Why I relay
I don't run track — let's just make that clear from the beginning. I don't pass batons or jump hurdles for 100 meters. This is a relay, all right, but not the kind you might be thinking of. Instead, what we pass is hope: the hope that together, we can beat cancer.

A risky business
Everyone has an embarrassing celebrity crush.

Dumplings
Cautionary tales are about as cliché as your average boy-meets-girl story. By now, they both often require one key ingredient: a big twist. This is how old stories remain fresh, which keeps us buying movie tickets and renting DVDs.

Joe's Real BBQ is real good
For barbecue lovers, there's no better place to try than the Gilbert staple, Joe's Real BBQ, celebrating its 10th successful year serving delicious barbecued food to Valley residents. Joe's is fun, casual, low-key and well-priced. It stands in a large, open brick building in charming downtown Gilbert. Its relaxed, neighborhood feel fits in perfectly with the Western atmosphere surrounding the area.

Planning a sneak attack
Started by a nice dude, with some nice dreams, is a Web site, about ice creams. That is, new, wildly colored sneakers as they relate to the global phenomenon of sneaker collecting.

Getting to the source
Not many lawyers put aside the legal briefs on the weekends to play indie-rock.

Giving those emo kids something to really cry about
In a few of Mexico's major cities, an aggressive wave of rejection has overcome emo kids, resulting in violent street beatings and protests.

Measuring up
Jennifer Peña, an interdisciplinary studies junior, has an enviable hourglass figure. But that doesn't mean finding well-fitting clothing is any easier for her.

Breathe this in
The smog downtown may be thick, but people in the building on the corner of Garfield and Second streets are breathing deeply.

It's like a sword only it's not really
The products of consumerism have served mankind efficiently, but now it is time to figure out if some products are after good and if some are just after wallets.

Cover it up
Campus bathrooms don't always have the best conditions and touching anything might cause an infectious disease.

Women's wardrobe essentials
Balancing a 15-credit-hour class schedule, a job and dressing fabulous is hard to do. Keeping up with trends is not always easy.

Abroad Spectrum
While yes, Mexico is a foreign country, most ASU students can admit its practically a second home for them. So when students brag of summer adventures abroad, and that abroad is Mexico, few are impressed.

Don't I know you?: Brian Page
Biology senior Brian Page may not sweat it out on the field or the court, but he does spend plenty of time on the water as a Sun Devil. Page is captain of the sailing team, which includes members who are staff, undergraduate and graduate students.

Unmasking Anonymous
Members of the Internet-hacker group Anonymous are masking themselves to take down what they see as a corrupt organization: the Church of Scientology. This week, SPM meets some of the faces under the masks and uncovers what they are fighting against.