
	Garcia is a resident of Guadalupe and is 
the youngest 
of nine children, seven of whom graduated 
from ASU. 
Garcia's father also received his master's 
from the University.

Fraternity: Severe beating not a hate crime

Sigma Chi member jailed, faces aggravated 
assault charges

By Timothy Tait
State Press
	Sigma Chi Fraternity claims the black 
man allegedly 
beaten by one of its members Friday was 
trespassing and 
hostile, denying ASU police's belief that the 
attack was a hate 
crime.
	Sigma Chi President Mark Buntz, in a 
written 
statement, claims that the victim was found 
drunk early 
Friday morning inside the fraternity house. 
Members asked 
the man to leave; however, they never called 
police.
	"Numerous requests were made in hopes 
that the man 
would quietly leave the premises. In 
addition, he was offered 
a ride home on many occasions," Buntz wrote.
	"We wanted to handle it as gentlemanly 
as possible, 
but it didn't turn out that way," he said.
	Bryan Southard, a 21-year-old junior 
economics major, 
was arrested in connection with the incident 
and charged 
with aggravated assault. ASU police continue 
to investigate 
the beating as a hate crime, but do not 
anticipate any more 
arrests.
	Southard was arrested Friday afternoon 
after police 
searched the fraternity house and found 
evidence linking him 
to the crime, said ASU police spokesman Keith 
Jennings.
	Southard was being held at the Madison 
Street Jail on 
$20,000 bail.
	The 30-year-old victim, whose name has 
been 
withheld, was released Saturday from Tempe 
St. Luke's 
Hospital. He suffered facial lacerations. 
Jennings said the 
beating was "fairly severe."
	The victim is not affiliated with the 
University or the 
fraternity.
	"The assault was classified as a hate 
crime ... because 
the victim alleged that the alleged assailant 
said he did not 
like black people," Jennings said.
	Witnesses, however, dispute the victim's 
claim.
	The county attorney will make the final 
determination 
if the assault will be prosecuted as a hate 
crime.
	Police also interviewed other members of 
the fraternity 
and stated that the investigation is ongoing.
	Director of ASU Police Bill Bess said 
Southard and the 
victim began arguing around 3 a.m. outside 
the fraternity's 
house at 606 Alpha Drive. The argument, 
propelled by 
alcohol, turned violent.
	According to Buntz, fraternity members 
attempted to 
keep Southard and the victim apart. But the 
effort failed 
when the victim pushed the fraternity members 
aside.
	"It must be understood, however, that 
this was an 
altercation between two individuals, not our 
fraternity at 
large," Buntz wrote. "What must be realized 
is that this is not 
a hate crime."
	The Campus Environment Team met Friday 
afternoon 
to discuss ways to avoid more violence. The 
group was 
formed in 1989 to discuss "provocative 
issues" following an 
incident on campus involving some 
fraternities that had 
racial overtones, said Charles Calleros, 
chairman of the team.
	"There may be some tensions. We want to 
get the 
message out that this incident is being 
handled by DPS," 
Calleros said.
	"We want everyone to stay calm."
	Calleros said that although the vast 
majority of the 
campus population is tolerant because of the 
size of the 
campus, there will always be some who hold 
hostilities. He 
estimated that between five and 10 percent of 
the student 
population holds hostile feelings toward 
minorities.
	"We just hope that hostility does not 
erupt into 
misconduct. Rather than retaliation, we hope 
to let an event 
like this educate us that there are some 
problems to address 
on campus," Calleros said.
	"An event like this is always 
electrifying."

Editorial: Open minds

	Two common factors that often go hand-
in-hand when 
reading studies on hate crimes are college 
fraternity members 
and alcohol.	
	An unfortunate incident that occurred on 
ASU's 
fraternity row over the weekend threatens to 
become yet 
another supporting case.
	Hate crimes are defined as violent acts 
committed 
against individuals because of their race, 
ethnicity, 
nationality, religious affiliation or sexual 
orientation.
	While what transpired over the weekend 
between a 
white fraternity member and a Black male 
unaffiliated with 
ASU has not yet been proven to be a hate 
crime, it should act 
as a wake-up call to those who like to 
believe this campus is 
immune to such acts.
	Though the details are sketchy, these 
are the facts 
given by the police:
	On Friday morning, a police officer 
found four white 
men standing over a Black man lying face down 
in the 
middle of the street near Lot 59.
	The man, who was severely beaten, had 
apparently 
been walking by Fraternity row when a fight 
occurred 
between him and a member of the Sigma Chi 
fraternity. 
Police said alcohol was involved. After they 
investigated the 
incident further, one of the frat members was 
taken to 
Maricopa County Jail and charged with 
aggravated assault.
	The Arizona Department of Public Safety 
is labeling 
the beating as a hate crime. But because it 
might jeopardize 
their investigation, they refuse to release 
specific reasons why 
the crime is being deemed as such.
	The details are still sketchy - and 
conflicting.
	The victim told police that his attacker 
used racial 
statements during the altercation. But the 
fraternity denies 
race was a factor, saying that the argument 
was simply 
between two people and does not represent the 
view of the 
fraternity at large. 
	As usual, there are two sides to the 
story. 
	But if further investigation reveals 
that the incident is 
indeed a hate crime, this could become a 
potentially 
explosive situation, not only on campus but 
also across the 
country.
	If race was a factor in the attack, the 
University must 
bring harsh punishment upon the attacker and 
anyone else 
who may have been involved.
	So far the University's response to the 
matter has  been 
encouraging. 
	ASU has been quick to release 
information to the 
public, and President Lattie Coor issued a 
statement Friday 
condemning such acts. The Campus Environment 
Team, an 
organization set up six years ago to handle 
cultural diversity 
issues after an incident of racial prejudice 
occurred, has met 
to discuss the matter and submitted a letter 
to the State Press. 
	Whatever the outcome, this should act as 
an 
opportunity for reevaluting the attitudes 
that pervade this 
campus. We are fortunate to have a diverse 
University. Let's 
begin to treat the differences between us 
with open minds 
rather than closed fists.

Column: Disney's Pocahontas more fiction than fact

Tina Holder
Columnist
	My seven-year-old son called me up the 
other day, as 
he does almost every day. While we were 
talking, his father 
got on the phone and informed me that he was 
taking our son 
to see Pocahontas. I had already told my son 
I didn't want 
him to see the movie and he wanted to know 
what the big 
deal was.
	The cartoon was done by Disney - who 
cared if it was 
"historically correct" as long as it was 
entertaining, he said.
	Entertaining? 
	Absolutely! For years Disney has been 
the hallmark of 
fine animation and memorable tunes, capturing 
the youth of 
the world. Pocahontas is no exception. The 
animation is first-
rate and the music is incredibly well 
written. 
	Until you hear what the singing is all 
about.
	"Just Around the River Bend" is a song 
we are 
inundated with on a daily basis through film 
and any 
number of fast food joint advertisements.
	Why? 
	Because it is a beautiful, motivational, 
heartfelt song 
that makes the listener relaxed and happy. It 
brings to mind 
thoughts of a beautiful land. 
	But it may be a little harder to stomach 
such good food 
while listening to lyrics which promote the 
wholesale 
slaughter of a race of people. It may be a 
little harder for the 
general public to get into Pocahontas if they 
listened to the 
words about the "savages."
	Think I'm kidding? Here's a sample: 
	What can you expect from filthy little 
heathens?
	Their whole disgusting race is like a 
curse. 
	Their skin's a hellish red.
	They're only good when dead.
	They're vermin, as I said and worse.
	Is this what a child should learn? What 
happens when 
a child sings this to an Indian child at 
school? 
	This is teaching hatred and racism. 
Period.
	Try explaining to a child what is "good" 
or wholesome 
about this song when it's telling people that 
if a person's skin 
color is different or if his or her culture 
is different, then he or 
she should be dead. 
	But that is OK, right? After all, it is 
Disney that is 
doing this so it must be.
	Right?
	Like I said before, this movie has 
stunning visual 
animation. But the history, culture and 
appearance of Native 
Americans is grossly misrepresented.  
	Take Pocahontas, for instance. She looks 
like a dark-
skinned ... Caucasian. 	Not only do her 
facial features 
bear no resemblance to that of a Native 
American woman, 
but her large breasts, buttocks and a waist 
small enough to 
encircle with your hands, does not either.
	While we are a beautiful people, we are 
not Barbie 
dolls.
	Native American women are also very 
proud and 
extremely modest people. No native woman I 
know would 
be caught dead in the type of "dress" the 
character wears in 
the movie. 
	The characters weren't the same age 
either. 
Historically, it is known that Capt. John 
Smith was between 
30 and 40 years of age at the time of his 
meeting with 
Pocahontas. She was between the ages of 10 
and 14. 
Pocahontas was eventually kidnapped and taken 
to England 
where she married a man named John Rolf and 
eventually 
died without ever returning to the land she 
loved. Not even 
close to Disney's story line. 
 	Pocahontas and John Smith, as far as 
anyone knows, 
never had a romantic interest in one another. 
I think if there 
were one, we would call that child 
molestation. 
	This movie makes me very angry! It is 
humiliating, 
racist and stereotypical. I think it should 
be banned.
	This company has had this type of 
influence for so 
long that people ignore blatant examples of 
sexism, racism, 
child molestation and genocide simply because 
the name on 
the box is "Disney."
	Unfortunately, my "ex" is like most of 
the people in 
this country - he sees nothing wrong with the 
movie and 
plans on taking our son to see it whether I 
like it or not. 
According to him, if he started allowing me 
to say that the 
child couldn't see a movie like this then he 
would have to 
stop letting him watch westerns or at the 
very least sit down 
and explain them to him. 
	He finally informed me of that he would 
teach our son 
"the right way," which for him translated 
into "the white 
way."
	If you want wholesome, educational 
entertainment for 
your children, then read to them from the 
stories of their 
ancestors. Build in them the respect and 
pride inherent to 
their particular cultural background and do 
this without 
bashing another race or culture. I think 
people will find that 
these children will pass this practice on to 
their children, who 
will pass it on to their children and so on. 

Tina Holder is a senior justice studies major

Column: Wake-up call given to ASU after alleged hate- crime incident

Charlie Calleros
Guest Columnist
	As I draft this letter on Saturday 
morning, radio news 
programs have reported the arrest of an ASU 
fraternity 
member for the severe beating of an African-
American man 
on campus. Although the suspect is presumed 
innocent until 
found guilty, and the facts are still 
sketchy, the Maricopa 
County Attorney is considering prosecuting 
this as a "hate 
crime," - one fueled by racial hostility.
	If the evidence does show a racially 
motivated crime, 
we should be particularly appalled, but 
perhaps not 
completely surprised. 
	A campus of 40,000 students is a 
microcosm of society. 
Although the vast majority of students are 
tolerant, and 
though many affirmatively celebrate 
diversity, a small 
percentage will inevitably harbor varying 
degrees of fear or 
hostility toward others who are different 
from them. We can 
only hope that educational and cultural 
structures on campus 
will encourage such persons to test, 
evaluate, and perhaps 
modify their views in academic forums rather 
than vent their 
hostilities in violent, criminal conduct such 
as that which 
occurred Friday morning.
	The suspect may argue that he had some 
justification 
to confront the victim. But even if true, 
that explanation itself 
prompts an important admonition - anytime 
someone 
engages in actions on campus that might 
prompt a violent 
confrontation, you should call DPS and let 
them handle it. If 
you engage in "self-help," you may get 
injured even if you 
were in the right, or you may be arrested if 
you act wrongly.
	In this case, the fraternity member is 
charged with an 
abhorrent crime that tests the spirit of a 
university campus. A 
more divided student population than ASU's 
might dissolve 
into racial tensions and fears for personal 
security. And a less 
cautious campus might unfairly blame all 
fraternity members 
for the actions of one. But the ASU community 
has shown in 
the last few years a capacity to learn from 
such incidents and 
to respond constructively to address the hate 
and anger that 
lie at their root.
	I am reminded of the racist poster at 
Cholla Hall a few 
years ago, a poster that electrified the 
campus community. 
Rather than dividing along racial lines, 
diverse students 
across campus joined together with 
administrators to 
denounce and morally defeat the message of 
hate reflected by 
the poster. Ethnic minority student leaders 
joined with 
fraternity leaders to successfully call for 
multicultural 
education programs to address the ignorance 
about other 
cultures that promoted the hostile 
stereotypes reflected by the 
poster. Rossie Turman, the African-American 
leader of this 
student movement, was later elected student 
government 
president and is now a first-year law student 
at Columbia 
Law School.
	The aggravated assault that occurred on 
Friday 
morning is much more serious than the hateful 
but 
constitutionally protected Cholla Hall 
poster. It calls not just 
for counter-speech and education, but also 
for vigorous 
prosecution. Beyond that, however, the need 
is greater than 
ever for student leaders like Rossie Turman 
to come forward 
and use this event to bring the campus 
community together.
	We must not let the 30-year-old African-
American 
victim suffer his injuries in vain. Let's 
remember him by 
avoiding the division his attacker presumably 
would 
promote. Let diverse groups on campus work 
with one 
another in ways that demonstrate a unified 
stance against 
bigotry and violence. The Campus Environment 
Team, a 
committee of students, staff, and faculty 
formed several years 
ago partly to encourage such constructive 
responses to events 
such as this, stands ready to assist. But the 
ideas and energy 
must come from the community, starting with 
you.
	Charles Calleros is a law professor 
serving as Chair of 
the CET for the second time in six years.

Senior leader

Tailback Hopkins hoping to improve on 
lackluster 1994

By Dan Miller
State Press
	ASU tailback Chris Hopkins doesn't need 
any more 
reminders of last year's unproductive running 
game. 	
	He already has enough. 
	"We're on a video game and our running 
game sucks," 
Hopkins said, referring to Nintendo's "Bill 
Walsh 1996 
football" game, which is designed to simulate 
the actual 
strengths and weaknesses of teams. "I think 
that's a direct 
reflection on last year. "
	Hopkins' frustration stems from the 
collective struggle 
in last season's backfield, which gained only 
1,418 yards and 
finished the year ranked eighth in the Pac-
10. Hopkins, a 6-
foot, 189-pound senior rushed for a team-
leading 688 yards in 
1994.
	"Last year was sort of an embarrassment 
for us, not 
only for the position but for the offensive 
backfield in 
general," Hopkins said. "I think we 
underachieved."
	Now, in what Head Coach Bruce Snyder 
calls a 
'logjam' in the backfield, Hopkins appears to 
be the 
frontrunner to start at tailback when ASU 
opens its season 
Saturday at Washington.  
	"I really would hope that Chris Hopkins 
has the job 
and that he can prove that he's as good as he 
think's he is and 
he's as good as I think he is," said Snyder, 
who is also 
juggling starting pushes from sophomores 
Michael Martin, 
Terry Battle and Marlon Farlow. 
	Hopkins said he never considered the 
battle for the 
starting job a cut-throat competition.
	"It wasn't like we went to camp talking 
about 'may the 
best man win,' " he said. "It's football. I 
don't even know if I 
came out on top. And I'm not even the (1995) 
starter yet. I 
think I can be. But they haven't penciled me 
in yet."
	 Regardless of whether or not Hopkins 
gets the nod, he 
has already assumed the duties of being the 
elder statesmen. 
	"I am the 'old man,' and it feels good 
too," Hopkins 
said. "It feels good that they (the young 
players) want to 
know what to do and I'm glad that I can help 
them at times. 
That's what it's about. That's what happens 
when you get 
old."
	  That senior guidance is something 
Hopkins missed 
when former ASU tailback Mario Bates left 
early to turn pro.
	"It was kind of too bad Mario left when 
he did. I didn't 
really get a chance," said Hopkins. "Last 
year I felt that I 
really had to learn through trial and error 
and I wish I had 
somebody that kind of helped me through it." 
	New running backs Coach John Pettas 
describes 
Hopkins as a 'slasher', who can be versatile 
and go north and 
south with regularity.
	"I think he's just starting to get to 
his potential," said 
Pettas. "He's more consistent in terms of 
making the right 
reads. He's a runner, blocker and receiver 
and knows 
everything that comes with that."	
	Hopkins, meanwhile, said being smart is 
his greatest 
attribute.	
	"I don't have 4.3 speed (in the 40-yard 
dash). I'm not 
210 (pounds)," he said. "I can catch the ball 
and I can run the 
ball but I'm not Deion (Sanders). I'm not 
high stepping down 
the field. I'm just doing what I need to do. 
I think everybody 
on the field is a creator and I'm just trying 
to create. I'm an 
artist."
	That artistic touch didn't arrive 
overnight, he 
admitted. 
	"I was about the worst running back in 
the Pac-10 
when I got here. I probably didn't even 
belong in football," 
said Hopkins, a 1992 graduate of Salpointe 
High in Tucson. "I 
roll with the punches. I mean I'm not up for 
the (Heisman 
Trophy). But I think that I'm a decent enough 
back that if I 
don't go any farther than here, I feel that 
I've done things that 
I can reflect on and be happy about."
	Now he equates his early ASU career with 
a former 
sitcom.
	"It's time for me to show my ware. I've 
been just 
growing up and I had some growing pains. I'm 
the Kirk 
Cameron of ASU," he joked.
	Most respected publications and 
preseason polls have 
issued a gloomy forecast for the youthful Sun 
Devils this 
season. But Hopkins maintains ASU is much 
better than the 
so-called experts say and it already posseses 
the most 
important thing at this stage.
	"The best rating I could give will be on 
Sunday, 
September 3," said Hopkins. "But for right 
now we're 
confident. That's what counts."
	Hopkins' confidence is evident in his 
perspective on 
the eve of his senior campaign.	
	"I don't have anything to prove. Why? 
It's only a 
game," he said. "If I was O.J., I'd have 
something to prove."

Sun Devil makes pitch for Olympic team

By Dustin Krugel
State Press
	ASU pitcher Kaipo Spenser is 
entertaining thoughts of 
throwing strikes in the 1996 Olympics in 
Atlanta, Ga., after 
playing for the U.S. National Baseball Team 
this past 
summer.
	"When you play (a team) like Cuba and 
you're 
standing out there with five or six thousand 
people and 
they're playing the national anthem and 
you're part of that 
USA team, you're going to be thinking about 
that a lot," 
Spenser said of playing on the Olympic team. 
"It's one of my 
goals, but to me this school comes first.
	"It's in the back of my mind, but I'm 
focused more on 
the season than the Olympics. It all starts 
with your season 
(and) how your season goes." 
	The Sun Devils' right-handed ace spent 
two months 
this summer competing against the world's 
best baseball 
talents in the ABC Baseball Challenge, a 
qualifying 
tournament for the Olympics which featured 
several 
international teams.
	"We swept the reigning world champs, 
Cuba, and we 
ended up having the best summer for any U.S. 
team," said 
Spenser, whose team lost only six games all 
summer. 
	Spenser, along with 39 other sophomores 
and 
freshmen, was invited to the U.S. National 
Team tryouts last 
March. 
	"I had a pretty good idea I'd get 
invited because I was 
having a pretty good season," said Spenser, 
who had an 18-5 
overall record in his first two years at ASU, 
including an 8-5 
record last season. "I was just happy to be 
chosen so I could 
go out there and tryout."
	Spenser and nine other pitchers made the 
final roster 
cut, which was eventually trimmed to 22 
players in June. 
	"I went into the summer just trying to 
develop my 
change-up and slider because during the 
season I really don't 
throw those pitches," he said. "So I went 
into the summer 
wanting to better my control and better my 
other two pitches; 
they got a lot better."
	ASU baseball coach Pat Murphy said the 
Olympics 
could be in Spenser's future, but it's up to 
him.
	"He's got to take one more step," Murphy 
said. "He has 
to be more consistent with his pitches, but 
he definitely has a 
chance."
	Spenser said playing on the national 
team helped him 
gain more knowledge that could help him earn 
a spot on 
Team USA next year.
	"There's a lot of pitchers just like 
myself out there," he 
said. "You  can't just go into a game with 
your fastball. Asian 
teams turn your fastball around quick. You 
have to have 
something else to rely on. You've got to hit 
your spots."
	Spenser began the summer as a reliever 
but quickly 
moved into a starting role. After shuffling 
between starting 
and closing for the Sun Devils in 1995, 
Murphy said Spenser 
will be in the starting rotation for the Sun 
Devils in 1996.
	"I feel more comfortable as a starter, 
but if they need 
me to close I can do that too," Spenser said. 
"In closing, you 
might have to come in with the bases loaded 
and one out in 
the bottom of the ninth. In starting, you 
start out with no one 
on (base). You still have to be mentally 
tough for both roles, 
but I think in closing you have to be able to 
bear down and 
throw strikes."
	On the mound, Spenser's toughness is 
never 
questioned, as he exudes a completely 
different persona.
	"He's definitely not as laid back as he 
is in person," 
Murphy said of his demeanor on the hill.
	"Off the field I'm just quiet and I 
really don't talk a lot," 
Spenser said. "I guess once I get on the 
field, I change a little. I 
get a little more intense. I want things 
done; I want 
everything hard. There's a lot of guys with 
better fastballs, 
but I don't think they have the same makeup 
as me. 
	"Intimidation plays a big role. You've 
got a whole team 
ragging you and you can come back and 
strikeout two in 
row. That will shut them up quick." 
	Sometimes Spenser's emotions will draw 
the wrath 
from the opposing coaches and players, but he 
does not try to 
disrespect them.
	"I don't yell at the batters, I yell at 
myself. They just 
think I'm yelling at them," he said. "I don't 
purposely go out 
there to show up another team, except if it's 
the UofA."
	As Spenser enters his third campaign 
with the Sun 
Devils, he relishes his new role of team co-
captain and leader.
	"Some of them may be scared (or) a 
little nervous with 
all these expectations. I'm just going to try 
to keep them in 
line," he said of the newcomers. "I mean, 
it's baseball. It's a 
game. It shouldn't control your life."
	Teammate Cody McKay, who is being tabbed 
as the 
starting catcher next year, can't wait to 
call signs for Spenser 
in the spring.
	"I expect to go out there and win 
everyday (with him)," 
McKay said. "He's one of the best to come out 
of ASU's 
program."
	Oddly enough, McKay and Spenser almost 
met each in 
a one-on-one confrontation this summer. McKay 
played for 
the Canadian national team this summer.
	"There was the possibility I was going 
to have to pitch 
against him, but it was rained out. He was 
lucky," Spenser 
joked.

ASU police reported the following incidents 
over the 
weekend:
* A man not affiliated with ASU was contacted 
at Parking 
Structure 5 while he was passed out on the 
ground. He was 
waiting for a friend to drive him home.
* Person(s) unknown burglarized a male 
student's vehicle 
while it was parked in Parking Structure 4.
* Person(s) unknown damaged the north 
entrance of the 
Nelson Fine Arts Center.
* Person(s) unknown stole a female student's 
backpack from a 
locker at the ASU Bookstore.
* Person(s) unknown stole a female student's 
purse from the 
Education Lecture Hall.
* Person(s) unknown stole a computer worth 
$1,000 from 
Physical Education East.
* A male student was contacted at the Student 
Recreation 
Center after sustaining an injury. He was 
treated at the scene 
by the Tempe Fire Department and taken to 
Tempe St. Luke's 
Hospital.
* A man not affiliated with ASU was arrested, 
cited and 
released for assault at 500 Stadium Drive.
* A man not affiliated with ASU was contacted 
in Parking 
Structure 5 while acting suspiciously. He was 
warned of 
trespassing and loitering and left the area.
* A man not affiliated with ASU was arrested 
on an 
outstanding warrant from the Maricopa County 
Sheriff's 
Office for fraud. He was able to post bond 
and was released.
* A male juvenile not affiliated with ASU was 
arrested for 
shoplifting at 3 E. Ninth St.
* A man not affiliated with ASU was arrested 
on an 
outstanding warrant from ASU police for 
failure to appear. 
He was able to post bond and was released.
* A man not affiliated with ASU was arrested, 
cited and 
released for trespassing at 615 Alpha Drive.
* A male student was arrested, cited and 
released for 
underage drinking at 525 S. Forest Ave.
* A green leafy substance and cigarette 
rolling papers were 
impounded for destruction after they were 
found in the area 
of Oak Street and Apache Boulevard.
* A male student was arrested, cited and 
released for public 
consumption of alcohol at 617 E. Apache Blvd.
* Three bikes were reported stolen.
Compiled by State Press reporter Greg Zemeida

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* Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity - Rush 
event 6:30 p.m. 
at Balboa's. See table on Dean's Patio.
* College Republicans - Holding weekly 
meeting; new 
members welcome; 3:30 p.m. in room 212 east 
of the 
Memorial Union.
* Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority - ASU's first 
Hispanic-
founded sorority will be holding 
informational meetings in 
the Memorial Union; 5:30 today in the Yuma 
room and 5:30 
p.m. Tuesday in Ventana B.  Everyone is 
welcome.