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arryr I V'M "Tralir'yJy'ii1f if iy p-y yfa fA nVi 1 rn tmi iU SOUTH BEND-MISHAWAKAB10 1 i tpi sus at Woodlawn Hospital mng catches coach by surprise By PAM PARMALEE Tribune Correspondent Fridays hearing will be at 1 p.m. The restraining order, dated Tuesday, refers to circumstances that have occurred within jthe last 24 hours. An affidavit signed by Michael Gordon, hospital executive director, reads in part; Musselman has consistently carried a handgun, has recently expressed his inclination to commit suicide, has expressed the fact he is short on drugs in his office and is being investigated for said shortage. Doctors and per-See SUSPENDED Page B2 ROCHESTER Dr. Steven A.

Musselman has been suspended from the Woodlawn Hospital staff, pending a hearing Friday in Fulton Circuit Court. Fulton Circuit Judge Douglas Morton signed a temporary restraining order preventing Mussel-man from entering the hospital. Documents filed with the court by hospital personnel charge that the Akron physician has endangered hospital personnel and patients. By LINDA MULLEN 3V friburt Elkhart Bureau BREMEN Bremen High School basketball coach Dean Foster was caught by surprise Tuesday when the School Board voted to end his coaching contract. But he was not alone.

Committee ns college: 9 Foster was told two weeks ago by Superintendent Larry Stinson and high school Principal Don Harrison- that he would be rehired as coach for at least another year. But a 3-2 board vote taken Tuesday means Foster will not be back. Stinson said he told Foster on May 7 his contract would be renewed and that he could begin planning his summer basketball programs. I didnt make it up, Stinson said. Ive been in school administration long enough to not say anything unless I have the authorization to do so.

4-i Yes, you cam 1 niTTm By DOUG RICHARDSON Associated Press Writer 'wpii. Harrison also was informed that Foster would be retained and was surprised by the action. Ive always supported Mr. Foster as a teacher and a coach, he said. I still do.

a 1 Foster was the subject of two petition drives after he finished his 12th year of coaching the Bremen team. The first petition sought his ouster, and the second asked that he be retained. 'wA vT r- mm Tribune Photo JEFF KUROWSKI During an executive session after the May 6 board meeting, Stinson understood that the board had reached a decision that no action would be taken against Foster, Stinson said. Bridge is gone The old Jackson Street bridge over the Elkhart River, in downtown Elkhart, is just a memory now. Workers recently began building a new bridge, and State Highway Department officials hope it will be open to traffic by September.

old commission shouldnt have to worry about reauthorization from the Legislature, he said. Ingle also told the legislative panel that the commission and Indiana colleges are now considering how to define and measure minimum skills that should be required of students entering college. We rarely speak with a single voice, but I think in this case, were going to, Ingle said of the commission and colleges. The commission has a responsibility to make it clear to every student and parent in this state what the minimal requirements are for admission (to college), he said. A commission statement of minimum requirements would be in-.

tended to supplement, but not in-; terfere with an individual institu- tions ability to establish its own admissions policy, Ingle said. The general tone (of the statement) would be to raise the expectations and the achievement level of each student, he said. Now, institutions and the commission are identifying basic skills needed for success in college. In 1987, the higher education community, along with the state Department of Education, hopes to agree on a test of those basic skills, Ingle said. Plans now call for the test to be given, on a voluntary basis, to students in the ninth and 11th grades beginning in 1987-88, Ingle said.

The test would give the students and their parents an early assessment of the students ability to succeed in college. In, 1988-89, Hoosier colleges and universities could begin to use the test as one standard in determining admission. Ingle said the ''commission, the governors office and the Department ot Education also are plugging away at programs to better prepare secondary school students for college work. INDIANAPOLIS Financial need should not keep qualified Hoo-sier students from attending college, the Indiana higher education commissioner says. In general, the resources are available for the poorest of the poor to get a college said Clyde R.

Ingle, head of the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. Weve got to get that message out. We need to get the impression out to students and counselors, Yes, you can go to college. He said a public university student with extreme financial need can receive up to $5,884 a year in aid $1,284 in state grants, up to $2,100 in federal grants and a federally subsidized loan of $2,500. A student attending a private institution can get up to $7,989, he said.

Spreading information about the availability of financial aid is part of an effort to increase minority enrollment at Hoosier institutions, Ingle said Wednesday. Black enrollment in Hoosier colleges has declined by 15 percent since 1980-81, he said. Ingle outlined the commissions plans for the near future during a meeting of the General Assemblys Sunset Evaluation Committee. The committee of legislators will conduct hearings during the spring and summer on Indianas higher education programs. At the end of the hearings, the committee will make recommendations to the full Legislature about whether to continue or change administrative agencies that handle education matters.

Sen. Lawrence M. Borst, R-Indi-anapolis, the chairman of the committee, said the Commission for Higher Education received a clean bill of health in a legislative staff study of higher education agencies. That means the 15-year- Coach firings topic again School board meeting in executive session As a result, the issue was not supposed to be put on the agenda for the May 20 meeting. A contract renewal is not placed on the agenda unless the board does not intend to renew it, Stinson said.

But last Friday, Stinson spoke with Board President Richard Miller about the agenda and was surprised when Miller said the board would be voting on the contract, Stinson said. The majority of the board wanted it on (the agenda), Miller said. We did not take a vote at the May 6 (executive session), so anyone who tries to read people generally, thats a big mistake. Miller and board members Dennis Weaver and John Schini voted Tuesday to oust Foster. Members Nancy Adams and Pat Rowe voted to retain him.

By THOMAS PLISKE Tribune Correspondent ing to give proper notice of actions to be taken in the executive session (of Nov. 17) and making their decisions in that session rather than waiting for the public meeting (of Nov. 26). On Friday, Starke Circuit Judge Marvin McLaughlin is expected to rule on whether Zeek and board members must give answers to de-. position questions they refused earlier.

Higdon added a little more information on the depositions. The depositions show that at least two of the board members were uncomfortable with what they were doing, knew that the vote would cause a public outrage, yet still sat silent and voted for the ouster (s) and contract extension, he said. football coach Ron Lemon, Rogers basketball coach Earl Cunningham and Elston High School basketball coach Dan Steinke. The same motion, passed 6-1, eliminated the position of Merlyn Bartlett, administrative assistant, and extended Zeeks contract for three more years. Higdon emphasized in a conversation Wednesday that his aim isnt limited to rehiring the coaches.

Our complaint is against the entire procedure that they would fire the coaches and tyre Clyde Zeek for three more years in the same voice vote, he said. Bartlett comes in the package, too, only because he was part of the same vote. They (the board) failed to follow the proper procedures by fail MICHIGAN CITY The Michigan City Area Schools Board of Trustees scheduled another executive session for 4:45 p.m. today to discuss the three lawsuits filed against it after three varsity coaches were fired last November. But one of those lawsuits asks for more than the reinstatement of the three coaches.

The suit filed by Long Beach residents Hal Higdon and Pat McBride asks that an administrative assistant be rehired and that the extension of Superintendent Clyde Zeeks contract be overturned. On Nov. 26, 1985, the board approved a motion terminating the contracts of Rogers High School Stinson agreed there was no formal vote in the executive session, but he was unaware that board members had changed their minds. If I would have had directions to tell him anything (Foster) other than (he was being rehired), I would have done so, Stinson said. STATE OF MICHIGAN CASS CO BERRIEN Last-minute callers jam lines to Hands Across America Related story on Page A7 Bv WAYNE FALDA Tribune Staff Writer 41 cause we have so many arriving at the last minute, we may end up in bunches.

The doglegs between Gary and South Bend and South Bend and Rochester are likely to be filled with people locked hand-to-hand, especially if good weather prevails, Senden said. With all people visiting from Michigan, Im feeling better and better about the area around South Bend, Senden said. Ths situation around Tipton County below Kokomo and the agricultural areas of Greensburg and Shelbyville concern him, however, Senden said any estimate of the actual number of signees would be inaccurate. There are just too many people calling too fast, he said. People who live in small communities along the route have whipped up ideas to make sure there is an unbroken line, even it means stretching a ribbon from person to person, or in some cases, from tractor to tractor.

The event is scheduled to start at 2 p.m. Sunday and last only 15 minutes across the route from New York to Los Angeles. We cant tie up north-south traffic in America for too long, he quipped. A large Michigan contingent of upwards to 100,000 people will arr rive Sunday in two columns. People from the eastern side of Michigan will head towards Toledo, while participants in the western side will go to the route west and south of South Bend.

Gus Leoni, the Michigan coordinator stationed in Benton Harbor, said the largest group will cover the line between South Bend and Michigan City. Leoni personally will coordinate a mile between the LaPorte and St. Joseph county lines, at Bendix Woods County Park. Within that mile segment, members of the Calvary Lighthouse Church on East Main Street in Benton Harbor will conduct church services prior to the event. The service may be the best symbolic example focusing the purpose of Hands Across America to draw attention of the plight of the poor.

The church pastor. Rev. Ruth Garlanger, said she is invigorate by the commitment of people to Hands Across America. Weve got an awful lot of people signed up, and we want to give thanks to God that people would be so concerned about the poor, she said. The church operates a food bank and pantries that distribute food to the poor around Benton Harbor.

But Garlanger will not be attending. She recently was released from the hospital after suffering a heart attack. They wont let me go, she said Senden is confident that safety concerns have been addressed. We just completed a sweep of the state, and I think well have enough police officers on hand, he said There are between 3,000 and 5,000 volunteers helping police control The telephone circuits to the Indiana offices of Hands Across America are being jammed with last-minute calls from people wanting to participate in Sundays event. J.

Bradford Senden, state coordinator, said the Indianapolis office has become inundated with calls, especially after an ABC-TV broadcast about hunger and Hands Across America in a recent 20-20 program. After that broadcast it was like a cannon went off, Senden said. The tiny staff of 18 was in the midst of distributing hats, bibs and arm bands to its mile coordinators out in the field when the office was besieged with constant phone calls. Our lines were overloaded constantly, he said. Since then, there have been few breaks from the stream of incoming phone calls.

The Indiana staff has offices in South Bend and Gary, which are on the 321-mile route from Lake County to Dearborn County. Though it is not on the route, Fort Wayne has a small office only because so many people are Interested there, Senden said. Whether the line in Indiana Will be unbroken is open to question, Senden said. Im fairly confident that people desiring to participate will run to the line at the last minute and we will have the 400,000 people we need, he said. "But be I STARKE CO TRIBUNE MAP a The local Hands Across America route at 2 p.m.

Sunday goes from Indiana 331 in Mishawaka; west to Dragoon Trail; north on Logan Street; west on Lincoln Way both in Mishawaka and South Bend; west on Monroe; north on Lafayette; and west on Western Avenue to the LaPorte County line. i i traffic, he said. The WNDU radio stations, U93-. FM and 15 Country, are among the sponsors of the Hands Across America party from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday, at Hedwig Memorial Center.

According to Steve Delaney, pro tween $50 million and $100 million for the poor. Funds will be administered by USA for Africa, the nonprofit foundation formed to collect and disperse money from the We are the World recording and related projects. gram director, the party will feature music provided by WNDU announcers and the $1 admission fee will go to the Hands Across America program. The national planners for Hands Across America hope to raise be I.