ASASU president nearing resignation, officials say Senator: 'He is making a fool out of himself'

By Timothy Tait
State Press
	Student government President Chris Weber 
is 
considering resignation from office this week 
after being 
arrested for the second time in less than a 
month, according to 
a member of the Associated Students of ASU 
Senate.
	A high-ranking senate member, who 
requested 
anonymity, was told by Weber that he intends 
to resign from 
office by the end of this week.
	"He has informed several people that he 
intends to 
resign," the senator said. "If he doesn't 
resign, some action will 
be taken by the Senate."
	Sen. Sanjay Vidyadaran, College of Law, 
said if 
Weber does not step down from office, the 
impeachment 
process will begin.
	"If he doesn't resign," he said, "the 
articles of 
impeachment will be submitted at the next 
senate meeting."
	Weber refused to comment on whether he 
will resign 
from office.
	College of Liberal Arts Sen. Alex 
Shivers said Weber 
should not have hesitated in resigning.
	"I am disappointed that he didn't turn 
in his 
resignation today (Wednesday)," Shivers said. 
"He is making a 
fool out of himself."
	Graduate College Sen. Daran Wastchak 
said he 
anticipates a decision from Weber this week.
	"We anticipate that he will inform us of 
what he 
intends to do sometime this week," he said.
	Executive Vice President Angelo DeSimone 
said he 
believes that Weber will make a decision 
quickly.
	"I think something will happen real 
shortly," he said. 
"It can't go on like this." 
	According to Andrea Van Bemmel, campus 
affairs 
vice president, Weber told the ASASU 
Executive Committee 
Tuesday night that he is thinking about 
stepping down.
	"He told us that he was considering 
resigning," Van 
Bemmel said. "But he didn't say that he was 
or wasn't."
	Van Bemmel said that Weber explained the 
situation 
surrounding his arrest to the committee, but 
did not admit 
guilt. She said that Weber expressed "regret 
for the situation" 
and the effect that it will have on the 
association.
	"All that I can say is that he is 
considering it 
(resigning)," Activities Vice President Marc 
Wendell said. 
	If Weber resigns or is removed from 
office, 
DeSimone will assume the presidency.
	Weber was arrested in the lobby of Palo 
Verde Main 
Monday night for disorderly conduct and 
trespassing. Along 
with Weber, Michael Bernoff and Scott Seltzer 
were also 
arrested. However, police dropped the 
disorderly conduct 
charges against Bernoff and Seltzer due to a 
lack of supporting 
evidence, ASU Chief of Police Lanny 
Standridge said. 
	Weber was also arrested Sept. 21 for 
assault after 
allegedly hitting a female student in a 
barroom fight involving 
two fraternities. He was scheduled to be 
arraigned for that 
charge Tuesday. 
	In Weber's recent arrest, according to 
Standridge, 
police were called to Palo Verde Main, an 
all-female 
dormitory, by residence hall staff around 
10:30 Monday night. 
The staff member reported that three 
individuals were in the 
dormitory lobby acting in a disruptive 
manner.
	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."
	Weber and Bernoff are both members of 
the Pi Kappa 
Alpha fraternity.
	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.

Officials fuming over skating damages

By Tim Baxter
State Press
	Skateboarders and in-line skaters are on 
a collision 
course with campus officials concerned about 
destruction of 
ASU property.
	"The damage is considerable," said ASU 
Chief of 
Police Lanny Standridge. "It's obviously from 
rollerbladers or 
skateboarders."
	ASU grounds manager David Webb said in-
line 
skaters chip the edges of steps, benches and 
other surfaces by 
sliding across them. 
	"The newest thing is waxing down 
wheelchair ramps 
and curbing so they can hit them and skid off 
faster," Webb 
said.
	ASU is forced to pick up the tab for the 
damages 
unless the court orders the skater to pay - 
and that hasn't 
happened yet, Standridge said.
	The chips cannot be repaired, nor can 
the wax be 
completely removed because it seeps into the 
concrete, Webb 
said. The wax creates a hazard for people in 
wheelchairs or on 
crutches.
	Although in-line skating and 
skateboarding have long 
been banned at ASU, skaters keep coming back.
	"For some reason it's being passed 
around among the 
'bladers' that ASU is the place to go," said 
Department of 
Public Safety officer Cal Chappel.
	Chappel said there were certain areas 
skaters like to 
hit. Railings and steps by the Nelson Fine 
Arts and Life 
Sciences buildings are the most common 
skating sites.
	"They wax those areas down," Chappel 
said. "You'll 
see black areas that don't come out."
	Standridge said there was little DPS 
could do, unless 
they actually catch the skaters damaging 
property.
	"The first time we advise them that it 
is not 
permitted," Standridge said. "If our files 
reveal they've been 
cited before, (then) they could be cited for 
trespassing.
	"Criminal damage is a possibility É if 
we can attest 
that they caused the damage," he added.

Student groups to make sandwiches for charity

By Tim Baxter
State Press
	Hillel, the Jewish student organization, 
will be 
making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches 
today on Cady 
Mall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to donate to 
Saint Vincent DePaul.
	Several fraternities and sororities, 
including Alpha 
Phi and Phi Sigma Kappa, will assist in 
pumping out PB and 
Js for charity, said Melanie Sasson, Jewish 
campus service 
corps representative. Other Greek 
organizations may also sign 
up, Sasson added.
	"I think Alpha Chi Omega and a few 
others may 
help," she said.
	Sasson said the event was to celebrate 
the spirit of 
giving during Sukkoth, the Jewish harvest 
festival.
	"The reason I'm doing this is to involve 
the campus in 
the spirit of the holiday," Sasson said. "My 
main goal is to 
encourage as many people as possible to be 
active."
	Sasson said anyone could sign up for a 
half hour 
shift, or they could just stop by and help 
with the sandwich-
making.
	"Everyone should come by," she said.

ASU DPS offers $1,000 reward for culprit in recent hate crime

By Greg Zemeida
State Press
	ASU police put up a $1,000 reward 
Wednesday in 
hopes of catching the person who wrote a 
racial slur on a 
female employee's car Oct. 4.
	Using black spray paint, the person 
wrote the word 
"nigger" on the side of a Facilities 
Management worker's red 
1991 Chevrolet Beretta while it was parked on 
the first level of 
Parking Structure 4, according to ASU Chief 
of Police Lanny 
Standridge.
	Police are still looking into the 
incident, but no 
witnesses have come forward so far.
	"We felt the reward would be helpful to 
supplement 
our investigative efforts," Standridge said.
	The reward of up to $1,000 is for 
information leading 
to an arrest and conviction of the criminal. 
Standridge said 
ASU police felt that this particular case 
justified the use of a 
reward.
	"We take this very, very seriously," he 
said. "This 
kind of act is just a cowardly act ... it's 
grossly offensive."
	The last time Standridge can remember 
ASU police 
offering a reward was in the case of ASU 
student Theresa 
Hetherington, who was abducted from campus in 
February 
1993 and severely beaten by unknown 
attackers. 
	Radawna Michelle, crime prevention 
officer for ASU 
police, said the graffiti slur is an isolated 
incident and not 
indicative of any racial problems on campus.
	"ASU is not a hotbed of racism," she 
said. "I think 
our community should be surprised and 
outraged that 
something like this can happen in 1995."
	Standridge said he doesn't know of any 
other 
incidents involving racial graffiti being 
committed on campus 
within the past year.
	"Whether there is one or more, there's 
always too 
many," he said. "This is truly a senseless 
act."
	Anyone with information about the 
incident can 
contact police at 965-3456. Those wishing to 
remain 
anonymous can call the Crime Zero line at 
965-TIPS (8477).

ASU student exposes another view of 'Campus Men'

By Angela Mull
State Press
	It was a once in a lifetime opportunity 
for ASU 
student John Preece - three days and nights 
in New York, 
television interviews and limousine rides.
	All he had to do was drop his pants.
	Preece, a senior aeronautical management 
technology 
major, posed nude for Playgirl's November 
"Campus Men" 
pull-out magazine. 
	"You only live once," he said of his 
decision to pose 
for the magazine. "You've got to take every 
opportunity you 
can while you can so you have no regrets."
	The issue is available today, and Preece 
will 
autograph copies of the magazine after he 
performs with the 
U.S. Male Dance Revue at Club 411 at 7:30 
tonight.
	Playgirl selected six college students 
from 
universities west of Colorado for the issue. 
About 150 men 
sent in photos - none of them nude - and the 
winners were 
chosen for their physical attributes, said 
Beth Robins, the 
magazine's public relations director. 
	Robins and Preece would not disclose how 
much 
Preece was paid, but Robins said it is less 
than the thousands 
of dollars professional models earn. 
	Preece, who wants to be a pilot, said 
posing nude did 
not bother him.
	"I was shy at the start, but after a few 
minutes it was 
no big deal," he said. "Everyone was 
cooperative and 
professional." 
	Preece said some people will disagree 
with his 
decision to pose nude but there is nothing 
wrong with it.
	"There's nothing illegal or immoral 
about it," he said. 
"People have a right to have opinions (but) 
if they want to 
impose them on me, they can just go to hell." 
     Although posing nude is no big deal, 
junior criminal law 
major Mike Schmidt said he would never do it.
	     "My mom would kick my ass," he 
said.
       But Daniel Clark, a junior religious 
studies major, said he 
would pose nude for the right amount of 
money. 
	"I don't see a problem with it at all," 
he said.
	Although Playgirl is a national 
magazine, Preece said 
the exposure will not hurt his chances to be 
a pilot.
	"As long as I keep the two separate, it 
shouldn't have 
much of an impact," he said.

Astrological professionals in to offer celestial insight

By Brian Anderson
and David Proffitt
State Press
	A group of astrologers and celestial 
supporters will 
materialize in the Arizona Room of the 
Memorial Union. at 7 
p.m. today to listen to a lunar lecture and 
receive astrological 
readings from local experts.
	Peter Gersten, director of Timeless 
Journeys, the 
organization sponsoring the "Celestial 
Celebration," said 
people who want to learn more about their 
lives and the way 
the moon affects their sensitivity should 
attend the meeting.
	"It's (astrology) the oldest form of 
psychology," he 
said. "If a person wants to learn more about 
themselves, ... this 
will give them that opportunity."
	Gersten added that for $10 ($15 for non-
students) 
attendees will receive a birth chart and a 
mini-analysis of that 
chart from some of Arizona's best 
astrologers. Participants will 
also be able to take part in contests and 
games and listen to 
Lauri Randall, the events coordinator for the 
Arizona Society 
of Astrologists.
	"We're going to discuss where the moon 
is on a 
person's birth chart," Gersten said. 
"Everyone knows where 
the sun is - you ask someone what their sign 
is they tell you 
their sun chart."
	Philip Sedgwick, an astrologer working 
with 
Timeless Journeys, said the moon gives 
powerful clues to a 
person's emotional nature.
	"It represents your emotional nature, 
your reactions 
and emotional needs," he said. "The focus (of 
the lecture) is to 
help people understand their emotional 
nature. A lot of times, 
people invalidate their basic needs because 
they don't realize 
what they are."
	The lecture is part of a year-long 
series covering a 
different planet every month. Next month's 
lecture will be 
about Venus and last month's discussed the 
Sun.
	The idea is to have fun, Sedgwick said.
	"We had a lot of students come to the 
last lecture and 
they were wonderful," he said. "It's such a 
treat to see people 
with such receptivity."
	Gersten, who is originally from New 
York, said he 
was told in a 1993 "vision quest" to move to 
Arizona and 
reunite people with friends and relatives 
from past lives.
	"It seemed that I was directed to come 
down here to 
bring people together who were together in a 
past life," he 
said. "When I got down here, people would 
approach me and 
say they recognized me and a couple of them 
said 'it must be a 
former life.' That's the philosophy of 
Timeless Journeys."

Editorial: So that all may speak

	In a year of political revolution, no 
institution is safe, 
no matter how rooted in tradition it may be.
	Deep in this climate has begun the 
assault on one of 
the University's oldest traditions - tenure.
	In the past, tenure has been as 
untouchable as the 
professors who were granted it. But earlier 
this 
month, the Board of Regents voted to examine 
the issue 
directly - with the possibility of 
eliminating the 
institution completely.
	To be sure, tenure is quite an old 
system - one that 
may seem out of touch with the realities of a 
university in the 1990s. But should it be 
scrapped?
	It depends on what purpose the regents 
want 
Arizona's universities to serve.
	More and more, a college education is 
seen as 
necessary training for a future career. Go to 
college 
for four and five years, and get a better job 
and a higher 
salary. The vast majority of college students 
are 
here for that very reason.
	Viewed under these standards, tenure is 
hopelessly 
outdated - and should rightly be tossed.
	In such a university, the job of the 
faculty is to instruct 
students, not to stir controversy. Such a 
university should have the right to get rid 
of faculty 
members who are not giving students the best 
value for 
their education buck.
	But such a view is a purely monetary one 
- one that 
places the university in the role of a 
diploma 
mill. Stuff 'em in, and four or five years 
later, they come out 
with a diploma, some really weird stories, 
and, 
if lucky, some residual knowledge that 
managed to stick 
along the way.
	Placing universities in this purely 
modern light loses 
touch with the original purposes of the 
university.
	Universities do not merely churn out 
diplomas by the 
thousand. They are the birthplaces of 
thought and ideas in a modern society.
	Often, ideas are born here that would 
never survive 
anywhere else - simply because they are 
unpopular or too radical.
	In other words, ideas that wouldn't see 
the light of 
day without tenure. If tenure is eliminated, 
administrators can simply uproot troublesome 
faculty at 
will.
	Think back to the turbulent civil rights 
movement of 
the 1950s and '60s. Without tenure, many 
professors would have been quickly bounced by 
jittery 
administrators for lending support to the 
movement.
	The same could be said of professors 
that opposed 
Vietnam.
	We can go back further and further. 
Suppose 
Copernicus or Galileo were untenured faculty 
at a 
modern university. Could they hold on to 
their positions, 
given the tremendous opposition their ideas 
initially faced?
	If tenure is eliminated, we must 
consider the risk that 
a future Copernicus or Galileo will be 
bounced, simply because their ideas were too 
radical for 
administrators.
	Our society thrives and grows on the 
constant 
exchange and growth of new ideas. And in our 
society, there is no place better for such 
ideas to come into 
being than a university.
	Tenure may not be the most cost-
effective system, but 
it does ensure that faculty will be unafraid 
to speak.

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. Today, Oct. 12. If you want 
information on 
the march you can call 1-800-324-9243.

Column: A second coming

Nicole Farnum
Guest Columnist
	"On Oct. 16 something phenomenal will 
take place in 
America. 
	"Black people throughout the country 
will assert their 
freedom by declaring this day as their first 
Holy Day of 
Atonement and Reconciliation.
	"During this Holy Day, Black men will 
atone to God 
for abusing their women and failing to be the 
leaders and 
builders of their community. To show God that 
Black people 
are willing to turn from their evil ways and 
seek His 
deliverance, a million Black men will humble 
themselves by 
marching in Washington, D.C. 
	"And throughout the day, all Black 
people in this 
country will atone to God for failing to 
accept His call to come 
out of the mentality of a slave, and into the 
vast world of 
freedom of thought and action on behalf of 
self, family and 
nation."
	The above-mentioned words are the words 
of 
Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of 
Islam in describing 
the significance of Oct. 16 for Black people 
throughout 
America. According to Jet magazine, the march 
has been 
strongly endorsed by many civil rights and 
religious leaders, 
including the Rev. Jesse Jackson; the Rev. Al 
Sharpton; the 
Rev. Henry Lyons, president of the National 
Baptist 
Convention; the Rev. B. W. Smith, head of the 
Progressive 
National Baptist Convention; and Bishop 
Chandler David 
Owens, presiding bishop of the Church of God 
in Christ. Also 
endorsing the march is Rosa Parks, mother of 
the civil rights 
movement, as well as 200 organizations, 
including the 
Congressional Black Caucus. 
	As a Black student here at ASU, I would 
like to 
comment on what I perceive as the 
significance of Oct. 16.
	Because I grew up during the '70s, I 
could not 
participate in the civil rights movement. I 
have relied on 
history books and the memories of friends and 
relatives to 
learn how Black people in this country united 
in the name of 
liberation. 
	However, this Oct. 16, all Black people 
in this 
country may actively take part in the 
continued effort to 
liberate ourselves in America. I feel very 
fortunate to be able 
to participate in what will be a momentous 
part of American 
history.
	Once again, Black people throughout this 
country 
will look beyond their differences, and 
instead will strive 
toward that one common goal we as Black 
people in America 
struggle to attain: freedom in the truest 
sense of the word.
	On Oct. 16, the rest of America will 
realize the 
strength we have as a unified people. The 
rest of America will 
understand that our interests are no longer 
to be taken lightly, 
ignored or discarded. On Oct. 16, all Black 
people in America 
will be absent from school and work; they 
will not shop or buy 
anything that day. Instead, we will teach our 
children and each 
other the importance of the day. 
	And, we will all register to vote as 
Independents to 
show the political parties that we will no 
longer serve as 
tokens in their political games.
	So whether it be through the march, 
through Black 
people's absence from mainstream America, or 
through a 
combination of both, the rest of America will 
realize the 
significance of Black people in this country 
on Oct. 16. 
	The whole world will see Black people in 
America in 
a new light. No longer will we be seen as a 
divided group. 
Instead, we will be recognized as a united 
whole, ready and 
able to atone for our mistakes and determine 
our way toward 
progress and improvement. Through faith and 
unity we will 
succeed.

Nicole Farnum is a third year law student.

Column: Animals deserve ethical treatment

C. Lakshman
Guest Columnist
	I just finished reading an article in 
the Aug. 9 issue of 
The Economist titled "What humans owe to 
animals." In 
talking about the poor treatment of animals 
such as chickens, 
cows and pigs in industrial farming, the 
article stated that 
most people start with the question, "Do 
animals have 
rights?"
	The article dismisses that question's 
usefulness 
because having rights also means having 
responsibilities, 
and since animals have no responsibility to 
humans most 
people don't think of animals as deserving 
rights. The article 
argues that to tackle the problem of poor 
treatment of 
animals, it may be better to start with the 
question, "Is the 
way we treat animals a moral issue at all?"
	I simply don't understand why we talk 
about either 
giving rights to animals or about the right 
way to treat them. 
What right do we have to grant them rights or 
assign them 
responsibilities? 
	The very fact that we talk about 
treating them 
assumes that we can do what we want with 
these animals 
and it is simply a matter of morality for us 
to decide what to 
do. If you believe in the fact that animals, 
like humans, are 
creations of God, then they have an inherent 
right conferred 
upon them by the creator to wander the planet 
as freely as 
they wish just as humans are free to do so. 
	By taking away their freedom, putting 
them in cages 
and mistreating them, we are doing the same 
things that the 
Nazis did to the Jews, or the early Americans 
did to the 
Black slaves and to the Indians. We, as 
humans, simply 
invade these animals, take them out of their 
system of 
peaceful living and impose our system of 
rights and 
responsibilities on them. It doesn't make any 
sense to talk 
about rights of animals because it only 
applies to those 
people who have accepted some 
responsibilities.
	A system of rights and responsibilities 
is a human 
creation. It is stupid to apply that to 
animals. Our system of 
rights and responsibilities depend, among 
other things, on 
who we vote into power in our governments. In 
other words 
we have a fundamental right to voice our 
opinion and 
negotiate the appropriate balance of rights 
and 
responsibilities. 
	Animals are not part of our system. We 
have to find a 
way in which we can live and let them live 
peacefully as 
they naturally want to do. Read this excerpt 
from The 
Economist and decide for yourself if we are 
letting animals 
live a natural life:

	"There is a 95 percent chance that the 
hen that laid 
your breakfast is a battery hen. She is 
confined to a tiny cage 
with four or five others for her entire adult 
life. Instinct leads 
hens to scratch in the earth, to make nests, 
to perch and 
spread their wings; the average egg layer 
will do none of 
these. Instead she is squeezed into a space 
about the space of 
the picture on your cover (8 1/2 x 11), 
barely enough to 
move. She may exercise her pecking instinct 
by pecking out 
her neighbors' feathers - unless her beak has 
been cut off 
with a red-hot blade, probably causing pain 
for life."

	This account is likely to trouble most 
people. But 
people do not stop and think when they are 
biting into that 
juicy chicken sandwich. I am not by any means 
blaming 
people. I attribute it to one simple reason - 
out of sight, out 
of mind.
	No normal person would keep a hen in a 
shoe box for 
her entire adult life, but almost everyone 
would eat finely 
packaged eggs and chicken. Our industrialized 
society hides 
a lot of troubling things about 
industrialized farming. 
	If the excerpt from The Economist 
troubled you even 
by a small amount, you should do something. I 
suggest that 
you take one day from your next weekend and 
visit a 
poultry farm and see for yourself what kind 
of life these 
hens have. Remember not to judge and evaluate 
their lives 
as you would human beings. They are not human 
beings. 
	Simply compare their current lives to 
what they 
would have naturally had, if we had left them 
alone. If you 
come from a different country such as India, 
like I do, you 
probably have seen lots of hens running 
around in rural 
areas, engaging in their natural instincts 
such as nesting, 
scratching and pecking. You will be amazed at 
how much 
better that hen will taste in your sandwich 
or in your curry 
as opposed to a hen that's been in a shoe box 
all of her adult 
life.
	Most people let others do the thinking 
for them. Try 
seeing for yourself to make up your mind. 
After all, that is 
what we as human beings are naturally 
inclined to do. I 
promise you that your trip to the poultry 
farm will be no 
vacation. 
	But don't let me tell you what to think. 
See for 
yourself and find out what you think. Here's 
another excerpt 
from The Economist, this one from the 
article, "People and 
animals: Also a part of creation":

	"Such images! Calves shoved from 
lorries, and thrown 
from lorries' upper decks. More calves, 
teething the bars of 
tiny stalls where they are lucky if they can 
turn around. A 
bull suspended by one broken leg, then 
dropped from a 
height to a hard deck below. A man in an 
apron kicking a 
pig, again and again, as the pig shrieks from 
the blows. 
('Sadistic, sick little man!' screams a voice 
in the crowd.) Pigs 
and sheep suspended up-side down, fully 
conscious (they 
are supposed to have been stunned but have 
not been) and 
still blinking and gulping for a few 
excruciating seconds as 
blood floods from their throats. In the 
crowd, faces are 
covered, a woman is crying and shouting 
something about 
'liars' and 'murderers.' "

	This is a film shown in a crowded church 
in England 
to people who were concerned about trade in 
live animals. 
	Again, this would trouble most people. 
When you 
don't see this, but do see smartly packaged 
beef or pork, you 
are going to buy and eat it. Most people 
don't realize that it 
is their demand for products that creates all 
these cruelties. 
The common people have a lot more control in 
their hands 
than they realize.
	If you are troubled at all, plan a trip 
to a cattle farm 
and see for yourself and make your own 
decisions. Choosing 
not to buy and eat such products is my way. 
You may be 
able to come up with a much better idea. We 
don't have a 
responsibility to grant rights to animals, 
but we do have a 
moral responsibility to ourselves to lead 
clean, ethical lives.
	Live and let live should be a general 
ethical motto to 
live by.

C. Lakshman is a graduate student studying 
management.

Column: An easy and quick formula to life

A.Marjory Kaminski
Columnist
	Attention, everyone ... the skills you 
learned in 
macroeconomics and formula mathematics are 
not useless. 
They don't necessarily need to be forgotten 
as soon as you sell 
your text to the bookstore. They have given 
you the basic 
essentials for formulating your life!
	No, this is not a con. I speak the 
truth. Although it is 
a miracle for non-math majors out there that 
the classes were 
of any use except for balancing your 
checkbook. (And I still 
can't get that right.) 
	You remember what I'm talking about: the 
Pythagorean theorem, the if-then statements, 
(Moe is a 
blathering idiot. All blathering idiots 
should be shot. 
Therefore, if Moe is a blathering idiot, he 
should be shot), and 
let's not forget that elaborate one we slaved 
over in 
macroeconomics, unless micro was chosen, but 
do not worry, 
it's a snap to learn. 
	It happened in my class. I was staring 
at the 
chalkboard with glazed contact lenses as the 
professor began 
drawing arrows and lines into a formula when 
it came to me: 
It's easy to create these as life formulas! 
Since I'm trying to 
pack as much as possible into the two months 
I have left here, 
an organized little prescription could be 
just what is needed.
	Life has got a plethora of formulas. One 
needs only to 
utilize them. No tests given. No calculator 
necessary. 
	Applied formulas can help you from 
having a dull 
weekend. This could be formulated tree style. 
Begin with two 
options of "got plans" and "don't got plans." 
(Poor English, I 
know, but it works with math.) Then you can 
add in "date" or 
"no date" or "dumped by date" or "depressed 
as all hell, drink 
until puke." Along the lines of no plans, you 
can connect to the 
others that consist of plans. Then say, 
"check TV Guide to 
make sure no repeat of X-Files." All in all, 
by keeping the 
options open, weekends can always have 
something to do. Oh, 
better make sure to include studying in there 
somewhere.
	Of course, a mere weekend is not the 
only extent of 
formulas. Heck, it's a true to life 
statement. I've concocted one 
in the footsteps of the Macro flow chart. 
This is my "life after 
high school chart." Various options and 
obstacles are thrown 
in the way, but you basically end up, in the 
end, in the same 
condition.
	Beginning after you have your piece of 
paper and 
return your rented cap and gown. You're 
happy, but confused 
and a bit scared with what life has to offer. 
College or no 
college. There's a question. Simply follow 
the chart through to 
the "get a job" if college is not for you. 
Since we're all in 
school together here, we'll just go straight 
to college. The first 
obstacle happens when you dip into alcohol. 
You either like it 
or hate it and are faced with the "Alcohol 
Decision." This 
happens whether you decide to plunge into the 
world of 
Heineken and Coconut Hurricanes or return to 
the normal 18-
year-old lifestyle of prune juice and Jolt 
cola. 
	The next barricade is when you meet 
someone rather 
swell and are faced with the "Nookie 
Question." You know 
you want it, it just depends on how you want 
to go about 
getting it. You are faced with a tough 
question in your life. To 
get involved with someone or not. Either way, 
life does go on. 
	Next comes the big question. Yup, the 
marriage 
proposal. This leads to the next major 
decision in life. The 
"Marriage Question" has got big questions 
that can be 
answered by only how you feel. But, once 
again, as I have said 
before, life does go on.
	Your last choice dilemma is when that 
mid-life crisis 
hits and you're unsure if what you did in 
your life was the right 
thing or if the right choices were made. It 
can be avoided. 
These questions are easily answered by 
looking at this flow 
chart. See? Life goes on.
	In the end, after you're promoted and 
then turned 
down from a promotion and forced into 
retirement, you realize 
that you may have gone through life and 
lived, but you're still 
in the same place you where you began. You're 
not the same 
person who graduated by any means, but you 
still remain 
humbled by life.
	I realize that flow charts and formulas 
cannot be 
directly followed like in algebra, but it's a 
surprise at how 
close they come with actual life. So far, 
I've found that some 
have happened. Who knows, I may not be full 
of it after all.

A. MarJory Kaminski is a senior studying 
journalism.

Prized ASU recruit Mitchell ready to make contribution

Dustin Krugel
State Press 
	He was ASU's most celebrated high school 
recruit. He 
was supposed to be a key ingredient in ASU's 
offense. Kenny 
Mitchell was going to be a lot of things, but 
he's mainly been 
a spectator on the sidelines so far.
	Mitchell, a Parade All-American from 
Peoria High, has 
waited patiently for a chance to prove 
himself on the football 
field. Through six games, Mitchell has no 
receptions as a Sun 
Devil. The 6-foot-4-inch wide receiver caught 
41 passes for 
800 yards and eight touchdowns in his senior 
year. He also 
helped Peoria win the 4A state championship.
	"Everything happens for a reason," 
Mitchell, a 
freshman, said, referring to his slow start. 
"Whatever 
happens, happens, but I'm glad I'm a Sun 
Devil."
	Since his signing with ASU, Mitchell has 
dealt with 
high expectations from himself and others.
	"At first it was really hard," Mitchell 
said. "Then I just 
had to put everything out of my mind and be 
coachable." 
	Sun Devil quarterback Jake Plummer said, 
"Everyone 
in this valley here who had heard about Kenny 
Mitchell 
expected him to come in and catch four or 
five balls a game. 
But like Keith Poole, who's a great receiver, 
he didn't come 
into his own until last year. His freshman 
year he maybe 
caught six or seven balls, but look at him 
now."
	Head Coach Bruce Snyder said Mitchell's 
role will 
expand in the upcoming weeks.
	"We've been working him in more and more 
each 
game," he said. "In fact, he had a few snaps 
in the Stanford 
game and they just weren't running plays. I 
think he's going 
to continue to get more and more snaps and 
eventually he'll 
get a ball thrown to him."
	Plummer said it will be difficult to 
keep Mitchell out of 
any more games, mostly due to his large frame 
as a receiver.
	"He's a big, physical wide receiver that 
can hopefully 
intimidate those corners and safeties," 
Plummer said. "They 
don't know whether it's run or pass. They are 
a little on ease. 
So when he's taking them out (and) hitting 
them real good, 
they're going to be a little more sketchy 
because he's such a 
big guy."
	Mitchell said he'll take advantage of 
any playing time 
he gets this year.
	"If you get the opportunity, you've got 
to make 
something happen," he said. "I'll try to give 
it my best. 
Whatever (the coaches) ask me to do, I'll 
do."
	Mitchell didn't want to forecast when 
his first 
reception would come, but Plummer came up 
with his own 
prediction.
	'I'm going to go out on a limb and say 
this week," 
Plummer said. "He'll get a couple of chances 
this week."

BYU quarterback Sarkisian living up to hype

By  Damian Shaw 
State Press
	Last year Brigham Young University, 
otherwise 
known as  "quarterback U.",  found itself in 
a predicament it 
had never been in before. It didn't have a 
quarterback. 
	So BYU, which prided itself on raising 
quarterbacks 
right out of High School found itself in the 
odd position of 
looking in the  junior college ranks. It 
found Steve Sarkisian. 
	Sarkisian, though, was not a man without 
a resume. At 
El Camino Junior College in Torrance, Calif., 
Sarkisian threw 
for 7,274 yards in his two seasons, including 
a record 
shattering 4,297 yards passing in his second 
year. 
	But coming to BYU  can be very humbling 
considering 
the ghosts of quarterbacks past that haunt 
the campus in 
Provo. 
	"I'm very honored to be talked about in 
the same 
breath, but I don't feel I'm stepping into 
that class of player," 
Sarkisian said. "I appreciate what they did 
because of the 
pressures up here ."
	Sarkisian follows the likes of Marc 
Wilson, Jim 
McMahon, Steve Young, national championship-
winner 
Robbie Bosco, Heisman Trophy-winner Ty Detmer 
and last 
year's star, John Walsh, who exited early for 
the NFL
	Besides having 10 very large shoes to 
fill, the 21-year-
old Sarkisian also had the daunting task of 
learning the BYU 
offense just over the spring and  summer. 
Sarkisian credits 
Bosco, now a coach, as well as head coach 
Lavell Edwards 
and quarterbacks' coach Norm Chow with easing 
him into 
the system.
	"I was very fortunate that I have a 
great set of 
coaches," Sarkisian said. "How they handed 
down the plays 
to me was good because they gave me the right 
amount of 
plays as I was ready for them. It really 
helped having coach 
Bosco who had run the plays."
	Sarkisian will lead the 2-2 Cougars 
against ASU, this 
Saturday, a team he thinks is better than its 
records shows. 
	"They've got a lot of good athletes," 
Sarkisian said. "I 
think a couple of plays the other way and 
they'd be 4-2 
instead of 2-4. They're going to be hungry 
for a win and we're 
going to have to play hard to beat them."
	Although he wasn't part of the game, 
Sarkisian said of 
last year's homecoming loss to the Sun Devils 
in Provo that 
the real BYU team did not show itself, 
something he hopes to 
change this year. 
	"Last year we didn't show ASU how BYU 
can really 
play," Sarkisian said. "I'd like to see how 
evenly we match 
up."
	Sarkisian says he hasn't met all his 
personal goals, but 
his 1,310  yards passing in four games shows 
that Sarkisian is 
fulfilling some of the expectations that were 
thrust on his 
shoulders when he came to BYU. While putting 
up those 
numbers, Sarkisian says he's been learning on 
the job. 
	"I'm feeling more comfortable with the 
plays that are 
being called and certain situations that the 
plays are being 
called in," Sarkisian said. "I'm growing to 
trust my players 
and be more comfortable with them."

ASU football in losing trend

Ron Matejko
Columnist
	With the white flag about to wave to 
signal the 
submission of this football season, two 
questions come to 
mind: When is this team going to turn the 
corner fans have 
been hearing about for the last two seasons? 
And is a head 
coaching change necessary to change this 
losing trend?
	Head coach Bruce Snyder must lead his 
team to 
victory in at least two of the five remaining 
games to avoid 
the worst back to back finishes since 1946-47 
when ASU won 
a combined six games.   
	This current losing trend is starting to 
wear thin on 
ASU football supporters. The attendance has 
dropped in the 
last four years, with this season's figures 
on pace to be the 
worst since 1969 -  and that is anticipating 
a sellout in the 
season finale against UofA.
	Snyder was brought in to replace the 
ineffective Larry 
Marmie after the 1991 season. Marmie was 
fired with a four-
year record of 22-21-1. Snyder's record 
before this Saturday's 
game with BYU is 17-22-0. In order for him to 
equal Marmie's 
win-total in the same amount of time, ASU 
would have to go 
undefeated the rest of the season. 
	Snyder will tell you that injuries have 
played a major 
part of the record being what it has been the 
last two seasons. 
There is no denying that fact, but then 
wouldn't it be more 
accurate to say that the lack of depth on the 
team is what is 
really hurting them? Injuries are expected in 
football. The key 
is to overcome them with deep talent.
	 Snyder is entering his fourth year at 
the helm at ASU. 
That is the year that his players are finally 
going to 
contribute. Well, sorry to tell you that he 
had better seasons 
when Marmie's people were here than now. In 
Snyder's first 
two seasons, ASU finished 6-5. Last year, 
with his players, he 
finished 3-8 -  with that same record a 
strong possibility again 
this season.
	In his defense, though, he has never 
placed blame on 
anyone but himself. That's very noble, but it 
doesn't put W's 
on the board. 
	Snyder said that his team doesn't know 
how to win 
games yet. If that isn't a direct reflection 
on the coaching staff, 
I don't know what is.
	One reason not to change head coaches 
could be that 
there have been three different coaches in 
the last 11 seasons. 
Maybe the problem is the coaches that have 
been selected, 
and not the turnover rate.  
	John Cooper (1985-87), won 25 games in 
his three 
seasons, but left to coach at Ohio State. 
Marmie (1988-91) won 
22 games in his four seasons and Snyder, who 
took over in 
1992, will win under 20. 
	If you need to go through five or six 
coaches until the 
right one is found then that is what should 
be done. Staying 
with someone inadequate just because of the 
fear of change is 
not the aggresive behavior that will turn the 
program around.  
	The bottom line is do I think there 
should be a change 
made at the head coaching position? Yes! This 
past season 
was Snyder's second chance, but he isn't 
getting the job done. 
I realize saying to fire him is an easy thing 
to do, but 
sometimes to take two steps forward, you need 
to take one 
step back.
	On the subject of running up the score, 
I would like to 
flashback to a game played on Sept. 7, 1991. 
California 86, 
Pacific 24. Why do I bring this up? The head 
coach of this 
game was Bruce Snyder. He is the same person 
who initially 
was angry with Nebraska Head Coach Tom 
Osborne for 
scoring 77 points against ASU on Sept. 16. 
What goes around, 
comes around baby! 
	In the Sept. 12, 1991 issue of the Los 
Angeles Times, 
columnist Gene Wojciechowski questioned 
Snyder's 
reasoning for having his starting 
quarterback, Mike 
Pawlawski, throw another TD pass in the third 
quarter, his 
sixth of the game. I guess by extending the 
lead from 34 to 41 
made it easier to breathe on the Cal 
sideline.
	It seems like an eternity ago that ASU 
was contending 
for the Rose Bowl and playing in front of 
60,000-plus fans. 
The only thing that will bring the support 
back to where it 
once was is to put a winner on the field. 
Until that happens 
the upper deck at Sun Devil Stadium will 
continue to be a 
place where extra seats are kept.

ASU FOOTBALL FANS: IT'S WEEK SEVEN

As a reminder, the State Press sports 
department is 
sponsoring the weekly "PICK IT AND WIN" 
contest for ASU 
football games. The final deadline to enter 
this week's contest 
is today at 5 p.m.
	To win, contestants must correctly 
predict the winner 
and final score of the ASU football games on 
Saturday. The 
Sun Devils' next game is Saturday against the 
Brigham 
Young Cougars at 7 p.m. at Sun Devil Stadium. 
	The weekly winner receives: an ASU cap 
courtesy of 
The Cap. Co. on 6th and Mill, an autographed 
Jake Plummer 
poster schedule of courtesy of ASU athletics, 
a headshot in 
Monday's State Press sports section, an ASU 
sports calendar 
and a bonus prize!
	If none of the contestants in a given 
week predict the 
exact score, then the winner will be 
determined by which 
contestant comes closest. 
	In the event of a tie, the winner will 
be drawn out of a 
hat.
	Entries must be either faxed to 602-965-
8484, "Attn: 
Sports Editor," or dropped off at the State 
Press offices in the 
basement of Matthew's Center. Valid entries 
should include 
full name, student #, year in school, major 
and daytime 
phone #  where you may be reached. Winners 
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contacted the Sunday after the game. 
	Entries received after the deadline will 
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considered. Telephoning the State Press is 
not a valid form of 
entry.

ASU police reported the following incidents 
Wednesday:
* A man not affiliated with ASU was contacted 
at the bike 
racks near Physical Sciences F-wing while 
collecting cigarette 
butts. He was advised of loitering and 
trespassing and left the 
area.
* Pages of paper and a styrofoam heart were 
impounded for 
destruction from Noble Library.
* A woman not affiliated with ASU was 
arrested, cited and 
released for speeding at 1000 E. Rio Salado 
Parkway.
* Two male juveniles not affiliated with ASU 
were detained 
for criminal damage at the Computing Commons. 
Their 
parents were called and they agreed to pay 
for the damages.
* A female student and a man not affiliated 
with ASU were 
arrested, cited and released for trespassing 
and hindering 
prosecution at 725 E. Adelphi Drive.
* A woman not affiliated with ASU was 
arrested, cited and 
released for failing to stop at a red light, 
no proof of insurance 
and a restricted license violation at Hardy 
Drive and 13th 
Street.
* Three bicycles were reported stolen. 

Tempe police reported the following incidents 
Wednesday:
* An unknown male juvenile broke into a man's 
car and 
attempted to steal the man's tripod and 
duffel bag. When the 
victim approached, the youth pulled a gun 
from under his shirt 
and pointed it at the victim. The suspect 
then dropped the 
items and fled. The youth is described as a 
white male, 15 
years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 150 pounds 
with dark, medium-
length blond hair.
* Three male juveniles, ages 14, 14 and 15, 
were arrested after 
stealing a car. Police began following their 
vehicle after they 
saw the youths running from River Drive and 
Apache 
Boulevard and then get into a car. The 
juveniles discovered 
they were being followed and they abandoned 
the car behind 
ABCO, 1700 E. Broadway Road. They fled the 
scene, but 
were caught later.
* A 49-year-old man was arrested on an 
outstanding warrant 
after he was disturbing customers at a local 
business. He was 
taken to the Tempe City Jail. While at the 
jail, he bit a 
correction's officer on the hand.
* A 23-year-old man was arrested for 
disorderly conduct after 
firing 10 shots into the air while driving 
down Rio Salado 
Parkway.
Compiled by State Press reporter Greg Zemeida

	The Today Section is a daily calendar of 
events 
printed as a service to the ASU community. 
Requests are 
accepted on a first-come, first-served basis 
and are printed as 
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	Deadline for requests is noon the day 
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working days before publication. Only one 
entry per 
organization per day is permitted.

* Alcoholics Anonymous - Daily campus 
meeting. Noon to 
1:15 p.m.; Newman Center, Aquinas Hall in the 
basement.
* American Marketing Association - Meeting: 
Speaker Jim 
Danz on how to market yourself in the future. 
Social 
following. 4:30 p.m.; MU Turquoise Room.
* ASU Girls Rugby Field Club - Athletic, 
outgoing women 
wanted to compete in intercollegiate games 
all over, party with 
the men's club and meet new friends. Practice 
meets Tuesday 
and Thursday. 6:30 p.m.; Band Practice Field 
on the east side 
of Rural Road, next to Conerstone Mall.
* Baptist Student Union - Free food, fun and 
fellowship. 
Noon; 1322 S. Mill Ave.
* Black Business Student Association - 
Meeting and elections. 
4 p.m.; MU Apache.
* Campus Crusade for Christ - Thursday Night 
Live. Open 
Bible study, music and fun. 7:30 p.m.; 
Physical Science H-
Wing, Room 150.
* Career Services - Workshop on employment 
skills, presented 
by Gayla Baker. 12:40 p.m.; MU Room 222.
* Graduate Women's Network - "Complimentary 
Healing to 
the Graduate Student's Lifestyle," presented 
by a student. 
Noon; MU lower level, Women's Student Center.
* Honors College Council - General meeting. 
All members of 
the Honors College are welcome. 2:45 p.m.; 
McClintock 
Classroom 138/139.
* Intervarsity Christian Fellowship - Weekly 
meeting. Join us 
for praise, worship, friendship and study. 
7:30 p.m.; MU, 
check monitors for room.
* Kundalini Yoga Club - Classes held Monday 
through 
Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Tonight's location: MU 
224.
* KUSA - General meeting. New members 
welcome. 4 p.m.; 
MU Chrysocolla Room.
* MEChA - Dia de la Roza - Day of the People. 
Rally against 
"Contract with America" and Aztec dancers to 
celebrate 
Columbus Day. 10 a.m.; Hayden Lawn. 
* MEChA - Theater group is meeting for 
rehearsals. All 
interested may attend. 5:30 p.m.; MU second 
floor, MEChA 
Room.
* Million Man March - Learn more about this 
event that will 
take place Monday. Open forum for questions 
and concerns. 
We will also organize a rally to take place 
Monday. 7 p.m.; 
College of Law, Armstrong Hall.
* MUAB Culture and Arts Committee - Meeting. 
Everybody 
welcome. 4:30 p.m.; MU third floor, 
Conference Room 1A.
* PRSSA - General meeting. 5:30 p.m.; 
Stauffer Hall, Reading 
Room.
* Student Life Learning Resource Center - 
Free computer 
skills workshops: Advanced MS Word, 10 a.m.; 
Using Pine, 1 
p.m.; Using Superpaint, 2 p.m.; Using 
PageMaker, 3 p.m.; 
Advanced MS Word, 6 p.m.; SSV 361A.
* THEM, The Science Fiction and Fantasy 
Society - General 
meeting followed by a reading from author 
Adam Niswander. 
Our guest will then lead a discussion. 4:30 
p.m.; MU Mohave 
Room.

Ongoing:
* ASU Equestrian Club - Come ride with us. No 
experience 
necessary. Compete in Western/English horse 
shows, trail 
rides or just hang out and party with us. For 
more info, call 
Leah at 968-4383.
* Counselor Training Center - Free  
counseling available for 
all full-time ASU students and staff. Call 
965-5067 for more 
information or for an appointment. The center 
is in Payne 
Hall, Room 402.