ASU fighting new century computer dilema

By Ben Leatherman
State Press
	Arizona officials are trying to beat the clock by 
recommending a $15 million allocation in the 1998 budget to 
address the growing concern over the "Year 2000 Problem."
	Most computers worldwide using programs with dates will 
experience difficulty beginning Jan. 1, 2000, because they use two 
characters to designate the year. But without corrections, some 
software will assume the year is 1900 rather than 2000.
	Statewide, the government's computer dilemma is far from 
solved. To deal with their "Year 2000" woes, officials created the 
Government Information and Technology Agency.
	If approved, the Legislature's budget would set aside 
approximately $12.5 million for Fiscal Year 1998 to help the 
agency fight the glitch.
	Gov. Fife Symington recommends doling out $14.5 
million.
	Neither Gov. Symington's nor the Legislature's budget 
plans provide funds for computer problems at Arizona's colleges or 
universities.
	ASU officials appear to have plenty of breathing room, 
however, even though they have less time to fix the flaw with the 
internal clocks of three campus mainframes. 
	Bill Lewis, vice provost of Information Technology, plans 
to have the problem wrapped up by the end of 1998. 
	The University's "Year 2000" problems will begin the first 
fiscal year of the new century - July 1, 1999.
	The Human Resources System, a software network which 
handles employment information for ASU, is awaiting an upgrade 
from its manufacturer within the next few months. Lewis  
estimated it will be another 12 to 18 months to make the system 
"Year 2000" compliant.
	"It's (handled) under our maintenance contract and it's 
going to be like any other time we (use) any new release of 
software," he explained. "We have to go through a testing process 
and make sure it works."
 	The Financial System, containing budget and payroll 
information, falls into the hands of technicians from American 
Management Systems, Inc., who have been working on the 
mainframe since early September. 
	The firm is also making ASU a guinea pig of sorts, as the 
program being used on the financial area is tested here for use on 
computers nationwide. 
	Lewis said installation will not occur until July because of 
the University's accounting process.
	"Our cost on that - not counting our staff - is in the range of 
$50,000 to $100,000," he said.
	The Student Information System, created by the University 
in the 1970s, is already being reprogrammed by ASU engineers. 
Approximately 20 percent of the system is already converted, but 
Lewis said he expects it to be completely bug-free by the end of 
1998.
	ASU Comptroller Gerry Snyder said any major 
organization has a window of three to four years to fix the defects.
	"If someone is just now considering how they can deal with 
it, they have a major problem," he said.

Move to publish evaluations nears judgment day

By Deanna Darr
State Press
	The faculty evaluations students complete at the end of 
each semester could soon be more than just an emotional release.
	The Academic Senate will decide at the Jan. 27 meeting 
whether the evaluations should be published.
	If the Senate passes the proposal it would not go into effect 
until August 1998.
	Marc Baumgartner, president of the Associated Students of 
ASU, said that a pilot program would be developed for use this fall 
which would help determine how the actual program may 
eventually work.
	Baumgartner said if the proposal passes, the published 
evaluations may either be sold for a minimal price in the student 
bookstore, put on reserve at Hayden Library or put on the Internet 
on the ASU homepage.
	If the Senate fails to pass the proposal, will work on 
alternative ways to get the evaluations published, he added.
	ASASU initiated the move to publish evaluations.
 Autumn Ness, task force coordinator for State Relations for 
ASASU, said there has been a lot of student support, including a 
petition drive to show endorsement of the proposal.
	Baumgartner said publication would benefit both students 
and faculty.
	"They give students firsthand information from their peers," 
he said. "It's beneficial to the faculty in the same way - they can 
see how their teaching is working."
	Academic Senate President Thomas Callarman said he 
supports "anything that provides students with information to make 
decisions."
	"The students feel strongly it will help," said ASU Provost 
Milton Glick, adding that he's not sure how helpful publishing the 
evaluations would be.
	ASU President Lattie Coor said he "strongly supports" the 
move to have evaluations published.
	However, some faculty members have voiced objections to 
the open-ended portion of the evaluation. Faculty members 
complain that students are able to write things that faculty 
members would lose their jobs over if they wrote the same things 
about students.
	Glick said he believes the open-ended section is often the 
most valuable, but added that he opposes publishing those 
comments.
	"One comment from one student who feels strongly on 
something can gain importance (when) taken out of context," he 
said.

Vending machine bandits strike twice in last two weeks

By Melody McDonald
State Press
	Call it a snack attack, but it's not just chips and candy being 
craved.
	Vandals broke into two campus vending machines last 
week, stealing goodies as well as an undetermined amount of 
money. 
	"In any given semester, we have four or five machines 
vandalized," said Debbie Cohen, marketing customer service 
manager of Desert Vending, the company that owns the machines. 
"And I know Coke and Pepsi have had quite a few problems. But 
for them [vending machines] to be vandalized before the first week 
of school is kind of appalling."
	An ASU employee reported the first incident to the ASU 
Police on Jan. 12 noticing several brands of chips were missing 
from a machine that had been restocked days earlier. 
	Police said someone damaged the lock of the machine - 
located in the Community Service Building, 200 E. Curry - then 
took all the money and some snacks.
	The second incident, also reported by a staff employee, 
happened around Jan. 14 in Matthews Center. 
	In that case, someone pried open the machine's lock, 
causing about $100 worth of damage, and then took everything 
except for $30 and two packages of Skittles. That machine had not 
been restocked for at least three weeks.
	Cohen said Desert Vending, which has between 50 and 75 
machines on campus, is still trying to determine the total loss. 
Freshly stocked machines contain between $150 to $200 worth of 
food, while empty machines contain between $200 and $300 in 
money, she said.
	Cohen said removing candy machines from campus would 
be an inconvenience both to the University, which gains a 
commission from the machines, and for students who like the 
machines. 
	"ASU is pretty profitable and vandalism doesn't 
significantly cut into our profits," she said. "But if it got too bad 
something would have to be done."
 	Although police are working closely with vending 
companies to capture the vandals, ASU Chief of Police Lanny 
Standridge said community support is needed.
	"The community has to work together and help us," he said. 
"If they see someone entering the machine that isn't in uniform, at 
least call the police and let us check it out." 

Correction:

	It was incorrectly reported Tuesday that ASU student 
Jessica Sharari would be competing in the Miss America pageant. 
Sharari is a contestant in the Miss USA competition.

Heat detecting device on way to mapping surface of Mars

By Ben Leatherman
State Press
	Calling home just got easier for the Mars Global Surveyor.
	According to NASA's Jan. 17 status report, data from the 
spacecraft was transmitted at approximately 85,000 bits per second 
thanks to the deployment of its high-gain antenna. 
	The Surveyor, which carries ASU-built technology, had 
previously been too close to the sun to use the delicate, 1.5 meter, 
parabolic dish that serves as its main antenna. 
	Flight engineers pointed the antenna toward the earth Jan. 9 
making it easier to transmit data to and from space. Several low-
gain antennae had been used since lift-off in November, but were 
not as effective.
	"The high-gain (uses) a very narrow beam of energy so you 
have to point it directly at the earth," said Greg Mehall, an ASU 
associate professor and Surveyor mission engineer. Mehall 
monitors and controls the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES), a 
heat-detecting device constructed by ASU students and faculty. 
	"(The antenna) uses a higher power signal and you can do 
more data transmission using that," he explained.
	Once in orbit, the TES will be used to measure heat levels 
in Martian minerals with thermal infrared and send back huge 
amounts of data with the high-gain antenna. The information will 
help accomplish the Surveyor's primary mission - to map the 
surface of the Red Planet. 
	NASA researchers got a dry run at using the TES when 
they flipped it on in late November from approximately 10 million 
kilometers away.
	"We rotated the spacecraft back and pointed the instrument 
at the earth to make sure (the TES) was working properly," said 
Mehall. "We took some images and saw some water vapor and 
(carbon dioxide)."
	Mehall, Project Leader Phillip Christensen and the rest of 
the TES team hope to see more when they activate the probe again 
in February. Mehall estimates they will download enough data to 
fill 200 CD's and plans to hire several students to help disseminate 
and compile the data.
	Once that task is done, graduate students such as Steve Ruff 
will compare the TES data with information they have obtained on 
rocks and minerals from Earth in order to determine the 
composition of the Martian surface.
	"Our lab is set up to produce the same type of data the 
(TES) will produce, but we do it with rocks and minerals we can 
look at in the lab," explained Ruff.
	Engineers also spent time last week adjusting other 
instruments on the spacecraft, including calibrating the onboard 
radio transmitter and performing focus checks with the Mars 
Orbiter Camera. Next week, the spacecraft's flight computer will 
activate heaters in the camera to eliminate residual moisture.
	The MGS is one of two spacecraft which ASU has a stake 
in. The Mars Pathfinder, launched Dec. 6, will land July 4 and 
deploy a small rover to explore the surface of the planet.
	The original Mars Observer, containing a forerunner to the 
TES, was lost in 1993 just three days away from the planet.
	Ruff said it was disappointing when the Observer was lost, 
but he cannot wait until the MGS enters orbit.
	"It's something that's too good to be true until it actually 
happens," he admitted.

Leads in rape cases produce little; hope begins to wither

Editor's note: Due to a computer error, part of the following story 
was omitted in the State Press Monday. It is displayed here in its 
entirety. 
By Melody McDonald
State Press
	As time slips away, so does the hope that police will bring 
to justice the men responsible for two rapes and one near-rape on 
campus last semester.
	"We've had numerous leads, and we've worked all leads," 
said ASU Police Sgt. Allen Clark. "Unfortunately, they haven't 
panned out."
	Sgt. Toby Dyas of the Tempe Police Department said 
strangers - who are responsible for two of the three incidents last 
semester - are especially difficult to arrest because the victim may 
be the only person who saw the attacker.
	In late September, a woman was traveling at 3:30 a.m. 
down Spence Avenue toward the Commons Apartments, 1111 E. 
Apache Blvd., when she was pulled off the sidewalk and raped by 
a stranger holding a 3-inch pocket knife.
	Dyas said the stranger - described as a 25 to 28-year-old 
Hispanic male with a thin mustache, 5 feet 10 inches tall and 180 
pounds - may be at large today because police have had to rely 
solely on the victim's description.
	"Any time you are going somewhere, especially late at 
night, go with more than one person and travel a well-lighted 
path," Dyas said.
	Dyas said it's also important for stranger-rape victims to try 
and remember as many details as possible about the suspect, 
especially scars or tattoos.
	Giving a good description still doesn't guarantee  police 
will find the attacker, however. 
	In mid-October, Tanya Massaro, a 25-year-old master's 
students in education, successfully fended off a man who broke 
into Cholla Residence Hall and attempted to rape her while she 
was sleeping. 
	Although she was able to give a good description of her 
attacker - a "clean-cut" white male in his 20s, 5 feet 8 inches tall, 
fair-haired with a goatee - he, too, has not been arrested.
	To safeguard the area, ASU Chief of Police Lanny 
Standridge said sexual assault victims should report the incident 
right away and be willing to prosecute. 
	"We don't want to mislead the public into thinking the 
campus is safe when it isn't É or isn't safe when it is," he said. 
"And, it's important to prosecute individuals to keep others on 
campus from becoming a victim." 
	On Sept. 14, an 18-year-old female student was raped in an 
house on Alpha Drive by an acquaintance. The victim later refused 
to give the suspect's name and press charges.
	Consequently, the case was dropped.
	"If she's not willing to prosecute, there's nothing we can 
do," Standridge said. "We want to respect the victims. But by the 
same token, we feel whoever is responsible should be brought to 
justice."
	Although this date-rape case has been dropped, Standridge 
said the others will remain open until all avenues and leads have 
been exhausted.

SES gives rides, quenches thirst

By Kevin Culwell
State Press
	The Safety Escort Service, hoping to better acquaint itself 
with the student body, is giving away free Pepsi to anyone catching 
a ride with the service this week.
	"Students who don't know much about the service 
sometimes feel awkward about coming to SES. Hopefully, this 
project will help to eliminate that feeling," said Kolby Granville, 
activities vice president of the Associated Students of ASU. 
"Safety is the primary concern here and whatever we can do to get 
students using this service will make the campus a safer place."
	The Pepsi, which is being donated to ASASU, will last 
until Friday, said Keith Menard, Campus Affairs vice president.
	"We don't think we'll run out of our supply 'til the end of 
the week," Menard said. "Although if enough people use the 
service we could conceivably use it all up earlier."
	SES, which has 40 volunteers on staff, operates from 6 p.m. 
until midnight Monday through Friday, escorting students and staff 
around campus.
	"We would ideally like to have around 60 volunteers at a 
given time," said SES Director Matt Rubino. "However, we'll be 
fine with 40 for the time being."
	Students interested in scheduling an escort or volunteering 
can call 965-1515.
	"We just want students to know that SES is here for them 
and not to be afraid to contact us at any time," Menard said.

Women's Studies gets new home

By Sara Bush
State Press
	The Women's Studies program has taken over space in the 
engineering complex. Aeronautical Technology has now moved to 
ASU East campus, clearing way for the Women's Studies to 
expand.
	Women's Studies joined the Religious Studies department 
in the Engineering A-Wing after moving from its former three-
room space in the Social Sciences building.
	"Space is the most precious commodity at ASU," said Mary 
Rothschild, director of the Women's Studies program. "Life will be 
so much easier here than it was before."
	Rothschild said the program's 28 faculty members had been 
working out of a small space with no doors or windows. In the new 
space, Women's Studies faculty have offices. The space also 
features a seminar room, computer lab and a reading room.
	Rothschild said it will be much easier to accommodate the 
70 students currently majoring in Women's Studies.
	"What used to be Aerospace Engineering is the perfect 
space for Women's Studies. The building is really becoming a 
liberal arts undergraduate resource," she said.
	The Aeronautical Technology department moved to ASU 
East in 1996 to use the resources on former Williams Air Force 
Base.
	Women's Studies was able to move into the engineering 
complex because it had top priority for office space, said Vice 
Provost Walter Harris.
	"When we have a reason, we really try to take advantage of 
any open space," he said.
	Harris said the planned construction of a new liberal arts 
building could change the locations of growing liberal arts 
programs such as Women's Studies, but did not know specifically 
how.
	Rothschild said the Women's Studies program will increase 
its use of technology in the classroom now that the department has 
the capability. Also, the program will be able to host guest 
lecturers in the  seminar room.
	Rothschild also said she hopes the building can be re-
named in the future to reflect the nature of the programs now 
located there. She said the Women's Studies program recommends 
naming the building after former ASU professor and social activist 
Naomi Harwood.
	In order to rename the building, the Women's Studies 
program would need to go through a formal appeals process, Harris 
said.

Speeders off hook for 1 month

By Jennifer Netherby
State Press
	Red light-runners will have an extra month before 
experiencing a             "Kodak moment," courtesy of the city of 
Tempe.
	Tempe will move back the kick-off date of its photo radar 
and red light enforcement programs from Feb. 1 to March 18 in 
order to work out any computer problems and get the system on-
line, said Tempe Police Sgt. Will Price.
	"We don't want to have to work the bugs out of the system 
once it's on-line," Price said.
	The program's first month will consist of a warning period. 
Citations will be issued beginning on April 18.
	Running red lights and speeding are the culprits in most 
Tempe traffic accidents, according to police.
	The photo radar aspect consists of two mobile vehicles 
equipped with radar and cameras to catch speeders by taking a 
picture of their license plate number. The city will also install red 
light cameras at two major intersections to snap pictures of red 
light-runners.
	Violators will be sent a citation in the mail.

Editorial: Evals should be made available to students

	As students we are evaluated by our instructors, professors 
and teaching assistants in the form of grades. Many of us feel our 
worth as scholars is dependent on that letter grade. As we compare 
our grades with our friends and acquaintances from the class, we 
tend to rate the instructor and curriculum of the course based on 
the general performance of the class as a whole.
	Sometimes after looking at that C and knowing it could 
have been a high B, or looking at that D, wishing it was a C, we 
use this small humiliation to gather gusto and improve our study 
habits on the next exam or for the following semester. 
	This is what we are told grades are for: to measure our 
performance and monitor our overall knowledge of subject matter. 
They can be a valuable tools to let us know when we are doing 
things well or when we need to refocus our attention.
	In turn we have the opportunity to evaluate our instructors 
at the end of each semester in top-secret highly guarded scan-tron 
form. This process is so sensitive that the instructors must leave the 
classroom while we scribble away and one very lucky student 
volunteers or is chosen to walk this confidential information in a 
manila envelope, sealed with a rope and paper washer, to the 
appropriate departmental headquarters.
	It is great that we are given the opportunity to rate our 
professors, but what really happens to this information? Once the 
student with the manila packet hands it over to the department 
secretary, who sees it? If the professors don't give two hoots to 
glance at the evaluations, then in all likelihood no one who sees 
this will benefit from it.
	As students at this campus we are most interested in what 
other students have to say about our professors. After all, we are 
the direct benefactors of their enthusiastic or their exhausted 
teaching skills. We would rather hear feedback from fellow 
students who were faced with papers and a semester project while 
working, raising a family, volunteering or being active in sports 
and other activities. What good will a course catalog do when it 
comes time to compare the realities of daily life to words printed 
on a page?
	It is not difficult to pick the professors that choose to teach 
because they have interest in the subject matter from those that are 
merely striving for tenure. The best we are able to do for a 
professor from whom we learned is to recommend him or her to 
our friends but one pupil will reach one, maybe two, three or four 
friends. And isn't it your duty to warn your friends about apathetic 
professors who seem to subjectively hand out grades depending on 
the mood of the day?
	The choices we are looking at are to have evaluations on 
reserve in Hayden Library or sold at the bookstore for a nominal 
fee. Of course because reserve requires no money to be put out of 
our already empty pockets, this is the preferred alternative. 
However, the general population on campus will be astounded to 
find how many people are interested enough to pay for the 
published opinions about instructors. 
	We vote that this information be compiled, published and 
made available to the student body. It might be a good kick-in-the-
pants to some professors if they see their name in print with a 
Siskel and Ebert two thumbs down. 

Column: Controversy equal to both parties

	The parallel controversies enveloping Newt Gingrich and 
Bill Clinton demonstrate how partisanship clouds reasoned 
political debate, especially on college campuses.
	Does partisanship cloud your political reasoning? Take this 
simple test: How did you react to the first sentence of this article? 
Was it one of the following:
	1) "Parallel controversies? Give me a break! Gingrich made 
an honest mistake in misunderstanding the complex tax codes, 
while Clinton committed repeated ethical, and possibly legal, 
violations and then attempted to cover them up."
	2) "Parallel controversies? Oh, please! Clinton has been 
pummeled with a non-stop barrage of hearsay and false accusations 
since he declared his candidacy. On the other hand, Gingrich 
knowingly violated the tax code and stole money from needy 
children to fund his imperial aspirations."
	If your reaction was one of the above, then congratulations; 
you made unwarranted assumptions based on your partisan 
loyalties.
	So-called political pundits, including newspaper columnists 
and Sunday morning talking heads, seem to fall along the party 
lines with their speculation regarding distinctly non-partisan issues 
such as sexual harassment. This party-advocacy-in-analysis-
clothing trickles down to sabotage otherwise intelligent debate in 
undergraduate classrooms and on college newspaper opinion 
pages.
While educated speculation is not necessarily harmful, nothing is 
gained by petty partisan name-calling. If you really believe that all 
Democrats are corrupt and no Republican could ever do wrong (or 
vice versa), then you will make a good politician; the corrupt, 
cynical world of politics deserves you, and you deserve it.
	But as college students, we can distinguish ourselves by 
taking the debate to a higher level. We should evaluate each case 
separately, on its merits. Debate should be driven by policy, rather 
than party. 
Certainly, most students ultimately align with one of the major 
political parties. This alignment, however, should be determined by 
which party's platform is most similar to the students' logically 
defensible policy positions. Student journalists, even columnists 
who are permitted to be ideologically biased, have a heightened 
obligation to be logically consistent in their policy 
pronouncements.
	Party flexibility is vital for anyone who hopes to have a 
logically consistent personal platform. If you are a fiscally 
conservative Republican, then Clinton's 1992 victory over George 
Bush, from a policy standpoint, was clearly a blessing. Most loyal 
Republicans refuse to accept this reasoning, of course, since they 
still cling to the deluded fantasy that Clinton is a fiscal liberal. 
	So save the empty partisan rhetoric for your political club 
meetings; let's talk policy for the next 15 weeks. 
Adam Schiffer is a doctoral student in political science. 

Column: Unrealistic standards for girls fosters unhappy population

	I think that we, as a nation and a culture, should stop 
peddling smut to little girls. No, I'm not talking about pornography. 
I am talking about giving impressionable children an image as 
outrageous and unrealistic as anything shown in soft or hard-core 
sex films. This image twists perception, ruins healthy body self-
image, and perpetuates a never to be satisfied desire for material 
gratification. This image can even lead to mutilation and murder.
	Of course I'm talking about Barbie. I haven't flipped, I'm 
just pointing out an ugly influence in our culture, one that has been 
growing for about two generations. 
	Barbie was derived from a risquŽ adult doll made in 
Germany in the 1950s. Rights to the sexpot figure were bought, 
and the concept was sanitized for Baby Boomer American girls. 
Barbie became the ideal of American prosperity, possessing scads 
of fashion clothing, cars and residences. She possessed a vapid 
glamour face, a "perfect" and impossible figure, and was so Aryan 
she almost glowed in her blondness.
	Just paying for Barbie accessories probably led to a lot of 
financial grief for parents these past four decades. It certainly was a 
topic for period comedians to joke about, but it was mostly humor 
with an edge A lot of those comedians were also parents trying to 
keep their families fed and sheltered. Of course, by the 1980's there 
were lots of toys with replicating variations and accessories that 
put kids' desires at war with family financial stability. But Barbie 
led the way.
	Little girls grew up, went to school, got jobs, and had 
daughters of their own to whom they gave Barbies. Hey, we're now 
into the third generation of Barbie girls. Girls whose ideal of being 
"grown up" means a plastic perfection of both material possession 
and bodily proportions. Credit debt in our country is astronomical, 
a lot of it due to many women's desires for the real world versions 
of Barbie's goodies. Sure I admit there are many influences driving 
our crass, materialistic society into financial disaster and I'm 
certainly not letting men off the hook. But Barbie starts with 
impressionable little children and for way too many American little 
girls it becomes the icon of female success and beauty.
	A few years ago, Hollywood tried to produce a Barbie 
movie. The project was abandoned, among the thousands of 
actresses auditioned and not one could match the doll's physical 
proportions. Each year, thousands of women do try to become as 
plastic perfect as Barbie. Breast implant surgery internally 
mutilates women, vastly lessens sensation, and destroys breast-
feeding ability. One Valley surgeon even calls his grotesquely 
monstrous implants "breast care." All too often cosmetic butcheries 
are paid for with credit cards; plastic money pays for plastic 
people.
	Now in Boulder, Colo., a little girl has been murdered. 
JonBenet Ramsey was well on the way to becoming a Barbie. 
JonBenet's mother dressed, made-up and coached her daughter into 
looking and acting like a 25-year-old burlesque strumpet. This was 
done so JonBenet could win the National Tiny Miss Beauty 
Pageant. Probably, Mrs. Ramsey also gave JonBenet the Barbies 
that covered the little girl's bedroom wall. One could safely wager 
that JonBenet would have visited the cosmetic surgeons if her 
natural development would have been less than Barbie-like.
	As I write this, no suspect in the murder has yet been 
announced. However I cannot help but think that the murderer was 
also obsessed by desiring the image of plastic perfection. In being 
dressed up and paraded like a living Barbie, JonBenet was being 
set up to be treated like a plastic one. JonBenet was treated like a 
thing, her body broken beyond repair, now as lifeless as the things 
she was made to copy. I pray for this little girl's soul, who is now 
forever beyond those who confuse image with reality, those who 
confuse being a little girl with being a Barbie.
Robert James Lehnert is a senior studying history.

Column: 30 m party dollars won't buy character

	Thirty million dollars.
	That's what President Bill Clinton's current inauguration 
cost. That may not seem like a lot of money to the political types 
on both sides of the aisle, but to those of us who have to eat beans 
once or twice a week, that buys a lot of frijoles.
	For the 75,000 well-wishers who attended the balls, that's a 
healthy $400 per head (if I did my math right). It works out to 
about the same cost as five million all-you-can-eat buffet dinners. 
Quite the party.
	The faithful weren't expected to pay the whole cost of this 
presidential shindig. There was $9 million in left over funds from 
the last inaugural ball (which one of us could hold on to nine big 
ones for four years?). Suddenly the cost becomes affordable. After 
all the marketing and hype, the cost was only $150 for each reveler 
attending the ball.
	It wouldn't be fair to pick on the parties alone. There were 
bleachers to erect on the parade route (these went for a mere $10 to 
$100 per seat). The committee had to pay for the rental of the 
USAir Arena for the celebrity gala.
	Still, though, the most revealing aspect of this inauguration 
is the fact that is was seen as a money-maker. To increase this 
potential, a record 14 balls were authorized. The television rights, 
which were assigned to a cable shopping channel, were expected to 
generate revenue from souvenirs in excess of $1 million, was the 
haul last time. 
	These excesses in commercialism look especially horrid 
compared to the Jefferson inauguration. He walked back to his 
boarding house to eat lunch with his fellow boarders. Something 
about convictions. He didn't want to appear too aristocratic. Now it 
doesn't matter. Just make a mockery of the presidency in the name 
of making a buck.
	Maybe next election we'll be shopping for our president on 
QVC.  
	"Could I have the $14.99 president, please?"
George D. Rose Sr. is a junior studying public relations and can be 
reached at paparoo@aol.com.

Frieder says lack of experience hurts hoops squad

By Ed Odeven
State Press
	Experience is the best teacher.
	The old adage is one that ASU men's basketball coach Bill 
Frieder believes in. Unfortunately, inexperience is one of the 
dominating traits of the 1996-97 squad.
	After consecutive road losses to USC and UCLA last week,  
it is evident that the Sun Devils (9-8, 1-4 in the Pac-10) are 
struggling.
	"I'm not happy about last weekend," Frieder said at his 
weekly press conference Tuesday. "(We) have eight players that 
can play and five are new. There's no way in the world you can 
simulate what can happen on the road."
	Newcomers Michael Batiste, Eddie House, Ahlon Lewis, 
Urit Kelly and Gee Gervin have all seen significant playing time 
this season.
	"I think we are showing the affects of being a team with 
five new players," Frieder said.
	 Frieder will not throw in the towel just yet.
	"I'm not the type of coach that says you can learn from 
losses," he said. "I think every time you lose it detracts from 
everything. Now we got to take advantage of being back home and 
bounce back and try to get a victory or two."
	The Sun Devils face Pac-10 foe Oregon Thursday night at 7 
p.m. at the University Activity Center. The visiting Oregon State 
Beavers come to Tempe for a 4 p.m. game Saturday.
Pre-season selections
	The Pac-10 media was nearly perfect when it made pre-
season picks at the Oct. 15 Press Day in Los Angeles.
	"I don't think it could be any closer than everybody 
picked," Frieder said with a chuckle. "In fact, if USC wouldn't have 
beaten Arizona last Thursday it would have been exactly the way 
everybody picked it, because everybody picked UCLA, Stanford 
and Arizona in the top tier. Everybody picked ASU and Oregon 
State towards the end."
Rookie  factor
	Frieder compared sophomore forward Michael Batiste's 
impressive debut with that of baseball players he once rooted for.
	"I think Batiste saw the effects of a new player in the 
league," he said. "I used to be a great baseball fan. Growing up as a 
kid I used to go to as many as 45 (Detroit) Tiger games in season.  
A rookie would come up and go on a rampage and hit .465 in his 
first week or first 10 days.
	Batiste, who transferred from Compton College and made 
his Sun Devil debut on Dec. 22, scored 19 points in the first half of 
the Jan. 11 game versus UofA on Jan. 4. He was held to six points 
in the second half. He has combined for 19 points (8 of 24 from the 
field) in the past two games, which is below his season average of 
17.1 points per game.
	Like a rookie slugger who gets pitched to differently after a 
hot streak, Batiste hasn't been given the same offensive 
opportunities since the UofA game.
	"He came in and made a nice, quick impact," Frieder said. 
"Now people are scouting, seeing him on film, taking away some 
things,  pushing him off the block, getting more physical and 
taking away some plays we ran for him."
	Frieder is confident Batiste will end his scoring slump 
soon.
	"He's a good player. He can play better than he played on 
this last road trip," Frieder said.

No. 9 Ice Devils ready to face-off against archrival UofA

By Matt Paulson
State Press
	In its most anticipated hockey game of the season, the ASU 
Ice Devils will host the UofA Icecats on Jan. 23 at Arizona 
Veterans Memorial Coliseum at 7 p.m.
	The Ice Devils (12-6-1), who are currently ranked ninth in 
the country in the American Collegiate Hockey Association, will 
be looking to defeat the third-ranked Icecats (17-1) for the first 
time this year. ASU lost the previous two meeting this season, 
which were in Tucson.
	"We're two evenly matched teams, and I think it's going to 
be an exciting game," center co-captain Steve Hammett said. "It's 
definitely going to be one for the books."
	Junior center Mark Parris was as equally pumped up for  
this game. "I think we'll do great. We're ready, especially after the 
last game against Towson State," Parris said. "We really pulled 
together and showed that we're a nationally ranked team."
	The Ice Devils defeated No. 7 Towson State 8-2 on Jan. 18.
	Last season, ASU broke a 13-year, 65-game losing streak 
against UofA, and sophomore defenseman Jason Pearce is hoping 
to avoid starting another long streak.
	"We don't want a streak going on like the one we broke last 
year," Pearce said. "Hopefully we'll beat them and start a streak of 
our own."
	ASU, which finished last season with 20 wins and a No. 7 
ranking, is coming off of its most successful  campaign ever, and 
Head Coach Gene Hammett thinks this year's team can do even 
better.
	"Our goal this year is to go to nationals and win it. We're a 
better team this year, and we've played a tougher schedule," 
Hammett said. "We've played the No. 1 team (Iowa State), the No. 
3 (Penn State), No. 4 (Arizona), and No. 7 teams in the country 
already this year. We didn't play that many ranked teams last year."
	Coach Hammett said the key to the team's success this 
season has been their depth and defense.
	"We've got a lot of depth. We've had a lot of injuries, but 
we've had a lot of guys step into the lineup and contribute. I think 
that's a real big key," Hammett said. "I think our centers, defense, 
and goaltending are all  strong. Defensively we're as good as 
anybody in the country."
	Another key for the Ice Devils will be the crowd. 
Traditionally, UofA fans outnumber ASU fans at games in the 
Valley, but Coach Hammett is hoping for a change this year.
	"If we can get three, four, or five thousand people out here 
-predominately ASU people- then that will be huge," he said.

Sun Devils, Trojans expect to battle for second spot in Six- Pac

By Percy Ednalino Jr.
State Press
	This is part  one of a three-part series
	Thanks to this season's football team, nothing short of a 
shot at the College World Series title is good enough for the ASU 
baseball team. No pressure there.
	Baseball America recently named ASU the third most 
successful college baseball program of the 1990s. Again, no 
pressure.
	Although the Sun Devils have been left out of the regionals 
the last two years, leaving out this year's team will be hard to do. 
ASU finished with a 35-21 record (14-16 Pac-10) and a No. 25 
ranking last season. This season's team expects to improve on that 
mark.
	The race for the Pac-10 Southern Division title will be tight 
with Stanford, USC, UCLA and ASU all in the top 10 in Baseball 
America's preseason poll.
	Just how competitive are the teams in the Six-Pac expected 
to be? California and UofA also are in the top 25.
	USC, ranked No. 3 in the preseason, was picked by the 
coaches of the Six-Pac to win the division. No. 1 Stanford and No. 
5 UCLA are expected to finish in second and third place in the Six-
Pac, respectively.
	ASU is ranked seventh in the preseason and is expected to 
finish fourth in the Six-Pac with Cal and UofA rounding out the 
division.
	ASU coach Pat Murphy said having all Six-Pac teams in 
the top 25 shows just how tough the conference is.
	"It's a nice indicator that four of the teams in our 
conference are in the top 10," Murphy said. "It's a freak of athletics 
to have all six teams be as good as anybody in the country. You 
don't have a bottom three teams or you don't have a bottom four 
teams to beat up on."
	Stanford is a lock to win the Six-Pac, but the battle for 
second place could be decided after the last game with ASU and 
USC vying for that spot.
	Here's a quick breakdown of both teams:
	ASU
	Sophomore pitcher Ryan Mills said the Sun Devils need to 
stay injury-free if they expect to do better than the fourth-place 
finish expected of them in the Six-Pac.
	Staying injury-free is something the left-handed sophomore 
should know- he missed most of last season after being hit in the 
face in the first inning of his first start.
	"We're in a conference where we all just beat up on each 
other," Mills said. "No one really dominates the conference. If our 
pitchers stay healthy, we're going to be able to win a lot of ball 
games."
	The Sun Devils' lineup is potent, with junior Mikel Moreno 
in the leadoff spot. Moreno batted .378 with 11 home runs, 22 
doubles and 53 RBIs last season. He's not bad in the outfield, 
either. Moreno committed just one error and notched a .990 
fielding percentage from his position at center field.
	Murphy, now in his third year as head coach, said the high 
preseason rating doesn't add any extra pressure for the team.
	"We've put expectations on ourselves that are much higher 
than that. Rankings don't mean a whole lot to us. They don't mean 
a whole lot to the players and they don't mean a whole lot to the 
coaches."
	The Sun Devils are iffy. Providing that ASU plays to its 
potential and stays healthy, a trip to the regionals is looking good. 
Pre-game pep talks from football coach Bruce Snyder couldn't 
hurt, either. Prediction: Second place.
	USC
	After winning back-to-back Pac-10 titles, the only thing on 
USC coach Mike Gillespie's mind is another trip to the College 
World Series.
	Gillespie said the preseason rankings carry no weight in his 
opinion, but they make a statement as far as the quality of teams in 
the Six-Pac.
	"I think that top to bottom, this conference is a very strong 
conference," Gillespie said. "With the exception of us, I think 
everyone has improved."
	And how. Only three senior starters return for USC. 
Gillespie said catcher Jason Brown, first baseman Greg Walbridge 
and shortstop Mark Mirizzi will provide the Trojans with much-
needed leadership.
	Gillespie said strong pitching is vital if the Trojans want to 
return to Omaha. Last year's Pac-10 pitcher of the year Seth 
Etherton and Randy Flores, his 1995 counterpart, comprise the 
core of the Trojans' pitching rotation.
	"First and foremost, our pitching has to carry us," Gillespie 
said. "We can't rely on our lineup to give us eight or nine runs, 
because it can't."
	Although Gillespie is correct in saying the Trojans haven't 
improved as a team, he's still dead wrong. It's hard to get better 
when you're already one of the best. A third consecutive Pac-10 
title may not present itself to the Trojans, but expect to see the men 
of Troy somewhere in the NCAA regionals. Prediction: Third 
place.

ASU police reported the following incidents Tuesday:
- An adult female student was arrested on an outstanding warrant 
from ASU police. She wasn't able to post bond and was booked 
into the Maricopa County Sheriff's southeast jail.
- An adult female student reported someone entered her room 
without permission and stole her stereo.
- An adult female student reported someone stole her bicycle from 
the bike rack on the north side of the Memorial Union, where it 
had been locked up.
- An adult male not affiliated with ASU reported someone 
unlawfully entered his vehicle while it was parked at Stabler's 
Market and damaged his stereo and stole a CD case containing 200 
CDs.
- An adult male student reported someone criminally damaged a 
footlocker at Palo Verde.
- A juvenile male not affiliated with ASU was contacted at the 
University's footbridge where he had sustained an injury. 
Paramedics responded and the subject was transported to Tempe 
St. Luke's Hospital.
- An adult male not affiliated with ASU was arrested, cited and 
released at 300 E. Orange Circle for loitering, and possessing drug 
paraphernalia and marijuana. 
- Another adult male not affiliated with the University was arrested 
at 300 E. Orange Circle for loitering and carrying a concealed 
weapon. He was also cited and released.
Tempe police reported the following incidents Tuesday:
- A 19-year-old man walked into the Tempe Police Department 
with his attorney Tuesday morning and turned himself in for 
shooting a man Sunday night inside Ichi Ban Japanese Restaurant 
& Sushi Restaurant, 1435 E. University Dr. The suspect reportedly 
fired one round from a .380 semi-automatic into the stomach of a 
20-year-old man he was fighting with in the parking lot. The 
victim was taken to Scottsdale Memorial Hospital where he was 
treated for a non life-threatening injury.
- A 28-year-old man was arrested for aggravated DUI after 
admitting to drinking two pitchers of beer at 6 East. bar before 
getting behind the wheel of his brown Chevrolet Nova. The man, 
whose license was suspended for DUI, was observed driving at 
Southern and Mill Avenues with no headlights. He was transported 
to Tempe Jail, where he refused to be tested. A search warrant was 
obtained and blood was taken at Tempe St. Luke's Hospital. He 
was booked into the Tempe jail.
- A 27-year-old man was arrested for disorderly conduct at Club 
411, 411 S. Mill Ave. The man was observed yelling profanities at 
an employee who asked him to leave the property. The suspect was 
escorted down the stairs, but he continued to threaten to "kick" the 
employee's "ass."
Compiled by  State Press reporter Melody McDonald.

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- Women's Lesbian and Bisexual Group - Meeting will take place 
in the Women's Student Center at the basement of the MU, 
beginning at 4:30 p.m.
- Cycling Devils - Club meeting will discuss membership, racing, 
sponsors and etc. Starts at 8:30 p.m., just north of the Life Science 
Tower.
- Rainbow Alliance - First meeting of the semester will be held at 
the second floor of the MU at 7:30 p.m.
- ASU Women's Lacrosse - Mandatory meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the 
second floor of the SRC.