C l in t o n sees the A r k a n sa s TORNADO DEVASTATION IN PERSON P age 3 Voi. 81 No. 101 ... / I n s id e S ports W o r ld / N a t io n J u n io r g u a r d J eremy V eal EXCELS DESPITE TEAM'S DISAPPOINTING SEASON Page 13 W ednesday, March 5 ,1997 An Independent M orning Daily C E T approves n eed so m eb o d y! t w o d iv e r s ity g r a n t p la n s B y S ara B u sh S ta te P ress Pat Shannahan/ State Press P atrick B aker, ASASU public relations director, holds up a sign on top o f a bus Tuesday afternoon. ASASU had fou r tele­ phones set up on Hayden Law n fo r students to voice th e ir opinion to state legislato rs on U n iversity-related issues. Members of the ASU Campus Environment Team unan­ imously approved two $5,000 grants for campus programs last week. The CET usually awards a $5,000 grant each semester to help enhance campus diversity. CET Chair Mike Wong said committee members made an unprecedented move by awarding two grants this semester. No grants were awarded last semester. “We felt these two proposals were both very strong,” Wong said. “We think they will both have a lasting positive effect at ASU.” . . The CET accepted program proposals for the ongoing theme o f Weaving a tapestry o f diversity: communicate, cooperate, collaborate. Last year’s proposals focused on the “communicate” aspect o f the theme. This year, the CET instructed appli­ cants to focus on “cooperation.” • . ................... . ■ One of the programs, titled Facilitating Cooperation at ASU ; Preparing students to encounter diversity among in stru c to rs, w as p ro p o se d by fa c u lty in the Communications Department. T urn to G rants, pace Graduate programs rank C lin to n ta x cred it p la n high in magazine survey likely to pass, official says BY K e v in C u l w e u . S tate P ress With seven graduate schools featured in the current U.S. News & World Report as a part of the nation’s elite, the “party school” image ASU endured in the past continues to lose some steam. The programs rated were the colleges of education, business and law, the schools of health services administration, architecture, music and the creative writing program. ASU graduate programs were ranked as high as 12th (School o f Health Services A d m in is tra tio n ), and as low as 4 7 th (College o f Law). ; “Overall, this really shows the emergence of ASU as a m ajor academic institution,” ASU President Lattie Coor said. “It suggests we’re moving in the right direction.” The rankings are based on a national sur­ vey of professors and administrators of var­ ious programs. They select the ratings on faculty resources, research activity, student selectivity and reputation. Administrators from ranked programs were pleased with the results, although some said the rankings shouldn't be taken too seriously. The College o f Education ranked 39th, but Academic Programming Liaison Howard Simmons said die rankings don’t really pro­ vide a good reflection of the program. “I’ve never taken these things seriously,” he said. “I think what we need to do is tell people to read these things with caution.” N an B eam s, sp o k e sw o m a n fo r the College o f Business, said she was happy with ASU’s ranking o f 43, despite dropping from number 34 last year. This is the third consecutive year the college has been ranked. “We know that prospective students con­ sider the rankings, so w e’re very pleased w ith th at p e rfo rm a n c e ,” she said. “However, we know there are a lot of other factors which make good colleges^” T he ra n k in g s d id n ’t im p ress Law College Dean Richard Morgan. , “I would rather that U.S. News would not rank law schools,” he said. “I don’t think the respondents know much about what they’re voting on. I don’t think they’re very meaningful at all.” The m agazine ranks schools o f health services administration every three years. ASU jumped from 17th to 12th this year. “W e’ve worked really hard to improve the quality o f our instructors,” Professor Bradford Kirkman-Liff said. “The ranking reflects where our program was a few years ago, but we’re still very pleased with it.” Associates in the schools of architecture and music were pleased with the results. They were both ranked 19th in their respective fields. “I ’m very excited that we’re recognized nationally,” said Ron McCoy, director of the School of Architecture. “For a, long time we haven’t received this kind o f recogni­ tion, so it’s really nice.” M cC oy said th is k in d o f ac c o la d e attracts b etter instructors and w ith that comes better students. The School o f Music was rated for the second year in a row. “Many o f the schools ranked are on the East Coast and have a great tradition,” said Toni-M arie Montgomery, interim director o f the School of Music. “It really says a lot about our program.” B\ D eanna Dark S i All. P riss Students could be reaping the bene­ fits of a plan by President Bill Clinton to o ffe r tax cred its and ded u ctio n s for luiuon as soon as next year The plan should receive little resis­ tance on its way through Congress, stud Rep. Ed Pastor. D-Ariz. “T here's a high feasibility that this will become reality. This makes it possi ble for parents to help with their chil­ dren’s education. By giving parents tax credits and deductions, students will benefit,” Pastor said. Giving full-tim e college students a $1.500 tax credit and a $10.000 tax deduction for tu itio n w as a prom ise Clinton made during his 1996 campaign Clinton officially announced the pro­ gram d u rin g h is S tate o f the Union Address in February. Tax credits w ould be available for first-tim e, first-year students and sec­ ond-year students with a B grade aver­ age. Part-time students could receive a $750 tax credit A ny c o lle g e stu d e n t c o u ld tak e advantage o f the tax deduction except those receiving the tax credit. When stu­ dents are no longer eligible for the cred­ it. they could take the deduction “ M iddle-class fam ilies wilt benefit m ust — those that have to have their kids become economically independent so they qualify for financial aid.” Pastoi said "Families can show that they can help educate their kids.” He added that Congress must adopt the proposal between now and Sept 30 if it is to go into effect by 1998. "You will be hard pressed to find a member in Congress who is against the idea of a middle-class tax break. This is a fa m ily -frie n d ly C o n g re ss — we believe in family values.” Pastor said Despite some critics' complaints that most aid increases will not end up with the poorest students. University officials said the plan is a needed to move toward increased support for education. ‘T in very pleased to see priority placed on education - - especially on higher edu­ cation.” ASU President Lattie Coor said. Coor said he fully supports the idea as a better way to help students pay for their college education ASU Provost Milton Click said while he doubts the tax credits and deductions would cause any students to go to col­ lege who don’t already attend, he sup­ ports anything that would ease student's financial burden. Click said he is more concerned with m aintaining a strong Pell G rant pro­ gram Pell Grants provide aid to lowei income students than the proposed tax credits and deductions Clinton’s budget plan includes a 33 percent increase in the maximum Pell G rant award All totaled, Clinton has Tens t o 'I \ x t R f » n . i’w,i 2. 2. W ednesday, M arch 5, 1997 P age 2 S t a t e P ress G rants MNNMN Ï0 D A Y C o n t in u ed from page 1. Campus ciub* M l organizations mrif^ifubmlt written entries to the •»•Meeting at 3 30 p.m in the MU conference room fttacHlooL i^ e P re s ^ R • A S ti P ow W o w C o m m itte e — th e b asem e n t of th e M atthew s Center. Requests will not h e taken over the phone or vis fax, Deadline for requests is noon the day before publication and entries will not b e acc ep ted m ore than three working daye one entry per oiqanSzattan per day is permitted. , Entries must contain the full name of the cfub or organization, a descrip­ tion of toe event, date, time and the full a d d re s s of th e location. All requests are subject to editing for content, space an d clarity. Incomplete or Wegteii entries wiB be discarded. The Today Section te a daily calen­ dar of events printed a s a service to the ASU community. Requests are accepted on a flis^come, first-served baste end Is a prirrted as space per-; Organizational meeting at 4 p m In •' StUdpnt S erv ices . Building Multicultural lounge. • W o m en ’s L e s b ia n 1 B is e x u a l Discussion G roup Meets at 4:30 p.m. in the MU basement, Woiwerfs Student Center. • C ycling Devils — Meeting at 8:30 p.m. ouhud# the stairs north of Life Science Tower. • N a tiv e A m e ric a n B u s in e s s Ilg p M tiM en — General meeting a t 5 p no In t i e American Indian Institute Conference Room. • S tu d e n t A ffa irs L e a rn in g Resource C enter — Fra# computer workshops: internet — 9 a-m , DOS — 10 a,m ., Word — 11 a.m ., Pine 2 p.m., Excel — 3 p-m., Internet — 4 p.m, tend Pine — 5 p.m. kittle Student -Servf*tes.:8k^^ • A m e ric a n In d ia n S c ie n c e an d E n g in e e rin g S o c ie ty (A IS E S ) — • Kundalini Yoga Club — Meets at f : General meeting at 6 30 p m. in the American Indiari lnstitute. * p.m. in the MU Gold room 203. » C o lleg e R e p u b lic a n s — Don • C o u n s e lo r T ra in in g C a n te r •*Hesselbrock, first vice-chairman of Free counseling attetebte flr fdl^time the M aricopa County Republican stu d e n ts and- staff a t Payne Hall, Committee, will be speaking on party room 402. For more information or an reunification at 3:30 p.m. in the MU appointment, call965-5067. • AW ARE — Meets at 12:40 p.m. in Pinal room 215. • C areer S ervices — international the MU lower ievef Re-entry Student Student Job S earch W orkshop at Service Center. • Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Chapter 11:40 a.m. in the MU room 203. • Rainbow Alliance — Bowling night — Ellen Katz of the Public Defenders at 7:30 p.m. in the MU Navajo room Office will speak at 11:30 a m in the MU Cochise E ast room 212. Bring 219. • MUAB Special Events Committee one canned food hem* « I ........I K:W : I ' “As instructors at ASU, we are given information about the make-up of the under­ graduate student body to help us do a better job," said Christina Stage, a faculty associ­ ate in the C om m unications D epartm ent. “We thought it would be nice if students could have a similar opportunity to prepare and plan for working with their instructors.” Stage said she and three doctoral candidates will begin forming focus groups between stu­ dents and faculty this semester. The results will be released sometime (his summer. Stage added that the group will begin presenting the information at the fall orien­ tation and throughout the semester. The other program, Advocacy fo r Social Understanding and Unity, will help inte­ grate current social issues into classroom instruction by creating a link between cam­ pus program s such as AIDS A w areness Week anffclass activities. “If the inform ation on social Issues is integrated into course content, students can’t ignore it,” said Kris Ewing, a program c o o rd in a to r fo r S tu d e n t L ife w ho c o ­ authored the ASUU proposal. “Students here are very busy, but that doesn’t mèan they are riot interested in social issues." Ewing, along with co-author Sue Steiner, an a ssistan t p ro fesso r in the S chool o f Social Work, piloted their program during AIDS Awareness Week in February, Next year, she said the group plans to focus on g e n d e r re la tio n s in th e fa ll and B lack History Month in the spring. The CET did not award a grant this fall because they did riot receive enough pro­ posals based on the theme, Wong said. CET ran an information session in December and clarified their grant proposal information. Wong said the confusion surrounding the proposals seems to have been corrected. n “We ju st did a better job emphasizing this year’s'thème,” W ong said. Tax cred it C o n t in u ed from page 1. proposed 2.2 percent overall increase in the Pell Grant program. The Presidents budget also calls for flex­ ible student loan repayment, honors schol­ arships, penalty-free Individual Retirement A ccount w ithdraw als and skill grants to give displaced workers an opportunity to receive new skills. “I’m glad that this is a cornerstone of the adm inistration. We are investing for the future through educating our young peo­ ple,” Pastor said. State Press City Editor Tim Tait contributed to this story. C orrection: •/ In Tuesday’s spring break special section, the hours o f operation for the Student Recreation Center were incorrect The SRC will reduce its hours as follow^: March 15 and 16-— 12 p,m. to 8 p.m. March 17-21 — 6 a.m. to 8 pan. M atch 22 12 p,m. to 8 p.m. March 23 - » - f aJO. to ?p.tp- .. . V* •’ ft T a le n t sh o w a n d b a rb e q u e April 3 ,1 9 9 7 • 5pm-10pm • P alo V erde B each It’s R ELA TIO N SH IP V IO LEN C E IS REAL MUAB "OPINIONS FORUM" This Week R e la t io n s h ip V io le n c e Wed. March 5 @ 12:40 PM in the MU Programming Lounge S p o n s o re d b y A S A S U -C H A C , C & C , S tu d e n t A d v o c a c y & A s s is ta n c e , M U A B tim e to le t out your w ild and crazy side! S ig n up tod ay lor th is talent/lipsyn c/w h atever show# Be a s creative a s you like. In fact, m e crazier, th e better! Sound interesting? If it does, g e t off your butt and sign up (no m ore than per group, please)! T h ere’s a free barbeque, and if you win, th ere are big p rizes in store, such a s s k y d iv in g p a s s e s , a night a t T h e B u t t e s resort, round trip s to P u e r t o V a lla r t a , and much more! SIG N UP TODAY! 5 Giveus acall at 965-3161! A s k fo r E r ik N o la n d o r H e a t h e r N ic k e l a t t h e M a r d i G r a s D e s k ______ W orld/N ation_______ S t a t e P re ss . ■ W ednesday, M arch 5,1997 P age 3 C lin to n v is it s c lo s e to h o m e to r n a d o s ite B y R o n F o u r n ie r A sso c ia te d P ress , A RK A D ELPH IA , Ark. — His black cow boy boots kicking up bits of glass and wood, President Clinton sur­ veyed the damage Tuesday and comforted victims of the tornadoes that swept through his home state. “1 wish there were more I could say and do,” he said. Shaking his head in dismay over the devastation that sur­ rounded him, Clinton said, “I’ve been down every one of these streets before. I've been in every one of these stores.” Clinton has toured countless disaster sites as president but never before has it cut this close to home: Arkadelphia, situated squarely between his two hometowns, Hope and Hot Springs, was a frequent stop for politics and policy during his 12-year tenure as governor. “It is different when you know the people and you know the community,” he said. At least 25 were killed in the weekend storms. Touring the devastation in his home state “makes me more sensitive to what's happened” in other states hit by natural dis­ asters, he said. “People need to know you are there for them.” W hile visiting Arkansas, Clinton declared Ohio and K entucky d isa ste r areas because o f floods there. He announced that Vice President A1 Gore and James Lee W itt, director o f the Federal Em ergency M anagem ent Agency, will visit those states Wednesday. Arkadelphia looked like a war zone Tuesday, with piles of brick and mortar replacing homes and businesses, cars flipped upside down or left crushed on a lift in a destroyed shop, and people now jobless and homeless and wondering what to do next. Karen Kirkpatrick was standing on a stark white cement slab that used to be the county tax office, her eyes watering. Clinton put his right hand on her shoulder, then embraced her, saying, “Don’t worry. W e're going to go forward.” A w eather-beaten ch air was placed in front o f the d estro y ed office. A cardboard sign on the seat read. “Revenue Office,” a lighthearted reminder to residents that soon the state would start collecting taxes again. C linton laughed at the reference. “I t’s obvious you all have done a lot o f work here in ju st a couple o f days. Eric Draper/Associated Press President C linton prepares to leave the d istaster area in dow ntown A rkadelphia follow ing a press conference Tuesday. C linton is follow ed by Arkansas G ov. M ike Huckabee. T hat’s Arkansas.” Clinton shock hundreds of hands, patted dozens of backs, as he walked in the street, gingerly stepping over jagged pieces of glass, rusty nails and broken bits of brick and mortar. “Mr. President!” read a placard held by one man stand­ ing in front of a half-destroyed bank. “Mom wants to shake your hand.” An arrow pointed to an elderly woman whom Clinton reached out and hugged. “Most of them are concentrating now on cleaning up ... many are counting their blessings that they’re still alive,” Clinton said about the town’s 10,000 residents. “A lot of them are still almost in shock that they lost their life’s work.” 250 arrested , police attacked at German anti-nuclear protest B y C laus -P eter T iem a n n A sso cia ted P ress Michael Probst/Associated Press P o lic e o ffic e rs chase d em o n strato rs n ear D annenberg, G erm any on Tuesday. Thousands o f dem onstrators are p re p a rin g to b lo ck a tra n s p o rt o f n u c le a r w aste to th e nearby Interim storage plant at G orleben. The transport of th e six containers Is scheduled fo r W ednesday. DANNENBERG, Germany — Anti-nuclear protesters hurled stones and firebombs at police Tuesday and tried to seize control of a road that could be used as the last leg of an atomic waste transport. Hundreds of protesters rushed riot police who were trying to secure the road that links this northern German town to Gorleben, the site o f a nuclear waste storage facility. Police reported 250 arrests by late Tuesday. The main road between Dannenberg and Gorleben has been practically disabled by scores of tractors — some cemented to the surface — and deep holes that protesters tunneled to make the road unusable for heavy trucks. They also tunneled under an alternate route, blockad­ ing it with logs, fallen trees and other obstacles. ■> At Dannenberg, the focal point of the protests, the nuclear waste was unloaded from a freight train Tuesday and loaded onto flatbed trucks for the 10-mile final leg to Gorleben. About 10,000 demonstrators camped around the transfer site. The road trip was to begin Wednesday. In the biggest and costliest security operation in post- war Germany, 30,000 police officers have been deployed to protect the shipm ent and to keep protesters from blocking it. , More than 200 officers were on board and police heli­ copters flew overhead Monday as the train began its 420mile journey before dawn from a temporary holding site at Walheim, just north of Stuttgart. The nuclear waste from German power plants was returning from reprocessing in France under an agree­ m ent m andating its return to G erm any for storage. Germany has no reprocessing plant. The six special containers o f nuclear w aste, each w eig h in g sev eral to n s, a rriv e d in D an n en b erg on Tuesday by rail after an eight-hour delay. The last stretch of the train journey repeatedly was delayed by protesters pushing through police cordons and lying across the tracks. Two men cemented them­ selves to the tracks and had to be dislodged by police using jackhammers. Masked militants also used a stone to smash the window of a police cruiser and tried to open its doors early Tuesday. The officers drove off and were not hurt, police said. C lin to n b a rs fe d e r a l r e s e a r c h m o n e y o n h u m a n c lo n in g B y S o n y a Ross A sso cia te d P ress W ASHINGTON — Declaring the cre­ ation of life “a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory science,” President Clinton on Tuesday barred spending federal money on human cloning. He also urged a halt in pri­ vate research until the ethical impact is bet­ ter understood. Clinton, warning against “trying to pjay God,” directed all federal agencies not to a llo c a te m oney fo r c lo n in g o f hum an b e in g s -*■ a lth o u g h he a c k n o w le d g e d Tuesday that the governm ent is not now funding such research. “I just wanted to make sure that we keep it that way,” Clinton said during an Oval Office appearance before he departed for Arkansas to inspect tornado damage. Citing the cloning of an adult sheep in S c o tlan d , C lin to n ask ed the N atio n al B io e th ic s A d v iso ry C o m m issio n la st week to review the ramifications cloning would have for humans and report back to him in 90 days. But Clinton said he decided to restrict use o f federal funds after learning that researchers in Oregon had cloned two rhe­ sus monkeys from embryos — the world’s first cloned primates and the closest step yet to humans. “ Human cloning would have to raise deep concerns, given our most cherished concepts o f faith and hum anity,” Clinton said. "Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory sci­ ence. I believe we must respect this pro­ found gift and resist the temptation to repli­ cate ourselves.” Current law prohibits spending federal money on human embryo experiments, but the p ro h ib itio n ex p ires Sept. 30. Sen. C h risto p h e r B ond, R -M o., has u rged Congress to make that ban permanent. T hose restrictio n s, how ever, did not explicitly address cloned embryos, nor did it apply to all federal agencies, so Clinton moved to close that loophole. “Science often moves faster than our ability to understand its im p licatio n s,” Clinton said. “Any discovery that touches upon human creation is not simply a matter of scientific inquiry. It is a matter of morali­ ty and spirituality as well.” Clinton also asked private researchers — who are not covered by his directive — to v o lu n ta rily h o ld o ff at le a st u n til the National Bioethics Advisory Commission can study the matter, a move with which biological and medical researchers agreed. “It’s a wise idea to call a time out. This has happened a bit sooner than people expected,” said Carl Feldbaum, president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization. O pin io n __________ P age 4 ______________ • iB Juditonalt. ■« .. W ednesday, March 5, 1997 s a n ■ STATE PRESS ; i Free rides are solution to drunk drivin g problem s 1995, m ore than 17,000 people died in alcohol-related car accidents. In A rizona alone, 447 p eople lo s t th e ir liv es in drunk d riv ing crashes, atfbording to N a tio n a l H ig h w ay T ran sp o rtatio n S afety A d m in istratio n sta tistic s. H ence, in 43 .4 percent o f A rizo n a traffic fatalities, alcohol was involved. T hat’s about 2.5 percent m ore than the national average. Adm ittedly, 2.5 percent m ore than the national average doesn’t seem to be all th a tb ig o f a deal, tart it is. It’s a big deal to the 400-plus families who were torn apart by the loss o f a loved one.Tit’s a big deal to pdiice officers aito paramedics w ho have to respond to grisly, m angled crashes. It’s even a big deal to in su ran ce co m p a n ie s and in d irectly consum ers, because they have to dole out m ere money in medi­ cal and repair costs. D runk driving is bad, bad, bad. But what is being done to solve the problem? F o r starters, a g ro u p o f A SU S tu d ent H ealth p ro fe ssio n a ls, lo c a l b e e r w h o le sa le rs ah d b lili Avenue liquor m erchants are heading up a cooperati ve effort to stop drinhers from getting behind die wheel. T hey advocate a designated non-drinking driver to shuttle partiere to and from alcohol-serv­ ing locales. AdditkmaQy,ffiey a r e in Sto p rocess o f establishing taxi stands on the north and south ends o f dow ntow n Tempe that w ould allow drunkards to h a v e im m e d ia te c a b s e rv ic e , r a th e r th a n w a tt around for 45 minutes. These program s, although worthwhile, don’t go far enough. Tempe needs a program that w ill have cars or buses pick up people w hen they leave a bat, r e s ta u r a n t o r p a rty a n d d e p o s it th e m a t th e ir doorstep (riot another b a r or party), free o f charge. To ensure people know about the program , local print shops could generously offer to print posters advising drinkers that they have a chance to get a free and safe rid e hom e. T he posters, o f course, would be hung prominently in local establishments. A g reat m any w ould-be d ru n k d riv ers w ould take advantage o f the program sim ply because they n o ticed it w as a free rid e hom e. U nfo rtunately, “free” is thè w ord that causes potential organizers to shudder in doubt. “How in the world are we su p ­ posed to give im paired people free rides hom e?” they m ight ask. “T hat would cost a lot o f money.” Free rides could be offered if students passed a University resolution to increase tuition by about $2, local liquor-serving establishm ents could provide some funds and insurance com panies could insure (donated?) vehicles. This list is ju st the tip o f die proverbial iceberg. M aybe even the feds would kick in a little grant money in order to study the project. The objection about cost ju st doesn’t hold water. We, as a society, m ust q u it denying the notion that w e are doing all that can be done about drunk driving. T his is sim ply n o t die case. A safe, free and sober ride henne is the objective and it can be accom plished w ith a w ee b it o f planning and coop­ eration. A t the very least, the pow ers that be should exam ine this idea th at m ay ju st p ro v ate the solu­ tion to drinking and driving at the university level. n I s TAFF STATE PRESS GOP crying wolf’ benefits Clinton President C linton, recently re -e le c te d by a c o m fo rta b le margin, is enjoying his highest approval ratings ever. Every day we read how Republicans are “amazed” or “bewildered” that the latest scandal, whatever it is that week, fails to dent Clinton's popularity. As a card-carrying liberal, even 1 am amazed at his resilien ce; I can im agine the frustration and confusion on the part of his partisan enemies. Republicans have many theories to explain his lengthy popularity surge. The most commonly circulated theory is that the “liberal media” gives him a free ride by downplay­ ing each scandal and overplaying his accomplishments. The other popular theory is that his slick rhetoric and charming personality enable the president to dupe the citizenry into believing he actually stands for something. 1 have an alternate explanation for his resilience. It bears a remarkable resemblance to the old fable o f the boy who cried wolf. Republicans themselves are primarily responsi­ ble for Clinton’s popularity rebound. By attacking him too early and often, usually on trivial issues about which the public ultimately did not care, Republicans used up their complaint quota and mortgaged their credibility as presi­ dential critics, long before the serious scandals broke. Recall the 1992 campaign. Clinton was attacked from every conceivable non-policy angle. In the words of a prominent Republican operative, he was a “philandering, pot-sm oking draft dodger.” E ventually, the electorate decided that none of the above offenses disqualified him from holding America’s highest political office and we elected him President of the United States. Political analysts in the past agreed that presidents usual­ ly enjoy a popularity “honeymoon” for the first few weeks after their inauguration, meaning that the press and oppos­ ing parties refrain from criticizing until a couple of months into the term. Clinton, however, enjoyed no such honey­ moon. Before he was even inaugurated, the parking lot of my college dormitory in California was filled with “Impeach C linton” bum per stickers. Rush Lim baugh, A m erica’s most popular talk show host and clearly one of the pre­ miere billow s o f A m erican public opinion, celebrated C linton's inauguration by declaring America was being “held hostage.” Every day thereafter, at least until the 1994 Republican congressional landslide, he added anoth­ er day to his h o s ta g e -c ris is co u n td o w n . A ll o f this occurred long before Clinton had a chance to implement a single policy. In the wake of early nomination controversies and health care setbacks, national news reports characterized Clinton’s regime as a “failure,” even before the first 100 days were over. The early scandals were fairly pathetic, both in scope and in supporting evidence. Remember the haircut-on-theairplane controversy? , Now fast-forward to 1997. Several emerging scandals are raising serious questions of presidential impropriety. The idea that foreign policy m ight have been for sale should be a sobering thought, even for the most loyal D em ocrats. W orse, the adm inistration’s relentless and entirely predicable pattern of half-truths and cover-ups in the wake of scandalous revelations should shake the faith even of Clinton supporters and much more so of his peren­ nial detractors. But behold, the legitimate accusations of impropriety are lost amid the endless sea of petty criticism and vicious per­ sonal attacks on the president and his family. One can hard­ ly blame the public for not reacting to the latest revelations. The media, contrary to Republican assertions, have given ample play to all criticisms of Clinton, regardless of their legitimacy. The public, therefore, has no compass by which to discern the true scandals from mere partisan bickering. The “w o lf’ may indeed be closing in. As was the case in the fable, however, no one is listening. Adam Schiffer is a graduate student in political science. 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David Goodwin, Brandon Mudd, Nick Pezzorello, Jess Rankin, The State Press is the only newspaper exclusively pub­ Mark Santiago, Todd Shields, Shane Siren, Jesse Sletteland. lished for and circulated on the ASÜ campus. The news and CLASSIFIEDS: Heidi Heister, Wayne Hoover, Sarah views published in this newspaper are not necessarily those Kiramel, Stacey Thayer, Joy Thompson. of the ASU administration, faculty, staff or student body . . S ta te P r ess P h o n e N u m b e r s Information.............. 965-7572 Newsroom......... .... .965-2292 M agazine............... .965-1695 Advertising.............. 965-6555 Classifieds................ 965-6735 - http://news.vpsa.asu.edu __________O p in io n ________ State P ress _____________ _____________________________ W ednesday, M arch 5 ,1 9 9 7 . P age 5 M edia, others sw allow ed abortion lie hook, lin e and sinker When I started this job a few decades ago, a veteran columnist at the next desk offered advice. O ne ru le w as: “ N ev er w rite a b o u t a s u b je c t w hen y o u ’re mad. Wait until you calm down.” Sensible words, and I usually try to follow them. But On this day, there weren’t nearly enough hours left until m y d e a d lin e fo r m e to calm down about a whopper o f a lie that a public figure named Ron Fitzsimmons has finally admitted telling. Fitzsimmons runs the National Coalition o f Abortion Providers. And he said his conscience has nagged him into admitting “lying through my teeth” when he made public statements in 1995 that the controversial “partial-birth abortion” was rarely used. And that it was used only when a woman’s life was in danger or the fetus was already severely damaged. You probably remember the big debate on this issue. Those against this late-term procedure wanted it outlawed because they said it killed healthy, normal fetuses that were well into full development. And the procedure is barbaric, they said. The fetus is partially delivered feet first, then a device is used to suck its brain out to collapse the head. Fitzsimmons now admits that most such abortions are done on women who are healthy and fetuses that are healthy, not because the woman is in danger or the fetus is unhealthy. The abortion is performed for the same reason as other abortions: the woman wants it. Fitzsimmons said he and others lied because the truth might have hurt the cause of abortion rights. They were right. If it hadn’t been for those lies, eagerly accepted and passed along as gospel by the printed press and broadcast news, President Clinton would not have dared to Veto a bill that outlaw ed the procedure. And Congress wouldn’t have buckled and failed to override his veto. That’s what is so infuriating: the silence of those in the medical field who knew it was a lie but failed to thunder­ ously refute it. And the willingness o f the press to accept the lie and pass it along as fact. If more sheep are cloned, don’t be sur­ prised if some come out looking like modem journalists. A few physicians spoke up. Two wrote a piece for the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal that shredded the line peddled by people like Fitzsimmons. But they were ignored, probably because the Journal’s opinion sections are viewed by the rest of journalism as hopelessly conservative. The press sw allow ed the lies like worm s by a bass because the lies fit so neatly into w hat is som etim es referred to as a “world view” that is shared by those in the mainstream news media. Part of that view seems to be that anyone who questions the need for the vast number of abortions performed each year is some kind of right-wing, bomb-tossing, gun-toting religious nut. So when those who present themselves as- social pro­ gressives say that only women who face death and fetuses who face life as vegetables are involved in partial-birth abortions, the press is com forted and lets it go at that. Heaven forbid that the newsroom should offend any of the “don’t tell me what to do with my body” crowd. It isn’t the first big lie that the media has bought and resold. Some years ago, gay organizations and public health people launched an intense “W e’re All at Risk” campaign. This meant that we were all equally vulnerable to the threat of AIDS. Common sense and existing evidence said otherwise: If you didn’t have anal intercourse with a man or borrow a needle from a dopehead, what put you at risk? But those who launched the propaganda campaign later admitted that they believed the fear would create sympathy for gays and spur increased spending on AIDS research. Eventually, a few skeptical reporters shot holes in the campaign. But not until others who questioned it had been labeled bigots and homophobes. One journalist who wrote a book on the subject lost his newspaper job, and the book, despite im pressive hard cover sales, couldn’t attract a paperback publisher. It was politically correct censorship. More recently, there was the media hysteria over the burning o f black churches. Remember? Night riders were thought to be galloping all over the country, burning black churches. A massive racist conspiracy, possibly inspired by the oratory of political conservatives like Pat Buchanan. Clinton, concerned frown and all, visited churches and recalled sim ilar evil arsons in Arkansas when he was a youth — memories that turned out to be pure fiction. Proposals were made to use federal funds to re-build churches. Rich do-gooders kicked in money to organiza­ tions that made the most victimization noise. T urned out it w as m ore sm oke than fire. A fter the nation’s press spread the arson story, calmer heads took a closer look. Most of the fires weren’t arson. No conspiracy. Black arsonists as well as white arsonists were arrested, proving that a nut is a nut, regardless o f color. It was as if no one in an American newsroom knew that an old wooden rural church can actually have bad wiring. Not when Jesse Jackson is dishing out hot quotes about the second coming of the Ku Klux Klan. Now we have Fitzsimmons blowing the whistle on him­ self. Was it his conscience? Or was it that the truth was going to come out anyway? Maybe from people such as the anti-abortion physician who will be the subject o f my next column. Mike Royko is a syndicated columnistfo r the Chicago Tribune. M oney needed desperately to up Voice o f one is n ot voice o f all schools to m inim um standards T h e e d ito r ia l o n s c h o o l fu n d in g . “M oney throw n tow ard schools w on’t fix w oes” (Feb. 27), has an interesting sp in . Y o n s ta te th a t m o n e y th r o w n to w ard schools w on’t fix th e ir w oes, ■ : th at m oney ■c a n ’t b u y know ledge and ; th a t w e sh o u ld n o t b u ild an y m o re classroom s. As a substitute for construction, you su g g est th a t we id en tify som e “re a l” problem s, Le. parents should encourage re a d in g , te a c h e rs sh o u ld le a d in th è classroom , m ore pay for teachers an d th e n eed to b u ild a strong in tellig en t foundation for the future ^ - not more classroom s. T h ese a re a ll b e a u tifu l ideas w ith which I can agree. but they ih» not cor­ r e c t th e fu n d a m e n ta l p ro b le m in A rizona. 1 suggest that the children at S u p e rs titio n M o u n ta in E le m e n ta ry S ch o o l an d th e ir p a re n ts in A pache. Junction w ill be dismayed with your edi­ torial. The pupils go to school in World W ar H A ir Force barracks. The buddings have roofs that leak, soaking the walls so that grass grows inside the classroom. Pigeons roost in the cracks, and when th e e v a p o ra tiv e c o o le r is tu rn e d o n , feathers fly into the classroom. Nor will your editorial endear you to the pupils at John F. Long Elementary s c h o o l in th e C a r tw r ig h t D is tr ic t, w here w ater barely com es o u t o f the spouts from drinking fountains because o f old rusty pip es, o r to the children w ho attend the B adsden Interm ediate S ch o o l n e a r Y um a, w h ere th e o v e r­ filled septic tanks threaten their health. A ls o , th e r e is e x p o s e d w ir in g b e tw e e n b u ild in g s a t S u n la n d E lem en tary S c h o o l-in th e R o o sev elt Elem entary D istrict, w hich presents a safety hazard to the students who play nearby. A t the sam e school, an assis­ tant principal has a problem w hen both parents show up fo r a p arent-teacher c o n fe re n c e b e c a u s e His c lo s e t-s iz e office w on’t hold three people. The list o f deteriorating and unsafe school facilities goes on mid on. T h is basic problem isn’t the fault o f parents o r teachers. In Septem ber 1995, a leg­ islative-funded, year-long s tu d y c o s e lu d e d th a t p o o r s c h o o l -d is tric ts required $835 m illion ju st to m eet min­ imum standards. The $835 m illion w as estim ated for em ergency repairs alone, such as asbestos rem oval and repairing b ro k en p lu m b in g , le a k in g ro o fs, a ir conditioning and heating units. I t w as in J u ly 1 9 9 4 w h e n th e Arizona Supreme Court first ruled that the state capital finance system for the sch o o l d is tric ts is u n c o n s titu tio n a l, because it relies heavily on property ta x e s , c r e a tin g w id e d is p a r itie s betw een p ro p erty-poor and propertywealthy districts. B ut the governor has alternatively ignored or challenged the court order. T h e f u n d a m e n ta l p ro b le m is o f course th e go v ern o r’s obsessio n .w ith ta x -re d u c tio n w h ic h h e b e lie v e s is m ore im portant than repairing school facilities. W hen is enough going to he enough? Isn ’t it tim e fo r school c h il­ dren to receive some consideration? I -suggest th a t e d ito r ia ls s u c h a s yours are not helping to solve the fuqr J d a m en tal p ro b le m s c o n f r o n tin g o u r children in the classrooms. F ra n k S ackton Professor of Public Affairs I’d like to comment on David Ruffulo’s Feb. 24 a rticle about the p o p u larity o f women’s basketball. Although a recent sur­ vey ranked w om en’s basketball third in popularity in the state, Ruffulo asserts that men would only be interested in women’s athletics if they can be assured o f “seeing some skin.” I can’t imagine why Ruffulo feels he can speak for all (or even most) men. This statement is not only offensive and insulting to women, but also to the men whom Ruffulo presumes to speak for. While I do not question Ruffulo’s suspi­ cion that the results of the survey may not have been 100 p ercen t accu rate, I take excep tio n to the co n clusions he draw s, namely that male respondents could not pos­ sibly have answered as they did unless they w ere led to respond in such a way; that women’s basketball is only popular because men’s baseball will not start until 1998 and that men are only interested in women’s ath­ letics if they can maintain the expectation of ogling attractive, scantily-clad women. I ’m sure there are many reasons why fans of the Phoenix Mercury watch women’s bas­ ketball, and I find R uffulo’s statem ents grossly unfounded. Let us not forget that women comprise approximately 51 percent of our population, most of whom I suspect are not tuning in because they hope to see buxom blondes bounding down the court. Ruffulo is certainly entitled to his own opin­ ion, but he should not presume to be the voice for a whole section of the population. Amy Wing Freshman Communication ‘N ed’ no longer found am using I am one o f the many students who were duped by the implied end to the Ned comic. For a couple of weeks, I watched with excited anticipation as N ed's cre­ ator, Mike, gave the reader glimpses o f a State Press without that monumentally bad Ned. But much to my dismay, Mike decided that the comic goldmine (thick sarcasm) that was the demise of his char­ acter was to come to an end, and sadly Ned is back in full swing. I’ll be quite frank: I know many peo­ ple on campus, but I have yet to meet one p erso n w ho fo u n d the com ic even remotely funny. The comic is so bad it actually defies the imagination. I have come to the conclusion that of course you, the dear editors o f the State Press, realize this too. This prompts me to believe that the problem is that you do not have a replacement for Ned, and so I’ve taken the liberty to make a couple of sug­ gestions that will be a thousand times more enjoyable: color plates o f skin disease, photographs o f Newt Gingrich in various states o f undress, or class notes from Mathematics in Aeronautical Engineering. Just please, for the love of God, get rid of Ned! Can you help me with something? 1 th ought com ics w ere su p posed to be funny. Last semester, I thought the paper had reached rock bottom by printing Ned. However, I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Maybe filler was needed and the situation would improve in the com­ ing semester. Unfortunately, much to my dismay — and I’m sure Countless other students’, Ned still is present in the comics section. There has to be a comic somewhere that can be used that fills the requirement of “funny.” Let’s face the facts, Ned is junk. I am sick of seeing Ned waiting for the Flash. Jerrod Larson Senior English Education Travis W arner Junior Biology State P ress W ednesday, M arch 5,1997 P age 6 D e sig n a te d d riv e r p ro g ra m w ill so o n h it th e T em pe streets B y B en L ea therm an S tate P ress E lena P alm ierl, a s e n io r accounting m ajor, exam ines a p ictu re Tuesday show ing th e effe c ts alcohol has on the liv e r. The display, part o f th e S afe Spring B reak w eek, stresses th e dam ages o f excessive drinking to th e body and to o th er drivers. Nineteen Tempe bars want to keep some students from gettihg liquored up. A g ro u p o f e sta b lish m e n ts on M ill Avenue is about to begin providing free non -alco h o lic beverages to designated drivers. Two taxi stations will also be set up for those under the influence. This is all part o f an ASU program aim ing to cut down on drinking and driving among col­ lege students. Health Educator David Bower said the program began last semester with only a handful o f p articipants. T his sem ester, however, support is coming from almost all of the bars on Mill Avenue, as well as sup­ port from several cam pus clubs and the City of Tempe. “Last semester we were getting people setu p with brochures., posters for their win­ dows and ID cards. This sem ester w e’re really promoting it,” he said. “So it’s taken six months and a lot of legwork to get it up and going.” Persons who indicate they are the desig­ nated driver in a group of two or more will receive an ID card from an establishment allow ing them unlim ited non-alcoholic beverages for the duration of their stay. They will not be limited to just soda pop or water, either. Balboa Cafe owner Eric Port said participants can order fancy bev­ erages such as non-alcoholic daiquiris. Bower said cabs from Tempe Taxi will be stationed at the north and south ends of Mill Avenue by the Spaghetti Company and Long Wong’s by the end of the month. However, there will be no free rides. “W e’d love to have something like that, but it would cost a lot of money,” Bower said. “I’m working on getting that going ■soon.” Tempe police spokesman Sgt. Toby Dyas said programs such as this are a good idea, but people have to participate for it to work. “Som etim es people w ill say th e y ’re going to be the designated driver, but end up drinking anyway,” he said. T he p ro g ram is sp o n so red by the W holesalers A dvocating M oderation, a group made up o f three o f the V alley’s la rg e st b e e r d is trib u to rs . Z eb P earce Distributing (Coors), Hensley & Company (A n h e u se r-B u sc h ) and S ham rock distributing (Miller) pooled their resources more than 10 years ago to help advocate alcohol education. Bower said each company kicks in $375 fo r b o th th is p ro g ram and N atio n al Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week every October. 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The bill (H B 2119) was approved 8-6 by the Senate Appropriations Committee and an initial vote by the full Senate was expected later Tuesday. First, however, senators had to debate up to 10 amendments. A final vote on the bill was scheduled Wednesday morning. Also Tuesday, a House com m ittee began w hat was expected to be a lengthy hearing on an identical measure (SB 1075). However, no initial vote by the full House was expected before Wednesday. Nevertheless, the bill was being rushed through the leg­ islative process after only being unveiled in outline form on Feb. 25 and formally introduced on Thursday. That fol­ lowed weeks of closed-door negotiations between GOP legislative leaders and Gov. Fife Symington and their aides. The plan would provide $32.5 million in new annual state aid to poor districts to satisfy a 1994 Arizona Supreme Court decision. That ruling found that unconstitutional dis­ parities result from the current reliance on local property taxes to pay for school construction and repairs. This is the third year lawmakers have wrestled with the issue. Last year they created an aid fund of $100 million the first year and $30 million in each of the next nine, but a judge later ruled that didn’t provide the necessary struc­ tural reform. Republican legislators, business lobbyists and anti­ tax activists praised this year’s bill. They said it would d istrib u te new aid to poor d istricts w hile avoiding a state tax in crease and preserv in g local co ntrol over school spending. “This bill solves the structural problem, also the court problem and, yes, the political problem,” Richardson said. 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Glendale Ave. Mesa, AZ G lendale, AZ Scottsdale, AZ Phoenix, AZ (602) 934-5211 (602) 949-7600 (602) 265-6600 (602) 833-0001 Page 8 State P ress W ednesday, March 5,1997 P olice R eport ASU police reported the following inci­ dents Tuesday: • A male not affiliated with the University was arrested, cited and released at 200 E. University Drive on charges o f driving on a suspended license. • A female student reported that she lost one key belonging to the University. • A m ale student reported that som eone removed his bicycle from the Language and Literature Building, where it was locked up. • A female student reported that someone removed her bicycle from the Language and Literature Budding, where it was locked up. • A female employee reported that someone unlawfully entered her room in the Agriculture Building, but didn’t remove anything. • A male employee reported that he lost three keys belonging to the University. • A m ale student reported that som eone rem o v e d h is w ä lle t from th e S tu d en t Recreation Center. • A male affiliated with the University was contacted at the Student Recreation Center, w here he was injured. The subject was transported to a local hospital. • A male not affiliated with the University was arrested, cited and released on charges of assault at the Student Recreation Soccer Field. • Two adult males not affiliated with the University were arrested, cited and released on charges o f loitering, trespassing and interfering with an educational institution at the Memorial Union. Tempe police reported the following inci­ dents Tuesday: • A 3 0 -y ear-o ld m ale w as arrested on charges o f assault and crim inal damage after he alleg ed ly punched and bit his roommate. Police said the two roommates had been fighting about money. • A 4 0 -y ear-o ld m ale w as a rrested on charges of theft and trafficking stolen prop­ erty after he allegedly removed 28 stainless steel rings, valued at $ 10,000, from of 2015 Alameda Drive in Tempe. Police said the suspect sold the items the next day to a recy c lin g c e n te r fo r S140.40. He w as booked into Tempe City Jail. • A 5 0 -y ear-o ld m ale w as arrested on charges o f theft/shoplifting at M ervyn’s Department Store. 800 E. Southern Ave. Police said the man stuffed underw ear under a heavy jacket and left the store with­ out attempting to pay for them. The man was detained by store security and the underwear was recovered. He was booked into Tempe City jail. Police reports compiled by S ta te P re ss reporter Melody McDonald. Review finds release o f rapist appropriate There is more to life th an news and sports. TAM PA, Fla. (AP) — The psychiatric hospital that released convicted rapist Lawrence Singleton days before he was accused of killing a woman apparently acted appro­ priately, state health regulators said. “From a broad look at this, it appears they did every­ thing they could have done,” Ann Sarantos of the Agency for Health Care Administration told The Tampa Tribune in a story published Tuesday. Singleton, who raped and chopped off the forearms of a 15-year-old girl in California 19 years ago, is accused of stabbing Roxanne Hayes with a boning knife on Feb. 19. He has been jailed on a murder charge. Nine days before the slaying, the 69-year-old Singleton was released from St. Joseph’s Psychiatric Care Center in Tampa. He was admitted to the hospital Feb. 1 under the Baker Act, which allows the state to involuntarily commit people who are suicidal or dangerous to others. Singleton had tried to kill himself after being released from jail on a shoplifting charge, and one of his relatives begged the hospital to institutionalize him. But a psychiatrist who examined him found no signs of violence. St. Jo sep h ’s follow ed proper procedures and laws, S arantos said. T he h ealth care agency and the state Department of Children and Families reviewed Singleton’s case after his arrest on the murder charge. Check out the C Q i'jlC '5 . 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The vote was 66-34, one shy of the two-thirds needed to spectators as the roll was called and senators rose solemnly prevail. It marked the third year in a row the GOP had from their seats, oné by one, to cast their votes. In the end, all 55 Republicans and 11 Democrats voted for failed to muster the support to pass a cornerstone of their the amendment. The other 34 Democrats voted against it. conservative agenda. The measure would require à balanced budget by 2002 Republican frustration was evident in the moments before the vote, when GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch repeatedly accused and every year thereafter, unless three-fifths of the House and Senate vote otherwise. Exceptions could be made in Democrats of “demagoguery" when it came to Social Security. '‘You’re doggone right we (Republicans) like Social cases of war or other military conflict. Passage by a two-thirds majority was needed to send the Security and we're tired of the demagoguery,” the Judiciary Committee chairman said in a fiery floor speech. Democrats, m easure to the House, where the amendment has stalled. he said, simply “don't want to cast the right vote” to force an Ratification by three-fourths of the states would have added the amendment to the Constitution. end to nearly three decades of nonstop deficits. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said in advance that But Democrats had long since made tip their minds. B y D av id E spo A sso cia te d P ress “this is an issue that will not go away.” He predicted the House would vote on the amendment in the next month or two and despite its apparent difficulties, he forecast its approval there. If the House adopts it, he said, “we will take another look at considering this issue.” Republicans have sought its approval for years, and made it a cornerstone of their conservative revolution when they took control of Congress two years ago. Both sides were already redeploying their forces for the next phase of the budget struggle. Lott noted that congres­ sional budget analysts had determined that Clinton’s bal­ anced-budget plan Would produce a deficit of $69 billion in 2002. “It just proves once again we must have a constitu­ tional amendment to get a balanced budget,” he said. Other Republican leaders called on Clinton to resubmit his spending plan after making changes to erase the deficit. Democrats retorted that Clinton had already produced a budget, and now it was the Republicans’ turn. “W h e re ’s y o u rs ? ” D asch le d em an d ed o f key Republicans. “Come on, guys, let’s deliver.” S t a t e P r e s s © M E W B W e ’re th e r e w h e n y o u c a n 't b e . 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A measure prohibiting gun ownership by people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence was passed by Congress last year. Thè Treasury Department’s Bureau of Alcohol. Tobacco and Firearms is enforcing it. r “In almost every state, ÀTF is going to be the enforcement arm of first resort, because there is no state law” lifting firearms from those abusers, agency Director John Magaw told the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Treasury Department. ' » The agency “may not have the personnel to carry but all these investigations,” he said Tuesday, and that could create problems. “If we don’t do it and someone gets killed as a result of it,, we might be left holding the bag,” Magaw said. “I don’t know if you want ATF to handle these cases, but I don’t know how we get out of i t ” Declining to predict how many calls the agency will get, Magaw said, “We need to make sure we’re doing what this committee wants us to do on this.” Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ari/.., chairman of the subcommittee, said he hoped A TF would not simply arrest people found to be wrongfully owning guns but would warn them of the new law first. He also expressed concern that the law could have signif­ icant budgetary impacts. Closer to home, about 10 law enforcement officers in the Treasury Department have lost their gun-carrying rights because of the law, Raymond Kelly, Treasury’s undersecre­ tary for enforcement, told the panel. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ., ini­ tially exempted law enforcement personnel, but that was taken out by Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga. Barr, with support from the Fraternal Order of Police, is now seeking to have the law repealed. Enforcement of the law is complicated by the fact that not all states have crime databases that include misdemeanor domestic violence, Kelly said. 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Sens. John M cCain o f A rizona, Pete Domenici of New Mexico, and Texans Phil Gramm and Kay Bailey Hutchison also signed the letter. W hen dealing with im m igration, Gramm said, the administration “has consistently had a huge gulf between what it says and what it does.” He noted that C linton, w ho has touted his administration’s immigra­ tion track record, proposed cuts in the Border Patrol upon first taking office. “I think clearly when the president sig n ed th e (im m ig ratio n ) b ill you would think that imposes on him an obligation with us to live up to the commitment we made,” said Gramm, who was an early advocate of adding 1,000 Border Patrol agents annually. “This is a strong letter because we don’t think the president is doing that.” it t e l s t a d t ress W A SH IN G T O N — T he W hite House is ignoring Congress’ mandate that the Border Patrol be beefed up by 1,000 new ag en ts a y ear, five Republican senators from Southwest border states charged Tuesday . In a letter to President Clinton, the Senators req u ested th at the W hite House explain by March 28 why its 1998 budget request seeks funding for only 500 o f the 1,000 new agents authorized by Congress. They also said the administration is o v e rlo o k in g o th e r re q u ire m e n ts Congress imposed last year with pas­ sage of a sweeping immigration bill. “Mr. President, we do not under­ stand how you could have neglected to fulfill the immigration act’s mandates fo r 1,000 additional B order Patrol agents, additional land border inspec­ tors and additional space to detain all criminal aliens when preparing your budget request,” said the letter drafted by Sen. Jon Kyi, R-Ariz., who sits on the Senate immigration subcommittee. Other Cities Available M ILL AVEN U E TR A V EL 9 6 6 -6 3 0 0 Discounts Also Available To Faculty & Staff Restrictions Apply. Subject to 'Availability. A d m in istratio n o ffic ia ls d id n ’t immediately offer any comment on the senators’ letter. The GOP complaint comes even as the INS is in the midst of an unprece­ dented budget hike. Renewed attention to im m ig ra tio n by c o n g re ssio n a l Republicans and the administration has resulted in a doubling of the agency’s budget from $1.5 billion at the start of Clinton’s tenure to S3.1 billion now. The Border Patrol has grown from ju st under 4,000 agents in 1993 to n early 6 ,9 0 0 ag en ts la st y ear. By October, the Border Patrol should be up to 7,400 agents. But the senators noted the illegal immigration population has swelled 28 percent in the last four years, hitting an estimated 5 million people. “W e b eliev e it w ould be a step backward, and the problem will only get worse, if the administration eases up on efforts to combat illegal immi­ gration by failing to fulfill the immi­ gration act m andate for 1,000 addi­ tional Border Patrol agents each year through the year 2001,” they wrote. ECYCL r L x Pager and Activation Unlimited Pages yo u R 1 Year A irtim e! 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