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Despite the efforts of Tampa Bay Bandits' owner John Bassett, the league went ahead with the planned move away from spring football despite the added burden of the bankrupt Los Angeles franchise abandoned by Oldenburg. The USFL didn't take long to sink after the league's failed lawsuit attempt against...
...institution of higher learning for the hearing impaired. Jordan, 44, who is deaf, was appointed after a week of student protests and class boycotts sparked by the naming of Elisabeth Ann Zinser, who is sound of hearing. Zinser, 48, resigned after only two days in office. Board Chairwoman Jane Bassett Spilman also resigned, to clear the way for another student demand: the formation of a new board with a majority of deaf people...
...Zinser, 48, vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, who is not only sound of hearing but is also unable to communicate in sign language and has no experience in education for the deaf. The situation was further inflamed when Board Chairwoman Jane Bassett Spilman was reported to have remarked that "deaf people are not ready to function in a hearing world." (Later she insisted that the comment had been misunderstood...
School officials also announced that board of trustees Chairwoman Jane Bassett Spilman, who came under fire from protesters for her handling of the crisis, has resigned. She will be replaced by Philip W. Bravin, one of four deaf members on the board...
What most worries Bassett and some of his fellow owners is the U.S.F.L.'s plan to move to the fall in its fourth year. Says he: "I don't like it at all. We've done well. But the league decided, and we have to go along." Critics thought that the spectacle of 100 degrees football weather and electric fans to cool players on the sidelines gave the league the look of a fish out of water. "If you want to play big-time football, you have to play it in its natural environment," says Myles Tanenbaum, co-owner...