ASU student survives carjacking, kidnapping

By Tim Baxter
State Press
	A 24-year-old female ASU student was 
kidnapped 
when her car was carjacked Monday night from 
a Tempe 
parking lot.
	According to a Tempe police report, at 
approximately 
9:10 p.m. two men with pistols approached the 
victim in a 
parking lot at 509 W. Malibu St. One suspect 
pointed his gun 
at the victim's chest and ordered her to give 
them her keys. 
After complying, she was pushed into the back 
seat of her 
1994 Honda Civic and told to lie down. The 
carjackers then 
drove away in her vehicle.
	After driving around for five to seven 
minutes, the 
suspects released the victim, who asked not 
to be identified, 
after taking her wallet and jewelry.
	Her car was recovered at 2:30 a.m. when 
two suspects 
- 29-year-old Morris Earl Davis and 33-year-
old Aubrey 
Dennis - were arrested after being stopped at 
7th Avenue and 
Buckeye Road in the vehicle.
	Davis was booked into Maricopa County 
Jail on a 
charge of unlawful use of means of 
transportation, according 
to the Phoenix police department. He was 
still being held in 
custody Tuesday evening after failing to post 
$550 bond. 
	No report on Dennis was available at 
press time.

Keep it down!

New city ordinance targets loud partiers with 
fines

By Greg Zemeida
State Press
	Lynn DeSola has seen more than her fair 
share of 
police officers.
	During the first six months of this 
year, officers have 
responded 68 times for loud party calls at 
Desert Palm 
Village, 1215 E. Vista Del Cerro Drive, where 
she works as 
manager.
	That may soon change, thanks to a new 
Tempe 
ordinance going into effect today. It allows 
police to fine loud 
partiers if they are called twice to the 
scene.
	"I love it," DeSola said, then added 
that most of her 
tenants are ASU students. "I want the kids to 
have a good 
time, but they also have to be responsible."
	She said the fact that her complex has 
512 units may be 
part of the reason it has received so many 
calls.
	The fine will be based on the number of 
responding 
officers - $250 for one or two, $500 for 
three or four, $750 for 
five or six and $1,000 for seven or more. 
They must be paid 
for by the property owner or party organizer. 
Also, that 
person may face additional criminal charges 
such as 
disorderly conduct. Money generated by the 
fine will go into 
the city's general fund.
	The ordinance was passed in January to 
reduce the 
number of loud party calls police receive, 
freeing them up to 
work on more important matters, said Toby 
Dyas, a 
spokesman with the Tempe Police Department. 
In 1993-94, 
Tempe police received 5,697 calls on loud 
parties.
	"I think it's going to have an effect. 
It would be too 
early for me to say what kind of impact it 
will have," Dyas 
said. "If we could cut that in half, or only 
20 to 30 percent, 
that would free up a lot of officers to do 
other things."
	From Jan. 1 through July 31 this year, 
Foxfire 
Apartments, 1701 E. Eighth St., had the 
second most calls for 
loud parties with 63. Third was Quadrangle 
Village 
Apartments, 1255 E. University Drive, with 
56. Fourth and 
fifth were Papago Park II and Parkway 
Apartments, with 54 
and 45 respectively.
	Loud party calls are the fourth most 
common 
complaints that Tempe police get. Leading 
them in the pack 
are burglar alarms, welfare checks and 
traffic accidents.
	Dyas said the ordinance is actually 
already in effect, 
but police haven't begun enforcing it yet 
because they haven't 
finished the proper training and paperwork 
until now. 
	He added that when there is a second 
call, police will 
try to send the original responding officer 
and a supervisor to 
the scene. In addition, Dyas said calls on 
loud parties must 
come from citizens; an officer riding by 
can't simply go to the 
scene and issue a fine.
	Although many of the loud party calls 
involve ASU 
students, Dyas said this is a city-wide 
issue, and not just ASU 
students are to blame.
	DeSola said she wasn't sure what type of 
affect the 
ordinance will have, but said the steep 
fines, along with 
management efforts, definitely should help.
	"The kids aren't going to like it," she 
said. "I don't mind 
the kids having fun, but when it runs into 
trouble, I try to 
circumvent that."

Native American law students flock to University's Indian Legal Program

By David J. Kovacs
State Press
	Students in the University's Indian 
Legal Program 
share more than academic coursework and a 
thirst for the 
law.
	The feeling of community in the program 
makes it one 
of the best in the country, students said.
	"We are like a family,"Brad Jolly, a 
second-year law 
student said.
	Jolly is one of 27 Native American 
students currently 
enrolled in the program at the College of 
Law.
	The Indian Legal Program was created in 
1988 to 
recruit Native American students to the law 
school while 
providing a resource to the Indian 
communities, Siera 
Russell, program director said. 
	Students in the program said having a 
support 
structure convinced them to choose ASU over 
other, more 
prestigious law programs.
	"Having a support group makes all the 
difference in 
the world,"Theresa Rosier, a 22-year-old law 
student and 
member of the Navajo nation  said.
	Russell said having Native American 
lawyers 
representing Indian interests is invaluable.
	"If a Native American understands his 
culture and 
understands the sacrifices that were made by 
his elders, he 
will advise tribal officials about what is 
important," Russell 
said. "Not just (about) what affects the 
economy, but what 
affects the future of the tribe."
	Development of Indian studies is also an 
important 
part of the program, she said.
	During the 1970s and '80s, Russell said 
the law 
program had only one or two Native American 
students 
enrolled at any one time.
	"We needed to create a critical mass of 
15 to 18 
students to create a sense of community," she 
said.
	The success of the Indian Legal Program 
at the 
University's College of Law can be attributed 
to many factors.
	Arizona has 21 tribal governments with 
authority over 
more than 23 million acres, and the capital 
of the largest tribe 
in the country, the Navajo nation, is located 
in Arizona. 
Within 100 miles of ASU there are nine 
reservations.
	Jolly, a Montana resident and member of 
the Blackfeet 
tribe, chose to attend ASU after being 
accepted at the 
University of California-Berkeley School of 
Law.
	Jolly said in traditional Indian 
culture, the well-being 
of the community is more important than the 
individual.
	"We are not the individualistic type," 
he said. "I'm a 
two-day drive away from anyone I know."

DPS chief: Hate crime charge very unlikely in fraternity house assault

By Timothy Tait
State Press
	The ASU Department of Public Safety has 
apparently 
backpedaled on speculations that the assault 
of an African-
American man by a fraternity member last week 
was a "hate 
crime."
	ASU Chief of Police Lanny Standridge 
said, "I 
wouldn't even call it a probability or a 
possibility at this 
point."
	Claims that the assault was racially 
motivated surfaced 
when the victim reported to police that 
during the altercation, 
the accused assailant, Bryan Southard, said 
he did not like 
blacks.
	Witnesses refuted the claims of the 
victim.
	"When anger is flaring and two people 
are in combat ... 
and one says just a word or two, that does 
not show the act of 
fighting was motivated by bias," Standridge 
said.
	Standridge said the racial slur may not 
fit the federal 
definition of a hate crime because it was 
said during the 
altercation rather then before.
	The Department of Justice defines a hate 
crime as 
"criminal offenses committed against a person 
or property 
which are motivated in whole or in part by 
the offender's bias 
against a race, ethnic/national origin or 
sexual orientation 
group." 
	An incident may also be classified as a 
hate crime if a 
substantial portion of the community where 
the crime 
occurred perceives the incident as motivated 
by bias, 
according to federal guidelines.
	Bias must be a motivating factor for an 
offense to be 
classified as a hate crime, Standridge said.
	"We don't want to prematurely pass from 
possibility to 
probability," he said. "Just because bias may 
have been 
present, doesn't constitute a hate crime."
	Sigma Chi Fraternity President Mark 
Buntz claimed in 
a written statement that the victim was an 
intruder. 
According to the statement, released earlier 
this week, 
fraternity members returned to the house at 
606 Alpha Drive 
and found the victim inside of the house, 
drunk. When 
fraternity members asked the man to leave, he 
became 
belligerent, Buntz wrote.
	"The fight started for other reasons, 
not because of the 
bias," Standridge told the Tempe Tribune. 
"That's an 
important distinction to make."
	Southard and the victim engaged in a 
verbal argument 
outside of the fraternity house, after the 
victim refused rides 
home from the fraternity members. The 
argument soon 
turned violent.
	Standridge said security cameras at Lot 
59 captured 
some of the beating, providing some 
"perspective."
	The 30-year-old victim was admitted to 
Tempe's St. 
Luke's Hospital, suffering from severe facial 
lacerations.
	Southard, a junior economics major, was 
released from 
the Madison Street Jail Monday night after a 
bail bondsman 
posted $20,000 bond.
	The official report of the incident will 
be released 
pending review by the County Instant Review 
Board, 
scheduled to meet next Tuesday. The county 
attorney will 
make the final determination if the assault 
was a hate crime.

Correction

An article appearing in our August 25 issue 
about ASU's 
interior design award contained an error. The 
Interior Design 
Program was named as the best in the country, 
not the entire 
School of Design.

Bike committee aims to clear path for skaters

By Angela Mull
State Press
	Bicyclists are not the only people using 
bike lanes in 
Tempe. Skateboarders and in-line skaters 
travel in those 
paths, too, and a member of Tempe's Bicycle 
Advisory 
Committee hopes to make room for all three 
forms of 
transportation.
	"They (skateboarders and in-line 
skaters) need to be 
accommodated one way or another whether with 
bike lanes 
or other means because they're efficient, 
effective modes of 
transportation," Jay Alderson, a BAC member, 
said. "Ignoring 
them is ineffective."
	Tempe could create separate paths for 
skateboards and 
in-line skaters or find another way to work 
with them, 
Alderson said. He said he hopes the committee 
makes some 
progress in dealing with the issue this year. 
	The committee makes recommendations to 
the City of 
Tempe on issues such as bike paths, safety 
issues and bicycle 
education. The next meeting is 7 a.m., Sept. 7.
	One of the committee's recent 
accomplishments was 
updating its bicycle plan, said Carlos 
DeLeon, a 
transportation planner with the city. Tempe 
will implement 
part of the plan at the end of this week with 
the addition of 
bicycle lanes on University Drive between 
Mill and College 
Avenues, he said.
	In addition, Tempe will study a plan to 
add bike paths 
on Rural Road and Mill Avenue, DeLeon said. 
However, he 
said the plan is considered long-term and may 
not be 
implemented for six to 20 years. 
	"It's difficult because you can't add 
bicycle lanes until 
you remove lanes of traffic," he said.
	Ed Parrish, a former member of the 
committee, agreed 
there is not a lot of space available in 
Tempe for long-term 
projects.
	"Tempe's already built up," said 
Parrish, who left the 
committee because he moved out of the city. 
"They're not 
adding any roads. All of our roads are 
already here. We've 
got to work with what we have." 
	Still, the BAC is able to address more 
ASU-related 
issues because the committee now includes one 
University 
student who serves a one-year term, Alderson 
said. Many 
ASU students live in Tempe and ride bicycles 
to school, 
creating a need for this point of view to be 
represented, he 
said.
	"Not having the student point of view 
represented on 
the committee leaves a big hole," he said.

Risk management takes charge of multiple ASU safety concerns

By Brian Anderson
State Press
	Imagine having a job looking out for 
every safety 
concern on a campus encompassing 814 acres 
and 4,964,578 
square feet of building space. 
	That's how Bob Gomez feels. 
	He is the assistant director of ASU's 
risk management 
department and oversees campus safety 
concerns, including 
building air quality and emergency call 
boxes. 
	 "Our mission is to protect human health 
and the 
environment, ensure regulatory compliance and 
to protect 
University interests," he said. "We spend a 
lot of money and 
energy bolstering the image of the 
institution."
	Until about four months ago, risk 
management was 
positioned within ASU's Department of Public 
Safety. The 
program is now a division of administrative 
services.
	Gomez said there are three main 
functions of risk 
management: asbestos abatement and training, 
environmental affairs, and insurance claims 
and risk 
management. 
	The asbestos abatement and training 
department 
concerns itself with asbestos control. This 
department also 
directs the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration 
safety training, inspects emergency call 
boxes and parking lot 
cameras. Asbestos abatement and training also 
deals with 
slips, trips and falls that occur on campus.  
	The environmental affairs area handles 
compliance 
with state and federal environmental 
regulations, such as air 
pollution, sewage disposal and a number of 
other hazardous 
materials. This department also ensures that 
on-campus 
facilities are following OSHA guidelines. 
	The insurance claims and risk management 
department oversees claims resulting from 
injury lawsuits, 
vehicle damages and property loss, such as 
storm damage 
and theft of property. Employees in this 
department also 
inspect problem areas around campus to avoid 
lawsuits and 
claims resulting from injuries. 
	Gomez added that risk management has 
enacted 
programs to minimize ASU's property losses, 
adding that 
insurance claims against the University have 
dropped during 
the past two years.
	Steve Hunter, air quality control 
officer for risk 
management, said the communication between 
departments 
and with faculty allows for increased safety 
coverage.
	"When we're on campus talking with staff 
and faculty 
about items that need attention, we also look 
at everybody 
else's area," he said. "We all overlap quite 
a bit." 
	 Gomez said risk management is looking 
out for the 
best interest of the University and all of 
its inhabitants. 
	"That's what risk management is all 
about, to protect 
the institution and protect the community, 
but at the same 
time to protect the interests of the 
institution by not having 
all of these claims and all of these losses."

Editorial: Seeking diversity

	Diversity is essential to a vibrant 
university.
	How else can students learn about 
cultures and 
peoples other than their own? More 
importantly, how else 
can they experience the universal truth that, 
no matter who 
we are or where we came from, we are all 
equal members of 
the same human race?
	Diversity is something ASU has been 
striving for in 
recent years - something it has sorely 
needed. And through 
the Indian Legal Program in the College of 
Law, the 
University is taking a small but significant 
step toward that 
goal.
	In terms of absolute numbers, the effect 
may not seem 
that great - only 27 Native American law 
students in a 
university with a population exceeding 
40,000.
	But the longest journeys are taken one 
small step at a 
time. Despite its small size, what the 
program is 
accomplishing is extraordinary.
	Some of the nation's finest Native 
American 
prospective law students have turned down 
chances to 
attend some of the most prestigious law 
programs in the 
country in order to attend ASU's Indian Legal 
Program. That, 
in itself, says volumes about the quality of 
this program.
	Native Americans, more than any other 
group, 
understand the meaning of community - how 
important it is 
in sustaining the individual.
	Considering the nature of present-day 
society, a sense 
of community is something we could all use.
	Community is what draws Native American 
law 
students to ASU. Being with people similar to 
you - people 
that understand you and your experiences - is 
not just 
preferable. It provides a support network  
that is essential for 
academic success.
	Just ask Shannon Faulkner what happens 
when you 
are thrown into a campus community that 
isolates you from 
any kind of support. You can quickly burn out 
under 
circumstances like that. At the very least, 
it does not make for 
the ideal educational experience.
	Native American students can receive a 
law education 
without any academic equal at such 
traditional powerhouses 
such as Harvard and Yale. But at ASU, they 
can receive not 
only a competitive education in law - but 
also community 
support they need to succeed, something that 
a Harvard or a 
Yale could not offer them.
	Moreover, they can live in a state with 
one of the 
largest Native American populations in the 
country. They 
need not feel out of place here - this is 
home.
	The future definitely holds a need for 
competent, well-
trained Native American lawyers. When court 
battles arise 
involving Native American lands or property, 
no lawyer 
could be a better representative for the 
community than one 
of their own.
	No one else can better understand issues 
that affect 
Native Americans today than a Native 
American. And no one 
can be a more inspired legal advocate on 
behalf of this 
community.
	As ASU's Indian Legal Program continues 
to grow, it 
will certainly be a great benefit to the 
Native American 
community.
	And it will also be a great benefit to 
the entire ASU 
community. 
	It may not mark the end of the journey, 
but at least it 
points us in the right direction.

Column: Black professionals strike a double anvil

Les Payne
Columnist
	Journalists are an odd breed.
	Black journalists are odder still. 
Nowhere is this more 
pronounced than at the annual gatherings of 
the National 
Association of Black Journalists. The group 
met in 
Philadelphia last week for its 20th 
anniversary.
	The NABJ conventioneers gave Johnnie L. 
Cochran Jr. 
a standing ovation; bit both sides of the 
affirmative action 
apple; attacked white jobs in the sports 
media; worried about 
the reversibility of their media gains; put 
the torch to Newt 
and his contract, and danced a soft shoe 
around the Mumia 
Abu-Jamal case.
	The members hammered away at some issues 
as 
journalists and at others as African-
Americans. It can get 
confusing.
	Black professionals in America must make 
their 
arguments with both heads of the hammer 
striking a double 
anvil. This duality lies in the special 
circumstances those of 
African descent have found themselves in 
since on these 
shores in 1619.
	As journalists, for example, they are 
taught to strive - 
impossibly - for objectivity in all things. 
All issues have two 
sides. Slavery therefore must have two sides 
- but not for the 
slave. And not, blacks contend, for the 
victims of race-
lynchings, genocide and institutionalized 
injustice. 
Disinterestedness, so desirable in the 
abstract in most 
matters, is odious for the black journalists 
in a few.
	Was Frederick Douglass less a journalist 
for opposing 
slavery? Was William Monroe Trotter for 
opposing racism at 
the turn of the century? Was, for the matter, 
Seymour Hersh 
for opposing the Vietnam War that produced 
the My Lai 
massacre?
	Organizing against the practices of 
their bosses, black 
journalists decided two decades ago that they 
would not 
remain disinterested in those issues of 
racism, injustice and 
unfairness that targeted them in the 
workplace. Perhaps, I 
should say that I was one of the founders and 
a former 
president of the NABJ that set out to reform 
the very media 
industry that employed us. Looking back, it 
appears that 
what meager gains NABJ has made - mostly 
increases in 
entry-level jobs - are nowhere near 
irreversible.
	That aside, the elusive issue of 
fairness that drove us 
into existence extended quite dramatically 
this year to the 
criminal justice system. In what has become a 
national cause 
celebre, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the outgoing 
president of the 
Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists 
at the time, was 
sentenced to death for the killing of a 
Philadelphia cop 
during the early hours of Dec. 9, 1981. Then 
NABJ president, I 
was kept abreast of the case by the new 
chapter president, Joe 
Davidson. The local chapter set up a defense 
fund for Mumia 
and issued a public release stressing the 
presumption of 
innocence and calling for a fair trail.
	This year, when only 10 days remained 
before his Aug. 
17 execution, some NABJ members, myself 
included, called in 
a statement for a new trial to allow time and 
the means to 
gather information so that the public and the 
court could 
make an informed decision about a bizarre 
trail. The death-
row journalist won a stay of execution from 
the court.
	NABJ members had been confused in June 
after their 
board had curiously publicized  its decision 
to take a position 
on the Abu-Jamal case. Those attending the 
convention were 
not so much divided over the issue as 
uninformed.
	A hot topic in New York, Philadelphia, 
D.C. and 
Detroit, the case was barely heard of by 
members from other 
parts of the country. At the outset, Joe 
Davidson of the Wall 
Street Journal moderated a panel fearing Abu-
Jamal's 
attorney, Leonard Weinglass, and the 
prosecutor of the 1982 
trial, Joseph McGill.
	This airing of the disturbing facts led 
the group to call 
for "a full and fair disclosure and judicial 
examination of all 
the facts involving the case of Mumia Abu-
Jamal." The matter 
of guilt or innocence of the black journalist 
left to the lawyers 
and the activists. They viewed a new trial as 
a process to 
allow the full airing of the facts.

Column: Colin Powell should be next president

Gregg Pekau
Guest Columnist
	What is a leader? 
	A leader is someone who is capable of 
moving ideas 
and beliefs forward. It is someone who people 
will rally 
behind and give their total support to. They 
never have to ask 
for respect because their demeanor demands 
it. And if we 
lived in a perfect world, a leader like 
General Colin Powell 
would always preside in the Oval Office.
	Unfortunately, we have not been blessed 
with too 
many leaders in the past century. Most people 
would agree 
that we have had only four presidents who 
have been true 
leaders during the 20th century: Franklin 
Roosevelt, General 
Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Ronald 
Reagan. 
These leaders, regardless if you believed in 
them or not, had 
overwhelming support from the public.
	Who leads us now? 
	Most people will agree that President 
Clinton is not a 
true leader. So who should replace him? While 
the current 
crop of Republican contenders gives us some 
options, not one 
of them is ready to lead us into the 21st 
century.  
	Ross Perot? Bill Brady? Nah.
	Paul Tsonges talks about forming a third 
party but he 
couldn't even beat Bill Clinton in the 
primaries. 
	But don't lose hope. 
	Newt Gingrich will continue the 
revolution, although 
the press will hold him down from becoming a 
great leader. 
	So that leaves us with one person - 
Powell.
	He is simply the best leader our country 
has right now. 
He possesses the strength of character. As 
chairman of the 
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell made many tough 
decisions, and 
in the process, he gained complete and utter 
respect from this 
country.
	Even though Powell's career often put 
him in harm's 
way, he always regarded his family to be the 
most important 
possession in his life.
	 By far, the toughest decision anyone 
can ever make is 
to place someone's life at stake. The war 
with Iraq was the 
most successful war in our country's history. 
Thousands of 
soldiers were under the command of Powell in 
Desert Storm 
and less than one hundred lost their lives. 
	The war gave Powell the chance to be in 
front of the 
national media.  And given this opportunity, 
Powell won 
over the hearts and minds of Americans 
everywhere - even 
the dreaded press.
	After the war, Powell was put in the 
position of down-
sizing the military, while keeping our 
operational strength at 
a maximum.	
	Based on the belief that America needs 
to be the leader 
of the world both economically and 
militarily, Powell can 
take us to the next level. But this needs to 
be accomplished 
through unity. Unity of all people in the 
effort to put our 
country back on top once again.
	The decision of whether or not we will 
have a true 
leader to bring us into the 21st century is 
in everyone's hands. 
The citizens of this country need to unite 
and draft Colin 
Powell into the election next November. 
Powell is our only 
true hope for leadership in the coming years.
Gregg Pekau is a senior studying economics.

Attention ASU football fans:

	The State Press sports department is 
starting the 
weekly "Pick it and win" contest for ASU 
football games.
	To win, contestants must correctly 
predict the winner 
and final score of the ASU football games on 
Saturday 
beginning with this weekend's clash with 
Washington.
	If none of the contestants in a given 
week predict the 
exact score, then the winner will be 
determined by which 
contestant comes closest.
	In the event that two or more 
contestants tie, the 
winner will be drawn out of a hat. However 
each person in 
the tie will be recognized.
	Entries must be either faxed to (602) 
965-8484, 
"Attention: Sports Editor," or dropped off at 
the State Press 
offices in the basement of Matthews Center. 
Valid entries 
should include full name, student number, 
year in school, 
major and daytime phone # where you may be 
reached. 
Winners will be contacted on the Sunday after 
the game. 
	The entry deadline each week is Thursday 
at 5 p.m. 
Entries received after the deadline will not 
be considered. No 
exceptions will be made. Telephoning the 
State Press is not a 
valid form of entry.
	The weekly winner receives: ASU cap, 
autographed 
Jake Plummer poster schedule courtesy of ASU 
athletics, a 
personal headshot in Monday's State Press 
sports section and 
a bonus prize. The first deadline is this 
Thursday at 5. Good 
Luck... 

Injury jumpstarts Snyder's ASU career

Sophomore tabbed preseason All-America 
candidate; Sun 
Devils to host Alumni game

By Dawn Wagner
State Press
	When ASU outside hitter Jenn Snyder blew 
out her 
knee four years ago, she never imagined how 
far it would 
take her.
	After having to quit her high school 
basketball team, 
Snyder focused on the only other sport she 
knew. Volleyball.
	"I've always liked volleyball and when I 
blew out my 
knee in '91, my basketball coach wasn't too 
helpful so I said, 
'Fine, I'll go play volleyball,' " said 
Snyder, who will be in 
action during the ASU Alumni game tonight at 
7 p.m. at the 
Activity Center. "I haven't had any problems 
since then."
	By the end of her freshman season at 
ASU, Snyder had 
worked her way to a starting position on the 
team, ranked 
third in kills with 210 and came within one 
kill of the ASU 
freshman record.
	This year the team will be expecting 
even more from 
the All-America candidate, said ASU coach 
Patti Snyder-
Park.
	"We are going to depend equally on 
Christine Garner 
and Jenn this season," Snyder-Park said. 
"They depend on 
each other. With those two girls, the 
(opponents) defense will 
have to be ready."
	Middle blocker Holly Sones added that 
Snyder's 
hitting and blocking will be a consistency 
the team can look 
forward to this season.
	"Because she's so impressive at the net 
she's going to 
be our go-to person," Sones said. "She'll put 
the ball away for 
us."
	However, Snyder said she must improve 
her strength 
in order to be a more productive, and more 
successful player.
	"I have to concentrate," she said. "I 
lift every day and I 
try to work as hard as I can and stay 
healthy."
	Even though Snyder is not satisfied with 
her strength 
at the net, Snyder-Park said she has improved 
dramatically 
since last year.
	"She got the fever last spring," she 
said. "That was a 
direct result of her increase in strength. 
The stronger you get, 
the higher above the net you can reach and 
the better you 
are."
 	One of Snyder's most noticable traits on 
the court is 
her intensity, Snyder-Park added. 
	"She's really blossomed this year," 
Snyder-Park said. 
"She's more able to control her intensity and 
channel her 
intensity.
	"She's hard-working and very tough. When 
she's done 
here, she goes out and plays sand volleyball 
and when she's 
done doing that, she goes and plays indoor 
with the guys."
	A combination of height, speed, agility 
and motivation 
is quickly putting Snyder as a potential 
elite-level player in 
the future.
	"She's six-foot-two. She jumps well. 
She's strong and 
she's very mobile," Snyder-Park said. "She 
has really good 
control and she is the prototype of a 
national team player. At 
the national team level, you have to possess 
all of those 
things."
	This summer Snyder participated in the 
Olympic 
Festival, where she was able to size up 
potential competition.
	"I played for the East team and we got 
the bronze 
medal," she said. "The good part was that it 
was not as scary 
as I thought it would be."
	Soon, Snyder plans to make a run at the 
Pro-Beach 
Volleyball tour.
	"Since the Olympics is coming next 
summer, there 
won't be many opportunites for me to play so 
I will be able to 
get a lot of practice playing sand this 
spring," Snyder said. 
"It's going to be tough but I'm going to have 
to take sand as 
far as I can this year."

Sun Devil swimmer sets sights on Olympic games

By  Lisa  Eskey
State Press
	After placing sixth in the 50-meter 
freestyle in the Pan 
Pacific games at the Olympic Pool in Atlanta 
earlier this 
month, senior sprinter Felipe Delgado feels 
confident about 
competing in the Olympics next summer. Why?
	"Because the pool likes me," he said. 
"That was the first 
event held at the pool and I swam my best 
time. I felt great."
	Delgado competed in a variety of 
international meets 
including the Canada Cup held in Vancouver, 
B.C. over the 
summer. He won two bronze medals. The Canada 
Cup only 
invites the top 25 swimmers in the world in 
each event.  
Delgado also competed in Colombia at the 
first Pacific Ocean 
Games. 
	"It was my best meet medal-wise,"  said 
Delgado, who 
earned three golds and two silvers at the 
meet.  
	Delgado is becoming somewhat of a 
celebrity in his 
home country of Ecuador, where he is labeled 
in the 
newspapers as an "Olympic Hopeful."  
	"Ecuador has never won an Olympic medal 
in the 
whole history of the country so there is some 
pressure," he 
said. "But it doesn't affect me, because I'm 
not thinking about 
it right now. I'm not there."
	When Delgado is in Ecuador he tries to 
take the 
attention in stride.
	"I can go to a bar in Ecuador and people 
will recognize 
me," he said. "Some would say, 
'Congratulations, let me buy 
you a beer.' And I would reply, 'No, let me 
buy you one. Glad 
you noticed me.' I get more excited when they 
recognize me, 
but, I'm no different from anyone else; I 
just swim."
	Now it's time for Delgado to prepare 
himself for the 
collegiate season.
	"Felipe is our top returning sprinter," 
Coach Ernie 
Maglischo said. "Sprinters make our relays go 
and that is 
very valuable to us where the NCAA's are 
concerned."
	Delgado, who is team captain, said his 
sport is a 
delicate blend of individual and team 
concepts.
	"Swimming is an individual sport, but 
it's also a team 
one," he said. " If you're standing behind 
your lane about 
ready to compete and you look down at the 
other side of the 
pool and see 20 teammates cheering for you, 
that's going to 
be a big boost. You feel proud, get excited, 
the adrenaline 
starts flowing. That's when it becomes a team 
sport."
	Delgado's younger brother, Robert, is 
also on the team. 
The two have the added benefit of each 
other's support since 
last season.
 	"Last year, I would have been totally 
lost without 
Felipe,"  said Robert.
	"Having Robert on the team is one of the 
greatest 
things that could have happened to me," added 
Felipe. "I feel 
somebody's looking up to me and that I can be 
a role model. 
He also keeps me in line (and) gives me 
pointers.
	The competition between the two isn't 
fierce, 
considering the two specialize in different 
strokes.
 "I never try to compete in a sprint. He 
would kill me," said 
Robert. "But every once in a while, Felipe 
will try to get into 
one of my races and try to beat me."
	Maglischo said the only rule about 
competing 
internationally and collegiately is that 
swimmers cannot 
compete for two teams during the collegiate 
season. But 
during the off-season, swimmers are allowed 
to compete in 
whatever they are able to, providing that 
they do not accept 
any money.
	Maglischo also added he doesn't believe 
competing 
internationally affects their performances.
	"On the contrary, I think it motivates 
them," he said. 
"They would not be able to compete as U.S. 
citizens and 
because of the (lesser amount of depth) of 
athletes in their 
own country, it motivates them to train year-
round."

Sun Devils' secondary set

ASU football notebook

By Dan Miller
State Press
	Two starters didn't finish practice, 
while two other 
players were given the starting nod after a 
sluggish workout 
for the ASU football team Tuesday.
	Head Coach Bruce Snyder announced 
redshirt-
freshman Mitchell "Fright Night" Freedman and 
sophomore 
Jason Simmons will start Saturday's season-
opener at 
Washington at strong safety and right 
cornerback, 
respectively.
	"What we tried to do was look at 
performance-who's 
making plays, who's knocking the ball loose 
and I've been 
pleased with all those guys in the secondary 
so it's not like 
I'm displeased," said Snyder. "...We're going 
to play as many 
guys as we can (and) rotate them through. 
(If) anybody loafs, 
they're out."
	 Freedman, a 6-foot, 200-pound bruiser, 
edged senior 
Harlen Rashada, who started in nine games 
last season. 
Simmons, who has repeatedly worn the special 
black jersey 
awarded to defensive players who stand out in 
practice, will 
get the call over senior Marcus Soward. 
Soward, who injured 
his groin at Camp Tontozona two weeks ago, 
has yet to 
return to full strength.
	"He's really frustrated," Snyder said of 
Soward, who 
missed most of camp. "If he we're healthy, 
he'd start so it's 
not any other issue."
	The two practice casualties were junior 
Shawn 
Swayda, a starting defensive tackle, and 
senior Lee Cole, the 
starting left cornerback. Both men suffered 
strained 
hamstrings in their left legs, but Snyder 
said he thinks both 
should be ready to play by Saturday. 
Sophomore Thomas 
Simmons will round out the secondary as the 
starting free 
safety. 
	Wardrobe
	Senior tailback Chris Hopkins, senior 
flyback Ryan 
Wood and junior quarterback Jake Plummer each 
wore the 
special yellow practice jerseys with Sparky 
in the middle, 
indicating standout performances in recent 
practices. On the 
defensive side, junior linebacker Derek Smith 
was the only 
man wearing the black jersey to leave the 
field unscathed. 
Ironically, both Cole and Swayda went down 
while wearing Sparky-jerseys.

ASU police reported the following incidents 
Tuesday:
* The fire alarm at Palo Verde East was set 
off by burnt 
popcorn. The responding officer found the 
area secure and 
the alarm was reset.
* Two bikes were reported stolen.
Tempe police reported the following incidents 
Tuesday:
* Two men robbed a man and stole his car 
while he was 
loading ice into his vehicle at Rollins 
Market, 1090 W. Fifth St. 
One of the men pointed a gun at the victim 
and told him to 
throw his keys into the car. The gunman then 
asked for the 
victim's wallet, and it was given to him. The 
two men took off 
in the car, a gold 1989 Honda Civic. The 
first suspect is 
described as a black male in his late 20s, 5 
feet 6 inches tall 
and about 140 pounds. The second suspect is 
just described 
as a black male.
* A 19-year-old man was arrested for trying 
to use an altered 
driver's license to get into Fat Tuesdays, 
730 S. Mill Ave. 
When an off-duty officer confronted him, he 
ran about one-
quarter mile and was found hiding underneath 
a parked car. 
He was booked into the Tempe City Jail.
Compiled by State Press reporter Greg Zemeida

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* Alpha Kappa Psi - Pizza night at Sunny's. 
6:30 p.m.; Sunny's 
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* Counseling Health Advisory Committee - 
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