Defining moments...

IT WAS A YEAR TO REMEMBER, starting with a record-breaking football season and ending with second place nationally for the women gymnasts. President Clinton visited the campus, a spirited group of students joined with citizens for the first recognized Mesa Martin Luther King Day, the Institute of Human Origins chose ASU as its new residence and an AIDS vigil reminded the campus that the disease is still waging war among college-aged victims.

U.S. PRESIDENT - (Top) Bill Clinton addresses the Tempe community and ASU students on the lawn at Grady Gammage Auditorium Oct. 31. c1997 Photo by Tim Hacker

ALARMING RESPONSE - A Rural Metro firefighter rushes to put out a one-alarm fire that destroyed a Tempe business Jan. 31. c 1997 Photo by Pat Shannahan

I HAVE A DREAM - Mesa's first celebrated Martin Luther King Day parade organizer John Goodie leads a happy birthday tribute song to the late minority rights activist. c1997 Photo by Erik Guzowski

SOLEMN VIGIL - Theater major Sunita Przewlocki (left) and graphic design major Briana Smathers hold a lit candle in remembrance of AIDS victims on Feb. 17. Nearly 100 people joined in the ceremony held on the lawn by Manzanita Residence Hall. c1997 Photo by Lori Cain

HEAD COACH PAT MURPHY - The ASU baseball coach rallies the troops in between innings during a 12-8 victory over No. 2 Stanford Cardinal at Packard Stadium March 9. c1997 Photo by Jim Poulin

LUCY - Donald Johanson, the paleoanthropologist who discovered the 3.4 million-year-old human skeletal remains known as Lucy announced to the campus on April 16 that the Institute of Human Origin will move to ASU in July. c1997 Photo by Jim Poulin

GOT THE BEAT - Sophomore gymnast Lisa Vincijanovic struts to the sounds of "Tequila" during ASU's win over UCLA at the University Activity Center. c1997 Photo by Tim Hacker

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