Student pilots protest move to ASU East

By Tim Baxter
State Press
	Plans to move ASU's flight training to 
Williams-
Gateway Airport at ASU East are leaving 
future pilots feeling 
grounded.
	Students entered ASU under a catalog 
that offered a 
choice of four contract flight schools 
scattered throughout the 
Valley, but the University is now telling 
them that they will 
have to make the trek to east Mesa for their 
training - at a 
higher cost.
	The director of the Aeronautical 
Technology 
department, William Reed, refused to comment 
on the move 
or the reasons behind it.
	Larry Gesell, associate director of the 
school of 
technology, said the move was a University 
decision made 
necessary by accreditation processes.
	"Part of the accreditation is to have 
one sole source of 
aircraft," Gesell said. "Why students would 
be upset about 
going to (Williams-Gateway) I have no idea.
	"As faculty we think its going to be a 
great 
environment. It's the perfect environment for 
an aeronautical 
agenda."
	Aeronautical engineering junior Chris 
Varga said he 
plans to change his major because of the 
switch.
	"I think it's ridiculous; we all do, 
especially the 
juniors," he said. "I'm still going to be a 
pilot, but it would be 
cheaper to change my major. I'll probably 
save five or six 
grand."
	Varga, who currently attends Sawyer 
Aviation's flight 
school at Sky Harbor International Airport, 
said he pays $45 
per flight hour, but flying at Williams-
Gateway will cost $50 
per flight hour.
	Gretchen Longanecker, aeronautical 
technology senior, 
disapproved of the move.
	"In this industry, moving like that is 
not only 
inconvenient, but this is an extremely 
expensive venture," 
Longanecker said, adding that the choice of 
going to 
Williams-Gateway is unnecessarily expensive.
	"They have extravagantly loaded 
airplanes. You don't 
need nearly that much."
	Jim Hackman, flight school manager at 
Sawyer 
Aviation, said there was nothing that could 
be done because 
the school had already committed to the move.
	"This is a done deal," he said. "They're 
not planning it, 
they've done it. The question is how 
successful will this be.
	"I think there will be a significant 
percentage of flight 
management students who will initially change 
to airway 
science majors. That would permit them to use 
some of their 
existing school courses."
	Hackman said moving the flight programs 
to 
Williams-Gateway made it easier to acquire 
the land from the 
Air Force after Williams Air Force Base 
closed last year.
	"The ... technology and the agriculture 
departments 
were valid reasons to locate ASU East at the 
Gateway 
facility."
	Varga said the move made little sense to 
him.
	"We have four flight schools now, and 
they're 
expecting to take all these students from all 
these schools and 
take them all to Williams, where they only 
have three 
planes?" Varga said.
	Eric Ames, a senior in the program and a 
certified 
flight instructor, was also mystified by the 
move.
	"There's something weird about it," he 
said. "We get 
the impression that no one wants to give us 
any answers."
	Longanecker said she felt the 
administration did not 
take the students into consideration at all.
	"It's all for financial reasons and to 
make the school 
look better at our cost. Literally every 
student in the 
department is disgruntled about this."
	Ames said Reed had assured students 
earlier in the 
year that they would be able to complete the 
program 
according to their catalog.
	"I just don't understand why they want 
to ship 
everyone out there," Ames said. "ASU doesn't 
even have 
transportation arranged.
	"It's just kind of funny that they come 
in and 
arbitrarily say we're going to Cochise 
(training center at 
Williams-Gateway)," Ames added. "I live in 
Chandler, so it's 
not a problem for me, but I wonder about the 
other students."
	Gesell said a transportation system 
would be in place.
	"The last I heard there would be a bus 
shuttle just like 
there is a shuttle to the west (campus), and 
there have been 
other proposals put forth."
	Hackman said he did not foresee any 
drop-off in his 
business with ASU students, even if the 
program did require 
them to go to Williams-Gateway.
	"We expect to continue to do flight 
training for ASU 
students in the same numbers," he said.

Route 66: Drive down memory lane

By Patty King
State Press
	Memory lane isn't always covered with 
asphalt and a 
white stripe.
	But Route 66 is and KAET-TV Channel 8 
will soon air, 
Arizona Crossroads: Along Old Route 66, a 
documentary 
produced by two ASU professors.
	John Craft, a professor of broadcasting, 
said a major 
purpose of the documentary is to provide 
nostalgia for baby 
boomers.
	"A lot of them were kids in their 
parents' cars when 
they came across the Southwest to visit the 
Grand Canyon or 
go to Disneyland," he said. "They remember 
that fondly and 
they want to recapture that."
	Route 66 once stretched more than 2,400 
miles from 
Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif. For decades, 
it was the 
primary roadway that allowed Americans to 
travel to the 
Southwest and California.
	The program, produced by Craft and Fran 
Matera, an 
ASU associate professor of journalism, will 
air at 7 p.m. 
Monday.
	Craft said the 30-minute documentary 
centers on the 
portion of Route 66 in Northern Arizona and 
its impact on 
towns and their inhabitants.
	"The show focuses on what life was like 
in the 1930s, 
40s and 50s," he said. "It's about the lives 
of people who lived 
along (Route 66) and who traveled it. We 
interviewed people 
who ran motels or car-repair facilities ... 
and people who 
went along there during World War II."
	Route 66 entered Arizona from New Mexico 
and 
traveled nearly straight across the state. It 
ran through 
Holbrook, Winslow, Flagstaff, Williams, 
Seligman, Kingman 
and Oatman.
	The two professors talked to about 25 
people from the 
towns of Oatman, Williams and Seligman, Craft 
said, adding 
that about six of them appear in the show.
	Craft said one impact of Route 66 that 
the program 
focuses on is the amount of business and 
revenue it brought 
to the small towns.
	"It was their main link with the outside 
world and then 
when it was abandoned and the interstate took 
its place, 
many of those businesses shut down," he said. 
"All of a 
sudden, there were no more tourists coming 
through. The 
tourists were on the interstate highways."
	Craft said the show also highlights a 
second impact of 
Route 66. In the days before radio and 
television, most of the 
small town residents' view of the world was 
brought to them 
by tourists coming through.
	"Those little towns were pretty 
isolated," he said. 
	Route 66 began in 1924 when seven states 
linked 
portions of roadway together to form a 
highway. It went 
through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, 
Texas, New 
Mexico, Arizona and California.
	The highway provided the main route for 
Oklahoma 
dust bowl farmers traveling to California in 
the 1930s. Route 
66 was also the primary roadway for military 
troops going to 
training camps near Barstow, Calif. during 
World War II.
	Increased prosperity after World War II 
allowed 
working-class, Midwestern tourists to travel 
west from cities 
such as St. Louis, Cleveland and Chicago. 
People had money, 
vacation time and access to cars, he said.
	John Matthews, an information specialist 
for ASU's 
News Bureau who narrated the program, said 
Route 66 is 
considered such a part of Americana mainly 
because of the 
1930s migration of farmers from Oklahoma to 
California.
	"Read John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath 
sometime," he 
said. "That shows exactly how life was along 
Route 66 and 
traveling west. The big goal was to go to 
California. That was 
the land of opportunity ... for these people 
who lost their 
farms. They piled everything they had into a 
truck or a car, or 
something, and away they went."
	Matthews said that younger viewers, who 
might not 
be familiar with Route 66, will find the 
program beneficial in 
an educational and historical context.
	"It acquaints them with a slice of 
American history that 
is really a part of (the) culture," he said. 
"It gives them an 
inkling about what some of their past was 
like."
	Craft and Matera filmed and edited the 
program in 
1993 and 1994 and it has aired around the 
country on PBS.

Police report: Student drunk, resisted arrest

By Greg Zemeida
State Press
	ASU police said the student who claims 
campus police 
used excessive force during his arrest was 
drunk and resisted 
arrest.
	According to a Department of Public 
Safety report 
released Wednesday, the report states Michael 
McVerry, a 
junior exercise science major, repeatedly did 
not obey police 
commands and was legally drunk during the 
Aug. 20 
incident.
	McVerry has accused the officers of 
using police 
brutality during his arrest - throwing him on 
the ground and 
slamming his head into the trunk of their 
patrol car, injuring 
his jaw and bruising his head and left arm. 
	The report stated that McVerry, who was 
arrested for 
disorderly conduct, registered a blood 
alcohol level of .105 on 
a breathalyzer test. That is just over the 
legal intoxication 
level of .1.
	In addition, one of the officers said 
McVerry had "red, 
watery eyes and appeared to be intoxicated."
	McVerry admits drinking a couple of 
beers and two 
glasses of wine during the evening, but said 
he wasn't drunk. 
He said his judgment was not affected that 
night.
	McVerry still maintains that he never 
resisted police 
during the entire arrest. He did say that he 
refused to follow 
police orders to sit down because the grass 
in the area was 
wet.
	He also stands by his claim that one 
officer threatened 
to "kick (his) ass." In addition, witnesses 
to the event said 
McVerry was punched in the head and stomach.
	The 32-page report has no mention of 
punches or 
threatening comments, and it did not state if 
McVerry's head 
was pushed down on the trunk of the patrol 
car.
	ASU Chief of Police Lanny Standridge 
said he is still 
conducting an internal investigation on the 
matter and will 
not take any actions regarding the officers 
involved until it is 
finished. He said he does not know when the 
investigation 
will be complete.
	"I'm trying to get all the allegations 
out so we can 
investigate them," Standridge said. "If 
there's a problem here, 
I want to get to the bottom of it at least as 
fast as McVerry.
	"We have nothing to hide. We will get to 
the bottom of 
this thing. I will take action if it is 
appropriate."
	The incident occurred at about 1 a.m. 
Aug. 20. 
McVerry and two roommates, ASU students Dan 
Pandaru 
and Dave Palmer, were getting a ride home 
from an 
acquaintance after watching the Tyson-McNeely 
boxing 
match at a friend's house.
	According to the report, ASU police 
officer Ron Kelley 
saw the driver of the car, Paul Ruthardt, 
fail to stop at a stop 
sign and pulled him over near McAllister 
Avenue and 
Terrace Drive.
	While doing a background check, Kelley 
discovered 
that Ruthardt had an outstanding warrant for 
possession of 
marijuana and drug paraphernalia. He 
handcuffed Ruthardt 
and placed him in the back of his patrol car. 
Meanwhile, ASU 
officers Scott Perron, Rory Moran and Terry 
Lewis arrived at 
the scene.
	McVerry opened the car's back door while 
Ruthardt 
was being arrested. Perron told him to get 
back into the car or 
he would be arrested. McVerry initially 
refused, then sat back 
down, according to Perron's statement.
	Ruthardt told Kelley that there was 
marijuana in the 
trunk of his car. According to the report, 
police decided to 
frisk all the passengers in the car since it 
is common for drug 
dealers to carry weapons on them or in their 
vehicles. 
	McVerry, Pandaru and Palmer were told to 
get out of 
the car and were patted down. No weapons were 
found.
	All three were told to sit down while 
police searched 
Ruthardt's car. McVerry was told several 
times before finally 
obeying, according to Lewis's statement.
	As the officers started to walk to the 
car, McVerry 
stood back up, according to Lewis. Lewis then 
told him to sit 
down again or he would be handcuffed.
	Lewis stated that McVerry started to sit 
down and that 
he placed his hand on McVerry's shoulder to 
support him 
since he was intoxicated. 
	"McVerry got approximately halfway to 
the ground 
when he stood up quickly," Lewis stated. "At 
this time, I did 
not know what McVerry's intentions were. I 
went to grab a 
hold of McVerry and he started to back up. 
Officer Kelley and 
(Officer) Perron came over to my location and 
also tried to 
take hold of McVerry."
	Lewis stated that they got McVerry down 
on his hands 
and knees and that he ignored orders to put 
his hands behind 
his back. Lewis then grabbed McVerry's right 
leg and pulled 
it out straight, and officers Kelley and 
Perron pushed him to 
the ground, according to their reports.
	Perron stated that McVerry had his hands 
beneath his 
chest between his body and the ground. He 
said McVerry 
would not place his hands behind his back, so 
Moran pushed 
McVerry over so that he was lying flat on the 
ground.
	Perron stated that he then positioned 
his body so he 
was kneeling on the ground with McVerry's 
head between 
his knees. He said he was trying to apply 
pressure to 
McVerry's mandibular angle.
	Standridge said the technique involves 
applying 
pressure to the upper part of the neck 
without harming the 
person. He said it prevents someone from 
moving and 
breaking away from an officer.
	Perron stated that after he used the 
technique, Lewis 
was able to get handcuffs on McVerry and he 
placed him in 
the back seat of Perron's patrol car.
	After McVerry was taken to the police 
car, he started 
to apologize, Lewis stated.
	"McVerry said that he would now 
cooperate and do 
what we told him. McVerry was asked why he 
would not 
obey our orders, and he said that he just did 
not want to."
	McVerry said Lewis told him the reason 
police acted 
so aggressively toward him was because they 
were dealing 
with a drug dealer and didn't know what to 
expect. McVerry 
then apologized, not for his conduct, but for 
not knowing 
about the drugs in the car, he said. 
	Police questioned Pandaru and Palmer 
about 
McVerry's conduct. According to the report, 
they both said 
McVerry has a problem with government 
authority figures.
	Both Pandaru and Palmer deny ever saying 
that, 
calling the police's statements "completely 
absurd" and 
"absolute nonsense."
	McVerry said he has never had any 
problems with 
authority figures.

Career services offer jump start for job seekers

By Tim Baxter
State Press
	What do you want to be when you grow up?
	ASU's Career Services office is 
encouraging students 
seeking career answers to come in and 
register with them as 
soon as possible.
	Elaine Stover, associate director of 
career services, said 
registering with the office is a critical 
step for students 
wishing to interview with recruiters from 
potential 
employers.
	"Until they register we don't really 
know who they 
are," Stover said. "Until they register their 
resumes can't be 
referred to potential employers."
	Registering involves filling out an 
information pack 
and using a computer software program called 
Resume 
Expert.
	In addition to creating a resume for the 
student, the 
program also produces an electronic resume 
catalog that 
Career Services can show to recruiters.
	Stover said both fall and spring 
graduates should 
register.
	"The main idea we want to get across is 
that they need 
to come over early."
	She added that students would not be 
able to request 
interviews with employers until they were 
registered. 
	"They need to be registered with us as 
soon as 
possible," Stover said. "Once they are 
registered they can start 
requesting interviews as early as next week."
	Chris Helms, assistant director of 
career development, 
said the number of early registrants was very 
low this year.
	"We don't have as many registrants at 
this time as 
we've had in previous years," Helms said. 
"I'd like to have all 
interested students that are within two 
semesters of 
graduating or have recently graduated from a 
program at 
ASU."
	In addition to the push for early 
registration, Career 
Services is also holding a Career Fiesta 
September 26 and 27.
	Lydia Montelongo, coordinator of the 
Career Fiesta, 
said it will be ASU's largest career fair, 
with more than 100 
companies participating.

All-age concerts create headaches for alcohol-serving clubs

By Angela Mull
State Press
	James Torgeson did not want underage 
patrons 
drinking during an all-ages concert in his 
nightclub, so he 
physically separated the minors from legal 
drinkers.
	Unfortunately, Torgeson's nightclub 
could be fined for 
allegedly violating a "split-premises" law 
that forbids such 
physical separations.
	According to state law, minors are 
allowed into 
nightclubs that serve alcohol if the 
nightclub's primary 
purpose is for entertainment, such as an all-
ages concert.
	However, nightclubs cannot split their 
premises with 
physical barriers for the sole purpose of 
admitting minors. 
	Torgeson said that was not why minors 
were kept 
separate during a December concert at his 
Tempe nightclub, 
The Electric Ballroom, at 1216 E. Apache 
Blvd.
	"We split the room, not for the purpose 
of allowing 
minors in, but for the purpose of controlling 
the distribution 
of alcohol," he said, adding that his 
nightclub also uses wrist 
bands and stamps to identify legal drinkers. 
	Torgeson testified at a Department of 
Liquor Licenses 
and Control hearing Aug. 29. A decision on 
whether or not 
his club violated the split premises law must 
be made within 
21 days of the hearing. The club could be 
fined $200 to $3,000.
	The 1992 law was intended to prevent 
nightclubs from 
admitting minors into a segregated area where 
alcohol is not 
served, said Myron Musfeldt, chief of 
investigations with the 
liquor department. Tucson nightclubs created 
these areas to 
work around a state law that forbids minors 
from entering an 
establishment whose primary purpose is 
selling or serving 
alcoholic beverages, he said. 
	The split premises law worked for a 
while, Musfeldt 
said, until nightclubs began admitting minors 
into the whole 
area of their establishments for the primary 
purpose of all-
ages concerts.
	The addition of the split premises law 
did not produce 
the desired result, he said. 
	"A lot of legislation happens that way, 
in that they 
think they fixed a problem, when in fact they 
aggravated it," 
Musfeldt said. 
	Nightclubs need to be able to prevent 
minors from 
drinking during all-ages concerts, and 
allowing split 
premises could help control alcohol 
distribution, said Bill 
Hall, a special investigator with the liquor 
department. 
	"Probably in the next legislative 
session we're going to 
attempt to change the law to allow a physical 
barrier to 
maintain better control," he said, adding 
that until state law is 
changed, the liquor department must enforce 
the law.
	But allowing split premises is not the 
only way to 
prevent minors from drinking, said Robert 
Fields, head of 
security at Scottsdale's Atomic Cafe 
Nightclub at 8005 E. 
Roosevelt St. Fields said he would rather 
hire more security 
for a better staff-to-patron ratio.
	"It's not as cost-effective, but I feel 
more comfortable 
with that," he said. 
	Musfeldt said the law needs to be 
changed, but added 
that making all-ages concerts illegal could 
be discussed when 
the state legislature convenes in January.
	Forbidding nightclubs to stage all-ages 
concerts would 
be unfair to minors who purchase albums, said 
Matt 
Engstrom, manager of Gibson's at 410 S. Mill 
Ave. He said it 
would also be unfair to the nightclubs 
booking national acts. 
Gibson's books national acts through Evening 
Star 
Productions and some artists insist on all-
ages concerts, 
Engstrom said. 
	"We're a live-music venue," he said. "We 
live and die 
by our concerts. If we don't get concerts, we 
die."
	Another solution to preventing minors 
from gaining 
access to alcohol is setting up strict 
definitions of local and 
national acts, Torgeson said. 
	"If it's a national act, we should be 
treated the same as 
any other concert venue," he said.
	Concert venues like Desert Sky Pavilion 
and America 
West Arena book national acts and serve 
liquor with minors 
present. 
	But Fields said not selling alcohol 
would be a more 
viable option with a national act than a 
local act. 
	"It's more of a financial necessity with 
smaller acts," he 
said. "With a national act, it's more of an 
option."

Editorial: Boos & Bravos

BOO - To the Sigma Chi Fraternity member who 
thought it 
was okay to severely beat a black man. 
Another BOO goes to 
ASU DPS for not prosecuting it as a hate 
crime.

BRAVO - To the student body presidents of 
ASU, UofA and 
NAU for trying to implement a plan that would 
require the 
three universities to publish the results of 
instructor 
evaluations in the back of each semester's 
bulletin. It would 
be nice to know what you will be paying for 
before your 
classes started.

BRAVO - To the new Tempe party ordinance that 
will fine 
people for  living it up a little too much. 
The ordinance, 
which took effect Wednesday, will allow 
police to fine loud 
partiers if they are called to the scene 
twice. While we think 
all work and no play makes for a very dull 
college scene, we 
don't think entire neighborhoods or apartment 
buildings 
should have to listen just because a few 
people want to have 
a good time.

BRAVO - To Judge Ito for allowing the public 
and the jury to 
hear some of Mark Fuhrman's vile comments 
about 
minorities and police brutality. While 
Fuhrman's disparaging 
comments come as no surprise to the minority 
community, 
maybe this will act as a wake-up call to the 
rest of the country 
that racism is alive and well.

BOO - To Congress' latest proposals to 
completely eliminate 
subsidized loans to graduate students and 
slash $4 billion in 
Pell Grant funding over the next seven years. 
God forbid if 
people continue to get educations and realize 
what a mess the 
people on Capitol Hill have made. 

BRAVO - To the University's Indian Legal 
Program, for 
providing a support system as well as a 
superior academic 
environment for Native American law students. 
The 
University could use a lot more programs like 
this one.

BOO - To the unrelenting heat. This is like - 
no, this is - Hell 
on Earth. Will it ever stop?

BRAVO - To NATO, for finally showing some 
backbone and 
punishing Bosnian Serb aggression with 
forceful airstrikes. 
NATO has been threatening take action for a 
while, but this 
time it finally did something. Let's all hope 
that this leads to 
serious peace talks and a long-awaited end to 
the bloodbath 
in Bosnia.

BOO - To the state's $270 million budget 
surplus, none of 
which will be directed at higher learning. 
Instead, Gov. 
Symington has decided to spend money only on 
the 
Department of Corrections and K-12 education. 
What must 
Fife be thinking? "We don't need any money to 
help the poor, 
the sick, to build better roads or to protect 
the environment. 
Hell, let's give another tax cut to the rich! 
And while we're at 
it, we'll put even more people in prison!" 
Way to go, Fife. 

BOO - To Newt Gingrich. No, he hasn't done 
anything 
recently to tick us off, but we figured we 
might as well get 
some practice.

Column: America full of Mark Fuhrmans

David Strow
Editor
	I'll be damned. I actually learned 
something this week 
from the O.J. Simpson trial.
	Mark Fuhrman has proven himself to be 
among the 
biggest slimeballs this country has to offer. 
But he has also 
taught us a lesson we won't soon forget.
	Racism is hardly dead in this country - 
merely 
seething beneath a semi-placid surface.
	I, like many, had forgotten about 
racism. I knew it was 
there, in the back of my mind - but it was 
something distant, 
something minor.
	Fuhrman has forced me, along with this 
entire nation, 
to take another look at this age-old malady 
of mankind.
	We would be foolish if we said that our 
brand of 
racism is the worst in the world. It isn't. 
Over across the 
Atlantic, in Bosnia, Serbs, Croats and 
Muslims are 
slaughtering one another because they don't 
like each other's 
ethnic groups. And, strangely enough, most of 
them look the 
same.
	I can't tell the difference in a wire 
photo between a 
Muslim, a Croat, or a Serb. And even if I 
could notice, I don't 
think I would shoot anyone over it.
	It's a lot simpler here to differentiate 
between people 
of different ethnic groups. We are a diverse-
looking nation.
	Yet we aren't at each others throats 
engaging in 
attempts at ethnic cleansing. That, at least, 
is a small victory.
	American racism is much more subtle, 
much harder to 
notice. The only reason we're noticing it now 
is because of the 
sheer scope of the Simpson trial, and the 
boorishness of Mark 
Fuhrman.
	But it is out there. I've seen it.
	The nation is acting shocked that 
Fuhrman used the 
word "nigger" so liberally during an 
interview. Why, in the 
name of God, should this shock anyone?
	The only thing that surprises me about 
it was that he 
said it on the record.
	Back when I worked in the storeroom of a 
major toy 
store, I heard that word used over and over - 
mostly behind 
the back of a black co-worker. Usually, this 
language was 
accompanied by some crude pantomime behavior 
meant to 
mimic the stereotyped image of a slave.
	Sure, many will say that was an isolated 
incident. I 
doubt it - I've heard it used in lots of 
other places as well.
	I heard it all the time in elementary 
school, in sing-
song verse whenever there was a fight between 
a white kid 
and a black kid.
	Kids don't keep saying stuff like that 
in public, of 
course. They, unlike Fuhrman, learn to keep 
it confined to 
private conversation.
	Of course, once the veil of anonymity 
descends, these 
rules of conduct are quickly lifted.
	I learned that one when I began to visit 
the chat rooms 
of a major on-line service. People can spew 
some of the most 
vitriolic racist slurs you've ever seen - 
once they're safely, 
anonymously seated behind a monitor and a 
keyboard.
	For those who aren't nearly as 
electronically literate, I 
offer the old stand-by - the bathroom stall.
	One day last year I saw a particularly 
frightening 
message scrawled on one stall next to a crude 
swastika. It 
read: "Hitler was right. Six million more!" 
	I suppose it wouldn't have been quite so 
disturbing if I 
hadn't seen it in a men's restroom right 
outside the Phoenix 
Gazette newsroom.
	We shouldn't be acting surprised and 
sanctimonious 
about Fuhrman. True, the man is slime - but 
he isn't alone. 
Half the country thinks exactly like him, in 
one way or 
another.
	Hopefully, some day, the next Mark 
Fuhrman can 
truly be considered an aberration.

David Strow is a senior studying journalism.

Letters to the Editor

Letter: McVerry's actions childish

	Michael McVerry, a junior exercise 
science major, 
accused the Department of Public Safety of 
police brutality 
after a recent driving violation. He was one 
of three 
passengers who was told by the arresting 
officers to sit down 
on the grass. McVerry got up when he found 
the grass was 
damp. He said the police told him to sit back 
down. McVerry 
said he refused because he didn't want to get 
his pants wet.
	McVerry is, at best, stupid. His actions 
were childish, 
and his demeanor mirrored that of a spoiled 
brat.
	What should he have done if he felt 
uncomfortable 
sitting on the damp grass?
	1. Ask the officers if he could stand up 
because he 
doesn't like sitting on damp grass. Then 
follow their 
instructions which would have been either to 
remain seated 
or to stand up.
	2. When officers asked him to sit back 
down, he should 
have sat back down instead of refusing.
	McVerry should have noticed that his two 
friends and 
driver didn't complain about sitting on the 
damp grass. He 
should have noticed that the car's driver was 
arrested on an 
outstanding warrant for possession of 
marijuana, and that 
this was more than a typical traffic 
violation.
	McVerry said he has been visibly shaken 
since the 
incident. He said it changed his opinion 
about campus police. 
	I think if McVerry was typical of ASU 
students during 
traffic violations, the campus police would 
change their 
position about ASU students.
	I'm not condoning police brutality. I'm 
saying that 
McVerry should have used common sense. 
Incidentally, his 
pants would have dried!


Charles Rice 
Graduate student
Liberal Arts

Letter: Chaurand's Latino viewpoint welcome addition to paper

	It is with great pleasure that I welcome 
to the editorial 
page the voice of Enrique Chaurand, whose 
said objective is 
to address issues facing Mexican-Americans, 
Latinos and 
Hispanics. 
	Too many other Latino students choose to 
keep their 
pen silent on the anti-minority agenda 
currently being 
advanced by opportunist Anglo politicians, 
privileged 
minority Republicans and double-speak racial 
chauvinists 
such as Pete Wilson, Pat Buchanan and 
propagandist Rush 
Limbaugh. 
	These misleaders use egalitarian 
concepts from the 
discourse of the civil rights movement but 
seek to undo its 
legal and economic infrastructure. They are 
at the forefront of 
a movement that intends to deny further 
social mobility to 
underclass minorities, limit opportunity and 
the rights of 
both white and minority women, lower further 
real wages by 
exporting factories and reducing organized 
labor, and re-
privilege white conservative males - not to 
mention building 
a Berlin wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. 
Their hidden 
agenda seeks to undermine our culturally 
democratic 
American society and place all of us 
Americans once again 
under hierarchical and intolerant 
masculinized 
monoculturalism. Such a divisive and 
xenophobic agenda 
must be challenged in the press, the voting 
poll and in any 
and all communities.
	Congratulations, Enrique.


Manuel de Jesus Hernandez-G.
Ph.D., Languages in Literature

Sun Devil volleyball set to be 'Challenged'

By Dawn Wagner
State Press
	When the No. 18 ASU volleyball team 
steps onto the 
court this Friday and Saturday for the 
Hilton/Sun Devil 
Challenge, it might as well be stepping into 
the unknown.
	This tournament will mark the first time 
the Sun 
Devils will play unranked St. Mary's College 
and only the 
second time they've stepped onto the court 
with Tennessee.
	ASU will take on St. Mary's in an 
exhibition game 
Friday at 3 p.m. and will match up with 
Tennessee at 7 p.m. 
Both matches will be at the University 
Activity Center, and 
the Sun Devils will repeat the schedule on 
Saturday.
	Without knowing what to expect from 
either the Gaels 
or the Lady Vols, middle blocker Annette 
Monsen said it is 
very important they focus solely on their own 
game.
	"We have to take on an offensive 
strategy," Monsen 
said. "When you don't know what a team is 
capable of, you 
have to be ready for anything.
	"You can't predict what they do, you can 
only predict 
what you can do."
	Coach Patti Snyder-Park said she expects 
St. Mary's 
and Tennessee to be focused on their own 
offense.
	"When it's so early in the season, you 
don't worry 
about your opponents," Snyder-Park said. "You 
worry about 
your own side. We just need to take care of 
our offensive and 
defensive opportunities, but I'm sure that 
St. Mary's and 
Tennessee will be thinking about the same 
thing."
	Whatever the case may be, Snyder-Park 
said she 
expects the women to hit the court prepared 
after their 
annual alumni game Wednesday night.
	"We got a chance to learn our rotation 
and learn who 
passes where," she said. "Hopefully, the 
girls all got their 
jitters out."
	Outside hitter Jenn Snyder said the 3-0 
victory over the 
alumni helped the team get used to playing in 
a match-like 
situation.
	"It helped our warm-up a lot and it 
helped us work out 
our kinks," she said. "We're going to 
surprise a lot of people 
this season."

Ex-ASU star ousts 16th seed at U.S. Open

By Dan Miller
State Press
	Former ASU tennis star Sargis Sargsian 
pulled off a 
stunning upset over 16th-seeded Andrei 
Medvedev in the 
second round of the U.S. Open men's tennis 
championships 
in Flushing Meadow, N.Y. Thursday night.
	Sargsian outlasted Medvedev, 1-6, 4-6, 
6-3, 6-2, 6-4, on 
court 17 of the USTA National Tennis Center 
and will next 
face American Jared Palmer at a yet-to-be 
announced time 
Saturday.
	If Sargsian beats Palmer, he could 
potentially face the 
No. 1 player in the world, Andre Agassi, in 
the round of 16. 
	Agassi struggled to defeat Alex 
Corretja, 5-7, 6-3, 5-7, 
6-3, 6-2 in his second round match Thursday.
	"This is one the happiest days of my 
life for two 
reasons: one, that I won and two, that my 
mother and brother 
came from Armenia to see me," said Sargsian, 
who had not 
seen his family in three years.
	Sargsian, who earned an automatic 
wildcard berth into 
the tournament when he won the NCAA men's 
singles 
championship in May, was down 3-4 and a 
service break in 
the fifth set before coming back to win the 
final three games.
	Ironically, Sargsian and Medvedev are 
old 
acquaintances from competing on the same 
national team in 
the junior ranks.
	The pair were members of the Russian 
national junior 
team which took second place in the World 
Championships 
in Paraguay in 1991, before Armenia gained 
its independence 
from Russia.
  Sargsian utilized a low slice and 
continuously approached 
the net against Medvedev, who struggled with 
playing the 
low balls. Medvedev is currently ranked 18th 
in the world on 
the IBM/ATP tour.
	Sargsian, ASU's first-ever NCAA tennis 
champ who  
compiled an 82-17 record at No. 1 singles 
during his two-year 
college career, dropped 75th-ranked American 
Michael Joyce 
in a marathon five-setter in the first round.

Sun Devils look for upset fit for talk shows

By Dan Miller
State Press
	If senior tailback Chris Hopkins is a 
good barometer, 
then the ASU football team should be more 
than ready to 
engage Washington in the season opener. 
	"I've watched more Washington film this 
summer than 
I've watched the Ricki Lake show," said 
Hopkins, an avid fan 
of the show.
	Hopkins will get to see if sacrificing 
his favorite talk 
show has paid off when the Sun Devils meet 
the 24th-ranked 
Huskies Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Husky 
Stadium in Seattle. 
Hopkins is confident that going in as a big 
underdog will 
play right into the Sun Devils' hands. 
	"If Mike Tyson would have watched Buster 
Douglas 
film and studied him, he wouldn't have 
underestimated him 
and lost," he explained. "I think this year 
we're going to be the 
Buster Douglas of the Pac-10."
	If the so-called experts are right, ASU 
may have a long 
way to go to regain respect in the Pac-10.
	Not many respected preseason 
publications have 
picked the Sun Devils to do much more than 
duplicate their 
dismal 1994 season, which saw them finish 3-8 
overall and 2-
6 in the Pac-10. Only 10 of the 60 players 
going to Seattle are 
seniors and only about half are starters. 
With youth and 
unproven talent running rampant, the Sun 
Devils could 
quickly get fed to the wolves. 
	"They've got to learn not to be new 
players awfully 
quick," said Head Coach Bruce Snyder, who is 
entering his 
fourth season. "I'm really anxious to see it. 
I'm not fearful of 
it."
	There will be several ASU players who 
will be 
immediately tested: freshman center Grey 
Ruegamer, who 
was thrust into the role after Kirk Robertson 
sprained his 
knee; redshirt-freshman Mitchell Freedman, 
who won the 
strong safety job during camp; junior 
transfer Isaiah Mustafa, 
who has stepped into the starting wide-
receiver role opposite 
junior Keith Poole; and the linebacking corps 
of freshman 
Larry Johnson, sixth-year senior Justin 
Dragoo, juniors Scott 
Von der Ahe and Derek Smith and sophomore Pat 
Tillman.   
	"What I'm most concerned about is we're 
starting a 
freshman at center," Snyder said. 
	In the team's 1994 meeting, the Huskies 
manhandled 
ASU to the tune of 35-14. The Huskies led ASU 
35-0 early in 
the fourth quarter. ASU quarterback Jake 
Plummer, who is an 
All-American candidate this year, had his 
second lowest 
passing day of the 1994 season, completing 
only eight passes 
for 90 yards and throwing three 
interceptions. By contrast, 
Husky quarterback Damon Huard had one of the 
best 
outings of his career, connecting on three 
touchdowns en 
route to 268 yards passing.
	"It's awfully nice for a head coach to 
have a returning 
senior quarterback in this conference," 
Washington Coach Jim 
Lambright said. "Damon brings us all the 
lessons of having 
been a starter for the last couple of years."
	Junior free safety Lawyer Milloy, who 
led the Huskies 
in tackles last year with 106, will return to 
anchor the 
secondary. At the Pac-10 conference's annual 
football media 
day last month, Milloy said one of his goals 
this season was 
to "make three hits that caused television 
timeouts."
	That comment didn't go over well with 
Hopkins.  
	"Lawyer Milloy is a joke," Hopkins said. 
"He's all into 
this 'let's be outlandish' thing. But you 
don't intimidate in 
black and white. You intimidate on the 
field."
	Added Hopkins: "I have yet to see Lawyer 
Milloy 
make a tackle head on. He's always jumping on 
somebody's 
back or pushing them out of bounds."
	Washington, which is always strong at 
home, has won 
its past nine home openers. The last team to 
defeat the 
Huskies in an opener at Husky Stadium was 
16th-ranked 
Oklahoma State in 1985. Snyder said dealing 
with the 
raucous crowd, which is well-known for 
taunting opposing 
offenses, may be half the battle. 
	"I think they've done a nice job of 
matching their 
defense with their crowd," he said. "Their 
defense is probably 
quicker than our offense will be. It will be 
interesting to see if 
we can match that."
	The Huskies, who will be sporting new 
purple helmets 
and white shoes, are off NCAA probation and 
will have their 
first shot at going to a bowl game in two 
years.
	"It truly is a nice feeling to have 
sunshine and get 
away from all the questions and the stigma," 
Lambright said.
	Aside from not giving up the big play, 
Snyder said he 
wants the Sun Devils to make the Huskies work 
for 
everything they get.
	"If we keep making them earn everything, 
then I think 
it's going to be a fourth quarter game," he said.

ASU's Repak likes running for his life

Runner learned from last year's late 'death'

By Dustin Krugel
State Press
	Cross country runner Matt Repak learned 
an 
important lesson his first year at ASU: 
Taking an early lead in 
a race isn't as important as finishing 
strong.
	Repak, the top returning cross country 
runner from 
last year's men's squad, will never forget 
his meeting at the 
Pac-10 championships in 1993 with Kenyan 
Josephat 
Kapcory, the eventual winner of the race and 
the NCAA 
cross country champion from Washington State.
	"I was in the front of the eventual 
national champion," 
said Repak, a justice studies major. "We came 
through the 
mile mark together at the Pac-10 cross 
country, and then I 
died."
	After his collapse, Repak began 
rethinking his strategy 
and grew as a runner.
	"I was lacking in, more or less, 
patience," he said. "In 
the past, I've always been a good runner. 
Nowadays, I want 
to be in the front in the end rather than the 
beginning."
	"He was a freshman and he wasn't mature 
enough or 
physically ready to handle that kind of 
pace," said cross 
country coach Ken Lehman. "I think he's 
figured out his 
capabilities and his limitations. Starting 
out maybe a little 
slower is going to make him finish a lot 
higher."
	The transformation from a bewildered 
freshman from 
Apollo High School in Glendale to ASU's top 
finisher in four 
out of six invitationals last year does not 
surprise Lehman.
	"He was a good high school runner, I 
thought, and he 
has good running form," Lehman said. "He's a 
very good 
person, very dedicated runner. I just thought 
eventually he'd 
make a good distance runner.
	"If you're that good of a high school 
runner, it's kind of 
tough sometimes when you leave high school 
where you can 
go out and set the pace running with the 
front people and it's 
not a problem." 
	To stay in top condition Repak said he 
trains for two 
or three hours a day and runs between 80 to 
85 miles a week.  
	Lehman was particularly impressed with 
the shape 
Repak was in after the long summer.
	"He's improved every year," Lehman said. 
"I think the 
biggest thing is his putting in summer miles, 
a lot of miles."
	Repak said he has cut about 18 seconds 
off his runs 
from last year.
	"I'm running faster and exerting less 
effort," he said. 
	The only drawback of Repak's success is 
his not-so-
lively social life.
	What does it take to be a great runner?
	"Not too much partying," Repak said. 
"Lots of times I 
find myself, Friday night, running because I 
have nothing 
else to do, except maybe running. It's hard 
to find someone to 
run with because everyone's out and I'm not."

ASU police reported the following incidents 
Thursday:
* A man not affiliated with ASU was contacted 
on Cady Mall 
while he was displaying items for sale. He 
was advised of 
ASU policy and left the area.
* Two cars were stolen from Lot 59. One was a 
green 1995 
Toyota 4x4 pickup valued at $18,000. The 
other was a gray 
1989 Chrysler LeBaron valued at $4,065.
* Five bikes were reported stolen. 
Tempe police reported the following incidents 
Thursday:
* A 26-year-old man was arrested for forgery 
after he 
attempted to pass a forged check at Rollins 
Market. Police 
found numerous blank checks in the residence. 
A 29-year-old 
woman was also arrested after police found 
equipment used 
for making fake checks.
* A 23-year-old man was arrested for giving 
false information 
at the Arizona Drivers License Department, 
2500 W. 
Broadway Drive, after he attempted to get an 
Arizona ID 
card using another person's birth 
certificate. 
Compiled by State Press reporter Greg Zemeida

	The Today Section is a daily calendar of 
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working days before publication. Only one 
entry per 
organization per day is permitted.

* Delta Sigma Pi - Cocktail party inside the 
Monster Bar. 5 
p.m.; Radison Tempe Mission Palms Hotel. 
* American Indian Institute - Fall welcome 
reception and 
Blessing Ceremony. 9 a.m.; American Indian 
Institute in the 
Engineering Center Annex. 
* Baptist Student Union - Be a part of a fun-
filled night of 
volleyball. 7 p.m.; BSU.

Sunday:
* Dance Department - Ballroom and Latin dance 
workshop. 
Argentine tango and salsa lessons with 
practice. 4 p.m.; MU 
Arizona Ballroom.