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FINAL The Arizona Republic section FRIDAY MAY 18, 1990 West unit irks ASU dean 'Architect' is perfecting temple of hate ou know Julian Sanders. In newspapers, on TV and during his many appearances on the radio, he is identified simply as a "Tempe Seymour Rosen The fine-arts dean has a reputation for being less than diplomatic. architect. But you know who and what Julian not acknowledge your work in the arts as accreditable." Rosen was out of town Thursday and not available for comment. It says that he called ASU West "some nine times" to request the results of an investigation into the reasons for the removal of the ASU faculty member from the committee.

When ASU West Dean Jacquelyn Mattfeld did not return his calls, Rosen decided to sever all relations with the west-side campus, the memo says. "Until there is recognition by you and your faculty we consider you a non-university," the memo says. Mattfeld and the provost for ASU West, Vernon Lattin, were ordered by the ASU administration not to discuss Branch faces restrictions at main campus By Victoria Harker The Arizona Republic The dean of Arizona State University's Fine Arts College has labeled the west-side campus a "non-university" because of how it handled a search committee. In a memo written May 10 to the ASU West dean and distributed to the heads of the fine-arts departments at ASU, Dean Seymour Rosen said the Fine Arts College will "sever all relationships" with ASU West. He also said that he had instructed his department heads to deny ASU West several privileges, including the use of ASU's performance and exhibition space, access to the music library and visual-arts slide collection, and consultation on questions relating to curricula.

The controversy focuses on the removal of an ASU faculty member from a committee formed to hire a history-arts professor at ASU West. "With the sending of this memo," the communication to ASU West says, "I am notifying the accrediting agencies of our several disciplines of the complete separation of the ASU West arts curricula from that of the College of Fine Arts and that we do the matter except to say it is being handled by ASU's president and the provost. Lattin did say that he does not believe Rosen has the authority to carry out the threats. But one department director at ASU, who did not want to be identified, said he would not deal with ASU West unless he first checked with Rosen. Larry Mankin, special assistant to ASU President Lattie Coor, said the May 10 memo was an "internal matter" that should not concern the public.

"I think we'll find that the west campus and the main campus will See ASU, page B6 Sanders really is. You must know. The man behind the petition drive to eliminate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday doesn't spend his most productive time making schematic drawings of roofs and walls, offices and storage rooms, pantries and dens. He is not a designer of dreams.

He is an architect of hate. An old-fashioned witch hunter. The King holiday is only the latest victim Sanders has tried to tie to a stake. He has hunted homosexuals. He has hunted "Communists." He has hunted women who, he believed, didn't know their place.

It began in 1970, when Sanders moved to Arizona from Kansas City, where he tried and failed www -v- Standoff over land by bases County to study use restrictions E.J. MONTINI Republic Columnist LA -fn T' I ft- SA I to get elected to both the Missouri Legislature and to Congress. Sanders was active for years in the Mormon Church. He still is. But he didn't surface in Arizona politics until the mid-1970s, when he tried to unseat Rep.

John J. Rhodes, whom he called "a rubber stamp for the Eastern liberal Establishment." Sanders lost. In those days, he billed himself "J.M. 'Pro Life' Sanders." He began the press conference announcing his candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives by singing a song called Love at Home.

Reporters Although he has been blinded, Ronald Schmidt expresses no malice or fury toward his attacker. "I guess it's God's light," Schmidt said. "I was taught from the Bible that you shouldn't have hatred toward others." tried not to laugh. America's First Unlady Sander's favorite "witch" at the time was any independent-thinking woman. He claimed that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, which then was being debated, was based on the teachings of Marx, Lenin and the Communist Manifesto.

"Although equal rights for women may seem a desirable objective, in practice it means a great loss not gain," he said. "This deficit is planned to liberate women from their families, homes and property, and, as in the Communist countries, they would share in the hard labor alongside men." He called a press conference when Betty Ford visited Phoenix, calling her "America's First Mike LevyThe Arizona Republic 'Shouldn 't have hatred toward others' Blinded man sees 'God's light' Unlady." He said that equal rights for women would "destroy the legal status of the family as ordained by God" and once challenged feminist author Ger-maine Greer to a debate, saying, "She is suffering from a lack of knowledge, belief and conviction in the reality of God and thereby finds herself rebelling against her God-given role as a woman." Perhaps that why he been divorced twice. By Abraham Kwok The Arizona Republic Ronald Schmidt turned toward arriving police officers with a bloodied face. In his palm, he gingerly held out what once gave him sight. "He ripped, my eye out!" Schmidt screamed in pain.

In a brief time on that April night, Schmidt said, he was robbed, beaten and blinded one eye ripped out, the other destroyed by an attacker he had neither known nor provoked. Yet, three weeks after his "life changed forever," the 57-year-old hospital worker expressed no malice or fury as he recalled the night that his sight was stolen. "I guess it's God's light," Schmidt said Thursday evening from his west Phoenix home. "I was taught from the Bible that you shouldn't have hatred toward others." The man identified as his attacker, Omar Karriem Brown, 19, faces charges of robbery, kidnapping and aggravated assault. Brown is being held in a Maricopa County jail and was unavailable for comment Thursday.

With Schmidt's ex-wife, 62-year-old Margaret Schmidt, and their nine children providing shelter and emotional support, Ronald Schmidt is slowly learning to cope with his blindness. Nonetheless, Schmidt, who said he "must look forward because otherwise, I can get down and depressed," did not want to recount in detail the night of the attack. The horror of the crime was evident in a police report released Thursday afternoon. The report says Schmidt, who had been See 'GOD'S LIGHT pageB2 In Joe McCarthy's footsteps In 1975, he ran for the Phoenix City Council under the banner of an organization called the American Party, of which he was the Maricopa County chairman. The mayoral candidate on the same ticket was a man named George V.

McDavit. McDavit, it turned out, had been a friend of Sen. Joe McCarthy and was the chief investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee during the height of the anti-Communist witch-hunting By Julia Lobaco The Arizona Republic Strong opposition from landowners Thursday prompted the Maricopa County Planning and Zoning Commission to delay restrictions on development near Luke and Williams Air Force bases. More than 100 residents packed a public hearing on the issue, and some of them told commission members that proposed changes to the county's zoning ordinance would take away their right to develop their property as they pleased. Most of the land is rural, and the proposed restrictions would prohibit or discourage residential development as far as six miles from the bases because of concern about noise from military jets.

"Let's not pass an ordinance that will have the effect of your condemning that property to perpetual farm use," Gilbert landowner Richard Morrison told the commission. Attorney Michael Curley, whose clients own land near Luke Air Force Base, also urged caution. "These restrictions are so severe for much of the property that you are eliminating the potential for redevelopment or development," he said. The restrictions have been sought by Air Force officials because of concern that residential growth in the unincorporated areas, and resulting complaints from residents about noise from military jets, eventually could force the bases to relocate. Luke and Williams, each with 200 aircraft, are two of the Air Force's leading flight-training centers.

The commission voted to establish a committee, which will include residents, to study the proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance but set no date for the panel to make recommendations to the commission. The proposed amendments would designate areas near the Williams and Luke bases for development restrictions based on "noise contours," zones where military aircraft and operations caused high noise levels. Varying degrees of commercial and industrial development would be allowed within those areas, based on the noise zones, and residential development would be prohibited in two of the three proposed noise zones and "strongly discouraged" in the third. The noise zones look on a map like elongated ripples emanating from the air bases' runways. They are far larger than the county's existing "crash potential zones" at the ends of military runways, reaching as far as six miles away from the air bases.

Residential development is prohibited in crash zones. Though the proposed rules would not affect existing zoning and landowners still could use the land in accordance with its current zoning, the rules would restrict new development. Morrison said the 12 members of his family own 700 acres of farmland in Gilbert that falls into the three proposed noise zones. "Lately, the only offers we've gotten are from developers interested in residential," he said. Landowners also are concerned that ar proposed aerial-navigation easement would release air bases from any liability if damage were caused by military operations.

The easement would give the Air Force control of airspace over certain areas near the Williams base. The commission decided to study alternatives to such an easement. days of the 1950s. Sanders and McDavit seemed to be made for one The Arizona Republic another. They declared that the American Party hoped to support, or perhaps nominate, a third-party Symbioncse lair raided; Judpr drop aainl candidate in the 1976 presidential election.

They had narrowed the field to two right-thinking candidates gj5 killed, maybe 'Cinque' Ronald Reagan and George Wallace. That is Sanders' legacy. Last chapter of 'Republic' centennial Books, special section celebrate growth, service By Julie Newberg rrl I I unknown, FBI m) 'Liar, adulterer and thieP It was not until 1987, however, that the "Tempe J9U architect" got most of his media attention. Shortly after the recall effort against then-Gov. Evan Mecham began, Sanders called a press conference to 4 31; divulge the fact that Ed Buck, head of the recall movement, was a homosexual.

At about the same time, Sanders launched his first run The Arizona Republic The Arizona Republic, which turns 100 on Saturday, will celebrate its birthday with a 100-page Centennial petition drive against the King holiday. He has referred to the martyred civil-rights leader as "a liar, an adulterer and a thief," as well as an "anti-Christ" who "exceeded Lucifer in his ability to deceive the masses." i 3 bombs in Dublin kill 22, injure 100 special section on Sunday and today publishes the final installment of a yearlong series on major and interesting news events in its history. The special section will include articles on the paper's When it comes to burning the King holiday at the THE REPUBLIC CENTENNIAL stake, however, Sanders is only the draftsman. The architect of the hate. In order to have his plans carried out, he needed someone who could build a proper bonfire.

formative years, major news events, technological changes, and the effects of Arizona's growth on the state and the newspaper since the first issue of what then was The Coming Sunday: Special Republic Centennial section So he went to Evan Mecham. Now, the two of them are coming to you. It's simple. They need you. Before they can light Arizona Republican was published on May 19, 1890.

Centennial items from the past year summarized stories on such events as the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh's son in 1932, the escape of German prisoners of war from a POW camp in Papago Park on Christmas Eve 1944 and the their fire, they need you to supply the rope. And the kindling. And the matches. May 18, Five hundred law-en-Q. forcement officers 1 storm an apparent hideout of the Symbionese Liberation Army in Los Angeles.

Five occupants die in the battle. "The furious gunfight began at 5:50 p.m. PDT and lasted for almost two hours," the paper reports. "Thousands of rounds of ammunition sprayed the air. At least seven canisters of tear gas were FBI Director Clarence Kelley denies reports that one of the dead is newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, who was Kidnapped by the group in February.

The five bodies were burned beyond recognition in the house fire, which apparently was started by a tear-gas canister. More Local News assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. The Republic also has published two books to mark its centennial. All the Time a Newspaper, a history of the paper, recounts tales of gun-wielding reporters, statehood, and local news makers such as the Grahams and Tewksburys, two Arizona feuding families who fought the "Pleasant Valley War." The book was written by former reporter and assistant city editor Earl Zarbin and edited by history See REPUBLIC, pagcB2 To celebrate Its centennial year, The Arizona Republic highlights its reporting of significant and interesting events from the past 1 00 years. Token damages awarded in harassment suit A former mortuary attendant fired from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office is awarded token damages in a lawsuit alleging harassment.

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