Delk, who now plays for the Charlotte Hornets of the NBA, agreed to pay a $100 fine on a speeding violation and $100 on an amended charge of failure to comply with a traffic control devise.

The incident occurred in August when a Kentucky State Police trooper clocked a 1997 black Mustang eastbound on Bluegrass parkway at 90 mph, according to police. The trooper turned on his flashers, but police said the car driven by Delk did not pull over.

Instead, he exited the parkway at the U.S. 127 interchange. He went several miles north toward Lawrenceburg and police eventually found the unoccupied car parked at the fairgrounds. Lawrenceburg police officers said they found Delk at a nearby fast-food restaurant and took him back to his car, and the trooper then cited Delk.

The plea agreement was signed by District Judge Fred Bond. Delk was not in attendance.

 
Court looks at Affirmative Action

WASHINGTON -- As the debate escalates over the fairness of voluntary affirmative action admissions and hiring policies, the idea of affirmative action could be expelled from campuses for good depending on how the Supreme Court rules on a new case it has put at the top of this year's docket.

The Supreme Court began its new term yesterday by accepting an appeal of a workplace discrimination case that threatens to end all voluntary affirmative action guidelines.

The Board of Education of Piscataway N.J. v. Taxman will require the court to decide whether or not racial employment guidelines are acceptable under any circumstances.

In 1989, the Piscataway Board of Education cut one high-school business teacher position from its budget. Of two existing business instructors, one was white and the other was black.

In order to protect racial diversity at the school, the board decided to lay off the white teacher. Eight years later, Sharon Taxman was reinstated because other teachers retired, but continues her claim of racial discrimination in the initial layoff.

But Hilary Shelton, assistant director of the Washington chapter of the NAACP, is not as optimistic about the opportunities campuses would face in the wake of a possible anti-Affirmative Action court ruling.

"Affirmative Action has opened the door for women and ethnic minorities in places we were traditionally locked out of," Shelton said. Eliminating the policies and goals created by such programs "would mean the resegregation of society."

The policy summit will continue today with the Piscataway case leading the discussion throughout the day.

 
Hewitt: Journalism, entertainment differ

DENVER -- Don Hewitt offered alphabet soup at a recent luncheon.

The creator and executive producer of "60 Minutes" said he wants his colleagues to return to hard news and re-establish a line between entertainment and journalism.

"Maybe it's time to put the 'e' back in entertainment and the 'n' back in news and do something for the network's 'S and P,'" Hewitt said, referring not to standards and practices but to ''their souls as well as their pocketbooks.''

Hewitt, 74, was the guest of honor Sunday at a roast at the annual meeting of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Technology often leads journalists away from telling a story well, said Hewitt, who has been with CBS News since 1948.

"If you don't know how to communicate with words, you're in the wrong business," he said. "And I feel there are too many of the wrong people out there in my business."