Police report 3 rapes

Women knew alleged attackers, police say; 
Campus sexual assault complaints double

By Greg Zemeida
State Press
	Three female students reported to ASU 
police 
Tuesday that they had been raped on campus 
during the 
past week, bringing the number of sexual 
assaults this year 
to the highest total since 1992.
	One woman was reportedly sexually 
assaulted 
Monday at Manzanita Hall, one Sunday at an 
unidentified 
residence hall and another on Sept. 21 at 
Palo Verde West 
Hall.
	Police would not release any of the 
incident reports at 
this time or identify the victims or the 
suspects in the cases, 
but they said the rapes are not related.
	The suspect in the Palo Verde West rape 
is an ASU 
student, and the one involved in the 
Manzanita incident is 
not affiliated with ASU. Police do not know 
if the suspect in 
the unidentified-dorm assault is a student.
	ASU Chief of Police Lanny Standridge 
said all three 
women identified their attackers by name, but 
no arrests 
have been made so far. He said police must 
investigate the 
incidents to establish probable cause before 
charging any of 
the suspects.
	"This is a top priority," Standridge 
said. "This has to 
be done in a careful manner."
	Two of the women were drunk at the time 
of their 
rapes, he said, making it more difficult for 
police to gather 
solid proof that a sexual assault occurred.
	So far only one woman, who lives in 
Manzanita, told 
police she is willing to press charges. The 
woman at Palo 
Verde West is hesitant and the one at the 
unidentified 
residence hall has refused, Standridge said.
	The suspects cannot be arrested and 
charged unless 
the victims are willing to press charges, 
Standridge said. 
There were no witnesses to any of the 
assaults.
	Including Tuesday's incidents, there 
have been six 
reported rapes on campus this year. Last year 
there were 
four. In 1993 there were three, with six in 
1992 and none in 
1991.
	The women didn't tell police why they 
waited so long 
to report their rapes. Sometimes it takes 
rape victims awhile 
before they decide to report an incident like 
this, Standridge 
said.
	"It's a very shocking experience," he 
said. "It's 
degrading."
	All three suspects were invited into the 
victims' dorm 
rooms by the victims themselves or someone 
else. The three 
cases are classic examples of acquaintance 
rape, Standridge 
said.
	Radawna Michelle, crime prevention 
coordinator for 
ASU police, said acquaintance rape is the 
most common type 
of sexual assault. Nationwide, 80 to 85 
percent of rape 
victims know their attackers, she said, which 
also holds true 
for ASU.
	Acquaintance rape is common because 
people don't 
prepare for it, Michelle said. Unlike 
stereotypes portrayed by 
the media, most rapes aren't committed by 
strangers in dark 
alleys, she said.
	"(People) don't consider the possibility 
that someone 
they know might hurt them," Michelle said.
	In addition, few women report rape. 
According to 
national statistics, nine out of 10 rapes go 
unreported, she 
said.
	"There are still victims out there that 
haven't reported 
to anyone," Michelle said.
	For those students who do report a rape, 
it is not 
uncommon for them to wait before calling 
campus police. 
Victims at ASU tend to wait to make a report 
60 percent of 
the time, Michelle said.
	ASU police put on several programs 
dealing with 
sexual assault each semester, but few 
students ever attend them, she said.

Oktoberfest more than just beer and bratwurst

By Angela Mull
State Press
	Tempe Vice-Mayor Dennis Cahill enjoys 
Tempe's 
annual Oktoberfest because the proceeds 
finance an 
exchange program between Tempe and foreign 
countries.
	He also likes the refreshments.
	"I'm not adverse to having beer and 
bratwurst from 
time to time," said Cahill, a Wisconsin 
native who likes 
German culture.
	The 23rd annual Way-Out-West Oktoberfest 
dismounts at Tempe's Hayden Square Sept. 29 
and saddles 
back up Oct. 1. Festivities run from 5 p.m. 
to midnight  
Friday, 10 a.m. to midnight Saturday and 10 
a.m. to 6 p.m. 
Sunday. Soft drinks, alcoholic beverages and 
Mexican, 
German and "cowboy" food will be served. 
Admission is 
free.
	Festivities will include dancing, games, 
contests, 
children's entertainment and three live music 
stages, one 
with polka music. 
	In addition, a silent auction will be 
held and a raffle 
will include two round-trip tickets to 
Regensburg, Germany. 
Parking will be available at a lot at Fifth 
Street and Mill 
Avenue and behind nearby condominiums, and 
about 40,000 
to 50,000 people are expected to attend, said 
Jane Neuheisel, 
Oktoberfest chairwoman and director of the 
Hackett House. 
	Oktoberfest, the first sanctioned Super 
Bowl event 
this year, is hosted by Tempe Sister Cities 
Corp., a group that 
runs a foreign exchange program. Every year, 
Oktoberfest's 
revenues send about 18 Tempe high school 
students to 
countries like Germany and China for six 
weeks and bring 
students from other countries to Tempe. This 
year, 
Oktoberfest should raise about $50,000, 
Neuheisel said, 
adding that the event's proceeds are the 
exchange program's 
primary financial source.
	Cahill said sending students to other 
countries is 
important because it prevents misconceptions 
about other 
cultures.
	"The world gets smaller and it gets a 
little harder to 
misunderstand someone when you know them," he 
said. "(It 
gets harder to) prejudge them once you love them."

ASU grads prepare to cream competition with new store

By Angela Mull
State Press
	During high school, Michelle Goodwin and 
Tony 
DeNome did not want to own a business. But 
scooped up by 
a desire to be their own bosses, they are now 
partners of the 
Mill Avenue Creamery Co. in Tempe.
	DeNome, a 24-year-old ASU graduate, said 
his uncle 
influenced his decision to become co-owner, 
co-founder and 
partner with Goodwin at the ice cream 
establishment at 501 
S. Mill Ave. 
	"He told me there's nothing like being 
your own 
boss," he said. "You're in control. How your 
business goes is 
up to you, not anyone else." 
	Mill Avenue Creamery Co. opened for 
business Sept. 
14. Goodwin, 25, who is also an ASU graduate, 
said she 
decided a couple of years ago to open the 
establishment. In 
January, she discussed the idea with DeNome, 
a friend she 
met at ASU, and they became partners. 
	"I knew I couldn't do it alone, and I 
knew Tony would 
be one of my best assets," she said. 
	Although Goodwin received an accounting 
degree in 
May of '95, DeNome graduated from ASU in 
December of 
'94 with a physiology degree. He said he 
considered 
becoming a chiropractor or an actor, both of 
which are still 
possible. 
	ASU business students should be 
encouraged by 
Goodwin and DeNome opening their own 
business, said 
Thomas Keller, an associate professor of 
business 
management. 
	"They can see that people actually 
consider that the 
entrepreneurial approach is a career path 
they can take as an 
alternative to working for a corporation," he 
said. 
	The partners invested about $75,000 to 
open the 
Creamery, primarily because of its location 
on Mill Avenue, 
Goodwin said. The location also places it 
across the street 
from Cold Stone Creamery, which Goodwin said 
is her 
business's main competition. The close 
proximity is one 
reason the Mill Avenue Creamery Co. also 
serves pitas and 
pretzels, she added. 
	DeNome also said both partners listen 
carefully to 
customers to continually improve the flavor 
of their ice 
cream.
	"We've tried to create a product that 
customers will 
come back for," said Goodwin, who makes the 
ice cream. 
	Since opening, Goodwin added that she 
has changed 
every ice cream flavor in some manner to 
compete with Cold 
Stone.
	"They've made us work twice as hard," 
she said, 
adding that customers have told her they 
prefer her ice 
cream to Cold Stone's. 
	DeNome said ASU students are an 
important part of 
the Mill Avenue Creamery Co.'s business. 
	"ASU students are the ones we're tied 
the closest to," 
he said. "We went through the same stuff 
they're going 
through."
	The Mill Avenue Creamery Co. is open 
Monday 
through Thursday from 10 a.m. to midnight, 
Friday and 
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m., and Sunday 
from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

New admissions director brings recruitment, outreach expertise

By Ray Stern
Special to the State Press
	The Arizona heat didn't scare Dolan 
Ivanovich, the 
University's new admissions director.
	"It was 120 degrees when I was there for 
the 
interview," he said. "I don't think it gets 
much hotter than 
that."
	His meeting with ASU officials last 
month marked his 
first visit to Arizona.
	"I'm looking forward to the lifestyle 
change, (like) 
playing baseball with my children outdoors in 
January," he 
said. "I did a lot of research into the 
schools I applied for. 
(ASU) has a beautiful campus with outstanding 
facilities."
	Ivanovich replaces Susan Clouse Dolbert, 
who served 
as the department's director for six years 
and is now the 
executive director of the ASU Alumni 
Association. 
	Currently the director of admissions at 
Eastern 
Michigan University, Ivanovich said he is 
looking forward to 
meeting the new challenges ASU offers. He 
begins work Oct. 
16.
	"It's a great opportunity for me, 
professionally and 
personally," he said. "ASU is a leading-edge 
school. It's one 
of the most respected in student affairs."
	Ivanovich did not go into detail about 
the changes he 
is considering.
	"I need to learn what's going on before 
I can make any 
recommendations or improve anything," he 
said.
	He said some of the biggest challenges 
ASU faces will 
be managing enrollment and improving academic 
preparation for entering students.
	Other goals Ivanovich will pursue are 
increasing 
student diversity and achieving a better 
balance of full-time 
freshmen on the main campus while maintaining 
transfer 
enrollments.
	"Dr. Wilkinson (vice president of 
Student Affairs) and 
Dolbert did an outstanding job of building 
admissions," 
Ivanovich said. "I'm really excited about 
working 
collaboratively with the faculty and staff."
	Ivanovich held his position at Eastern 
Michigan since 
1990. Previously, he was the associate and 
the assistant 
director of admissions at Lockhaven 
University in 
Pennsylvania.
	"His professional portfolio is 
exclusively in 
recruitment and outreach programs," said Jim 
Rund, 
associate vice president of student affairs. 
"His experience at 
Eastern will serve ASU very well."
	Rund said the recruiting environment is 
much more 
intense in Michigan than in Arizona. 
	"The universities compete fiercely for 
students (in 
Michigan)," he said. "In that environment, 
Ivanovich has 
achieved admirably."
	There are 15 state universities in 
Michigan, compared 
with three in Arizona.
	Registrar Louann Denny, who chaired the 
search 
committee for the new director, said she is 
excited to see 
what Ivanovich will offer the department.
	"In the interview, he seemed like he 
would bring 
some creative, out-of-the-box ideas, 
especially in the 
recruiting area," she said.
	Ivanovich graduated from the California 
University of 
Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 
urban planning 
and a master's in geography and regional planning.

Fraternities meet in hopes of easing tense relations

By Timothy Tait
State Press
	The executive boards of the Pi Kappa 
Alpha and 
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternities met Tuesday in 
hopes of 
resolving problems between the groups after 
members from 
Pi Kappa Alpha allegedly vandalized the Sigma 
Phi Epsilon 
house last week.
	According to a statement issued by the 
fraternities 
Wednesday, "the two fraternities discussed 
their differences 
and resolved them."
	Mark Coleman, vice president of Sigma 
Phi Epsilon, 
said the meeting was constructive and the 
relationship 
between the fraternities has been mended.
	"Things are back to normal and fine like 
before this 
happened," Coleman said. "When you have 
rational people 
that work together, it can work."
	Coleman said the two fraternities will 
meet again next 
week. However, he would not comment on the 
purpose of 
these discussions. All he would say is, 
"everything is done."
	Coleman described Tuesday's meeting as 
"civil 
negotiations and conversations."
	Fraternity adviser Peter Leighton said 
the fraternities 
made solid progress toward resolving their 
problems.
	He also confirmed that the fraternities 
will meet in the 
future to "make some decisions." However, he 
refused to 
comment on specific issues under discussion.
	"Whenever we get two groups together, we 
try to 
facilitate the discussion," he said. "We have 
shown much 
progress on this incident. The two parties 
vented their 
frustrations."
	Greek Life Coordinator Tim Bills said 
the fraternities 
will continue to work on a basic agreement to 
conclude their 
problems.
	"They resolved that there must not be 
any more 
incidents like this between the houses," 
Bills said. "They 
made some good strides, (but) there is still 
some work to be 
done."
	According to ASU police reports, Sigma 
Phi Epsilon 
members told an officer at the scene that Pi 
Kappa Alpha 
members broke into their house and smashed 
several 
windows, broke a leg off of a pool table and 
assaulted a 
member of the fraternity. The break-in 
followed a fight 
between the two fraternities at the Dash Inn, 
731 E. Apache 
Blvd. Damages are estimated to be $1,000.
	However, Pi Kappa Alpha spokesman Chris 
Ward 
said he is not certain that Pi Kappa Alpha 
members were 
responsible for the break-in or that the 
damage was related 
to the fight at the Dash. 
	Police will not investigate or take any 
further action 
against Pi Kappa Alpha because Sigma Phi 
Epsilon refused 
to press charges.
	Coleman said Sigma Phi Epsilon refused 
to press 
charges so they could deal with the situation 
within the 
Greek system.
	Pressing charges, Coleman said, "doesn't 
help the 
Greek system."
	However, the incident will be reviewed 
by the Greek 
Review Board, as part of the "self-governing" 
process.
	Regardless of what resolution the 
fraternities agree to, 
the review board may still take actions of 
its own.
	"As early as Thursday morning," Bills 
said, "leaders 
from the chapters were trying to diffuse, if 
not resolve, the 
conflict from the start. 
	"Although the chapters may resolve their 
conflict, that 
doesn't mean that the Greek Review Board will 
not go 
beyond what is resolved," Bills said. "They 
(the review 
board) will determine the level of 
responsibility for each 
chapter and deal out sanctions."
	Bills described the process as a "peer 
review" that 
allows problems like this to be handled 
without direct involvement from the University.

Editorial: One boom too many

	On Sunday, a massive explosion rocked 
TRW's Safety System Inc.'s plant in Mesa.
	Three hundred pounds of extremely 
explosive chemicals went up in the blast. An 
additional 600 pounds of 
chemicals burned afterwards.
	The explosion was the 17th at the plant 
in the past 12 
months. Only one person has been killed - 
though even the 
most optimistic person must concede that it 
is very fortunate 
that the death toll is not higher.
	The plant is quite familiar to the Mesa 
Fire Department - there have been 44 explosions, 
fires or chemical spills at the plant since 1988.
	"We've been letting them go for quite 
long enough," 
said Mesa Mayor Willie Wong yesterday. "Now 
is the time 
to take the message to them that we are quite 
serious about this."
	With that, the City of Mesa informed TRW 
that, as of 
Tuesday afternoon, its passenger-side air bag 
plant was 
closed until it met safety standards.
	The only thing that is surprising or 
shocking about 
Mesa's decision is that it wasn't done sooner.
	TRW has been told time and time again 
that its operations - ironically, the manufacture of a 
product that 
saves lives - were not safe. TRW had more 
than enough 
chances to correct the problem.
	TRW employees effected by the shutdown 
were enraged by the decision. But the targets of 
their rage are bewildering.
	The 1,300 employees of the plant work in 
a place that 
is clearly unsafe. Safe environments don't 
experience 17 
explosions per year.
	Yet rather than directing their rage at 
management - 
who have already been warned and fined - they 
directed 
their rage at Wong and at Gov. Fife 
Symington.
	Why get mad at someone who is trying to 
keep you 
from getting killed?
	We suppose it would be akin to a driver 
doing 100 
mph on a freeway, weaving dangerously between 
lanes - 
and then berating the cop that pulled him  
over.
	Never mind that the cop was trying to 
save lives. The 
only thing the  driver can see is a ticket 
and increased 
insurance rates.
	Employees are concerned about their 
financial 
situation and rightly so. Trying to make ends 
meet can be a 
trying experience, and an indefinite layoff 
doesn't help 
matters.
	But it is better to be unemployed and 
alive than 
employed and in constant danger.
	The problem here isn't with Willie Wong, 
and it isn't 
with Fife  Symington. It is with TRW itself.
	Other air-bag plants don't blow up with 
the regularity 
of Old Faithful. Why does TRW's?
	TRW must begin finding a way to make 
their plant a 
safer place to work - or they should not be 
permitted to 
continue operations. Worker safety  laws 
compel the government to do this.
	To look the other way and allow the 
explosions to 
continue would be wrong to the workers - 
whether they like it or not.

Editors note:

After viewing the O.J. Simpson trial, do you 
think the judicial system needs to be reformed? 
If so, what needs to happen and where do we 
begin? Please e-mail or write to the State Press. 
No phone calls please.

Column: Who can swap the best sob stories

A.Marjory Kaminski
Columnist

	Remember when you were younger and sat 
around 
with your friends and compared all the cuts 
and scrapes you 
got that week just to see whose was the 
biggest, goriest, most 
mangled rip of flesh?
	Then, later on in the teen years, you 
perhaps found 
yourself telling "scar stories" to your 
friends. "I got this one 
when I ran into a parked car, flew over and 
landed on a 
rusty saw sticking out of the dirty, germ-
infested ground," 
then you'd peel up your pant leg to show the 
line that looks 
like it should be from open heart surgery. 
"Almost lost my 
limb, swear on it." Seeing that my largest 
tissue damage was 
from when I tripped over the family dog and 
landed on my 
knee in the grooves of a sliding door, I 
never had much to 
brag about.
	Now that we're older, we have better 
interests at 
heart, right? 
	Wrong. They've just been modified a bit. 
Now we 
compare traumas, not really meaning to, but 
end up doing it 
anyhow.
	I discovered this when I grabbed the 
phone to dial an 
old friend, Randall. Right before he answered 
the phone, I 
was all set to whine about something that 
happened earlier 
that week, but he beat me to the punch. "I 
just got back from 
the drugstore for my ulcer medication. But 
during the trip 
there, I had three near-death experiences," 
he rattled on.
	"Nothing like near death to get the 
adrenaline 
pumping," I commented.
	This triggered his soliloquy into the 
Life of Randall: 
"Got rent money stolen, car broke down, 
working 60-hour 
weeks, got a pi–a colodamy, can't talk now, 
click."
	I stared at the phone piece and slowly 
hung it up. All 
I wanted to do is grumble about being dogged 
by some guy I 
met. His problems sure made mine seem rather 
minuscule. I 
checked my money situation. No, I had enough 
to stay alive. 
My car was a little dirty, but it was 
running. I was studying a 
lot, but not for 60 hours. I'm not sure what 
a pi–a colodamy 
is, but I doubt I have it. Hmph. It got me 
over that guy 
quickly enough. 
	I still needed to moan about my 
inadequate feeling, so 
I phoned up another buddy, Brian. He was 
known for 
having life tragedies galore from his social 
life to job 
dissatisfaction. Despite all that, he was 
usually a good ear. 
	"Talk to me," was his response when he 
heard my 
wailing voice on the line.
	But instead of going off about my lonely 
problem, I 
spoke about Randall's difficulties. It was 
practically 
impossible to talk about me when Randall was 
having such a 
hard time with life. Brian listened enough, 
gave his two 
cents about it and then asked what the hell 
my problem was.
	"Nothin'," I said sheepishly, the guy's 
image erased 
from my mind. My guy story was definitely the 
family dog 
all over again. 
	So this gave Brian room to go off on a 
tangent. "My 
life is great, except ... blah, blah."
	This is just one competition I can't 
compete in. But 
then, why would I want to? Sitting around a 
campfire, or 
phone, whichever is your perspective, 
swapping horror 
stories, has never been my thing anyhow. 
	But they make such interesting 
conversational pieces! 
If you can't bitch about something, then what 
else is there to 
talk about?
	As wretched as this sounds, I speak the 
truth. How 
many conversations have lasted a good length 
and haven't 
had at least a small bit of a predicament 
added in, either 
about oneself or another? Perhaps, I just 
have very whiny 
friends. It's not always what they talk 
about, they just seem 
to have these inconceivable plights when I 
have but a tiny 
annoyance.
	Sometimes, I do get my quandaries in on 
those types 
of conversations, but they are usually ill in 
comparison - the 
family dog versus the rusty saw. No  biggie. 
I should be glad 
I don't have those problems. If I did, I 
doubt I'd be in the  
talking mood anyhow. 
	I listen, I sympathize - but thank 
goodness, I don't get 
to empathize. And that family dog scar is 
practically gone now.

A. MarJory Kaminski is a senior journalism major.

Letters to the Editor

Letter: O.J. trial not black/white issue

	This is in response to Edwin Longwell's 
letter to the 
editor printed in Monday's edition of the 
State Press.
	Once again, ignorance has struck and 
surprisingly (or 
not), it comes from a supposedly educated, 
ASU student. I 
wouldn't label you as a racist; I'd have to 
say you are 
ignorant. May I ask you a question? How many 
African-
American people did you speak to in order to 
come to the 
conclusion that all blacks believe that O.J. 
is innocent? Did 
you ask me what I thought? Because I 
personally don't care 
one way or the other about the outcome of 
O.J.'s case. Where 
are you getting your statistics? Did you 
personally poll the 
majority of the African-American community to 
come to this 
insane conclusion?
	If the situation were reversed and a 
prominent 
Caucasian male happened to be on trial for 
the murder of 
two African Americans, would there be a 
question of his 
innocence? 
	Of course not - he killed them in self 
defense because 
they probably tried to shoot him up with 
drugs or rob him, 
right? If I wrote an article and said: 
"Apparently most of the 
Caucasian community has sided with the 
(white) defendant 
and has ignored the fate of the victims," it 
probably wouldn't 
even be printed because that Caucasian male 
would've been 
in Hawaii, acquitted and on vacation before I 
had a chance 
to comment. His trial would've been so 
speedy, I'm not 
entirely sure I'd see him broadcasted on 
every news station, 
with his mug shot displayed on Time and 
Newsweek.
	Before you start crying your eyes out 
about the black 
population being unjust, get your facts 
straight. It's not a 
black and white issue - O.J. has many white 
supporters. It's a 
trial that should have been settled long ago, 
but due to 
people like you who make assumptions without 
hearing the 
facts, this case could go on for another 
year. The worst part 
of this is that I can't blame you. You can't 
help being 
ignorant and misinformed. You are a product 
of your 
environment and society, the main ingredient 
in your upbringing.

Jennafah Mehu
Junior
Child Development

Letter: Affirmative action requires further study

	Christina Bailey and Delia Maldonado 
raised 
compelling issues in their opinion pieces on 
affirmative 
action. They both take diametrical positions 
on the issue not 
only in the content of their articles, but in 
the structure of 
them. 
	Bailey correctly and importantly 
elucidates the 
meaning of the original executive order 
defining affirmative 
action, something that has become buried and 
lost in the 
quagmire of accusations and stereotyping that 
have 
punctuated the debate in recent years. She 
further asserts the 
undeniable opportunities affirmative action 
has afforded 
minorities, underscoring the absence of any 
substantiated 
scientific research supporting the claim that 
the 
concept/policy has created a labor market 
backlash against 
the white male majority. 
	Bailey's argument is soundly supported 
by facts and a 
measure of history on the debate, whereas Ms. 
Maldonado's 
is in the context of an anecdotal sophism. I 
validate and 
accept her life experience, however, I 
believe she does 
further damage to an issue that is more about 
xenophobia 
and a resurgent exclusionist attitude than it 
is about fairness. 
	She recounts how she was hired for a job 
"over several 
other, more qualified applicants," yet she 
does not divulge 
the applicants' ethnicity or why they were 
considered more 
qualified and by whom. 
	These are crucial things to know, for 
only if there is 
proof that an individual is hired over 
another due to her 
ethnic status can one rightly claim 
discrimination. This 
erroneous conclusion seems to be the crux of 
the debate, the 
protestation that minorities get the edge due 
to quotas 
(which do not exist under the rubric of 
affirmative action), 
and that inclusion equals a lower standard. 
	Although Ms. Maldonado admits that she 
"benefited" 
from affirmative action, she states that, due 
to her adequate 
abilities, she does not need it. 
Unfortunately, most 
minorities, although possessing talents, 
brains and more 
than adequate "abilities," have found that 
none of these is 
enough to even get a foot in the door when 
competing with 
the majority class. Alas, if they were, then 
affirmative action 
would surely not have been needed in the 
first place.
	Rather than ending affirmative action, 
perhaps society 
needs to take a closer look. Rather than 
terminating what 
was originally an excellent and appropriate 
policy, perhaps 
revising it would be of greater value. The 
underlying 
assumption of opponents of affirmative action 
that anything 
that is predominantly black, Indian or 
Mexican must be 
inferior is bigotry by another name; and de 
jure segregation, 
as well as vestigial internalized racism such 
as Maldonado's, 
will flourish more than ever if affirmative 
action is removed in its entirety. 

Russella G. Serna 
Graduate student
Social Work

Redshirt-freshman Freedman fearlessly prowls secondary

By Dan Miller
State Press
	Life as a Pac-10 defensive back can be a 
lot like life on 
the mean streets of south Phoenix: A fight 
for survival. 	
	Mitchell Freedman learned that killer 
instinct out of 
necessity. Now he applies it on the field as 
ASU's 
unrelenting minister of pain.
	"Some people say I'm evil," said 
Freedman, a 6-foot, 
200-pound, redshirt-freshman free safety. 
"It's just a way a 
life. You have to be evil to play this game. 
You have to be 
crazy to play this game, too."
	Freedman, affectionately known as 
"Fright Night" by 
friends, coaches and teammates, is quickly 
establishing a 
reputation for being an old-fashioned 
bruiser. His rugged 
roots have prepared him for the gridiron 
wars.
	"I grew up in south Phoenix. That's as 
tough as it can 
get in Arizona," said Freedman, who graduated 
from 
Maryvale High in 1993. "I played football 
when I was young 
and everybody just loved hitting and hurting 
people, so 
that's where it basically started off."
	Head Coach Bruce Snyder said Freedman is 
a smart, 
methodical player, who has established 
himself as the most 
physical player on the team.
	"He is just a violent football player," 
he said. "If we 
were playing without face masks, he would 
play it exactly 
the same way. I don't think he would change."
	For Freedman, instilling fear in the 
opposition is all 
part of the job. A soft-spoken individual, 
Freedman lets his 
hitting do the talking. 
	"Fear always breeds respect," said 
Freedman, who has 
20 tackles in three games this year. "If 
there's fear in 
somebody's heart, they don't want to see you 
any more. If 
you hit a receiver and it hurts them, they 
don't want to come 
your direction any more.
	"If you get into a fight and somebody 
kicks your tail, 
you don't want to fight him again."
	More often than not, however, it was 
Freedman doing 
the tail-kicking back in the old days. He 
admitted he has had 
his share of altercations.
	"I got in a few of them - not a few - a 
lot," Freedman 
joked. "I never lost. I don't like losing. As 
you get older, 
though, not that many people want to test 
you. It's basically 
like football. If they (receivers) see you 
out there doing good, 
they don't want to go up on your side. If 
people see you out 
there beating everybody up, they're not going 
to mess with 
you. It got better when I got older.
	"I was kind of happy about that because 
I didn't like 
to fight that much."
	Freedman, who is extremely durable, 
seems almost 
oblivious to pain. Last week against the 
Oregon State 
Beavers, Freedman, who wore a cast on his 
broken hand, 
suffered two stingers but still finished the 
game with nine 
tackles and a fumble recovery. 
	He has also been hampered by a thigh 
contusion he 
incurred in the opener against Washington, 
which kept him 
out of the Texas-El Paso game. The contusion 
still bothers 
Freedman, who may be spelled against USC this 
Saturday if 
it persists. 
	"It's a mind thing basically," Freedman 
said of his 
tolerance for pain. "The main thing is your 
love and your 
heart for football. If you're hurt and you 
don't want to lose, 
then you play with it no matter what until 
you can't play any 
more.
	"If you don't have the physical strength 
and the 
toughness then you can't survive in this 
game."
	Secondary coach Donnie Henderson said he 
knew 
Freedman's time would come, but it was just a 
matter of how 
fast.
	"I take it back to when we first 
recruited him," 
Henderson said. "We knew he had a lot of 
talent. We always 
knew he would be an impact player once he 
played. It was 
just of matter of when he played."
	Henderson added Freedman's ability to 
move 
smoothly from free safety to strong safety 
makes him even 
more of an asset.
	"There's no question in my mind that he 
has the 
potential to be an honors' candidate down the 
line," he said. 
	During Freedman's redshirt year, he had 
to be 
continually told by the coaching staff to 
tone down his scout-
team collisions because he refused to take 
any prisoners even 
in practice.
   "He loves football. He has no fear," 
Snyder said. 
"Everybody gets their crank turned some way. 
His is when 
he hits somebody and he knows that he got the 
best of him. 
That's his high."
    Freedman said he would be on an all-time 
high if he 
someday fulfills his dream of playing in the 
NFL.         
    "That's the goal that I want to reach," 
he said. "That's why I 
play the way I do."
    Freedman's nickname is the product of an 
unintentional 
collaboration on the part of Henderson and 
Snyder. 
Henderson said he originally wanted to call 
him "Friday the 
13th," because Freedman wears the No. 13. 
Henderson said 
Snyder then put a new spin on it and started 
calling him 
"Fright Night."    
    "To me it's just a name," Freedman said. 
"Everybody likes 
it so it's cool with me. It's grown on me 
because everywhere 
I go, that's all anybody calls me is "Fright 
Night." My best 
friends don't even call me by my name. They 
just call me 
"Fright Night." 
     "It's a good name for me. I like it."
     Freedman may have a tough-guy image and 
an attitude 
on the field, but there is another side to 
him, he said.
    "There's a very sensitive side that 
nobody knows," 
Freedman confessed. "You have to be around me 
a lot to 
really see that. The only thing everybody 
sees is on the field 
Everybody fears what I do on the field.    
    "Most of the people that see the 
sensitive side are females."

Wooden bats fly with Devils

By Dustin Krugel
State Press
	ASU baseball coach Pat Murphy is full of 
surprises. 
	On the first day of fall practice, he 
told his players 
aluminum bats would be banned. Murphy has 
used wooden 
bats in practice since he was a coach at 
Notre Dame, but this 
was his first year using them exclusively in 
practice. 
	"I think it has always helped our 
offense every time 
I've been involved in it," Murphy said, 
adding that using 
wooden bats instead of the more powerful 
aluminum bats 
teaches hitters the art of hitting. 
	"It helps the hitter appreciate what 
good hitting is. 
The sweet spot is much smaller on a wood 
bat," he said. "The 
ball doesn't jump off the bat as much. You 
have to get 
something going. You have to start to 
generate some 
movement a little earlier with a wood.
	"Secondly, it helps them mentally 
because they're 
using what the big leaguers use and they're 
feeling pretty 
good about themselves. They know that not too 
many of 
their counterparts are doing the same thing."
	Despite the initial confusion, many of 
the players 
were very receptive to the switch.
	"I think the pitchers were real happy 
about it," 
Murphy said. "They don't give up as many big 
hits. 
Obviously it's a lot more pleasurable for 
them to hear that 
bat breaking.
	"I think that hitters are happy, too, 
because they know 
they are going to learn to be great hitters 
with them."
	"If I had my way, I wouldn't hit with 
aluminum," 
junior catcher Cody McKay said. "You can 
compare between 
the two. You have too much of an advantage 
with a wooden 
bat, but it gets everyone ready for the next 
level. You're a lot 
more productive with them."
	According to McKay, hitting with wooden 
bats 
teaches batters to be more selective.
	"We would swing at certain pitches that 
we wouldn't 
with a wooden bat," McKay said. "It gives us 
a lot of 
discipline."
	McKay said if a batter doesn't 
concentrate at the plate 
with a wooden bat, he can be embarrassed.
	"If you hit a ball too far inside, your 
bat will be 
shattered," he said. "It gives pitchers a 
fear factor. You'll get 
embarrassed (if your bat is broken) because 
you'll have 
splinters in your hands and everyone would 
laugh at you."
	McKay that ASU would have had a shortage 
of 
baseballs if it practiced with aluminum bats.
	"We would have run out of balls if we 
batted with 
aluminum bats this year," he said. "They 
would've been hit 
over the fence and into Rio Salado or Rural 
Road."
	Murphy agreed the move may save some 
money 
despite having 75 bats break in one month.
	"With the offense we have this year, it 
wouldn't be 
cost efficient to use aluminum in practice," 
Murphy joked.
	Pro scouts have also taken notice of 
ASU's move.
	"In the long run it's a huge advantage," 
said Tommy 
Thomas, a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers. 
"It can't hurt 
at all"
	For pro scouts, it gives them a chance 
to get a sneak 
peek of players batting with wooden bats.
	"One of the hardest things to do as a 
scout is trying to 
decide how a batter will do with a wooden 
bat," said Kendall 
Carter, the Arizona Diamondbacks' national 
supervisor of 
scouting. "Now you get a first-hand look. 
Sometimes a 
player's power or speed with the bat is going 
to change. 
Aluminum bats are so light now that they are 
going to make 
people look good."
	Carter was a first-team All-American 
pitcher at ASU 
from 1981 to 1984, who has signed two ASU 
players in five 
years as a scout. Carter signed ASU 
outfielder Tommy 
Adams and pitcher Sean Rees in 1991, both 
with the Seattle 
Mariners.
	Thomas, who scouts players in Arizona, 
New Mexico, 
Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, said hits that 
fall with 
aluminum bats in college won't necessarily be 
hits with a 
wooden bat.
	"Home runs that are hit with aluminum 
bats can turn 
into pop-ups to the warning track," he said. 
"If you hit the 
ball too early with a wooden bat, you'll 
either get a broken 
bat or a blooper. With an aluminum bat, those 
bloopers 
sometimes turn into singles."
	Thomas, Carter and Murphy did not know 
of any 
other college programs which exclusively 
practice with 
wooden bats.
	"I bet we will be the first because of 
the difficulty 
amateurs have using wood," McKay said.
	Murphy said he would like to see a day 
when college 
baseball plays its games with only wooden 
bats.
	"It's something I'm working on 
diligently. Hopefully, 
someday that can happen," Murphy said. "We 
need to 
market our baseball. We need to market our 
product to 
television and the fans. One way to do that 
is to play with 
wood. That's the way the game was meant to be 
played."
	The high cost of wooden bats and the 
shortage of 
wood may make Murphy's hope a mere dream.
	"You've got those environmentalists who 
would say 
don't cut the trees," McKay said. "Unless 
someone finds an 
unbelievable tree that begins to grow, that 
probably won't 
happen."
	Murphy said this could be the year that 
an ASU batter 
takes an at-bat with a wooden bat in a game, 
which is a 
rarity in college baseball today.
	"It could happen. Don't be surprised," 
Murphy said.

ASU police reported the following incidents 
Wednesday:
* A male student reported that over the past 
several weeks 
an unknown person has been threatening and 
intimidating 
him at various locations on campus.
* A female student reported that over the 
past month she has 
been harassed by telephone and in person by a 
male student 
in the Computing Commons and at her home in 
Tempe.
* A man and woman not affiliated with ASU 
were contacted 
at the south side of Ocotillo Hall while 
dumpster diving. 
They were advised of trespassing and left the 
area.
* Three bicycles were reported stolen.

Tempe police reported the following incidents 
Wednesday:
* A man robbed a McDonald's at 5144 S. Rural 
Road. The 
man broke out the drive-through window with a 
5-pound 
sledge hammer. He then climbed through the 
window and 
confronted two store employees. The employees 
ran out of 
the store as the man pointed a gun at one of 
them. The man 
stole about $1,000 in cash and fled. He is 
described as either 
a white or Hispanic man. He was wearing a red 
bandanna 
over his face during the robbery.
* A 19-year-old man was arrested for burglary 
after stealing 
a $1,700 bicycle from Action Sport Cyclery, 
2126 E. Apache 
Blvd. He was caught about two blocks from the 
store.
* A 26-year-old man was arrested for theft 
after stealing 
$9,349 from five deposits from Denny's, 4403 
S. Rural Road, 
where he works as general manager. He 
admitted to stealing 
the money.
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.
* Alpha Phi Omega, national co-ed service 
fraternity - 
General meeting. 6:30 p.m.; MU Cochise West 
(212W).
* American Heritage Association - Recruitment 
drive begins. 
Most of last year's members work afternoons 
this year. Come 
explore possibilities and help to shape this 
new student 
organization. 3:15 p.m.; MU Coconino Room.
* American Marketing Association - Semi-
annual banquet. 
Attendance required for all members. 
Professional dress, 
please. 4:30 p.m.; University Club, next to 
the Student Health 
Center. 
* ASU Cycling Devils - Mountain and road bike 
team sign-
ups. Mountain bike nationals info and entry 
forms will be 
given. 8 p.m.; Business Fountains, south side 
of MU.
* BACCHUS  - Meeting. 5:30 p.m.; Manzanita 
Residence 
Hall.* Baptist Student Union - Come brighten 
your day with 
free food, fun and worship. Noon, 1322 S. 
Mill Ave.
* Barren Mind Improvisation - Lunch comedy 
with Barren 
Mind Improvisation. 12:10 p.m.; MU lower 
level, 
Programming Lounge.
* Campus Crusade for Christ - Thursday Night 
Live. Open 
Bible study, music and fun. 7:30 p.m.; 
Physical Science H-
Wing, Room 150.
* Career Services - Workshop on first 
impression/dress for 
success, presented by Gayla Baker and Jim 
Clayton. 11:40 
a.m.; MU Room 222.
* Intervarsity Christian Fellowship - Weekly 
meeting 
canceled because of the Richard Mullins 
concert. We hope to 
see you next week at the regular time, 7:30 
p.m.
* KASR 1260 AM - Join Indie 500 DJ Rajan as 
he features 
music by Archers of Loaf, Superchunk, Palace 
Brothers, 
Sebadoh and a slew of other corporate demon 
destroying 
indie rockers from Noon to 3 p.m.; KASR.
* Kundalini Yoga Club - Wrap your week up 
with a yoga 
class. 5:30 p.m.; MU Room 224.
* MUAB Culture and Arts Committee - Meeting. 
Everyone 
Welcome. MU third floor, Conference Room 1A.
* MUAB/ASASU Sneak Preview Committee - 
Advanced 
screening of "Moonlight and Valentino," 
starring Whoopi 
Goldberg and Jon Bon Jovi. Arrive early 
because seating is 
limited. Passes available at the State Press 
. 8 p.m.; Neeb 
Hall.
* Philosophy Club - A discussion on moral 
dilemmas: Was 
publishing the Unabomber's manifesto right or 
wrong. All 
who have philosophical interests are welcome. 
3:15 p.m.; PS 
A-Wing, Room 307.
* Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in 
Psychology - 
Regular meeting with guest speaker Nancy 
Felipe Russo, 
who will discuss feminism and psychology. 
5:30 p.m.; 
Psychology Building, Room 205.
* Religious Studies Club - Film: "The Peyote 
Way." 
Discussion following. Noon to 1:30 p.m.; ECA 
third floor, 
Religious Studies Reading Room.
* Society for Creative Anachronism - Weekly 
meeting. 
Discussion on chivalry in the current Middle 
Ages and 
videos on Estrella and Penzic Wars. 7 p.m.; 
MU Yavapai 
Room (209).
* Student Life Learning Resource Center - 
Workshop: Free 
computer skills workshops: Advanced MS Word, 
10 a.m.; 
using Pine, 1 p.m.; using Superpaint, 2 p.m.; 
using 
PageMaker, 3 p.m.; advanced MS Word. SSV 361 
A.
* Women's Studies - Women's Studies Brown Bag 
Research 
Series: "Where do you hold your folds? 
Fitness and fatness in 
women," with Pam Swan, Exercise Science 
professor. Noon 
to 1 p.m.; Social Sciences 101.