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	Wednesday, June 14 Private fund to finance investigation
	Associated Press FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Indiana University's investigation into the behavior of basketball coach Bob Knight cost the school more than $10,000, and will be paid, for the most part, by a private fund. The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reported Sunday that the school will use the Indiana University Foundation to pay the bills, a $944 million non-profit fund that can be tapped by IU President Myles Brand at his discretion. The Journal Gazette obtained the information after filing a request under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act. School officials, the newspaper reported, said they used the fund because they believe it would be improper for taxpayers, who fund the university, to pay for the investigation. Brand suspended Knight for three games and fined him $30,000 in connection to allegations he went too far in his rough-style coaching methods. Knight will also have to submit to a new and as-yet undefined "zero-tolerance" code of conduct. The accounting records show the following expenses: $5,549.13 for a chartered plane to carry IU trustee John Walda from Florida, where he was on business, to CNN's Atlanta, Ga., headquarters on April 11. The school's investigation was prompted by a March report by the network that alleged Knight grabbed former player Neil Reed by the neck in 1997. $3,135.40 for a private investigator who spent 44 hours and traveled 800 miles examining the Knight allegations. The university deleted the name of the investigator from the records provided to the newspaper, citing privacy concerns, as well as details on where the investigator traveled and the subjects of his or her interviews. $1,357 for a chartered plane to fly Walda and trustee Frederick Eichhorn, both of whom led the inquiry, to an Indianapolis meeting where they interviewed witnesses in April. The university paid this bill inadvertently, said Dorothy Frapwell, the school's lawyer. IU is not asking for reimbursement, she said. $116.48 for an Indianapolis Holiday Inn conference room for the April meeting. A few other, minor bills have yet to be submitted.		ALSO SEE IU prof critical of Knight takes leave of absence Indiana will probe former player's Knight allegations IU won't probe new Knight accusation