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End contract problems before next fall, Bowen urges

ISU-Evansville s jt prof wins lawsuit

j EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A former Indiana State Univer-sity-Evansville professor who accused ISUE officials of interfering with his right to free Speech has won his three-yea r--6ld suit against the university. * t A U.S. District Court jury returned the verdict Monday in favor of Thomas Lee Eichman, an assistant professor of German at ISUE from 1971 to 1976. L. _ Eichman has asked either to be reinstated at the university or to be paid more than $200,-000 in damages. A judgment on the damages is expected at a hearing Oct. 22. Eichman left his post after university officials decided not to renew his contract. Renewal would have given him tenure at ISUE, Eichman said, claiming the decision stemmed from memos he had written criticizing university policy. Eichman contended the German program should be expanded and said he was told there was not enough money or interest to warrant the expansion. After that, he wrote some memos critical of the decision and the manner in which it was made. The suit, originally filed in 1976. cited eight alleged violations of Eichman’s rights. It was dismissed in 1978 by U.S. District Judge James Noland but reinstated this year by the 7th • U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.

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,INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Textbooks being considered for use sos the next five school years be reviewed by the public at 10 locations around the state through Nov. 30. State Schools Superintendent Harold Negley said the books being considered by the Commission on Textbook Adoptions include those in mathematics from the first through 12th grades; high school level social studies, and two levels of high school German. The public can inspect the

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The appeals court upheld Noland’s ruling on six of the eight claims, but overturned the judge’s decision on allegations dealing with free speech and discrimination. The judge has taken the discrimination portion of the case under advisement. ISUE lawyer Joseph Yocum told the jury that the issue in the case was “who’s going to run Indiana State UniversityEvansville.” He portrayed Eichman as a man who had trouble communicating with his superiors and accepting university policies, and accused him of “engaging in some abrasive and uncalled for incidents.” He said Eichman contended that, with the exception of himself, “everyone at the university is incompetent." But Eichman’s lawyer, Virginia O’Leary, described her client as an exemplary faculty member “who believed that his school should obey its own law, and he said so.” She argued that university officials interfered with Eichman’s right to express his opinions about academic affairs at ISUE. And she noted that none of his former colleagues at the university testified against him. The jury deliberated for about two hours before deciding in favor of Eichman.

books at: the Indianapolis Teacher Center; Fort Wayne Community Schools Education Center; Northern Indiana Educational Services Center at South Bend; Gary Teacher Center; Triad Teacher Center at Lafayette; Crestdale School in Richmond; Instructional Materials Center at Terre Haute; Wilson Education Center at Jeffersonville; Southern Indiana Education Center at Huntingburg; and Evansville-Van-derburgh School Corp.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Gov. Otis R. Bowen says he is withholding judgment on whether binding arbitration to end teacher contract disputes should be written into state law. At a wide-ranging news conference Tuesday, the Republican governor conceded he is “no great fan” of binding arbitration, but said Indiana law should make some provision to end contract problems before teachers and students return to classes in the fall. In his Statehouse office, Bow-

en also told reporters the state can’t provide financial aid for the ailing Chrysler Corp. without legislative action. To give Chrysler help could be considered unfair to Ford, General Motors and American Motors, which also operate facilities in Indiana, he added. On other matters, Bowen, who recently returned from a five-nation tour abroad, said: —Although it may be a bit of an exaggeration, the Soviet Union “seemed to me sort of a large prison” where his group

saw only what the Soviets wanted them to see. —Foreign farming was less sophisticated and productive than American farming but he found mass transit in all the countries especially Russia far superior to systems in the United States. —lmport restrictions in the five countries would hamper any trade by Indiana farmers abroad, but one item that could be quickly promoted through “food fairs” was popcorn. Indiana is the nation’s top

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popcorn producer, the governor said, and the product is conspicuous by its absence overseas. Bowen headed a delegation of Eisenhower People-To-People representatives. The People-to-People program is designed to exchange world food production information. On binding arbitration and teachers’ contracts, Bowen said he has reservations about including the process in state law because it removes negotiations from the people who should be

handling it. “Two intelligent people should be able to sit down and get the facts in line” and then inform an electorate which can judge for itself and exert the appropriate pressure to get the issues settled, he added. Bowen said it’s unfortunate that personalities become involved and people become stubborn when negotiations are heated: “Both sides get set in cement and nobody can agree ...the children suffer.”

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