Transit cuts mean higher Tempe bus fares, official says

By Angela Mull
State Press
	Proposed federal budget cuts for 
transportation 
programs could cost Phoenix more money than 
Tempe, but 
Tempe citizens could still feel the effects 
in a bus fare 
increase, a city official said at a city 
council meeting 
Thursday.
	Mary O'Connor, city transportation 
planner, told the 
city council a higher bus fare for Tempe is 
likely because if 
Phoenix loses federal funding, Tempe may have 
to 
compensate for bus service serving both 
cities.
	"It depends on what options there are 
for service cuts 
and streamlining services," she said. 
	Congress proposed about a $400 million 
cut in federal 
operating subsidies for mass transit. If 
Congress passes the 
proposal in September, Phoenix will lose $1.5 
million in 
transit funds for fiscal 1995-96. Tempe would 
lose about 
$28,000. 
	Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano agreed that 
Tempe would 
be affected by Phoenix's budget cut.
	"The lion's share of the reduction is to 
Phoenix, but 
that has a ripple effect on us, so we do need 
to be concerned," 
he said. 
	However, O'Connor said the city has 
already budgeted 
for such a loss. In addition, the city is 
working on a proposal 
for a transit sales tax. If the council 
approves it, the current 
sales tax of 6.95 percent could increase by 
as much as .05 
percent. A .05 percent increase would also 
increase the 
Tempe sales tax of 1.2 percent. 
	Tempe could also compensate for budget 
cuts by 
requesting money from the city's general 
fund, O'Connor 
said. 
	In other business, the council discussed 
plans to paint 
the Old Mill Avenue Bridge. Although the 
bridge is 
scheduled to be cleaned and painted by Nov. 
15, council 
members expressed concern about painting an 
historic 
landmark.
	"We would like the bridge to retain as 
much of an 
historic nature as possible," Giuliano said. 
"We don't want it 
to look like a brand new bridge."
	Howard Hargis, assistant city engineer, 
said the city 
can choose the paint color.
	"It's not going to look new," he said. 
"I guess it's a 
matter of opinion whether it's going to look 
bad or not."

Hip-hop finds 'Strength in Numbers'

By Brian Anderson
State Press
	Are you wacked?
	If so, don't even think about calling 
Brian Halloran.
	Halloran, a 19-year-old sophomore 
business major, is  
president of a new hip-hop student 
organization launched to 
promote music and trends in what is still an 
underground 
lifestyle.
	The four-member Strength In Numbers 
formed this 
week as an outlet for people yearning to feel 
the beat of the 
hip-hop culture.
	Halloran said it is exactly that, a 
culture.
	"When most people think of hip-hop, they 
think of 
rap," he said. "Hip-hop is a culture where 
rap is a profession."
	He added that there are several 
categories which 
define this lifestyle, one of which is 
graffiti.
	"Originally, graffiti was the visual 
impression of what 
hip-hop music is," he said. "Instead of an 
emcee, who would 
say what he feels on a mic, a graffiti artist 
says what he feels 
in a colorful piece."
	Steve Lee, a 21-year-old junior child 
development and 
family studies major, said he hopes the group 
can bolster the 
popularity of the hip-hop culture.
	"I want to expand the idea of hip-hop," 
he said. "I 
basically want to educate the people so they 
know about hip-
hop. There's groups out there that people 
don't even know 
about."
	John Munoz, a 25-year-old junior art 
major, said he 
wants SIN to establish itself as a culturally 
diverse group.
	"A lot of people have to see that we're 
diversified," he 
said. "It doesn't matter what color you are. 
(SIN) incorporates 
a lot of people, but I don't think people 
really know that."
	The group is open to both men and women 
of all races, 
Halloran added.
	"When we look at an application, we're 
color blind," he 
said. "The first thing we see about an 
applicant is the 
application. We can't distinguish what color 
someone is with 
the application." 
	Starting Monday, anyone interested in 
the group can 
pick up an application at the R.E.A.C.H. 
office on the third 
floor of the Memorial Union.

ASU educators blast Dole's push for official English

By David J. Kovacs
State Press
	Republican presidential candidate Robert 
Dole's recent 
attack on bilingual education in his English-
only campaign is 
drawing fire from ASU educators.
	According to an excerpt of his speech to 
the American 
Legion on Aug. 31, Dole said making English 
the nation's 
official language would help immigrant 
Americans adapt, 
allowing them equal access to opportunities.
	He said he favored school instruction in 
a foreign 
language only if it is for the teaching of 
English.
	However, Miriam Muniz, assistant 
professor of 
bilingual education at ASU West, said Dole's 
position fails to 
recognize that many students, even at the 
junior high level, 
are not proficient in their own language. For 
foreign students 
to learn in an English speaking class, they 
must first be 
literate in their own language, she said. 
	"Politicians do not understand how 
children learn," 
she said, adding that once students are 
proficient in their own 
language, their skills are easily 
transferable to an English-
speaking classroom.
	Muniz said the success story of the 
immigrant 
grandparents coming to America fails to 
mention the 
grandparents were already literate in their 
native language, 
which differs from the situation of many of 
today's foreign 
students.
	"The parents of these students were 
often illiterate 
themselves," she said. "It all boils down to 
one thing - if you 
already know how to read and write in your 
own language." 
	Muniz, who prepares student teachers for 
bilingual 
classes, said these courses teach students 
traditional subjects 
such as math and sciences in their native 
language while they 
also learn English.
	Frank Reyna, program coordinator for 
Dole's 
presidential campaign in Arizona, said Dole 
does not want to 
take away immigrant students' opportunities 
to learn by 
eliminating what he considers ineffectual 
programs.
	Reyna said current programs deter 
students from 
entering the English-speaking culture.
	"He's taking a positive approach that 
Americans and 
immigrants have an opportunity for 
assimilation, instead of 
having programs that are non-transitional," 
he said.
	However, the idea that immigrants do not 
want to 
enter the American culture is a commonly held 
misconception, said D. Letticia Galindo, a 
socio-linguist and 
assistant professor in the department of 
language and 
literature at ASU. He added that Dole's 
English-only policy is 
a form of immigrant bashing.
	"I think the politicians and others have 
a linguistic fear 
or rejection of anything foreign," Galindo 
said. "I think the 
whole thing's been blown out of proportion."

2 colleges prepare for Fall '96 move to ASU East

By Kelly Wendel
State Press
	The agribusiness and technology schools 
will be 
packing their bags in anticipation of a Fall 
'96 move to the 
new ASU East campus, located at the former 
Williams Air 
Force Base.
	The U.S. Air Force has begun to turn 
over 1.5 million 
square feet to ASU "at a cost of absolutely 
zero," said Chuck 
Backus, director of academic programs at ASU 
East. "We 
think that this is an unusually good tax 
break for the 
taxpayer."
	The former air base has more than 550 
homes and six 
dormitories that will be utilized by ASU for 
on-campus 
housing. The State Legislature allocated $1.5 
million to 
change other buildings into classrooms at the 
new campus. 
Backus said the location is "an exciting 
thing." 
	"We will be able to offer a big 
university education in a 
small-town setting," he said.
	Although there is some resistance to the 
move by 
faculty members, Dr. Eric Thor, director of 
the School of 
Agribusiness, said the move is beneficial to 
the University.
	"We all believe that this is by far the 
best move for 
Arizona State University, long term," he 
said. "You don't very 
often get a chance to have 600 acres at a 
brand-new campus 
practically given to you."
	However, some students are less than 
thrilled with the 
move.
	"I don't like it," said Brian Gray, a 
junior agribusiness 
major. "I have classes here on the main 
campus, and I work 
here, too. It's (ASU East) close to where I 
live, but I would like 
to stay on the main campus."
	Backus said ASU hopes to minimize the 
impact of the 
move by moving entire schools (agribusiness 
and technology) 
and making the necessary classes available to 
students at 
ASU East. 
	"We are hoping we don't have people 
going back and 
forth between the east campus and the main 
campus," he 
said.
	Plans are also in the works for a 
shuttle service 
between the main campus and the new east 
campus.
	The ASU East Campus will offer both 
lower and upper 
division classes, including graduate programs 
in agribusiness 
and technology. A study is also currently 
underway to 
evaluate the potential of offering general 
studies classes at the 
new campus.  
	"We are planning to be able to offer, 
from day one, 
most of the courses out at the east campus," 
said Thor. "A 
person can actually live on the east campus 
and complete 
their degree on the east campus in 
agribusiness and the 
School of Technology."
	This increased space allows the 
agribusiness and 
technology schools to offer more programs of 
study. The 
University is also organizing a new 
professional golf 
management program in conjunction with the 
Professional 
Golf Association and new options in food and 
manufacturing 
programs.
	"Our needs (for space) exceed what we 
have here at 
the main campus," Thor said. Although 
architectural plans 
will not be finalized for another three 
weeks, Thor said the 
move to the east campus will "about double" 
the square 
footage currently available to the School of 
Agribusiness at 
the main campus.
	"This is an exciting opportunity for 
ASU," Thor said. 
"This will enable ASU to serve all of 
Maricopa County."

Editorial: Boos & Bravos

BRAVO - To Cal Ripken Jr., for playing in his 
2,131st 
consecutive baseball game Wednesday night, 
shattering Lou 
Gehrig's 56-year-old record. We'll never know 
how Ripken 
was able to play in every single game for 13 
years, but we are 
awed by his dependability.

BOO - To former LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman. 
Pleading 
the Fifth on the stand was the act of a 
coward, Mark. 
Suddenly the concept of the planted glove 
doesn't seem so 
far-fetched.
	O.J. is probably already planning his 
welcome home 
party.

BOORAVO - To Oregon Sen. Bob Packwood, who 
resigned 
his Senate seat yesterday. Packwood deserves 
a big BOO for 
his slimy track record of sexual harassment 
over the years. 
Senator or no, no one has the right to use 
power to sexually 
coerce another person.
	However, we acknowledge that Packwood 
deserves a 
BRAVO as well. At least he finally ended this 
charade and 
left the position of authority whose honor he 
had defiled.

BOO - To the French government, for their 
plans to resume 
nuclear testing in the South Pacific. Paris 
is committing no 
less than an act of international terrorism 
with this series of 
grossly unnecessary tests. By this time next 
year, much of the 
islands of the South Pacific will be covered 
in a fine blanket of 
fiercely radioactive fallout for no good 
reason. C'est la vie.

BRAVO - To Hillary Clinton and the attendees 
of the U.N. 
Conference on Women's Rights who protested 
against the 
oppressive Chinese regime. The fact that 
Beijing was chosen 
to host this conference is obscene. This is 
the country that 
forces women to get abortions if they have 
too many 
children. At least Mrs. Clinton and the other 
protesters 
weren't afraid to speak up about it.

BOO - To Arizona State University's recent 
policy of "stuff-
'em-and-ship-'em."
	Many students, who registered for majors 
with the 
impression that their courses would be on the 
ASU Main 
campus, are now being told by the University 
that they now 
must pick up and move to ASU East - at the 
former site of 
Williams Air Force Base.
	Moving classes to ASU East is a 
necessary step to 
alleviate class crowding. But make sure that 
students can get 
their degree at a single campus. If students 
want a degree, 
they should have the right to take all of the 
classes without 
shuttling every day between here and far-
flung campuses on 
the edges of the Valley.

BRAVO -  To the cancellation of early classes 
Wednesday 
morning in the wake of a power outage. Sure, 
we know we're 
not setting a great example by bravoing a 
missed chance at 
education. But let's face it - we all like 
having a little 
unexpected time off, and teachers only lost 
one day.

BOO - To the oppressive, unrelenting, 
unyielding blanket of 
humidity that has been covering the Valley 
for the past week. 
Humidity was something many of us moved here 
to escape. 
This has been the week of sticky shirts, 
soggy potato chips and stuck copy 
machines. You call this a dry heat?

Column: Point/Counterpoint - Kiddie-porn or just sign of the times?

Point
Liz Montalbano
Columnist
	There's been a whole lot of hullabaloo 
lately about two 
media events that involve American teenagers: 
Calvin Klein 
ads displaying pubescence in sexually 
provocative poses, and 
the release of director Larry Clark's 
controversial movie Kids. 
	The two have, at their core, an issue in 
common - an 
issue that, even in this day and age, many 
people still have 
difficulty discussing openly.
	It's teenage sexual behavior.
	By now, most of us have seen the ads: 
scantily clad 
teenage boys and girls in sultry poses 
advertising Calvin 
Klein merchandise. The ads are undeniably 
sexy; the models 
are probably not old enough to vote.
	And even if you haven't seen the movie 
Kids, you've 
certainly heard the hype. Larry Clark's 
cinema veritŽ spares 
no detail in portraying the sexual 
promiscuity of teenagers, 
particularly the habits of a male character 
named Telly who 
deflowers virgins - unknowingly and 
indiscriminately 
spreading the HIV virus at the same time.
	Last week, Calvin Klein announced he 
would pull the 
ads that have been denounced by some critics 
- among them 
The Catholic League, Morality in Media and 
Agudah Israel of 
America - as "kiddie porn."
	And since Kids was slapped with an NC-17 
rating, it 
prevents the very audience Clark's movie 
targets from being 
permitted to see it. Because of the heated 
controversy 
surrounding the flick, only certain theaters 
around the 
country will even allow it on their screens.
	Much ado about nothing? Well ... not 
exactly.
	In case no one has checked the latest 
statistics (or 
walked down the halls of a local high school 
recently) let me 
clue you in to a few obvious facts: Teenagers 
do know about 
sex, they are having sex, and sometimes, they 
forget to wear 
condoms or otherwise protect themselves from 
unwanted 
pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases.
	I looked up the most recent statistics I 
could find 
concerning teenagers and sexual behavior in 
the state of 
Arizona and in Maricopa County. In both 
instances, 
occurrences of births to teenage girls, 
reported cases of 
sexually transmitted diseases and diagnosed 
cases of HIV 
infection and AIDS among teenagers have risen 
between 1990 
and 1993.
	Though these statistics are not 
representative of the 
entire country, they are indicative of a 
behavioral trend - one 
that lands smack in the middle of our 
backyards.
	I wasn't terribly shocked at the results 
of my research. 
Then again, I'm only 23 years old, and can 
easily recall what 
it was like to attend high school.
	For those in the country who are a 
little older, or more 
conservative, and who may be in denial about 
any type of 
sexual behavior among teenagers, this may 
come as a bit of a 
surprise.
	Maybe Klein went a bit too far for shock 
value. 
Though I don't believe that placing teenage 
models in 
provocative poses makes Klein as a pedophile, 
I do think the 
ads were in bad taste, and that Klein have 
chosen a marketing 
ploy other than sex to sell his merchandise.
	And maybe, as some critics have argued, 
Clark's Kids 
overemphasizes teenage sexual promiscuity to 
drive his point 
home. Certainly all teenagers aren't 
misinformed or ignorant 
about the risks of unprotected sex (in one 
scene, a male 
character claims that AIDS doesn't even exist 
because he 
doesn't know anyone who died from it), and 
certainly many 
have pastimes other than those of the kids in 
the movie.
	But sweeping the dirt of teenage sex 
under the 
proverbial carpet is not going to make it 
disappear, and 
blaming the media and imposing censorship 
won't alleviate 
the problem, either. 
	Klein and Clark are not inspiring 
teenagers to have sex 
- instead, they are reflecting behavior 
indicative of much of 
today's youth. I, for one, think it's about 
time parents wake 
up and smell the spermicide.
	It's clear that many parents still have 
difficulty talking 
to their children about sex - I know this 
from personal 
experience, and almost anyone who was raised 
in a typically 
conservative, rural area of the country will 
probably agree 
with me. 
	But if parents won't teach their kids 
the facts about sex, 
who will?  
	Educators may seem a logical answer, but 
let's not 
forget that there are still Bible-thumpers 
who don't want their 
children to learn sex education in public 
schools.
 	Churches are not necessarily the best 
role models 
either. Many still preach blind abstinence 
without convincing 
results, especially since they fail to 
instill an appropriate 
sexual value system within the jaded minds of 
today's youth.
	So teenagers turn to each other for 
their codes on 
sexual behavior.
	The media reflects that behavior, and 
preys on teenage 
desires to give the kids what they want to 
see.
	It's a vicious circle, and I, for one, 
am not prepared to 
provide a solution to the problem.
	But until parents, educators and 
legislators can find a 
way to make sex safer - and more sacred - for 
their teenagers, 
they should not be so quick to cast the first 
stone at the 
media.

Liz Montalbano is an M.F.A. student studying 
creative 
writing


Counter Point
Delia Maldonado
Columnist
	It has been proven time and time again 
that exposing 
children to violence increases violent 
behavior. So doesn't it 
stand to reason that exposing children to 
sexy pictures of 
other children will pique their interest 
about their sexuality? 
Yes, obviously it does, and this is exactly 
what the Calvin 
Klein bus ads did. 
	The pictures, which feature half-dressed 
teens set in 
what appears to be a cheaply paneled hotel 
room with shag 
carpeting and stark lighting, were, according 
to Klein, meant 
to enforce positive messages of the spirit, 
independence and 
inner worth of today's young people. In 
reality, they were 
immoral, seedy, degrading and insulting. 
Pulling them was 
the right thing to do, but only because the 
designer should 
never have been allowed to run the ads in the 
first place.
	The ads aren't just offensive and rude, 
they are socially 
destructive. The fact that Klein has 
prospered while 
exploiting sexual deviance is a sign that we 
as a culture are in 
serious trouble. 
	Children today are surrounded by 
negative imagery. 
Sex and violence have permeated our society 
through 
movies, television and even video games. This 
may be in 
answer to the demand for such products, but 
as adults we 
have to take some responsibility for the 
products young 
people can access. 
	Klein has, over the years, been allowed 
to slowly 
invade our sense of decency without any 
negative 
repercussions. Starting with the Brooke 
Shields' commercials, 
in which she professes, "Nothing comes 
between me and my 
Calvins," and leading to the topless, almost 
anorexic, Kate 
Moss spread across the tops of buildings in 
Times Square. 
Klein is dictating the increase in tolerance 
and disguising it as 
progress. 
	The most recent pictures of children in 
sexually 
alluring positions were plastered on the 
sides of buses which 
then passed children in playgrounds and 
children on their 
way to school. They didn't even have a choice 
in the matter. 
Feeding these sleazy portraits to our young 
people is not 
progress, it's coercion. 
	The ads are a culmination of a campaign 
aimed to 
shock and offend. It's time for consumers to 
show advertisers 
that they have to take responsibility for the 
forces they 
encourage in a culture that is increasingly 
on the edge.
	Some might argue that kiddie porn 
already exists and 
is available at any magazine rack. There are 
14-year-old super 
models who pose in bikinis on the covers of 
major fashion 
magazines every month -so what's the 
difference? 
	To be honest,there isn't any. The reason 
child welfare 
advocates don't go after the magazines that 
exploit these 
young models is because they can't. The 
fashion industry is 
so saturated with teenage girls that to 
eliminate them would 
be to wipe out the industry. Regulating them 
is impossible 
because regardless of what they advocate, 
fashion magazines 
are protected under the law just like any 
other media outlet.
	Calvin Klein doesn't have to worry about 
the law. He 
can serve up sexually explicit images 
disguised as art as long 
as he wants or until we, as consumers, say, 
"No, you can't do 
that - not with our children." 
	Eventually Klein pulled the so-called 
"kiddie-porn" 
ads himself and ran a full-page ad in the New 
York Times 
explaining his decision. In doing so, Klein 
may appear to 
have egg on his face, but advertising gurus 
would hardly call 
this a disaster.
	"It's my conjecture that (Klein) 
accomplished just what 
he set out to do," said Marian Salzman, 
director of emerging 
media and consumer insight for Chiat/Day 
advertising in 
New York. "In fact, I think this is one of 
the great marketing 
stories of this decade. Am I personally 
offended by this 
campaign? Yes. But they have taken this 
clothing and put it 
on the market and on the map."
	In the world of fashion magazines, 
teenagers are used 
to promote sexy clothes, perfume, cars, soap, 
jewelry, make-
up and just about everything else as long as 
they look like 
adults. This is a fact of life that is not 
likely to change any 
time in the near future. But when the teens 
look like teens, it's 
a completely different matter. 
	The Calvin Klein ads blatantly advocated 
sexual 
activity among or with teenagers and for this 
he should be 
boycotted.
	I understand that some teenagers are 
going to have sex 
before they are ready regardless of what is 
advertised on the 
sides of buses but, like any social disease, 
it can't be ignored. 
We have the power to nurse our society back 
to health. We 
can do this by promoting the positive and 
fighting the 
negative. We have to do this because if we 
don't, we will die. 

Delia Maldonado is a graduate student 
studying journalism.

Column: Whatever happened to the real MTV?

Steve Forsberg
Columnist
	Something incredible happened to me last 
night. 
	I swear that it is absolutely true. I 
was flipping 
through the cable channels and landed on 29, 
MTV. And 
there, much to my astonishment, a music video 
was playing! 
Not news, not cartoons, not a stupid show 
about kids sharing 
a house, or an even more stupid show about 
kids sharing an 
RV. 
	They were showing a music video! You 
know, where a 
group performs a song in front of a camera. 
	Of course within five minutes they were 
running a 
dating game show, which was to be followed by 
a 
documentary about sex or religion or whatever 
other 
nonmusical subject they could dream up.
	If I sound bitter it is probably because 
I am old enough 
to remember when there was still a glimmer of 
hope - a no-
frills, no-nonsense, non-corporate music 
channel is what we 
were looking for. And now what we've got, to 
put it bluntly, 
is sanctimonious, hypocritical crap.
	A few years back, MTV ran an ad campaign 
bragging 
about showing 1,000 videos a week. Suppose an 
average 
video lasts four minutes, and that you 
followed it with two 30 
second commercials. If MTV did that they 
could show more 
than 2,000 videos per week. 
	One is left with the impression that 
half their time is 
spent on something other than music videos, 
and watching 
for a while confirms it. Did you miss Beauty 
and the Beach 
the first 90 times it was shown? Well, with 
luck, it will 
probably be on again tonight. 
	Even worse is the blatant hypocrisy. For 
example, 
MTV states that it is strongly opposed to 
censorship, yet for 
some strange reason the lyrics you hear on 
MTV are not what 
you hear when you buy a CD. 
	For instance, Tom Petty's song sounds 
like "Let's get to 
the point - Let's role another Jhmhmhm." On 
the CD those 
lines actually rhyme. Perhaps MTV is just 
living up to its own 
(intermittent) anti-drug policies.  
	A more striking example is a love song 
by a black 
artist who in the song is worried that his 
girlfriends father 
will see him as "just another nigger from the 
streets." The 
song was tasteful, and that particular line 
was the crux of the 
song, revealing as it did how he feared that 
the label "nigger" 
could cost him the love of his life. Don't 
bother listening for 
that line while watching MTV. Without it the 
song ends up 
sounding like a joke without a punch line.
	Then there is a song that says: "I want 
to f-k you like 
an animal." Somehow the MTV censors were left 
the distinct 
sounds of the first and last consonants for 
everyone to hear.
	Of course, MTV, which denies that the 
videos shown 
influence kids, refuses to show violent rap 
videos because, 
well, kids might emulate them.  Sex, however, 
is OK, even if 
the documentaries that MTV airs do say that 
abstinence is 
best.
	MTV video jockey Kennedy once explained 
that she 
was hired after sending in tapes of herself 
on the radio, but 
that she had to stop by and see her 
prospective boss, who had 
to make certain she wasn't a "fat pig." so, 
anorexia is 
apparently OK, but the opposite is not.  
	The point is that MTV tries to appear as 
though it is 
different than network news. It's not.
	MTV likes people to notice that on its 
Singled Out 
program there is no overt race discrimination 
- a Caucasian 
may hook up with an Asian or a Latino with an 
African- 
American. Yet there seems to be another 
rather severe kind of 
discrimination.  People who are overweight, 
or just darn 
ugly, never seem to show up. 
	In all my years of watching The Grind 
dance show - 
albeit only 20 seconds at a time while I am 
flipping stations -  
I have never seen a downright "fat" or "ugly" 
woman on the 
show although there appears to be more leeway 
given to 
guys. But isn't that just the kind of thing 
that MTV, with its 
goody-goody-two shoes public front, is 
supposedly fighting 
against?
	I want my, I want my, I want my Music 
Television. 
Not the corporate, bland, baloney-spewing 
stuff we've been 
hearing, but the real thing.

Steve Forsberg is a senior studying history.

No. 18 ASU volleyball team to invade Texas

By Dawn Wagner
State Press
	When the ASU volleyball team travels to 
Lubbock, 
Texas this weekend for the Sheraton Inn 
Classic, it will be 
aiming to add to its 3-0 record. 
	To do it, ASU coach Patti Snyder-Park 
said they will 
focus on improving their current weaknesess.
	"We definitely need to smooth out our 
offense," 
Snyder-Park said. "We need to make sure we 
have definite 
running plays and setting plays. But 
throughout the year, the 
offense is usually the last to gel."
	Freshman outside hitter Jen Lucero said 
the only 
concern the Sun Devils have in competition is 
the lack of 
experience playing together.
	However, she still isn't worried.
	"We may be young, but we are athletic," 
Lucero said. 
"In all areas we'll do good. We got better 
every game last 
weekend. I think we have put together an 
awesome team."
 	The Classic, hosted by Texas Tech 
University, will pit 
the Red Raiders, Eastern Michigan and 
Arkansas State 
against the No. 18 Sun Devils.
	Texas Tech. is 2-1 after competing in 
the Doubletree 
Classic in Tucson last weekend. The Red 
Raiders are led by 
Jill Slapper and Brande Brown, who both have 
25 kills this 
season.
	Last year, ASU defeated Texas Tech. 3-1 
in the 
Hilton/Sun Devil Challenge.
	 Sun Devil outside hitter Christine 
Garner, who has 
posted 41 kills so far this year, is expected 
to combat the two 
threats.
	Garner and senior middle blocker Holly 
Sones have 
been two key players on the court for ASU 
this season, 
freshman Jolynn Faatulu said.	
 	"She's (Garner) a leader. She and Holly 
both," Faatulu 
said. "They've both been doing a really good 
job. They are 
both a really positive influence on us."
	Snyder-Park added that ASU's defensive 
play is right 
where she likes it.
	"Overall, I am impressed with the team's 
defense," she 
said. "We're looking to get a few more blocks 
and better 
serves. We're still ironing out some small 
details."
	This weekend will also mark the first 
time the Sun 
Devils will play both Eastern Michigan and 
Arkansas State. 
	The Eagles have yet to compete this 
season and the 
Lady Indians are undefeated at 4-0.

Sun Devils want to bury Miners

By Dan Miller
State Press
	They haven't beaten ASU in Tempe since 
1974. They 
have won only 12 games since 1990. They were 
thumped 45-
17 by New Mexico State last week and their 
quarterback 
situation is shaky at best.
	Needless to say, the UTEP Miners are not 
bastions of 
confidence heading into Saturday's game with 
ASU at 7 p.m. 
at Sun Devil Stadium.
	But the Sun Devils, who are well over a 
three-
touchdown favorite to win and are still 
perturbed over a 
bitter defeat in Seattle last week, aren't 
taking anything for 
granted, said Head Coach Bruce Snyder.
 	"They've got to show up. They can't do 
what they did 
at Washington," he said of the Sun Devils (0-
1, 0-1 in the Pac-
10), who swallowed a 23-20 loss to the 
Huskies in their 
season opener. "We weren't nearly physical 
enough and we 
didn't hustle enough (last week). So for us 
to be as good as 
we want to be, we better start now."
	With national powerhouses Nebraska and 
USC still on 
the September slate, now might be as good a 
time as any for 
ASU to step it up. Besides, Snyder said 
letting down against 
the Miners is not an option.
	"I will not allow them to do that," he 
said. "...They're 
going to count this game every bit as (much 
as) the Nebraska 
game when it comes to selecting a bowl so 
this is really 
important. 
	"And we have to establish that this is a 
really hard 
place to play. We've got to start that now no 
matter who 
comes in here."
	The Sun Devils will have history on 
their side. They 
have won six straight against the Miners and 
23 of the last 24 
games in the series dating back to 1957.
	UTEP, which was 3 of 13 on third-down 
conversions 
against the Aggies last week, used two 
quarterbacks, who 
combined to throw three interceptions. 
Redshirt-freshman 
starter John Rayborn and junior back-up 
Leonard Lilja, both 
of whom lack significant game experience, 
will be the signal-
callers. 
	A preseason excerpt from UTEP's media 
guide states 
Coach Charlie Bailey "could be as busy as a 
one-armed traffic 
cop at a nudist colony open house going over 
details for his 
passing game."
	Due to a suspect passing attack, Miners' 
senior tailback 
Toraino Singleton may have to assume the bulk 
of the 
offensive responsibility.	
	"He's a load," Snyder said of Singleton, 
who stands 6-
foot-3, 230 pounds. "I think that's where we 
better start to 
center our attention. But it's the play-
action pass that caused 
the 14 points in this last game. We're going 
to get that. 
They're going to fake it to him three or four 
times in the game 
and come back with the ball and try to hit 
the post (pattern) 
so we need to get that solved."
	Either way, Sun Devil junior quarterback 
Jake 
Plummer believes ASU is in control of its own 
destiny. 
	"They could play us strong or we could 
roll over," he 
said. "It's all up to us."
	NOTES:
	* Redshirt-freshman safety Mitchell 
Freedman, who 
has a thigh contusion and has seen limited 
practice, is 
questionable for Saturday. Snyder said 
Freedman has wanted 
to play in Sun Devil Stadium all his life and 
the staff will 
make a decision during pre-game warm-ups. "We 
want to be 
smart because he's got to play all season," 
he said.
 	* Senior left cornerback Lee Cole, who 
has been slowed 
with a hamstring injury, will start Saturday.
	* Senior right cornerback Marcus Soward, 
who is 
sufferring from a groin injury, will not 
dress, Snyder said. 
Sophomore Jason Simmons will get the starting 
call again.
	* Snyder said freshmen receivers Ricky 
Boyer and 
Lenzie Jackson could see as many as 15 to 20 
plays depending 
on ASU's formations. Freshman wideout Kenny 
Mitchell 
could see action, Snyder said. 
	* UTEP's 6-foot-3-inch freshman Michael 
Hicks, the 
starting left cornerback and anchor of the 
secondary, is 
injured and will not play. Rodney Ryan, a 5-8 
sophomore, 
will start in his place.  
	* ESPN was at the Sun Devils' practice 
Thursday 
filming a feature on junior receiver Keith 
Poole and his 
brother Marc, who is confined to a 
wheelchair. The date of 
airing has not been announced.
	* Snyder said over 50 players saw action 
last week and 
he will dress close to 70 on Saturday.

Runners get start at NAU

By Dustin Krugel
State Press
	The ASU men's and women's cross country 
teams 
won't have to travel too far for their first 
meet as they travel 
to the Northern Arizona Invitational in 
Flagstaff Saturday.
	The Sun Devils await a stiff test from 
NAU, which 
placed first overall in last year's 
invitational. The Sun Devil 
men placed second and the women captured 
fifth.
	"Were going to be running against the 
best," junior Ari 
Rodriguez said.
	One of the biggest challenges on 
Saturday will be 
fighting the high altitudes.
	"It's a little tough running at 6,000 or 
7,000 feet," Coach 
Ken Lehman said. "I'm sure it's going to 
effect us."
Sophomore Debbie Stieber said, "I don't want 
to really set any 
goals because Flagstaff is a lot different. 
You hear all the 
horror stories about Flagstaff." 
	The runners said they will treat this 
year's invitational 
more like a practice run.	
	"We just use it to warm up," Rodriguez 
said. "Nobody 
remembers what we did at the beginning of the 
year. They 
only remember what happens at the end of the 
year (Pac-10 
trials)."
	Last year, the Sun Devils thought they 
may have come 
out too strong, which eventually hurt them in 
the end.
	"We don't want to peak too early," 
Rodriguez said. 
"We came out real hungry (last year), but 
we've learned from 
our mistakes."
	For many of the runners, this will be 
their first 
competitive run since last spring.
	"I'm real anxious," said Rodriguez. "We 
haven't 
competed against anyone except ourselves. The 
whole 
summer we've been running endlessly. Now 
we're looking 
for payback. We want to show ourselves that 
it was worth it."
	Rodriguez edged Matt Repak with a time 
of 25 
minutes, 27 seconds for the men's top finish 
last year. 
Rodriguez and Repak will run with Andy 
Carusetta, John 
Tyrrell, Tom Weber, Travis Anderson and 
Christian Alevras 
this Saturday.
	"We have several guys that if they have 
the race that 
they're capable of, they should be right up 
there," said Repak, 
who placed first among Sun Devils in four out 
of six 
invitationals last year.
	Kirsten Stocker, Kim Barrett, Phaedra 
Kohlahaus and 
Deborah Stieber will make the trip for the 
women. Stocker 
finished last year's 5,000 meter race in 
22:36.
	"I'm looking forward to seeing how the 
girls do," 
Stieber said. "We've picked up the pace quite 
a bit. We kind 
of came into the season in not too good of 
shape, but our 
shape has just gotten a lot better."
	For many of the girls this will be their 
first collegiate 
meet.
	"I'm sure it's going to cause a lot of 
nervousness but I 
think that's where the more experienced girls 
come in," 
Stieber said. "Not only do you take on your 
own nervousness, 
you take on theirs as well to help them out.

ASU police reported the following incidents 
Thursday:
* Someone stole a female employee's vehicle 
from Parking 
Area 3. It was later recovered in Tucson by 
the Arizona 
Department of Public Safety. The vehicle was 
not driveable.
* A male student was contacted at his room in 
Palo Verde 
East after someone smelled marijuana in the 
room. He was 
advised of liquor and marijuana laws.
* Someone damaged a concrete trash can on 
Tyler Mall, just 
north of Matthews Center.
* Someone broke into a vending machine in the 
Engineering 
Research Center and stole $100.
* Two male students were involved in a non-
injury car/bike 
accident at Sixth Street and Packard Drive.
* A male student was contacted at the Art 
Building while 
skateboarding. He was advised of ASU policy 
and left the 
area.
* Someone broke into a male student's vehicle 
at 706 Alpha 
Drive and stole a CD changer, valued at $400.
* A female student reported receiving 
harassing phone calls 
in her Manzanita Hall room.
* A man not affiliated with ASU was arrested, 
cited and 
released for misconduct involving weapons at 
Parking 
Structure 4.
* Someone stole 125 CDs from a female 
student's room in the 
Sonora Center. They are valued at $1,875.
* A man not affiliated with ASU was arrested 
for trespassing 
at the Danforth Chapel.
* Two bikes were reported stolen.
Tempe police reported the following incidents 
Thursday:
* A 31-year-old man was found dead in his 
backyard from an 
apparent gunshot wound to the head. A handgun 
was found 
laying next to the man. Police said it was an 
apparent suicide, 
since the man had been suffering from an 
extended illness 
and there were no signs of foul play.
* A 32-year-old man was arrested for 
possession of marijuana 
and misconduct involving weapons after he was 
found to 
have a concealed handgun, two large knives 
and a small 
amount of what appeared to be marijuana. He 
was arrested at 
Clark Park, 1730 S. Roosevelt St., and was 
taken to the Tempe 
City Jail to be booked.
* A 24-year-old man was arrested by Chandler 
police on an 
outstanding warrant for failure to appear. He 
was turned 
over to Tempe Police and was booked into the 
Tempe City 
Jail.
Compiled by State Press reporter Greg Zemeida

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* African Student Association - General 
meeting. 6 p.m.; MU 
209.
* AIESEC - First general meeting. Everyone 
welcome to a 
unique way to learn about global 
perspectives. Stay with for 
happy hour. 4 p.m.; MU Yuma Room.
* Alcoholics Anonymous - Daily campus 
meeting. Noon to 
1:15 p.m.; Newman Center, Aquinas Hall in the 
basement.
* Alpha Phi Omega - National co-ed service 
fraternity. 
Volleyball and barbecue at Jaycee Park on 5th 
Street and 
Hardy. 6 p.m.; Jaycee Park.
* Asian Bible Fellowship - Bible study, 
fellowship, sharing 
and fun. 7 p.m.; MU Coconino Room.
* Baptist Student Union - Free food, fun and 
fellowship. 
Please join us. Noon; 1322 S. Mill Ave. 
* Baptist Student Union - Friday Fun Night 
with bowling. 7 
p.m.; BSU Center, 1322 S. Mill Ave.
* Farce Side Comedy - 12:40 p.m.; MU 
Programming Lounge. 
* Golden Key National Honor Society - Campus 
awareness 
table. Membership information and Kaplan test 
prep info. 9 
a.m. to 2 p.m.; Cady Mall.
* Hispanic Graduate Student Alliance - First 
general meeting. 
5 p.m.; MU Mojave Room.
* Lambda League - Retreat. Planning for 
academic year and 
reception. 1  p.m. retreat. 5 p.m. reception; 
MU Turquoise 
Room.
* NABO - Meeting: Discuss picnic for 4:30 
p.m. Saturday at 
Daily Park. Free food. 3:30 p.m.; AII 
Conference Room.
* Progression - (Gay, lesbian and bisexual 
graduate student 
network). Diner and meeting. 6 p.m.; MU 
Turquoise Room.

Saturday:
* Alpha Phi Omega - National co-ed service 
fraternity. Meet 
at MU Information Desk for a service project. 
8:30 a.m.
* ASU Student Foundation - Orientation. Meet 
members and 
eat free food. 4 p.m.; MU Alumni Lounge.