Effort to remove Weber fails in Senate

By Timothy Tait
State Press
	Student government President Chris Weber, 
who refused to resign from 
office following two arrests in past weeks, 
succeeded in retaining his position 
following a Senate impeachment hearing 
Tuesday.
	The Associated Students of ASU Senate 
convened impeachment hearings 
against Weber Tuesday night, but fell short of 
the required 18 votes to convict 
him of the Articles of Impeachment. Thirteen 
senators voted to convict Weber 
following an extensive debate.
	"When he (Weber) is no longer able to 
work in one of our own 
departments - namely the Safety Escort Service 
- by our own regulations, we 
have a serious problem," College of Law Sen. 
Sanjay Vidyadaran said. 
	The Senate was divided on the question of 
how Weber's arrests have 
affected ASASU.
	"They have seriously disrupted the 
Association," College of Liberal Arts 
and Sciences Sen. Alex Shivers said.
	Weber apologized to the Senate for the 
situation.
	"The question is how this has affected 
the Association and the students - 
obviously it has," he said. "We all have been 
affected in some way.
	"I apologize to all who have been 
affected because of this situation." 
	However, others disputed the claim that 
the Association has been 
adversely affected and asked for proof.
	Campus Affairs Vice President Andrea Van 
Bemmel said her departments 
have seen no adverse effects due to Weber's 
arrests. Activities Vice President 
Marc Wendell concurred.
	"No one has brought forward proof that he 
(Weber) will not be able to 
perform his responsibilities," Public Programs 
Sen. Evan Itzkowitz said.
	Weber admitted to using poor judgment in 
the past, but said his 
effectiveness in office has not been 
compromised.
	"My job has not been affected," he said. 
"The most important thing for me 
is doing the job. I'll learn a lot and make a 
lot of (my) mistake." 
	Weber said he will be "acutely aware" of 
his future actions.
	"I'm very much aware - more than anyone - 
the effect of actions, even 
alleged, on myself and on the Association and 
on the University," he said.
	Sen. Natasa Christodoulidou, of the 
College of Business, said she is 
concerned that some senators may have 
supported Weber simply because of ties 
to Greek organizations.
	"I hope everyone voted with their 
conscience, rather than their fraternity," 
she said. "Fraternity members had their minds 
made up."
	Itzkowitz, a member of Weber's 
fraternity, said only half of the Greek 
senators voted in support of Weber.
	A Senate representative, who asked to 
remain anonymous, said Monday 
his only concern was that Greek senators could 
impede the impeachment.
	"The only thing that I'm worried about 
are the fraternity members," said 
the unnamed representative. "Chris has claimed 
(in the past) that seven senators 
are fraternity members. I kind of wonder if 
they are going to do what is best for 
the students - it is a question of loyalty."
	The impeachment against Weber was 
initiated following his arrest for 
disorderly conduct and trespassing at Palo 
Verde Main on October 9. He was 
also arrested and charged with assault for 
allegedly hitting a female student 
during a bar brawl in September.
	Weber, however, said this ordeal has made 
him a stronger leader.
	"I believe, without a doubt, that I will 
be a better 
leader having gone through this," he said.

Pick-up truck hits two pedestrians in crosswalk

By Greg Zemeida
State Press
	Two men were hit by a pick-up truck that 
apparently 
ran a red light at the intersection of 
University Drive and Ash 
Avenue Tuesday afternoon.
	The men were taken to Scottsdale Memorial 
Hospital 
and the Maricopa County Hospital. Their 
injuries were not life 
threatening, according to Tempe police.
	The two men were in their early 20s or 
late teens. 
Police did not know their names or if they are 
ASU students.
	The truck's driver, 78-year-old Arnold 
Petermann, 
was driving eastbound on University at about 
3:45 p.m. when 
the two men began crossing Ash northbound. 
Petermann hit 
the two, knocking them about 50 feet forward 
through the 
intersection, police said.
	"It looks at this point that (Petermann) 
went through a 
red light," said Officer D.A. Yennie of the 
Tempe police.
	A witness, Karen Hurst of Scottsdale, 
said one of the 
men was walking a bike through the 
intersection and the other 
man was riding one, side by side. She said the 
two were one-
third of the way across the street when 
Petermann hit them.
	"I just saw him coming up to (the red 
light), and I 
said, 'Oh my God,' " she said.
	After the two were struck, Hurst said one 
of the men 
hit the truck's windshield and rolled off the 
hood. She said one 
man was bleeding from the head and an elbow 
and the other 
was also bleeding from the head.
	Hurst said she doesn't think Petermann 
saw the red 
light.
	"I know it wasn't green," she said.

Visitors locked out of residence halls during Super Bowl week

By Greg Zemeida
State Press
	The only way visiting parents will be 
able to see their 
children's dorm rooms during Super Bowl week 
is through a 
window.
	According to a policy being distributed 
this week by 
Residential Life officials, only ASU students 
will be allowed 
in residence hall rooms from Jan. 24-29. 
	Hall staff will check people's IDs to 
ensure they are 
students. Visiting relatives can stop by the 
dorms and call for 
students to come down, but they aren't allowed 
past the 
lobby.
	The non-student access rule is part of a 
policy 
developed to deal with safety issues in the 
halls during the 
week preceding Super Bowl XXX on Jan. 28, said 
Debra Sells, 
associate director of Residential Life. 
	Besides barring relatives and friends 
from dorm 
rooms, the policy prohibits anyone but 
residents from staying 
in the rooms overnight during those six days. 
	"If every student in the dorms invited a 
family 
member to stay over, it would place an 
overwhelming 
burden on hall facilities, including plumbing 
and elevator 
services, not to mention violating building 
fire codes," Sells 
said. "As much as we enjoy having parents 
visit ... as 
overnight guests, we wouldn't be able to 
handle building 
functions."
	Family members should make arrangements 
to see 
their children outside the halls. If that is 
not possible, she said 
hall staffs can make exceptions in some 
circumstances.
	"We will do our best to work with the 
families so it 
doesn't become an inconvenience," she said.  
	The policy, which will be distributed to 
the nearly 
4,600 hall tenants on campus, also calls for 
additional security 
measures in the dorms from Jan. 19 to 29. All 
dorm lobby and 
hall wing doors will be locked 24 hours a day. 
The student 
staff in the halls will be doubled, there will 
be one 
professional staff in each hall and more 
community service 
aides - students who receive basic security 
training from ASU 
police - will be used during that time, Sells 
said.
	In addition, all normal hall regulations 
will be 
enforced, including the rule preventing 
students from renting 
out their rooms.
	Keith Menard, president of the Resident 
Hall 
Association, said his group worked with 
Residential Life to 
come up with the policy. He said it is a good 
compromise 
that balances safety concerns with students' 
freedom.
	"The students are concerned about their 
safety, but by 
the same token, they don't want to be 
prisoners," he said.
	Most dorm residents like the plan and 
feel it is fair, he 
added.
	Besides the additional precautions being 
taken inside 
the residence halls, ASU police will be 
stationed outside the 
dorms and in nearby parking lots during Super 
Bowl week to 
provide extra security.
	Two additional officers will be assigned 
just for dorm 
security, with up to six other officers per 
shift roving the 
entire campus, said Sgt. Richard Wilson, ASU 
police security 
coordinator for the Super Bowl.
	"We want to send visual cues to outsiders 
that these 
dorms are secure areas," he said.
	Since the residence halls are beefing up 
their own 
security, that relieves some of the pressure 
on ASU police, 
Wilson said.
	"With Residential Life taking the lead on 
security in 
dorms, it saves us from having to ... put 
people inside (the 
halls) where they are not needed," he said. 
	Police's two biggest concerns during the 
week are 
damage to buildings by souvenir hunters and 
those looking 
to party in the dorms, Wilson said. Most of 
the events 
preceding the game are family oriented, so 
police aren't 
expecting major problems, he said.
	"It's not like were expecting a 10-day 
Grateful Dead 
concert," Wilson said.

Student-satellite program earns recognition for unique output

By Kelly Wendel
State Press
	The University's ASU-SAT-1 team's quest 
for space 
is gaining international recognition and 
domestic kudos for its 
design and applications in small satellite 
development.
	Two members of the ASU-SAT-1 team 
recently 
returned from Oslo, Norway after delivering 
details of the 
ASU satellite program to the International 
Astronautical 
Federation's fifth annual congress.
	Junior physics major Charles Hewett and 
aerospace 
graduate student Joel Rademacher presented a 
paper detailing 
ASU's satellite design to more than 400 fellow 
scientists in a 
special student session of the conference.
	Hewett said the presentation was well-
received and 
many expressed interest in the student-
satellite program.
	"It was a great experience," he said. 
"There was a 
good interchange of information." 
	Hewett also recently won first prize at 
the third 
annual Small Satellite Student Scholarship 
Competition held at 
Utah State University Sept. 18 to 21. He 
claimed the prize 
based on his work on ASU's satellite's plasma 
flow apparatus. 
This is Hewett's second win at the conference; 
he won first 
prize in the competition in l994.
	Helen Reed, director of Aerospace 
Research at ASU, 
said conferences such as these expose ASU's 
program to the 
aerospace industry. 
	"This is good way to tell world we are 
doing great 
things here (at ASU)," she said. "The research 
we are working 
on here will be applicable to the future, and 
we are very 
excited about that."
	ASU's satellite program is unique in many 
ways. Not 
only is the satellite the smallest satellite 
to perform meaningful 
science, it also cost less than $200,000 to 
build. The 
University project differs from industry 
programs where 
specific boundaries and duties for the mission 
are set, and the 
satellite must be built around those 
constraints.
	Students at ASU were given a launch date, 
weight, 
size and altitude from Orbital Science Corp., 
a space 
technology company. From there, the fledgling 
engineers and 
scientists determined the objectives for the 
satellite. The result 
is a low-cost, lightweight package of student-
designed 
electronics and mechanisms that function as a 
complete 
system.
	Scheduled for launch in December, the ASU 
SAT-1 
will orbit the earth at 65 kilometers while 
taking 
measurements of the earth's ionosphere. 
Gradually, the 
satellite's orbit will degrade, and it will 
burn up in the earth's 
atmosphere.

ASU English professor proclaimed Arizona's best

By Brian Anderson
State Press
	An ASU English professor was honored as 
Arizona's 
professor of the year Tuesday by the Carnegie 
Foundation for 
the Advancement of Teaching.
	Jay Boyer said his first thought was that 
he was going 
to be fired when Gary Krahenbuhl, the dean of 
the College of 
Liberal Arts, and Provost Milton Glick 
surprised him and his 
film studies class with the award 
presentation.
	"It was a total surprise for me," he 
said. "I feel flattered. 
It was a really nice surprise."
	Boyer said he was pleased to have won the 
award, but 
he does not think he is the best professor in 
the state.
	"I doubt seriously that I am the best 
professor in 
Arizona," he said. "I'm simply one who works 
hard and does 
the best he can day by day. Some very nice 
people nominated 
me and some equally nice people awarded me."
	Wendy Wilkins, assistant dean of the 
College of 
Liberal Arts, said she is excited to have the 
state's best 
professor on her team.
	"We're thrilled, we're excited and we're 
glad that the 
outstanding Arizona professor of the year is 
at our university 
and in our college," she said.
	Wilkins added that Boyer was named the 
state's best 
professor because of his versatility in 
teaching and his 
dedication to his work and his students.
	University President Lattie Coor echoed 
Wilkins's 
feelings in a written statement.
	"I am deeply pleased at this national 
recognition for 
the quality of Professor Boyer's teaching," he 
wrote. "His role 
as a faculty member fits the very strong 
commitment to 
undergraduate teaching that we have made in 
recent years. I 
am especially pleased to see such a strong 
affirmation of the 
quality of teaching at ASU."
	The Carnegie Foundation used three 
separate panels 
to judge the candidates; Boyer was one of 49 
professors 
nationwide to receive the honor.
	"Seeing your work recognized tends to 
rejuvenate 
you," Boyer said. "It makes me feel as if 
somebody is saying, 
'Thank you.' That's a nice feeling."

Phantom spells Broadway for ASU

By Angela Mull
State Press
	As The Phantom of the Opera prepares to 
materialize 
at Gammage Auditorium, ASU Public Events is 
working to 
unmask more Broadway hits for the 1996-97 
season.
	Negotiations are in progress to bring 
Miss Saigon, 
Beauty and the Beast and Sunset Boulevard to 
Gammage, said 
Kyle Hayden, Public Events' promotions 
assistant. He said the 
success of last year's Phantom enables 
bookings like these and 
November's Damn Yankees. 
	"It definitely let us get bigger and 
better acts," he 
said. 
	Last year's 71 Phantom performances 
grossed about 
$10 million and brought in 205,000 people, 
Hayden said. This 
year, Phantom runs from Dec. 16 through Jan. 
27 with ticket 
prices ranging from $15.50 to $60.50. About 60 
percent of the 
tickets are gone, and Hayden said he expects 
the remainder to 
sell out.
	In addition to more Broadway shows, 
Phantom 
attracts new audience members, Hayden said. 
	"They're far more likely to come back 
once they've 
seen something like Phantom," he said.
	Kyle Lawson, theater writer and critic 
for The 
Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Gazette, said 
improvements at Gammage for Phantom's many 
sets 
accommodate larger-scale Broadway productions.
	"Gammage is now in a prime position to 
bring those 
productions in their original glory," he said. 
"They won't have 
to be cut down or cheapened." 
	Lawson said the quality of entertainment 
at 
Gammage has also improved because of the hard 
work of 
Public Events' booking team. However, they're 
only as good as 
the plays that are touring.
	"If one season's not as good as another, 
it may just be 
that there's not that many good productions 
touring that year," 
he said.
	However, last year's Phantom did not 
benefit 
everyone, said William Reber, director of 
ASU's Lyric Opera 
Theater.
	His theater's Albert Herring ran opposite 
Phantom 
and saw its box-office take drop 30 percent 
because of a false 
perception about full parking lots and 
restaurants, he said. 
	"People who might not want to fight the 
mass of 
people going to see whatever the Gammage show 
is will 
decide not to come to our shows because of 
that perception," 
he said, but added, "Even though Phantom may 
be going on 
across the street, our theater is still fully 
accessible."

Editorial: ASU ... or Alcatraz?

	There is one undeniable truth about Super 
Bowl XXX 
- the NFL and local businesses will pocket the 
cash, and ASU 
students will get the shaft.
	In order to protect local business 
profits, the shaft just 
got a little bit larger.
	In what has been branded an attempt to 
deal with 
"safety issues," Residential Life has decreed 
that no one, save 
for University students, may enter residence 
hall rooms for the 
week preceding the Super Bowl.
	In addition, all overnight guests are 
banned from 
dorm rooms for that week.
	Among the excuses being thrown around for 
this ban 
are a potential strain on plumbing.
	The only strain on plumbing we can see is 
the 
tremendous amount of flushing we're going to 
have to do to 
dispose of all of this crap.
	Let's see if we've got this straight. 
Students can't even 
have family and friends come into their rooms 
for safety issues 
and plumbing?
	Do you really expect us to believe that?
	There is a very good reason that this ban 
was slapped 
on residence hall residents - the reason no 
one is saying.
	Money.
	Hotels are expected to make a tremendous 
profit from 
guests during Super Bowl week. It wouldn't do 
to have 
students having friends stay with them - thus 
depriving a hotel 
the opportunity to gouge a potential customer.
	Downtown Tempe will be filled with 
tourists with 
bulging wallets - tourists flinging around 
mass quantities of 
money.
	Such tourists need to be able to get in 
and out of 
Tempe easily, and they need places to park.
	Of course, it wouldn't do for visiting 
parents to clog 
up streets and parking spots. After all, 
they're not going to be 
shelling out hundreds or thousands of bucks 
apiece - they're 
just coming to see their kid.
	So rather than see the local cash flow 
restricted, even 
if by the minutest of margins, ASU has decided 
to turn its 
dorms into, well, prisons.
	There's really nothing else you can call 
them.
	Even more ludicrous is the claim by the 
Resident Hall 
Association president that most dorm residents 
actually like 
being quarantined from the outside world for a 
week.
	Oh, really? And just how many have you 
asked?
	We will concede that the "no overnight 
visitors" 
mandate might be a fair one. During Super Bowl 
week, Tempe 
will be the tourist capital of the planet.
	If allowed to do so, a vast number of 
students would 
doubtlessly share their space with a stranger 
during that week 
for a handsome sum of money. While this would 
be a great 
source of revenue for students, it would 
definitely put a strain 
on the resources of ASU's residence halls. 
This much is 
obvious.
	But uncalled for, and completely 
dictatorial, is the 
complete ban on visitors in rooms at any time 
during this 
week. 
	We cannot see how having a visitor in 
one's room for 
a few hours could possibly put a strain on 
residence hall 
resources.
	The rule is a stupid one. It is 
unnecessary, foolish and 
unfair.
	The Super Bowl steamroller continues to 
roll on 
merrily - right over the students of this 
University.
	Welcome to Camp Super Bowl - where 
education and 
freedom take a backseat to football and money.

Column: Million Man March good start for reform

Gerry Anderson
Guest Columnist

	I watched and listened to Minister 
Farrakhan speak at 
the Million Man March Monday afternoon, and 
again on Larry 
King Live! later that night. Frankly, I think 
that the so-called 
"mainstream" should be thanking him. Likewise, 
for the 
national Black community. 
	He speaks and facilitates the very step 
toward Black 
self-actualization that the collective Black 
leadership should 
have been calling for, and that the mainstream 
has been calling 
for some time.
	However, thanking Farrakhan seems to be 
the last 
thing happening. Rather, the media insists on 
raising 
seemingly irrelevant issues, both within and 
without the Black 
community, and painting Farrakhan as a hate-
mongering 
racist. 
	Predictably, many notables, again within 
and without 
the Black community, condemned the Million Man 
March. 
Talk about playing the "race card." 
	The march detractors and the media did 
exactly what 
they probably condemned attorney Johnnie 
Cochran for doing. 
	The real slap in the face is that the 
purpose of the 
march had less to do with race than did O.J.'s 
reasonable 
doubt. Go figure. 
	Anyway, I have never heard Farrakhan say 
anything 
hateful or racist, though some points are 
undeniably too strong 
and/or too generalized for some tastes. 
	I have to assume that if no one 
identified with 
Farrakhan, based on similar experiences or 
observations, there 
would be no audience(s). Nonetheless, I can 
only hope that 
any beliefs that he is a hate-monger, to the 
point of not 
"endorsing" the march, are based on something 
more 
substantial than out-of-context sound-bytes 
pursuant to an 
attempt to increase ratings or circulation.
	Nonetheless, it seems that everyone 
around us has, or 
feels as though he or she is obligated to 
have, an opinion about 
everything. 
	To me, that means that it is more and 
more difficult 
to be on the same sheet of music with everyone 
about 
everything. In fact, as more opinions (issues) 
increasingly 
come into play, there should be a 
corresponding need to be 
more tolerant about one thing or another. If 
not, we are 
destined to go nowhere fast. Adding insult to 
injury, we'd all 
have to go nowhere together. Definitely, 
Option B.
	Accordingly, on common ground is where I 
prefer to 
pitch most of my tents. It seems as though 
that's where general 
productivity is at its highest. Is there 
anyone out there who 
does not think that it was a good idea for 
Black men to come 
together in the name of peace, so as to take 
the burden off of 
the Black women, and to stop dodging 
responsibility and 
looking for taxpayer subsidized handouts? (Be 
careful! Your 
hypocrisy quotient is at stake.)
	Would you have preferred: a) that 
Farrakhan had 
gotten Black men together to finally do what 
they're supposed 
to do, or b) that Black men had not gotten 
together at all? It 
may help to perform a crude form of cost-
benefit analysis.
	If you would have preferred that someone 
- anyone - 
else had gotten the Black men together for the 
same purpose, I 
apologize for not making it clear that that 
was not one of the 
options. I mean, we - the Black community- 
have other 
leaders, but obviously none have had the 
presence of mind to 
plan such an event or agenda. So again, march 
or no? 
	Whatever your opinion, I hope that no one 
allows the 
media to stunt our collective growth or 
otherwise further 
polarize the races more than the media has 
already tried to do 
in the recent (O.J.) past. 
	You should rebuke any attempt to take a 
long 
overdue self-help attitude and event, and turn 
it into an 'ism' of 
one form or another. Remember, only God can 
bring together 
that much love at one time. 
	How he chooses his messengers is anyone's 
guess. 
His methodologies and selection criteria 
notwithstanding, I do 
know that Black men getting their Black acts 
together is the 
first step in us as a nation getting our 
collective acts together. 
(And that's a lesson learned from having taken 
the hard road.)
	However, don't kid yourselves into 
thinking that 
Blacks are the only race of people that have 
work to do. Much 
marked misery has come from 1492 and 1555 A.D. 
But that 
was then and this is now. 
	To move forward we all have to come to 
the table 
with something that, at least, resembles good 
faith. Those that 
come to the table with an intent to divide 
usually have an 
alternate agenda. Remember, divide and 
conquer. Despite 
compulsions to the contrary, it really is that 
simple.


Gerry Anderson is a 2nd year student in the 
colleges of law 
and business.

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Women should unite, not pass judgement

	My name is Kim Kirby. I'm a single 
mother, an 
exercise science major and a topless dancer. 
I'm writing in 
response to the article written by Liz 
Montalbano in the 
Tuesday, Sept. 26 edition of the State Press.
	To say I was infuriated by your comments 
couldn't 
possibly describe the range of emotions that 
your article 
evoked. Where was the article concerning women 
like me 
when I was getting food stamps and the 
Department of 
Economic Security was helping me pay my child 
care costs? 
Was I shooting our gender in the foot then? I 
think not. 
Montalbano, and women like her, are not 
concerned with my 
struggles; yet, they are obviously threatened 
by my successes. 
Which is more degrading, Liz - going home with 
$200, or 
having to face the landlord again with only 
half the rent 
payment?
	Yes, women have had to struggle from the 
beginning 
of time. Yes, some men do treat women like 
objects. Yet 
knowing this, how can you, my sister in this 
struggle, turn 
around and throw the degradation of women at 
me and my 
fellow dancers? What I've done is turn the 
tables and taken 
back control. If a man were to take a 
situation and turn it 
around to benefit him or make him successful, 
he would be 
considered shrewd, driven and a real "go-
getter." I've done 
exactly that for myself, and you say that I'm 
setting women 
back 100 years. I find that extremely 
discriminatory.
	I'm a strong, intelligent and proud woman 
who has 
overcome great obstacles in my life. I'm 
completing my 
education, just as you are, and I'm proud to 
be the example of 
womanhood that I am to my daughter. We (you 
and I, Liz) are 
working toward similar goals. We are both 
striving for our 
education and for the power to make our own 
choices. We are 
sisters in this struggle, and giving support 
to each other will 
only push us forward, not backward. We should 
unite. Your 
blame-tossing and finger-pointing will only 
serve to hold us 
back.

Kim Kirby
Exercise science

Letter: Sun Devils in a slump, not at a standstill

	Well, Ms. Bailey, you sure certainly do 
have a way 
with words! It is to my utter amazement that 
you are able to 
hold the position of Opinion Editor. 
	So, according to your Oct. 11 "What is up 
with that?" 
column in the State Press, the ASU Sun Devils 
suck, huh? 
Certainly you could have stated a much more 
creative and 
artistic adjective to describe us than the 
word "suck." 
	By the way, we don't suck.
	I have been here for four years and can 
give you the 
opinion of someone on the inside: this team, 
although 
struggling, is one that is filled with heart 
and pride. We came 
to ASU to be Sun Devils and I will bet my life 
that nobody has 
second-guessed their choice to come here. 
While the win 
column is only at two as of now, it is no 
indicator as to how 
hard this team plays and practices.
	Coach Snyder has installed a system that 
has been 
proven to work. It is now his fourth year and 
I feel that he is 
doing a fantastic job with us. I refuse to say 
that we are a bad 
team. The reason why we are struggling is due 
to the fact that 
there are many starters on this squad who are 
true sophomores 
and juniors, which means that they were 
pressed into duty 
without red-shirting.
	So basically, we are a young team on the 
verge of 
success.
	Our senior class this year is mostly true 
seniors who 
came to ASU in 1992 and played as freshmen. We 
only have 
two seniors on this squad who were not 
recruited by this staff, 
Justin Dragoo and Deddrick McCartney. That 
means that there 
are about 20 players who have disappeared from 
the 1991 
recruiting class, but you did not know that, 
right?
	All of our players are outstanding Sun 
Devils; they 
know they have to pay the price and have 
accepted it, so trust 
me, the bad days are coming to an end The Sun 
Devils will 
once again return to prominence. That is a 
promise that will be 
kept.
	As for your little remark, it is typical 
for an ignorant 
person to make judgments on things that he or 
she has no 
knowledge of. So keep this in mind next time 
you feel like 
making comments about things that you are 
ignorant to: The 
stupidity of a person is not based on what 
that person does not 
know but rather by what that person thinks he 
or she knows ... 
don't think!

Juan A. Roque
Junior left tackle
ASU football

Letter: People, animals not on equal moral level

	It is a horrifying thought that C. 
Lakshman, a 
graduate student and potential leader, in 
writing on the ethical 
treatment of animals in the Oct. 12 issue of 
the State Press, 
cannot see the utter lack of compassion 
contained within his or 
her seemingly compassionate stand. It is 
precisely Lakshman's 
view which has delivered to us unparalleled 
human suffering.
	No person falling within the range of 
societal 
normalcy favors the gratuitous inhumane 
treatment of animals. 
Those who inflict such are among the most 
loathsome 
creatures on the planet. 
	There are plenty of philosophical 
arguments to be 
made on behalf of the proper treatment of 
animals; some are 
even religious. The Jewish dietary laws from 
the book of 
Leviticus, for example, are predicated on the 
very notion that 
if one of God's creatures is to be destroyed 
simply to placate a 
primitive craving, that is an act worthy of 
serious reflection. 
	It would, however, be tortured compassion 
to take the 
next step, as Lakshman does, on religious 
grounds, and grant 
animals and people equal moral standing. 
	Lakshman may have a problem in 
distinguishing 
between humans and animals, and indeed, such a 
stand would 
be logical if argued on a secular basis, but 
that was not how 
the argument was couched. Any 6-year-old 
Jewish, Christian 
or Muslim child would be happy to inform 
Lakshman that the 
difference between a human and an animal is 
that it is the 
human, not the animal, who is created in God's 
image and 
therefore has vastly more intrinsic value. I 
suppose Lakshman 
can be excused for simple ignorance, though 
one might hope a 
graduate student is a bit more capable of 
unearthing easily 
obtainable relevant facts before expounding on 
them.
	Ignorance, however, becomes unintended 
malevolence by equating the suffering of 
animals with 
suffering of Native Americans, Black slaves 
and European 
Jews under the Nazis, which is exactly what 
Lakshman did. It 
is a safe bet that the animal cages Lakshman 
decries would 
have been preferable to millions of Jews to 
the gas chambers 
and crematoria of Nazi death camps.
	It is hard to rest comfortably knowing 
that there are 
still people who cannot distinguish between 
the death of a 
child and the death of a chicken.
	Lakshman's tired arguments serve not to 
elevate the 
status of animals, but to degrade the status 
of humans. Beliefs 
have consequences; the inability to recognize 
such a simple 
fact should send chills up the spine of any 
thoughtful 
individual. Rightly or wrongly, it is easier 
for a person to 
abuse a chicken than another person. The 
terrifying irony in 
Lakshman's compassion is that it is precisely 
the inability of a 
person to see the difference between a child 
and a chicken that 
has brought us historical catastrophes like 
Black slavery, the 
subjugation of Native Americans and the 
Holocaust.

Tony Moon
Graduate student
Public administration

Heavy hitter Senior middle blocker Sones has emerged as consistent player and emotional leader

By Dawn Wagner
State Press
	Holly Sones knew the transition from high 
school to 
college volleyball would be a big one.
	The competition would be tougher and it 
would be a 
lot more work. But then, throw in the fact she 
had to move to 
an entirely different country and you've got 
the makings for a 
stressful first experience.
	"When I first got here, I was saying to 
myself, 'What 
am I doing here? These girls are really 
good,'" Sones said. "I 
just wanted to get on a plane and go back to 
Canada."
	But Sones, originally from Ballinafad, 
Ontario, knew 
about the competition in the Pac-10 and she 
stuck it out.
	"The caliber of play is higher in the 
States than in 
Canada," she said. "I think the U.S. has a 
great program for 
volleyball that feeds right into the national 
team."
	When the senior middle blocker was 
looking for 
schools, ASU fit right into the picture. The 
Sun Devils offered 
her exactly what she wanted.
	"I guess mostly I wanted to get a 
university to pay for 
me to go to school," Sones said. "I didn't 
want to have to rely 
on my parents and I was broke."
	And since her goal has always been to 
play for a 
university in the U.S., Sones came to Tempe.  
And she has 
managed to make her mark as one of the Sun 
Devils' most 
consistent and respected players. 
	"I think she's been extremely strong and 
very reliable," 
said ASU coach Patti Snyder-Park. "She's also 
meant so much 
emotionally to this team. She has really 
evolved as a leader 
this year. She's a very kind-hearted and team-
oriented 
person."
	Sones, who has been nominated as an all-
Pac-10 
candidate this season, leads the team in 
hitting percentage 
and is ranked third in the Pac-10 for aces-
average this year. 
She is second on the team with 20 service 
aces.
	As this year's captain,  Sones has been 
an integral part 
of the success of the team said sophomore 
Terri Cox.
	"Her hitting statistics have helped us a 
lot this year," 
Cox said. "She's really smart with the ball 
and is probably the 
most consistent player on the team."
	Snyder-Park agreed. 
	"It's extremely important to have a 
middle blocker be 
successful," Snyder-Park said. "They have to 
pay attention to 
Holly. If they didn't, we'd be able to run her 
all night and 
we'd shut people out. 
	"She allows us to diversify our offense."
	But even before college, Sones had racked 
up some 
impressive statistics.
	She was a member of the Peel Selects 
Volleyball Club, 
where her team placed third in the 1992 
Canadian 
Championships. She was named three times to 
the provincial 
all-star team and once to the national team.
	But this year will be Sones's last for 
competitive 
volleyball. The geology major said she is 
afraid of what she 
might lose if she were to take the sport to 
the next level.
	"I think you have to reach a point where 
you decide if 
you want to be dedicated to it for a long 
time," Sones said. "If 
I were to continually practice it would take 
away from the 
fun of the sport and I don't want to lose 
that."

Volleyball's Garner continues assault on record book

By Dawn Wagner
State Press
	Mark another one in the record books for 
Christine 
Garner.
	Actually, make that two.
	After posting 47 kills this weekend on 
the road, the 
senior outside hitter broke the all-time 
career kills record for 
ASU. The previous record was set in 1986 when 
Tammy 
Webb rounded up 1,679 kills. Garner now has 
1,707.
	She now needs 47 kills to surpass 
Stanford's Bev Oden 
for 5th place in the Pac-10 for career kills. 
   For her efforts, Garner was honored by the 
Pac-10 as Player 
of the Week.
   With this award, she becomes one of only 
five players in 
Pac-10 history to receive Player of the Week 
honors four 
times in four years. 
   Garner was also named the AVCA Division I 
Player of the 
Week, the highest weekly national honor.
	Garner is on the threshold of working her 
way up in 
two other ASU all-time rankings. She is 
currently seventh in 
career service aces and eighth in career digs.
	But Garner wasn't the only person 
breaking records 
last weekend.
	With two wins over No. 17 USC and No. 9 
UCLA, the 
ASU volleyball team passed a few milestones, 
including its 
first ever sweep of USC and UCLA on the road.
	* Sun Devil coach Patti Snyder-Park 
posted her 118th 
win on Friday, pushing her to the top-spot as 
the all-time 
winningest coach at ASU.
	* The USA Today/AVCA poll ranked the Sun 
Devils 
at ninth in the nation this week, pushing them 
to their highest 
ranking in 10 years. ASU was ranked seventh 
during the 1986 
season.
	* Junior Tracy Heflin, who spent last 
year backing up 
Tiffanie Johnson-Gates at the setter position, 
had 115 assists 
last weekend, just four short of her total 
last season. Heflin 
has also secured a spot at starting setter for 
this weekend 
against the Washington schools.
	* Freshman setter Jolynn Faatulu joins 
the injury list 
after hurting her knee Friday night against 
USC. Snyder-Park 
said Faatulu will not be playing this weekend 
and is waiting 
to hear word on the severity of her injury. 
She is believed to 
have a meniscus tear and a strained medial 
collateral 
ligament.
	Also injured for the Sun Devils is 
Kirstin Mattson, who 
re-aggravated a left knee injury by 
overcompensating for a 
recent right knee injury. Snyder-Park said 
they are in the 
process of trying to redshirt Mattson for the 
rest of the 
season.
	* Both games this weekend against No. 23 
Washington 
and No. 5 Washington State have been selected 
as Pac-10 
Games of the Week. Both will be televised on a 
tape delay 
basis by Prime Sports Northwest.

Third-ranked men's golf finishes third at Red River

From Staff Reports
	The third-ranked men's golf team finished 
third at the 
Taylor Made Red River Classic in Dallas, 
Texas, Tuesday.
	In his first tournament of the season, 
sophomore Pat 
Perez was the top finisher for the Sun Devils, 
tying for fourth 
place with a score of 212.  His third-round 
score of 69 was the 
low score yesterday and Perez's first two 
rounds were at 72 
and 71 on the par-72  course. 
	The team finished behind the University 
of Texas and 
Oklahoma State, both co-ranked as the top 
teams in the 
nation.
	ASU shot a first round of 285 and two 
rounds of 290, 
to finish 19 strokes behind Texas.
	Texas A&M, the University of Oklahoma, 
and the 
University of Virginia rounded out the top 
five. 
	Senior Joey Snyder was the next Sun Devil 
finisher, at 
17th place, shooting a three-round total of 
216 (70, 72, 74). 
Junior Scott Johnson shot a 219, to finish in 
32nd place.
	Freshman Brad Cannon finished tied at 
38th place, 
with a three-round score of  220.
	The Sun Devils will be in action again 
next Monday in 
the Jerry Pate Invitational in Birmingham, 
Ala.

ASU sophomore offensive lineman back in saddle

By Dustin Krugel
State Press
	ASU's offensive line will get a much 
needed lift from a 
familiar face the next time it suits up 
against Oregon on Oct. 
28.
	Starting sophomore left guard Kyle Murphy 
appeared 
to be headed to the sidelines the rest of the 
season after he 
tore ligaments in his left knee when ASU 
defeated Oregon 
State 17-9 on Sept. 23. Murphy tore his medial 
collateral and 
his anterior cruciate ligaments. 	
	"We expected him to most likely miss the 
rest of the 
season," head trainer Perry Edinger said. "It 
appeared that 
way, but our doctors followed through and 
checked and 
checked it.
	"He's responded very well. It's very safe 
to play on the 
remaining four games and we will then evaluate 
it at the end 
of the season and see if we have to operate."
	Sun Devil Head Coach Bruce Snyder said 
the news 
came as a complete surprise.
	"I had resigned myself to it and didn't 
like it," Snyder 
said of the possibility that Murphy would miss 
the rest of the 
season. "I thought it was like Malchi 
Crawford. It was great 
news."
	Snyder said he received the good news on 
Friday the 
13th of all days.
	"He came dancing into my office and said 
'coach I can 
play,'" he said of Murphy.
	After the meeting, Snyder said he was in 
such disbelief 
he immediately confirmed it with Edinger.
	"I believed Kyle but I wanted to confirm 
it anyway," he 
joked. 
	Murphy, who was officially cleared to 
practice for the 
first time this Sunday, was unavailable for 
comment Tuesday. 
Snyder said it may take a few games for him to 
get back to his 
old self.
	"When you first come back, you're not the 
same way 
you were," he said. "But he's a bright guy."
	Snyder said the competition for the left 
guard position 
will be competitive, especially with redshirt 
freshman Mike 
Barnes' play in the last three games.
	"Once a guy gets a taste of starting they 
don't want to 
give it up," he said. "So Kyle's going to have 
a fight on his 
hand. Mike Barnes has started three games now. 
I'm sure he 
doesn't want to give it up. We'll see how that 
works out."
	Edinger said Murphy's injury usually 
takes three to 
four weeks to recover from unless surgery is 
needed. Backup 
tight end Brian Jennings and junior center 
Kirk Robertson 
suffered similiar injuries to Murphy's, 
Edinger said. 
	"It's more common (injury) than you 
want," he said. 
"We maybe have two to three a year."

ASU police reported the following incidents 
Tuesday:
* Two male students were contacted at 
Manzanita Hall about a 
missing fire extinguisher. They both consented 
to a room 
search, but the only item of interest found 
was an empty beer 
can. They were both warned of underage 
drinking and 
possession of alcohol.
* Two male students were contacted at the 
north side of 
Manzanita Hall while throwing oranges at the 
hall. They were 
advised of criminal damage and left the area.
* Someone broke into Student Services Building 
A143 and 
A131 and stole a printer and scanner worth 
$1,290.
* Someone stole a male student's car while it 
was parked in 
Area 17. It is a maroon 1987 Pontiac Firebird 
with New 
Mexico license plate 920 GZP.
* ASU police assisted the Tempe Fire 
Department in putting 
out a fire in a vehicle parked in Parking 
Structure 1.
* Three unaffiliated male juveniles were 
contacted at Life 
Sciences C and E wings while skateboarding. 
They were 
advised of ASU policy and left the area.
* Someone stole a female student's purse from 
a bench outside 
the Language and Literature Building.
* Someone broke into a vending machine in the 
Engineering 
A-wing sometime over the past week and stole 
$100.

Tempe police reported the following incidents 
Tuesday:
* A 37-year-old woman was arrested for 
aggravated assault 
with a firearm after arguing with her husband. 
She got a .22 
caliber revolver out of the bedroom, went to 
the living room 
and asked her husband, "What do you think of 
this?" She 
pointed the gun at his chest and pulled the 
trigger twice, but 
the gun was empty. The husband left and she 
took an overdose 
of pills.
* A 39-year-old man was arrested for two 
counts of child 
abuse after he fondled his 5-year-old 
stepdaughter on two 
different occasions. He also had an 
outstanding warrant for 
two counts of sexual abuse.
* A 33-year-old man was arrested for 
possession of marijuana, 
possession of methamphetamines and possession 
of drug 
paraphernalia after being contacted in a 
dumpster in the 1200 
block of N. Scottsdale Road. The man also had 
an outstanding 
warrant for failure to appear on a driving 
under the influence 
of alcohol charge.
* A 34-year-old man was arrested for theft of 
a motor vehicle 
and theft of a bicycle after police contacted 
him for stealing 
gas from another vehicle. They then discovered 
he was driving 
a stolen truck with a stolen bike in the back 
of it.
Compiled by State Press reporter Greg Zemeida

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* ACEI: Association for Childhood Education 
International - 
Introduction and membership information. 
Welcoming all 
students interested in early childhood through 
adolescence 
education. 3:30 p.m.; Payne Building basement, 
student 
lounge.
* AIESEC - General meeting, now on Wednesdays. 
Learn 
what the world's largest student organization 
can offer you. 4 
p.m.; BA 59, basement.
* Alcoholics Anonymous - Daily campus meeting. 
Noon to 
1:15 p.m.; Newman Center, Aquinas Hall in the 
basement.
* College of Business - Majors/programs fair. 
Information on 
the business minor, all business majors, 
internships, 
international studies, academic access, career 
services and 
graduate programs. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; College 
of Business 
Dean's Patio, between the two business 
buildings. 
* Eckanker - "Love is the Key." An open 
discussion. For more 
info, call 965-2860. Noon; MU Graham Room.
* Geology Club  - If you missed Monday's 
meeting, here's 
another chance to get in on upcoming events. 
4:45 p.m.; PS F-
Wing, Room 101.
* Hispanic Business Student Association - 
General meeting. 
Guest speaker form Pepsi. All majors welcome. 
3:30 p.m.; BA 
129.
* Literacy Outreach - Bi-monthly meeting. For 
more info, call 
784-8884. 5 p.m.; Palo Verde West, Resource 
Center.
* MUAB Gallery Committee - Open reception. 
Everyone 
welcome. 3-5 p.m.; MU northwest corner, 
Gallery Room.
* MUAB Recreation Committee - Giant Jenga. 
Everyone 
welcome. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Hayden Lawn.
* MUAB Special Events Committee - Meeting. 
Everyone 
welcome. 3:30 p.m.; MU third floor, Conference 
Room 1A.
* NATAS - Executive board meeting. Members 
welcome. 5 
p.m.; Stauffer Hall, Reading Room.
* Native American Business Organization - 
General meeting. 
Guest speaker Stephanie Adams from Andersen 
Consulting. 
Free food. 4:30 p.m.; American Indian 
Institute, Conference 
Room.
* Program for Southeast Asian Studies - Brown 
bag lecture: 
"Thai Women Today - A Personal Prospective,:" 
with Waree 
Sudhides of the history department. 12:40; 
Language and 
Literature, Room C50.
* Rainbow Alliance - Gay and lesbian 
gastronomics. 7:30 
p.m.; MU LaPaz West.
* Recreation Major Student Association - 
General meeting. 3 
p.m.; MU Ventana Room.
* Speech and Hearing Clinic - Free hearing 
screenings during 
Wellness Day. No appointment necessary. See 
our table on 
Hayden Lawn. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Hayden Lawn.
* Student Economics Association - General 
meeting. Loren 
Kirkeide of Salt River Project will speak. 
3:15 p.m.; BA 119.
* Student Health Center and SRC - Wellness 
Day. Health and 
wellness related information, music, food and 
fun. 10 a.m. to 
3 p.m.; Hayden Lawn.
* Student Life Learning Resource Center - Free 
computer 
skills workshops: Microsoft Excel, 10 a.m.; 
Using the Internet, 
1 p.m. SSV 361A.
* Student Life Learning Resource Center - Free 
stress/burnout workshop. 12:40 p.m.; MU Yuma 
Room.
* The Writing Center - Workshop: Critical 
analysis. 1:40-2:30 
p.m.; LL A202.
* Travel and Tourism Student Association - 
Guest speaker: 
Jena Mecham. Topic: Life of a concierge at the 
Wigwam. 3 
p.m.; MU Ventana Room.
* Women's Lesbian and Bisexual Discussion 
Group - Join us 
for our free and ongoing discussion group. 
Topic: Lesbianism 
and bisexuality in the media. 5-6:30 p.m.; MU 
lower level, 
Women's Student Center.