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TEACHERS Continued from A1

A 1994 Gallup poll on the public’s attitudes toward public schools found that violence and lack of discipline are seen as, by far, the most important problem facing schools today. Every school day, 160,000 students stay home from school because they are afraid. More than 75 percent of schools nationwide — urban, suburban and rural — reported student-on-student violence during the 1992 school year, according to a 1994 survey by the National School Boards Association. A survey by Public Agenda found that 95 percent of respondents say that school should teach “respect for others regardless of their racial or ethnic background.” Eighty-eight percent said that emphasizing work habits with students —such as promptness, discipline and dependability — would help improve academic achievement. A Public Agenda survey found that parents and the public oppose the practice of social promotion. Seventy-six percent think that grad-

ing standards should be higher for i high school students, 60 percent would raise them for elementary school. More than two-thirds (70 percent) want to raise the standards of promotion from elementary school to junior high school. Seventy-two percent of African-American parents support this idea. Eighty-one percent think students should be promoted only when they learn what was expected of them. Eighty-one percent said that students should not be allowed to graduate from high school unless they demonstrate that they can write and speak English well. A 1995 Census Bureau survey of3,000 employers found that they attached little or no importance to grades or teacher recommendations when hiring a new non-supervi-sory or production worker. The Indiana Federation of Teachers represents more than 8,000 Indiana teachers and paraprofessionals. It is an affiliate of the 875,000-member American Federation of Teachers.

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sionally,” said Barney Levergood, executive director of the Capital Improvement Board. “I don’t see a problem with getting many of the issues and concerns resolved. It will be just a matter of sitting down and working it out, a plan.” After the meeting, members from the Capital Improvement Board made their commitment to working with the minority vendors. The vendors felt good about what had transpired. “I have a good feeling about the outcome of this evening’s meeting,” said Marvin Baker, representative of BJM Enterprise (Chocolates & Cream). “They came in with a very positive attitude in terms of addressing some of the serious concerns we had as it relates to the issues we had at the RCA Dome and I’m looking for some changes within the next week or two.” A concern from members was the possibility of getting rid of all the Black- and minority-owned vendors and bringing in majorbrand vendors to offer their services. “We came here this evening with an open mind,” said Patrick Early,

president of the Capital Improvement Board. “There is no master plan to drive all of the minority vendors out of the Dome or to bring other products in. We are not trying to be an island and we are not trying to be someone you cannot get to. “All the issues which were brought up this evening, we are going to take a look at. If we communicate, more things tend not to get blown out of proportion.” When African Americans are involved in the big picture on business matters, all sides win. “We cannot continue to tell the African-American community that they are a part of the system when, all the time, it looks like we keep digressing,” said Howard. “I can’t tell a young business person to go into business when they walk into the new baseball stadium and they don’t see any ethnic food, and they don’t see any African Americans working. That doesn’t give them an incentive. The Black businesses want to be included, and not excluded, in matters which are involved in this city.”

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By DEBORAH HASTINGS Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mark Fuhrman’s boasting of planting evidence and brutally beating minorities could make it tough for future jurors across the nation to believe police testimony, legal analysts say. “If I was a juror, I would have severe reservations about law enforcement officers testifying,” said Charles Roistacher, a former prosecutor in Washington, D.C. “And that’s unfortunate because there are bad apples in every bunch.” According to the recorded ramblings of Fuhrman, an initial investigator in the O.J. Simpson murder case, he may be one of the worst in the Los Angeles Police Department’s bunch, at least in terms of talking trash. “We got females ... and dumb niggers, and all your Mexicans that can’t even write the name of the car they drive,” Fuhrman, who retired last month, told aspiring screenwritcfpLaura Hart McKinny in a 10-year series of taped interviews ending in 1994. He was talking about his department colleagues, though Fuhrman also uses the words for suspects he boasts of framing, beating and harassing. Parts of the tapes were played in

open court in late August, although Simpson’s jury was not present. The tapes are crucial to defense assertions that Fuhrman’s racism pushed him to frame their Black client on charges of murdering his white ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her white friend, Ronald Goldman. In March, Fuhrman testified under grueling cross-examination by defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey that he had not uttered the word “nigger” in the past decade. Superior Court Judge Lance Ito ruled that Simpson’s lawyers may present jurors with only two excerpts in which Fuhrman says “nigger.” Ito said the rest of the tapes, which contain boastings of brutality, would create “the substantial risk of undue prejudice.” “When juries hear about suppressed evidence, those jurors are tainted for life,” Roistacher said. “You just can’t tell lay people that evidence is too prejudicial. They’re going to think they’re not getting the whole picture.” As a prosecutor in the nation’s capital, which has a large Black population, Roistacher said he noticed that “when you picked a jury, they had tremendous animosity toward police officers, based on their experiences with them.”

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