Mother of young AIDS icon to pass son's legacy to students

By Michelle Carson
Special to the State Press
	Jeanne White, AIDS activist and mother 
of AIDS 
victim Ryan White, will speak to ASU students 
tonight about 
what she learned during her son's struggle 
with the deadly 
virus in her presentation, "The Legacy of 
Ryan White."
	During her 7 p.m. presentation in the 
Memorial Union 
Cinema, she will provide information and 
education 
regarding the lethal disease, as well as the 
personal, family 
and community issues related to HIV and AIDS.
	Associated Students of ASU Activities 
Vice President 
Mark Wendell said White's appearance is vital 
to the 
University.
	"I want to get the message across that 
AIDS is still out 
there," Wendell said. "We (ASASU) need to 
take preventative 
measures in order to educate the campus about 
the threat of 
this disease."
	White is the founder of the Ryan White 
Foundation, a 
non-profit organization which seeks to 
educate teens and 
adolescents on the risks and the reality of 
HIV and AIDS.
	She is now traveling across the country, 
speaking to 
colleges about the memory of her son and how 
his impact is 
still felt today.
	Congress passed the Ryan White 
Comprehensive 
AIDS Resources Emergency Act (CARE) in 1990. 
Every year 
since, they have approved funding increases. 
This year, $663 
million was authorized for research and 
education programs.
	Ryan White's battle against bigotry and 
the virus itself 
began in 1985, when he was diagnosed with 
HIV. 
	A hemophiliac, Ryan contracted the 
disease through a 
routine blood transfusion. His illness took a 
back seat to the 
hatred and intolerance that surrounded him in 
his hometown 
of Kokomo, Ind. 
	He fought and won, a battle to attend 
public school in 
Kokomo. In doing so, he came to symbolize 
childhood 
victims of AIDS.
	When he was diagnosed at age 13, doctors 
gave him 
six months to live. He proved them wrong and 
lived  five 
more years before succumbing to the virus in 
April 1990 at 
the age of 18. 
	Throughout his five-year struggle with 
the virus, he 
served as a national spokesman for children 
with AIDS. He 
befriended celebrities and unknown victims 
alike.
	White does not want her son's legacy to 
die with him.
	She has dedicated herself to continuing 
Ryan's desire 
to change the world's perception of AIDS. 
White said the 
rapid increase of AIDS among young people 
today makes it 
clear her service to society cannot end.
	She has gone on tours promoting Ryan's 
autobiography, My Own Story, and has 
participated in 
hundreds of AIDS benefits and events.

Poet Baca finds strength in language despite odds

By Patty King
State Press
	While locked in a jail cell, Jimmy 
Santiago Baca found 
the key to a greater personal freedom - the 
gift of language.
	Baca, a nationally known poet who sold 
his first poem 
while in prison, will give a poetry reading 
in Phoenix  
Tuesday. His poetry centers around the 
nation's heritage and 
the changing face of American literature, he 
said.
	"Whatever is considered American 
heritage - from 
Quaker Oats to Corvettes - I've written about 
it at one time 
or another," he said.
	Baca will read original material at 7:30 
p.m. at North 
High School auditorium, 1101 E. Thomas Road. 
Admission  
is free.
	The event is sponsored by the Arizona 
Department of 
Juvenile Corrections/ASU Partnership Project, 
the Writer's 
Voice of the Scottsdale/Paradise Valley YMCA 
and The 
Center for Establishing Dialogue in Teaching 
and Learning 
in Tempe.
	The ADJC/ASU Partnership Project, a 
project within 
the College of Public Programs, offers 
support services for 
teenagers on parole from juvenile 
institutions such as GED 
preparation, job placement and parenting 
classes. The 
program works with about 300 teens a year 
from Central and 
South Phoenix.
	Baca grew up in southeastern New Mexico. 
He spent 
time in an orphanage as well as on the 
streets. In 1972 and 
1973, while being held at an Albuquerque 
county jail on 
drug charges, Baca said he began teaching 
himself to read 
and write, adding that he continued learning 
to read while 
serving time at the Arizona State Prison at 
Florence from 
1973 to 1978.
	During his stay at the Florence 
facility, he submitted 
three poems to Mother Jones magazine. The 
magazine 
purchased the poems for $100 each and later 
published 
them.
	"They said, 'Wow! What a genius!' and 
that was that," 
Baca joked.
	Andy Hall, the ASU coordinator of the 
ADJC/ASU 
Partnership Project, said the group wanted 
Baca to speak 
because he is currently one of the best known 
and admired 
poets in the country. 
	Hall said he hopes the youths in the 
program will be 
inspired by Baca's story and will recognize 
the value of 
language and education.
	"His discovery of language and the 
ability to write 
was what sort of pulled him out of suffering 
and chaos and 
gave him a reason for living," he said.
	Will Inman, a Tucson poet who published 
a local 
poetry magazine called New Kauri in the 
1980s, said Baca 
often writes about personal experiences such 
as growing up 
on the streets and living in an orphanage.
	"He can write with the greatest pathos 
and tragic 
vision without sounding sorry for himself," 
he said. "That's a 
great gift. He uses his personal experiences 
to show to 
people what human beings suffer, but he's not 
vaunting 
himself as a sufferer."
	Inman added that the core of Baca's 
vision is the 
ability to see greatness and human potential 
in individuals 
that society tends to ignore, such as the 
migrant field 
workers and prison inmates.
	"He doesn't glorify them, but he sees 
their strengths," 
he said.
	For this reason, Inman said he likes to 
think of Baca as 
the Chicano Walt Whitman.
	"I don't mean that he imitates Whitman," 
he said. "His 
vision (is) worthy of Whitman in terms of 
seeing the 
greatness in the individual 'small' 
Americans."
	Baca has written several books including 
the 
autobiography Working in the Dark: 
Reflections of a Poet of 
the Barrio (1992) and collections of poetry 
such as 
Immigrants in Our Own Land (1979), Black Mesa 
Poems 
(1989) and Martin and Meditations on the 
South Valley 
(1987).
	Baca has also won several awards, 
including the 1988 
American Book Award, the 1989 Hispanic 
Heritage Award 
for Literature and the 1993 Southwest Book 
Award.
	Hall said all people, including college 
students, can 
benefit from Baca's message.
	"Everyone can continue to increase their 
language 
skills and their writing skills," he said. 
"It's been very 
beneficial for him and it is for all of us."

Cards' games add to parking ails

By Timothy Tait
State Press
	Parking - at least for students- may be 
a nightmare for 
the Super Bowl if the Cardinals game Sunday 
is any kind of 
example. 
	"It's hell, absolute hell," said 
sophomore Troy 
Heidenreich, who works at the Campus Corner, 
in reference 
to Sunday's game.
	"We cannot even park to go to work," the 
math major 
said. "All of the public parking is reserved. 
I just ride my 
bike."
	Grand Canyon University student Chris 
French, who 
studies at ASU on the weekends, hopes to cash 
in on the lack 
of parking spots.
	French arrived extra early for 
yesterday's game in 
order to get a prime parking spot.
	"Hopefully, when it gets closer to game 
time, I'll be 
able to move my car and sell my spot," French 
said. "The 
students could really cash in."
	Parking spots at the Newman Center were 
going for 
$10, but French hoped to get $20.
	However, Parking and Transit Services 
Assistant 
Director Linda Riegel remains optimistic that 
ASU can 
handle the increased traffic.
	"Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami (the 
location of 1994 
Super Bowl) had the most parking of any of 
the previous 
Super Bowls," she said. "We have 75 percent 
of the parking 
that Joe Robbie had."
	Riegel said 7,500 parking spots for cars 
have been set 
aside for the Super Bowl thus far. Ideally, 
10,000 spots would 
be needed.
	"Every game is a practice for the Super 
Bowl," she 
said. "We are continually streamlining the 
process."
	Riegel said there would be additional 
delays due to 
the volume of traffic at the Super Bowl, but 
contended that 
ASU was able to deal with the influx.
	"The whole key will be patience," she 
said. 
	Detective Mark Allen with the Tempe 
Police 
Department believes that the traffic will not 
be intolerable.
	"It may be overcrowded, but not 
unbearable," Allen 
said. "Basically, if you don't need to be 
here during the Super 
Bowl, you probably shouldn't be."
	Riegel said the largest traffic problems 
will occur after 
the game when everyone wants to leave at 
once.
	"After a five to six-hour feed before 
the game, 
everyone will want to leave at the same 
time," she said.
	Parking and Transit Services will be 
adding more 
than 300 employees for the big game, most of 
who will be 
students. Riegel estimated that workers for 
the Super Bowl 
will make seven to eight dollars per hour.
	Riegel said there are spots for 1,000 
busses holding 
about 40,000 fans and the expected 700 
limousines. A 
helicopter pad will be set up on the second 
fairway of the 
Karsten Golf Course.
	"The Super Bowl will be like a circus 
with many 
unexpected things," she said. "If we keep our 
heads, it will be 
a great time for all."

Volunteer pairs foreign students with local families

By David J. Kovacs
State Press
	It's been a crazy couple of weeks for 
Joan Alf.
	As the coordinator of the International 
Friends 
Program, Alf is used to the long hours 
required each fall to 
pair almost 95 foreign students with their 
American hosts.
	Working with the University's 
International Student 
Office, Alf has been matchmaking families and 
students for 
28 years - for free.
	"I'm a pure volunteer," she said. "I do 
it because I love 
meeting people and learning about other 
cultures and having 
them learn about our lifestyle."
	Alf's volunteerism hasn't gone 
unrecognized.
	"What she does you wouldn't get paid 
enough to do," 
said Lloyd Brimhall, program coordinator at 
the University's 
International Student Office. "It takes the 
love of a volunteer." 
	Alf said she became interested in the 
program 28 years 
ago after seeing an article in the Tempe News 
Daily 
requesting host families.
	That year, Alf and her husband, Stan, 
hosted a young 
student from Algeria. Alf said she still 
receives cards from 
him.
	"When our kids were young, we wanted 
them to know 
that people all over the world were the 
same," Alf said.
	Two of Alf's grown children are now 
hosts themselves, 
she added.
	"Now it's the same with our 
grandchildren," Alf said.
	The Alf family has hosted students from 
Algeria, 
Germany, Kuwait, Norway and the Czech 
Republic.
	Students and their host family do not 
live together, but 
usually meet weekly and on holidays, Alf 
said.
	She said the students feel their 
differences from 
American culture, but being with families 
helps them feel less 
isolated.
	But there are often more similarities 
than differences, 
said Srilatha Kannan, a second-year graduate 
student from 
India studying at the School of Design.
	"Most of what you learn about other 
people's culture 
you learn from the media," Kannan said. "With 
the families, 
you get to see inside the culture and see how 
similar we are 
about such things as family values.
	"When you meet students, you have such a 
short time 
to spend (with them)," he said. "With the 
families you have 
personal friends. You get to see the other 
side of this culture."
	Exposure to American culture can have a 
lasting effect 
on some students, Alf said.
	Including their extended student family, 
Alf 
Thanksgivings can have as many as 30 people 
in attendance, 
she said.
	"One man from Pakistan told me, 'I'll 
never forget you 
because you introduced me to American 
football on 
Thanksgiving,'" Alf said.
	Alf has taken a few sabbaticals from the 
program, she 
said.
	"But I love it," she said. "I always 
come back."

Undergrad program trying to make grade

By Cody V. Aycock
State Press 
	ASU's undergraduate system is under 
scrutiny this 
semester to see if its services measure up.
	This fall marks the beginning of the 
University's first 
full year under the Hurwitz measures, a 
progress report 
designed to help officials maximize ASU's 
undergraduate 
programs.
	Adopted by the Arizona Board of Regents 
in 
September of 1994, the measures require the 
three Arizona 
universities to collect data on "crucial" 
areas of 
undergraduate development and present an 
annual report to 
the ABOR for review. 
	"It is a long-term effort to improve 
student success," 
said University Provost Milton Glick. "We are 
looking at the 
data of who succeeds and who doesn't succeed 
at ASU."
	Named after Regent Andrew Hurwitz, the 
measures 
track everything from the number of students 
who obtain 
necessary classes to how long it takes 
undergraduates to earn 
their degrees. Data is collected from a total 
of nine categories. 
	"(The measures) are meant to serve a 
purpose, and I 
think, in general, there are things we can 
work on," said 
Daniel Landers, ASU Faculty Senate president. 
	Landers said the faculty is 
"sympathetic" to making 
improvements in undergraduate education and 
is trying to 
become more involved with undergraduate 
campus 
programs, such as the Freshman Year 
Experience and 
freshman seminars. 
	Glick presented a partial progress 
report to the regents 
at the Aug. 25 meeting in Tucson. The 
evaluation covered the 
months between the adoption of the measures 
and the end of 
this summer.
	According to the report, the University 
showed 
improvement in seven of the nine areas 
studied. 
	One of the most improved categories was 
the ability 
for students to obtain necessary classes. The 
number of 
undergraduates who completed their general 
studies courses 
within 64 hours rose from 82 to 87 percent. 
	Another category with significant 
improvements was 
the provision of advanced technology in 
classrooms. The 
number of classrooms with audiovisual 
equipment rose from 
63 to 89 percent.
	"We invested over the last few years 
considerable 
dollars in adding and improving classroom 
audiovisual 
(equipment) and providing more computer 
workstations for 
the students," Glick said.
	However, student persistence and 
graduation rates 
slipped. The number of freshmen returning for 
a second year 
fell from 70 to 68 percent, and the 
percentage of freshmen 
graduating within six years also dropped from 
46 to 45 
percent.
	"We made a considerable investment in 
class 
availability," Glick said. "Anecdotally, we 
receive less 
concerns about that issue, substantially less 
than we have ... 
four years ago." 
	Glick added that although the Hurwitz 
measures focus 
on only undergraduate programs, the 
University is working 
to improve all areas of its curriculum. 
	"We can't overlook the fact that we have 
responsibilities to upper division and 
transfer students," he 
said. "So, our goal is to use our resources 
to optimize for everybody."

Editorial: No more Super Bowls

	Bill Bidwill is the villain of the 
Valley again. That, in 
itself, shouldn't come as a surprise.
	But what does come as a surprise is 
that, at least this 
time, we are forced to agree with the Arizona 
Cardinals 
owner.
	Bidwill announced this weekend that 
ASU's Sun Devil 
Stadium is a "bare bones" facility, 
inadequate for hosting 
another Super Bowl.
	When asked if he would assist in the 
impending lobby 
for Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002, Bidwill said 
that he wouldn't 
fight it, but neither would he be Arizona's 
advocate.
	Bidwill wants a domed stadium in the 
east Valley. He 
should get it.
	To put it bluntly, Bidwill is 100 
percent correct. Sun 
Devil Stadium is a decent facility - but it 
is not a Super 
Bowl-caliber facility. To say that it is in 
the NFL's elite is a 
feeble attempt at self-delusion.
	The Super Bowl is a full-force tourist 
invasion. Hosting 
it requires adequate parking, hotel space and 
traffic flow.
	Tempe has none of these.
	Sun Devil Stadium is a college football 
stadium. That 
is the purpose for which it was designed, and 
by those 
standards, it is one of the best in the 
country.
	A college stadium doesn't need as much 
parking as a 
NFL stadium, because many of the ticket-
holders are 
assumed to be students and faculty who live 
close to campus 
- people who already have parking spaces, or 
don't need 
them.
	A college stadium also can be open air, 
even in the 
hellish climate of the Valley in late summer 
and early fall. 
After all, college games are often played at 
night, and heat 
isn't such a problem then.
	Contrast that with the needs of the 
Super Bowl, or 
even of NFL games in general.
	The Super Bowl generates a tremendous 
amount of 
traffic, since virtually none of the ticket-
holders live or work 
near the stadium. That traffic must move 
smoothly through 
the area - therefore, the streets around the 
Super Bowl site 
should be equipped to handle very heavy 
traffic.
	Try coming to ASU on Cardinals' game 
day, and you'll 
quickly realize that Old Tempe was never 
meant to handle 
that kind of traffic. Our streets are choked 
with traffic for 
hours before and after the game. 
	Secondly, a Super Bowl stadium should 
have places 
for all of these cars to park within a 
reasonable distance of the 
stadium. The logic of that requirement almost 
goes without 
saying.
	Does Sun Devil Stadium have this? If it 
did, game 
patrons wouldn't be parking in residential 
streets up to a mile 
from the stadium. Do we expect our tourists 
to do this? Get 
real. Past stadiums that hosted the Super 
Bowl had a virtual 
sea of asphalt surrounding them. Parking was 
not a problem.
	Thirdly, NFL games are usually played in 
the 
afternoon, at least in the west. During 
football season, Sun 
Devil Stadium is an oven. It won't be during 
January, of 
course. But this problem cannot be denied 
during the regular 
season. We assumed that baseball patrons 
needed a domed 
stadium here - why not football fans?
	Face it, Phoenix. If you want to host a 
world-class 
event like the Super Bowl, you have to have a 
world-class 
facility. Sun Devil Stadium just isn't in 
that field.
	Either fork over the cash to build such 
a facility, as 
other cities have done, or quit trying to get 
another Super 
Bowl.
	And lay off Bill Bidwill. Truth is 
truth, no matter who is saying it.

Column: 'Addiction' renews faith in humanity

Anneliese M. Harper
Guest Columnist
	I have an addiction.
	I guess others would call it a fixation, 
but all I know is 
that it's out of hand. I'm willing to drive 
miles to get them. 
And their presence both obsesses and 
distresses me. Every 
Saturday I get rid of them and start to look 
for more.
	You see, I'm addicted to collecting 
aluminum cans.
	It all started about four years ago when 
I was working 
on my master's degree. We didn't get our 
first paycheck until 
the end of September even though school 
started in August. 
After books, tuition and rent, I was broke. I 
started walking to 
school to save gas. I used to cut through the 
parking lot of the 
recycling center where there was a sign that 
said they would 
pay money for these shiny pieces of metal I 
saw lying on the ground.
	It was like a dream come true. Everyday 
I picked up 
cans I encountered walking to and from 
school. At the end of 
that first week, I earned enough money to buy 
a gallon of milk.
	And I was ecstatic.
	I started to vary my route to get more 
cans. I'd wake 
up extra early on Saturday and Sunday 
mornings to check the 
parking lots or local bars. I even reached 
into garbage cans to 
feed my habit. 
	Needless to say, I didn't stop when that 
first paycheck 
came. There were times that year when I made 
nearly $10 in a 
week. Ten dollars in cans at 18 cents per pound.
	Nowadays, of course, they pay more and I 
need it less. 
Yet I still seek aluminum cans in the early 
morning hours of 
the weekend. I can't say I understand my 
compulsion, but I have learned from it.
	One of the things I've learned is that I 
would hate to 
collect cans for a living. I stopped reaching 
into garbage cans 
because I couldn't handle the looks of 
disgust that people 
threw my way. But you know, there are people 
who can't 
stop; people who must reach into the trash 
and pull chew-
spit filled cans from amidst the broken glass 
and spoiled half-
eaten pieces of food. They do it to have some 
control over 
their lives. And yet those judgmental glances 
wither the soul.
	I've also learned that people don't mind 
littering some 
of the most scenic roads in Arizona. You see, 
that's where I go 
every weekend to feed my habit. I know that 
Bud Light is the 
beer of choice for road trips. I know that 
people toss more 
than cans onto the roads. There are used 
diapers, beer bottles, 
garbage from the nearest fast food chain and 
hub caps. As I 
wandered along those trashy stretches, I've 
come to the 
conclusion that people with clean cars must 
be litterbugs.
	But you know, I've learned that good 
things can come 
of can collecting, too. Good-hearted people 
often stop when 
I'm out on those semi-deserted roads and ask 
if I need a lift. 
Not understanding that I have fixation for 
bright shiny pieces 
of metal that glitter on along the road, they 
assume that my 
car has stalled or that I've had a flat tire 
and they offer to 
help. They renew my conviction that there are 
good people in 
this world.
	In fact, this conviction was fortified 
just yesterday as I 
was standing in line waiting to be paid for 
the six pounds of 
cans I'd collected that morning. 
	Someone up ahead was taking his time 
signing the 
ticket, so I had time to notice a short woman 
with four small 
children as she wheeled a grocery cart filled 
with aluminum 
cans over to the scales. I listened as she 
disciplined her 
children in Spanish.
	I heard her tell the oldest that they 
were going to the 
damaged goods grocery store just up the 
street after they 
rang out. She was two people behind me, and, 
as I struggled 
with whether or not I might hand over my six-
pound ticket to 
her, the man directly behind me gave her his. 
I noticed that 
he had turned in over 20 pounds of cans. He 
only looked at 
her briefly. And in that moment I knew that 
the glance he 
gave hailed her efforts to make a life in a 
world of withering 
glances.
	All this served to renew my obsession 
with can 
collecting. I have found new impetus for 
those can collecting 
treks along those dusty desert roads. In my 
addiction I have 
both lost and found hope in humankind. Heaven 
help me if I am ever cured.

Anneliese M. Harper is a Ph.D. in 
communications studies

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Basking in quiet hypocrisy

	With your decision to advertise 
pornography in the 
State Press (9-7-95, Castle Boutique 
Superstores ad), you have 
forfeited the privilege of condemning 
violence against 
women.
	Pornography and violence walk hand-in-
hand. 
Evidence suggests that pornography nearly 
always influences 
criminal violence (Dobson, Life on the Edge, 
197). Oftentimes, 
porn inspires the acts that a perpetrator 
eventually commits 
against innocent women or children.
	The next time I read in your pages about 
how terrible 
violence is in our society - especially 
violence against 
women - I will wonder. Are you basking in 
quiet hypocrisy? 
Are you just paying lip service?
	Credibility - if you intend to maintain 
any at all, I 
suggest you choose your position immediately. 
Will you 
promote materials which provoke violence? 
Will you reject 
violence and environments which foster it?
	Or will you just pretend?

Casey Christopher
Doctoral student and T.A.
School of Music

Letter: Too many unanswered questions

	This is in response to the article 
(editorial) published 
on August 30, 1995 titled, "Colin Powell 
should be next 
president." 
	I agree with your definition of a 
leader, and we would 
all like to see the president of the most 
powerful country in 
the world fit into that framework. 
	I would also agree that Colin Powell is 
a very smart 
man. But does that automatically make him a 
good 
candidate for president?
	Do we know what he stands for? 
	Do we really know that much about him? 
	There are just too many questions to be 
answered 
before I can give someone the most 
influential job in the 
world.
	How can someone put Ronald Reagan in the 
same 
class as John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano 
Roosevelt and 
Dwight Eisenhower? Because of Reagan's 
"trickle-down" 
theory of economics - that didn't trickle 
down- we are faced 
with the biggest deficit ever. 
	Then Bush continued the same policy for 
eight more 
years. You can't fix a 16-year-old problem in 
four years; it's 
impossible.
	Everyone expected Clinton to be this 
"miracle-
worker" and cure all America's problems with 
the snap of his 
fingers. Sorry to burst your bubble, but that 
can't happen 
either.
	Desert Storm accomplished only two 
things: it kept 
Iraq out of Kuwait and proved that the U.S. 
is a military 
power. 
	But the leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, 
is still in 
control and Kuwait is no better off now than 
before Desert 
Storm. If Colin Powell is so influential, how 
come he couldn't 
convince Bush to go after Hussein? From what 
I remember, 
Powell wasn't the one the press and public 
loved so much. It 
was Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf.
	America does not need to be the biggest 
military and 
economic power in the world. It chooses to 
be. 
	We need a president that is going to 
take care of the 
people that elected him. We have too many 
problems on our 
own turf and we should take care of those 
first. If Clinton is 
not that person, I can accept that. But is 
Colin Powell the 
one? Is he a strong enough person to lead us 
into the next 
century? 
	He has the military experience, but I 
don't think he 
has the economic know-how to get us out of 
the hole and 
he'll end up a puppet for his political 
party.

Joshua L. Cole 
Junior 
Journalism

Sophomore Cox named tournament MVP

From Staff reports
	Senior outside hitter Christine Garner 
and senior 
middle blocker Holly Sones led the way for 
the 18th-ranked 
Sun Devils to sweep the competition this 
weekend at the 
Sheraton Inn Classic.
	ASU, which is now 6-0 on the regular 
season, defeated 
Eastern Michigan, Texas Tech. and Arkansas 
State, each three 
games to none. 
	Sophomore outside hitter Terri Cox was 
named the 
tournament MVP after a strong showing in both 
games. 
	Cox finished the weekend with 40 kills, 
28 digs and 
five blocks for the Sun Devils. 
	Other players named to the all-
tournament team were 
Arkansas State's Kolette Niemeyer, Texas 
Tech's Lacy Nye, 
Courtney Thames and Lisa Higlers. Both Garner 
and Sones 
were also named to the team.
	In Friday afternoon action, Cox helped 
power ASU to 
a 15-3, 15-12, 15-6 win over Eastern 
Michigan. She finished 
with 17 blocks.
	Also helping the Sun Devils along was 
Sones, who 
posted 10 kills, four digs and two blocks in 
the victory. Junior 
setter Tracy Heflin had 12 digs.
	 Jody Thompson, who had 10 kills, and 
Danielle 
Darland, who had 10 digs, led Eastern 
Michigan.
	In Saturday's action, Garner led ASU in 
the 15-7, 15-0, 
15-10 win over Arkansas State with 15 kills. 
Following Garner 
in kills were Terri Cox and Jenn Snyder, both 
with 10.
	Freshman Jolynn Faatulu, who was making 
her fourth 
ASU tournament start, had 12 digs.
	Arkansas State was led by Lauren Fair 
with 10 kills 
and four digs. Katherine Cordoza added 10 
digs for the Lady 
Indians.
	The Sun Devils ended the two-day 
tournament with a 
15-9, 15-13, 15-10 win over Texas Tech., the 
host school.
	Posting a team total of seven blocks, 
the Sun Devils 
added 55 kills and 51 digs to the mix. Garner 
led ASU with 17 
kills, while Cox followed close behind with 
13. 
	Texas Tech. had a team total of 39 
kills, 49 digs and 
three blocks.
	ASU now moves on to Pac-10 play on 
Wednesday 
when it travels to Tucson to face UofA.

Simmons shines against Miners; tailback race still close

ASU football notebook

By Dan Miller
State Press
	The turnstiles were busy in the ASU 
secondary 
Saturday as just about every defensive back 
who dressed saw 
playing time. Amidst all the platooning, 
sophomore right 
cornerback Jason Simmons delivered a standout 
performance.
	 Simmons assisted on three tackles, 
defensed three 
passes and snagged his first career 
interception late in the 
first half of ASU's 45-20 victory over UTEP.
  	 "The guy that played the best in the 
secondary was 
Jason," Head Coach Bruce Snyder said. "Jason 
had a really 
good game."
	Simmons, who said he didn't mind wearing 
the goat 
horns after biting on the game-winning trick 
play against 
Washington last week, wanted a chance to make 
amends.
  	"Last game I was focused up until that 
last play," said 
Simmons, a 5-foot-10, 182-pound. "I take full 
responsibility 
for what happened last week. So I came out 
and redeemed 
myself and showed my teammates that I have 
bounced back."
 	Simmons, who was projected as a back-up 
to senior 
Marcus Soward prior to the season, impressed 
coaches in 
training camp and won the starting job after 
Soward's camp 
was slowed due to a groin injury. He said he 
was determined 
to get his first pick.
	"I'd been waiting for it," Simmons said. 
"I had dropped 
the two before and I thought I wasn't going 
to get a chance, 
but I just stayed with it."
	Double-threat
	Snyder said there was no change in the 
back-up 
tailback status. Sophomores Michael Martin 
and Terry Battle, 
who both looked impressive Saturday, will 
remain co-holders 
of the No. 2 spot behind starter Chris 
Hopkins. 
	"I like both of them," Snyder said. "I 
still get the feeling 
that Terry has a better chance of breaking 
one out and going a 
long ways, but Michael I think is ahead of 
him right now in 
terms of the five (or) six-yard run. But it 
really depends on 
the situation. I think we'll keep them what I 
call 'slashed.' "
	
	Walking wounded: 
	* Redshirt freshman safety Mitchell 
Freedman, who 
was held out of Saturday's game, should be 
ready for the 
Nebraska game, Snyder said. Freedman is 
recovering from a 
deep thigh bruise. 	 
	* Junior offensive tackle Juan Roque, 
who limped out 
of the game Saturday, has an achilles strain 
and his practice 
will be limited this week.
	* Senior safety B.J. Alford, who made 
his first career 
start Saturday, has an shoulder sprain and 
practice will be 
limited.
	* Redshirt freshman linebacker Larry 
Johnson is 
limited with a hamstring.

Sun Devils' win leaves room to improve

By Dan Miller
State Press
	A 25-point victory doesn't always 
translate into "a job 
well done." Especially when a monumental test 
is less than a 
week away. 
	The ASU football team made significant 
strides in 
some areas during their 45-20 thrashing of 
UTEP Saturday, 
but Head Coach Bruce Snyder said for the 
majority of the 
game, the Sun Devils' play was mediocre at 
best.  
	 "We're still not quite as efficient as 
we need to be," 
said Snyder, whose team (1-1, 0-1 in the Pac-
10) faces 
defending national champion Nebraska Saturday 
in Lincoln. 
"Our assignment portion of our game was no 
better than it 
was a week ago. So in the effiency part, I 
didn't see any 
improvement. But we were more physical."
	Snyder said he was particularly pleased 
with the 
physical play of the offensive line, which 
cleared gaping 
holes in the Miners' defensive front, 
allowing an array of Sun 
Devil tailbacks to rack up 343 yards rushing.
	Senior tailback Chris Hopkins led all 
ball carriers with 
131 yards on 18 carries to go with one 
touchdown. Hopkins, 
who enjoyed his third career 100-yard game 
also compiled 
110 yards on kickoff returns, which was the 
fifth highest 
output in ASU history.  It was also the first 
night Hopkins or 
any ASU back rushed for more than 100 yards 
since Sept. 
1994, when Hopkins had 118 yards on 25 
carries.
	"The running back honestly has an easy 
job," said 
Hopkins, who attributed his outburst to the 
offensive line. "If 
you push everybody out of the way, why 
couldn't you run 
the ball? And that's what they were doing and 
I give a lot of 
credit to those guys. I didn't want to let 
those guys down. 
They have a hard enough job as it is. I have 
the star part. 
They don't get enough credit."
	Second-string tailbacks Michael Martin 
and Terry 
Battle, both sophomores, and third-string man 
Brian 
Singleton, a redshirt-freshman, may also owe 
the line a debt 
of gratitude as each enjoyed productive 
nights.  Both Martin 
and Battle carried eight times, gaining 58 
and 56 yards, 
respectively. Singleton gained 70 yards on 13 
carries during 
mop-up time. He also added a late fourth-
quarter 
touchdown, his first of his career.
	"I really don't mind handing the ball 
off," said junior 
quarterback Jake Plummer. "I don't get hit 
and I get to watch 
them run and it opens up the play-action pass 
for big plays 
and helps the passing game."
	 Plummer, who completed 12 of 24 passes 
for 191 
yards and four touchdowns, said he was 
disappointed with 
the passing game Saturday. He was particulary 
irked with his 
three interception throws.
	"I would rather throw no TDs and no 
interceptions," 
said Plummer, who already has six touchdown 
passes on the 
season and 30 in his career. "Giving the ball 
to the defense 
gives the offense a chance to score and 
against high quality 
teams, they will turn that interception into 
points.
	"Yeah it's great to throw four TDs, but 
it also says three 
interceptions next to that and that leaves a 
sour taste in my 
mouth."
	Two of Plummer's receiving targets found 
the end 
zone for the first time in their careers. 
Junior transfer Isaiah 
Mustafa caught touchdown passes of 19 and 13 
yards and 
freshman Ricky Boyer scored on a 53-yard 
rainbow to pace 
the Sun Devils, who were up 38-6 by the 2:23 
mark of the 
third quarter.
	Boyer, the fastest man on the team,  got 
a two-step 
advantage on his defender and played the 
waiting game.
	"I ran quite a ways and I didn't know if 
Jake was going 
to throw it and I didn't know if he got 
sacked. I couldn't see 
over the (defensive back)," Boyer recalled. 
"Luckily the ball 
went through the (defensive back's) hands and 
I caught it."
	Said Plummer: "We play-actioned them and 
he ran 
down the sideline and made a great catch. The 
guy almost 
tipped it. I was afraid I left it a little 
short."
	Mustafa, who drew more attention for his 
three 
dropped passes than his four receptions 
against Washington 
last week, said he wasn't concerned with 
making a statement.
	"I wasn't really worried about doing 
well tonight 
(Saturday). I just came to win," he said. "I 
just wanted to come 
in here and help the team out anyway I could. 
I'm not really 
concerned with personal stats." 
	 The Miners' starting quarterback John 
Rayborn 
completed only 9 of 25 passes for 78 yards. 
And when he 
missed, he missed badly. He frequently 
overthrew receivers 
by several yards and fired passes to nobody. 
Meanwhile, 
tailback Toraino Singleton, who is the 
backbone of UTEP's 
offense, gained only 28 yards in the first 
half. However he 
came on in the second, finishing with 22 
carries for 113 yards 
and two touchdowns.
	"They blitzed a lot and we had a hard 
time picking it 
up," Singleton said of ASU's defense. "Their 
defense wasn't 
what I thought it was, but they played hard."
	ASU piled up 580 yards of total offense 
to UTEP's 219.
	"They're a good football team," said 
Miners' Head 
Coach Charlie Bailey. "Snyder is in his 
fourth season and he is 
starting to get his personnel in place."

Hopkins credits teammates for huge game

By Damian Shaw
State Press
	After hearing of his 269 all-purpose-
yards 
performance during Saturday's 45-20 win over 
UTEP, Chris 
Hopkins' reaction wasn't humble or one of 
confidence. It was 
shock.
	"That's the first time I heard of it. My 
eyes kind of lit 
up on that one," Hopkins said. 
	Upon further reflection, however, 
Hopkins quickly 
deferred the praise. 
	"I guess it is (a good performance), but 
it's not like I 
didn't have any help, too," Hopkins said. "It 
helped out a lot 
that these guys believed in me enough to give 
me the 
blocking and I believed in them enough to 
follow."
	And follow he did. Hopkins ran up 131 
yards rushing, 
four short of his career high. He also 
returned kickoffs for 110 
yards, a substantial feat considering that 
UTEP only scored 
three times. Rounding out Hopkins' all-
purpose yards were 
two catches out of the backfield for 28 
yards. 
	Hopkins was still in awe of the gaping 
holes opened 
up by the Sun Devil offensive line.
	"My father could have walked through 
some of those 
holes," said Hopkins, who isn't one for 
sharing. "I'm glad he 
didn't, because I would have had to give some 
of those yards 
to him."
	Not all the yards went to Hopkins, 
though. ASU 
rushed for 343 yards on the ground against 
the Miners. ASU 
Coach Bruce Snyder said he was pleased with 
the running 
game in general and especially with Hopkins. 
	"One of our objectives coming into the 
game was to get 
our rushing attack going," said Snyder, who 
singled out 
Hopkins as having had an excellent game.
	Probably Hopkins' best contribution was 
on a drive in 
the third quarter, in which he carried seven 
times for 74 yards 
on an eight-play, 80-yard drive. He capped it 
off with a one-
yard dive for a touchdown.  
	Hopkins, who was following a 34-yard 
performance 
against Washington last week, felt it was 
time the ASU 
running game asserted itself. The entire Sun 
Devil offense 
was held to 66 yards rushing against the 
Huskies. 
	"We were raped of our running game last 
weekend. 
We wanted to make a point that we can run the 
ball," 
Hopkins said. "It's time for us to show our 
dominance in the 
running game. We're Pac-10 running backs and 
we need to 
start acting like it."
	Hopkins discounted any speculation that 
he needed a 
good performance to solidify his starting 
position at tailback. 
	"I go out there and I have fun. That's 
my main 
objective," he said. "I smile a little bit 
wider when I have a game like today."

Sun Devil divers hope to reach new heights

'Snipe hunting' among annual freshmen 
rituals; men look to 
repeat as conference champions

By Lisa Eskey
State Press
	Keeping with a 20-year tradition, 12 
members of the 
men's and women's diving teams drove up to 
Payson last 
weekend to get to know each other before the 
start of the 
season and to initiate the freshmen into the 
program.
	"We took the freshmen snipe hunting," 
said senior co-
captain Michelle Carter. "We told them about 
the snipe, a 
mythical, raccoon-like animal, and told them 
to sit in the 
middle of the forest, whistle and snap their 
fingers and don't 
come back until they catch one.
	"They were intrigued and went along with 
it for about 
20 minutes."
	Said freshman Todd Brenneman: "We were 
iffy on the 
situation, but we kind of knew what was going 
on. This 
weekend was a great chance to get to know our 
teammates."
	"This retreat  was a blast," added 
freshman Katrina 
Pfeuffer. "We all clicked, and now at 
practice, everybody 
cares how everybody else does."
	With that support, the men are ready to 
defend their 
1995 Pac-10 diving championship with senior 
John Milander, 
who is back after redshirting last year due 
to a shoulder 
injury.
	"We're much stronger this year and we 
have high 
hopes to win the Pac-10's again in 1996," 
Coach Ward 
O'Connell said.
	Also returning are sophomores Scott 
Lemke and Justin 
Eck, who placed third in the Pac-10 
Championships on the 
platform last season.  
	Freshmen Brenneman and Joel Berry are 
also joining 
the team.
	The women's team returns this year 
behind the 
leadership of co-captains Carter and Jennifer 
Cnota, who 
placed second in the NCAA semifinals last 
season and 
competed in the finals in Austin, Texas last 
March.
	"We didn't defend our Pac-10 
Championship from the 
year before, finishing in second place," said 
O'Connell.
	Also  returning is junior Katie Williams 
and freshmen 
Denise Boynton and Pfeuffer. Pfeuffer was a 
Junior National 
finalist in the platform last year.
	"She's our number one, true platform 
diver," said 
O'Connell.
 	Melissa Newman, a transfer from Central 
Washington, 
will also be among the new divers. During her 
freshman year, 
she earned silver medals in the 1-meter and 
3-meter 
springboard competitions at the NAIA National 
Championships.

Sun Devil runners taste Lumberjacks' dust

By Dustin Krugel
State Press
	ASU cross country runner Matt Repak 
chopped off 
almost one minute from last year's time at 
Saturday's 
Northern Arizona Invitational, but his 
efforts were wasted as 
the Sun Devils finished miles behind the 
leader.
	"We each saw what we were lacking in and 
now we 
know what we need to work on," said Repak, a 
junior. 
	The Lumberjacks pulled away from the 
competition by 
placing first overall in the men's and 
women's division, 
winning by 42 points in the men's and 59 
points in the 
women's competitions. Southern Utah edged ASU 
for second 
in the men's division, while Grand Canyon 
finished second in 
the women's field. The Sun Devils placed 
third in the men's 
division and sixth in the women's division..
	"(NAU's) got several guys who aren't in 
shape now, 
but later in the year, they'll be one of the 
better teams in the 
country," Repak said.
	Repak placed the highest on any Sun 
Devil with a 
ninth-place finish of 24 minutes and 39 
seconds in the 8,000-
meter race. Senior Kim Barrett was the 
ladies' top performer, 
placing 34th in the 5,000-meter race.
	Repak's actual time could have been 
better if he hadn't 
conserved so much of his energy.
	"I had too much left (when the race 
ended)," Repak 
said. "I had a lot of energy left at the end, 
but the race was 
over."
	Repak's time was almost one minute 
better than the 
time he ran last year (25.32) on the same 
course.
	"I felt smoother (than last year)," 
Repak said. "I didn't 
have to work too hard."
	Other top-20 finishes included sophomore 
John Tyrrell 
and senior Tom Weber, who placed 12th and 
17th, 
respectively. Ari Rodriguez (30th) and Travis 
Anderson 
(40th) also placed for the men.
	Kirsten Stocker (37th), Debbie Stieber 
(39th), Phaedra 
Kohlahaus (53th) and Angel Herreras (63th) 
were the other 
ASU finishers on the women's side.
	The Sun Devils will look to pick up the 
pace next week 
at the Aztec Invitational on Sept. 16 in San 
Diego.

"PICK IT AND WIN" CONTEST WINNER

	Senior business management major Brandon 
Jenkins 
was the Week Two winner of the State Press 
Sports "PICK IT 
AND WIN" contest for ASU football games.
	 Brandon picked ASU to defeat the UTEP 
Miners 34-
19. Since none of the contestants who entered 
correctly 
picked the exact score of ASU 45, UTEP 20, 
Brandon's 
prediction was determined to be the closest. 
Remember, the 
winner must correctly pick the winner and the 
final score of 
the game.
	Brandon won an ASU cap courtesy of The 
Cap Co. on 
6th St. and Mill Ave., an autographed Jake 
Plummer poster 
schedule courtesy of ASU athletics, a 
headshot in the State 
Press sports section and a bonus prize.
	* Jenkins on the game: "I was impressed. 
I don't know 
how good UTEP is though. (Chris) Hopkins 
played a great 
game and you can tell (Jake) Plummer is 
maturing. I saw him 
as a freshman and now he just looks more 
confident."
	* Jenkins on ASU vs. Nebraska Saturday: 
"I don't 
think they're going to win, but I think 
they'll keep it close. 
They may surprise some people."
	* Jenkins' season prediction: 7-4, 4th 
in the Pac-10, 
bowl bid.
	* Favorite Sun Devils: "I like Keith 
Poole and I like 
"Fright Night" (Mitchell Freedman). We were a 
little 
disappointed that he didn't play."    

	**Entries for this week's contest (ASU 
vs. Nebraska) 
are now being accepted.


ATTENTION ASU FOOTBALL FANS: IT'S WEEK THREE

	As a reminder, the State Press sports 
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sponsoring the weekly "PICK IT AND WIN" 
contest for ASU 
football games.
	To win, contestants must correctly 
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and final score of the ASU football games on 
Saturday. The 
Sun Devils' next game is Saturday at 11: 30 
a.m. against 
defending national champion Nebraska in 
Lincoln. 
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The Cap. Co. on 6th and Mill, an autographed 
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Monday's State Press sports section and a 
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ASU police reported the following incidents 
over the 
weekend:
* ASU police found a male student sleeping on 
the north side 
of Manzanita Hall. The student was told to go 
to his dorm 
room to sleep.
* A student's wallet was stolen from Sahuaro 
Hall. 
* A student was cited for driving with a 
suspended vehicle 
registration.
* A stereo, speakers and compact discs were 
stolen from a 
student's car in Lot 59. Estimated loss is 
$950.
* A student's white and gray Honda was stolen 
from Lot 63.
* A FLASH bus was damaged while it was parked 
in Lot 29. 
Estimated damage is $25.
* A student's ASU identification card, bank 
debit card and 
two keys were stolen when she left them on a 
counter in the 
Memorial Union Food Court.
* A male student was arrested for damaging a 
vehicle while 
it was parked in Lot 51 East. 
* A concrete trash container in Parking 
Structure 5 was 
damaged. Estimated damage is $500.
* Someone stole a candy machine from Best 
Hall. Estimated 
damage is $100.
* A student's wallet was stolen from her dorm 
room. 
Estimated loss is $113.
* A Cardinals football jersey and a wood 
plaque were stolen 
from a sky box at Sun Devil Stadium. 
Estimated loss is $175.
* A female student reported $30 was stolen 
from her room. 
* Four bikes were reported stolen.
* Two rear bike tires and one bike seat were 
reported stolen.
Compiled by Garin Groff of the State Press

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* 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. Rush 
information for those interesting in 
community service and 
making new friends. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Cady 
Mall.
* ASU College Republicans - General Meeting. 
Everyone 
welcome. 3:30 p.m.; MU Cochise Room.
* Best Buddies - Organizational meeting. 
Everyone interested 
in being a part of this organization, which 
matches college 
students with people who have developmental 
disabilities, is 
welcome. 7 p.m.; MU Yuma Room (211). 
* Office of National Scholarship Advisement - 
Rhodes/Marshall  Scholarship workshop for 
Sept. 22 
deadline. Noon and 3 p.m.; McClintock Hall, 
Room 135.
* Kundalini Yoga Club - Classes meet every 
Monday through 
Thursday. 5:30 p.m.; MU Mojave Room (222). 
* Native American Students United - First 
organizational 
meeting. Everyone is invited to join. 2 p.m.; 
American Indian 
Institute Conference Room.

Ongoing:
* Counselor Training Center - Counseling is 
available at the 
Counselor Training Center at ASU. Free for 
full time ASU 
students and staff. Call 965-5067. Payne 
Hall, Room 402 
(Counseling Training Center).