BRIEFLY IU BREAKS OUT A NEW CODE ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR SPELLED OUT IN WAKE OF KNIGHT FIRING.

Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services

Reacting to the behavior that cost Bob Knight his job, Indiana's trustees adopted a code of conduct Friday requiring coaches and athletes to treat others with dignity and respect.

An 11-page report spelling out the behavior the university expects from participants in its sports programs was developed by a commission created in May in conjunction with the zero-tolerance behavior policy Knight agreed to at the time to keep his job.

The trustees also were scheduled to consider a separate document detailing how the code of conduct would apply to Knight under the zero-tolerance policy, but that issue became moot when Knight was fired Sunday as basketball coach.

University president Myles Brand cited several incidents of unacceptable behavior when he fired Knight, including the grabbing of a student who greeted him, ``Hey, what's up Knight?''

The conduct code essentially contains no requirements not already contained in policies set forth by the university, the NCAA or the Big Ten Conference, said athletic director Clarence Doninger.

Meanwhile, Peg Brand, the wife of the school president and a philosophy professor at IU, has asked for an end to the threats made against her family and others linked to Knight's firing.

``I have been forced to teach my class with a policeman at my side,'' she said. ``This is not right.''

--Kevin Gaines pleaded not guilty to a drunken-driving charge that contributed to his dismissal from the Michigan basketball team.

Gaines and two incoming Wolverines players, Avery Queen and Bernard Robinson Jr., were arraigned on charges of disorderly intoxication and being minors in possession of alcohol.

Gaines was dropped from the team on Sept. 5; Robinson and Queen were placed on team probation.

Gaines, a guard, led the team in assists (133) and steals (34) last year, his freshman season, and was third on the Wolverines in scoring average at 11.7 points.

--Jan Gangelhoff, a former tutor who did more than 400 pieces of course work for Minnesota basketball players, was charged with a single federal felony count of financial-aid fraud.

Gangelhoff is the first person charged with a criminal offense in the wake of the scandal that saw coach Clem Haskins resign.

-- Guard Mario Elie, who won NBA championships with Houston and San Antonio, agreed to terms with the Phoenix Suns.

Elie, who averaged 7.5 points and 2.4 assists last season with the Spurs, joins a Phoenix backcourt that already has Jason Kidd and Penny Hardaway.

--Erick Barkley, a first-round draft pick of the Trail Blazers out of St. John's, signed a multiyear contract with the team.

HOCKEY: Holdout defenseman Oleg Tverdovsky, who had 15 goals and 36 assists a year ago for the Ducks, agreed to a three-year contract with the team and reported to practice.

Tverdovsky has the third-longest active games streak played in the NHL - 208 games - behind Tony Amonte (246) and Mike Ricci (229). In 410 career games, Tverdovsky has 49 goals and 143 assists.

--Wayne Gretzky has been banned from the Phoenix Coyotes' locker room until he and partner Steve Ellman complete their purchase of the team, The Arizona Republic reported.