A couple more questions and a thick stack of paper.
That's all we're left with after reading a report released by ASU officials on Monday. The papers are the result of an ongoing investigation concerning the shooting death of former ASU football player Brandon Falkner. Implicated in the death is Loren Wade, an active Sun Devil at the time.
An investigation committee led by Myles Lynk, an ASU law professor, conducted an Internet questionnaire and prepared a written report investigating whether ASU had any prior knowledge of what could happen, what the University could have done better and how safe students and staff feel.
The most interesting parts are left out.
Due to what ASU officials have said are Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act stipulations, certain details have been redacted.
What remains doesn't say much. That's not to say that we weren't fascinated to read that a recommended safety measure is having undercover officers on campus, or that one of the FBI's top 10 most-wanted rapists is known to have spent time catching up on his reading inside the Ross-Blakley Law Library.
But when it comes down to two unnamable "incidents" involving Wade, we're in the dark.
ASU officials could have reacted better to it, whatever it is, but they still did all they could. Anticipating the death would have been too hard, according to the report.
The problem is that athletic-department officials dealt with problems themselves rather than calling for the expertise of other departments, the report said.
"We did not find that coaches and staff in the University's athletics department failed to try and help Loren Wade or other student athletes," Lynk said in a press release sent out Monday. "Rather, we found that they tried to do too much, taking it upon themselves to provide services that can be better provided by other University components."
Pardon us, but it all sounds like the same old public-relations mumbo jumbo. But fine enough. ASU staff did all it could, and something bad happened. We don't expect athletic staff to get out highly reliable Magic 8-Balls to tell us which University athlete is going to crack next.
But we do hope that this report signals a change for the better for ASU athletes.
You only have to thumb through a few old issues of The State Press or any other local newspaper to see athletes who have made the headlines for more than just great sacks and well-timed passes.
Safety is a concern for everybody, and it's time to make sure that people get help when they need it.
The University community deserves better than this. Everyone deserves better than this.
Falkner deserved better than this.