2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 14, 1997 NATION/WORLD FISHER Continued from Page 12 "I didn't and don't feel that is how it should have been handled," Fisher said. "1 thought it was strange 1. They would have a press conference without me being there, and 2. 1 vividly remember them saying I would get a copy of the report first:' Bollinger said that he did not remem- ber promising Fisher a copy of the report. "1 said that he would be regularly and fully informed about all things in the ongoing investigation involving him;" Bollinger said. "That promise was fully uIN'.RE ''9 kept. He should not end up being sur- prised by anything in the report." Most players said they want assistant coach Brian Dutcher to be the new per- manent coach, adding that an internal replacement would "ease the pain a lit- tle bit." "Dutcher's been here for 10 years and knows the system. It will be hard for us to induct a new guy in and respect him the way a head coach is supposed to be respected," said Michigan center and co-captain Robert Traylor. "I think it would only be fair if Brian is given a chance to coach the team." Goss said he is currently narrowing down a list of candidates, but that an assistant coach will not be chosen for the position. "That's not going to happen," Goss said yesterday. "I was here quite late last night meeting with the team. They all had concerns. I understand their con- cerns. It happened without their control. Steve was like a father to some of them. Basically it's been traumatic," Goss said that in making decisions about the future coach, his first priority is the program and the players. "We don't make changes in coaches very often at Michigan,"he said. "It's not my plan to make changes in coaches very often. When we do, we need to make sure that we place coaches with the values that I have been talking about." Jessie Carter, Traylor's grandmother, said the University used Fisher as a scapegoat. "They just did him wrong," Carter said. "Steve is a good man. Steve did no wrong. I know this. Fish is going to live on. No one is going to be like Steve. I want them to think about Steve - and every time they think about Steve - win. I don't want them to think about this new coach." Carter said her grandson would not have stayed at Michigan if they had known that Fisher was going to be fired. She added that the team will be successful this year because of the val- ues Fisher instilled in the players. "They're already trained," she said. "They're already nice young men and you know who taught them that - Steve Fisher." Fisher said he is upset with the way people have interpreted his actions noted in the report. Fisher refuted claims by critics who have accused him a jjjlaa u WI? .J 1' 1F31HV1113 9 LOWEST PRICES GUARANTEE)N FRIE ALLINCLUS EARTYH& PAK of "lying and forgery." "Don't call me dishonest," he said, speaking about suspicions that he signed the initials of former assistant coach Perry Watson on requests for complimentary tickets for Detroit booster Ed Martin. "Don't call me a person who doesn't have integrity," he said. "I know who I am, and I know that absolutely isn't who I am." The report stated that a handwriting analyst determined Fisher had written Watson's initials on the complimentary ticket list on five occasions. The report also stated that Fisher denied doing so. "In no way was (the act of) initialing an authorization of the tickets," Fisher said. "In my opinion, it signified who requested the tickets. For Perry Watson, I put down his initials at least three times, signifying these were the people who wanted the tickets." For the first time, Fisher publicly described his relationship with Martin. Fisher said he never thought Martin was a person to be feared, but that circum- stances changed when Fisher discov- ered that Martin had sent airplane tick- ets to a player's family. "I stopped it and I prevented it from happening; he said. "Before that point, I never thought Ed Martin was someone we had to be leery of." Fisher said he has tremendous pride in the legacy he will leave in his tenure at Michigan. "We have taken a program and built it into one of the elite programs in the country - the right way," he said. Fisher said he has known that he has wanted to be a teacher and a coach since he was 15 years old. "My ambition is to coach again," he said. "I'm confident I will do that in a fashion I can be proud of." - Daily Sports Writers James Goldstein and Mark Snyder contributed to this report. RECYCLE THE DAILY. Disability cutoffs affect help for kids Richard started talking about killing himself when he was 5 1/2 years old. He was not joking. He was not being manipulative. "I didn't see him try to attempt it," said Richard's mother. "It's just the fact that I was hearing it - that his mind was going there - that was alarming and suggested we should address it." Now Richard is I1, on medication for attention deficit disorder, and in therapy with a psychiatrist and a psy- chologist for depression. He is also one of the more than 135,000 low-inemmi- children nationwide who have received notices saying they are being cut from the disability rolls. The terminations are a conse- quence of a controversial section of the 1996 federal welfare overhaul calling for a re-definition of child- hood disability. In February, the Social Security Administration began a review of more than 200,000 low- income children who had been receiving monthly Supplemental Security Income cash payments and medical benefits. Children who are judged as not meeting the new crite- ria are being dropped from the asss- tance program. New findings help fill dinosaur history WASH INGTON - Filling in part of an 80 million-year historical gap, fos- sils found in Utah suggest long-necked dinosaurs may have eaten themselves into oblivion by helping to destroy North American forests. That allo) the rise of shorter, horned dinosa that ted on shrubs. Researchers also uncovered fos- sils suggesting that a toothy dinosaur migrated from Asia and evolved in the Americas into Tyrannosaurus rex, the most fear- some meat eater in history, said Richard Cifelli, lead author of a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. AROUND THENATION '70s singer John Denver dies in crash PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. - With such 1970s hits as "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads," John Denver was a wholesome, wire-rimmed hippie who turned out sunny music for cynical times. In the end, lie died in a setting straight out of his music, soaring over the mo- tains, sea and sky before his experimental plane crashed Sunday in pictures* Monterey Bay. He was 53. "Who I am is in my songs" Denver said in a 1986 interview. "I love it when peo- ple get that." Peter, Paul and Mary made a hit of Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" in 1969, and yesterday, member Mary Travers mourned him as man who offered an alter- native to angry rock and helped bind the wounds of tumultuous times. "I think he brought a sense of optimism, a sort of naivete we were thrilled to have after Vietnam, after Watergate, after the rising tide of cynicism of the 1970s," she said. "He was talking about how beautiful it was in the mountains, saying, 'There is another side to it all:" Denver's single-engine Y-shaped plane crashed during the afternoon in the cl1 py waters just offshore. His identity was confirmed yesterday with fingerprnnts sent from Colorado. ARouND THE wo RLD President preaches gospel of open trade CARACAS, Venezuela - At a monu- ment symbolizing South America's strug- gle for freedom, President Clinton preached the gospel of open trade yester- day but said more must be done to allevi- ate poverty and "give everyone a chance to be a winner in the new economy." The hillside slums overlooking Caracas' skyscrapers are dramatic evi- dence of the economic inequality in this oil-rich country - which has become the United States' biggest petroleum supplier. Eight of 10 Venezuelans live in poverty, according to government estimates. "For all the progress we have made together to. advance democracy, free markets and full citizenship, we must acknowledge that a great challenge remains to make these forces work to the benefit of all our people,' Clinton said. The president said no nation, includ- ing the United States, has found "the perfect formula" but that education is an important ingredient. 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