Business, engineering schools make Top 30 in U.S. News ranking

By Brian Anderson
State Press
	ASU's business and engineering schools 
received high 
praise from college presidents, deans and 
admissions 
directors in a U.S. News & World Report 
annual guide to 
"America's best colleges" released Monday. 
	According to the report, more than 2,700 
college 
administrators from 1,419 accredited four-
year institutions 
ranked the business college and the 
engineering college 25th 
and 28th respectively. The business college 
tied with six other 
schools, including the University of Notre 
Dame and the 
University of Arizona. Ten schools were 
equally ranked with 
the engineering school, including the 
University of Arizona 
and the University of California at Davis. 
	Survey participants were asked to rank 
schools 
according to student retention, the school's 
overall 
reputation, faculty resources, acceptance 
selectivity, financial 
resources and alumni satisfaction, listed in 
order of 
descending importance. 
	Daniel Jankowski, associate dean of the 
College of 
Engineering and Applied Sciences, said he is 
happy with the 
high ranking, but added that work for 
advancement is not 
over. 
	"We're very pleased and thankful for all 
the hard work 
on the part of the faculty that made it 
happen," he said. "(But) 
there's always room for improvement, and we 
certainly are 
trying things to make us better."  
	Jankowski said the survey provides an 
objective look 
at the programs in the engineering college 
and gives students 
an idea of the type of education they are 
receiving.
	"I think (the ranking) gives an 
independent, outside 
look at the programs here and says they're 
pretty good," he 
said. "I would think students would be happy 
to be going to a 
relatively inexpensive public institution and 
be receiving that 
kind of quality of education." 
	Larry Penley, dean of the College of 
Business, said he 
was also pleased with the survey results. 
	"We were excited (about the ranking)," 
he said. "We 
thought we should have been No. 1, but we 
were excited to 
be included."
	Penley said he is optimistic the ranking 
will increase 
students' marketability upon graduation. 
	"What I hope it means is their 
(students') degrees will 
be more valued by employers, and employers 
will find this a 
more attractive place to recruit, will be 
willing to offer higher 
salaries to them and will be as excited as I 
am about the 
products of our program," he said.
	The results of the survey have positive 
effects on 
ASU's reputation as a whole, Penley said. 
	"Any good news that we get in any area 
of the 
University tends to reflect well on the whole 
University," he 
said. "The ranking in engineering will help 
the College of 
Business as I hope the ranking in business 
will help the 
liberal arts."
	ASU Provost Milton Glick said the 
ranking is evidence 
that ASU has improved and continues to 
improve even when 
facing adversity. 
	"We think those are both programs that 
have moved a 
long way in the past several years," he said. 
"I think it shows 
that our schools have been very careful using 
their resources 
effectively. (The ranking) is just one more 
recognition of that." 
	Penley also said even though these 
rankings are good 
measurements of the business college's 
progress, they will 
not stop trying to reach the top.
	"If we took those rankings and were 
self-satisfied as a 
result, that would be a terrible mistake," he 
said. "By no 
means do I believe that we have reached a 
plateau. There's a 
lot more to be done to make a better 
undergraduate program."

Law college tax program earns award

By Brian Anderson
State Press
	ASU's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance 
program 
received top honors from the American Bar 
Association for 
providing the best school-sponsored tax 
preparation in the 
country. 
	The College of Law program got the award 
in mid-
August for its work during the 1994-95 
academic year. It was 
the third time in five years VITA has 
received top billing 
from the association.
	Kristin Gentile, VITA's former director 
and a third-
year law student, said she was pleased to 
have won because 
the College of Law's tax program offers many 
options other 
programs do not.
	"(The program) was a lot of work," she 
said. "I'm very 
happy that we won. We've done a lot of things 
that other law 
school VITA sites don't do."
	Pam Jensen, VITA director for 1995-96 
and a second-
year law student, said Gentile earned the 
award because of 
her untiring dedication to the program. 
	"I think it's great," she said. "I think 
Kristin did a lot of 
work last year. I just have to keep it up."
	Jensen added that she plans to have more 
help 
available in mid-February so taxpayers won't 
have to be 
turned away. 
	"This year we're going to make sure more 
people are 
available to prepare the returns because last 
year I know it 
was just a zoo," she said. "Last year we had 
to turn some 
people away, and this year we don't want to 
do that."
	There are many free tax preparation 
services 
nationwide, but there are only 120 law 
school-sponsored 
programs, Gentile said.  
	She said there were 40 law-student 
volunteers who 
prepared about 700 returns for students, the 
homeless and 
victims of domestic abuse last year. 
	She added that the dedication of the 
volunteers, 
especially on overwhelmingly busy evenings, 
made the 
program succeed. 
	"On Thursday nights we did foreign 
taxes," Gentile 
said. "Our hours were from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. 
and a lot of times 
we would have 50 to 60 people at 6:05 p.m. 
The volunteers 
were terrific. They were very dedicated."
	She said all the volunteers had to 
attend a training 
session taught by a local attorney and two 
accountants, then 
successfully complete a five to 10-hour 
Internal Revenue 
Service exam.
	Jensen said she enjoys working with the 
VITA 
program because she gains valuable contacts 
in the legal field 
and has the opportunity to help people that 
might otherwise 
not be able to afford tax preparatory 
services. 
	"I got involved because I figured it 
would be an easy 
way to help people," she said. "It definitely 
helps for contacts 
also, but it's also being able to help 
people, which is a big thing."

'911, what's your triviality?'

50 percent of Tempe 911 calls not true 
emergencies

By Greg Zemeida
State Press
	If you want to know what time the ASU 
football game starts, if your next 
door neighbor's dog is barking too loudly, or 
if you lock your keys in the car, 
please don't call 911.
	Les Strickland, spokesman for the Tempe 
police, said about half of all 911 
calls are not true emergencies and should 
have been reported in another way.
	He said some 911 calls are not urgent, 
but they appear that way in some 
people's minds.
	"They know 911," Strickland said. "It's 
simple, so they call that."
	Phil Cicero, Tempe police's 
communication supervisor, said people called 
Tempe's 911 lines an average of 258 times a 
day this year. Of those calls, 25 
percent were true emergencies and another 25 
percent required some type of 
police assistance, but were not life-
threatening.
	He said it is important to keep the 
department's nine emergency lines as 
open as possible for real emergencies.
	"If we have people tying these lines up 
... it may create a problem with 
someone else trying to get in," Cicero said.
	So far, that has never happened, he 
said. If it did, Phoenix police would 
answer the Tempe 911 calls. 
	Tempe police are trying to cut down on 
the number of non-emergency 911 
calls through several methods:
	* Distributing 30,000 stickers with the 
non-emergency number (350-8311);
	* Attempting to get that number printed 
in the front cover of the phone 
book;
	* Putting out a brief story on the 
problem in this month's issue of Tempe 
Today, a community newsletter.
	Cicero said people have called 911 to 
complain about barking dogs or to 
ask if the Mill Avenue Bridge was open after 
some flooding. 
	He said some people use 911 as a general 
information number when they 
do not know who to call, especially after 
normal business hours. 
	"When people don't know who to call, 
they call the police department," he 
said. "People see us as the catch-all after 
hours."
	Even though he hears many unnecessary 
calls, Cicero said people should 
not get too worried about whether to call 911 
or not. When in doubt, just call, he 
said. 
	"We would rather have people call us 
than not call us," he said.

Correction

	An article in the Sept. 11 issue of the 
State Press 
contained an error. The article incorrectly 
stated that Jeanne 
White, founder of the Ryan White Foundation, 
would be 
speaking the night of Sept. 11. White will be 
speaking 
tonight (Sept. 12) in the Memorial Union Cinema.

University gives fork to non-athletic uses of Sparky

By Timothy Tait
State Press
	New trademark guidelines dictating the 
use of ASU's 
mascot have left some students on the short 
end of Sparky's 
pitchfork.
	Although students have used the mascot 
for more than 
60 years with few problems, the University 
has severely 
restricted its use by campus organizations 
during the past 
months.
	"Any use (of Sparky) that differs from 
the (trademark) 
manual is prohibited," said ASU Trademark 
Licensing 
Coordinator Fernando Morales. "No one other 
than athletics 
may use Sparky."
	Because Sparky is a federally-registered 
trademark, the 
University holds as much responsibility as 
the manufacturer 
for the quality of merchandise on which the 
mascot appears. 
ASU receives between $200,000 and $250,000 
per year from 
licensing its mascot, all of which goes into 
the President's 
Special Projects fund.
	The Walt Disney Studios designed Sparky 
for ASU in 
1946, one of the first cartoon mascots for a 
university. It is 
also rumored that Sparky was modeled after 
Walt Disney 
himself, Morales said.
	Although no misuses of the mascot have 
been reported 
yet, the University instituted the new 
regulations in July of 
1995 to protect Sparky's and the University's 
image, Morales 
said.
	He said the athletic department, under 
former Director 
Charles Harris, agreed to not alter Sparky's 
image in 
exchange for exclusive privileges to the 
mascot. For instance, 
Sparky must always face to the right, and 
cannot be modified 
or have any additions.
	"It is kind of funny to point out that 
the football team 
uses him facing the wrong way on one side of 
their helmets," 
Morales said. "But it isn't funny to those 
who had petitions to 
use him rejected."
	The Student Recreation Complex submitted 
a request 
to use Sparky, but was rejected. 
	SRC director Gerry Maas, who petitioned 
the 
president's office in an attempt to keep 
using Sparky, said he 
was disappointed that they would no longer be 
able to use 
the mascot.
	"I don't think that there have been 
abuses," Maas said. 
"It would be too bad if we will not be able 
to use Sparky."
	The SRC had pictured the mascot on 
various 
intramural team uniforms, some depicting an 
altered Sparky, 
such as Sparky holding a tennis racket or a 
volleyball. 
However, the sole reason given for the 
rejection was that only 
athletics is allowed to use the mascot, Maas 
said.
	Maas added that the president is 
reconsidering their 
petition.
	"Sparky is a great representative of 
athletics, but he 
has taken on a greater meaning," Morales 
said.
	"Clubs on campus have used Sparky for 
years, and we 
just want to continue," Maas said. "Many 
people feel that the 
mascot represents the University as a whole."
	He said it was unfair for the students 
to lose their 
privilege to use the familiar symbol.
	"How tight the administration will be in 
the future 
with this policy, we will have to wait and 
see," he said. "There 
is a real need to be flexible."
	Morales also said he remains optimistic 
that the 
regulations will be relaxed, adding that the 
athletic 
department's exclusive rights to the mascot 
is not a done deal.
	"Students here have used the mascot 
better than 
anywhere," he said. "Other schools have had 
problems."
	Associated Students of ASU President 
Chris Weber 
agreed that students should have access to 
Sparky.
	"Sparky is for the students, not just 
athletics," he said. 
"It really isn't fair to cut the students 
off.
	"After half of a century, Sparky is 
imbedded in the spirit of the University."

Editorial: Packwood's escape

	Sen. Bob Packwood finally resigned his 
Senate seat last 
week, seemingly forced out by widespread 
accusations of 
sexual misconduct.
	So why aren't we happier?
	We could say that Packwood's resignation 
was a death 
blow to a prevailing attitude in many 
workplaces - that 
sexual harassment is acceptable behavior.
	But it wasn't. Packwood slipped quietly 
away, 
avoiding any real punishment.
	Expulsion would have meant the loss of 
all benefits 
and pensions associated with a past career in 
the Senate. 
Packwood was given the option to resign in 
order to avoid 
that fate. By doing so, he kept his 
retirement pay and health 
benefits, and will continue to have access to 
the Senate floor 
for the rest of his life.
	Let's see. Packwood gets to leave and 
live off a hefty 
senatorial pension? In other words, he does 
nothing worse 
than retire?
	Exactly where is the justice in that?
	Moreover, Packwood's resignation is far 
from 
immediate. It seems that Bob will be hanging 
around the 
Senate for at least a month, even getting to 
keep his prized 
Finance Committee chairmanship during his 
remaining days.
	And far from blasting their colleague 
for his atrocious 
conduct, Packwood's fellow Republican 
senators rose one by 
one to congratulate him on his Senate career, 
and to grieve 
his parting.
	Grieve? Grieve for what?
	Let's get this clear - Bob Packwood 
deserved his fate. 
He should not be mourned - he should be 
shunned.
	The Senate Ethics Committee recommended 
his 
expulsion for three very valid reasons.
	First, the committee found that he had 
committed 
numerous acts of sexual harassment and 
misconduct over a 
period of 21 years. That, in itself, should 
be grounds for 
expulsion.
	Second, Packwood tried to cover up the 
committee's 
investigation into the matter by 
"withholding, altering and 
destroying" his dairies. Sounds Nixonesque to 
us.
	Third, in an attempt to avoid alimony 
payments, 
Packwood used his influence to try to get his 
estranged wife a 
job from people who had an interest in 
legislation before him.
	These are damning charges. Expulsion was 
the only 
honorable way to deal with such a man.
	By wringing their hands over Packwood, 
senators are 
sending a sickening message to the American 
public - the 
message that Packwood really didn't do 
anything unusually 
bad, but simply got caught up in a whirlwind 
of public furor.
	Packwood grossly abused his position of 
authority as a 
U.S. senator. By doing so, he defamed the 
Senate and himself.
	The American public is not greatly 
trusting of the 
federal government right now. Seeing Packwood 
get away 
with a slap on the wrist and a thousand tears 
will only 
further erode that trust.
	So long, Bob Packwood. We're glad to see 
you gone, 
but we wish you had received the punishment 
you deserved 
- loss of all senatorial retirement benefits 
and public censure.
	As long as sexual harassment is 
tolerated in the halls 
of Washington, it will not fade from the 
workplaces of America.

Column: Police officers duty to protect not play God

Liz Montalbano
Columnist
	Last March, former Philadelphia steak 
house owner 
Joseph Morris was released from prison after 
serving time for 
a crime he didn't commit. The evidence that 
put him in jail 
was primarily from the sworn testimony of 
Philadelphia 
Police Officer Steven Brown.  
	What led to his freedom was Brown's 
conviction on 
federal charges involving 25 cases, including 
fabricating 
evidence that cost Morris 2 1/2 years of his 
life.
	"I can't understand why these people 
(the police) can 
do anything they want and get away with it." 
Morris said. 
	Citizens across the country are echoing 
that sentiment. 
Investigations into crimes committed by 
police officers are 
meriting big headlines lately - with good 
reason. The one-
time benevolent boys in blue have become 
objects of scandal, 
and it's increasingly obvious that America's 
police officers are 
not always worthy of their citizens' blind 
faith.
	An extensive Time magazine articles 
focusing 
specifically on the Philadelphia police 
department notes that 
to date, six Philly cops have "pleaded guilty 
to such charges 
as setting up innocent victims, selling drugs 
and beating and 
threatening people." Other cities, including 
Los Angeles, New 
York City, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Detroit 
and 
Washington, have also come under 
investigation for their 
police force's misuse of authority.
	 Locally, 50 Phoenix police officers are 
being 
investigated for their part in illegally 
purchasing and 
reselling high-tech rifles that are otherwise 
unavailable for 
use by the public. 
	Even closer to home, an ASU student 
accused ASU 
Department of Public Safety officers of 
unwarranted brutality 
during an arrest for disorderly conduct.
	What's a nation to do when its police 
officers can't 
even police themselves? As citizens, we 
depend on police to 
protect us and maintain peace, and hope they 
use their 
unbiased judgment when making arrests or 
testifying against 
suspects.
 	Unfortunately, when it's their word 
against ours, we're 
the ones who get the short end of the stick, 
and if they're 
lying, we're punished unjustly.
	When law enforcers become criminals, 
too, it's enough 
to inspire citizens to take the law into 
their own hands. I don't 
know about you, but I don't think that a 
world full of 
disgruntled, and paranoid gun-toters hell-
bent on a search for 
their own brand of justice makes for a 
desirable scenario.
	One problem is that police who do come 
under 
investigation are investigated by their own 
kind. In light of 
the accusations of ASU student Michael 
McVerry, a recent 
article in the State Press investigated the 
frequency of 
complaints against ASU DPS. The article 
asserted that 
complaints against ASU DPS are few and far 
between, and 
that most of them are unfounded anyway.  
	Who provided the reporter with that 
information? 
ASU DPS, of course.
	There is still a code of silence among 
police officers. 
For all of the corruption that is brought to 
the surface, there is 
still much hidden or stifled by officers who 
don't want to step 
forward and be branded by their peers as a 
snitch. 
	More disturbingly, cops who do come 
under fire for 
alleged crimes and allegations of police 
brutality are not 
always punished accordingly. The Christopher 
Commission, 
a panel set up in L.A. to reform the police 
department after 
the Rodney King incident, identified 44 
officers with histories 
of complaints and problems, among which was 
the use of 
excessive force to subdue suspects. Until 
very recently, 33 of 
these "problem" officers remained on the 
force, with 19 of 
them still dealing with the public on a 
regular basis.
	Of course, every police officer in the 
country is not 
trading in his badge for a prison uniform, 
and the very fact 
that the public eye has become so focused on 
police 
department reform is a step in the right 
direction.
	 But I think it's about time that the 
"good" cops 
swallow their pride and think about the well-
being of their 
citizens rather than their reputations among 
their fellow 
officers.
	Sure police officers have tough jobs. I 
wouldn't want to 
be one, and I wouldn't want my mother, 
father, sister or 
significant other to be one either. 
	Jim McDevitt, vice president of the 
Fraternal Order Of 
Police in Philadelphia, states in the Time 
article: "A lot of 
times you're arresting people who are out-
and-out cold, hard 
criminals, and they're out on the street on 
bail before you've 
done your paperwork. That gets very, very 
frustrating." I can 
understand how it may be tempting for 
otherwise decent 
cops to plant evidence or brutalize criminals 
they fear will 
slip through the judicial system. 
	But police officers have an obligation 
to the citizens 
they swear to protect, and it is not for them 
to pass judgment 
on the suspects they arrest or testify 
against. They have a job 
to do, and are paid to do it well. 
	Nowhere in their contracts does it say 
that they have a 
right to play God.

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

Column: Injustice against Native Americans ignored

Tina Holder
Columnist
	The Mark Fuhrman tapes have reminded all 
of us 
about the problems in police departments 
across the country.
	Fuhrman talks of planting evidence and 
of beating up 
suspects. When we listen to Fuhrman, vivid 
images of the 
Rodney King beating come to mind. 
	But ask yourself this - if the beating 
of King had 
occurred on a reservation and he had been a 
Native 
American instead of a black man, would there 
have been 
such an outcry? 
	Would his name now be a household word 
that 
symbolizes police brutality and abuses 
against minorities?
	Probably not. The Bureau of Indian 
Affairs has a long 
history of brutal behavior that has been 
widely ignored.
	For instance, a young girl had her 
fingernails pulled 
out by a Bureau of Indian Affairs teacher. 
The teacher 
managed to get away and still has not been 
found.
	Sonny Phillips, a 37-year-old white man, 
was beaten to 
death while hog-tied by BIA officers. 
Investigators didn't 
inform his family of his death for 30 hours.
	A Native American woman was shot in the 
back of the 
head on a reservation - and her death 
explained away as due 
to "natural causes."
	Richard Makil, 26, was knocked down by a 
truck 
driven by a BIA reserve officer. While lying 
on the ground, 
another BIA officer shot him. When Makil 
tried to get up he 
was shot again, this time fatally. The 
officer who shot him 
was given a commendation. Witnesses who saw 
what 
happened disagreed with the BIA version - but 
for some 
reason, they were never interviewed.
	Shannon Laws, 21, was Makil's nephew. A 
few months 
after his uncle's death, he was chased into a 
house and shot 
by BIA officers while attempting to hide 
under a baby crib. 
Officers said they had to shoot him because 
he attacked them 
with a knife. The knife was never produced. 
Once again, 
witnesses who disagreed with the BIA version 
of the shooting 
were never interviewed.
	Terry Heller, 37, was "endangering his 
own life by 
running into traffic," so, to protect him, 
they shot him - in the 
back. The BIA said the shooting was justified 
because Heller 
was throwing rocks at them. However, they 
never explained 
how Heller could have thrown rocks at 
officers while he was 
running away from them.
	Wayne Austin, 29, was killed by his 
neighbor. The BIA 
investigators of this incident left the body 
uncovered for 
several hours. His family had a clear view of 
the body but 
were not allowed to go to it. Members of the 
neighbor's 
family, however, were allowed to kick and 
spit on the body. 
The killer was eventually convicted of 
involuntary 
manslaughter, and given 60 months probation 
and a $1,000 
fine.
	These are but a few instances of the 
brutality and 
incompetence of the BIA and its 
"investigators." There are so 
many cases of disappearances and murders that 
have been 
ignored or blatantly covered up that I could 
take pages and 
pages to list them all. The American Indian 
Movement has a 
list of more than 120 group members who have 
disappeared 
or died mysteriously. There is no way of 
knowing the actual 
count of people who are the victims of police 
brutality on the 
reservations.
	In many cases, families are not given 
any information 
about what has happened. They are not allowed 
access to the 
police reports or anything related to the 
case. If the family 
tries to find out what is going on, they are 
"discouraged" from 
continuing.
	The BIA, funded by tax dollars, is 
allowed to do things 
that make Fuhrman look like an angel. Don't 
get me wrong, 
there are employees of this agency that work 
hard and try to 
help Native Americans as much as they can. 
Unfortunately, 
there are more who would rather use their 
power to murder, 
rape, steal, lie and cover up all of it.
	The whole country was outraged at what 
happened to 
Rodney King. We should be equally outraged at 
what is 
happening on the reservations. The BIA, the 
reservation 
police and "investigators" should be held 
accountable for 
what they are doing.
	Does anyone care what is happening? Or 
is the 
attitude of "Oh, it's just the Indians" still 
around after 500 
years? 
	Unfortunately, many believe that it is. 
Larry Phillips is 
one of those that believes it. After a year 
of trying to get 
something done about his son's death he said, 
"I've given up 
on the system. It's broken and nobody is 
going to fix it." 
	I tend to agree with him.

Tina Holder is a senior justice studies major
Ed. note: Information for this column was 
compiled from newspaper reports, witnesses 
and law journals.

Column: What is up with that?

Christina Bailey
Opinion Editor
	A football flop: While attending my last 
Arizona 
Cardinal fuddybuddy ball game this past 
Sunday, something 
mind-boggling spewed out of the play-by-play 
announcers 
mouth ... no, it wasn't touchdown Cardinals 
either. 
	It was something like "Ladies, now is 
your 
opportunity to partake in a new program - 
NFL101 ... just for 
women. Cardinal coaches, players and NFL 
referees will be 
on hand to explain to you the fundamentals of 
game, what 
the penalties mean and answer any questions 
you may have."
	How exciting. 
	Isn't that just nice of the ol' NFL and 
Cardinal 
organization to offer us poor, uninformed 
women the chance 
to obtain more knowledge of the game? 
	Please. 
	For one, with the continued miserable 
play of the 
Cardinals, I surely wouldn't want them 
telling me about the 
fundamentals of football. I don't think 
they've figured that 
out yet. 
	Two: Excuse me, but I happen to know 
plenty of 
women who are quite knowledgeable about 
football and 
sports in general. 
	Maybe what the NFL and the Cardinals 
should do is 
take a class called GAC 101 - Get A Clue 101. 
In that class, 
these entities will be taught to be a little 
more sensitive about 
what they consider to be 'helpful' programs. 
	Instead of singling out women, which to 
me is sexist, 
they should offer a class to people who want 
to come learn 
more about the game, period.

Good riddance: Let's see. For more than two 
decades, Senator 
Bob Packwood made unwanted sexual advances to 
numerous women - including former staff aides 
- while he 
was married. 
	His story - the one about the 
accusations, the diary and 
his plight to reduce his alimony by 
improperly asking people 
with legislative interests to hire his 
estranged wife -kept 
changing like the Cardinal quarterbacks.
	First, the Oregon Republican denies any 
wrongdoing, 
even though he changed his diaries and 
refused to give over 
his original copy to anyone but his lawyers. 
	Then he said he was too drunk to recall 
most of the 
incidents cited. If they did occur, though, 
he said he was 
sorry. 
	As if being drunk is an excuse for his 
deplorable 
actions. Did he actually expect people (with 
the exception of 
the Republicans) to say, "No problem Mr. 
Packwood, please 
continue to represent us and make decisions 
in the best 
interest of all the organizations that have a 
vested interest in 
you?"
	I think not.
	Finally, after a closed hearing he was 
given the 
ultimatum - either resign or be expelled. 
	His expulsion would be the first since 
the Civil War 
and would eliminate his retirement pay and 
health benefits. 
So he decided to resign.
	But wait, it gets better.
	The Republicans won't give a date on 
when Packwood 
will relinquish his office duties and 
continue to dilly dally 
around with whether he should remain the 
finance chairman.
	Hello?
	Here is a man who has committed numerous 
criminal 
acts that would land most others in jail and 
they're still 
talking about him holding a position of 
power. 
	Are we for real here? 
	The Republicans should not even be 
entertaining the 
idea of keeping him on as finance chairman. 
Moreover, 
Packwood should not even have the option of 
keeping his 
benefits. 
	Why?
	Because he has yet to take 
responsibility for his 
actions. He has yet to make amends to the 
state he 
misrepresented and the women he forced 
himself on.
	To give him his benefits, to keep him in 
positions of 
power even for another day is, in a sense, 
saying it's OK. 
	There is only reason I can rationalize 
the praise, 
empathy and excuses Packwoods peers are 
bestowing upon 
him. 
	Most of them have probably been there 
and done that. 
They just don't have a diary to prove it.

Christina Bailey is a senior studying 
journalism.

Rodriguez: 'There were violations'

Team members claim allegations against track 
Coach Braxton 
are true; women's team is focal point of 
internal investigation, 
source says

By Damian Shaw
State Press
	The allegations of NCAA rules violations 
by track 
coach Leonard Braxton are true, two track 
team members 
have alleged.
	"There were violations," said sophomore 
distance 
runner Ari Rodriguez. "Everything that 
they're (the NCAA) 
saying is true."
	Junior distance runner John Tyrell 
corroborated 
Rodriquez's words.
	"The four main things that he's being 
accused of are 
true," Tyrell said. "But I can't comment on 
specific incidents." 
	Braxton is the subject of an internal 
investigation for 
NCAA violations in recruiting, illegal 
transportation of 
athletes, illegal payments to athletes and 
falsifying expense 
reports.
	Both athletes said ASU compliance and 
eligibility 
coordinator John Park, who is heading the 
investigation, 
ordered them not to comment on specific 
violations they had 
seen. 
	Some athletes confirmed Park had 
interviewed them 
as part of the investigation.
	Many athletes were reluctant to answer 
questions 
about the investigation because they are 
afraid of losing their 
scholarships. According to one male athlete, 
who asked not to 
be identified, the investigation may focus on 
some of the 
female athletes, as well as Braxton. 
	"It's the girls that they're looking 
into because it's the 
girls who are getting hooked up," the source 
said, adding that 
several of the women are considering 
transferring if ASU is 
placed on probation. 
	Senior women's track athlete Tike 
Jackson had already 
been interviewed by Park and senior Lorrieann 
Adams is still 
scheduled to speak with Park, but both 
declined comment on 
the investigation.  
	"We have a very good relationship," 
Jackson said of 
she and Braxton. 
	"I'm not sure if I should make any 
comments," said 
Adams, adding she wanted to wait until her 
interview with 
Park before she made any comments. 
	Some team members said that since the 
investigation 
has begun, there has been animosity between 
Braxton and 
assistant coaches. Steve Lemke, Ken Lehman 
and Tom Doyle 
refused to sign an NCAA compliance form 
saying there have 
been no rules violations for the past year, 
which triggered the 
investigation. 
	"Now there's a lot of friction," Tyrrell 
said, referring to 
the coaches' working relationships with 
Braxton.
	Tyrrell said the investigation will 
probably cause 
discourse with the team, although most of the 
athletes just 
want to get it over with.
	"This has to do with the coaches. 
They're the ones 
doing things wrong - not us," he said. "I 
just came here to run, 
that's all. I don't want to worry about 
politics."  
	Sources on the team said Doyle has been 
conducting 
team meetings and is in charge of the squad 
on an interim 
basis. The team is scheduled to begin 
conditioning workouts 
Sept. 18. 
	The current investigation is not the 
first time Braxton 
has been accused of infractions in an 
athletic program. 
Braxton had been censured by the NCAA in 
previous years at 
Morgan State in Baltimore, M.D., where he was 
the athletic 
director and track coach from 1988-92. 
Several of the school's 
sports are still banned from post-season play 
and there are 
still scholarship restrictions for student 
athletes in place. 
	Attempts to reach Braxton and Park 
Monday were 
unsuccessful, and Christine Wilkinson, the 
interim director of 
athletics, was also unavailable for comment. 
However, she 
previously said she would not comment on the 
investigation 
until its conclusion, which is scheduled to 
be in one month.

Few changes as ASU prepares for Cornhuskers

ASU football notebook

By Dan Miller 
State Press
	Nebraska's star junior I-back Lawrence 
Phillips may be 
out of commission for Saturday's game with 
ASU, but Head 
Coach Bruce Snyder said the news of Phillips' 
absence hasn't 
changed ASU's preparation one bit.
	 "It will not change the play calling 
and it won't change 
the defensive game planning and I don't think 
it will change 
the spread," said Snyder, whose Sun Devils 
(1-1) face the 
defending national champion Huskers Saturday 
in Lincoln. 
"So I don't think there's any change."
	Added Snyder: "He is the best back they 
have, but I 
don't think that's going to change anything. 
They're very 
confident in their other runners. They're 
going to play their 
offense."
	If No. 2 Nebraska (2-0) does play its 
standard offense, 
the Sun Devils' defense will arguably be 
faced with its 
toughest test of the entire season.
	"Each individual unit has got to play 
the best that they 
can play," said Snyder. "I think the biggest 
challenge we will 
face is when our defense and their offense is 
on the field. 
They have been so dominant in the games that 
they play 
offensively. That's the key I think."
	Snyder said he wasn't sure there was a 
better team in 
the country right now than Nebraska.
	"I haven't seen Florida State play, but 
I can't imagine 
too many teams in America that are really as 
good as this 
team," Snyder said of the Huskers, who have 
already crushed 
Oklahoma State 64-21 and most recently 
Michigan State, 50-
10. "I mean they are really dominate in 
virtually every area. I 
think it would be hard to have the same sense 
of confidence 
going into this game as we did going into 
Washington (two 
weeks ago)."
	Plummer to rewrite history books?
	If junior quarterback Jake Plummer, who 
has already 
accumulated 4,284 yards passing at ASU, 
duplicates his 1994 
passing total of 2,179 yards, then he would 
become ASU's 
third all-time career passing leader. Plummer 
would be 602 
yards short of second place and only 709 
yards short of being 
the all-time passing leader in ASU history.
	 Plummer also already has 31 completions 
this year 
and 292 for his career. If he averages only 
15 pass 
completions per game for the rest of the 
season, he will 
surpass former ASU quarterbacks' Danny White, 
Mike Pagel 
and Paul Justin and be second only to Jeff 
Van Raaphorst on 
ASU's all-time list. By the time UofA comes 
to town on Nov. 
24, he would have 427 completions compared to 
Van 
Raaphorst's 503. White and Van Raaphorst both 
played only 
three full seasons.  
	In addition, Plummer, who has 30 
touchdown passes 
to date, needs only seven more to move into 
the No. 5 spot 
for all-time career touchdown passes. The 
current record-
holder is Danny White, who has 64.
	Back-up quarterbacks
	Snyder said he was satisfied with the 
play of both of 
his back-up quarterbacks in Saturday's game. 
Both 
sophomore Jason Verdugo and redshirt-freshman 
Steve 
Campbell saw action late in the ASU's 45-20 
win. Verdugo 
led the Sun Devils on a 10-play, 53-yard 
drive in the fourth 
quarter which was capped by redshirt freshman 
Brian 
Singleton's 2-yard touchdown dive. Campbell, 
meanwhile, 
completed 3 of 4 passes for 37 yards in the 
fourth quarter. 
	"I think they're going to be better just 
from that little 
bit of exposure," Snyder said . "Verdugo-
within our system-
led the team down for a score. And Steve, he 
is a great gun. 
They (the passes) hit ya'. You don't want to 
take it full force 
right to the body because it really would 
hurt. I was pleased 
by both of those guys."
	"Fright Night" update
	Redshirt-freshman safety Mitchell 
"Fright Night" 
Freedman, who was held out of Saturday's game 
with UTEP 
due to a thigh contusion, did not practice 
Sunday like Snyder 
anticipated. However, Snyder said he is still 
hopeful 
Freedman, who hasn't practiced in over a 
week, will be ready 
by Saturday. Snyder said Freedman made a 
last-ditch effort 
to play just before the start of the UTEP 
game. 
	"He put on a little show," he said of 
Freedman. "He 
knew it wasn't the right thing to do. So the 
logic was easy. 
And you could tell by how he was resisting 
that he knew it 
was right also." 	
	If Freedman is ready to play Saturday, 
he will start at 
strong safety and sophomore Thomas Simmons 
will start at 
free safety. Simmons lost his starting job 
last week to senior 
B.J. Alford, who injured his shoulder against 
UTEP and is questionable for Saturday.

CORRECTION:

A picture of ASU receiver Isaiah Mustafa 
was incorrectly identified as being senior 
tailback Chris Hopkins on page 16 
of Monday's State Press. 
The State Press regrets the error.

ATTENTION ASU FOOTBALL FANS: IT'S WEEK THREE

	As a reminder, the State Press sports 
department is 
sponsoring the weekly "PICK IT AND WIN" 
contest for ASU 
football games. Last week's winner was senior 
business 
management major Brandon Jenkins. 
	To win, contestants must correctly 
predict the winner 
and final score of the ASU football games on 
Saturday. The 
Sun Devils' next game is Saturday against 
defending national 
champion Nebraska in Lincoln.
	The weekly winner receives: an ASU cap 
courtesy of 
The Cap. Co. on 6th St and Mill Ave., an 
autographed Jake 
Plummer poster schedule of courtesy of ASU 
athletics, a 
headshot in Monday's State Press sports 
section and a bonus 
prize.
	If none of the contestants in a given 
week predict the 
exact score, then the winner will be 
determined by which 
contestant comes closest. 
	In the event of a  tie, the winner will 
be drawn out of a  
hat. However each person in the tie will be 
recognized. 
	Entries must be either faxed to 602-965-
8484, "Attn: 
Sports Editor," or dropped off at the State 
Press offices in the 
basement of Matthew's Center. Valid entries 
should include 
full name, student #, year in school, major 
and daytime 
phone #  where  you may be reached. Winners 
will be 
contacted the Sunday after the game. 
	The entry deadline each week is Thursday 
at 5 p.m. 
Entries received after the deadline will not 
be considered. 
Telephoning the State Press is not a valid 
form of entry.
	NOTE: All ASU faculty and staff members 
are welcome to join the contest.

ASU police reported the following incidents 
Monday:
* A man not affiliated with ASU was contacted 
at 706 Alpha 
Drive while placing dry ice in plastic 
containers and causing 
explosions. He was advised of disorderly 
conduct and left the 
area.
* A woman not affiliated with ASU reported 
that a man 
assaulted her on the northeast side of the 
Student Recreation 
Complex.
* One bike was reported stolen.
Tempe police reported the following incidents 
Monday:
* Two men attempted to kidnap a 24-year-old 
women while 
she was walking in the 600 block of S. Myrtle 
Avenue. One of 
the suspects grabbed the woman and forced her 
into the front 
seat of his car, telling her to "come party 
with us." The 
woman jumped into the backseat and kicked the 
man in the 
face. She escaped out the back door and ran 
to a nearby bar. 
The man who grabbed her is described as a 
white male in his 
early 20s, 5 feet 8 inches tall, medium build 
with short, blond, 
wavy hair. The other suspect was not 
described. The car they 
were driving was an older-model, dark-
colored, four-door 
Cadillac.
* A 21-year-old man was arrested for 
obstructing justice, 
disorderly conduct and intent to sell 
marijuana after he was 
contacted at 600 S. Mill Ave. about a 
unrelated theft case. The 
man gave police a fake name, then threw his 
backpack into 
the street and tried to run away. Police 
found two pounds of 
marijuana in his bag.
* A 30-year-old man was arrested for 
disorderly conduct with 
a firearm after firing a shot into his front 
yard with a .38 
pistol. The man told police that he was upset 
because he was 
about to be evicted and his water was just 
shut off.
Compiled by State Press reporter Greg Zemeida

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events printed 
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organization per day is permitted.

* 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.; today 
and Wednesday 
Cady Mall.
* Asian Business Leaders Association - 
General meeting. 4 
p.m.; MU Room 340D. Also visit us on Hayden 
Lawn from 10 
a.m. to 2 p.m.
* Baptist Student Union - Come be a part of 
our weekly Bible 
study, praise and worship. 8 p.m.; BSU 
Center, 1322 S. Mill 
Ave.
* Center for Asian Studies - Lecture: The 
Nanjing Massacre. 
Professor Sun Zaiwei of the Chinese Social 
Science Academy  
in Nanjing, PR China. 1:30; Social Science 
Building Room 
1001.
* Chi Epsilon - Civil engineering honor 
society. First general 
meeting. Free pizza and soda. Noon; ERC 496.
* Circle K International - Join one of the 
fastest growing 
community service club on campus,. Experience 
the service, 
leadership and fellowship possibilities. 
12:30 p.m.; MU 
Yavapai.
* Coming Out Discussion Group - Meeting. 
Noon; Student 
Services Building, Multicultural Lounge on 
the 2nd floor.
* Gun Devils - Weekly meeting. 5 p.m.; MU 
Room 209.
* Justice Studies Students Association - 
Meeting. 3 p.m.; MU 
Room 222.
* Kundalini Yoga Club - Classes meet every 
Monday through 
Thursday. 5:30 p.m.; MU Turquoise Room 
(208F). Check MU 
monitors for nightly locations.
* Mortar Board - General meeting. 6 p.m.; MU 
224.
* MUAB Comedy Committee - General comedy 
meeting. 3 
p.m.; MU third floor, at MUAB.
* MUAB Gallery Committee - Meeting. Everyone 
welcome. 
5:30 p.m.; MU third floor, Conference Room 2.
* MUAB Recreation Committee - Meeting. 4 
p.m.; MU third 
floor, MUAB office.
* Office of National Scholarship Advisement - 
Rhodes/Marshall Scholarship Workshop for 
Sept. 22 
application deadline. 3 p.m.; McClintock 
Hall, Room 135.
* Re-Entry Connection - Campus computing 
options: Julie 
Benson, from the Computing Commons, will 
explain the 
sometimes perplexing campus computer system. 
Everyone 
welcome. Bring a lunch if you want. Noon to 1 
p.m.; Re-Entry 
Center, MU Lower Level.
* Society for Creative Anachronism - Weekly 
meeting with 
fighter practice immediately afterward. All 
interested in the 
Middle Ages are welcome. 7 p.m.; MU Yavapai 
Room.