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winning into Saturday's No. 2 team in the Longhorns' biggest season came in their one of the year, when助了 Ohio State and the points. Texas has every other opponent this season including history against Oklahoma victory over then No.anch.
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enclose, the last
took the field. Texas
Taylor 62-0 on the road.
are running back/wide
amusement Taylor paced
orns rushing 15 times for
and three touchdowns,
o caught three passes
its and a touchdown.
backerback Vince Young
outing throwing for 298
no interceptions. Fresh-
ning back Jamaal Charles
12 yards rushing and two
ons on the day.
R TO WATCH
as simple, Vince Young. none of the most dan- and exciting players in football. Most Kansas fans for him for his scramble down last year to beat He is a better passer than last time these two teams can pick a defense apart or move for first downs. Young will most be invited to New York peisman Trophy presenta-t this year.
Texas boasts one of
slow offenses in the
average nearly 300 yards
while Kansas' defense is
just 64 yards per game.
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bories by Texas the past
nations, which is just one
ami for best in the nation.
r rank in the BCS poll, eyeing the No.1 spot, and victories help, which could r Kansas.
in executive home victories and adding to that, Saturse senior day at Darrell K. Was Memorial Stadium.
different Texas players who bred this season.
KING FORWARD
Ivy would put Texas on its tob the National Championif the Longhorns get by the owks, they will have just two is left before the National championship. A loss would shock world. It would destroy Texas' national Championships hopes and exas' undefeated season.
Y TO VICTORY
Iems this is the same each day for Kansas' opponent: run game. Something has happened this weekend, because Iems is No. 2 in rushing offense Kansas is No. 1 in rushingense. If Texas dominates the game like it has all season, for it to roll. If Kansas wins a battle, look for a close game.
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shes, has gotten better, and the
4-1 in conference play. Oklaned
the return of Adrian Peter-
Peterson had been hampered
injury all season, but rushed
100 yards last week and two
Texas A&M's bowl hopes are
is weekend. It will finish its sea-
exas in two weeks.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2005
Tyler Fry, Air Force ROTC freshman, stands guard with a fellow Air Force member on oil lantern lit in remembrance of veterans Friday night at the campus Vietnam War Memorial on West Campus Road. Each year the Air Force organizes the all-night memorial service with the Army and Navel ROTC.
Father and son tell story of rebuilding Iraq at ROTC event
ad looked proud.
Dad looked proud. A 58-year-old marine and veteran of the Vietnam War and now Iraq, Kendall Phelps stood beaming in front of a group of more than 150 ROTC members and guests in the Kansas Union.
His oldest son, Chris, stood at his side, in full uniform like his dad.
Master Gunnery Sgt. Kendall Phelps, a retired music teacher from Silver Lake, and Maj. Chris Phelps, 35, a 1993 KU graduate, both returned in September from a seven-month tour of duty in Iraq. On Friday, they were honored guests at the ROTC Veterans Day ceremony.
Kendall was the reason Chris, now married with four sons, joined the Marine Corps Reserve in 1988. Fifteen years later, during the initial combat Iraq in 2003, Kendall volunteered to join his son in Iraq after Chris sent an e-mail with a picture of himself holding a sign that read, "Dad, wish you were here."
When Chris left this February for his second tour of duty, Dad went also. Kendall sent Chris an e-mail after he arrived in Ramadi and Chris arrived in Fallujah. He was holding a sign that read, "Hey Chris, I made it."
Both worked in the Fifth Civil Affairs Group on projects such as setting up a trash collection system, bringing electricity and water to homes and passing out candy to children.
Since then, the father and son from Kansas have become a national story of American pride, appearing on CNN, Fox News, National Public Radio and in newspapers across the country.
On Friday, they spoke of the progress the United States had made in rebuilding Iraq, which Chris said the media often overlooked, and the difficulties the country faced.
Jesse Hall, Army ROTC junior, formally takes over guarding the oil lantern lit in remembrance of veterans for fellow Army ROTC junior, Glenda Hernandez on Friday night at the Korean War Memorial on Memorial Drive. The Army, Air Force and Naval ROTC took shifts watching over the laters all night for Veteran's Day at both the Korean War Memorial and the Vietnam War Memorial on campus.
SEE IRAQ ON PAGE 3A
Vigil honors fallen soldiers
The sky turned a lighter shade of gray and a strong wind blew drops of rain against the faces of two cadets standing at attention.
A lantern lit by two marines, father and son, sat on the ground below a name engraved on the wall: Larry Wynn Petett, a soldier who died in Vietnam.
It was sunrise on a cloudy, cool Saturday morning. Half a day earlier, in the Kansas Union, Kendall and Christopher Phelps, a father and son each two months removed from a tour of duty in Iraq, lit the lantern for the vigil that honored the dead on Veterans Day.
A hundred feet down the sidewalk, behind Snow Hall, another lantern sat at the feet of two more cadets, below a monument with more names engraved and permanent words that read, "Remembering the KU family who gave their lives for the cause of freedom during the Korean War."
Every year, ROTC members honor Veterans Day by standing guard in rotation for 24 hours, from 7 p.m. Friday to 7 p.m. Saturday, at two of the University's four war memorials that honor those who died during World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
SEE VIGIL ON PAGE 3A
Texas 66 - Kansas 14
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Senior running back Clark Green fights past Texas junior safety Michael Griffin Saturday in Austin, Texas. Green ran for 69 yards on 11 carries during the 66-14 loss against Texas. PAGES 6A, 7A & 12A
ADMINISTRATION
GTAs bemoan pay differences
Science,math departments salaries higher
BY GARY SOUZA
gsouza@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Tomé, Pontevedra, Spain graduate student, and Yengulap, Cleveland graduate student, are both graduate teaching assistants.
Patricia Tomé was surprised to learn that she didn't make as much money as her friend Lynne Yengulalp.
Tomé works for the department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yengualap is in the department of mathematics.
Tomé will earn about $15,000 this year, her sixth year as a GTA. Yengulap is in her third year, and earns about $16,000 That didn't seem right to Tomé, especially because she's been a GTA for twice as long as Yengulap and has to grade
her own papers unlike her friend
"The effort is the same, we all deal with students," she said. "It implies that some GTAs are better than others."
Yengulalp said it was unfortunate that Tomé did not receive
Biological sciences
♦ $16,442
Each department at the University pays its GTAs a different salary. Below is a sample:
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GTA SALARIES
Religious studies
◆ $11,684
Mathematics
♦ $15,946
English
♦ $11,254
The average salary for GTAs in Spanish and Portuguese is about $3,000 less than the average GTA salary in the mathematics department.
Humanities and western civilization
♦ $12,083
Spanish and Portuguese
♦ $13,165
Source: KU Office of Institutional Research and Planning
The effort is the same, we all deal with students," she said. "It implies that some GTAs are better than others."
ments are based on the number of years the GTA has worked in the department, as well as on merit and the skill level of the GTA.
The difference of $1,000 in salaries can make a big difference, especially to graduate teaching assistants who think they do about the same work as a better-paid counterpart.
Patricia Tomé Graduate teaching assistant
the same salary, because she knows Tomé works hard. The math department hires a lot of GTAs to teach difficult classes like calculus, and each teacher definitely deserves the salary they get, Yengulalp said.
GTAs' salaries in both depart-
The latter two categories are based on evaluations that students complete.
All GTAs were paid about the same amount until 2002, when the University and representatives of the GTA reached an agreement to raise the
minimum salary from $5,500 to
$10,000.
Merit-based raises were also incorporated into salaries, which come from tuition money. The University pays all GTA salaries.
GTAs in any of the sciences and mathematics are generally paid more than those in the liberal arts, said Gloria Prothe, a public service administrator with the mathematics department.
With the greater number of students in those fields, more GTAs are need to teach classes, Prothe said.
day's weather
SEE SALARIES ON PAGE 2A
High-scoring continues The women's basketball team continued to tear through Division II opponents with a victory against Emporia State on Sunday. PAGE 12A
KU History
An African-American law student sued the University in 1970 for the loss of his on-campus job. In 189, people protested Liberty Hall's showing of "The Last Temptation of Christ." PAGE 2A
Overcoming the jitters
Overcoming the jitters The men's basketball team's freshman class test its gameday nerves again tonight at 7 against Pittsburg State.The team begins its season Friday against Idaho State and heads to Hawaii on Nov. 19. FACE 12A
Index
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Classifieds...9A
Crossword...4A
Horoscopes...4A
Opinion...5A
Sports...12A
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