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City of the Lord member and former stu
dent-body president, insists that the con
servatives have simply balanced the pre
vious liberal bias: "We took apart their
ivory tower In fact, we blew it up "
The State Press has been a battle zone
Columnists have inveighed against women
who pursue careers ("career-oriented
women commit social suicide "(and crusad•
ed for students to be born again through
prayer One columnist. Matthew Scully,
monitored lectures and then attacked cer
tain professors in print for alleged left
wing bias He has since become a national
leader of Accuracy in Academia t page 411
A»|ry totters: Campus moderates and lib
erals find it hard to rally Soys Bill Adair, a
1985 graduate who fought conservative
domination of student government: "The
problem is that they're better organized
than we are "The religious slant of student
politics finally alienated senior Mary Phil
lips, a devout Catholic who resigned her
government post after repeated run-ins
with fundamentalist officers "I'm not say
ing there shouldn’t be Christians in stu
dent government.” Phillips says, "but the
primary focus shouldn’t be their religious
preference."
4V1CIIIy .iimuji inr new*
paper’s criticism of minority-student or
ganizations and its opposition to divesti
ture of stock of companies doing business
in South Africu: a column by the editor lust
spring argued thut "no one here except for
the luughable leaders of the Black Student
Union is misguided enough to insist on
ASU’s divestiture " The paper's religious
tone offends others Mark Dusk in, who is
Jewish, says, "I feel like I'm being put
down."Critics concede that the State Press
lets them voice their objections ungry let
ters often fill a page or more—but they
contend that news presentation should be
more balanced Disagreement, however,
has not been strong enough to support or
gunized opposition; an alternative newspa
per, begun last spring, failed in the fall for
lack of funds
Beyond the ideological trenches, though,
ASU continues to thrive President J, Bus
sell Nelson has installed a new staff to
clean up the athletic uct More lounge
space in new buildings is part of an effort to
diminish isolation und encourage socializ
ing The university has also collected
pledges of $35 million in its first major
private fund drive, u $75 million centen
nial effort. The optimistic Nelson believes
that ASU's party-school label will eventu
ally wear off "Harvard had that reputa
tion until 1875," he says, citing with
umusement Samuel Eliot Morison’s histo
ry. "The passage of time is an important
factor." He hopes that, in time, Arizona
State can develop an academic profile
that's worthy of the Sun Devils’ suntans.
John Schw a ktz oi Tem/w