INSIDE Classifieds 16 Crosswords 10 Horoscopes 19 »"weather sunny; hi 65, low 43 Volume 84 Number 72 Friday, January 2 2,1 99 9 Opinion 04 PoliceBeatO/ Local!State 03 Sports 13 Students learn about pla n t and anim al life ät A SU 's Arboretum ASU women overcom e poor shooting, defeat Beavers, 57-53 P ro fe s s o r re ce ive s g ra n t t o stu d y P a rk in s o n ’s B y A n d r e a J , B à lsk y S t a t e P r ess ASU p ro fe s s o r G eorge S telm ach was re cen tly awarded a $ 1.7 million grant which he hopes will lead him to clues in his search for a cure to Parkinson’s dis­ ease. \ ’ Stelmach. an ASU professor since 1991, received the five-year grant from The N ational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in December. Parkinson's disease has been generating more inter­ est sin ce ac to r M ichael J. Fox and ex -b o x er Muhammad Ali began experiencing varying effects of the disease. “W hen fam ous people get a fflic ted , the public notices and often research money filters from that,” Stelmach said. “We would like to be able to show that our primary hypothesis — that with Parkinson’s dis­ eases there are impairments in the way the brain plans and 'organizes skilled movements — is correct one.” Parkinson’s disease attacks the body’s motor skills, commonly leading to muscular rigidity and tremors. While traditionally the elderly have been the primary victims of the disease, that trend is changing, Stelmach said, and younger people are becoming afflicted as well. Stelmach was awarded the grant after a peer com­ m ittee review ed his work and gave him a priority score, said Natalie Larsen, a spokeswom an for the institute. ■ v ■ “T here’s a feeling of glee that your research has been evaluated by peers and chosen for funding,” Stelmach said. “It was a nice feeling because faculty gets no state funding for this type of research.” Stelmach’s ASU colleagues said they were pleased C f o o n r t a m A S U i n a t e d m Soley Hartel of the State Press Professor George Stelmach demonstrates how-markere'«remtaelR^toA,yj^egt's;Bi>gwv'ttiuwl>'m>< wristsB4b<>t ^J>«»d,moyegients «^o be reconstructed in real time, 3D space. Stelmach was awarded a $1.7 million grartt which he will use to search for a cure for Parktnsón’s dls- e a t s s t u d e n t s , h n o o t p d o g r o b Blackout darkens two ASU campuses l e m v e n d o r s By C arrie S everson SYa te P ress A week after state health officials reported five cases of listeriosis - a bacterial disease • recently found in packaged meat products such as hot dogs - ASU Student Health Services has not seen a single patient with symptoms of the ill­ ness. Tjiip outbreak has killed 12 people while ^62 others have been affected in a dozen f People exposed to the disease may expeij&ta|; flu-like symptoms, said Chuck Catlih, ¿¿araui: Department of Health Services fpod sa £ ^ te ^ |b i| ager. ' ■ The Sara Lee Corp. recalled dieir-hS 'd^^^d -1. packaged meats produced by . from local grocery stores last month, OfiiliH aw L :v Students who visit one of the two neiuby hot dog stands don’t have toworry about exposure to tainted meat, said Grandy VanNay,: &e vendor at the hot dog stand on the corner ofUniversity, Drive and College Avenue. • . ' "V VanNoy said.he knows about the bacteria. However, he said, he buys his hot dogs from Vienna Beef, while the contaminated meats were Sotejr Hvtal of the Scat* n a n Grandy VanNoy, the vendor at the hot dog stand on the corner of East University Drive and South College Avenne, sells a hot dog to M artin Coideaons Wednesday. VanNoy believes that his customers do not have to worry about HsterM s, a bacterial disease that was found in hot dogs made by Sm* Lee Corps because he purchases Ms hot dogs from Vienna Beet number of VanNoy said. He said hot dogs a day, the same number as last semester. He added that he has not had any complaints from students who buy • from him. Although VanNoy said his patrons have noth­ ing to worry about, some students are still con­ cerned that the tainted products were ever sold. “I would like to know how long the company knew about die bacteria before they decided to recall die product,” said Chris Winslow, an ASU comparative literature graduate student “The FDA needs to raise their standards,” said Lisa Hach, an aerospace engineering sophomore. ‘Tainted foods shouldn’t be reaching die public in the first place.” B y Ja y s o n P eters St a t e P ress Construction work near campus left an estimated 30 buildings on the west side o f campus without power from about 8 a.m. to around 9 a.m. Thursday, A construction company digging at an unspecified location a half mile, away from ASU caused a transfer feeder to malfunction, said Will Diaz, spokesman for Arizona Public Service, darkening lights and computer monitors between South Hardy Drive and South Mill A ydnue. The outage also stretched from Rio Salado Parkway to East University Drive. A transfer feeder is “a big relay switch where power is fed through overhead lines,” Diaz said. ASU staff members said the situation was always under control, but students said they would have liked more information about the outage. ' Dorthy Tepe, a clinical laboratory sciences junior, said the University should have a system for providing - Inform ation on such pow er outages 'to the people it affebts. “You don’t know what type of disaster it could be,” she said. “I work at a hospital and we have a call center.” She said the staff in the Social Sciences building reg­ istrar’s site tried to find out what was causing the power outage and how long it would last, but they told her they did not know. Bob Nelson, director of the Computing Technology Center, said several sites on campus — including the Computing Commons, two classrooms in the Business College C-Wing and the Sun Card Office — were back up and running faster than others because of new tech­ nology installed within the last year. Nelson said special battery backups — known as UPS systems — provide up to 20 minutes of “ride-through” time that allowed an orderly shutdown instead of a sud­ den blackout. Stelm ach Campus clubs and organizations may sub­ mit written entries to the State Press in the basement of die Matthews Center. Requests will not be taken over the phone or via fax. * Deadline for requests is noon the day before publication and entries will not he 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 club or 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 illeg­ ible entries will be discarded. The Today Section is a daily calendar of events printed as a service to the ASU com­ munity. Requests are accepted on a firstcome, first-served basis and are printed as space permits. • The Counselor Training Center offers free services to faculty, staff, and students for depression, anxiety, and other personal issues. • The Live Art Platform will launch their “Foreplay” benefit which will feature local art displays at the Alwun House at 1204 E. Roosevelt. Four ASU graduates are due to perform and a $6 cover charge will be charged at the door which will be used to ben­ efit die organization. • The Japanese Student Organization will hold a general meeting at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Union in room 266. The meeting will be to discussupcoming semester events. • The Young Democrats will hold a gen­ eral meeting at 3 p.m. that is open to anyone who wishes to attend. The meeting will be in the Memorial Union, in the Coconino Room. • The Graduate Student Affairs Vice President’s Office will hold a meeting to go over opportunities available to volunteers in the graduate department at 12:30 p.m. on the third floor of the Memorial Union in room 1A and IB: • The MUAB Comedy Com m ittee is holding auditions for the “Barren Mind” improvisation and the “Farce Side Comedy Hour” between 4 and 8 p.m. on the lower level of the Memorial Union in the Programming Lounge. to hear about the grant as well. “W e’re delighted,” said Bill Stone, departm ent chair for exercise science and physical development. “We think this is a very significant development.” Stelmach said the grant will enable him to hire research associates, buy equipment and help recruit outstanding young scientists to ASU. “W e’ve made a substantial am ount o f progress on the Parkinsonian project,” Stelmach said of his research. “We have a much better understanding of movement control than we did several- years ago.” Stelmach said he hopes the basic science research he and his lab group are doing will eventually help others find a cure for Parkinson’s disease. “Maybe in 20 years this will be a disease that can be eliminat­ ed,” he said. Pow erout i I g ig im In the M em orial U nion the outage inconvenienced students waiting to use elevators, create computer accounts in the new Montgomery Room lab and have Sun Card pictures taken. But “because it was in the morning (the outage) didn’t have too big of an impact,” said Dale Witenhafer, campus card man­ ager. Ken Bonk, assistant director of the MU Activities Center, said employees were stationed at high-traffic points, and an ASU police officer was on hand to patrol the building. “We double check all the vendors just to make sure people are OK,” he added. Burger King, ASU’s Fast Copy and American Express Travel M anagement a mmmm mm m - a Services were all shut down for the dura­ tion of the outage. In an unrelated incident, power was out for more than an hour Thursday morning in the Technology and Applied Sciences d ep artm en t at ASU E ast. W allace R eynolds, a spokesm an for Salt R iver Project, said that outage was due to a bad W a n t to w ew é&toiiaaaSibiiitG q ualified re p o rte rs fo rrih e sp s p rin r g se m e ste to w o rk tor the h a se m e P re ss? t© p ick up an a p p lic today. T A f> "fc M- i * i ~w W E LC O M E B A C K A S U ! FRIDAY. JANUARY 22ND 21 AND OVER COMPLIMENTARY 1-CENT DRINKS AND APPETIZERS T IL 10PM DJs STEVE LEVINE AND PETE “SUPERMIX” SALAZ AFTER HOURS 1AM TO 4AM 18 AND OVER SATURDAY, JANUARY 23RD 21 AND OVER GROOVE WITH DJs STEVE LEVINE AND RANDY • $2 U CALL IT FROM 10PM TO MIDNIGHT BIG CHANGES ARE COMING • SEE OUR AD NEXT WEEK IN THE ASU STATE PRESS 919 East Apache, Tempe 966-8004 1* 1- * Local/State “N ow , hopefully the student has the incentive to do the w ork” — Arizona state rep. Tom H om e (R-Phoenix) on expanding the scope o f the AIMS tests Ir , January 13, IN f N e w c o p s t o b e h ir e d w it h o u t t a x in c r e a s e B y G a n g a S u b r a m a n ia n St a t e P ress Tempe’s understaffed police depart­ m ent w ill see the addition o f 42 new recruits at a projected annual cost o f alm’o st $2.3 million, with no new taxes, the city council agrtcfi Thursday. The positions will include 23 sworn officers and 19 non-sw orn or support personnel. The city will also create an additional pool of eight trained offi­ cers who will be “over hired” to meet future needs, said Ron B urns, Tempe police chief. The Tempe Police Department made this plan in response to the recommenda­ tions outlined in a study conducted by H H I A dvan ced / M aster . the Institute of Law O fficer Program to and Ju stic e la st 4 %This is not a good M arch . T he study “provide incentives was Commissioned for officers to grow wav to do it a fte r p o lic e drew on the job.” c o n s id e ra b le fla k Councilman Joe fo r re m a in in g S p rac ale said th e Ben Arredondo, understaffed. department is look­ Tem pe councilman T he co u n c il ing to recruit “peo­ ad d ressed vario u s issu e s co n cerning ple who w ant to have a career in law department staffing including attracting enforcem ent in the streets and not in new officers to the force, retaining senior administration.” officers and recruiting civilian support The plan will be funded by non-tax personnel such as record clerks and sec­ means including a $10 surcharge on all retaries, court ordered fines excluding parking Bums said the department will address fines. The city has projected that rev­ tu rn o v e r issu es by im p le m e n tin g an enues of $350,000 will be raised through M S’dcn an increase. Councilman Ben Arredondo raised ini­ tial objections to the fines: “This is not a good way to do it,” he said. Arredondo said using fines to raise funds for new officers may lead to an increase in tickets being issued; without an actual increase in violations. , Pat Flynn, deputy city m anager also recommended that alarm fees and penal­ ties for false alarms be increased. The city aims to raise an additional $275,000 annually through this, he said'. M ayor N eil G iuliano requested that the police department provide an actual implementation chart at regular intervals to the city council. Analysts: rising job rate is not w hat it seems By A m a n d a R iddle A sso c ia ted P res^s Leah Fasten of the State Press Exploring new depths Leslie Gutierrez, 15, a sophomore at Trevor Browne High School, checks the water temperature at the ASU Desert Arboretum Park on Thursday while participating in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Public Science Day. In celebration of Public Science Day, the Southwest Center for Education and the Natural Environment in partnership with ASU’s Center for Environmental Studies hosted a full day of science activities for Trevor Browne students who are building their own native habitat H ouse co u ld b ro a d e n A IM S exam By P a u l D a ven po r t A sso c ia ted P ress PHOENIX - A legislative comm ittee on T hursday endorsed a bill to require Arizona third and eighth-graders to pass their versions of the AIMS test before being pro­ moted, though principals cduld make exceptions. AIMS, short for the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards, is a new test that high school students will begin taking this year to measure their knowledge of English and math required under the state’s curriculum standards. Beginning with students who are now ninth-graders, students will have to pass the high school AIMS test to graduate. Third, fifth and eighth-graders will take their own versions of AIMS beginning in the spring o f 2000, but there is now no requirement that students pass those tests to be promoted. That would change under the bill sponsored by Rep, Tom Home, a Phoenix Republican who is chairman of die House Committee oft Academic Accountability. The com­ mittee endorsed both the AIMS-promotion bill and a com­ panion measure introduced by Horne on school district accountability; Home said the AIMS bill would combat “social promo­ tion” of students by making sure they can read before leav­ ing elementary school. “Now, hopefully the student has the incentive to do the work,” he said. Home said he is also trying to provide ammunition for public education supporters in their efforts to persuade other lawmakers to spend more on schools. “They’re willing to spend more if they’re assured of get­ ting more product out of the schools,” said Horne, a Paradise Valley Unified School District board member.. Several school lobbyists complained the bill does not provide extra money for summer school, tutoring and other help for students who fail to pass the test. “ That’s not the point,” responded Rep. Sue Gerard, RPhoenix. “The reason why you do this is so everybody wakes up and doesn’t wait until the third grade.” School lobbyists also noted that high school students have five chances to pass their AIMS test to graduate but that third and eighth-graders would have only one chance. David Krueger, the Tucson Unified School District’s top testing official, said the stigma of being retained would increase dropouts, particularly in the eighth grade. Using AIMS to combat social promotion is like using a tactical nuclear weapon to hunt javelina, he said. “You will probably get your prey but there probably won’t be much left of it.” PHOENIX - Arizona ended the year with a rècord num­ ber of jobs, but state analysts warn that’s an indication of a steady job growth that is finally expected to slow. “This is more of a marathon runner type of economy as opposed to a sprinter,” said Dan Anderson, Department of Economic Security research administrator. “The expecta­ tion is that the rate of job growth will not be as strong in the future as it has been in the past, but there’s no indica­ tion of a recession at all.” i While Arizona jobs hit a record high at 2.31 million, the state’s unemployment rate also edged up slightly last month, DES announced Thursday . The seasonally adjusted unem ploym ent ra te for December increased to 4.1 percent from 4.0 percent in November, DES repotted; DES attributed the rise in unemployment to a hiring frenzy in October and November by many employers fear­ ing they would lack the workers they needed because of the nation’s tight labor market. “We didn’t see the usual blip at the end of the year because employers got out early and hired their staff,” Anderson said. While 600 people were looking for work in December, businesses statewide added 9,800 jobs to their payrolls, attributing to Arizona’s record high of non-farm jobs. Anderson said the job growth in Arizona over the last few years has been a steady 4.2 percent, but analysts expect growth to slow this year to 3.5 percent. “It’s really been very, very steady in an over the year basis. We have been consistently creating jobs in most sec­ tors of the economy,” he said. Growth in construction and the manufacturing sector, includ­ ing high-technology companies such as Motorola and Intel, par­ ticularly caught state analysts by surprise, Anderson said. Manufacturing rebounded from a three-month loss to add 700 jobs in December, a gain of4,000jobs over last year. Construction also added 600jobs to the 11,000 created in the last year. “Construction is a surprise, we expected it to peak in 1997 and slow in 1998, but we’ve seen increases every month,” Anderson said. “In manufacturing there were great expectation that was going to mean. ..we’d be losing a lot of jobs, in fact that has not been, the case. I think that’s quite encouraging to the state, “ he said. The Tucson metropolitan area had the lowest unemploy­ ment rate in December, with 2.5 percent of its residents without a job, a slight 0.1 percent increase from the month before. The Phoenix area followed close behind with 2.9 percent unemployment, up from 2.7 percent in November. . While unemployment in Arizona increased, the national aver­ age fell slightly to 4.3 percent from 4.4 percent in November. Meanwhile, in thè state’s rural areas, double-digit unem­ ployment increased by as much as 2 full percentage points - 26.1 percent from 24.1 percent in Yuma County. Apache, Navajo and Santa Cruz counties, also with unemployment in the teens, inched up anywhere from 0.3 percent to one full point, Every county expect Greenlee and Yavapai saw an increase. ■ ' \ Opinion mi B M s m m m BOO — To the Arizona Legislature for igriGl£R5 the state universities' request for additional [ fu n ding. N o t o n ly d id our elected officials ! ignore the request, they actually recommended a j .3 percent decrease in funds over last year. Even FGov. Jane Hull's 2.7 percent budget increase falls far short of the 19.4 percent increase requested I by the state's three universities and the Arizona ! Board of Regents. We're already bracing ourI selves for the tuition increases that are sure to I follow such a paltry budget proposal. BRAVO — To the 30 or so ASU students and { faculty w ho sat dow n to take a stand against Tempe's newest law banning sitting on down1 town sidewalks. Down here at the State Press, w e can't figure out how taking a load off on a public right-of-way became a crime worthy erf 30 days in the pokey and a fine that can run up to $500. Downtown Tempe merchants claim their cus­ tom ers are afraid to v isit th eir b u sin esses because of the hom eless kids that linger along Mill Avenue. But a recent poll of Tempe resi­ dents show ed that 67 percent feel safe in .the downtown area at night. We think those para­ noid shoppers from die rest of the Valley should go back to the mall. > ?F BOO To Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., w ho decided to boycott President Clinton's State of the Union address Tuesday night and instead w atch the annual sp eech from hom e. Republicans complained that Clinton's decision to go ahead with the speech showed a "lack of ; respect for Congress." What about the obscene.. I lack of respect the Congress has demonstrated Ftoward the president? Not to mention the jiinior| highish behavior exhibited during Tuesday night's address when Republican members of Congress sat in stony silence and refused to applaud even the most bi-partisan proposals put forth by Clinton. BRAVO — To Phoenix Republican Steve May, one of only tw o openly gay m em bers of the Arizona L egislature, for causing a fuss over | som e ridiculous legislation being proposed by h is colleagu es. H e's trying to ward off b ills i backed by Rep. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, and j Rep. Linda Gray, R-Glendale, that would immobilize gay and lesbian high school clubs, stop I same-sex couples from being foster parents, and | discontinue taxpayer-paid insurance coverage to j domestic partners of homosexual employees of j any government agency in the state, j BOO — To the Miss Nude Arizona State calen­ dar for its tasteless display of ASU coeds. Whose | bright idea was this anyway? "I know, if I can | get 12 women to pose nude with, say, a shotgun, | I bet I can make a lot of money." We're just glad j: the venture flopped. We're not fond of anything | that contributes to the objectification of women, ! which this calendar blatantly does. .1 \<§rm CK*ff?>9UWR, R*ruffheumf U M U iála.. h i w S / 3KÍ m \% y gm FA R* RIGUT . N o th in g ‘fun’ in teenage m urder Someone like Jessica Holtmeyer, a 16-year-old currently standing trial for murder, scares me. The teenager from Clearfield, Pa., a small industri­ al town of 7,500 approximately 125 miles niortheast 6f Pittsburgh, is quot­ ed as saying, “ It was fun to hang someone, It would be fun. to do that againF” t)oes that scare you? . According to prosecutors, who are seeking the death penalty in the case,. H oltm eyer had fun m urdering 15year-old Kimberly Jo Dotts. Holtm eyer’s trial began Monday. At 1 6 ,1 had a brand new driver’s license and thought driving was fun. Working on my high school’s theater production was work, but it was fun. Hanging out with friends was fun. H oltm eyer’s story, as reported by the A ssociated Press, began when a group of seven young adults call­ ing them selves “the Runaway Gang” embarked on a mini crime spree. The group, planning to run away, allegedly stole liquor, a piece of rope and went to a place known as Gallows Harbor. Perhaps Holtmeyer should have lived in the 19th century -— Gallows Harbor was once a place for Holtmeyer’s kind of fun. Dotts, described as “short, overweight and learningdisabled,” was told that having a noose put around her neck would dem onstrate loyalty to the group. When Dotts had the rope around her neck, someone yelled “yank it.” , No need for gory details. Human beings die when they d o n 't have enough oxygen. Dotts was a 15-year.oid human being and she died. Her body was found nine days later. I used to not think much of Jhe death penalty. I was raised to believe that killing someone is wrong, no mat­ ter who does the killing. It wasn’t until I read about Holtmeyer’s idea of fun that I looked at the subject dif­ ferently. And in a growing sea o f Jessica H pltm eyers, the death penalty is becoming a booming business. Judging whether someone should live or die is an awesome task. The idea of causing someone’s death is not fun for most people. Holtmeyer might be an excep­ tion. I have to wonder if someone who has no conòept of the value of life should even have the privilege of spending her remaining years on earth in a prison. For human beings to coexist, it is crucial for people to recognize that? u/é heed toTrèat/ejifctì other with civili­ ty. W fe'dq'not hSve to Ilkè eVefyòne. 1 d o n ’t'lik e Holtmeyer — I’m not sure I would be upset if she was given the death penalty. i Considering the circumstances, it might benefit soci­ ety if she didn’t have the opportunity to have any more fun. Some people ènjoy destroying things. H oltm eyer appears to be one o f these people. “H oltm eyer was known as a bully at school and people told stories of her setting cats on fire and strangling a poodle,” according to the AP story. 1 don’t want to live in a society with people like her. It may sound like I have no sympathy for Holtmeyer. Perhaps she didn’t receive the early bonding that is cru­ cial for humans to understand the value of life. She may not have been told that killing people isn’t accepted in our society. , , . , ::, , ' But Holtmeyer’s crime does not seem to have been a crime of ignorance or passion. It was a crime of selfish­ ness and apathy. Holtm eyer wanted to have fun and didn’t care who suffered. I find that very disturbing. I wonder what it would take for me to conjure up some sympathy for Holtmeyer. I wonder what it would take for me to even attempt to understand her thought process the night she killed Dotts. B u t I d o n ’t w o n d er w hat it is lik e to have Holtmeyer’s kind of fun, and I’m fine with that. I ’ll stick to hanging out with friends, not hanging them. Rosie M cSweeny is a graduate student studying jo u r n a lism and ca n be reached at m csw ee@ im ap3.asu.edu. Kara Shire, Editor D ave WoodfUl, M a n a gin g Editor Alicia A Caldwell Reporters — Lidia Kelly — — —— Asst. 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Of course racism and distPmmatioa still exist tan a pfenunal level — you can't legislate what people are allowed to think. But it is generally accepted on principle diitt s ^ h attitudes should not be p K s n p e d i p ^ f I In a blatant betrayal of the spirit of Dr. King’s message.' tiw .O t^;Cop»cil enacted the sidewalk-sitting ban on Sundagj.wpsti *£nlt4ed a s f f l j m ' wM $- ' * V .’ * .. \ \ But, sam eofthe facts brought to light at the city council n^eting. in Which tbe ordinanee w^;.passed last wqah, . paint a far uglier picture. .k : •§§ m M ¡g | | | ¡g § | I ' -.Before thevote, ? coum il chambers for alnwst three hours to make their voices heard. They brought to already existed an ordinance addressing the otw ttica»