Recall movement launched against ASASU president

By Timothy Tait
State Press
	Although student government President 
Chris Weber 
survived impeachment by the Associated 
Students of ASU 
Senate, a recall campaign that began Thursday 
has brought his 
tenure into question again.
	ASU students Rob Gresser and Kevin 
Bielfelt 
initiated a recall campaign against Weber, who 
has been 
arrested twice in the past three weeks.
	"I don't think he's suited for the job," 
Bielfelt said. 
"I'm just one man, pissed off."
	Weber said he is not surprised that a 
recall drive has 
been initiated, but refused to comment on what 
he believes his 
chances are of surviving a recall election.
	"Recall is a simple process to initiate," 
Weber said. 
"It is not that difficult to get signatures."
	According to Becca Stout, ASASU 
coordinator, five 
individuals had inquired about recall 
petitions as of Thursday.
	On Tuesday, the Senate fell short of the 
required 18 
votes to convict Weber of the Articles of 
Impeachment.
	Bielfelt collected nearly 200 signatures 
in 45 minutes 
outside the Memorial Union Thursday, but all 
of them are 
invalid because they were not on the proper 
form. Gresser 
developed appropriate recall petitions in 
accordance with 
ASASU bylaws and planned to re-collect the 
invalidated 
signatures.
	"What (Weber) did is not what the 
president of the 
Association should do," said Adrienne Moyer, 
an undeclared 
freshman who signed the petition. "I don't 
want him 
representing me."
	Bielfelt and Gresser lead a group called 
Students for 
the Creation of Responsible and Accountable 
Politicians. 
	According to a statement released by 
SCRAP, the 
group is moving forward with the recall 
because the Senate 
failed to represent the students.
	"It is with great sadness that we 
announce the 
formation of a group to lead a recall against 
President Chris 
Weber," the statement read. "President Weber 
has done 
nothing more than thumb his nose to the wishes 
of the student 
body." 
	According to ASASU bylaws, 2,102 student 
signatures are needed to hold a recall 
election. A minimum of 
750 votes, or three-fourths of the votes cast 
in the last ASASU 
election, need to be cast for the recall 
election to be valid. A 
simple majority is needed for Weber to be 
removed from 
office.
	Weber, however, said he won't be effected 
by the 
drive.
	"I will continue to do the job that I was 
elected to 
do," he said.
	According to College of Liberal Arts Sen. 
Alex 
Shivers, former ASASU elections coordinator, 
the advantage 
in a recall election would lie with the target 
of the recall 
because of low voter turnout. However, Shivers 
believes that 
Weber is at a disadvantage in this case 
because of the public 
attention.
	"He should endorse the recall drive and 
campaign 
strongly," Shivers said. "It doesn't make 
sense to block a move 
by the people."
	Government Operations Committee Chairman 
Sen. 
Daren Wastchak, from the Graduate College, 
said the number 
of votes needed to recall Weber is realistic.
	"Considering the numbers ... that is 
pretty scary for 
Chris," he said. "He may have fared better 
against the Senate 
than the student body."
	Bielfelt said he has "no doubt" that he 
will be able to 
collect the required signatures.
	Gresser agreed that it will not be 
difficult to collect 
the signatures, even with Weber's fraternity 
ties.
	"I've seen a lot of fraternity members up 
in arms," 
Gresser said. "Chris is perpetuating the 'frat 
brat' image."
	Sen. Sanjay Vidyadaran of the College of 
Law said 
he is pleased that students have started a 
recall drive.
	"I'm glad that students are coming 
forward," he said. 
"This is the ultimate will of the students. He 
(Weber) doesn't 
stand a chance."
	Bielfelt, a senior religious studies 
major, said he is 
disappointed Weber did not resign after his 
second arrest for 
disorderly conduct at Palo Verde Main on Oct. 
9.
	"Chris Weber let me down by not 
resigning," he said. 
"It should have never made it to the Senate.
	"The fact that he got arrested the second 
time for 
behavior that is unacceptable on campus, with 
alcohol 
involved, is just too much," Gresser added.
	Christian Lentz, a sophomore aerospace 
engineering 
major, said he supports the petition.
	"I think what he is doing is not what the 
president 
should be doing," Lentz said. "It gives the 
school a bad image 
and shows me that he is immature." 
	However, Bielfelt said he is not 
disappointed with the 
Senate's vote not to convict Weber of the 
Articles of 
Impeachment. Bielfelt said the vote may have 
had a different 
outcome if more students expressed opinions 
with their 
senator.
	"The Senate did the best it could," he 
said. "The fact 
that it made it into the Senate is pretty 
embarrassing."
	Bielfelt sent a message to Weber on 
Wednesday 
informing him of the recall effort and giving 
him the option to 
resign. Weber did not reply to the message.
	"He should resign," Bielfelt said. "I 
couldn't imagine 
having a recall hanging over my head."
	Weber, however, remained confident.
	"Most students are intelligent (enough) 
to see through 
the media hype," he said.
	Senators who voted to convict Weber 
welcomed the 
news of the recall effort.
	"There are a lot of happy faces on the 
third floor 
(ASASU office) today," Shivers said.

Tempe considers modern meters to free up parking

By Angela Mull
State Press
	A solution to scarce parking in downtown 
Tempe 
may free up spaces but would cost drivers more 
money.
	Only 114 meters along the streets are 
currently 
metered. However, Downtown Tempe Community 
Inc., a 
business management group, is proposing to add 
meters to 855 
spaces in parking lots, which would include 
lots at city 
buildings, Sixth Street and Myrtle Avenue and 
Fourth Street 
and Mill Avenue. 
	The lot spaces, which are now free for 
two hours, 
would be available all day but for an 
undetermined cost. 
Tempe currently charges 50 cents-per-hour for 
on-street 
spaces. 
	Rodney Keeling, executive director of 
DTC, said the 
additional meters are a solution to poor 
parking turnover, 
which causes spaces to remain full for too 
long. In addition, he 
said a two-hour lot limit prevents customers 
from spending a 
prolonged amount of time in downtown Tempe. 
	"In certain periods you have to drive 
around and 
around and you may not even find a spot to 
park," he said. 
"The whole purpose of pay parking is to get 
people to use it 
more efficiently." 
	But freshman telecommunications major 
Miguel 
Crisantes said the spaces should be free.
	"I'm with the starving student theory," 
he said. "I try 
to avoid the ones I have to pay (for) as much 
as possible."
	The proposal will be reviewed by a Tempe 
City 
Council subcommittee. If approved by the 
council, only 40 
meters would be used for all of the 969 on-
street and lot 
spaces. Each street block would have one meter 
with one or 
two  meters in each lot, Keeling said. Each 
space would have a 
number to enter into the meter. Lot meters 
would issue 
coupons for an hour or more of free parking.
	The meters are scheduled to be tested in 
December 
and could be installed as early as spring, 
Keeling said, adding 
that the plan is flexible.
	Keeling said one advantage to the new 
meters is that 
drivers can pay with bills and credit cards. 
Graduate student 
Nancy Osborne said the additional payment 
methods would be 
helpful.
	"I never have quarters," she said. 
	But Crisantes said credit cards would be 
horrible.
	"I can't even imagine what would happen 
if I started 
charging parking," he said.

Mangled truck graphic symbol of cost of driving drunk

By Kelly Wendel
State Press
	Joe Middleton doesn't need to say much.
	The mangled hunk of twisted metal that 
used to be 
his only daughter's truck speaks volumes about 
the carnage 
created by one drunk driver.
	The small, blue Datsun, which was 
carrying 20-year-
old Sherri Middleton and two co-workers home 
from work in 
Phoenix on the morning of Dec. 2, 1984, was 
struck head-on 
by a drunk driver who swerved across five 
lanes of traffic at 
80 mph. All three people in the truck were 
killed.
	The truck's wreckage, located on Cady 
Mall next to 
the Memorial Union, is one of the displays for 
Alcohol 
Awareness Week. Today is the last day the 
truck will be on 
campus.
	Middleton said he knows getting up on a 
soap box 
and preaching won't do much good.
	"I don't delude myself into thinking that 
something I 
say is going to magically work a miracle in 
your life," 
Middleton said, "but my hope is that something 
you have 
heard or seen today will be instrumental in 
causing you to 
formulate a decision that will prolong your 
life."
	While Middleton and his wife, Sula, do 
hand out 
surveys to gauge people's reaction to the 
display, the impact of 
the mangled vehicle was clear.
	"If people aren't getting a message 
(about drinking 
and driving) from this truck, they must be 
pretty oblivious," 
said sophomore Michelle Massanet. "That is 
really a truck, 
and people really did die. It wasn't something 
that was set up 
for a lecture or some lesson. It was something 
that really 
happened, and it happened in Phoenix."
	Last year, Middleton took his message 
against 
drinking and driving to more than 98,000 
people statewide, 
and it appears that their efforts, combined 
with other activists, 
may finally be making an impact.
	The National Highway Transportation 
Safety Board 
reported a "sharp drop" in alcohol-related 
deaths during l994. 
According to the NHTSB, alcohol was involved 
in 40.8 
percent of the fatalities in l994, compared 
with 43.5 percent in 
l993.
	Although the fatality rate for drunk 
drivers is at its 
lowest in 10 years, "motor vehicle death due 
to drunk drivers 
is largely a preventable, unnecessary 
epidemic," said  Dr. 
Ricardo Martinez, a NHTSB administrator. 
	"There are still too many drivers who 
behave as if 
they have a license to kill. They drive too 
fast, drive drunk and 
endanger themselves and others," he said. 
	In l993, more than 17,000 people died 
because of 
alcohol-related accidents - a rate of one 
death every 30 
minutes.
	The mangled remains of Sherri's truck, 
along with the 
other displays, help put a face to those 
numbers.
	"Most of the time, you see the 
statistics, and people 
dismiss them without thinking about the people 
behind those 
statistics," said sophomore Angela Brown. 
"This could happen 
to anybody."

Hammered on Hayden: 9 learn sober facts on alcohol

By Kelly Wendel
State Press
	Sure, college life is supposed to be fun. 
And with all 
the activities and parties, it is almost a 
given that college 
students will be drinking. 
	And it's all in the name of fun and 
games.  
	It's fun, that is, until you blow a .12 
on a police 
breathalyzer when you are fortunate enough to 
be pulled over 
before your car slams into something - or 
someone.
	In l993, more than 17,000 people were not 
so 
fortunate.
	That fact was hammered home to me and 
about eight 
other ASU students Thursday as we took a field 
sobriety test 
conducted by the Student Health Center and the 
ASU 
Department of Public Services on Hayden Lawn.
	The testing, which continues today, 
demonstrated the 
effects of alcohol on the human body. 
Participants drank as 
much beer as they cared to in a one-hour 
period, and then took 
a breathalyzer and field sobriety test.
	I am no angel, and when Jim Ruben, a 
counselor for 
Student Health Services, invited me to 
participate in the field 
sobriety testing, I thought, "Yeah, let's go 
get wasted on 
Hayden Lawn."
	But as I popped my second beer, the 
displays, 
lectures and lessons of the Alcohol Awareness 
Week came 
flooding back to my mind.
	I thought about all the tragedy that 
drunk drivers sow 
when they get behind the wheel of a vehicle.
	I thought about all the parents, 
grandparents, 
brothers, sisters and other family members 
effected when a 
drunk driver turns the ignition key.
	I thought about the hundreds of thousands 
of people 
killed by drunk drivers over the years.
	And I thought about Sherri Middleton, and 
how her 
life was crushed by a drunk driver in 1984.
	All of a sudden, getting drunk wasn't as 
fun, nor will 
ever be as fun, as it was before.
	"We can only pause and wonder and 
speculate when 
our young people are taken needlessly," said 
Joe Middleton, a 
local anti-drunk-driving activist. "How much 
is society set in 
arrears? Have we lost another Einstein? Have 
we lost another 
Jonas Salk?"

President Coor defends ASU affirmative action

By David Kovacs
and Christina Bailey
State Press
	ASU President Lattie Coor reaffirmed 
ASU's 
commitment to continuing race-based financial 
assistance and 
developing diversity in response to the 
Arizona Board of 
Regents' debate over the validity of 
affirmative-action 
scholarships.
	"If you listen to the critics of these 
programs, what 
they are describing is not what we're doing," 
Coor said 
Thursday. "What we're doing is legal and 
effective; it is not 
being done in a way that deprives others." 
	Coor said he does not support Regent John 
Munger's 
proposal to eliminate race-based scholarships.
	"My belief is that they (the affirmative-
action 
programs) are legal today," he said, "that 
they are functional 
today, and while we'll engage in whatever 
discussion people 
want, we'll continue to use them until or 
unless there is some 
reason we are shown specifically why we can't 
use them."
	Diversity is a key component to the 
success and 
growth of the campus community, Coor said. 
While other 
universities take steps to eliminate 
affirmative-action policies, 
ASU has taken a different outlook, he said, 
adding they want 
to further develop the programs already in 
place.
	The ABOR set three goals for Arizona 
universities in 
1988 to increase enrollment and graduation 
rates of minority 
students. Through ASU's commitment policy, the 
University 
has met the first two goals by increasing the 
minority 
enrollment rate by 10 percent. ASU is now 
focusing on the 
third goal, which is to reduce the difference 
between the non-
minority and minority graduation rates by 50 
percent within 10 
years.
	"I feel what we have done today has stood 
the test of 
time," Coor said. "It has worked and we must 
not only 
continue what we are doing now but we have to 
be energetic 
in looking towards additional ways to increase 
the diversity at 
this University in the next five years."
	Coor also said his goal is to not only 
continue 
affirmative action at the University but to 
also expand it.
	"I know that I have critics, but I have 
yet to hear a 
critic that has shown us anything other than 
the fact that these 
programs have worked," Coor said. "I don't 
think just 
continuing what we have is good enough, the 
question is how 
we take what we have developed and continue to 
strengthen."
	Coor has also implemented the Campus 
Environment 
Team, which has received national acclaim. 
With the help of 
the CET, ASU has tried to stay abreast of the 
issues and 
concerns of the community at large and has 
tried to keep the 
lines of communication open to all, he said.
	Students should take an active role in 
helping the 
CET and the University through open discussion 
about how to 
resolve issues the student community faces, 
Coor added.

Tempe employees join in AIDS Walk fundraiser

By Angela Mull
State Press
	The 8th Annual AIDS Walk is not a race, 
but Tempe 
employee Tad Kern figures he might be passed 
up - by his 
three-year-old daughter, Kaleigh.
	"(Last year) she mostly slept and I had 
to carry her 
and push her in a stroller, but she'll be 
walking this year," he 
said. "She might even beat me."
	Kern, a court services supervisor with 
the Tempe 
Municipal Court, is participating in the 4.5-
mile walk at 
9 a.m. Sunday in Patriot's Square in Phoenix. 
Money collected 
from pledges will go to 18 AIDS agencies. 
About 3,500 
people are registered for the walk so far, 
said Tim Dodds, an 
AIDS Walk staff member. Last year 1,500 
participants raised 
about $200,000, he said. 
	Leading the city of Tempe's delegation of 
about 28 
employees is Vice Mayor Dennis Cahill. 
	"I feel very strongly about AIDS," he 
said of his 
decision to participate in Tempe's second 
delegation. "I also 
feel very strongly about bigotry, and I think 
the AIDS issue is 
tied up in the larger issue of bigotry. I 
don't like to see that." 
	Tempe employees are showing their support 
for the 
AIDS Walk because the city is community-
oriented, said John 
Greco, a court administrator with the 
Municipal Court. 
	People interested in participating in the 
walk can call 
596-6786 or register at the walk at 7 a.m.

Editorial: Boos & Bravos

	BOO - To the 10 Associated Students of 
ASU Senate 
members that voted to keep President Chris 
Weber in office.
	You had a chance to restore student faith 
in your 
organization - and you turned around and 
slapped the 
student body in the face.
	ASASU Vice Presidents Andrea Van Bemmel 
and 
Marc Wendell can argue all they want that 
their respective 
offices have been unaffected by Weber's 
arrests. That's not 
the issue here.
	The issue is credibility. How can you 
possibly expect 
students to take you seriously when you let 
your chief 
executive remain in office after two arrests?
	You screwed up. It is painfully obvious 
that many on 
the Third Floor could care less about what 
students think.

BRAVO - To the 13 ASASU senators who voted for 
Weber's 
removal.
	Though we are disappointed that the right 
thing was 
not done on Tuesday, we are heartened to see 
that the 
majority of the Senate stood up against this 
travesty.
	Thank you, senators.

BRAVO - To the initiation of a recall effort 
against Weber.
	It is clear that the Senate isn't going 
to listen to 
students on this one. The student body is left 
with  no 
recourse other than to take matters into its 
own hands.
	Hopefully ASU will be able to shake free 
of its 
legendary apathy long enough to rise up and 
give Weber the 
boot.

BOO - To the fact that Cleveland and Atlanta 
are matching 
up in the World Series.
	No, we don't have anything against either 
team. But 
the fact that the teams are named the 
"Indians" and the 
"Braves" seems kind of out of place in the 
1990s.
	Teams named after ethnic groups, it is 
safe to say, 
have no place today. There are a million 
alternative names 
that could be used that would not be insulting 
or racist in 
tone. Tradition is no reason to continue to 
keep names like 
the "Braves" the "Indians" or, worst of all, 
the "Redskins."
	Remember, slavery was part of the South's 
tradition 
for a long time, too. Just because something 
is tradition 
doesn't make it right.

BOO - To all of the distraction surrounding 
the aftermath of 
the Million Man March.
	We've rarely seen racial issues that so 
many people 
agreed on. Self-determination, self-respect 
and an end to 
violence are issues that everyone - regardless 
of race - 
supports.
	So why has this been turned into yet 
another "us 
against them" tirade?
	Why does the media play up the "racial 
divide" in 
connection with the march, rather than 
focusing on issues 
everyone can agree on?
	Why does Louis Farrakhan spew venom at 
the "racist" 
head count, rather than trying to heal racial 
divisions and 
promote peace, understanding and unity?
	This march had a very positive message, 
and offered 
great hope for the future. Unfortunately, too 
many people 
are doing their best to screw it up.

BRAVO - To the Walk of Life, taking place this 
weekend in 
downtown Phoenix.
	AIDS still remains a silent killer in our 
community, 
even if we don't think about it all of the 
time. The Walk will 
not only serve to help out AIDS charities in 
the Valley, it will 
also hopefully remind us of the victims of 
this horrible 
disease - and give us the wisdom to prevent 
ourselves from 
falling prey to it next.

Column: Students urged to take action against racism

Charles Calleros
Guest Columnist
	In President Coor's statements reported 
in Insight and 
the State Press, he leaves no doubt about the 
University's stand 
regarding the diversity that is such an 
essential part for the 
soul and character of this campus. In turn, 
each of us must 
leave no doubt about our own commitment.
	It's time to make a difference. The 
racial divide in our 
country seems to have widened over the past 
year. Racism 
within the L.A.P.D., anti-Semitic rhetoric, 
varying reactions to 
the O.J. Simpson verdict and debates over 
immigration and 
affirmative action are testing the 
cohesiveness of our 
pluralistic society. In pockets of our 
society, the strain may be 
too great, and debate and disagreement may 
turn to 
misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility.
	But we have an opportunity to set a 
better example. 
As members of a diverse academic community 
dedicated to 
learning and communication, we are uniquely 
situated to rise 
above the mistrust and hostility and to show 
the community at 
large the way to greater understanding.
	Few can deny that personal 
characteristics such as 
race, gender, sexual orientation and 
disabilities help shape the 
way that we experience our world. Because of 
that reality, our 
perspectives will often clash. Nonetheless, 
the more we 
communicate and share those experiences, the 
more we can 
hope to bridge our differences and reach 
cooperative solutions. 
With that hope, the Campus Environment Team is 
initiating 
two projects.
	First, the Campus Environment Team will 
award a 
grant of up to $5,000 for one or more projects 
designed to 
promote such communication, cooperation and 
collaboration 
among diverse groups on campus. For 
information, call Ana 
Virgillo at 965-4840. Secondly, the CET will 
host a Town 
Hall Meeting featuring Lattie Coor and other 
campus leaders 
Nov. 13 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The meeting, 
in the 
Memorial Union, Room 207, will provide an 
opportunity to 
discuss these issues and perhaps diffuse some 
tensions.
	But such projects can only be the tip of 
the iceberg, 
only a stimulus for a broader, grassroots 
movement on campus 
toward greater understanding. If each one who 
reads this letter 
takes a tiny step toward that goal, we could 
literally transform 
the campus overnight.
	Make a difference. This week, find some 
opportunity 
to bridge the gap. Maybe your student 
organization can stage 
some project or event with another 
organization whose 
membership reflects different experiences or 
perspectives. 
Maybe you will simply find an opportunity to 
smile or say an 
encouraging word in circumstances in which you 
might 
otherwise have looked away or made a derisive 
comment. 
Maybe you're one of the few who is capable of 
a truly hostile 
act of vandalism or worse, and you will decide 
instead to vent 
your feelings in a more constructive way, such 
as by talking 
with a friend, counselor, supervisor or 
residence advisor. If 
you find one such opportunity this week, try 
it again next 
week; then make it a habit.
	When Martin Luther King helped lead the 
civil rights 
movement in the early 60s, I was too young to 
be aware of the 
magnitude of the problems our society faced or 
to comprehend 
the quality of the transformation our society 
was undergoing. I 
now regret my lack of awareness, my inability 
at the time to 
appreciate the excitement and sacrifice of the 
moment.
	But we needn't express the same regret 20 
years from 
now when we ask ourselves how we responded to 
the tensions 
and divisions that have become so sharply 
defined in 1995. 
We're in college. We're aware, mature and 
capable of acting to 
make a difference.
	Just do it. Make a difference.

Charles Calleros is the chair of the Campus 
Environment 
Team.

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Barring dorm guests good idea

	I, too, can see the "undeniable truth" 
that you use to 
open your Oct. 18th editorial - the fact that 
ASU students are 
getting the shaft in respect to just about 
anything having to do 
with the Super Bowl.  
	The big game, by taking place on our 
campus, affects 
us more directly and more drastically than any 
other 
population in the state of Arizona. We are the 
ones who have 
to adjust our schedules, deal with remote 
parking spaces and 
loss of two days of class that we are paying 
tuition for, pray 
that our ASASU president doesn't commit a 
felony and put up 
with countless other "inconveniences" just 
because the world 
is watching.
	For those of us that not only take 
classes on campus, 
but live here too, the Super Bowl is an 
especially volatile 
situation. ASU's residence halls (the north 
campus ones in 
particular) are prime real estate. The best of 
the best. You 
could say that for once, people actually want 
to stay in them. 
And everyone knows how it is when people want 
something -- 
that item, person or concept (in this case, 
close digs to the 
sporting event of the year) has to be 
protected. That's why they 
put gold in Fort Knox. That's why they put the 
pope behind 
bullet-proof glass. Society knows that those 
valuable things 
are off-limits, yet some members of society 
still insist on 
attempting to gain access. It's the law of 
supply and demand.
	Logically, as a resident of a north 
campus hall, I 
should be a little bit nervous. We've got the 
supply, and the 
demand will be in full-force in the days 
preceding Jan. 28th. 
That's been on my mind a lot lately. During 
the regular part of 
the year, security in our hall is provided by 
our over-worked, 
under-paid resident assistants - and they do a 
pretty good job. 
They have the training to take care of most 
student situtations. 
But RAs are just people. There's no way that 
an unassisted 
residence hall staff could handle the 
potentially dangerous 
situations that might arise with thousands of 
people wanting to 
be where the residents are. 
	That's why I am relieved to learn that 
Residential Life 
has enacted the policy barring guests from the 
halls for the 
week preceding the game. There's no need to 
contest that 
having overnight guests will put unnecessary 
strain on the 
facilities - most halls are bursting at the 
seams anyway. So I 
won't even address it. But as a resident, I 
also agree with their 
decision to restrict access to the rooms. By 
making sure that 
the only people in the buildings are people 
that are supposed to 
be there, Residential Life is doing a pro-
active job of 
enhancing security.
	This is my home. It's not just a place 
that I stay when 
I'm taking classes. I don't want to be 
outnumbered by strangers 
in my own home. I don't want to be afraid to 
walk down the 
hall because Room 223's alcoholic Uncle Larry 
decided to 
stop by for a few hours and start a four-day 
early tailgate party 
with the rest of his crew. I don't want to get 
stuck in a broken 
elevator because Grandma and Grandpa came over 
early 
Sunday morning with their fully-stocked 
coolers, team 
pennants, seat cushions, blankets and cameras 
and overloaded 
the thing. Likewise, I don't want to slip on 
the puke of some 
other student in the stairwell because she got 
past the front 
desk with a Biology book in her hand and a 
fifth of vodka in 
her backpack. Controlling access to the 
buildings at a time 
when so many people are looking for an excuse 
to raise a little 
ruckus can only be good for the residents.
	Bravo to Residential Life for doing their 
job - 
keeping us safe. Kudos also to the RAs, who 
will undoubtedly 
be working longer shifts for little or no 
renumeration. And a 
special thank you to the Campus Security 
Agents, DPS 
officers and volunteers who will be around 
during the Super 
Bowl to make sure that my happy home stays 
that way.

Kimberly Walters
Junior
Broadcasting

Letter: All-male military school no preparation for reality

	As an Army officer and college student I 
have 
followed with great interest the efforts of 
the Citadel and 
Virginia Military Institute to remain all-male 
institutions. The 
question I would ask is: what is the benefit 
of an all-male 
military education in a country where its 
graduates will, 
without exception, be required to lead and 
follow female 
soldiers?
	The fact that only three of the branches 
of the Army 
(infantry, armor and artillery) are not open 
to female officers 
suggests that the majority of the graduates of 
any 
commissioning program will soon have to 
function in a 
sexually integrated atmosphere.  
	I would suggest that it is to the benefit 
of the cadets 
to learn to lead in an environment more 
closely resembling 
that in which they will serve as officers. As 
a Captain of 
Armor with 14 years of service, I have served 
with some 
excellent officers, both male and female. 
	Without exception, those officers' 
performance was a 
product of their inherent determination, 
integrity, selflessness 
and intelligence. These traits, the ones that 
really matter, are 
recognized and cultivated every day in 
hundreds of high-
quality, demanding and, yes, co-educational 
officer training 
programs around the country. 
	I have served with graduates of both the 
Citadel and 
VMI, but I have yet to serve with an officer 
who has 
impressed his superiors or subordinates with 
any qualities 
unique to an all-male military education.

Jeffrey Galliher
Law

Ninth-ranked volleyball to take on No. 5 Cougars

By Dawn Wagner
State Press	
	It's payback time.
	After losing at home to Washington and 
Washington 
State earlier this season, the ASU volleyball 
team is ready for 
revenge, according to freshman Jen Lucero.
	"They got us at our place and we're going 
to get them 
at theirs," she said. 
	The No. 9 Sun Devils will get their 
chance at revenge 
tonight when they play the fifth-ranked 
Cougars on the road at 
7 p.m. They will then attack the No. 23 
Huskies Saturday at 7 
p.m.
	Both games will be broadcast on Prime 
Sports 
Northwest on a tape-delayed basis.
	Sophomore outside hitter Terri Cox said 
the two wins 
the Sun Devils secured on the road last 
weekend over 
powerhouses UCLA and USC will also figure into 
the mix 
when they step onto the court.
	"Coming off of two big wins last weekend 
we're 
ready to go and get two sweeps over Washington 
and 
Washington State," she said. "It will be to 
our advantage 
because Washington lost last week and they'll 
be down, and 
Washington State will be underestimating us."
	Cox added that the effort outside of 
competition will 
push the Sun Devils over the edge.
	"We've been practicing really hard 
lately," she said. 
"It's why we had such a great weekend last 
week."
	Even though revenge and two recent wins 
will be 
fueling the Sun Devils, Coach Patti-Snyder 
Park said it's not 
going to be an easy weekend.
	"We need to snatch back the wins, but 
it's going to be 
a lot tougher to do in Washington," she said. 
"Washington 
State is very loud and they get a big crowd. 
We're going into 
some pretty hostile conditions."
	Snyder-Park added that the difference 
between the 
ASU team that lost to the Washington schools a 
month ago 
and now is a drop in repeated errors.
	"Our serving has improved a ton," Snyder-
Park said. 
"We've minimized our errors in attacking. The 
problem was 
they were unforced errors we were committing.
	"That's the difference between now and a 
month ago. 
We've become a much more consistent team.

Cross country takes off
	The ASU women's cross country team will 
run in one 
more meet before it competes in the Pac-10 
Championships 
next week. 
	The women will run in the Canyon West 
Classic in 
Tempe at 9 a.m. Saturday.
	Sophomore Sabina Verbeck and freshman 
Debbie 
Stieber will not run because of leg injuries, 
cross country 
coach Ken Lehman said.
	The men are not running in the meet 
because they are 
saving their legs for the Pac-10 
Championships, Lehman said.
	- Dustin Krugel

Womens golfers head to Stanford
    The ASU women's golf team will participate 
in its third 
tournament of the season this weekend.
	The Sun Devils head to Palo Alto, Calif., 
for the 32nd 
annual Stanford Women's Intercollegiate Golf 
Tournament 
which begins today and ends Sunday. The 
golfers will play 
one round each day in the 54-hole tournament.
    ASU enters the tournament ranked third in 
the country after 
finishing second and first in its first two 
tournaments, 
respectively. The Sun Devils will be one of 17 
teams in the 
tournament, which includes 11 top-25 teams. 
    Coach Linda Vollstedt will stay with the 
same fivesome that 
competed in the first two tournaments. Seniors 
Linda Ericcson 
and Vinny Riviello, sophomore Kellee Booth, 
redshirt-
freshman Keri Cornelius and freshman Jody 
Niemann will 
represent ASU.
From the clubhouse:
* ASU has four players ranked in Golfworld's 
Top 50: Booth, 
Ericsson, Niemann and Riviello.
* ASU won the Stanford Intercollegiate tourney 
last year by 
11 strokes.
* Booth leads ASU with an average score of 
73.33 through 
two tourneys. 
* Booth has two top-five finishes this season, 
while Ericsson 
has one. 
* ASU has placed in the top two in 30 of the 
last 32 
tournaments.
	- Ron Matejko

Ice Devils launch season
	The ASU ice hockey team will start its 
season by 
taking on The University of Colorado in 
Boulder, Colo. The 
Ice Devils will play a two-game series, with 
the match-ups 
taking place tonight and Saturday night. The 
Ice Devils were 
0-2 against Boulder last season, losing 5-2 
and 4-2. Coach 
Gene Hammett and the Ice Devils open the 
season with three 
road games. ASU's home opener is Oct. 28 at 
Oceanside 
Arena in Tempe.
	- Ron Matejko

Men's tennis team hosts annual Sun Devil Challenge

By Dan Miller
State Press
	The pros play seven matches over two 
weeks and call 
it a Grand Slam. The players on the men's 
tennis team will 
play six matches in the next three days and 
call it the Sun 
Devil Challenge. 
	The Sun Devils, along with players from 
UofA, 
Clemson and New Mexico State, are set to begin 
play today at 
1 p.m. at Whiteman Tennis Center. The 
Challenge will be a 
three-flight, round-robin format, with each 
school's entrant 
playing two different opponents each day. The 
weekend 
sessions start at 10 a.m. and admission each 
day is free.
	"What we're looking to get out of it with 
this format 
is the benefit that after every match you can 
learn from what 
you did and what you need to improve upon, 
instead of 
waiting a week to compete again," ASU Coach 
Lou Belken 
said. "It will be very rough physically, but 
there's no better 
way to get into shape for tennis other than 
playing a lot of 
tennis."
	Sun Devil senior Paul Reber, who will 
join 
sophomore Tsolak Gevorkian in the "A" flight, 
said there will 
be five Wildcats, six Lobos and seven Tigers 
in attendance. 
ASU hasn't faced the Tigers since Reber's 
freshman year when 
the Sun Devils beat them in Miami. UofA, 
meanwhile, always 
brings some intrigue to the court. 
	"Anytime you have UofA in town it always 
adds 
some spice," Belken said. "And the Clemson 
program is 
known for its intensity, so I expect to see 
that intensity in their 
players this weekend."
	Senior Dave Critchley and sophomore 
Sergio Elias, 
both off practicing with injuries, will split 
time in the "B" 
flight, along with junior Wolf von Lindenau, 
Belken said.	
	Sophomore walk-on Jesse Smith and 
freshmen walk-
ons Casey Was and Hiroshi Nagoshima will 
represent the Sun 
Devils in the "C" flight. 
	ASU's prized recruit, junior Oscar 
Bustos, will not be 
in action this weekend to preserve his NCAA 
match-date 
allotment.

ASU junior receiver Poole has emerged as Pac- 10 deep threat

By Damian Shaw
State Press
	For junior wide receiver Keith Poole, 
gaining 1,000 
career yards earlier this season wasn't 
necessarily a matter of 
hard work or natural athletic prowess. For 
Poole, it was just a 
matter of time. 
	"I've been here for three years, so I'd 
better have 
1,000 yards," Poole said. 
	If Poole doesn't watch out, though, he'll 
probably 
wind up with 2,000 yards before he's finished. 
Poole has 34 
catches this season for 639 yards, and 
although he just reached 
the 1,000-yard mark a month ago, Poole has 
1,427 yards in his 
career. 
	According to Head Coach Bruce Snyder, 
it's Poole's 
touchdowns, not his yards, that makes him such 
a potent 
offensive weapon. 
	"Keith Poole changes the scoreboard for 
us," Snyder 
said. "As a direct result of Keith, we score 
more points."
	Opposing teams have learned to double-
team Poole, 
slowing him somewhat in the touchdown 
category. But three 
of his five touchdowns this year came against 
one of the 
nation's best defense's in No. 1-ranked 
Nebraska.
	Poole, however, was quick to give credit 
for his 
individual successes to the rest of the team. 
	"Jake (Plummer) and the offense, I owe a 
lot to 
them," Poole said. "Jake's got to get me the 
ball and they've 
got to get Jake time, so they help out a lot."
	Plummer, the junior quarterback for the 
Sun Devils, 
gave Poole credit for being an asset to the 
offense. 
	"He's a big play guy," Plummer said. "He 
just goes 
out and makes things happen. He gets the ball 
in his hands and 
he just scores TDs, which is what we need on 
offense."  
	Several teams that ASU has faced this 
year created a 
defensive game plan specifically to stop 
Poole. Against BYU, 
Poole was only able to pull in three passes, 
but one of them, a 
47-yard grab off the top of a Cougar 
defender's helmet, was 
the clutch play that sustained the winning 
drive. 
	While teams are giving Poole the respect 
he deserves, 
some are still guilty of underestimating the 
speed of the 
21-year-old. 
	"I think that they do a little bit," 
Poole said. "I don't 
know why. I guess they look  at me and I 
really don't look like 
a fast football player, but that's fine with 
me."
	Plummer agreed. 
	"A lot of teams hear that he has 
deceiving speed," 
Plummer said. "But I don't think they see it 
until they're out 
there. He outruns people that I think normally 
would catch 
him. He's just a game player. He just turns it 
up a notch when 
he's in a big game and out on the field."
	Last year Poole was the only Pac-10 
receiver to 
average over 20 yards per catch. He's not too 
far off this 
season, with an average of 18.8 yards per grab 
so far. With 
competition of the likes of USC's Keyshawn 
Johnson and 
UCLA's Kevin Jordan, you might call Poole an 
underdog, but 
that's all right with Poole, who has always 
been a fan of the 
underdog. 
	Poole was recruited  by several other 
universities, but 
he said ASU had everything he was looking for 
when it came 
time to choose a school. 
	"I took my trip here, they had great 
facilities, the 
weather, the girls (and) the coaching staff 
and their way of 
playing football," Poole said. "I was 
recruited by bigger 
schools and better schools that were ranked, 
but I've always 
kind of liked the underdog."
	Keith and his older brother Marc have 
been the 
subject of several profiles this year, 
including a piece on ESPN 
earlier this season. Marc is confined to a 
wheelchair because 
of a car accident in high school.  
	Poole's father, Will, owns the family 
construction 
business, which operates in several western 
states. Keith said 
he and Marc will be ready to take over the 
business as long as 
the NFL doesn't get in the way. 
	"I'm preparing right now for life after 
football," said 
Poole, who is majoring in family resources and 
human 
development. "If football isn't there, then 
I've prepared for 
other careers."

ASU police reported the following incidents 
Thursday:
* A male student was contacted at Parking 
Structure 5 while 
interfering with the impoundment of his 
vehicle. He was 
advised of proper procedures to obtain release 
of his vehicle 
and left the area.
* Someone stole a male student's car while it 
was parked in 
Lot 59. It is a cream-colored 1985 Buick 
Sentry with Arizona 
license LZX 278.
* One bicycle was reported stolen. 
Tempe police reported the following incidents 
Thursday:
* A 30-year-old woman was arrested for 
prostitution, indecent 
exposure and possession of drug paraphernalia 
after 
propositioning an undercover officer. The 
officer picked the 
woman up at Apache Boulevard and McClintock 
Drive. She 
exposed her breasts to the officer and told 
him it would cost 
$20 for "head" and $40 for sex. Police later 
searched her and 
found a crack pipe and scale.
* A 45-year-old woman was arrested for 
prostitution, indecent 
exposure and possession of narcotic drugs 
after propositioning 
an undercover officer. She exposed her breasts 
to the officer 
and told him she would do any sex act he 
desired for $60. She 
then took him to a location near Fifth Street 
and Hardy Drive, 
where she bought two "rocks" of crack cocaine 
and gave it to 
the officer.
Compiled by State Press reporter Greg Zemeida

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* Alcoholics Anonymous - Daily campus meeting. 
Noon to 
1:15 p.m.; Newman Center, Aquinas Hall in the 
basement.
* Arizona Horizon Project - Weekly meeting for 
electric car 
and solar powered race car design teams. 2:45 
p.m.; Goldwater 
Center, Room 308.
* ASASU/CHAC - General meeting to discuss t-
shirts, 
posters, blood drives, haunted union, AIDS 
walk and 
homecoming. 2:45 p.m.; Hayden Lawn.
* Asian Bible Fellowship  - Join us for 
sharing, singing, Bible 
study and fellowship. 7 p.m.; MU Coconino 
Room.
* Asian Students Association - Pizza and subs 
at Daley Park 
after the meeting. 3 p.m.; MU Room 224.
* Farce Side Comedy Hour - ASU's finest sketch 
comedy. 
Bring you lunch and enjoy the show. 12:40 
p.m.; MU 
Programming Lounge.
* Recreation Majors Student Association - 
Faculty versus 
students softball game. Bring your gloves. 9 
a.m.; Papago 
Park, Curry Road and College Street.
* Student Life Learning Resource Center - Free 
computer 
skills workshop: Advanced Word Perfect. Open 
to all students. 
10 a.m.; SSV 361A.
* University Blood Services - ASU v. UofA 
Blood Drive 
Challenge. 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; Cady Mall and 
Tyler Mall.

Ongoing:
* Counseling Training Center - Free counseling 
available to 
ASU students and staff. Call 965-5067 for more 
information 
or for an appointment.