ASU Parents

A state-of-the-art recreation and wellness facility will open in January of 2013 to serve students, faculty and staff on ASU’s West campus. The $25-million facility, funded by a student government-endorsed facility fee, will feature amenities such as weight and fitness equipment, fitness studios, an outdoor pool and fields, gymnasium, racquetball courts, and wellness service space including a demonstration kitchen for healthy food preparation.

With the addition of the recreation and wellness facility, construction is now under way on three major projects at the West campus, located at 4701 W. Thunderbird Road in Phoenix. A new residence hall and a dining facility will open in August, in time for the start of the Fall 2012 semester.…

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a statement by ASU President Michael Crow.

Arizona State University, like any major research university, is a very special and very complex learning environment. In addition to more than 70,000 of our own college students, we have day care centers, elementary school programs and thousands of elementary school age visitors in a given week, as well as thousands of out-of-state teenagers and their parents visiting.

The bill (SB1474) to permit guns on campus is a misguided attempt to increase school safety without a shred of evidence to support the assumption that schools are safer if students are armed. In fact, a study by the World Health Organization found that the very opposite is true. Read more on the ASU News website.