art i n d e p e n d e n I m o r n i n g d a i l y INSIDE Classifieds 16 Crosswords 14 serving i i atizona state Horoscopes 19 Opinion 04 university Volume 84 Number 60 W orld/Nation 03 Sports 13 Netanyahu suspends West Bank withdrawal due to Arafat threats Sun Devils m en’s hoops team set to chop down Lumberjacks ! J Weather Partly cloudy; high 82, low 52 PoliceBeat 08 Tuesday, November 17,1998 V alley firm inks land deal w ith A S U By Lidia E. Kelly State P ress ASU has hired Ernst & Young Kenneth Leventhal, a Phoenix real estate company, to manage the development of non-campus real estate assets. The University owns more than 100-acres of undevel­ oped land off campus and started looking for someone who to manage all of it six months ago, said Ray Jensen, ASU director of purchasing and business development. “We don’t have the expertise in house to do the develop­ ment by ourselves,” Jensen said. Ernst & Young Kenneth Leventhal was awarded a threeyear contract last month, which could extend two additional years, Jensen stud. Contracting with an outside company made ASU one of the first public universities to hire a real estate group for comprehensive development and management for its hold­ ings, Jensen said. ASU will pay die company on a project-by-project basis and the amount of money will depend on the size of each assignment. “It’s a very important project to us,” said Eduardo A. C a s tillo , co o rd in a tin g p a rtn e r at E rn st & Y oung Kenneth Leventhal, “We Want to continue advising and consulting to companies that are in need of the services, like ASU.” While the list of the Arm’s projects is still tentative, the first assignment is already decided/Jensen said. The company will be managing the development of a narrow strip of land located on the south side of the Salt River, stretching three-eighths o f a mile from College Avenue to Scottsdale Road. The firm will also represent the University in negotiations and planning of the proposed project. Future projects may include utilization o f land on the West and- East campuses. The West campus still has about 80 acres able to be developed and can be managed in the future by the real estate company . ASU also is considering possible uses for its 47-acre parcel near Price Road and University Drive, Where the University stores its surplus office equipment and vehicles. The Phoenix firm was chosen from a pool of seven applicants, including national real estate companies like Trammell Crow and local ones like DRL. EYKL was awarded the contract because it offered best combinations of resources, Jensen said. . “Ernst & Young Kenneth Leventhal had best support with feasible analysis and concept ideas,” he added. Student’s experiences flow through poe try B y A ngela Y eager S ta te P ress For years, Harold Branch III, or “HB,” as he likes to be called, has played the p a rt o f m en to r, stu d e n t, com m unity activist and poet. T he 2 1 -y e a r-o ld co m m u n icatio n s senior has come a long way since grow­ in g up in th e ro u g h p a rts o f w est Chicago. “1 was paying more attention to girls and hanging out on the block than study­ in g ,” he said. “ H onestly, I started to write poetry in the eighth gradé as a way to get girls.” Branch said tie found his niche, but couldn’t get past the anger and pain o f his life. His mother committed suicide when he was two years old and tie didn’t know, his father until later in life. He was raised by his aunt, who struggled to keep a home for hint and his two siblings. “My auntie did everything she could and gave me so m uch,” B ranch said . “She alw ays m ade sure I had glasses ev en th o u g h she c o u ld n ’t get hers changed every year.” The violence and turmoil in the neigh­ borhood concerned Branch’s aunt, who sent him to live with his father, who lives in Avondale. It was in Arizona, through a p ro g ram c a lle d G e n esis W est, th at Branch’s poetry started to expand. “I was using my poetry to express all the emotions and anger I felt,” he said. “But when I got out here, I started to use it to educate.” Branch attended E strella M ountain C om m unity C ollege at the age o f 17 through Genesis West, which lets at-risk youths attend high school and receive college credit at the same tim e. Here, Branch had ah outlet to u se his experi­ ences and his poetry. “If you have a cure for cancer, ÿoti don’t keep it a secret,” he said. “With all the things I’ve been through, I feel a responsibility to give kids tools to sur­ vive. A lot of them have all this anger and they hâve no way to voice it. I Want to be that bridge for them to do that.” Branch became involved in many com­ munity projects, which include retreats with youth, visiting schools to share his experiences arid performing his poetry. . At the age o f 18, he becam e the youngest truancy officer in the state of Arizona, working with young people and trying to increase school attendance. D uring the year Branch was involved with the program, attendance at partici­ pating schools increased 50 percent. “We were trying to get kids to go to school and trying to get parents to take more interest,” he said. Branch also started teaching a class at Adobe Mountain juvenile facility titled, “Anger Management through Poetry.” He co n tin u es to serve as the d ire c to r o f youth a sso c ia te s fo r the In s titu te o f Multicultural Success International. Jeremy Weiss of the Stats P ro s Communications m ajor Harold “HB” B randi ID, 21, reflects to r a moment before performing an origbnl poem. Besides being a poet and student, HB is also a member of Promise of Progress, an on campus group wMdi seeks to increase the retention rate of African-American college students through outreach and positive role models. More signs of liquid ocean found on Jupiter moon B y G ang A S ubramanian S tate P ress ASU scientists have found more evidence that sug­ gests the existence of a liquid ocean under the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. The pictures and data transm itted to Earth by the Galileo spacecraft show the surface of Europa consists of icy rafts that have been tilted, rotated and cracked, said Frank Chuang, a graduate student in geology who is part of the Planetary Geology Group that analyzed the pictures. Europa has an icy crust and a radius of 1565 kilometers. It is roughly the same size as the Earth’s moon, but is fur­ ther away from Jupiter than the moon is from die Earth. ■A/A- Jim Klemaszewski, an ASU senior research specialist for the project, said the scientists are extremely interest­ ed in studying these characteristics because they explain if life can exist in these bodies. “Whenever you have water, carbon and energy you have the main ingredients of life,” he said. The interest in Europa dates back to the Voyager expedition o f the 1970s. Chuang said pictures beamed back from the Voyager showed dark spots across the surface: o f Europa, suggesting there m ight be warm material welling up from below that caused.:the- surface to crack and melt. These findings were reinforced by high-resolution images beamed back periodically by the Galileo space- M m', ■t, è ft. ■ '■» 4 ’« ■*' » . til X HB ■— Today Campus clubs and organizations may submit written en tries to the S tate Press in th e basem ent of the Matthews Center. Requests will not be taken over the phone or via fax. Deadline for requests is noon the day before publica­ tion and entries will not be accepted more than three working days before publication. Only one entry per organization per day is permitted. Entries must contain the full name of the d u b o r organization, a description of the event, date, time and the full address of the location. All requests are subject to editing for content, space and clarity. Incomplete or illegible entries will be discarded. The Today Section is a daily calendar of events print­ ed as a service to the ASU community. Requests are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis and are printed as space permits. • A .I.E .S .E .C . — A meeting will be held in the MU room 2 16 at 5 p.m. • BSU Christian Ministries — Praise and worship with the topic “Is God growing you in mental health" at 1322 S. Mill Ave. at 8 p.m. • Career Services — Meet four happily employed business professionals and see if a business major is right for you in Manzanita Residence Mall at 7 p.m. • Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship -— A service will be held in the Danforth Chapel at 7:15 p.m. • Christian Students Fellowship — A Bible study on the gospel of John will be held for women at 1420 S. Oakley Race at 7 p.m. and for men at 1212 S. Mill Ave. at 8:30 p.m. • Counselor Training Center — Trained Master’s and Doctoral students offer free counseling for full­ time students, faculty and staff from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 965-5067 to schedule an appointment. • Hillel Jewish Student C enter — Tuesday lunch, tostadas, chips and salsa, will be offered at 1012 S. Mill Ave. at 11:30 a.m. Cost is $2.50 for students, $3.50 otherwise. • Learning Resource Center — A test taking strategies workshop will be held in the MU room 214 at 3 p.m. • Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic — Individual, couple and family therapy is available for students, fac- I ulty and staff in the Cowden Family Resources Building Room 140. Call 965-9373 for more information. When he enrolled at ASU at age 19, Branch immedi­ ately became involved with a group on campus called Promise o f Progress. The group seeks to increase the retention rate o f A frican-A m erican college students through outreach and positive role models. “There are not a lot o f positive images of black male professionals,” Branch said. “There are athletes and entertainers and there’s nothing wrong with that. But we want them to know they can do anything.” Through Promise of Progress, Branch met his men­ tor, Christopher Miller, assistant dean for student com­ munity development. “HB is a fine young man,” Miller said. “I am helping him so he can achieve academic success as well as be civally minded.” Miller has encouraged Branch in his poetry and also to continue his education, “He has a real desire to be involved in the performing arts,” Miller said. “I Want to help him to understand and appreciate things on a higher plane of consciousness.” Branch’s poetry is a performance he uses his entire body and face to express. He cites w riters such as Langston Hughes and Edgar Allen Poe as influences. However, the way such rap artists as Public Enemy and Rakirn use their words to spread a message has also been a main source of inspiration. Branch also takes his responsibilities as a role model seriously. “You are a role model because you exist,” he said. “It really bothers me because a lot of adults don’t accept respon­ sibility for this. There is always somebody watching you and don’t ever want to be an advocate for unhealthy behavior.” Brunch’s main focus lately has been on his poetry reaching as wide an audience as possible. He continues perform ing at the open mike shows that Promise for Progress holds to raise money to send underprivileged youth to college. He recently made a CD of his poetry and plans to attend graduate school after receiving his degree in the spring of 1999. “I want to put out more CDs, and eventually get into movies,” he said. “I want to be this generation’s poet. It’s all a matter of time.” Europa craft, he added. The interplanetary explorer Galileo has many sophis­ ticated measuring instruments, including a Solid State Imaging Camera that takes pictures of surfaces and a Near-Infra Red Mapping Spectrometer that measures the composition of surface materials. The Galileo Europa Mission is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Data from the spacecraft is sent back to Earth to sites in Australia, Spain and C alifornia. A fter the pictures have been assembled by NASA’s laboratory, they are sent to sci­ entists who process the images to bring out more detail, Klemaszewski said. To study Europa more, an orbiter will be sent out in 2003, which uses a radar to measure the thickness of the ice crust o f the moon, Chuang said. State Press Opinions Your passport to a magic kingdom, including Adventure Land, Tomorrow Land and Fantasy Land. 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