Return of the white flies

By Brian Anderson
State Press
	Give me your tired, your poor, your 
huddled masses 
...
	Unless those huddled masses are white 
flies, that is.
	Once again, millions of white flies have 
invaded 
campus, much to the dismay of students, 
faculty and staff who 
must tolerate the tiny bugs until 
temperatures cool down 
enough to kill them, said Scott Cisson, 
campus landscape 
architectural coordinator.
	"With the colder weather and the first 
frost, we'll see 
a tremendous drop in the (white fly) 
situation," he said. 
	Zoology professor Stanley Faeth said 
white flies are 
attracted to campus during certain seasons 
because of ASU's 
rich plant life. 
	"There is usually an increase of white 
flies in the fall 
and the spring," he said, "They're plant 
feeders, so anywhere 
that there are plants, they'll be."
	Faeth added that although the flies are 
annoying to 
many people, in the big scheme of things they 
are somewhat 
important to other insects.
	"Even though they attack plants, white 
flies are also 
probably eaten by other predators," he said. 
"(White flies) are 
actually pretty high in protein."  
	Lucy Hutcherson, a senior wildlife 
conservation 
biology major, said the pesky insects are 
very unpleasant when 
she commutes to campus. 
	"I notice them most when I ride my bike 
to and from 
campus," she said. "They're very annoying." 
	Cisson said the white flies can cause 
damage to 
plants, but the plants will eventually make a 
full recovery. 
	"They will suck the life out of them 
(plants), that's for 
sure," he said. "They will cause some 
problems like making 
the plant look like it's dried out. They 
don't kill it, but it will 
make the plant look rather shabby." 
	Cisson added that spraying plants with a 
light coating 
of dishwashing detergent helps alleviate the 
problem. But 
ASU encompasses too large an area to cover 
with soap.  
	"If you spray the plant, that will help 
ease the impact 
on that particular plant," he said. "(But) 
the campus is so big 
that there is nothing we can do. We just hope 
that it doesn't get 
too infested."

New conservation group digs for resourceful individuals

By Tim Baxter
State Press
	ASU's newest club wants to get its feet 
wet and its 
hands dirty.
	The Soil and Water Conservation Society 
wants to 
dig up anyone interested in ecology and the 
environment, said 
Kathy Killian, interim club president and 
graduate student 
studying environmental resources. The newly-
formed ASU 
chapter has already attracted about 15 
members.
	"This is a new club, so there's a lot of 
opportunity for 
growth and change," Killian said. "This is a 
good opportunity 
for someone who is even in another discipline 
entirely to gain 
a post in the club."
	Dr. Frederick Steiner, director of the 
School of 
Planning and Landscape Architecture, said the 
Society was 
founded nationally in the 1940s and was 
dedicated to the wise 
use of natural resources.
	"We're interested in both the art and 
science of good 
land use," Steiner said. "This is a good 
group. They're very 
active and very energetic."
	Killian said the group is not an 
activist group, but is 
attempting to provide a learning experience 
that went beyond 
the classroom.
	"We want to be in the field. We have a 
field trip 
planned this fall. Hopefully, we'll have a 
field trip every 
semester.
	"We're also in the process of getting a 
multi-year 
project off the ground," Killian said. "I 
think a lot of the clubs 
lack a long-term project to keep people 
interested."
	Doug Green, faculty adviser of the 
Society, said they 
are searching for "some sort of riparian-
restoration program" 
for their long-term project.
	Riparian areas are stream-side corridors 
of 
vegetation. Many of these areas have been 
degraded by human 
activities, Green said.
	The Society has also set up a 
scholarship fund for 
students in environmental fields. Green said 
it was the first set 
up for students in those fields.
	The scholarship will not pay out until 
adequate funds 
have been raised, Green said. 
	"But if no one started it, nothing would 
get done," he 
said.
	For more information on the Soil and 
Water 
Conservation Society, call Kathy Killian at 
858-9386

Defining date rape remains matter of controversy

By Ray Stern
Special to the State Press
	The four reports of acquaintance rapes 
on ASU's 
campus last week are "classic examples" of 
the crime, said 
Lanny Standridge, ASU chief of police.
	The exact definition of date rape, 
however, is still a 
matter of controversy.
	In a 1985 Ms. Magazine survey of college 
campuses, 
one in 12 male students in the study admitted 
to acts legally 
defined as rape. This includes forcing, or 
trying to force, a 
woman to have sex through "coercion."
	" ÔNo' means Ôno' - but Ômaybe' (also) 
means Ôno,' and 
silence means Ôno,' " said Radawna Michelle, 
crime prevention 
coordinator for ASU police.
	"If she says, Ôno' and she's sending 
mixed signals, it's 
his responsibility to clarify that," Michelle 
said. "That's when 
you have to back up ... you have to say, ÔYou 
just said, Ôno,' 
you don't want to have sex with me, but 
you're being sort of 
sexually aggressive now. What do you mean? 
what do you 
want?' "
	Such explicit communication, even if it 
means 
spoiling the mood, is "safer for everybody," 
Michelle said.
	However, Katie Roiphe, author of The 
Morning 
After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus, 
wrote that this 
definition hurts women.
	"The idea that women can't withstand 
verbal or 
emotional pressure infantilizes them," she 
wrote.
	Roiphe also states that this definition 
of rape also 
suggests that "men are not just physically 
but intellectually 
and emotionally more powerful than women."
	Nevertheless, police do not overlook the 
fact that 
some individuals react differently to the 
stress of date rape 
than others.
	"No one should make assumptions to 
violate a 
person's body," Standridge said. "Sometimes 
people are so 
struck (by shock) they cannot speak, or speak 
very loudly."
	Standridge said the decision to fight 
back is an 
individual one and depends on the situation.
	"I would hesitate to give any rule to 
cover all 
circumstances," he said. "Sometimes slapping 
will work, 
sometimes it will only encourage an attacker 
to continue."
	Even screaming, Standridge said, depends 
on where 
the person is and whether someone else can 
intervene.
	Some women do not even know they have 
been 
legally raped, according to the Ms. Magazine 
survey.
	It also reported that 43 percent of the 
women who 
had been legally raped did not define it as 
such.
	Michelle admitted the circumstances 
surrounding a 
date rape can be confusing sometimes.
	"That's why we educate women, too," she 
said.
	However, both Michelle and Standridge 
emphasized 
the need to shift any blame away from the 
victim.
	"If a man or woman wants to walk down 
the street 
naked ... an individual is morally entitled 
to choices that do not 
subject them to abuse," Standridge said. "The 
issue here is the 
criminal is at fault."
	Michelle said there is a balance between 
the need to 
provide prevention information and the desire 
to avoid any 
victim-bashing.
	"Being upset that the victims didn't 
take appropriate 
precautions is something that I just can't 
agree with," she said. 
"I mean, who says it's okay to have sex with 
someone because 
she's too drunk to say Ôno'?"
	Debra Sells, associate director of 
Residential Life, 
said students need to be responsible for 
their personal safety 
by using good judgment.
	"The issue of taking safety precautions 
is an 
important one," she said.
	She added that men must also be aware of 
their 
responsibility in preventing date rape. 
	"If communication is not totally clear, 
you need to 
stop," she said.
	In response to the recent incidents, ASU 
police will 
be mailing rape-prevention information to all 
the residence 
halls, as well as conducting presentations on 
rape at the 
following times and places:
	* Tonight, 6 p.m., Sonora Center;
	* Tuesday, Oct. 3, 7 p.m., Cholla 
Apartments;
	* Wednesday, Oct. 4, 7 p.m., Best Hall C 
Classroom.

Vote puts tenure's future in hands of Board of Regents

By Cody V. Aycock
State Press
	The Arizona Board of Regents voted 
Friday 
to review faculty tenure at the state's 
universities - 
with the possibility of eliminating it 
altogether. They 
rejected a plan from the three university 
presidents to 
establish a committee of faculty and 
administrators 
who would report to the Board in favor of 
hearing the 
debate directly.
	"I don't want to hear from just one 
side, and 
that's what I am afraid I am going to hear," 
said 
Regent John Munger. "I want to hear some 
presentations from some people who aren't in 
the 
Arizona university system who do not support 
tenure 
just as much as I want to hear the other side 
of the 
story."
	In the past few years, the issue of 
tenure has 
come under fire from regents and universities 
around 
the country. Proponents of the system argue 
that it 
provides academic freedom for faculty 
members. 
Opponents view tenure as an outdated business 
practice that does not hold tenured faculty 
accountable for their current work.
	Munger said past ABOR presentations on 
tenure have been narrowly focused. He said 
the 
Board needs to discuss all issues of tenure, 
even its 
elimination. 
	"When we did have a presentation made, 
the 
presentation was not on the subject I wanted 
to have 
discussed," he said. "The discussion was on 
whether 
we ought to have tenure modified, and not 
whether 
we ought to have tenure at all."
	However, University President Lattie 
Coor 
said he believes the regents' debate during 
the coming 
months will focus on how to modify tenure, 
not 
eliminate it. 
	"The way the conversation was framed, I 
have believed all along that (the debate) is 
to explore 
the nature and merits of tenure and ways to 
reform or 
strengthen it," Coor said. "I continue to 
believe that is 
the nature of the debate."
	Munger said he was upset about the 
amount 
of time it is taking Arizona's university 
officials to 
present information to the Board.
	"The fact of the matter is, a good deal 
of the 
two-year time involved in this process has 
been used 
up, frankly, by nobody doing anything," he 
said.  
	However, Regent President Eddie Basha 
interrupted Munger, saying the Board was to 
blame 
for the delay in studying tenure, not 
university faculty 
or administrators. 
	"That is the Board's fault," he said. 
"If you 
want to criticize the Board, then criticize 
the Board. 
We tried to accede to every one of your 
request(s)."
	Coor said he believes tenure is an 
adequate 
system for evaluating faculty members. 
	"(Tenure is a) process by which a 
university 
judges its faculty with some of the highest 
standards 
of any profession in the world," he said. "If 
they are 
granted tenure, then they must perform 
satisfactorily 
throughout their lifetime." 
	Faculty are eligible for tenure after 
six years 
of teaching at ASU. Members who do not meet 
the 
requirement for tenure at the University are 
"invited 
to leave," Coor said.
	He said University officials will 
continue to 
research tenure and provide the Board with 
additional 
information. 
	Munger said he is not committed to any 
time 
frame to make decisions about the tenure 
system, but 
reiterated the need to proceed with the study 
of the 
system. 
	"I am willing to give this all the time 
that is 
required," he said. "I want to study this 
issue until we 
are ready to decide ... but please 
understand, I will, by 
that time, have been pushing this issue, just 
trying to 
get it studied for two years."

Editorial: Bully on the Ninth Floor

	Why does Fife Symington have an agenda 
against 
education?
	The governor seems to revel in cutting 
down 
education whenever he can. Now, he is 
attempting to 
dismantle the Arizona Department of Education 
- all while 
singing the praises of "political revolution" 
and "limited 
government."
	Symington is making a massive error in 
trying to 
decentralize control of the education of 
Arizona's children. It 
is an error that thousands of children could 
pay dearly for - 
and something that must never happen.
	No monetary savings in the world could 
justify the 
damage that the governor's proposals would 
wreak.
	The proposal to decentralize schools is 
idiotic. If 
anything, Arizona schools need to be more 
centralized, not 
less.
	School funding is currently based on 
property taxes 
from within the district. Schools within rich 
districts reap a 
windfall of tax money, while schools in poor 
districts feel the 
pinch.
	The result of that is obvious: rich (and 
usually white) 
kids get the best education, and poor (and 
usually minority) 
kids get the shaft.
	After receiving an inadequate education 
for 12 years, 
the children from poor districts find it 
difficult to make 
admissions standards. This prevents them from 
receiving a 
college education - the very thing that could 
help them escape 
their poverty.
	This is not only wrong, it is 
unconstitutional, 
according to the Arizona Supreme Court.
	What Arizona really needs is a single 
educational 
pool, drawn from property taxes statewide. 
Schools would 
then receive funding based on their student 
base - not on how 
wealthy their neighbors are.
	Rich kids and poor kids alike would have 
the same 
opportunities and the same quality of 
education.
	This is the vision we need to be 
striving for.
	But Symington sees this as a "flawed" 
dream, no 
matter what the state high court thinks. And 
he keeps pushing 
ahead to further aggravate the problem.
	Rich districts would love 
decentralization, to be sure. 
But what about the poorer districts?
	Cash-poor and smaller districts rely on 
the Education 
Department for many services, including help 
in setting 
curriculums or financial assistance.
	Where would they go for this help?
	Symington talks loftily of shutting down 
schools that 
are failing.
	Of course, the schools that will fail 
under 
decentralization are the schools in 
impoverished districts. Will 
Symington be so proud of his new plan when 
needy children 
suddenly have nowhere to go to school?
	And what about the elimination of hiring 
standards 
for new teachers? Has Symington considered 
the effects of 
that?
	Teaching isn't something that just 
anyone can do. 
Teachers need to be qualified; they need to 
meet certain, set 
standards.
	This is not mindless bureaucracy - this 
is the 
protection of our educational investment in 
the children of this 
state. Unqualified teachers are nothing but a 
waste of money - 
and are a disservice to Arizona's pupils.
	Leave the schools alone, Fife. You're 
being nothing 
but a bully.

Editorial: Editor's 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: Innocent or guilty, it doesn't matter anymore

Tina Holder
Columnist

	Being interested in law and wanting to 
become an 
attorney, I have watched the O.J. Simpson 
trial as faithfully as 
possible. I have seen most of the witnesses, 
the evidence and 
the arguments between the attorneys - all of 
it. I must say that 
it scares me to death.
	This trial is no longer about justice or 
anything 
remotely close to it. It has become a battle 
to see who can win 
the "trial of the century." 
	It doesn't matter if the prosecution has 
the right guy 
or not. It doesn't matter if an innocent man 
goes to jail or if a 
guilty man goes free. 
	What matters is who wins.
	Does it matter:
	* That the man who found much of the key 
evidence 
is a racist and has admitted to planting 
evidence in other 
cases? 
	* That when Mark Fuhrman was asked if he 
planted 
evidence in this case, he took the Fifth 
Amendment for fear he 
might incriminate himself? 
	* That the infamous bloody socks were 
unnoticeable 
in a video taken at Simpson's home but 
suddenly appeared less 
than an hour later? 
	* That blood taken from a suspect is 
missing? 
	* That the suspect's house and grounds 
were searched 
without a search warrant? 
	You get the idea.
	Whether people believe that Simpson is 
innocent or 
not, this should bother them as much as it 
does me. Why 
doesn't the jury get to hear all of the 
evidence? 
	How can they make a fair decision when 
one of the 
key witnesses has taken the Fifth Amendment 
and they don't 
even know that? Even if a person believes 
that the man is 
guilty, what happened to the Constitution? 
Can the police now 
search someone's house whenever they want?
	I wonder what happened to "telling the 
whole truth 
and nothing but the truth?" I always thought 
that we had trials 
so that each side could tell its story and 
then let the jury or the 
judge decide who is right. It seems to me 
that in order to do 
this the jury would need to hear everything.
	I also think that Fred Goldman's attack 
on Johnny 
Cochran was completely uncalled for. I 
understand that this 
man's son was brutally murdered and I 
sympathize with that. I 
also have children and can't imagine that 
kind of pain. But 
Cochran is doing his job - nothing more. It 
seems to me that 
every time the defense shows how botched this 
investigation 
was, someone gets angry. 
	The fact that Cochran has hired 
bodyguards from the 
Nation of Islam is no reason to attack him. 
If he had hired 
bodyguards from some Christian religion or 
organization, 
would anyone have even commented on it? He 
has been 
threatened. He has the right to protect 
himself and considering 
that he is coming down pretty hard on the Los 
Angeles Police 
Department, I can't say that I blame him for 
not expecting 
those same police officers to protect his 
life.
	Goldman and many others are angry 
because the 
"race card" has been played in this case. 
Well, face it people, 
race is a very big issue in this case and in 
many others. 
	Do you think that if the victims in this 
case had been 
black there would still be a trial? Of course 
not - Fuhrman 
hated interracial couples and when he saw who 
the victim was, 
he could have seen an opportunity to nail 
Simpson. 
	What if Simpson were white? Would that 
have made 
a difference? Of course it would have. People 
have to start 
admitting that racism is a very big problem 
in this country. It 
hasn't gone away and it hasn't gotten much 
better. Instead of 
the Ku Klux Klan running around in their 
white sheets, we 
have Mark Fuhrmans running around in their 
blue uniforms.
	It seems to me that Goldman should want 
to see the 
man who killed his son put away for good. If 
he believes that 
man is O.J. Simpson, then why not condemn the 
police for 
botching the case? Why not condemn Fuhrman 
for allowing 
his racism to interfere with his work? Why 
not blame the 
prosecution for allowing liars and racists on 
the stand? Why 
not blame the police and the investigators 
for forgetting 
people's constitutional rights?
	Why not blame a system that has gotten 
so corrupt 
that we can no longer tell what justice is?

Tina Holder is a senior in justice studies

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Athletes should be held accountable for actions

	I would like to address my concerns 
about what is 
taking place in the world today regarding 
athletes and how 
some of them seem to think that the law 
doesn't apply to them.
	Recently I have read several reports 
coming from all 
over the United States about athletes, both 
college and 
professional, committing crimes. This problem 
is nothing new 
to the world but it seems the violations are 
getting far more 
severe and seem to be happening more often 
than ever.
	Many athletes such as Charles Barkley 
refuse the 
notion that they are role models, but when I 
see a child 
wearing a shirt that has a "Sir Charles'" 
likeness on it, I can't 
help but say that the child has adopted 
Barkley as his or her 
role model. It is a total shame that the 
athletes in their 
respected sports can't provide a more 
constructive role in the 
community they live in.
	Mario Bennett seemed to forget the law 
when he 
jumped into his car and drove drunk, and then 
allowed his 
friend to take the blame for his accident. 
	What kind of message does this send to 
our kids?
	All too often we see an athlete shooting 
someone, 
raping a woman, beating up someone or 
committing other 
serious crimes. Even worse is the do-nothing 
solution that 
schools and athletic teams seem to propose. 
	Nebraska seems to allow Lawrence 
Phillips to run 
rampant until hell is raised and instead of 
giving him the boot 
from school. They permitted him to stay and 
even raised the 
notion that he could come back to the 
football team at some 
point.
	Does this kind of solution tell our kids 
that rape and 
murder are OK if you are an athlete? It seems 
to since the rates 
of crime aren't going down. I urge each and 
every athlete and 
public figure at this school to take serious 
thought into what 
they are showing our next generation. I hope 
that we can see 
an end to this problem soon.

Aaron Bachler
Sophomore
Psychology

Letter: Quit ignoring other causes

	Tina Holder, who are you? Do you expect 
the ASU 
population to jump because you pick one of 
the many 
injustices in this world to write about? You 
don't look like any 
Native American I've ever known. 
	Let me guess, someone informed you that 
you're 20 
percent Native American, you read a book or 
is it just guilt?
	Nonetheless, why don't you join us in 
the real world? 
There is injustice everywhere, not just for 
the Native 
Americans. The physically challenged, 
overweight and elderly 
have stories to tell that are just as 
disheartening. 
	You write some articles, make no helpful 
suggestions 
and then criticize. What did you expect - for 
us to pack-up our 
cars, forget our academic careers and drive 
up to Canada? Get 
real!
	I know a lot of people, of all 
backgrounds, who make 
a difference everyday. Some feed the 
homeless, mentor at-risk 
youth, volunteer at a battered women's 
shelter, etc. 
	Who's to say their causes are any less 
important? I do 
what I can, as do many, but the bottom line 
is I'm here to 
learn, earn a degree and make sure my parents 
have medical 
treatment and food. 
	Holder you're right, I'm not going to 
let my family 
suffer by putting anyone else first and 
especially not because 
of anything you write. 
	I suggest you go knock on Gov. Fife 
Symington's 
door and ask his wife to financially back 
your effort or, better 
yet, go see the casino owners and ask them to 
use their profits 
for the only cause you feel is compelling. 

Julia Perez
Electrical Engineering
Senior 

Letter: Excuse me for having fun

	Yes, ignorance and stereotyping run 
rampant through 
our campus and through the nation, and they 
seem to have 
found a home in the random accusations of 
columnist Tina 
Holder.
	Her insistence that students without a 
personal stake 
in the affairs of Native Americans and "other 
minorities" are 
unwilling to sober up or focus on events 
other than the Pearl 
Jam concert, is the type of ignorant 
categorizing that is 
responsible for the current state of affairs.
	I agree the issues discussed at length 
(great length) by 
Holder exist and require the attention of 
everyone to force a 
change, but alienating those you would 
convince through 
insults is not the way.
	Further, I take issue with her constant 
phrasing of 
"other minorities" in a dismissive tone, 
using them only as 
back up for her arguments. How familiar are 
you with the 
problems of "other minorities," Holder?
	Pearl Jam has come and gone, and perhaps 
that is a 
load off your mind, as you seem to have 
devoted a good 
portion of your last column to them; but if 
you need more fuel, 
Nine Inch Nails tickets are on sale now, and 
I took time off 
from your "real world" to stand in line for 
R.E.M. tickets. I 
guess being able to enjoy oneself for a 
night, while still being 
aware, makes one a shallow person.
	Holder tried to close on a poignant note 
postulating 
what would have happened if those excuses 
were given to 
keep America from ousting Hitler. They were. 
Perhaps, before 
citing history, Holder should review the 
public sentiment of 
the times she invokes.

Jason Friedl
Senior
Political Science

No. 16 Sun Devil volleyball gains split in Bay area

From Staff Reports
	The No. 16 ASU volleyball team came away 
from 
their trip to the Bay area schools this 
weekend with a two 
game split.
	After defeating Cal 3-1 on Friday night 
the Sun 
Devils went on to Stanford, where they lost 
to the No. 4 
Cardinal 3-0.
	ASU now posts a record of 8-3 overall 
(2-3 Pac-10). 
	In front of a crowd of 420 at the Harmon 
Gym, the 
Sun Devils defeated the Golden Bears 15-12, 
14-16, 15-7, 15-
4.
	The Sun Devils, who led the match in 
team blocks 
16-5, also dominated in individual statistics 
with a higher 
number of  kills, assists, service aces and 
solo blocks.
	Senior outside hitter Christine Garner 
led both teams 
with 17 kills and 13 digs on the night. 
Outside hitter Jennifer 
Snyder added four service aces for ASU along 
with 13 kills 
and four block assists.
	For the Golden Bears, Michelle Wickman 
had two 
service aces and 13 kills. Lynn Guevara added 
39 assists in 
three games for Cal.
	Despite the win on Friday, the Sun 
Devils lost to 
Stanford Saturday night, 13-15, 15-12, 15-7.
	Snyder led both teams in kills with 16 
while senior 
middle blocker Holly Sones added 10 kills and 
three block 
assists.
	Stanford led in almost all areas 
including blocks, 
kills, service aces and digs. For the 
Cardinal, Cary Wendell 
had 14 kills, 25 assists and 19 digs.
	The Sun Devils now come home to face 
Oregon and 
Oregon State next weekend at the University 
Activity Center.

Powers, Steinberg jockey for starting goalie duties

By Ron Matejko
State Press
     The starting goaltending position for 
the ASU Ice Devils' 
hockey team is still up in the air, and the 
battle for the spot is 
between  freshman Greg Powers, and senior 
Ross Steinberg. 
     "It would be great if I get to start, 
but we're not competing 
against each other," Powers said. "What's 
best for the team is 
important. I'll sit on the bench and cheer 
for the team if that is 
what Coach (Gene) Hammett decides."
     Steinberg explained what the experience 
has been like for 
him.
 "The team is what comes first," Steinberg 
said. "Don't get me 
wrong, I want the job, but we have become 
good friends. 
There is no animosity between us. We are 
comfortable with 
the situation and are helpful to each other."
   Even though tryouts have been completed, 
Hammett said a 
decision will not be made until a week before 
the Ice Devils' 
season-opening trip to Boulder, Colo., on 
Oct. 20. 
     The position opened up when a recurring 
disc injury to 
starting goalie, senior Adam Mims, flared up 
during the off 
season. Hammett said he doesn't expect him to 
return to game 
shape until sometime in December at the 
earliest. 
    Powers is entering his first season, but 
Hammett said he 
doesn't show signs of being a newcomer. 
     "Usually, when a freshman comes to the 
team it takes time 
for him to work his way in, but the team has 
taken to him 
already," he said.
     Hammett first met Powers in April of 
1993 at the Chicago 
Showcase, a national high school tournament 
made up of the 
top 30 teams from around the country. 
     "He was only a senior in high school but 
showed natural 
talent," Hammett said of Powers. "He played 
against a team 
that consisted of 18 scholarship players and 
performed 
excellent. I was impressed."
     Powers said Hammett played a major role 
in his deciding to 
come to ASU.
     "The main reason I came to ASU was Coach 
Hammett's 
strong sell of his program and his 
persistence in recruiting 
me," Powers said. "ASU wasn't my first choice 
in the 
beginning, but Coach Hammett's continuous 
contact with me 
showed he cared a lot about improving his 
program."
      Powers said  there were other reasons 
he chose ASU over 
stronger hockey programs that were recruiting 
such as Ohio 
University, the University of West Virginia 
and the University 
of Illinois. He liked Hammett's commitment to 
recruiting 
better players to improve the team and his 
chance for more 
playing time, even if it doesn't come right 
away.
     Hammett said Powers will play an 
important part of the Ice 
Devils' development.
     "He will be a key guy for us in 
rebuilding," he said. "He's 
the type of guy that might take us over the 
top."
     Steinberg is entering his third season 
as an Ice Devil. His 
role has been mostly as a back-up, but he 
started some games 
when Mims went down with the back injury.
     To prepare for the upcoming season, 
Steinberg trained in 
California during the off-season where he 
played with players 
from other universities as well as some 
members of the Los 
Angeles Kings.
      In the past, he has also trained with 
the University of 
Colorado and its goaltending coach, and also 
with members of 
the Air Force hockey team.
     "Ross had a lot to learn," Hammett said. 
"I think he has 
improved so much over the past three seasons. 
Through hard 
work he has turned himself into a pretty 
decent goaltender."
     Hammett said when Mims returns he won't 
be handed the 
starting job automatically.
     "He'll have to earn it back," he said. 
"It will depend on how 
the guys do while he is out. If they do the 
job, then it will be 
hard to make a change."

No. 5 Sun Devil golfers take to links in Missouri

By Lisa Eskey
State Press
	The fifth-ranked men's golf team will 
begin 
competition in St. Louis today at the 
Missouri Bluffs 
Invitational.
	The field will consist of 15 teams, at 
least five 
ofwhich are ranked in the top 20 nationally.
	Redshirt freshman Brad Cannon will make 
his season 
debut in the tournament. Coach Randy Lein is 
anticipating big 
things from Cannon..
	Lein said his team is more relaxed than 
when it 
entered the first tournament.:
 	"When you're going into your first 
tournament, 
expectations are high and nobody really knows 
how well they 
are going to do," he said. "Winning breeds 
winning, and we're 
all set to play."
	."We have higher expectations for this 
tournament 
now that we have one win already," junior 
captain Scott 
Johnson said.

October 2, 1995 - ©State Press

Sun Devils' receiving corps under microscope 

By Dan Miller
State Press
	Once considered a practical automatic, 
the ASU 
passing game has found itself on the hot seat 
after the Sun 
Devils' 31-0 debacle at the hands of No. 5 
USC Saturday. 
	More specifically, the dropped passes. 
Seven to be 
exact.
	"Offensively, the most glaring problem 
is the drops," 
said ASU Head Coach Bruce Snyder, whose team 
(2-3, 1-2 in 
the       Pac-10) next faces Stanford this 
Saturday at 7 p.m. at 
Sun Devil Stadium. 
	No one was singled out because nearly 
everyone in 
the Sun Devil receiving corps was guilty, 
arousing a major 
area of concern at this juncture of the 
season. 
	"Therein lies most of our frustration 
offensively," 
Snyder said. "Whatever it was, it was 
contagious, because they 
all got it."
	And the explanation for the sudden 
affliction that is 
plaguing the ASU offense?
	"We just have to catch the ball better 
than we're 
catching it. It really reflected in our 
third-down conversions," 
said Snyder, whose Sun Devils were 1 of 7 on 
third-down 
conversions at halftime, with three of the 
misses coming off of 
dropped passes. "Assuming that everything 
worked out (on 
those three plays), that makes us 4 out of 7 
and that makes it a 
hell of a lot different game."
	But instead, the passing game, along 
with the rest of 
ASU's offense, sputtered from beginning to 
end. Junior 
quarterback Jake Plummer, who completed 17 of 
35 passes for 
148 yards and two interceptions, said dropped 
balls is 
something every quarterback deals with 
periodically.
	"I try not to let them affect me," he 
said. "We're going 
to have a few drops, hopefully not many. You 
don't like to 
have those because it does kind of get me out 
of my rhythm 
and make me a little hesitant, because I 
threw the ball right at 
him and he dropped it.
	 "I really can't explain it, we have 
guys with great 
hands. It's just something we have to work on 
in practice."
	For ASU, once again it was a tale of two 
halves, 
which created another point of emphasis, 
Snyder said.
	"I don't think we've really played a 
whole game yet, 
even in the wins," he said. "As a young team 
we're going to 
have to learn how to do that."
	Senior tailback Chris Hopkins, who had 
two 19-yard 
runs, said he wasn't impressed by USC (4-0, 
2-0 in the Pac-10) 
even in the shutout, ASU's first since they 
lost to the Trojans 
by a 50-0 count in 1988.
	"It's embarrassing, but I guess that's 
why we play 11 
games," he said.
	ASU's secondary has probably what will 
being its 
biggest challenge of the season in covering 
USC's 6-foot-4 
hot-shot wideout Keyshawn Johnson behind it. 
Johnson, a 
legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate, was as 
advertised, 
outspoken, but able to back it up. 
	The senior receiver caught 13 passes for 
171 yards 
and one touchdown, a 60-yard unmolested 
gallop which all but 
buried ASU. It was the 12th-consecutive game 
he has recorded 
over 100 yards receiving, which set a new 
NCAA record. 
Johnson, who doesn't try to hide his vanity, 
wondered aloud 
after the game if he was "the next Jerry 
Rice" and patted his 
receiving corps on the back.
	"We have one of the best receiving corps 
in the 
country - add our tight ends in there - and 
we're probably 
about the best," Johnson said.
	Said free safety Mitchell Freedman: "We 
dinged him 
a couple of times and let him know we were 
there," said the 
ASU redshirt-freshman, who exchanged 
pleasantries with 
Johnson on several occasions during the game. 
"He had a fear 
in his heart. He knew he didn't want to come 
across the 
middle. They kept sending him on out patterns 
because we 
broke him."
	NOTES:
	*ÊSnyder said junior linebacker Scott 
Von der Ahe 
and senior Justin Dragoo played their best 
games of the year. 
Von der Ahe finished tied with Freedman for a 
game-high 13 
tackles.
	* Snyder also said senior fullback Ryan 
Wood, junior 
offensive tackle Juan Roque, junior tight end 
Steve Bush, 
freshman guard Mike Barnes and sophomore 
cornerback Jason 
Simmons played well.

ASU cross country teams finish 1st, 2nd at Invitational; Repak top male

By Dustin Krugel
State Press
	The ASU men's cross country's low-key 
approach 
paid off with impressive results over the 
weekend.
	"We went into the (Grand Canyon) 
Invitational with a 
low-key approach," Coach Ken Lehman said. "It 
served its 
purpose. Mentally, we didn't try to get fired 
up. We talked 
about it earlier as a team and we decided to 
use it for training 
and let what happens, happen."	
	The Sun Devil men finished first and the 
women 
finished second in the dual meet against 
Grand Canyon 
University in Phoenix last Saturday. Junior 
Matt Repak ran 
away with top honors, finishing the men's 
8,000-meter course 
in 26 minutes, 13 seconds. Repak won in spite 
of running over 
100 miles in practice that week.
	"My legs weren't that fresh," Repak 
said.
	"I thought we ran pretty well, 
especially since we had 
a high mileage week of practice," Lehman 
said. "I think Matt 
ran about 115 miles this week."
	The Sun Devil men had four of the top 
five times. 
Junior Ari Rodriguez finished a close third 
(26:35) followed 
by senior Tom Weber, who grabbed fourth 
(26:52), and 
freshman Brandon McGregor,  who finished 
fifth.
	"We were pretty much able to control the 
race," 
Repak said. "We started out slow, but we got 
a little more 
intense as the race went on."
	Lehman said he expects sophomore John 
Tyrrell and 
freshman Andy Carusetta to be available at 
the next meet on 
Oct. 13 at ASU's Karsten Golf Course. Tyrrell 
and Carusetta 
were unable to run last Saturday because of 
injuries.
	"There was a gap between our first four 
runners and 
the other runners," Repak said. "We'll 
continue to improve 
when they return."
	Repak said he is looking forward to 
erasing last year's 
disappointing eighth-place finish in the ASU 
Invitational. 
	"Last year we had a bad showing," he 
said. "We'll 
have more spectators there and we'll be more 
familiar running 
at that course after running there last 
year."

"PICK IT AND WIN" CONTEST WINNER

	Freshman Vikki Smith, who is undeclared 
on her major, was the Week 
Five winner of the State Press Sports "PICK 
IT AND WIN" contest for ASU 
football games.
	Vikki picked USC to defeat ASU 28-7. 
Since none of the contestants who 
entered correctly picked the exact score of 
USC 31, ASU 0, Vikki's prediction was 
determined to be the closest.
	Remember the winner must correctly pick 
the winner and the final score 
of the game.
	Vikki edged her sister-in-law, senior 
Sara Smith, by just one point for the 
victory.
	Vikki won as ASU cap courtesy of The Cap 
Co. on 6th St. and Mill Ave., 
an autographed Jake Plummer poster schedule 
courtesy of ASU athletics, a 
headshot in the State Press sports section, 
an ASU sports calendar and a bonus 
prize.
	Smith on the game: "It was pretty sad. I 
think we are better than what the 
final score was though."
	Why did you predict 28-7? "My brother 
helped me a lot with it. He said to 
make sure I have USC winning by a lot."
	Smith's season prediction: 5-6 and a 
loss to UofA. "They have a better team 
than us this year."
	Favorite Sun Devils: Jake Plummer - 
"He's fun to watch." Also tailback 
Chris Hopkins.
	****Entries for this week's contest (ASU 
vs. Stanford) are now being 
accepted.
	****Either fax entries to 602-965-8484 
"Attn: Sports 
Editor", or drop off in the  basement of 
Matthews Center.

 ASU police reported the following incidents 
over the 
weekend:
* An unidentified number of Pepsi machines 
were burglarized; 
$680 was stolen. Two of the machines were on 
the first floor 
of the Social Science Building. The locations 
of the other 
machines were not reported.
* The windows of the sixth and 12th floor 
study rooms in 
Manzanita Hall were damaged. Estimated damage 
is $1,200.
* The sixth floor hallway in Manzanita Hall 
was damaged. 
* A gym bag containing two cellular phones 
was stolen from a 
vehicle parked in Lot A27.
* Two people were arrested, cited and 
released for shoplifting 
at Stabler's in the Tempe Center.
* Police contacted a man who threatened 
people with a knife 
at Stabler's in the Tempe Center. Police 
advised him of 
trespassing and loitering laws, and the man 
left the area.
* A gold 1987 Toyota was damaged Saturday 
night or Sunday 
morning in Parking Structure 1.
* A green duffel bag was found on the south 
side of the Law 
Library and impounded for safekeeping.
Compiled by Garin Groff of the State Press

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* Alcoholics Anonymous - Daily campus 
meeting. Noon to 
1:15 p.m.; Newman Center, Aquinas Hall in the 
basement.
* ASASU University Affairs Committee - 
Committee 
meeting. Topics: cult activities on campus, 
graduate student 
TA and RA stipends and university race and 
gender policies. 
All students welcome. 5:40 p.m.; MU third 
floor, Conference 
Room 1A and 1B.
* Coalition for Justice and Peace - 
Conference: "Danger - 
March to the Right." Discussion session, 9 
a.m. to 9 p.m.; 
Special speaker John Swomley of the National 
American Civil 
Liberties Union at 7 p.m.; MU Mohave Room.
* Coalition for Justice and Peace - Special 
guest speaker: 
Daniel George-Abeyie. Topic: "What is stupid, 
ineffective and 
cruel about capital punishment." Noon; ASU 
West.
* KASR Sports - Mandatory meeting. All sports 
staff must 
attend. 3:15 p.m.; KASR in the Tower 
Building.
* MUAB Film Committee - Premier of "Melt Down 
Project." 
7 p.m.; MU lower level, MU Cinema.
* NATAS - Activities committee meeting. 6 
p.m.; Stauffer 
Hall second floor, Reading Room.
* Society for Creative Anachronism - Dance 
class. Learn court 
and country dancing of the Middle Ages. Free. 
7 p.m.; MU 
Ventana Room (226A).
* Student Life Learning Resource Center - 
Free computer 
workshop: Beginning Word Perfect, 9 a.m.; 
Beginning MS 
Word, 6 p.m.; Beginning Word Perfect, 6 p.m.; 
Advanced 
Word Perfect, 7 p.m. SSV 361 A.
* Student Life Learning Resource Center - 
Free midterm 
strategies workshop series: Test preparation, 
7 p.m. and 8 
p.m.; Test anxiety, 8 p.m.; Test taking, 7 
p.m. and 8 p.m. BA 
137, BA 265, BA 401.