ASASU president arrested for second time in 3 weeks Senator: 'It is time for Chris to resign'

By Timothy Tait
State Press
	Student government President Chris Weber 
was 
arrested for disorderly conduct and 
trespassing Monday 
night at Palo Verde Main. The arrest came 
less than one 
month after his arrest for allegedly 
assaulting a female 
student.
	The arrest spurred an Associated 
Students of ASU 
senator to call for Weber's resignation.
	"It is time for Chris to resign," said 
College of Law Sen. 
Sanjay Vidyadaran. "This is just too much.
	"I hope that he would resign so ASASU 
can retain its 
honor."
	According to ASU Chief of Police Lanny 
Standridge, 
police were called to the all-female dorm by 
residence hall 
staff around 10:30 Monday night. The staff 
member reported 
that three individuals were in the dorm lobby 
acting in a 
disruptive manner. 
	Less than one minute following the 
initial call, the staff 
member called police again - this time asking 
for an 
immediate response.
	An officer on the scene reported that 
Weber was loud 
and refused to answer questions, Standridge 
said. Weber also 
refused to submit to a breathalyzer test.
	According to the police report, however, 
Weber had a 
"strong odor of alcohol coming from his 
breath."
	Along with Weber, Michael Bernoff and 
Scott Seltzer 
were also arrested for disorderly conduct and 
trespassing. 
Bernoff, 17, was also arrested for underage 
possession of 
alcohol and possession of a fake driver's 
license.
	Weber and Bernoff are both members of 
the Pi Kappa 
Alpha fraternity.
	Neither Weber nor Bernoff returned 
repeated phone 
calls, and Seltzer was unable to be reached 
for comment.
	According to the report, Weber entered 
the lobby of 
Palo Verde Main with a hood over his head and 
his hands 
tied behind his back. He was being escorted 
by Seltzer.
	A staff member approached the men and 
inquired 
what they were doing. One of the men replied, 
"Don't worry 
about it. It is none of your concern."
	Staff members confronted the trio again 
and, when 
they refused to comply with their requests to 
leave the 
premises, police were called. The three men 
refused to 
identify themselves to the residence hall 
staff or explain what 
they were doing.
	Weber, according to the report, took off 
his hood and 
grew belligerent with the hall staff member 
who requested 
that he remain in the lobby. Weber and the 
other men were 
attempting to enter through doors that lead 
to the C and D 
wings of the hall - a restricted area.
	Moments later, the men attempted to 
leave after they 
realized that police had been called, 
Standridge said.
	The men, according to the report, 
remained loud and 
belligerent until police arrived.
	Vidyadaran said it was ironic that Weber 
was arrested 
again.
	"The funniest part," he said, "is that 
the Government 
Operations Committee decided to give Chris a 
break" by not 
pressing the Dean of Student Life to 
investigate Weber's 
arrest for assault.
	"We gave him the benefit of the doubt," 
said 
Vidyadaran, who is chairman of the Government 
Operations 
Committee. "But this is crossing the line."
	Vidyadaran said he will be calling on 
the senate to 
take action.
	"It is time to start forming the 
articles of impeachment 
- enough is enough," he said. "I would 
strongly advise Chris 
to resign."
	"This brings us back to the original 
question," 
Executive Vice President Angelo DeSimone 
said. "Does Chris 
Weber represent ASASU?"
	However, DeSimone, who also serves as 
the president 
of the Senate, said it will be up to the 
Senate as a whole to 
make a decision.
	"I'll back whatever they decide," he 
said.
	DeSimone said Weber's arrest 
"frustrates" him because 
it puts a "dark cloud on everything that we 
do."
	"One bad incident looks bad for the 
association," he 
said.
	Monday's incident marks Weber's second 
brush with 
the law in the past month.
	He was arrested on suspicion of 
misdemeanor assault 
Sept. 21 after Heidi Young, a junior pre-
business major, filed 
a complaint with the ASU Department of Public 
Safety 
alleging that Weber hit her in the face 
during a bar fight. She 
said she can't positively identify Weber as 
the assailant, but 
has several witnesses who substantiate her 
claim.
	The fight between a few members of 
Weber's 
fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, and a few members 
from Sigma 
Phi Epsilon occurred the night of Sept. 21 at 
the Dash Inn, 731 
E. Apache Blvd. Weber left the bar after the 
fight and was 
arrested outside his fraternity house about a 
half-hour later.
	He was scheduled to appear in court 
Tuesday for his 
assault charge arraignment.
	He said earlier this week that the 
arraignment is only a 
formality and that his lawyer would file a 
not guilty plea.
	Weber denies involvement in the fight 
and said he did 
not punch Young.
	"A lot of people are surprised," 
Graduate College Sen. 
Daran Wastchak said. "Everyone is troubled."
	"Chris is troubled by it all," he said.

Super Bowl reps optimistic about transportation issues

By Angela Mull
State Press
	The 97,000 out-of-state visitors 
expected to cram into 
Tempe for Super Bowl festivities won't cause 
a great 
transportation problem, said a Super Bowl XXX 
Host 
Committee representative.
	Tom Callow, the Host Committee's 
Transportation 
Committee manager, said one reason for this 
optimistic 
outlook is because about one-third of Tempe's 
visitors for the 
Jan. 28 game will use buses and not cars.
	"The biggest unknown is how many people 
that live 
here are going to come here for Super Bowl 
day," he said. 
"We don't know because they don't have 
tickets. It's whoever 
shows up."
	The Transportation Committee is 
finalizing a 
transportation guide that includes 
information about where 
to park and what roads will be closed. The 
guide should be 
completed by the end of October so it can be 
mailed out with 
Super Bowl tickets, Callow said.
	Part of the transportation plans include 
closing the Rio 
Salado Parkway between Priest Drive and Rural 
Road from 
Jan. 19 to 28 to everything except Super Bowl 
parking lot 
traffic. Callow said this decision is because 
shuttles will need 
the room to run visitors from the lots to the 
NFL Experience 
and the game.
	"We're anticipating a lot of pedestrian 
traffic," he said. 
"It's a safety concern so we don't have cars 
and people mixing 
when we don't need to."
	Callow said the closure should not 
affect daily traffic 
because the Rio Salado Parkway is used more 
for local access 
to downtown Tempe than as a commuter route.
	Another part of Tempe's plan will move 
people who 
hold decals for Lot 59 to parking lots along 
the Rio Salado 
Parkway at Hardy Drive and Lot 55 decal 
holders to the 
north side of Lot 58. The month-long 
relocation begins Jan. 15 
and lasts until Feb. 9. 
	However, Linda Riegel, assistant 
director of parking 
and transit at ASU said there is a 
possibility students may get 
their spaces back sooner than that.
	"Our primary concern was to ensure 
minimum 
disruption and maintain the quality of life 
as it pertains to 
safety and security for people attending and 
visiting ASU," 
said Riegel, also a member of the Host 
Committee's 
Transportation Committee.
	Although ASU staff, faculty and students 
will be 
inconvenienced during the Super Bowl, Ben 
Arredondo, 
Tempe City Council member and a member of the 
council's 
subcommittee on public works and 
transportation, said he is 
most concerned about downtown Tempe workers.
	"I want to make sure of what is best for 
them," he said, 
adding that he wants them to experience as 
little disruption 
as possible.
	Riegel said even with the Transportation 
Committee's 
plans, Super Bowl-related activities near ASU 
will still cause 
problems for drivers passing through nearby 
areas.
	"People need to allow extra time, keep a 
sense of 
humor, be patient and realize there are other 
benefits being 
provided to ASU and the surrounding 
community," she said.

Rising college tuitions national trend, report says

By Brian Anderson
State Press
	Feeling the bite of higher college 
costs?
	You are not alone, according to a report 
conducted by 
the College Board, a non-profit educational 
association that 
examined two years of data from more than 
3,000 public and 
private institutions.
	The College Board's Annual Survey of 
Colleges 
reported that while tuition increases have 
remained steady at 
6 percent, federal and state financial aid 
programs doled out 
more than $46.8 billion during 1994-95 - an 
approximate 10.5 
percent increase from last year.
	The average cost of attending a four-
year public 
institution increased about $155 compared 
with last year's 
report.
	Last April, the Arizona Board of Regents 
increased in-
state tuition at Arizona's three universities 
to $1,884 per year 
and out-of-state tuition to $8,278 per year, 
an average 
increase of 5.25 percent. 
	The study also indicated that the number 
of students 
borrowing unsubsidized loans increased nearly 
threefold 
from last year, to more than 2 million. The 
increase is due 
partially to the fusion of the Stafford loan 
program with the 
Supplemental Loans for Students program, 
which provided 
loans to graduate and professional students, 
said Kate Dillon, 
director of Student Financial Assistance.
	"They've replaced the (SLS) program," 
she said. 
"They've streamlined it and changed the 
annual maximums 
in the Stafford program so that it absorbed 
the SLS program. 
It's less confusing."
	Dillon added that the increase in 
unsubsidized loans 
may be misleading because the new program is 
in its second 
year and it will continue to increase as more 
students hear the 
program is available.
	In 1992-93, for example, financial 
assistance provided 
$47 million in loans, she said. This academic 
year, Dillon 
estimated that the total would top $100 
million - an increase 
of more than 50 percent.
	Larry Mankin, special assistant to ASU 
President 
Lattie Coor, said tuition hikes are steady 
because state funds 
have been regularly decreasing.
	"There has been less support (for higher 
education) by 
state legislatures," he said. "All states 
have gone through 
physical stress and higher education has been 
one of the 
areas that have been pulled back on. Funds 
that were there at 
one time are no longer there."
	Mankin added that tuition increases are 
necessary to 
replenish funds lost to government cutbacks 
and to maintain 
student services.
	"If you're receiving less funds from 
other sources, the 
funds that students are being asked to 
contribute are making 
up for the (lack of) government support for 
higher 
education," he said. "I think at ASU there 
has been a very 
active effort to make sure that there is an 
improvement in the 
quality of services given to students."

Study: Half of sexually active college women don't use condoms

By Kelly Wendel
State Press
	A study recently published by a national 
health 
organization reveals that almost half of 
sexually active 
college women aren't using condoms.
	Compiled by the American Social Health 
Association, 
the study indicates that while 85 percent of 
college-age 
women are sexually active, almost half of 
them use no 
protection against sexually transmitted 
diseases. More than 
three-fourths of the respondents never use 
condoms for oral 
sex.
	"In general, most college women don't 
think it will 
happen to them," said Dr. Christina Risley-
Curtis, an assistant 
professor at ASU and an expert in sexually 
transmitted 
diseases.
	According to ASHA statistics, two-thirds 
of the 12 
million new STD infections in the United 
States each year 
occur in people under age 25.
	Risley-Curtis said unlike quitting bad 
habits, such as 
smoking or drinking, changing risky sexual 
behavior is a 
decision that involves two people.
	"If a young woman says to her partner, 
'You have to 
use a condom,' and he says, 'No, I'm not 
going to use it and if 
you want me to, forget it,' she may likely 
not be able to say, 
'Well, OK, forget it. Bye,' " Risley-Curtis 
said. "In other words, 
both people have to consent to it."
	In the heat of the moment, she said that 
condoms are 
sometimes the last thing on participants' 
minds.
	"The spontaneity of sexual encounters 
probably works 
against using condoms," she said.
	Women who engage in risky sex are 
leaving 
themselves open to a whole range of health 
problems, from 
contracting HIV/AIDS and syphilis to life-
threatening pelvic 
infections.
	"Women, especially young women, are more 
susceptible to infection, less likely to 
experience STD 
symptoms and more difficult to diagnose," 
said ASHA 
president Peggy Clark. "In women, sexually 
transmitted 
diseases can lead to severe consequences, 
including 
infertility, and ectopic or tubal pregnancy."
	The study was based on 1,000 respondents 
at two mid-
Atlantic universities, in conjunction with 
Nationally Sexually 
Transmitted Disease Awareness Month in April.

Coming Out Day opens doors for self-honesty

By David J. Kovacs
State Press
	Encouraging lesbians, gay men and 
bisexuals to be 
honest about their sexuality is the aim of 
the National 
Coming Out Day rally today on the Student 
Services Building 
lawn. 
	The rally will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1 
p.m. and is 
sponsored by the Lambda League, a campus gay 
and lesbian 
student organization.
	"We want to send a message that you can 
be gay, 
lesbian or bisexual and have a normal life," 
said Mike Brown, 
a graduate student and Lambda co-chair of the 
event.
	The day's events include a 1:30 p.m. 
reception at the 
Memorial Union and a 7:30 p.m. discussion 
emphasizing 
coming out in the workplace.
	Brown said "coming out" can take many 
forms. 
	"We encourage gays and lesbians to come 
out of the 
closet anytime they feel they're ready," he 
said. "That could 
be just to yourself, or to a friend or family 
member."
	Coming Out Day isn't just for gays and 
lesbians, 
Brown said.
	"Every heterosexual knows a gay or 
lesbian person, 
whether they know it or not," he said. "This 
is a chance for 
them to say, 'I think they're OK people.' "
	This year's celebration is happening 
while the U.S. 
Supreme Court hears oral arguments about 
Colorado's 
constitutional Amendment 2. The amendment 
bars the state 
government from making laws giving 
homosexuals or 
bisexuals protected status against 
discrimination.
	The amendment was struck down by the 
Colorado 
Supreme Court but is being appealed by the 
state. Brown said 
he is cautiously optimistic the amendment 
will be struck 
down again.
	"This Supreme Court has proven itself to 
be very 
unpredictable," he said. "If it is upheld, we 
can expect to see 
the spread of anti-gay legislation."
	Scott Beyer, a graduate student studying 
geophysics, 
said gay people can help change society's 
prejudices by 
coming out. People who might be anti-gay gain 
a new 
perspective when they know someone who is 
gay, he added.
	"They reconsider," he said. "Maybe there 
are people 
out there they know (who are) affected by 
hearing their fag 
jokes."
	He said he doesn't tell people his 
sexual orientation, 
but refuses to censor himself in 
conversation. 
	Part of the day's activities will 
include people who are 
already "out" walking through a pink door as 
a symbol of 
support, Brown said. 
	"This is not an attempt to be 'in your 
face' as militant 
gays or lesbians," he said. Rather, he said 
the door is a symbol 
of gay pride.
	"We can own a stereotype and make it a 
positive 
thing," he said.

Editorial: Resign, Chris

	Late Monday night, ASU's student 
government 
president, Chris Weber, was arrested on a 
charge of 
disorderly conduct.
	This is not Weber's first brush with the 
law. He was 
also arrested last month - that time on a 
charge of 
misdemeanor assault following a barroom 
brawl.
	This editorial board made no comment 
following the 
first arrest. We felt this was a matter for 
the courts to decide.
	We can remain silent no longer. This 
student body 
deserves better from its chief executive.
	Weber has embarrassed himself and this 
student body 
long enough. He should do the honorable 
thing.
	Resign.
	Weber's guilt or innocence has yet to be 
determined by 
the legal system, and we are not making any 
judgments as to 
whether or not Weber is, in fact, guilty in 
either case.
	But even if he is cleared of all charges 
in both cases, it 
is clear that both arrests were easily 
avoidable had discretion 
won out.
	The Associated Students of ASU 
presidency is 
certainly a position of prestige. But with 
prestige comes 
responsibility for one's actions, both in 
public and private life.
	As an elected official, there are 
standards to which 
Weber must adhere.
	Such standards would have to include not 
being 
arrested every month.
	Public intoxication is also a behavior 
that should be 
avoided by the wise public official.
	Yet prior to the now-notorious bar 
fight, Weber 
admitted that he had drunk four shots of 
Jūgermeister. 
Several witnesses claimed that he appeared to 
be drunk.
	And, in Monday's incident, the arresting 
officer stated 
that he smelled alcohol on Weber's breath and 
that the 
president appeared to be intoxicated.
	Of course, we should also question 
exactly what 
Weber was doing when he showed up in a 
residence hall in a 
hood with his hands bound behind his back - 
and then loudly 
disobeyed RAs' requests to leave the 
premises.
	When one is elected to a political post, 
there are certain 
behaviors that one refrains from. As ASASU 
president, 
Weber represents the student body of this 
university in the 
eyes of the state legislature, the governor, 
the administration 
and the other two state universities.
	This year is particularly important. In 
January, Super 
Bowl XXX will be in town - along with the 
attention of the 
world.
	The Super Bowl makes Weber the students' 
representative to the NFL and, to an extent, 
the world that 
will be watching the game.
	Is Weber a worthy representative of the 
student body, 
given his behavior over the past month? We 
think not.
	Hopefully, Weber will realize that his 
credibility and 
effectiveness as ASASU president have been 
mortally 
wounded by these incidents.
	If Weber were to admit indiscretionary 
behavior and 
quietly resign, he would be showing a great 
deal of maturity - 
certainly more maturity than he has displayed 
over the past 
month.
	But should he refuse to quit, ASASU has 
no choice but 
to impeach him.
	The Senate must realize that ASASU's 
credibility has 
been severely damaged by these incidents.
	Either by impeachment or resignation, 
the Weber 
administration must end.
	The students of ASU deserve better.

Editorial: Editor's note:

On Oct. 16, The Million Man March on 
Washington will take 
place. It has been hailed as a day of 
atonement for many men 
of color, a day to reunify, to register to 
vote and to let 
Congress know that people of color will not 
tolerate a 
rollback of the Civil Rights movement. The 
State Press wants 
to know how ASU students, faculty and staff 
feel about this 
issue. If you are a person of color, how have 
your life 
experiences shaped your perceptions about the 
state of this 
country and what kind of impact do you think 
this march can 
have? If you aren't a person of color, what 
does this march 
signify to you? How have your life 
experiences shaped your 
perceptions about the state of this country? 
The deadline for 
letters is 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12. If 
you want information 
on the march you can call 1-800-324-9243.

Column: What is up with that?

Christina Bailey
Opinion Editor
	Forever and a day: Grambling coach Eddie 
Robinson, 
76, started coaching football a year before 
the Japanese 
attacked Pearl Harbor. He has coached 
football while 
milestones such as World War II, the Korean 
War and the 
Civil Rights Movement made their way into the 
history 
books.
	This past weekend, Robinson reached a 
milestone of 
his own - comparable to that of Cal Ripken's 
record breaking 
2,131 hits. 
	He won his 400th game against the still 
winless 
Division I-AA Mississippi Valley State.
	How amazing is it to coach the same team 
for 53 
seasons and compile a 400-145-15 record?
	Penn State's Joe Paterno, the leader 
among Division I-
A coaches with 272 victories, would have to 
win 11 games in 
each of the next 12 seasons to match 
Robinson's feat. He'd be 
as old as Bob Dole by then.  
	Robinson's resilience and passion for 
his community, 
family and players is even more notable. He 
has had offers to 
coach other more prestigious college and NFL 
teams in past 
years but has never left Grambling. 
	For him, his family is important, giving 
back to his 
community is important, instilling more than 
a winning 
attitude in his players is important. 
	How many people out there are like him? 
Probably 
quite a few, but they get jilted for other 
more important news 
like sex, violence and O.J. Simpson.
	Inconsistently consistent: Why is Rep. 
Mel Reynolds 
currently serving a five-year prison sentence 
for having sex 
with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer, while 
Sen. Bob 
Packwood is out collecting his pension?
	Maybe I am mistaken, but didn't Packwood 
harass, lie 
and obstruct justice? Why was Packwood tried 
by his Senate 
peers and not by a jury of his peers for 
aggressive sexual 
misconduct with at least 17 different women, 
for trying to get 
jobs for his estranged wife from lobbyists 
and businessmen 
with legislative interests, and for tampering 
with evidence - 
the infamous Packwood diaries? 
	There is no difference to me. They both 
broke laws and 
should be punished. It's all politics and 
it's all disgusting. 
And Congress wonders why we have such little 
faith in our 
system. Forming a third party is looking 
better and better all 
the time.
	Trade 'em: There's light at the end of 
the tunnel, 
although the toll to make it through may be a 
little too high. 
The Phoenix Suns, who saw former San Antonio 
Spurs power 
forward Dennis Rodman go to the Chicago Bulls 
earlier in the 
week, sent guard Dan Majerle packing to the 
Cleveland 
Cavaliers for 6-11 center John "Hot Rod" 
Williams. They also 
had to give up Antonio Lang and a first round 
pick. 
	I think the trade is good for Majerle 
and good for the 
Suns. As long as Hot Rod stays healthy, he 
should be able to 
help the Suns shore up their inside game. The 
move will also 
give Wesley Person a chance to showcase his 
talent. This may 
also rekindle the fire under Majerle's butt 
again to be the 
scrappy defender he was a couple of years 
ago. 
	Insert foot in mouth: Last week in a CNN 
interview, 
Marcia Clark let her emotions run rampant in 
an attempt to 
explain away why O.J. Simpson was acquitted.
	"Liberals don't want to admit it, but a 
majority Black 
jury won't convict in a case like this. They 
won't bring 
justice," Clark said. 
	Has she taken leave of her senses or 
what?
	Her comments were insulting. Was she 
implying that 
Whites would have done a better job of 
sifting through the 
evidence? Is that really the issue?
	Instead of fueling the fire of racial 
divisions in this 
stinkin' country with asinine remarks like 
that, why don't 
people quit pointing fingers, quit talking 
about the "what ifs" 
and try to figure out ways to keep this 
debacle from 
happening again?
	What next?: Maricopa County prison 
inmates 
parading around in pink shorts. You gotta 
love Sheriff Joe 
Arpaio.
	Things that still suck: The Arizona 
Cardinals, 
Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill, the ASU Sun 
Devil football 
team and, of course, Fife Symington.
	Change?: I had to look twice. The 
Arizona Republic 
had a front page story Monday about the 
Million Man March. 
I am not kidding. It was the top story and it 
wasn't 
stereotypical or distorted. Does this mean 
the paper is 
changing? Only time will tell. 
	Dumb and Dumber: Chris Weber, what the 
hell could 
you have been thinking?

Column: Maldonado's column out of line

	I read Delia Maldonado's column "My 
honest airing of 
prejudices" in the Oct. 4 State Press with a 
great deal of 
interest. After considering the piece, I'm 
afraid I will have to 
include myself in the ranks of those who 
think she is no 
better than those gay-bashing guys in her 
class she referred 
to. To be sure, we all have our dislikes and 
prejudices, but 
Maldonado carries hers to the point of 
bigotry by 
stereotyping people according to the groups 
they belong to.
	Maldonado commences her diatribe with 
her 
stereotypes of transvestites, people who wear 
"gangsta"-type 
clothing and Middle Eastern men. She wants us 
to believe 
that all transvestites are "emotionally 
disturbed," that guys 
who dress like rappers are violent and Middle 
Easterners are 
smelly. I particularly got a chuckle out of 
her prejudice 
against Black and Hispanic guys who wear 
"baggy pants, a 
baseball cap and lots of football shirts." I 
would guess 
Maldonado probably spends a great deal of her 
time on 
campus at ASU crossing the street to avoid 
the many 
potentially dangerous students who dress this 
way. 
	But I suppose these stereotypes she 
holds are relatively 
harmless. She can simply, as she says, avoid 
people in these 
groups and I'm sure they won't be any the 
worse for not 
having the sublime privilege of associating 
with Maldonado.
	When Maldonado turns her journalistic 
guns on 
welfare and Social Security recipients, her 
stereotyping 
assumes a more malignant and sinister 
character, however. 
No doubt, many welfare mothers are, as she 
tells us, selfish, 
immature and thoughtless. There are also many 
who are 
forced to go on welfare because their 
husbands or boyfriends 
have deserted them and someone has to stay 
home and rear 
the children. There are others who became 
pregnant because 
they were either raped or otherwise coerced 
into having sex. 
Others are teenage girls who simply did not 
comprehend the 
possible consequences of their actions. 
	Whatever the reason, if we cut such 
mothers off from 
welfare, it is their children who will suffer 
without food, who 
may be abused, abandoned or neglected by 
their frustrated 
parents. The children will turn to gangs when 
they come 
home every day to an empty house because 
Mommy has to 
work 16 hours per day at $4.25 an hour to 
support them. But I 
suppose they only deserve it for being 
thoughtless enough to 
have irresponsible parents.
	Maldonado then raises the stereotype of 
"you and I 
[getting] screwed while grandma lives it up 
in Boca" to make 
her argument for cutting off Social Security 
payments to the 
elderly once they "collect as much benefits 
as they paid in." 
	During the course of my life, I lived in 
Section 8 
subsidized housing for the elderly and 
disabled for over a 
decade and got to know quite a few elderly 
Social Security 
recipients. I can tell you that these folks 
weren't "living it up 
in Boca." Rather, they were using their 
government checks to 
supplement their all-too-meager pensions in 
order to enjoy 
extravagant luxuries such as a roof over 
their heads, adequate 
medical care and food produced for human 
consumption. 
	Yes, there are some well-to-do persons 
who collect 
Social Security despite the fact that they 
have more-than-
adequate incomes and they should be cut off 
from the 
system. But for most older folks, Social 
Security is a safety net 
that ensures that they won't have to spend 
their declining 
years in abject poverty and misery. 
	Another thing that bears mentioning is 
that it is the 
productive efforts of those elderly folks 
over the course of 
their lifetimes that has given America the 
world's strongest 
economy and allows us to subsidize the 
education of grad 
students like Maldonado. I have a news flash 
for her: there 
are other ways to reckon what senior citizens 
have put into 
the system than mere dollars and cents. I 
will also be curious 
to see if Maldonado will be so dead set 
against giving 
benefits to retired folks when she's looking 
at her own 65th 
birthday and imminent retirement.
	Maldonado concludes by stating, "I would 
never 
advocate violence in any way, shape or form 
and I would 
never try to push my views on anyone else." 
Give me a break! 
	First of all, the whole point of writing 
editorial 
columns is to try to push one's views on 
others. Are we to 
suppose that Maldonado writes her column 
simply because 
she likes to see her name in print (although 
I'm sure she 
does)? That she's not trying to push her 
views on others by 
disseminating them in the media? Of course 
she's got an ax to 
grind, as does anyone who publishes her 
opinions for public 
consumption.
	More seriously, does Maldonado really 
expect us to 
believe that she does not "advocate violence 
in any way, 
shape or form" when she urges us to take the 
food from the 
mouths of helpless children and senior 
citizens? It is 
sophistry of the most egregious sort for her 
to claim that 
advocating for what would effectively amount 
to deprivation 
and starvation of society's most defenseless 
members is not a 
particularly insidious form of violence.
	I will conclude by admitting that I too 
have a prejudice 
and stereotype of my own to 'fess up to. That 
is my 
stereotype of journalists as sensationalist-
mongering vultures 
who are all too willing to broadly attack 
people and groups 
of people they don't approve of in order to 
produce a story or 
column that will sell. In the process, these 
journalists are both 
willing and eager to put people into little, 
stereotypical boxes 
in order to paint them with a broad brush and 
thus appeal to 
the base emotions of the masses.
	Is this an accurate portrayal of all 
journalists? Probably 
not, but you'd never guess it from reading 
Maldonado's 
column.

Peter S. Hickey
Law

Column: Legislation doesn't belong in the bedroom

Michelle Carson
Guest Columnist
	Last year, 246 young women under the age 
of 15 gave 
birth in the state of Arizona.
	Now, if a state lawmaker has his way, 
each one of 
those girls' parenting abilities would be on 
trial.
	Under a bill proposed by Senate Minority 
Leader Peter 
Goudinoff, D-Tucson, pregnant girls under the 
age of 15 
would be required to undergo a hearing to 
determine their 
ability care for a child.
	It seems as if the lawmaker forgot 
something: 
legislation doesn't belong in the bedroom.
	Will the mother have to wear an 
embroidered letter "P" 
on her bodice to publicly denounce her 
premarital sex?
	This bill is ridiculous. Putting young 
women on trial 
for their personal mistakes isn't going to 
help anyone. It will 
only breed resentment in the hearts of young 
women in this 
state. Resentment leads to rebellion, and 
rebellion leads back 
into the only thing teenagers have mastered: 
doing it again.
	This measure will send a message that 
Arizona cannot 
come up with a decent education program to 
teach kids that 
sex has alternatives, and that there are 
methods of pregnancy 
and sexually transmitted disease prevention.
	It says that instead of dispelling the 
ignorance that a 
girl may have about parenting through classes 
and education, 
the state would rather put the child in the 
care of Child 
Protective Services.
	As we have seen in the recent past, CPS 
does a great 
job in caring for kids. The ones that don't 
die from abuse and 
neglect in foster homes usually find 
themselves in the 
juvenile courts before they reach puberty.
	Goudinoff claims that if a 15-year-old 
can't buy 
cigarettes, they shouldn't be able to have 
children. I hate to 
break it to the honorable senator, but it was 
not a 
governmental body that gave a young girl the 
ability to bear 
children. What makes him think that a mere 
law can take that 
away?
	The only thing that can stop the 
epidemic of children 
having children is to realize that maybe 
these kids need more 
than we are giving them. They need to know 
the dangers of 
unprotected sex, and the responsibilities of 
being parents.
	I would also like to ask the senator: 
what about the 
fathers? His proposal lacks any mention of 
the other half of 
the problem. The young men need to be 
involved with their 
children as well, but the bill does not 
include the father or 
any examination of his parenting skills.
	The problems of society are being 
constantly 
perpetuated by these arm-waving "I have a 
solution" 
lawmakers. Often, their solutions are 
degrading and 
underestimations of the people they are 
elected to represent.
	Maybe it isn't the greatest age to get 
pregnant. I would 
like to think, however, that had I found 
myself in that 
situation at 15, I would have at least been 
allowed to make 
the decision on my own. A pregnant teen needs 
the input of 
her family, her doctor and her God. The last 
thing she needs 
is some bureaucrat asking her what she would 
do if her baby 
came down with a cold.
	I know plenty of young women who have 
raised 
healthy, well-adjusted children at young 
ages. I am not 
saying that parenting is easy; it is by far 
the hardest job in the 
world.
	I am saying that if a woman, regardless 
of her age, 
chooses to carry her child and keep it, she 
has made the 
commitment to learn. That will carry her 
through the fevers 
and the colds.
	If the young women of Arizona cannot 
understand the 
work and dedication involved in raising a 
child, it is because 
no one bothered to teach them and make them 
comprehend. 
If a family does not instill in its children 
the knowledge of sex 
and its consequences, and if the state will 
punish the child for 
her ignorance; wouldn't it be logical to ask 
the state to 
educate against what it is punishing?
	I love how the same lawmakers who 
propose anti-
abortion bills and legislation such as this 
are the first to rant 
about the fact that sex-education doesn't 
belong in schools. 
Well, I am brave enough to say that it 
belongs somewhere, 
and if a family isn't willing to do it, the 
schools should be.
	Personally, I don't care where teenagers 
learned about 
AIDS or condoms, as long as they did. To me, 
saving lives 
comes before saving face.
	Bills like the one Peter Goudinoff has 
proposed do 
nothing. They don't educate or enlighten, 
they don't truly 
help or inform. All they do is illustrate the 
hypocrisy and 
hatred that breeds in politicians. It is an 
ugly and grotesque 
display of the government's twisted image of 
freedom.
	All I can do is hope that the comrades 
of Goudinoff 
realize that it isn't the girls who need to 
be judged, it's the 
society that bred them.
	The responsibility lies within us all, 
and until we can 
come together to accept what we have become 
and work 
positively to change, we are accomplishing 
nothing. The 
longer we wait, the more senators will claim 
"they have a 
solution."

Michelle Carson is a freshman studying 
journalism.

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Writer has a lot to learn

	I was recently re-reading an old State 
Press from Oct. 
4, when I came across an article titled "My 
honest airing of 
prejudices" by columnist Delia Maldonado. 
Your paper 
obviously decided this was worthy of 
printing.
	Come on guys, really! 
	That article was trash; it was not 
written for 
journalistic purposes. Maldonado was fishing 
for and even 
called for a negative reaction in the 
article. Now I realize that 
I don't only have to worry about people 
unfairly and 
negatively judging me based on my skin color 
or sexual 
preference, but I can also look foward to 
ignorant people 
giving value to me based on my attire, my 
bathing practices 
or my socio-economic status. I am very 
disappointed that, as 
the editor, you let this in the paper. 
	Maldonado, you have a lot to learn about 
people, 
tolerance and obviously journalism as well. 
My only hope is 
that someday you will realize this and re-
reading that article 
will cause you great embarassment. 

Troy Melendez
Graduate student

Letter: Headline

Story

Midnight Madness set to tip-off at Activity Center

By Dan Sobczak
Special to the State Press
	It's October, and that means the 1995-96 
ASU hoops 
season is right around the corner. And it 
heats up this 
Saturday night with the traditional "Midnight 
Madness" 
flurry of events at the University Activity 
Center.
	ASU students and fans will get their 
first look at this 
year's edition of the men's basketball team 
at Midnight 
Madness, which is traditionally the first 
practice session of 
the college basketball season. Admission to 
the event is free.
	The festivities begin early with the 
ASU-BYU football 
game in Sun Devil Stadium at 7 p.m., where at 
halftime, 
coaches and players will be introduced 
following a brief 
video by Coach Bill Frieder.
	At 9 p.m., Bill Strauss of KTAR 620 AM 
will broadcast 
his show live at the UAC previewing this 
year's teams.  
KUPD and other Valley radio stations will 
also hold live 
remotes outside the UAC for tailgaters and 
fans.
	Across campus, the Student Recreation 
Complex will 
host the finals for the second annual Frieder 
Cup 
Championship, a three-on-three intramural 
basketball 
tournament, at 10:30 p.m.
	Tip-off to Midnight Madness begins at 11 
p.m. in the 
UAC with a media/celebrity basketball game of 
Valley radio 
and television personalities. KUPD's Dave 
Pratt and Channel 
10's Jude LaCava are among the celebrities 
expected to play.
	Following the celebrity game and 
performances by the 
ASU cheerleaders and pep band, a midnight 
fireworks 
display and light show will usher in the 
basketball season 
and the annual Sun Devils' three-point shoot-
out and slam-
dunk contests will begin.
	Although last year's slam dunk champion, 
returning 
senior Ron Riley, will not compete in the  
contest this year, he 
is anxious for the season to get underway.
	"I'm definitely looking forward to it 
(playing in the 
scrimmage)," Riley said.  "You know, just 
looking forward to 
all the excitement and to let the newcomers 
show their stuff."
	Fans will then get their first look at 
this year's team 
when the Sun Devils tip-off their first 
intrasquad scrimmage 
of the year immediately after the shooting 
contests.
	Last year, 5,500 fans came out to take 
part in Midnight 
Madness, and more than 6,000 are expected to 
show their 
support this weekend.
	This year, there is an added incentive 
for Frieder 
fanatics.  For the first 1,000 people through 
the doors, anyone 
dressing like Bill Frieder will receive a 
free Midnight 
Madness T-shirt.
	In addition, fans will be able to 
participate in a "Select-
a-seat" program, and anyone who purchases a 
season ticket at 
Saturday's event will also receive a free T-
shirt.  Sun Devil 
Ticket Office employees will be on hand to 
answer all ticket 
questions for the upcoming season.  Fans will 
be able to 
mingle with players and coaches on the 
concourse level 
beginning at 11 p.m., where tickets will be 
sold.
	Also, there will be prize give-aways for 
fans as well as 
the traditional Frieder skit during the team 
introductions.  In 
previous years, Frieder has jumped out from a 
coffin and 
bungee jumped from the rafters of the UAC.
	"I'm excited," Frieder said.  "We've got 
a lot of new 
players, and I think we're going to enjoy 
these kids.  I think 
the people who follow ASU are going to see 
these kids 
progress not only throughout the year, but 
throughout their 
career, too."

ASU women's golf team wins Roadrunner title

By Ron Matejko
State Press
     The ASU women's golf team took first 
place at the Diet 
Coke-Roadrunner Invitational Tuesday. 
	The 54 hole tournament took place Monday 
and 
Tuesday at the New Mexico State University 
Golf Course in 
Las Cruces, N.M.. The win was the first of 
the season for 
ASU, after a second place finish in its first 
tournament.
     The Sun Devils shot an 894, which was 18 
strokes better 
than the second place finisher, Texas Tech 
(912). There were a 
total of 87 golfers from 16 schools that 
participated in the 
event.
     Head Coach Linda Vollstedt said she was 
not surprised by 
the team's finish. 
     "I was really pleased with the team," 
she said. "They put 
forth a great effort, especially by placing 
four golfers in the 
top 10."  
     The highest ASU finisher was sophomore 
Kellee Booth, 
who shot a 76 in the final round to finish 
tied for third 
overall, two strokes out of the top spot.  
	"I didn't finish as well as I had hoped 
to," Booth said. "I 
struggled today, and I missed a few short 
putts and I think 
that made the difference in me not winning 
the tournament."
	"Kellee put us up into contention to win 
the 
tournament," said Vollstedt. "She has been 
flirting with 
winning a tournament since she was a 
freshman. She is going 
to win one soon."
     Among the other top 10 finishers were 
senior Linda 
Ericsson, who tied for fifth, junior Vinny 
Riviello, who 
finished seventh, and freshman Jody Niemann, 
who finished 
eighth.

Family Ties Frieder's daughter, Laura, finds herself at home in honors program

By Dan Miller
State Press
	ASU basketball coach Bill Frieder's 
daughter, Laura, 
still remembers being in sixth grade and 
getting the 
occasional earful from classmates. 
	"I was at a new school," she recalled. 
"It was a little bit 
different. If we'd lose a game, I'd hear 
about it from peers and 
teachers. Now I'm used to it and I can stand 
up for myself if 
anyone has anything to say."
	Lately, however, not many people have 
had anything 
but praise for her father, who in March led 
the Sun Devils to 
the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament, 
where they 
eventually lost to Kentucky. 
	But not only is Laura the daughter of a 
national 
celebrity, she is also unique in another 
sense. At age 16, she is 
already a freshman in the ASU honors program. 
	"So far it's been the best decision that 
I've ever made," 
Laura said of leaving high school early. "I 
always need a lot 
of change. I just felt that I wasn't paying 
as much attention at 
the end of last year because I was bored. So 
instead of 
wasting a whole year and possibly letting my 
grades drop 
and not getting into a real good college, I 
decided I would 
come here and be happy to be here."
	Laura, who lacks only one high school 
credit needed 
for graduation, was given a conditional 
release by Phoenix 
Country Day school after her junior year. She 
is currently 
taking an English class at ASU which will 
fulfill the 
requirement and allow her participate in the 
graduation walk 
with her class in 1996. 
	"She's always been in a college 
atmosphere from the 
time she was  born," said mom, Janice,   
referring to the 
Frieder's move from Ann Arbor, Mich. in 1989. 
"In the school 
she went to, one of the things they really 
pride themselves on 
is getting kids to think independently and 
become problem 
solvers. I told her if she could get into the 
honors programs at 
ASU and take all honors courses that that 
would be agreeable 
to me. She lacked diversity and she really 
likes diversity."
	Laura said she has thoroughly enjoyed 
the entire 
college experience so far. And while most of 
her fellow 
students don't know she is related to the 
popular basketball 
coach, when they do find out, there are 
always the good-
natured reactions. 	
	"No one knows the difference unless I 
tell them, but 
there's always the initial shock," Laura 
admitted. "Like the 
other day I got a paper back in math and the 
kid behind me 
saw it and said, 'Frieder?', 'Any relation?' 
And then he was 
like, 'Oh, wow,  that's cool, what a trip!'"
	Bill, who is entering his 16th year as a 
basketball coach 
and his seventh at ASU, pointed to a time in 
1982 when he 
was reminded of how much his daughter meant 
to him. 
	"I can remember my second year at 
Michigan when we 
were 1-13  and she was about two years old," 
he recalled. " I'd 
be so depressed and had such tunnel vision. I 
just woke up 
then and said, 'Hey, she doesn't care if I 
lost a basketball 
game so why am I going to take that out on 
her?' And I think 
from that time on, she has always been 
special to me."
	Throughout her life, Laura has had the 
opportunity to 
meet scores of players. Stevin "Hedake" 
Smith, Gary Trent 
and Glen Rice are just a few of her closer 
acquaintances. She 
said Smith was like a big brother to her  
	"He always looked out for me," she said 
of the former 
Sun Devil star. "And Glen Rice would always 
do these tricks. 
He'd do these, 'now you see it now you 
don't,' magic tricks."	
	The current ASU players said Laura is 
fun to be 
around. Senior Ron Riley wondered where the 
time had 
gone.
	"I've had to opportunity to watch her 
mature so much 
since I've been here," he said. "It's 
unbelievable. Sometimes 
when I look at her, I don't even recognize 
it's her. That's how 
much she's matured. She's matured. We've 
matured. We've 
all matured together.
	"I can't believe she's here already. 
She's grown up so 
fast."
	Said junior Quincy Brewer: "She's a 
smaller image of 
her dad. She's always laughing. She's fun to 
be around."
	Laura said she follows basketball and 
the Sun Devils 
religiously, but she has no desire to play. 
Instead, she is an 
accomplished equestrian, who has been riding 
since age 2 
and showing competitively for seven years. 
She owns four 
horses - Baccara, Hinnibal, Fsuzzi and 
Queberac. She said the 
names came with the horses with the exception 
of Fsuzzi, 
who was named for her affinity for the letter 
'z.'
	"I'm really random. I'm not 
predictable," she said.  "I 
don't think anyone really knows me and I like 
it like that."

Sun Devil basketball team rebuilds

By Dawn Wagner
State Press
	Four of their best players are gone. 
	Their front line is little more than 
questionable.
	And this season has already been labeled 
as a 
'rebuilding' year.
	But Sun Devil basketball coach Bill 
Frieder is confident 
that a returning nucleus of Ron Riley, Jeremy 
Veal and 
Quincy Brewer will keep the ASU basketball 
team 
competitive.
	"We are cautiously optimistic this 
year," said Frieder at 
Tuesday's annual media day. "We have a 
completely new 
team due to the loss of a year ago."
	ASU heads into this season minus Mario 
Bennett, 
Marcell Capers, Isaac Burton and James Bacon.
	Frieder added that there is little 
possibility of a season 
comparable to last year.
	"It's going to be a tough, challenging 
year and it's 
going to be a lot for the new, young players 
we have," Frieder 
said. "We have too tough of a schedule for a 
young team, but 
it's a good schedule."
	The Sun Devils plan to attack their 
competitors with 
the same quick playing style that rocketed 
them to a NCAA 
Sweet Sixteen appearance last season.
	"It will still be an up-tempo style of 
ball," Frieder said. 
"We've built our program that way and we 
think our press 
has been instrumental in our success last 
year."
	Even if the press has worked in the 
past, there is still 
the issue of new players adapting to the 
style of ball, said 
junior transfer Lenny Holly.
	"It's hard to tell (how it will work)," 
Holly said. "I 
know the style but I've never played it. But 
we still have the 
speed and we still have the quickness."
	What they don't have is the returning 
strong front line. 
	"Life without Mario is going to be 
tough," Quincy 
Brewer said. "He could score inside. He could 
dunk. Now it 
all comes down to hard teamwork."
	Teamwork and a strong team leader. 
	Which is where Riley will come into the 
picture, 
Frieder said. 
	"Riley will be the captian," Frieder 
said. "He'll have to 
step it up and be consistent. He has to be 
the guy."
	Riley, who averaged 16 points and 2.1 
steals a game 
last season, said he is comfortable taking on 
the team's 
leadership role.
	"I have to be the leading scorer and 
step it up," Riley 
said. "I have big plans for myself and for 
this team."

Three Sun Devils to sit out 1 year

By Dustin Krugel
State Press
	Three of ASU's basketball recruits will 
focus on 
academics this year instead of basketball.
	Six-foot-5 swingman Tommy Prince, 6-8 
forward Rico 
Harris, and 6-2 guard Gee Gervin, son of 
former NBA star 
George Gervin, will sit this year out as 
Proposition 48 
students. All three will return next year 
with three years of 
eligibility left.
	"They are here and they are doing a nice 
job," ASU 
basketball coach Bill Frieder said at ASU's 
basketball media 
day. "Hopefully by the time I talk to you 
next year, they'll be 
out there getting their pictures taken."
	All three athletes are considered Prop. 
48's because 
they failed to meet the required scores on 
their  college 
entrance exams. An athlete who is considered 
a Prop. 48 can 
attend school, but cannot participate in any 
sports for one 
year.
	"They all were very close and they are 
all doing a great 
job academically right now at ASU," Frieder 
said. "Tommy 
Prince, for instance, was a 3.1 or 3.2 (GPA) 
student in his high 
school. He missed the test barely."
	Frieder said he has no qualms about 
accepting Prop. 
48 athletes and he wishes all freshmen would  
sit out their 
first year. 
	"I remember when Rumeal Robinson and 
Terry Mills 
didn't make it when I was in Michigan," he 
said. "I've had a 
lot of success with those kind of guys.
	"I'm old fashioned. I think it's good 
that kids sit out a 
year. I wish that freshmen, in general, were 
ineligible. That's 
what needs to be done in college athletics 
today. That would 
solve a whole host of problems, so I never 
have had a 
problem with a guy who didn't make it."
	Frieder said he considers each Prop. 48 
student 
individually before accepting them.
	"Every situation is different," he said. 
"We've recruited 
Rico for a long time, so when he committed in 
November, 
we're going to take him no matter what. Gee 
Gervin kind of 
recruited us. It was a program that fit his 
needs here. Tommy 
Prince was something down the wire. I have no 
problem with 
any of them."
	The one negative of accepting Prop. 48's 
Frieder said is 
that he's short one less player this year.
	"If you take somebody like that, that's 
one less kid 
your're practicing with according to the 
rules," Frieder said. 
"What you have to be careful with as a coach 
is the numbers. 
You only have 13 scholarships today."
	Assistant basketball coach Jim Phillips 
said all three 
recruits are not allowed to practice with the 
team but they 
may play on an intramural team. ASU coaches 
are prohibited 
from watching them play, but will condition 
and lift weights 
with the team.
	"The penalization is definitely tough," 
Phillips said. 
"It's a pretty severe penalty. There's 
critics on both sides, but I 
think all kids should be given an 
opportunity."

ASU FOOTBALL FANS: IT'S WEEK SEVEN

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Sun Devils' next game is Saturday against the 
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ASU police reported the following incidents 
Tuesday:
* A male student was contacted while sleeping 
in Lot 59. He 
was advised of trespassing laws and left the 
area.
* Someone broke into a female student's car 
in Lot 63 and 
stole several items in it.
* Someone stole a Zenith 25-inch color 
television from 410 
Adelphi Drive.
* A woman not affiliated with ASU was 
arrested, cited and 
released for speeding at Sixth Street and Rio 
Salado Parkway.
* Someone stole the license plate off of a 
male student's 
motorcycle while it was parked in Area 24.
* Someone stole a 1992 John Deere cart from 
Packard 
Stadium.
* Someone stole a male student's car, a blue 
1988 Suzuki, 
while it was parked in Area 37. Police found 
the car about an 
hour later at 7250 S. Kyrene Road.
* A woman not affiliated with ASU was 
arrested, cited and 
released for shoplifting at Tower Records in 
the Tempe 
Center.
* A man and woman not affiliated with ASU 
were contacted 
at the Tempe Center while sleeping in a 
vehicle. They were 
advised of trespassing and loitering laws and 
left the area.
* A man not affiliated with ASU was arrested 
on an 
outstanding warrant from Maricopa County for 
trafficking 
stolen property. He was not able to post bond 
and was 
booked into the Madison Street Jail.

Tempe police reported the following incidents 
Tuesday:
* A 33-year-old man was arrested for 
misdemeanor assault 
and disorderly conduct after attacking his 
live-in girlfriend. 
He pulled her off a chair by her feet, ripped 
her underwear 
off, choked her, threw her into a wall and 
dragged her into 
the bedroom.
* A 41-year-old woman was arrested for theft 
after eating 
lunch at Monti's, 3 W. First St., and running 
out without 
paying. She was caught 1/4 mile away by 
restaurant 
employees and detained until police arrived.
* A 44-year-old man was arrested for driving 
under the 
influence after being stopped at 100 E. Curry 
Road for traffic 
violations. He had an odor of alcohol on his 
breath, poor 
balance and red, watery eyes. He refused 
field sobriety tests 
and a breath test.
Compiled by State Press reporter Greg Zemeida

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* ACMRS - Lecture by Thomas Cable, University of Texas at 
Austin: "The Old English Origins of Modern English Poetic 
Rhythms." 3 p.m.; Hayden Library, special collections.
* AIDS Awareness Week Steering Committee - 
Organizational meeting. Everyone welcome. Noon and 5 
p.m.; MU Chrysocollo Room.
* Alcoholics Anonymous - Daily campus meeting. Noon to 
1:15 p.m.; Newman Center, Aquinas Hall in the basement.
* ASU Cycling Club - Elections tonight. Talk about Sedona 
trip, Tucson ride. Everyone welcome. 8 p.m.; South of the MU 
at the fountains.
* Campus Ambassadors Christian Fellowship - Open forum: 
Is Christianity credible?/Is atheism inconsistent? 11:30-1:30 
p.m.; Hayden Library Lawn.
* Career Services - Workshop on employment letters. 
Presented by Leon Bryant. 12:40 p.m.; MU Room 222.
* Career Services - Workshop on internships and co-ops. 
Presented by Jim Clayton. 11:40 a.m.; MU Room 226.
* DCSA - Meeting. All members please attend. 12:30 p.m.; 
MU Room 208C.
* Eckankar - Discussion: "The Many Different Spiritual 
Places." Noon; MU Graham Room.
* Graduate Women's Network - "Juggling Stress," by Deb 
Ostlund. Noon; MU lower level, Women's Student Center.
* Japan Association - General meeting. Appointment of 
officers, planning activities. All welcome. 3 p.m.; West Lawn 
above Hayden Library.
* Kundalini Yoga Club - Classes held at 5:30 p.m. Monday 
through Thursday; Check monitors for nightly locations.
* MEChA - Political committee meeting. 1:30 p.m. General 
meeting, 3:30 p.m.; MU Gold Room.
* MUAB Special Events Committee - Meeting. Everyone 
welcome. 3:30 p.m.; MU third floor, Conference Room 1A.
* PSI-CHI - Guest speaker: Mimi Kaplan from Southwest 
Behavioral Health Services. Will speak about counselor 
training for their community help programs. 5:30 p.m.; 
Psychology Building, Room 205.
* Student Life Learning Resource Center - All welcome for 
free computer skills workshops: Microsoft Excel, 10 a.m., 
using the Internet, 1 p.m. SSV 361A. 
* The Writing Center - Workshop: Internal documentation: 
Upper division English. 1:40-2:40 p.m.; LL A202.
* Woman's Lesbian and Bisexual Discussion Group - All 
lesbians and bisexual women invited to join the free and 
ongoing discussion group. 5-6:30 p.m.; MU lower level, 
Women's Student Center.