SADD conference targets campus drinking problem

By Tim Baxter
State Press
	Students Against Driving Drunk will hold 
a 
networking conference - the first of its kind 
in the nation - 
from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Phoenix 
Police 
Department basement auditorium.
	Donna McBride, state SADD coordinator, 
said the 
event will allow students from Arizona's 
universities and 
community colleges to come together and 
discuss problem 
drinking on campuses.
	"Nobody has really taken the time to ask 
the students 
what's going on," McBride said. "We will have 
representatives from the three major 
universities and some 
from the community colleges."
	About 30 students are expected to 
participate. 
	"The purpose of it is to take a really 
good look at 
Arizona schools and find out some of the 
problems and ... 
what needs to be done," McBride said.
	Brad Brooker, SADD's university intern, 
said the 
conference has three goals: to network with 
the other 
schools, to allow participants to express 
their views and to 
give participants information to start their 
own SADD 
chapters.
	The conference was made possible through 
a grant 
from the governor's office of Community and 
Highway 
Safety.
	"All information we receive will go back 
to them (the 
governor's office), and all information we 
receive will go 
back to the national SADD offices," Brooker 
said.
	The conference was inspired by a survey 
Harvard 
released in December 1994 stating that 44 
percent of college 
students were "binge drinkers."
	McBride said the organization wants to 
provide a 
forum for students to discuss how to avoid 
problem 
drinking. 
	"They will discuss how to take care of 
the problems 
on campus and coming up with a list of top 
problems," she 
said. "Students will be getting together and 
making 
recommendations."
	McBride added that problem drinking is 
not a 
personal problem.
	"It's not just the drinking, but how the 
drinking affects 
the entire campus," McBride said. "It's how 
drinking has 
taken a toll not just on the people who 
drink, but on the 
people who don't."

Affirmative action goes under microscope Race-based financial awards in universities analyzed by ABOR

By Cody V. Aycock
State Press 
	More than 150 people packed the Alumni 
Lounge of 
the Memorial Union Thursday as the Arizona 
Board of 
Regents debated the future of affirmative 
action programs at 
Arizona's three universities. 
	With spectators seated on the floor and 
spilling into 
the adjoining hallway, members of the ABOR 
and the 
presidents of Arizona's three universities 
reaffirmed their 
desire to have the university population 
reflect the 
expanding minority population of the state.
	"I welcome this review of affirmative 
action," said 
ASU President Lattie Coor. "It enables us to 
understand 
exactly what this board set out to do seven 
years ago in ways 
that we all need to be reminded of again and 
again.
	"It was, and is, the fundamental 
commitment to 
increase the diversity of our universities in 
a way that 
represents those individuals in the larger 
society."
	However, Regent John Munger said he 
disagrees with 
using affirmative action to obtain cultural 
diversity at 
Arizona's universities.
	Munger said he objects to race-based 
disbursement of 
financial aid to encourage higher minority 
enrollment at the 
universities, adding that the regents' role 
in providing 
financial assistance should revolve around 
students in need, 
not just minority students. 
	"(The issue) is about recognizing 
reality and 
continuing to implement a system that 
provides equal 
opportunity for every Arizonan regardless of 
race or creed," 
Munger said. "It is about ensuring that every 
Arizonan has 
an opportunity for the very best education."
	Munger cited Title VI of the Civil 
Rights Act of 1964 
to help bolster his argument.
	The title states, "No person in the 
United States shall, 
on the ground of race, color or national 
origin, be excluded 
from participation in, be denied the benefits 
of or be subject 
to discrimination under any program or 
activity receiving 
federal financial assistance." 
	Munger said this applies to whites, as 
well as 
minorities. 
	"If we are here to serve needy people, 
let's serve 
them," he said. "I don't think race ought to 
be a factor."
	However, Regent Andrew Hurwitz, a 
proponent of 
affirmative action, said the goal of the 
guidelines is not to 
discriminate against Anglos, but rather to 
increase diversity 
at Arizona's universities. 
	"The separate issue, and the one I 
disagree with John 
(Munger) on is whether or not we want to have 
some limited 
portion of (financial aid) set aside for the 
specific goal of 
encouraging minorities to attend 
universities," he said. 
"Having (affirmative-action programs) targets 
students not 
only in need, but students in particular 
ethnic areas and gets 
them in the university." 
	University officials disperse race-based 
financial aid 
using Department of Education guidelines 
which Munger 
said contradict Title VI of the Civil Rights 
Act. 
	According to the guidelines, federal 
financial aid may 
be given to "disadvantaged students with 
regard to race or 
national origin, even if it means that these 
rewards go 
disproportionately to minority students." 
	"This is law," Munger said, pointing to 
the Civil 
Rights Act.
	"This is the bureaucrat's regulation," 
he said about the 
DOE guidelines. "No elected official wrote 
that regulation. 
That is written by a hired bureaucrat 
someplace that sits 
down and has an agenda when they write it."
	In 1993-94, 1.8 percent of all 
University scholarship 
funds were designated exclusively for 
minorities.
	However, Munger argued minorities also 
receive a 
large portion of the remaining funding 
because they meet 
the need criteria for disbursement.
	Overall, minority students constituted 
26.9 percent of 
the students who are awarded scholarships, 
and received 
29.2 percent of money distributed for 1993-
94. Students 
designated as non-minorities received the 
rest.
	Hurwitz argued that white students have 
not been 
disserviced by the University's system of 
disbursing 
financial aid.
	"I am not sure that you can find me a 
single Anglo 
student in our university system who has been 
denied 
financial aid because of his race," Hurwitz 
said. "I believe 
that every eligible student, regardless of 
race, is getting some 
level of financial aid." 
	Hurwitz said he hopes discussion of 
affirmative 
action programs encourages board members to 
not only 
support the programs, but increase them. 
	Despite their disagreement, the two 
regents agreed 
that more financial assistance is needed for 
all students.

Pro-affirmative action students petition regents

By David J. Kovacs
State Press 
	Students presented a 1,100-signature 
petition 
supporting affirmative action programs at ASU 
to the 
Arizona Board of Regents Thursday.
	It was signed by students from ASU and 
ASU West 
and called for continued funding of minority-
based 
scholarships and other programs to boost 
hiring, enrollment 
and retention of underrepresented groups, 
said Jose 
Martinez, one of the authors of the petition 
and president of 
Moviemento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, a 
national 
collegiate Hispanic organization.
	"We're trying to gain awareness and 
student support," 
said the intercultural communications senior. 
"The more 
students are informed, (and) the more 
students are educated 
on the issues ... the more these programs 
will prevail," he 
said.
	The petition had support from members of 
many 
different campus organizations, Martinez 
said.
	More than 70 students attended the ABOR 
meeting to 
support affirmative action.
	"We want to open up some eyes and show 
that we're 
serious and not going to stand around and let 
this happen," 
said Miriam Cano, a senior in family studies. 
She said 
support for affirmative action includes 
students of all colors. 
	"It's not a racial thing," she said.
	Students from ASU West and the 
University of 
Arizona also attended Thursday's meeting.
	"The main problem (with the affirmative-
action 
debate) is people are not listening to facts 
and rationale and 
are letting their emotions run wild," said 
Michael Rudiger, 
an ASU West graduate student from Germany. 
	Rudiger said if people understood the 
true meaning 
of affirmative action, they wouldn't be 
against it.
	However, not all student organizations 
were in favor 
of the petition.
	"I believe the petition is not a 
necessary step," said 
David Tung, president of the Asian Coalition. 
"Until we have 
a good dialogue of communication between the 
board and 
minorities, I think it's too quick to judge."

Mike & Maty invades ASU

By Tim Baxter
State Press
	The Mike & Maty show is coming to chat 
up ASU. 
	ABC's morning talk show host Michael 
Burger will be 
broadcasting from Orange Mall at noon today, 
with a satellite 
link to a Hollywood studio where co-host Maty 
Monfort will 
talk with ASU alumni.
	The show will air Monday, Oct. 2. 
	The ASU broadcast is part of Mike & 
Maty's Campus 
Invasion, and will feature a video tour of 
the campus put 
together by students from the communications 
department 
and will include appearances by Sparky and 
the Sun Devil 
Marching Band.
	The Mike & Maty show is on KNXV-TV 
(Channel 15) 
at 10 a.m. Monday through Friday. 

Homeless issue not about Super Bowl, council says

By Angela Mull
State Press
	Tempe's recent discussions concerning 
the homeless 
are not directly related to the Super Bowl, 
city officials said 
Thursday.
	They started with the fish.
	In recent months, Tempe police have 
received 
complaints about homeless people using nets 
to fish in a 
Papago Park lake. It was costing the park 
$6,500 to restock 
the lake with fish, said Sgt. Angel Carbajal, 
added that the 
timing of Papago Park's problems and the Jan. 
28 Super 
Bowl was coincidental.
	"That connection was never meant to 
occur," he said.
	Vice Mayor Dennis Cahill, a member of 
the Public 
Health and Safety Committee who met Thursday 
to 
brainstorm about Tempe's homeless problem, 
agreed. 
	"We in Tempe face problems whether or 
not we're 
having a Super Bowl," he said. 
	Cahill said part of the problem with 
homeless people 
using the parks is that some of the homeless 
use foul 
language and drink, making the places 
uncomfortable for 
others.
	There are about 10,000 homeless in the 
metropolitan 
Phoenix area, said Margie Frost, deputy 
director of Mesa 
Community Action Network, a group that runs a 
homeless 
shelter from December to March and provides 
rental 
assistance.
	The homeless face problems getting 
proper housing, 
said Mary Orton, executive director of 
Central Arizona 
Shelter Services Inc., a Tempe-supported 
shelter. About 30 
percent of the homeless are employed, she 
said. However, 
some of those who work full time earn only 
the minimum 
wage which is only $220 a month for rent and 
utilities, she 
said.
	"A lot of these folks end up losing hope 
because they 
know that no matter what they do, they're not 
going to be 
able to support themselves," she said. 
	Frost said hunger and a lack of housing 
are problems 
the homeless should not be facing.
	"In a country like ours, where we give 
money to 
everybody else, it should not be happening," 
she said.
	Although many of the homeless seek and 
receive 
help, others simply do not want help, said 
Tempe Police 
Chief Ron Burns. 
	Still, Councilman Joe Spracale said 
Tempe can help 
the homeless.
	"I know we can't help all of them," he 
said. "(But) 
everybody in the world has a place."
	In other business, the subcommittee 
discussed the 
possibility of physically separating underage 
patrons at 
establishments serving liquor. Cahill said he 
is 
uncomfortable with allowing underage 
customers into 
events where beer is served to legal 
drinkers.
	"It seems like teen night at the liquor 
establishments is 
almost like training wheels on bicycles," he 
said. "It's almost 
like a preschool for alcohol consumption." 
	Before making any decisions, Tempe must 
first hear 
from teens, Cahill said. 
	"We have to have their input," he said. 
"Otherwise, 
they're not going to buy into it."

ASU grad student loses cancer battle

By Brian Anderson
State Press
	An ASU graduate student died at his home 
in Ohio 
after losing a nine-month battle with mouth 
cancer.
	William Hull died Sunday after 
persistent radiation 
treatments failed to alleviate the disease. 
He was 26.
	A memorial service will be held in the 
Danforth 
Chapel, located at the intersection of Orange 
and Cady 
malls, at 12:30 p.m. today. 
	Bill is survived by parents William and 
Sherry and his 
younger brother Brady. 
	His mother said Hull's admiration of the 
political 
process kept him very active in the political 
field, and let him 
apply his history studies.
	Bill's list of accomplishments include 
working for the 
U.S. Congress, being invited to former 
President George 
Bush's inaugural ball and publishing numerous 
articles in 
political and professional journals. 
	The Ohio native was also a very 
dedicated student, 
said Phillip Vandermeer, an associate 
professor of history 
and Hull's doctoral instructor.
	"He was a very able student," he said. 
"He had 
publications of a quality and number that 
were unusual 
amongst graduate students of history. He had 
done a first-
rate job." 
	Vandermeer added that Bill's death is a 
great loss to 
him and to ASU. 
	"It's a tragedy because a 26 year old 
who had such a 
promising career has died," he said. "It's a 
personal loss to 
those of us who were his teachers, friends 
and colleagues." 
	Hull said Bill cherished his college 
experiences. 
	"He really enjoyed college," she said. 
"He said, 
'Whoever said high school was your best days, 
evidently 
didn't make it to college.' "
	Marlene Bolf, a graduate secretary in 
the history 
department, said she knew Bill from the time 
he arrived at 
ASU in the fall of 1991.
	"I knew him pretty well," she said. 
"It's sad because he 
was such a nice guy. Everybody liked him."

Fourth rape in week reported Thursday; '95 count at 7

By Greg Zemeida
State Press
	A fourth female student reported to ASU 
police that 
she was raped on campus this past week, 
raising the total 
number of reported sexual assaults to its 
highest total in six 
years.
	The latest victim was reportedly raped 
at about 3 a.m. 
Thursday at the Towers Apartments. On 
Tuesday, three 
other female students reported to police that 
they had also 
been raped during the past week.
	Police are not releasing any of the 
incident reports at 
this time or identifying the victims or 
suspects. They said the 
rapes are not related.
	"We would have to assume that it is 
coincidental that 
we have so many in so short of time," said 
ASU Chief of 
Police Lanny Standridge.
	He said no arrests have been made in any 
of the cases 
so far because police must gather enough 
evidence before 
deciding to file charges.
	Counting these recent incidents, a total 
of seven rapes 
have been reported on campus so far this 
year. The highest 
total over the past 10 years was in 1989, 
with 10 reported. 
Last year had four.
	According to police, the fourth woman 
met an 
unidentified man Wednesday night at the Dash 
Inn, 731 E. 
Apache Blvd. She invited him back up to her 
room, where 
the rape allegedly occurred.
	The victim did not tell police her 
attacker's name, but 
she knew him "to some degree," Standridge 
said.
	The victim's roommate was in the 
apartment at the 
time of the rape, but she did not see or hear 
anything, he 
said.
	The other three rapes occurred in 
residence halls. One 
was Monday at Manzanita Hall, one on Sunday 
at an 
unidentified residence hall and one Sept. 21 
at Palo Verde 
West Hall. All three women identified their 
attackers by 
name.
	Like the previous three incidents, the 
fourth sexual 
assault appears to be a case of acquaintance 
rape, Standridge 
said.
	The woman also was intoxicated, like two 
of the other 
three victims.
	However, Standridge said, the fact that 
the women 
were drunk does not mean that a crime hasn't 
been 
committed.
	"The victim is not the cause, the 
criminal is," he said. 
"I do not want the victim to be 
revictimized." 
	The latest victim said she is willing to 
press charges. 
Two of the other three women initially did 
not want to, but 
have changed their minds, Standridge said.
	One of the suspects in the earlier 
incidents has come 
forward. The male ASU student who allegedly 
raped the 
woman in Palo Verde West told police Thursday 
that the 
victim had given her consent to have sex, 
Standridge said. 
	He has not been arrested. Police must 
look into the 
incident further before deciding whether to 
press charges, 
Standridge said.
	If ASU police finish their 
investigations without 
finding any probable cause to make arrests, 
the cases will be 
forwarded to the Maricopa County Attorney's 
Office for 
review where officials will decide if there 
is cause for arrests 
and trials, Standridge said.

Editorial: Boos & Bravos

BOO - To the recent fusillade of acquaintance rapes on 
campus.
	In only one week, ASU has managed to set a 14-year 
high for reported rapes on campus - not exactly a record that 
one can be proud of setting. Someday, we can only hope that 
men will finally, finally learn that "no" really does mean no.
	And until that day comes, we would advise women to 
be particularly careful when inviting anyone into their 
rooms, especially if alcohol is involved. Don't become the 
next statistic.

BRAVO - To Israel and the PLO, for finally making a 
significant move toward peace in the West Bank.
	Ever since Israel's capture of the territory in 1967, the 
world has watched in horror as Israelis and Palestinians 
battled ferociously, bloodily for control. Now, finally, the 
two parties are recognizing each other's right to a peaceful 
existence and self-determination.
	It is a shame that this agreement didn't come earlier. 
Too many people have died in this senseless struggle.

BOO - To the "new look" $100 bill.
	The rise of technology made the redesign of U.S. 
currency a given. But hopefully all of the bills won't be this 
ugly.
	The new $100 looks more at home in a board game 
than it does in a wallet.

BRAVO - To the announcement by British Airways that it 
would be providing nonstop service between Phoenix and 
London starting in April.
	Phoenix has been trying to bill itself as a "world-class 
city" for a long time - but that title doesn't quite fit a city that 
has no nonstop flights between it and Europe. A nonstop 
daily flight to London is a big step, even if it is a largely 
symbolic one.
	Now, if ASU students could only afford to jet off to 
London...

BRAVO - To the impending end of the O.J. Simpson murder 
trial. We've been saying this for a few weeks now, but it 
appears the end is now within a matter of days. Will we 
have a verdict by this time next week? Stay tuned.

BOO - To the movie theaters across the country that have 
been stripping Showgirls from their screens.
	This move seems to smack of hypocrisy. Showing 
strippers and sex is a no-no - but it's perfectly fine to show 
horribly mutilated murder victims (Seven) or dozens of bad 
guys getting blown away by a vigilante mariachi player 
(Desperado).
	When is this country going to stop accepting violence 
as preferable to sex?
	Better to be blown than blown away.

BRAVO - To Mother Nature, for releasing us from hell's fiery 
grip. (OK, so maybe it wasn't that hot, but it sure felt like it.)
	We also appreciated the rain Wednesday night. But if 
anyone up there is listening, a quick request - chill out a 
little. Three inches of rain is good when spread out over a 
week - not in the span of an hour.

Column: History of welfare key to its reform

Gregg Pekau
Columnist

	While the debate rages on in Washington 
over welfare 
reform, it is important to take a look at how 
the welfare 
system came to be what it is today. 
	Marvin Olasky wrote a detailed 
description of the 
history of welfare, describing the effects of 
different theories 
and beliefs on how welfare should be handled. 
His book, 
The Tragedy of American Compassion, puts 
forth the view 
that welfare reform needs to take into 
account the history of 
the program and which parts have been the 
most effective. 
	Once we have reviewed welfare's history 
and the 
successful parts of the program, we will be 
able to fix the 
problems that face the system today.
	Here are the highlights of welfare 
programs that have 
existed since people started arriving in the 
New World.
	The early days of colonization relied 
heavily upon 
everyone putting forth all the effort they 
could. The colonists 
took the words of the Bible into 
consideration with the 
saying, "Don't work, you don't eat," 
attributed to the Apostle 
Paul.
	Soon after our country was formed, the 
problems of 
the poor quickly arose. Our forefathers 
fought poverty by 
taking the poor into their homes and families 
by housing, 
feeding, employing and often preaching to 
them. The result 
was that most of the people that were helped 
quickly got 
back on their feet again and became 
productive parts of 
society.
	But as the country grew, it became 
harder to organize 
such a public effort to house the poor. As a 
result, people 
started searching for new ways to deal with 
the problem. 
	During the 1840s, a debate was brewing 
between two 
different theories on how to deal with 
poverty and the poor. 
While both preached that personal involvement 
was a must, 
the debate was over whether the government 
should be 
involved with helping those in need. Social 
universalists felt 
that the government should play a key role in 
the reforming 
of the poor and impoverished.
	Social Darwinists saw things in a 
different light. They 
believed that, "(welfare) does more hurt than 
good, and 
makes more paupers than it relieves." Social 
Darwinists 
believed that relief should only be given to 
those who are 
actually trying to make themselves better.
	Around the turn of the century, welfare 
programs 
started moving away from personal involvement 
into a 
system that relied heavily upon monetary 
contributions. 
Many of the welfare leaders of that time saw 
this as a 
problem that was about to explode. Money 
contributions 
were hitting an all-time high, just as time 
spent with the poor 
was hitting its all-time low.
 	In the 1930s, FDR's New Deal won the 
hearts of 
citizens everywhere and a system of permanent 
monetary 
relief was established.
	Next came what Olasky considered the 
doom to 
welfare as we know it. The 1960s brought the 
notion that 
everyone was entitled to relief. People 
started saying that 
they deserved payments. This was the end of 
the notion that 
everyone must work to survive. And as Olasky 
put it: "We 
stopped holding people accountable for their 
behavior and 
began assigning blame to society."
	Now, in the 1990s, society is faced with 
a problem 
that could easily cripple this nation. The 
numbers of people 
on welfare have increased at a record-setting 
pace, with no 
end in sight.
	Welfare needs to be reformed immediately 
if we plan 
to compete in the 21st century. And this 
reform needs to take 
the best parts of programs that have existed 
in the past. First, 
everyone who receives benefits should be 
required to do 
some type of work, for if there is one thing 
that is true, there 
is no such thing as a free lunch.
	Next, we need to end the notion that 
everyone is 
entitled to benefits. The only people who 
should receive 
benefits are those who actually deserve them. 
This means 
that if you're capable of working, you work! 
	Another step is to move the welfare 
systems to the 
local, community level. It's ridiculous to 
believe that the 
federal government knows what's best for Joe 
Citizen. By 
moving the programs to the community level, 
citizens of 
these communities will be able to help their 
neighbors.
	Next, society must enforce morality. If 
everyone 
comes together in an effort to change for the 
better, we can 
end the plagues that face us now. We will be 
able to reduce 
the number of unwed mothers and illegitimate 
children. 
These things should be done as a society, not 
by the 
legislatures.
	Some of these views could easily be 
considered 
radical. But if that is what it takes, then 
we need to do it. We 
have let the problem of welfare get out of 
control and now 
it's time to fix things. And by taking the 
parts of welfare 
systems that have worked in the past and 
applying them to 
today's situation, we will be able to solve 
most of the 
problems we have.

Gregg Pekau is a senior studying economics. 

Column: A-bomb second guessed from start

Steve Forsberg
Columnist

	The on-going debate over the dropping of 
nuclear 
weapons on Japan during World War II has 
resulted in a 
flurry of accusations of "revisionism" 
against those who 
believe that the bombings were a mistake. 
Such charges are, 
quite simply, incorrect.
	Many people subscribe to the claim 
"second guessing" 
of the nuclear bombing started in the 1960s 
with the backlash 
against the Vietnam War. In a Feb. 4, 1995 
editorial of The 
Phoenix Gazette, Edwin Yoder of the 
Washington Post 
Writer's Group forwarded this thesis. He said 
that doubts 
about the bombing were "... a byproduct of 
the great quarrel 
over Vietnam - far more a product of the 
furies of the 1960s 
than of the war planning of the 1940s."
	This editorial was an attempt to respond 
to an earlier 
editorial by Stanford historian Barton J. 
Bernstein, which 
appeared in the Gazette on Feb. 1, 1995. In 
it, Bernstein 
points out that many of America's top leaders 
thought that 
dropping the bomb was a mistake, and thought 
so well 
before Vietnam. Among those regretting the 
bombing were 
former Ambassador Grew, Gen. Dwight D. 
Eisenhower, 
Adm. "Bull" Halsey and wartime Chairman of 
the Joint 
Chiefs Adm. Leahy.
	The most damning doubter, however, was 
Gen. 
Douglas MacArthur, an expert on Japan and a 
man not 
known for being a "liberal" or a "softy." 
MacArthur felt that 
the Allied demand for unconditional surrender 
would 
needlessly prolong the war and was being 
implemented 
wholly for domestic political consumption. He 
felt that by 
simply promising not to hang the emperor, we 
could have 
ended the war quickly and without the nuclear 
bombings 
(an account can be found in the classic 
MacArthur biography 
American Caesar).
	The point is not whether the bombings 
were "right" or 
"wrong," but to show that opposition to (and 
regret about) 
the bombings was present from the time they 
occurred and 
that such views were fairly widely held. All 
of the above 
aired their doubts well before the advent of 
the "dope-
smoking neo-Marxist liberal professors of the 
60s" that I 
have seen blamed for such views.
	An even better example is that of the 
book Great 
Mistakes of the War, written in 1950 by 
Hanson Weightman 
Baldwin. Baldwin was a military expert for 
The New York 
Times before, during and after World War II. 
He had written 
nine previous books and was well regarded.
	The last portion of Great Mistakes is a 
blistering 
attack on the notion that the atomic bombings 
hastened the 
end of the war, saved lives or did any other 
such good thing. 
The book received generally good reviews 
although some 
tagged it as anti-Roosevelt for claiming that 
we got the short 
end of the Yalta agreements. The most 
important fact, 
however, is that most reviewers did not make 
a big issue of 
his calling the bombings a mistake. In 1950, 
such a statement 
was not that controversial.
	How could a book written in 1950 be the 
result of 
some unpatriotic anti-Vietnam backlash when 
our direct 
involvement in that war did not begin for 
more than another 
decade?
	It would seem that the real revisionists 
are not those 
who think the bombing was a mistake, but 
rather those who 
are attempting to "revise" history to claim 
that such 
opposition only came forth because of Vietnam 
and a self-
flagellating liberal academic establishment. 
This is probably 
an outgrowth of a tendency (especially since 
the Reagan era) 
to blame all of our problems on Vietnam and 
the 60s in 
general. According to a popular myth, 
everyone in America 
was in complete agreement about every facet 
of World War 
II, the 50s were great, etc. etc. This myth 
is, quite certainly, 
very mistaken, but it is widely held. 
	"Revisionist" is not a slur amongst 
historians. 
Revision, the re-analysis of past views in 
light of new data or 
thinking, is a fundamental part of the 
history profession. Yet 
for some reason it has taken on for the 
general public 
overtones of lying or communism or some other 
ill-defined 
evil.
	In this case, however, the charge of 
"revisionism" is 
inaccurate. There has always been significant 
opposition to 
the idea that the nuclear bombings were 
"good," and these 
beliefs were not all the result of 'Nam and 
the 60s, nor were 
they held only by some on the "lunatic 
fringe."
	Perhaps in the future people, and the 
mainstream 
press, will be more careful in their labeling 
of historical 
ideas. I doubt it though.

Steve Forsberg is a senior studying history

Volleyball team ready to tame Golden Bears; upstage Stanford

By Dawn Wagner
State Press
	When the ASU volleyball team travels to 
the bay area 
this weekend to meet Cal and No. 4 Stanford, 
they will be 
looking into the eyes of experience.
	The Golden Bears have returned all six 
starters from 
last season and the defending national 
championship 
Cardinal, 8-2 overall (4-0 Pac-10), have 13 
of the 15 players 
back from last year.
	ASU, on the other hand, lost five 
seniors coming into 
this season, three of which were starters.
	However, the experience factor is not 
intimidating to 
the Sun Devils, said freshman outside hitter 
Mindi Larsen.
	"Knowing what they can do mentally 
prepares you," 
Larsen said. "It prepares you emotionally, 
also. It makes me 
want to push that much harder."
	Sophomore outside hitter Terri Cox said 
the veteran 
players for ASU will actually benefit from 
the experience.
	"Experience effects us, but it can also 
help us," Cox 
said. "People who have been playing together 
a long time 
know how they play, but we can also say this 
is how we 
played them before and this is what we can 
expect."
	The Sun Devils play Cal tonight at 7:30 
and face off 
against Stanford Saturday at 7 p.m.
	The Golden Bears, who posted a .136 
hitting 
percentage and a 2.06 block average last 
season, lost to ASU 
at their last meeting. Cox said last year's 
performance should 
help ASU tonight.
	"Last year we played really well," Cox 
said. "They are 
a really scrappy team. They don't have 
anybody really solid 
but you never know what they will pull off."
	Stanford, on the other hand, has seven 
experienced 
outside hitters and a few players who are 
vying for spots on 
the U.S. National team. Their solidity and 
depth are two 
factors the Sun Devils will have to deal with 
continuously 
Saturday night.
	Larsen said she will be a little nervous 
heading into 
the game.
	"As a freshman, I'm going in with an 
open mind," 
Larsen said. "I'm expecting anything and 
everything."
	But putting too much emphasis on their 
depth could 
be ASU's downfall, Cox said. 
	"You can't really think of them as the 
defending 
national champions," she said. "If we went 
out there thinking 
that, we would get blown out.
	"We have to go out there thinking they 
hit this way 
and block that way. That's how we do our best 
when we do 
something like that."

Devils to clash with 5th-ranked Trojans

By Dan Miller
State Press
	Another week, another top-five opponent. 
There's 
nothing new here for the ASU football team. 
The Sun Devils, 
who have one of the toughest schedules in the 
nation this 
year, may all breathe a sigh of relief after 
their game with 
fifth-ranked USC Saturday, which marks their 
last meeting 
with a national powerhouse.
	But don't be misled. By no means have 
the underdog 
Sun Devils conceded anything to the Trojans.
	"I like to take the approach that this 
is an opportunity 
because if somehow, some way, the whole thing 
falls into 
place and we end up with a win, what a 
gigantic win it 
would be," said Head Coach Bruce Snyder, 
whose team (2-2, 
1-1 in the Pac-10) will kickoff at 4 p.m. in 
the Los Angeles 
Coliseum. "Talk about a hump game. That would 
be a hump 
game.
	"... None of them are easy from here on 
out, but I 
think (USC) is clearly the best team 
remaining on the 
schedule."
	After an embarrassing 77-28 loss to No. 
2 Nebraska 
two weeks ago, the Sun Devils would like to 
prove they can 
compete with a championship-caliber team.
	"We don't want to go in and do the same 
thing we did 
against Nebraska," said ASU junior 
quarterback Jake 
Plummer. "This is a big opportunity. We have 
to go out there 
with the right attitude."
	Senior tailback Chris Hopkins agreed.
	"We don't practice to lose," he said. 
"We're 
approaching this the same way we did the 
first four games."
	One 6-foot-4, 210-pound road block for 
the Sun Devils 
will be senior wideout Keyshawn Johnson, an 
early front-
runner for the Heisman Trophy who has 
registered at least 
100 yards receiving in 11 straight games. 
Johnson, who leads 
the Pac-10 in receptions and yards per game, 
caught nine 
passes for 112 yards and a touchdown in the 
Trojans' 31-10 
win at UofA Saturday.
	"The guy's going to be a first-round 
draft choice," 
Snyder said. "He's going to be a millionaire 
in a year."
	Johnson doesn't do it by himself, 
though. The Trojans 
boast a pair of sharpshooting quarterbacks in 
senior Kyle 
Wacholtz and junior Brad Otton, who are 
currently ranked 
first and second in the conference in passing 
efficiency.
	"It's a major challenge for our 
secondary," said 
Snyder. "They get the ball out very quickly. 
They don't take 
sacks. They've not thrown an interception, 
either one of 
them. We're facing the best passing attack 
we've faced."
	Ironically, ASU leads the all-time 
series with USC, 6-5. 
ASU, which holds a 3-1 advantage at the 
Coliseum, is the 
only team in the conference that has a 
winning record 
against the Trojans. 
	USC Head Coach John Robinson, a longtime 
friend of 
Snyder's who actually gave him advice on how 
to become a 
college coach, said ASU's offense is similar 
to the Trojans.
	"It'll be the biggest offensive test 
we've had so far," 
said Robinson, whose Trojans (3-0, 1-0 in the 
Pac-10) also 
have wins over San Jose State and Houston. 
"It'll be 
interesting to see how we stand up against 
it."
	Snyder, who noted USC is one of the 
toughest venues 
in the nation because of all the distractions 
(e.g. the band, the 
fight song, the horse), said there will be no 
freebies.
	"If they're going to beat us, they're 
going to have to 
execute," he said.

Cross country to compete at invitational

By Lisa Eskey
State Press
	The men's and women's cross country 
teams will 
head to the Lopes Canyon Ranch in Phoenix 
tomorrow for 
the Grand Canyon Invitational, and Coach Ken 
Lehman isn't 
placing much importance on this meet. 
	"This is just a build-up to our meet on 
Oct. 13 (ASU's 
first home meet at Karsten Golf Course), then 
the Pac-10s," 
Lehman said.
	Junior Matt Repak agreed.
	"This is pretty much a low-key meet for 
us," Repak 
said. "We are planning on doing just enough 
to win the 
meet."
	Both teams won the Grand Canyon 
Invitational last 
season and expect a repeat. "If everybody 
does what they 
should, we can win," Repak added.
	Lehman said the women's team is very 
young, but 
with experience throughout the season it will 
improve, 
especially with senior Kim Barnett leading 
the team.
	The men's team is a bit more experienced 
and 
Lehman expects it to do well. 
	"Our young people are improving and I 
think we'll be 
doing fine at the end of the season," he 
said.
	According to Lehman, the course is flat 
and doesn't 
present much of a challenge.
	"Because of it's flatness, it will be 
fast," Lehman said. 
"I'm expecting the team to run some good 
times."
	The men's team is coming off a fifth-
place finish in the 
San Diego Aztec Invitational, Sept. 15, and a 
third-place 
finish at its first race at NAU. The women 
finished 11th at 
the Aztec Invitational and sixth at the NAU 
meet.
	The men will run the 8,000-meter course 
starting at 
8:30 a.m., and the women's 5,000-meter race 
will begin at 
9:15 a.m.

ASU police reported the following incidents 
Thursday:
* A female student reported receiving 
harassing phone calls 
in her room at Palo Verde West.
* Two male students and one female student 
were arrested, 
cited and released for possession of 
marijuana and 
possession of drug paraphernalia at Ocotillo 
Hall.
* Someone stole a female student's car, an 
ivory 1987 
Oldsmobile Cutlass, while it was parked in 
Lot 63.
* Someone stole a female student's car, a 
white 1987 Chevy 
Camaro, while it was parked in Lot 63.
* A women not affiliated with ASU was 
arrested, cited and 
released for possession of drug 
paraphernalia.
* Four bicycles were reported stolen.
Tempe police reported the following incidents 
Thursday:
* A 29-year-old man was arrested for 
possession of 
marijuana after police saw him stuff a large 
bag of marijuana 
down the back of his pants. He was a 
passenger in a car that 
was pulled over.
* A 39-year-old man was arrested for 
trespassing after 
breaking into a vacant motel room to sleep. 
He said he had 
no place to go.
* A 26-year-old man was arrested for assault 
and disorderly 
conduct after attacking his wife at her 
apartment. He pushed 
her on the floor and choked her with both 
hands. He then 
pushed her into the kitchen, where she hit 
her head on a 
cabinet. He also disturbed other tenants by 
yelling 
obscenities. 
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.
* Angel Flight/Arnold Air Society - Co-pledge 
under/over 
happy hour. All AnF/AAS hopefuls and pledges 
welcome. 
8:30 p.m.; Monti's La Casa Vieja.
* Arizona Horizon Project - Weekly meeting 
for solar and 
electric car teams. New members and all 
majors welcome. 
2:40 p.m.; MU Mohave Room.
* Devil's Juggling Club - Come learn to 
juggle or improve 
your skills. Devil stickers, diabolists and 
Michael Mocheny 
stuff also welcome. 5 p.m.; West Lawn on top 
of Hayden 
Library.
* Farce Side Comedy Hour - Watch the best 
sketch comedy 
troupe at ASU. 12:40 p.m.; MU lower level, 
Programming 
Lounge.
* Student Life Learning Resource Center - 
Free computer 
skills workshop: Advanced Word Perfect. Open 
to all 
students and staff. 10 a.m.; SSV 361.
* THEM (The Science Fiction and Fantasy 
Society) - General 
meeting followed by watching videos. 4:30 
p.m.; MU 
Mohave Room (222).

Sunday:
* Dance Department- Ballroom, Latin dance, 
Argentine 
tango and fox-trot lessons. 4 p.m.; Arizona 
Ballroom.