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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 26,1989

October drug raids postponed so Bayh could attend, Jennings says

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) An aide to Gov. Evan Bayh denies that drug raids in northern Indiana were delayed to give the raids more publicity. David Dawson, Bayh’s deputy press secretary, said the raids went off at “the times they were originally scheduled.” HE SAID THEY weren’t delayed but that a proposal to move the raids up was scrapped. Dawson said the raids originally were scheduled for October but a state police official suggested they could be moved up to September. The official was reminded the governor wouldn’t be able to participate then because he was preparing for President Bush’s education summit. At that point, the planners decided to stick to the original timetable, Dawson said. BUT STATE Police Superintendent Lloyd Jennings said the raids were originally set for September and were moved to October to accommodate the governor’s schedule. Jennings said he wanted Bayh present at the raids to gain publicity for a statewide crackdown on street-level dealers. The state police-led investigations, some of which lasted a year, involved more than 200

Community colleges, teaching rate high with legislators

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) Some legislators believe Indiana needs community colleges with two-year degree programs to provide more access to higher education for

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GOV. EVAN BAYH Drug raids and media events

county and local law-enforcement agencies and served 575 arrest warrants. Most of the charges covered sale of heroin, cocaine, marijuana and LSD. “I WANTED TO give my boss (the governor) some press. He’s made some promises to people that he’s going to do something about drugs. This gave him an opportunity to go out and say, ‘Yes, we’re doing something.’ “I’m not going to kid anybody. We stored some back,” Jennings

Hoosiers. Legislators also think teaching is more important than research for college professors. THE FINDINGS ARE part of a survey conducted by Rick Hall, a Ball State senior, and Robert T. Perry, Ball State vice president and legislative liaison. The survey was distributed to all 150 legislators during the last Indiana General Assembly, 88 of them, or 59 percent, responded. The results were released this month. About 58 percent of the legislators responding to the survey the idea Qf comtnunity, colleges ’‘and *\he” gjojviqf Riterest in such a .system can b$ seen in two, recent m oves by the state. * The Legislature approved about $1 million in financial aid for Hoosiers in six southeastern counties to take classes at selected institutions in Ohio and Kentucky. ALL THE MONEY earmarked for the first-year of the program, about $500,000, has been used, said Rep. Robert Bischoff, D-Lawren-

said. “If you just go out and knock off 10 dealers at a time, you don’t get any press. If you get 300, you get press. “I felt the publicity was necessary to show people that drug-free Indiana is not just a slogan that we’re doing things to make it a reality,” Jennings said. “WE WANTED TO governor to be there,” said Jennings, a Bayh appointee. “Because of the education conflict, we moved them back. Other than that, there was no juggling to accommodate his schedule.” Bayh and Jeffrey Modisett, the governor’s executive assistant for public safety, helped kick off and wrap up the 10-day sweep. On Oct. 10, the governor attended a pre-raid briefing at the state police post in Indianapolis. He praised the 50 participating officers and pledged continuing support from his administration. LAST FRIDAY, Bayh flew to northern Indiana, where he gave pep talks to police officers preparing for raids in Lake, Jasper, Newton and Porter counties. Then he flew to Michigan City and spoke to 80 officers preparing for roundups in LaPorte, Starke and Pulaski counties. While in Michigan City, Bayh observed a raid and held a news

ceburg. To him, that signals a greater need for education opportunities in the region. Bischoff said he would support a study of a two-year community college system because of a lack of educational opportunities in his region. The second signal of expanded educational opportunities is before the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. THE STATE AGENCY is expected to approve creation of a two-year public campus in Elkhart County. The community has raised at least $1 million to develop a campus that would include programs frojp .Indiana University, Purdue I ivy Tech. If approved, the commission plans to seek about $3.5 million from the 1991 General Assembly for the project. Nearly all legislators cent responding to the survey agreed teaching was the “most important activity” for colleges and universities. Rep. Anita O. Bowser, DMichigan City, said that opinion comes in conflict with evaluations and promotions at most universities.

DOC backlog overflowing to county jails

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The waiting list to get into a state prison is getting longer, straining the ability of county jails to hold inmates destined for the Department of Correction, officials say.

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conference. “The message here is, ‘Although it’s cold outside, we’re turning up the heat on drug dealers,”’ Bayh said. He called dealers “scum” and told them to “get out or we’ll put you out” THE OTHER RAIDS fanned out from Sellersburg, Connersville and Terre Haute. Because of scheduling conflicts, the governor was unable to take part in those operations. Last summer, the Indiana Drug Enforcement Association accused Bayh of snubbing police and moving too slowly in his anti-drug effort. The association represents three-fourths of the state’s full-time narcotics officers. Jennings said he was trying to give the governor a first-hand look at the problems undercover narcotics officers face. “It was as much an education for the governor as anything else,” he said. FRED NATION, Bayh’s news secretary, said the governor wanted to learn more about the drug problem and show his support for law enforcement by taking part in the raids. “Whenever the governor is involved in any undertaking, it heightens the interest of the public at large,” he said.

“THAT’S NOT THE attitude built up by Purdue or lU,” said Bowser, a political science professor at Purdue’s North Central campus in Westville. Promotion is “predicated on research and writing. Some faculty, especially those on regional campuses, do an inordinate amount of teaching, 12 to 14 hours (a semester), while at the main campus, full professors who do research may teach six hours,” she said. Regional campuses also do not provide the facilities needed for research, such as small laboratories for individual scientific projects, specialized libraries and a network Qfz-graduate. sL’dcnts to assist professors. ABOUT 80 PERCENT agreed with the statement that “higher education in Indiana is on the right track.” About 66 percent disagreed that the system “needs major reevaluation and reorganization.” Sixty percent said public college education should be within a 45minute drive for any Hoosier. “Access to education is the legislators’ big concern,” Perry said. “Anything that would provide more access they think we should push forward on.”

DOC officials told the Legislative Council Wednesday county jails are housing 496 prisoners for the state. CORRECTION Commissioner James E. Aiken said that back-up

South Bend police stop arresting nude dancers

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Nude dancers in South Bend will not be arrested until the legal situation is clarified, said City Attorney Richard Nussbaum 11. Police officers were instructed in a memo from Deputy City Attorney Robert Rosenfeld not to arrest the dancers. The memo cited a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago last week that such dancing is protected by the First Amendment. ON OCT. 19, THE court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that nude dancing was not a protected form of speech. U.S. District Judge Allen Sharp had ruled dancers could be prosecuted under state obscenity laws. “In substance, nude dancing is still expression,” the appeals court ruled. “Nor does the fact that a dance is sexual remove the mantle of protection. Sexual expression which is indecent but not obscene is protected by the First Amendment. “That is not to say, of course, that the state is powerless to regulate the presentation of nude dancing,” the decision said. UNTIL THE ISSUE is clarified, the city has no choice but to hold off making arrests for nude dancing, Nussbaum said.

REP. ROBERT BISCHOFF Region needs college

More than a third (about 37 percent) say Indiana’s higher education system has not done all it could to help the state meet changing economic needs. THE LEGISLATORS’ interest in teaching is reflected in their agreement (about 73 percent) that the state’s universities should provide remedial courses in writing and math for students not prepared

has been created since July when the state imposed a new admissions policy of accepting inmates only when space becomes available. County jails, which get $25 a day for each state prisoner housed, are approaching the limit on the number of state prisoners they can hold, DOC officials said. “We’ve about exhausted the available jail beds,” said Vaughn Overstreet, an aide to Aiken. CORRECTION officials are looking at several options for creating new space for prisoners, Aiken told the legislators. In addition to expanding some existing facilities and planning a new $52 million, 650-bed maximum security prison, the state is looking at alternatives to incarceration, said Aiken. Those include electronic home surveillance of some offenders and creation of a boot camp for youthful, first-time offenders, officials said.

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Sharp’s decision had come in three cases filed in 1985 that had been sent back to him by the appeals court Sharp initially issued an injunction halting local enforcement of the state’s public indecency law, saying the statute was too broadly written. THE APPEALS COURT remanded the cases to Sharp instructing him to examine the dancing and decide if it was constitutionally protected. Sharp reviewed a videotape of a routine a dancer wanted to perform at the Kitty Kat lounge in South Bend. He ruled the dance was a strip tease without any theatrical dramatic context and not an expressive activity. Sharp ruled it was not protected by the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech. Appeals Court Judge Joel M. Flaum said the court’s instructions to Sharp could have been clearer, but Sharp misread them. It takes more than nudity to make exotic dancing obscene, Flaum said. “We did not intend for the district court to make a qualitative judgment as to the aesthetic appeal or artistic merit of a particular dance routine,” Flaum said. The appeals court wanted a ruling on whether the dancing was obscene based on community standards, he said.

REP. ANITA BOWSER lU, Purdue out of step

for higher education. Bowser says the need for everyone to reach his or her potential is another reason why teaching is so important. Remedial education is one of the roles the state’s regional campuses play, she said. “People who desire to go to college should not be penalized for difficulties or deficiencies they may have,” Bowser said.

Aiken said the department is also carefully evaluating the procedure for screening prisoners who would benefit from work-release and related programs. ONE OF THOSE programs, the regulated community assignment program, has far fewer participants than it had earlier this year when Alan Matheney, a prisoner out on a pass, allegedly murdered his exwife, Lisa Marie Bianco. The RCA program now has about 225 participants, down from more than 600 at the time of the Matheney incident, Aiken said. “It’s at its ultimate low,” said Aiken, explaining that the DOC now has “very, very conservative criteria” to bar from the program prisoners with histories of violence. WITH THE PROPER criteria, the release programs can be useful, but they should never be used as simply a way to free bed space in prisons, Aiken said.