■ m W orld /N ation S ports R e f u g e e s g e t g r e a t e s t b e n e f it S u n D e v il s l o o k i n g a h e a d from B o s n i a e l e c t io n s to P age 3 -? 1 < *£ i I C o u g a r clash Page 1 7 ■ - s m s m g ì Horoscopes a— Opinion 1 Police Report...................... <* SjKirrs............................. -17 1 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY CG opyright, State P ra ss, 1997 Tem pe, A rizona T u esd a y , S e p te m b e r 1 6 ,1 9 9 7 An In d e p e n d e n t M orning Daily Vol. 82 No. 15 ‘L u cy ’ d isco verer, fa m ily settle in to life in V a lle y B y G e n o a S ib o l d -C o h n S ta te P ress m P a t S h a n n a h a n / S ta te P r e s s Don Jo h a n so n , fou n d er o f the Institute O f Hum an O rig in s, h o ld s a p laster c a st o f th e Skull o f on e o f m a n 's ea rlie st a n ce sto rs. • As a professional fossil-hunter, Donald Johanson has spent over 20 years combing the harsh w astelands o f E th io p ia for answers to human origins. . In the process, he discovered priceless treasures. One earned him recognition worldwide: the finding of Lucy, a partial skeleton that many believe is one of the old­ est human ancestors. His other great discovery was Tesfaye Kassa, an Ethiopian boy who Johanson and his wife later adopted, Johanson first met the boy — the son of M êles Kassa, an Ethiopian native and a member o f Johanson’s excavation team — near the very site where Lucy was found. When the elder Kassa became stricken with disease years later, he asked Johanson, then 51, to care for the boy. Although Tesfaye still had a mother in Africa, 'Johanson said that his frieijd was 'concerned about the living,conditions in Ethiopia and thought his son would have a better future in America. m M eles K assa died in 1994, leaving Tesfaye under die guardianship of Johanson and his wife, Lenore. The Johansons’ offi­ cially adopted die bôy soon after. Lenore Johanson said that Tesfaye has adjusted well to American life and has become fluent in English. “He didn’t even know English when he arrived,” she said. “You wouldn’t even know that now because he doesn’t even have an accent.” Tesfaye is a “typical 12-year-old” who plays soccer and attends sixth grade at Desert Canyon Middle School, Lenore added. Despite an occupation that calls for fre­ quent travel, Johanson said he concentrates on his relationship with Tesfaye. T tend to be away less (now) because it’s so important to be with a 12-year-old,” he said. Like Tesfaye, Johanson was left without a father at a young age. An anthropologist and German scholar, Paul Leser, became his men­ tor and father figure until his death in 1987. “I grew up fatherless and was brought up by mother,” Johanson said. “(Leser) sort of took me under his wing.” L eser left a legacy to Johanson that would change his life forever — a burning passion for paleoanthropology, the study of early humaris. T hroughout his early adulthood, Johanson dreamed o f exploring Africa. Despite discouragement and disbelief, he was determined to reach the Ivory Coast. CRSrieS'Merbs, ASU professor of .anthro­ pology, knew Johanson as a doctoral stu­ dent at the University of Chicago. He said he remembers him as an intense and highlymotivated student. »“He wanted to go to Africa and he was quite certain that he was going to Ethiopia,” Merbs said. “We thought the chances were against him, but he proved us wrong.” After completing his doctoral degree in 1974, Johanson finally achieved his goal. It was in Hadar, Ethiopia, that Johanson T urn to J ohanson , page 2. N ew p h y sio lo g y classroom rolls o u t w ith all th e o p tio n s B y Stacy M ann S tate P ress A new $600,000 human anatomy and physiology lab unveiled this semester comes standard with desktop moni­ tors, motorized tabletops and an electronic chalkboard —everything a student could ask for in a prototypical lab. Funded by a 1994 $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the lab will serve as a model for other new labs across the country. Problems such as not being able to see group members and missing examples while taking notes are tackled by Lorraine Cutler, coordinator of interior design. Cutler videotaped laboratory classes for 3 1/2 months and analyzed the tapes with the help of two graduate students. “What we found was that students- don’t always work in groups of four like it is assumed,” Cutler said. “Students work together in groups of two, four, five or eight and have had to adjust to the rectangular furniture.” Cutler saw that within these groups, students were often sitting on tables and rearranging chairs to be able to see one another. The clover-shaped lab stations eliminate the problem. Professors’ complaints about needing more face-toface contact with the students w ere addressed by the electronic chalkboard. Rather than having students take notes and miss the exam ple, the professor’s written notes appear on personal monitors and can be download­ ed onto a disk. C utler said her evaluation of traditional laboratories also revealed problems with chair and tabletop heights. Students with disabilities couldn’t fit their wheelchairs under the tables or couldn’t reach the taller stations, she added. Three motorized tabletops were installed in the lab and will automatically adjust to the height of the student seated. T urn to Lab, pag e 2. P rogram adds e th n ic diversity to C ollege o f E d u c atio n B y G in g e r S c o t t State P ress The College of Education put two and two together and came up with an answer to low minority enrollment. Through the 2+2+2 program, minority high school-juniors and seniors are actively recruited to boost minority enrollment in ASU’s education program. “ Our continuing goal is to bring more m inority teach ers to the C ollege of Education,” said Tracy Tisdale,-form er d irecto r o f the office o f .D iversity, Recruitment and Support Programs. “There is a need for more diversity in die teaching program. IPs definitely an issue.” R ichard D aniel, director o f Student Affairs in the College of Education, said minority enrollment has remained stable. Minority enrollment has fluctuated from 25 percent in the spring of 1995 to 26 percent in the fall of 1997. Minorities made up 80 of the 300 entrants into the professional teaching program this fait Tisdale said members of her office look at high school students interested m becoming educators and begin their guidance immediate­ ly. The office .is open to any student in the College of Education and offers computer lab assistance, tutoring and advising. said Kathya “ T h i s Hidalgo, peer office was cre­ I S fere ism need for more diversity in advisor and ated to give program. ' jS fe ' recruiter in students in the ■the 2+2+2 College of ^ ^ i ’rac^^Siale, former directorfMie a fflp b f program. E d u c a tio n Hidalgo more sup­ Diversity, Recruitment and! said the pro­ port,” Tisdale gram, only a said. The 2+2+2 program is intended to support year old, is now beginning to target more high school students who want to become o f the m in o rity h ig h school stu d en ts interested in education.: teachers through ASU’s education program. “We are looking to put Underrepre­ “We go out and work with high school juniors and seniors considering teaching and sented students in high-need areas,” said tell them about the opportunities in education,” T urn to E ducation , p a g e 2. P ag e 2 Jo h a n s o n _ Today C ontinued Campus clubs and organizations may sub­ pin. at the BSU center on 1322 S. Mill Ave. g f R e-entry Connection *—■Brown bag i mit written enures to the i basement of the Matthews Center. Requests social will liq |£kl in Rto 12fc30p.m. Bring yom hn^nndlM M i’M^er will not be taken over the phone or via fax. ,« * *y i Deadline for requests is noon the day re-entry studettti , ^ f before publication and entries will not be • Child and Family Services — ‘Tips for accepted more than three working days , Parents : Child Sexual Abuse Prevention .“ A before publication. Only one entry per discussion of what parents can do to prevent. eel evaluate child sexual abuse wrii be held 12 organization per day is permitted. ; . fjY . - Entries must (»main the full name of the pm. in the Chrysoeolla Rodfn ophf MU club or organization, a description of tire • Hillel Jewish Student Center — Kosher be M S at 1012 S, M S Ave. event, date, time and the full address of the fi|Ha lneci> (N ext to Dbmemc’s Cycling) 11.30 a m . price c « U ^ q » c e a n d c h a ity .I n c ( H ii|^ e o r i& ! g ible entries will be ITi events printed as a service to the ASU eommuare accepted on a first-come, firstspace permits. ; Accnw4oHi will be held oftteM U .A S your dream s“ : iUfi be held U u n i t the n tttt) H a ll, UK o r to set bp' : is $2.50 for students, $3.50 for non-stadents. 1 Circle K International — General meeting will be held 4;30p.m. In the Navajo Rooiho f the MU. ■ Scandinavian Club Kg General meeting wifi be held 3:30 pm . in the Language and Literature building, room C421. Refreshments will be served. • Jap an ese S tudent O rg a n izatio n — General meeting will be held 5 p.m. in the Graham Room of dm MU. ftetiGfchmimls will be served. All those interested w e invited to attend. < H General meeting will he held 3 pm in the Graham Room of the Mi; All Ause fatter- Meed are invited id attend. ?•' Coming Out discission group — meett Stu d en t U nion — Join the group for ¡ ing will be held 5:30 p.m.- in conference room 6 of the Students Services Building. praise and worship followed b y fellowship 8 .MR965-3 L a b ___________ C ontinued S t a t e P ress Tuesday, “September 1 6 ,199? from page 1. “We really worked to make sure that stu­ dents with special abilities did not feel seg­ regated,” Cutler said. The prototypical laboratory is the first of its kind in the Valley, Cutler said. The lab is being used by undergraduate biology students. A second lab for graduate classes is in the works, to be built with $400,000 left from the grant. ASU has no plans to convert any other existing labs to the new style, Cutler said. “The scientific process is very linear,” she said. “You tend to put your furniture in the order your mind works. But with tech­ nology, like the Internet, that’s changing.” f e s t D r iv e If you took the test Receive coi u score? 'eaknesses eal exam from page 1. made his most widely-known discovery, Lucy. Lucy is a 3.4 million yew-old skele­ ton that is the oldest and most complete known human ancestor. The name was drawn from the Beatles’ song, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which was playing the day of the discovery. Johanson said Lucy’s species walked on the planet for close to a m illion years. Despite one’s geographical region, Lucy tells the evolutionary story and the related­ ness of all people, he said. “While the tree of human evolution has many branches, the roots o f each branch w ill u ltim ately lead back to A frica,” Johanson said. In 1975, Johanson’s team dug up pieces of the First Family — the remains o f 13 human ancestors living in groups. The team’s discoveries, which were offi­ cially announced in 1978, sent shockwaves throughout the scien tific com m unity. Unlike other researchers who believed brain-size Was the impetus that led to mod­ em humans, Johanson argued that bipedalism (Walking on two legs) was the first major change from apes to humans. Lucy and her kin apparently had brains no larger than a modern chimpanzee, though they walked upright. Johanson went on to found the Institute o f Human O rigins, which m oved from Berkeley, Calif., to ASU over the summer. Johanson said he enjoys his new home in the desert and finds it a more comfortable environment. Also, raising a 12-year-old has forced the roving paleoanthropologist to think more about settling down. “My wife and I have traveled a great deal (in the past),” he said. “I do like the consistency o f being in the university environment.” E d u ca to rs^ C ontinued from page 1. A nita Verdugo, director o f the 2+2+2 program. Verdugo said the program is recruiting low income or minority students to work in bilingual or English as a second lan­ guage education, special education and math and science. ASU is partnered with eight schools in the Mesa, Tempe, Agua Fria and Phoenix Union High School Districts for the program. High school students fill out applica­ tions for the program during their junior or senior year. Once admitted, they are shadow ed and co u n seled by students already in the C ollege o f E ducation. During the summer,' the 2+2+2 students spend a week on campus to get a taste of college life. Emma Holm es, O ffice o f D iversity, Recruitment and Support Programs, said she hopes this extra support will help all students succeed in the C ollege o f Education as well as bring a needed diversi­ ty to Arizona’s educators. “The reason more culturally diverse people should be teachers is we have a very cu ltu ra lly div erse p o p u latio n in Arizona, and they have culturally diverse children,” Holmes said. “Children need to see that their own people are success­ ful. Children put teachers.on a pedestal.”' 1 W orld/N ation P a g;e3 Tuesday, September 16,1997 State P ress W in n e rs in B o sn ia ’s e le ctio n s? M u slim re fu g e e s B y J u d it h I ng ra m A sso cia te d P ress SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Mounds of votes remained uncounted from the weekend’s elections, but already claim ing partial victory were the m asses of refugees who hope the ballot box will finally give them a chance to go home permanently . “This is the first step back home,” Enver Pilav said Monday in Sarajevo. Originally from the mostly Muslim town of Foca, he was a candidate for the local council for that town, renamed Sibinje by the Serbs who took it on the battlefield. Some 89 percent of voters registered to cast ballots for their prewar hometowns on Saturday and Sunday, including hundreds of thousands of refugees driven out before the fighting stopped in late 1995. That suggested that the local elections could Well change the ethnic map carved in the Bosnian war. If majority Muslims driven out by Serbs elect a Muslim city couneil.in a particular town, for instance, the way would be open for the Muslims to return. The pressure against them by those who drove them put would be intense. But refugees are hoping the NATO-led peace force will throw its weight behind them. Kris Janowski, a spokesman for the U.N. refugee agen: cy, said the high registration of would-be returnees was “a big chance, but it’s obviously the biggest challenge since the Dayton peace agreement.” The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe — which organized the elections — has ruled that if local councils a re n 't form ed according to the voters’wishes by the end of the year, it won’t certify the elections as free and fair. A host of sanctions could follow to isolate communities that insist on separatism. Still, the will to obstruct will be great in many places — especially those packed with refugees fearing to lose the little security they have found with members of their own ethnic group. A single Muslim ■ — married to a Serb — is said to be living Srd|an Ilfc/AP P h o to A B ritish N A T O so ld ie r g u a rd s h is co lle a g u e s a s th ey load ele ctio n b a llo ts on to a tru ck In Banja Lu ka, som e 124 m ile s north o f Sarajevo, M onday. W ith ballo t cou n tin g underw ay, e le ctio n o rg a n ize rs and d ip lom a ts ca lle d fo r long-term , con tin u ed internation­ al involvem ent in B o sn ia to en su re th e re su lts are Im plem ented. in Foca, where the Serbs’ desire to eradicate their onetime neighbors was so intense they blew up the town’s 16th-century mosque — and dug out die foundations for good measure. Against such a background, it’s hard to imagine how the newly elected council could work if it includes Muslim members, much less a Muslim majority. “They must,” said Hasan Balic, a Muslim who got elect­ ed to parliament in the Serb portion of Bosnia during last year’s parliamentary elections through the vote of Muslim refugees. “There is no alternative.” O .J. Simpson has moved from 20-year-old Brentwood mansion B y J o h n A ntczak Associated P ress LOS ANGELES — O.J. Simpson has moved out of his Brentwood mansion, leaving behind a symbol of success that came to be known for a bloody glove, a slow-speed chase and his financial downfall. Simpson left his home of 20 years over the Labor Day weekend and moved to a new house in the Los Angeles area, said Dan Leonard, a lawyer appealing the $33.5 million wrongful death verdict against the former foot­ ball star. Leonard would not give the new address, but Simpson has reportedly moved to a gated community about a mile east of his old home. Even though he’s moved out, a Ryder rental truck remained in the mansion’s drive­ way on Monday. Sim pson’s longtim e assistant, Cathy Randa, said Simpson was in the process of moving but would give no details. “The less said the better,” she said. “It’s a fact he’s moving. Everyone knows he’s moving.” Fred Sands Realtors, which has the listing, planned to announce that Simpson was gone and that it will take a few weeks to prepare die home for showing. Planned repairs include new carpets and paint but no structural work. The 6,200-square-foot home has six baths, a tennis court, waterfalls and an Olympic-size swimming pool. With Simpson behind on his mortgage, the house sold at auction in July for $2.63 million. The asking price now is $3.95 million, said Fred Sahds, adding that he thinks it won’t take long to sell it because of its location and amenities, despite its notoriety. “T here’s no crime com m itted at this house,” Sands insisted at a news conference. “It’s not stigmatized.” He suggested a potential buyer who felt dif­ ferently could simply change the address of the comer house from Rockingham Avenue to Ashford Street. The driveway has gates on both streets. Simpson bought the mansion in 1977, near the end of his Hall of Fame career — before he went into television and the movies, before his marriage to Nicole Brown Simpson — and long before he was accused of murdering her and Ronald Goldman. The estate became a crime scene in 1994 as police investigating the slayings a few blocks away noticed a trail of bloody drops leading up the driveway and found a bloody glove inside. Millions of Americans first saw the home in the background as Simpson was being handcuffed. His famous slow-speed chase ended there, too. After Simpson was acquitted in criminal court and then found liable for the deaths this year in civil court, he fell behind on his mort­ gage. Hawthorne Savings foreclosed on the mansion and then bought it at auction. None of the proceeds will go to the vic­ tims’ families. The money will instead go toward the numerous liens on the house, against which Simpson had borrowed to pay millions in legal bills. Searchers find neither survivors nor bodies in Atlantic crash By T o m C oh en A sso cia te d P ress WINDHOEK, Namibia — Two days after nine Americans and 24 Germans dropped from sight while flying off Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, searchers on Monday found airplane seats and a few papers — but no survivors or bodies. The Atlantic is 3,000 feet deep in the area where the U.S. C-141 Starlifter and the German air force plane appar­ ently collided and crashed Saturday, and some officials doubted much wreckage ever would he found. Military officials from Germany, the United States and South Africa — which is responsible for sea rescue operations in tire area — converged on Windhoek to coordinate the search. They also want to determine why it took 24 hours before rescue officials were told the planes were missing. “We are about to hire some divers,” German air force Maj. Gen. Gerhard Buck said. Searchers found seats from the German plane and papers in German in two areas of the sea Monday near where the planes may have collided, about 115 miles west of Cape Adi Bradtaw POOLMP Photo Fria on the Namibian coast. A n unidentified com m anding officer on board a South A frican A ir American officials said they could not say why it took so Force C-130 scans the water« som e 180 nautical m iles off the north­ long to initiate a search or what steps were taken when the" ern Namtoian coast, Monday, where U. S . and German military planes U.S, plane did not arrive at Ascension Island from Namibia are believed to have collided in mid air. Searchers on Monday found airplane seats and a few papers, but no survivors o r bodies. as scheduled. One key to keeping track of airplanes is the flight plan, “I cannot reconstruct that for you. We simply do not have that information. I ’m not sure what the time line which is passed cm from (me air traffic control point to another. Namibian officials said they had not received the flight would be, but they would obviously inform people in the plan for the German plane, which vanished en route from United States,” said U.S. Army Col. Michael Mensch. Germany to Cape Town, South Africa. “No departure signal, no flight plan. That’s ^diy we were not aware that the airplane was coming,” said mchen Sell, Namibia’s chief air traffic officer. He told reporters such critical procedures are often absent in Africa. “It is normal in Africa,” Sell said. “We have a big prob­ lem, a major problem.” In Windhoek, Buck said a flight plan for the German plane had been filed before takeoff from Germany. But Sell said it was never passed on, as required, by air traffic con­ trollers in Niger. Louie Lourens, Namibia’s deputy director of aviation security, said the site of the apparent collision was out of range of Namibian air traffic control radar. The two planes were traveling on the same air route in different directions, “although they should have been height-separated,” South Africa’s Brig. Hap Potgieter said Pretoria, South Africa. A French aircraft flying over the apparent crash site Sunday night picked up a faint distress signal which may have come from an automatic emergency beacon. U.S. Air Force monitors in the European command also picked up the distress signal at about die same time, South African officials said. However, the presence of a signal “does not mean there is a survivor,” Buck said. O p in io n Page 4 Tuesday, September 16,1997 S t a t e P ress — Editorial ASU, don’t get legal e 1997 Bochesto I oU-Buietin Ço.. U C Ed Richer Syndcate lulmi Opinila Butin mm (ft fire stories, the immediate traum a is overwhelming. Sympathies o f friends, family and total ‘ inrMiflWI Jili iiiil in the people burned out o f their r ~ n in the Waze. We cry at the loss o f what can’t be repi&cdf trophies, WC. What happens next, though, is possibly more trau­ matic ~*~ m eedfess fewregeof paperwork, including the rehashing of contracts and assigning of blame. The fire that burned Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity’s house in May invoked sim ilar reactions. Except this fire story’s ramifications will be Sigruficantly ^ a ie a d t:a f lh f tg ^ | p i Balfe-^ «4***pii ^ f r g i ^ , .| ties on Alpha Drive — who are often under the watch­ ful eye of administrators — have found themselves at ¡ ¡ M l ilillr i tir i fSW^r ilf