Tempe Hooters opens quietly

By Angela Mull
State Press
	The decision to establish a downtown 
Tempe Hooters 
ruffled some feathers earlier this year, but 
the restaurant's 
grand opening Monday saw no baring of claws.
	Only about five people were waiting to 
be served as 
Hooters opened at 11 a.m. at 501 S. Mill 
Ave., and not a 
protester was in sight. General manager Russ 
Plieseis said he 
did not expect any demonstrations at the 
restaurant, although 
opposition to the establishment was vocal 
earlier this year.
	One group that criticized Hooters was 
Ethics in 
Action, formed by Margaret Ebert, a junior 
chemistry major. 
Bob Pappalardo, EiA's vice president, said 
the restaurant 
chain knowingly objectifies women but denies 
it, in order to 
stay in business in places like Tempe.
	"Their business is to sell sex," said 
Pappalardo, who 
serves as a post-doctoral geology research 
associate at Rhode 
Island's Brown University. "It's only an 
amount of time until 
a legal suit is won and they'll have to 
change their business 
practices."
	EiA did not protest the restaurant's 
opening, he said, 
because it did not want to give Hooters free 
publicity.
	Another group that opposed the 
restaurant was the 
Tempe City Council, which voted 6-1 in 
February to deny the 
restaurant a liquor license, a decision 
nullified when the State 
Liquor Board approved the license in April. 
Councilman 
Joseph Lewis said the council listened to its 
citizens, who 
relayed concerns that Hooters objectifies 
women. 
	"We thought that there probably could've 
been 
something more appropriate than Hooters 
there," Lewis said. 
"Personally, it doesn't bother me, but it did 
bother the people 
that protested."
	But Anna Szablewski, a 30-year-old 
waitress, said 
neither the short shorts and tight tops, nor 
the restaurant, 
objectifies women. 
	"If I felt anything negative, I wouldn't 
have worked 
here for so long," she said. "The only 
discrimination is people 
telling us where to work."
	She added that lifeguards wear the same 
kind of 
clothing but are not criticized for it.
	Albert Heitzmann, an ASU non-degree 
graduate 
student who was at the opening, said he sees 
no problem 
with the restaurant. 
	"I'm disturbed by people complaining 
about the 
atmosphere here," he said. "No one is forced 
to come here. It's 
wrong for people to complain about something 
that's not 
coercive."
	Although the additional patrons Hooters 
will draw 
could cause problems for Tempe, they probably 
will not, said 
Toby Dyas, Tempe public information officer. 
	"I don't anticipate it causing us any 
substantial 
increase in problems other than putting 
additional people 
down there because it's a new business," he 
said. 
	Plieseis said he does not think Hooters 
will incite 
violence or rowdiness in Tempe.
	"Society has deeper problems," he said. 
"We're not the 
cause of society's problems."

Students and faculty learn values not found in books

By Kelly Wendel
State Press
	MBA students and faculty from ASU West 
are trading 
in their briefcases, computers and business 
suits for ladles, 
dirty dishes and plastic aprons at the St. 
Vincent DePaul 
kitchen in downtown Phoenix.
	In exchange, they receive things money 
can't buy.
	And in the end equation, students 
volunteering to 
serve food to the hungry learn something that 
their 
Quantitative Business Analysis textbook 
doesn't teach: the 
value of community service.
	"The community is the future, and 
business has to 
make an investment in the future, and that 
means an 
investment in the community," said Dr. Phil 
Mizzi, professor 
in the ASU West School of Management.
	He said businesses are realizing that 
they are 
accountable to the communities they do 
business in, and that 
community problems are business problems. 
	"Businesses can't say, 'You go take care 
of your 
problems,' " he said. "Both the community and 
business need 
to sit down and take care of our problems."
	It was Mizzi's commitment to helping the 
community 
that stirred many of his MBA students to 
volunteer.
	"His words of community service got to 
me," said A.R. 
Matura, a chemist for Schein Pharmaceutical 
and MBA 
student at ASU West. 
	He is one of more than 100 students and 
60 faculty 
from ASU West who have responded to Mizzi's 
call for 
community service.
	Most of the 15 student and faculty 
volunteers were 
first-timers at the evening meal for 
families, and many said 
they were surprised at what they saw.
	"I didn't expect anything as grand as 
this," Matura 
said.
	Forget the visions of people crowded 
into a 
dilapidated building eating with plastic 
forks from tin trays.
	St. Vincent DePaul's central kitchen on 
Fourth Avenue 
and Watson Road is a sprawling modern 
building. The clean, 
industrial-sized kitchen cooks up more than 
3,000 meals a 
day which are distributed to four separate 
satellite dining 
rooms in Phoenix, Mesa, Surprise and Queen 
Creek. 
	Tracy McConnell, a volunteer coordinator 
at St. 
Vincent DePaul, said without volunteers like 
the students 
and faculty from ASU West, "we would have to 
shut the 
doors tomorrow."
	"Those volunteers are what makes this 
place work," 
she said.
	Mizzi said the response from the faculty 
and students 
at ASU West has been fantastic.
	"We have never lacked the people for the 
projects we 
want to do," he said.
	Besides donating time at the family 
dining facility for 
the past year, ASU West's faculty and 
students are also 
gathering food for the kitchen.
	Last year, 15,000 volunteers donated 
164,665 hours of 
service to produce and distribute more than 
1.3 million hot 
meals to the hungry and homeless in the 
Phoenix Metro area.
	For many of the 90 people who dined at 
the kitchen 
Friday night, the meal service is a rare 
opportunity for a 
balanced and nutritious meal. Huge pans full 
of steaming 
meatloaf and macaroni scented the air with 
delicious smells.
	"While many of the 20 to 25 families 
dining here 
tonight are homeless, many more are members 
of the 
working poor, trying to feed too many 
children on low 
wages," said Karin Valentine-Monnier, a 
volunteer 
coordinator at St. Vincent DePaul. "Many of 
the fathers work 
really hard, but only make $5.25 an hour and 
they have six 
kids. They can't afford to feed them."
	At an average cost of 47 cents per meal, 
it doesn't take 
much to help a lot.
	"The meal service is great, absolutely 
great," said 
Robert, who was dining with his wife and 
seven of his sister-
in-law's children. "I have only been here 
three times, and it's 
been really impressive. This helps us along 
the way."
	As the volunteers served food, washed 
dishes or bused 
tables, they said they got a feeling that 
they were helping out 
in the community.
	"It feels good to watch the families, 
the kids, and 
interact with them," said Abby McWilliams, a 
professor of 
strategic management at ASU West. "We have 
decided that 
this (volunteering) is consistent with our 
mission that we 
adopt this charity, but I come because I like 
to come."
	"Everybody wants to give something," 
Valentine-
Monnier said. "It's not just about giving 
money, it's really 
about giving your time, which in (some) ways 
is more 
valuable. There is something about being with 
people that 
really need help that is more rewarding than 
just giving 
money."
	MBA student Brice Rickey said he also 
walked away 
with a valuable lesson. 
	"So many people look at the education 
process and 
think, 'Take a class, point A to point B, get 
your grades, 
boom, that's the end of it,' " he said. 
"That's not part of the 
education process. Maybe it was in high 
school, but not for a 
master's degree."
	"Literally, this is supposed to the 
School of Management, and it's supposed to be about 
being a major positive influence upon the economy 
and the community you are in," Rickey said.

ASU gets allies in beer industry to promote safe drinking

By Brian Anderson
State Press 
	ASU Student Health is joining with some 
unlikely 
allies to promote responsible alcohol 
consumption and 
appropriate alcohol-related behavior. 
	Three of the Valley's largest beer 
distributors - 
Shamrock Distributing (Miller), Zeb Pearce 
Distributing 
(Coors) and Hensley & Company (Anheuser-
Busch) - joined 
forces with ASU about 10 years ago to form 
Wholesalers 
Advocating Moderation. But it wasn't until 
the past two years 
that the program became more organized and 
directed, said 
Robin Keillor, prevention specialist for 
Student Health. 
	The distributors are taking part in the 
program to 
continue the downward trend in alcohol-
related incidents, 
said Doug Yonko, vice president of corporate 
communications for Hensley & Company, adding 
that 
alcohol-related auto accidents have dropped 
about 33 percent 
since 1982. 
	"I think it's really to perpetuate the 
continued positive 
trends, like the reduction in drunk driving 
and DWI 
fatalities," he said. "This is an industry-
type effort that has 
strength in numbers." 
	"The original formation of this group 
was about 10 
years ago," Keillor said. "We have sort of 
been rejuvenating it 
in the last two years." 
	WAM has adopted three main guidelines 
for the 
distributors to follow: 
* Not advertising their beers in the State 
Press.
* Sponsoring only student organizations which 
advocate 
alcohol education.
* Advertising the WAM logo in all non-
alcoholic product 
promotions.
	Keillor said the alliance is unusual, 
but it has been an 
important program for students. 
	"For us, it's been a real valuable 
collaboration. We 
don't feel we're at odds with the 
distributors," she said. "The 
distributors that we deal with are really 
concerned that 
students are of age when they drink." 
	Keillor added that WAM is promoting 
responsible 
consumption of alcohol, not abstinence. 
	Doug Williams, market analyst for Zeb 
Pearce 
Distributing, said the difference between 
beer producers' 
alcohol-awareness programs and this one is 
that it is a 
combined effort between several companies.
	"What makes it different here is that we 
got together 
instead of doing it individually," he said. 
"It's a necessary 
program, let's put it that way."
	Williams said they were originally 
interested in WAM 
because they wanted to convey a message of 
responsible 
consumption. 
	"We want customers, but we don't want 
them to abuse 
the products," Williams said. "We want them 
to be 
responsible using them."
	Keillor agreed that the distributors are 
genuinely 
concerned with who uses their products and 
how consumers 
are using them. 
	"They don't want someone to drink their 
product then 
go kill somebody in a driving accident," he 
said.
	Yonko said the WAM program has 
financially 
supported the mid-October Alcohol Awareness 
Week on 
campus for a number of years. But Keillor 
added that much 
of the group's work was solidified within the 
past two years.
	Williams said WAM has been a success and 
he hopes 
to increase the reach of the program in the 
coming years. 
	"It's like everything else out there, we 
would like to do 
it more and give it more exposure," he said. 
"It's a really 
important issue out there and it's something 
that we'd like to 
say we are trying to expand and give a higher 
profile to."

Students line up for shot at better parking

More than 100 on hand for 7:30 a.m. opening

By Cody V. Aycock 
State Press 
	Stephanie Maiurano's camping trip Sunday 
night 
outside the ASU parking offices on Fifth 
Street had more to 
do with getting to school than getting back 
to nature.
	Maiurano, a graduate student studying 
business 
administration, was among the more than 100 
students 
waiting outside the Parking and Transit 
Services offices 
Monday morning for an opportunity to upgrade 
their 
parking position at ASU. 
	"It looked like an awful lot of people 
out there," said 
Norma Hall, supervisor of decal sales, but 
she didn't have an 
exact count of how many students changed 
their parking 
assignments.
	Maiurano was second in line when the 
doors opened 
at 7:30 a.m. She and her four camping 
colleagues staked out 
their positions in front of the building at 
midnight Sunday.
	They were upgraded from Lot 59 to 
Parking Structure 
1, which is located just south of the 
Business Administration 
Building.
	"We felt like champs," she said, even 
though no one in 
the group slept more than a few hours. 
	"When we got to finally roll into our 
new home ... and 
use that little card (Parking Structure 1 
requires a key card), 
and when the arm lifted, it was like the 
gates of heaven 
opened up and said, 'Come on in,' " she said. 
"Using that little 
access card to get in was just the biggest 
thrill of my day." 
	They received the only five spots 
available in the 
structure.
	Matt Meuter, a doctoral marketing 
student, was 76th 
in line. He was upgraded from Lot 59 to 
Parking Structure 4. 
	"I am happy, but not as happy as I would 
have been if 
I would have gotten a space in (Parking) 
Structure 1," he said. 
	Meuter estimates his new spot will save 
him 30 
minutes every morning because he won't have 
to wait for the 
shuttle to campus.
	The only spots available now are for 
motorcycle 
parking and Lot 59, Hall said.
	Jody Stiely, a graduate student studying 
marketing, 
waited all night with Maiurano. She said she 
is more than 
happy to give up her current Lot 59 decal. 
	She commutes three miles to school, but 
said parking 
in Lot 59 took her out of her way. 
	"Driving only three miles to school and 
then driving a 
mile past school and then taking twenty 
minutes to get on a 
bus back to school took a big chunk out of 
the day," she said. 
	Both Maiurano and Stiely said they would 
camp out 
again, but fortunately for them, they won't 
have to.
	"I understand that I get squatter's 
rights on (Parking Structure 1)," Stiely said.

Bicyclist hit after running stop sign

By Eddie Diaz
Special to State Press
	A truck-bicycle accident Monday night at 
College 
Avenue and Broadway Road sent one man to the 
hospital 
and left the driver, an ASU student, shook up 
but unharmed.
	According to police and witnesses, the 
victim, 
identified as Michael Soto, was riding his 
bike to work when 
he ignored a stop sign on Broadway and was 
hit by the 
student's pick-up truck. The student asked 
not to be 
identified.
	The victim sustained minor injuries and 
was 
transported to Scottsdale Memorial Hospital, 
where his 
condition was not available. The victim was 
not wearing a 
helmet, witnesses said.
	Kathy Gee, who was driving behind the 
student, said 
the bicyclist was heading west on Broadway 
when the truck 
made a left turn onto College. The bicyclist 
then collided with 
the front end of the truck, leaving "a big 
dent."
	 "The (bicyclist) did not pay 
attention," she said.
	There were no citations issued at the 
scene. The 
accident is under investigation.

ASU captures 25 grants for minority, women graduate students

By Timothy Tait
State Press
	Minority and women graduate students 
will receive a 
financial boost to the tune of nearly 
$600,000 from Uncle Sam 
this year as part of an effort to diversify 
colleges throughout 
the country.
	The Graduate College was awarded 25 
Patricia 
Roberts Harris fellowships, to be distributed 
among master's 
students in nine disciplines, including art, 
botany, business 
administration and industrial engineering. 
	The fellowship will help establish a 
diverse, 
multicultural and highly-educated work force, 
Graduate 
College Dean Bianca Bernstein said.
	"The purpose of the fellowship is to 
increase the 
number of women and minorities in areas of 
national 
interest," she said.
	Of the 206 institutions that applied for 
fellowships, 
only 57 received funding from the Department 
of Education. 
ASU received the most grants, followed by the 
University of 
Iowa, which received 18.
	Each department was required to write 
separate 
proposals detailing the quality of its 
faculty and resources, 
and substantiate its low representation of 
women and 
minorities.
	The Graduate College coordinated the 
proposals and 
will administer the funds throughout this 
academic year. 
Students will be chosen based on merit and 
financial need.
	Each of the nine departments will select 
the students 
getting the grant, which can total up to 
$22,312 per student, 
with the provision that the recipient has no 
outside 
employment.
	"I really didn't know how I was going to 
make it," said 
Lillian Bonds, a graduate student studying 
performing arts 
who will receive part of the grant.
	"This grant is incredibly important," 
she said. "I feel 
really blessed to have this grant."
	After graduating, Bonds hopes to teach 
theater to 
children in Washington D.C., incorporating 
issues that "are 
important to them."
	The future of the fellowship is in 
question as Congress 
slashes funding for student aid and grants. 
Since 1992, 80 
ASU students have been awarded Patricia 
Roberts Harris 
fellowships, totaling nearly $1.5 million in 
aid.
	"We are fairly pessimistic that the 
funding will end," 
Bernstein said.
	Nonetheless, Bernstein said she was told 
the Senate 
had passed an appropriations bill on Friday 
that included 
continued funding for the Patricia Roberts 
Harris fellowship, 
adding that the only obstacle blocking the 
future of the 
fellowship is the House of Representatives. 
	Bonds said opponents to grants aiming at 
creating 
diversity are misunderstood.
	"Many people think that affirmative 
action is a gift - 
it's an opportunity," she said. "Grants like 
this give you the 
opportunity, not the grades. If it was not 
for affirmative 
action, I would not have gotten here."

Editorial: Opportunity for all

	The institution of "Affirmative Action" 
- the bulwark of minority opportunity in this 
nation for the past 30 years - is under 
assault from all sides.
	Viewed by many as "reverse racism," 
unfair and unnecessary, it faces possible 
annihilation.
	In education, it has been invaluable - 
and often 
misunderstood. And, in California, it took a 
fearsome blow 
when the University of California eliminated 
race-based scholarships entirely.
	Thinking that this was a good idea, 
Arizona Regent 
John Munger called for a review - a review 
which he hoped 
would eliminate these scholarships from the 
Arizona 
university system.
	"I think I am right, and I will 
prevail," Munger said.
	Regent Munger, you're not right - and we 
can only hope that you will not prevail.
	Affirmative action, in its purest form, 
is about one 
thing - giving someone a chance.
	For most of this nation's history, 
people were denied 
chances purely because of their race, 
ethnicity or gender. If a 
group is systematically denied opportunity 
over time, that 
group will quickly fall behind, both 
educationally and economically.
	It is not enough to suddenly even up the 
playing surface, and say that the problem will 
correct itself.
	Think of it as a football game. One team 
cheats for three quarters, and amasses a huge lead. 
Then, in the fourth 
quarter, the referee announces that he won't 
allow any more 
cheating - but this won't correct the score.
	But even that analogy would not be 
entirely accurate. 
Football is a zero-sum game - if one team 
wins, the other team has to lose.
	Is affirmative action a zero-sum game? 
Are whites 
now being systematically denied opportunities 
purely because of their ethnicity?
	At ASU, this is hardly the case.
	In 1993-94, 7,044 scholarships were 
awarded. Of that 
total, only 92 (1.3 percent) were designated 
as minority-only.
	Of the 15,592 scholarships in the 
Arizona university 
system, a piddling 285 - 1.8 percent - are 
minority-only.
	Yet to the minority community at ASU, 
these scholarships are significant - 24.3 percent 
of minority 
students here benefited from them.
	Doesn't sound like a huge price tag, 
does it?
	Others will focus instead on the fact 
that some 
minority students admitted are "unqualified." 
A 1989 study 
claimed that only 1 in 3 blacks and Hispanics 
was academically qualified for admission to the 
University, as 
opposed to 1 in 2 for white students.
	But again, the playing field isn't 
entirely even. The 
public schooling system, based purely on 
local property 
taxes, disadvantages children from poorer 
neighborhoods - 
neighborhoods that are often predominantly 
minority.
	People shouldn't be punished because 
they didn't receive the quality of education that their 
wealthier counterparts obtained.
	Education is the single most valuable 
weapon in the 
fight to become a nation of equals. If we 
deny someone the 
right to this education, we ensure that we 
will forever wallow in inequality.
	Leave affirmative action alone, at least 
in the university system. 
	For now, it is sorely needed.

Editorial: Separate truths to be told about affirmative action

Those for affirmative action argue:
* Educational measures should not be the 
deciding factor. 
Those who can afford it, can send their 
children to private 
schools or transfer them to better schools. 
Those who live in 
poor neighborhoods cannot and are not 
afforded the same 
educational opportunities. 

* Not everyone comes from the same condition. 
It's hard to 
pull yourself up from the boot straps if you 
don't have any 
boots.

* Without affirmative action, businesses 
would not be 
compelled to diversify their work force by 
hiring qualified 
people of color and women. Instead they would 
revert to 
their comfort zone by hiring those that look 
and act alike.

* Affirmative action policy says that when 
two candidates are 
equally qualified, the one whose gender or 
ethnicity is 
underrepresented can be hired. Such policy 
makes good 
business sense especially when people of 
color are predicted 
to become a major force in the next century.

Those opposed to affirmative action argue:
* By allowing minorities to enter into 
programs that are 
above their academic level, institutions are 
setting them up to 
fail and further reinforce the idea that 
minorities are inferior.

* By giving preferential treatment to 
minorities, the American 
ideal of a capitalist society are shattered. 

* You should create your own opportunities 
and be able to 
find ways to pull yourself up by your own 
bootstraps.

* Women and minorities have already made 
gains in the 
work place so they don't need a helping hand.

* Reverse discrimination is hurting white 
males .

* People shouldn't be punished for something 
they had no part of.

Column: Separate truths to be told about affirmative action

Delia Maldonado
Columnist
	Every time I read a story about 
affirmative action and, 
more recently, the World Conference on Women 
in Beijing, I 
think of Brian Webb. 
	You've probably never heard of him. Most 
people haven't. Brian and I went to high school 
together. As 
freshmen we struggled through English. As 
sophomores he surpassed me in 
geometry. As juniors he conquered 
trigonometry and went on to calculus. 
Meanwhile, I dropped 
all my math classes and pulled some strings 
(my sister was a teacher) to get into a computer 
class. 
	After a while I accepted the fact that 
Brian was smarter 
than me. I envied him because of his 
intelligence but I was his 
friend because he never reminded me of it. 
	In our senior year colleges started 
coming to our high 
school to recruit the top 20 students. Brian 
was No. 3 and I 
was No. 20 (mainly because I had dropped all 
those pesky 
math classes). Some of our other friends were 
also among the 
elite. Tammy, a Hispanic female, was ranked 
No. 5 and 
Raymond, an African-American male, was ranked 
4th. 
	When the dust finally cleared Raymond, 
Tammy and I 
all had scholarships. Brian had none. We knew 
we had 
capitalized on minority scholarships but we 
never talked 
about it. Soon after that Brian missed about 
30 school days in 
a row. He never talked to us about what 
happened but he 
never stopped being our friend, either.
	That scholarship was one of the first 
breaks in my life. 
The next was my first full-time job. The 
company needed to 
fill a quota so I was chosen over several 
other, more qualified, 
applicants.  
	I knew I was getting opportunities I 
wouldn't 
otherwise have. But I also knew that if I 
didn't work hard, I 
wouldn't be able to hang on to them. I guess 
I was selfish. I 
didn't care about the people who were getting 
passed over 
because of me. I never thought of it as 
making up for some 
wrongdoing in history. I just wanted a 
college education and 
a job.
	I believed that as long as I was getting 
equal 
opportunities then nothing else mattered. 
Now, with the 
push to end affirmative action, I realize I 
wasn't getting equal 
opportunities - I was getting more. As a 
Hispanic woman I 
was a double whammy. My employer was filling 
two quotas 
for the price of one 
	I think I would still have gone to 
college without a 
scholarship. My parents couldn't afford to 
send me but I 
would have gotten a job and gone to school 
part time or 
found some way to get a college education. 
But I know I 
wouldn't have gotten that job, so what I am 
about to say 
might shock you: I don't support affirmative 
action. I never 
had a choice in the matter so I just accepted 
it. That's the way 
things were and maybe, for a while, it was 
justified. 
	Yes, I benefited from it and I will 
probably continue to 
do so, but I have enough confidence in my 
abilities to know I 
could survive without it. 
	So I say let's end it.
	Affirmative action was a race issue for 
a long time. 
Years ago minorities were losing jobs simply 
because of the 
color of their skin. But now things have 
changed. Maybe not 
completely, but enough to make some changes 
to a very 
outdated program. 
	Now is the time to restructure 
affirmative action laws. 
The original intent of the law was to provide 
opportunities to 
minorities for the many years they suffered 
under white 
corporate America. But the scales did not 
stop when there 
were equal opportunities for minorities. The 
scales tipped in 
favor of minorities and a lot of hard working 
white men 
suffered for it.
	Which brings me back to Brian Webb. Two 
years ago I 
went back to Detroit for an impromptu reunion 
of the top 20. 
Only about 11 of us showed up. Brian was one 
of them. After 
high school he had worked as a stock boy for 
the local 
drugstore until he could save enough money to 
go to college. 
He eventually did.
	
Delia Maldonado is a graduate student 
studying journalism.



Christina Bailey
Opinion Editor
	I remember telling my friends when 
California passed 
Proposition 187 - banning aid to illegal 
immigrants - that it 
was just the beginning.
	It was. 
	California lit the torch of discontent 
that Congress and 
other opponents against affirmative action 
hungrily took and 
have been running with ever since. 
	The first attack was on illegal 
immigrants. Then it was 
expanded to cut aid to legal immigrants. 
	Now the focus has centered on 
eliminating affirmative 
action. It seems after 35 years of these 
programs, we've 
become a colorblind society where people are 
judged on their 
talent and skills, not by their color. 
	Right?
	To first understand the arguments for 
and against 
affirmative action, you must understand what 
affirmative 
action is and is not. To say that I could 
explain the 
complexities of this program in one column 
would be 
irresponsible. I can, however, give you a 
short synopsis of my 
thoughts and the thoughts offered by others 
who have 
researched and become experts on the subject 
of affirmative 
action.
	The original executive order defining 
affirmative 
action required employers only to search 
aggressively for 
qualified minority applicants, be it through 
advertising or 
special recruitment efforts. It was 
originally a race-based 
issue and didn't include women until women's 
rights groups 
pressured for it years later.
	* Affirmative action is not just a 
singular program, it is 
a concept, and there are unlimited kinds of 
programs that can 
potentially be implemented to try to achieve 
equal 
opportunity.
	* Affirmative action doesn't say you 
have to hire 
people of color, a certain amount of people 
of color (quotas) 
or unqualified people of color. 
	* There are no quotas induced by 
affirmative action in 
employment situations or in a University 
setting.
	* Each state and privately owned 
business, however, 
has taken affirmative action and expanded on 
it to fit its own 
ideals, wants and needs.
	To say the scales are tipped in favor of 
people of color 
or women is an absolute fallacy. 
	Maybe I am missing something here, but 
where is the 
evidence to show discrimination against white 
males and 
equality in the work place for people of 
color and women?
	How many presidents and CEOs of Fortune 
500 
companies are non-white or women?
	Look at the pictures of the people we 
pay tribute to at 
ASU. How many of them are people of color or 
women?
	How many positions of true power do 
people of color 
or women hold ?
	This is still a white-male run world.
	Sometimes I resign myself to the fact 
that people aren't 
ever going to change. They're going to 
believe what they 
want to believe even if the facts are served 
to them on a silver 
platter. 
	What would it mean for white America to 
know that 
they are afforded opportunities others aren't 
because of the 
whiteness of their skin?
	What would it mean for white America to 
accept that 
actions and words of people like Detective 
Mark Furhman as 
common occurrences in the minority community, 
not just 
aberrations?
	What would it mean to know that people 
are still 
being castigated, killed and alienated simply 
because of the 
color of their skin, gender or sexual 
preference? 
	It would mean an utter contradiction to 
what this 
country was founded upon. The notion of life, 
liberty and 
justice for all would be a farce.
	If these notions were to be accepted it 
might mean 
realizing everybody has a part in this 
struggle for equality 
and that change must occur. Changes that are 
too scary and 
too hard for most to make.
	But I get angry, and I get tired of 
walking into 
potential jobs or internships and getting the 
looks, hearing 
the whispers of "token minority, quota, 
unqualified," so I 
continue to fight the ugly stereotypes and 
myths.
	Myths like the one that says businesses 
pass up 
qualified whites for unqualified people of 
color or women 
regularly. 
	With the competition as fierce as it is, 
it would be 
suicide for businesses to hire someone who is 
incompetent or 
unqualified, regardless of race or gender. 
	Some people think that if an equally 
qualified white 
male, person of color or woman go for the 
same job and the 
person of color is hired, it's 
discrimination. In actuality, it 
makes good business sense to employ a gender 
or a race that 
is underrepresented in that business - 
especially since people 
of color are predicted to be the majority by 
the next century.
	White America cannot continue to stifle 
the growth of 
these populations by accepting the unequal 
opportunities for 
education given to people without proper 
funds as the norm, 
or believing in the elimination of programs 
that give people 
of color and women a chance to get their foot 
in the door 
because they are a contradiction of American 
ideals. America 
can't continue to let the media be the only 
sources of 
education and remain unwilling to hold them 
accountable for 
their negative portrayal of people of color 
either. 
	To do so is to invite another bloody 
confrontation. 
	Immigrants, people of color, women, gays 
and lesbians are not the problem here.
	Ignorance and fear of the unknown are.

Christina Bailey is a senior studying print journalism

Column: Harvard report makes me sick to my stomach

Liz Montalbano
Columnist
	Just when I thought it was safe to be 
voluptuous, a 
headline in last Thursday's Tempe Daily News 
Tribune gave 
me even more fat to chew on: "The thinner the 
better, report says."
	It seems the Tribune thought it was a 
priority to run a 
brief blurb about some research done at 
Harvard Medical 
School on the front page. The research 
concluded that even if 
a woman is slightly overweight, her life may 
be shortened.
	I guess it's about time I ordered my 
coffin.
	First of all, isn't there a more 
imminent threat out there 
on the medical horizon that these people 
could be researching 
instead of relentlessly driving it into 
women's heads that they 
have to be thin, thin, thin? Last time I 
heard, there was no 
foolproof cure for cancer, let alone AIDS.
	Secondly, does anyone out there realize 
that it is 
absolutely impossible for some women (of 
which I happen to 
be one) to ever be as slim as Kate Moss? I 
could not eat for a 
week and the width of my hips still wouldn't 
budge.
	Where are all of the reports about how 
bad bulimia 
and anorexia are for a woman? Where are 
reports that focus 
on feeling good about yourself no matter what 
you look like 
for no matter how long you may live? 
	A year and a half ago, I lived with a 
bulimic. She was 
open about her problem from the outset and 
told me that she 
had gotten help and was once again healthy. 
	Hers was not a body that was meant to be 
painfully thin.
	Someone should have told her that.	
	It wasn't too long before my food began 
disappearing. 
I thought at first that she had just 
"borrowed" some over a 
period of time and that everything was OK. 
Still, it seemed 
strange that an entire loaf of bread that was 
in my cupboard 
one day was suddenly gone the next.
	I heard retching in the bathroom late at 
night when she 
thought I was asleep. Do you know what it's 
like to hear a 
woman mercilessly punishing herself for 
something that isn't 
even her fault? It made me want to throw up, 
too.
	She began to shed pounds dangerously. 
Her hair 
became dry and her skin sallow. She looked 
like a walking corpse.
	The scariest thing about it was that 
this woman was 
more petite than I am. For a moment, it 
really made me doubt 
my own self-image, too, but I knew she was 
looking in the 
mirror through distorted eyes.
	One night I confronted her about her 
illness. She burst 
into tears and admitted what she had been 
denying for months.
	She told me how she would eat slice 
after slice of 
bread smeared with any condiment she could 
find. She told 
me how she felt like an automaton with no 
control over her 
actions. She told me how her throat and 
stomach ached from 
constant retching.
	She vowed to help herself once and for 
all, and I offered my support.	
	Not long after, I moved to Arizona. I 
saw her once on a 
visit home and she looked like she'd put on 
some weight and 
was visibly healthier.
	I can only hope her appearance wasn't 
deceiving.
	What's really sad is that my former 
roommate was just 
another victim of a society that places too 
much importance 
on physical appearance to judge the worth of 
a person.
	Eating disorders are addictive diseases. 
They are not just about weight. 
	They are about loving and respecting 
yourself enough 
to set your own standards for what you should 
look like, and 
realize that it's OK for some things to be 
out of your control.
	This is not new information, but 
obviously, it's still not 
getting through.
	The media and the medical industry do 
nothing to 
help the problem by constantly emphasizing 
that thin is in, 
that thin is healthy and that thin is the 
only way a woman 
will be desirable to a man. 
	Sure, being skinny may add several years 
to a woman's physical existence.
	But it also may cost her her life.

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

Snyder says Huskers better than last year

Junior wideout Poole ranks 4th in  nation in receiving yards per 
game

By Dan Miller
State Press
	After watching the game film and sorting through the 
analysis, ASU football coach Bruce Snyder had an unsettling 
thought.
	"I think they're better than they were a year ago," 
Snyder said of No. 2 Nebraska, which disposed of the Sun 
Devils 77-28 Saturday. "I think their offense is better than it 
was a year ago."
	Snyder said he and his staff watched film from every 
one of the Cornhuskers' games last year when they won the 
national championship to help prepare for the game. But as 
the result would indicate, there were more variables involved 
in the blowout that far outweighed the dissection of film.
	"The biggest gap - and I don't mean to pontificate - is 
their whole organization is in advance of everybody's 
organization here in the Pac-10 in terms of putting a team on 
the field that can consistently win," Snyder said. "... That team 
is a product of a great system."
	The playmaker
	Although the positives in Saturday's game were few, 
Snyder pointed out the tandem of junior quarterback Jake 
Plummer to junior receiver Keith Poole as possibly the most 
significant bright spot.
	"I felt like the Plummer-to-Poole combo is alive and 
well, and that's against good competition," Snyder said. 
	Poole's three touchdown grabs Saturday gave him five 
on the season, which is tops in the Pac-10. Poole, who is 
averaging 125 receiving yards per game, ranks fourth in the 
nation in that category. His six catches for 200 yards Saturday 
gave him 52 career receptions for 1,163 yards. Poole has 
averaged 22.4 yards-per-reception for his career. 
	"He changes the scoreboard for us," Snyder said of the 
6-foot-2, 188-pound Poole. "They'll (other teams) man-up on 
him and he'll beat them. I don't know of anybody in our 
conference who can do that consistently."
	Snyder added that Poole's speed is deceiving, which 
plays right into his hands.
	"He's faster than people think. They misjudge his 
speed," he said. "They misjudge his ability to move the 
defender. He's clearly one of our better players.
	"You gotta go make plays. It doesn't matter who it's 
against, you just go make them."
	Robertson back?
	Snyder said junior center Kirk Robertson, who 
suffered a knee injury during the last day at Camp Tontozona 
and has missed the first three games, could be ready to start 
by Saturday. Robertson was scheduled to see a physician 
Monday for a final determination. Robertson, who was 
scheduled to start at center prior to the season, has been 
replaced by redshirt-freshman Grey Ruegamer, who has 
filled the void nicely. Snyder said Ruegamer's play is quickly 
establishing him as a "non-freshman."
	If Robertson returns, the versatile Ruegamer would 
likely see playing time at another position on the offensive 
line.
	"We're anxious for Kirk to come back to see if he can 
take over the center position," Snyder said. "What that would 
do is give us some flexibility to strengthen other positions on 
our offensive line."
	Snyder also said senior cornerback Marcus Soward 
was scheduled to visit with a physician Monday. Soward, 
who injured his groin at Camp Tontozona and hasn't fully 
recovered, played sparingly against Nebraska, missed the 
UTEP game and was limited against Washington. Snyder was 
concerned that Soward has not yet reached full strength. 
Soward was tabbed as the starting right corner prior to the 
season.
	Martin leaving
	Snyder said sophomore back-up tailback Michael 
Martin may be absent for the Oregon State game because of a 
death in the family. He said the funeral is scheduled for 
Saturday in Dallas, Martin's hometown. Starting tailback 
Chris Hopkins suffered a hamstring injury against Nebraska 
and was unable to practice Sunday. Snyder said he hopes 
Hopkins will be ready to go full speed against the Beavers, 
but if he isn't ready, sophomore Terry Battle may start. Battle 
led all ASU's ball carriers last week with 52 yards on nine 
carries.
	Injury update
	* Junior rush tackle Shawn Swayda, who suffered an 
ankle sprain against the Huskers, is questionable for 
Saturday. 
	* Senior linebacker Sam Santana is questionable with a 
shoulder sprain.
	* Freshman receiver Lenzie Jackson is questionable 
with a knee sprain. Snyder said Jackson is starting to make a 
push for significantly more action, especially when his knee is 
healed. 
	"He's establishing himself as a good route runner," 
Snyder said of Jackson, who has three receptions for 24 yards 
this year. "He will play more if his knee is better."
	* The ASU receiving corp has combined for 15 
dropped passes in the first three games.

Ice Devil hockey gears up for new season

By Ron Matejko
State Press
     It's almost time to drop the puck for another season of ice 
hockey. No, not the Phoenix Roadrunners, the ASU Ice 
Devils.
     The Ice Devils are led by Coach Gene Hammett, who is 
entering his fourth season after spending his first season at 
ASU as an assistant. Hammett brings a 38-38-2 record into the 
new season. The Ice Devils went 8-20 last season, losing 11 
games by one goal. Contributing to the record was the Ice 
Devils' change from Division II to Division I, which affected 
what students were eligible to participate on the team. As a 
result, freshmen made up 70 percent of the roster.
     Hammett says his coaching style weighs heavily on 
teaching the skaters to play with class and pride. He stays 
away from some of  hockey's stereotypes like fighting and 
stickwork. 
     "I believe college sports is about sportsmanship," Hammett 
said. "You reflect the university you're representing. We want 
to put out a good positive image of who we are and where 
we're from."
     Hammett, who is holding try-outs this week, said he has a 
good group of players to build from. 
     "We have a good nucleus of 10 to 12 players from last 
year's team," he said. "They'll be complemented by the new 
players and give us a solid club."
     Hammett said the Ice Devils will have solid leadership 
from their co-captains, senior defenseman Kevin Brenda and 
senior left wing Steve Livernois.
     Other returnees Hammett said to watch are: sophomore 
right wing Steve Hammett, who led the Ice Devils in scoring 
last season as a freshman; senior Sean Eggert, who has been 
moved from defense to right wing to add some size up front; 
and junior Stefan Richardson, who received high praise from 
Hammett regarding his academic successes off the ice.
 	Hammett is high on his new recruiting class, 
particularly freshman right wing, Jed Snyder.
	"Snyder is going to be a big addition for us," Hammett 
said. "He's a big tough wing who works and skates hard. He's 
going to get some goals for us."
     Hammett also said sophomore defenseman Nick Novello 
is a big player who will add toughness at the blueline.
     One of the battles that will take place will be for the 
starting goalie spot. Both freshman Greg Powers and senior 
Ross Steinberg have a shot at the job now that last season's 
starting goalie, Adam Mims, has an injured back and will be 
out for a while.
     During the try-outs, members of the Phoenix Roadrunners 
have been working out with the Ice Devils. Hammett said 
this is done to get the younger players accustomed to the 
rougher style and higher level of play they will be subjected 
to at the collegiate level. 
    The Ice Devils are in Division I of the American Collegiate 
Hockey Association and in the Pac-8 conference. They open 
up their season on the road Oct. 20-21 against Boulder.

Freshmen duo hits diamond

By Damian Shaw 
State Press
	The ASU softball team is holding tryouts, but for two 
freshmen it may be merely a formality. 
	The new pitcher-catcher tandem of Kathy Ponce and 
Carla Fortune is probably already guaranteed a spot on the 
team and may be the future of ASU softball, according to 
Coach Linda Wells. 
	"I definitely think they're a good pitcher-catcher career 
combination," Wells said. "I think that they'll be able to match 
up and play a lot of ball. Both of them will be good career 
players for us. 
	Both players had similar credentials coming to ASU 
and were highly touted and recruited coming out of high 
school. Also, both players are 18 and chose to play for the Sun 
Devils in order to be closer to home. 
	Ponce, the pitcher who hails from Huntington Beach, 
Calif., said she's comfortable with being thrust into a starting 
roll right away. 
	"I'm comfortable with anything as long as it helps out 
the team," she said. "I'm a little bit nervous, but as long as I 
can come in and help out the team in any way I'll do it." 
	The second half of the pitcher-catcher duo, Fortune, is 
a local product out of Ironwood High School in Glendale. She 
also believes she's going to be able to step in and make a 
contribution right away. 
	"I'm ready to jump in," Fortune said. "I've worked a 
long time to get here. This has been a dream since (I was) 8 
years old."
	Wells credited Ponce's experience as a benefit.  
	"She's played competitive ball for a while, so she's 
going to be able to help right away," Wells said.
	Wells also noted Fortune's pre-college experience will 
smooth the transition from high school to college ball. 
	"She's very experienced; she's played a long time," 
Wells said. "She's not going to have to learn everything here; 
she already knows a lot of the game."
	Fortune said her primary reasons for joining the squad 
-  besides proximity -  were the coaching staff and the fact 
that ASU was a Pac-10 team. The Pac-10 has traditionally 
dominated post-season play. 
	While softball season doesn't start until the spring, 
both recruits have high expectations for the season. 
	"We should do better than we did last year," Fortune 
added. "I hope we have a good season."

ATTENTION ASU FOOTBALL FANS: IT'S WEEK FOUR

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football games.  
	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 Pac-10 foe Oregon 
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	If none of the contestants in a given week predict the 
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ASU police reported the following incidents 
Monday:
* A male student was contacted in Area 51 
while driving on 
the sidewalks. He was advised against driving 
recklessly and 
on the sidewalks and left the area.
* A man not affiliated with ASU was contacted 
at Sixth Street 
and Rural Road while sleeping on the hood of 
his car. He was 
advised of trespassing and left the area.
* A male student was arrested, cited and 
released for being in 
possession of drug paraphernalia at 600 E. 
University Drive.
* A man not affiliated with ASU was contacted 
at the Tower 
Apartments pool area while sleeping. He was 
advised of 
trespassing and left the area.
* A male student reported that a ASU vehicle 
hit his car while 
in Parking Structure 5.
* Someone damaged the sidewalk, two doors and 
the wall 
inside the laundry area at Ocotillo Hall.
* Two men not affiliated with ASU were 
involved in a non-
injury accident at the northwest corner of 
the Tempe Center. 
They exchanged information and left the area. 
Tempe police reported the following incidents 
Monday:
* A man robbed a Circle K at 1323 W. Southern 
Ave. He 
forced the clerk at gunpoint to give him 
money from the cash 
register. He also robbed a customer of his 
wallet and watch. 
While leaving, he fired a shot into the south 
wall of the store. 
He fled on foot, later stealing a bike from 
another man. He is 
described as a black male, 5 feet 8 inches  
tall with a medium 
build. He had a bandanna over his face during 
the robbery.
* Two male juveniles, aged 16 and 17, were 
contacted about 
an attempted car theft at 615 S. Hardy Drive. 
The vehicle's 
owner had chased the two off and then called 
police. Both 
were referred for possession of a stolen 
vehicle and curfew. 
Fingerprints were taken from the vehicle for 
comparison for 
additional possible charges. The two youths 
were stopped in 
another stolen car the previous night.
* A 51-year-old man was arrested for 
urinating in public in 
the parking lot of Murphy's Irish Pub, 1810 
E. Apache Blvd. 
The bar's manager said the man had showed up 
at the bar 
"extremely intoxicated."
Compiled by State Press reporter Greg Zemeida

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* Alcoholics Anonymous - Daily campus 
meeting. Noon to 
1:15 p.m.; Newman Center, Aquinas Hall in the 
basement.
* Asian Business Leaders Association - 
General meeting. 
Guest speaker Magdalene Huang, adviser from 
the minority 
assistance program. 4 p.m.; MU Santa Cruz 
(213).
* ASU Agribusiness Club - Organizational 
meeting. All 
majors welcome. Come and learn what 
agribusiness has to 
offer you. 4:30 p.m.; Ag 262.
* ASU College Republicans - General meeting. 
Club elections. 
Everyone welcome. 3:30 p.m.; MU Cochise 
(212E).
* BACCHUS - Alcohol Awareness Week planning 
committee 
meeting. 5:50 p.m.; MU Hopi (208C).
* Baptist Student Union - Tuesday night Bible 
study. 8 p.m.; 
1322 S. Mill Ave.
* Career Services - Two career related 
workshops: How to 
succeed at Career Fiesta (11:40 a.m.) and job 
search skills for 
international students (12:40 p.m.). MU 223 
and 222.
* Christian Science Organization - Weekly 
reading of the 
Bible and science and health with key to the 
scriptures by 
Mary Baker Eddy. Everyone welcome. 5 p.m.; 
Danforth 
Chapel.
* Coming Out Discussion Group - Meeting. 6 
p.m.; Student 
Services Building second floor, Multicultural 
Lounge.
* KASR - All-staff meeting. All staff 
required to attend. 3 
p.m.; MU Pima Room.
* KASR - "Punk Rock Lunch Break." More 
madness with host 
Alex B and hopefully Killdozer in-studio 
interview. Noon; 
KASR 1260 AM.
* KASR Video - New night, new time, new show. 
Channel 
surfer Rob Machado and Bobby Diablo. 11 p.m.; 
Channel 22.
* MUAB Comedy Committee - Join the zany casts 
of Farce 
Side and Barren Mind for sketch writing at a 
general comedy 
meeting. 3 p.m.; MU third floor, MUAB office.
* MUAB Recreation Committee - Meeting to 
discuss College 
Bowl. All welcome. 4 p.m.; MU third floor, 
MUAB 
Conference Room 2. 
* MUAB Gallery Committee - Meeting. Everyone 
welcome. 
5:30 p.m.; MUAB third floor, Conference Room 
2A.
* MUAB Marketing Committee - Meeting. 
Everyone 
welcome. 3:15 p.m.; MU Hopi (208C).
* NATAS - Activities committee meeting. 6 
p.m.; Stauffer Hall 
second floor, Reading Room.
* Native American Students Association - 
General meeting. 
Come to help plan for the Native American 
Recognition 
Days. Everyone welcome. 6:30 p.m.; American 
Indian 
Institute, conference room.