Salaries give 'inadequate' support
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Wallace said his family budget is so tight that when any emergency, such as hospital bills or car repairs comes up, he has to take out a loan.
"So far I've borrowed a total of $2,500 in National Defense Education Act loans. That's in addition to numerous small bank loans," Wallace said. He is currently paying off three bank loans.
The thing that hurts most, he said, is the rising cost of food.
"It's a good thing we live in a college town." Wallace said, "because most of the entertainment is very inexpensive."
Until a year ago, when he got an extra job working for the Headstart Program, Wallace's family income was under the government poverty level.
"The only reason I can't receive welfare payments, is that I have a part time job," he said.
Although he brings home $260 a month from the University, Wallace said a list of his expenses
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would show it costs much more than the University is paying to support even a small family. He listed his living expenses as approximately:
Rent and utilities-$120 a month
Food-$100 a month
Car payment-$55 a month
Insurance-$40 a month
Drugs, sundries-$30 a month
“contingency expenses”-clothes,
extra books, repairs, etc.-$50-
$55 a month
With expenses of at least $400 a month, it is very hard to make ends meet he said, even with a part-time job.
"Another problem, or disadvantage, is that I can't send my children to any nursery school," Wallace said. "I can't get them in Headstart, I can't afford to send them to a private nursery school and the waiting list at the KU nursery school is too long."
Wallace said still another problem is the University's policy of giving raises.
"When I passed my master's exams, it was in October and I didn't get a raise until the following September. Then, I passed my doctoral comprehensives last November and didn't get a raise
He said he thought the raise should have gone into effect the following semester, instead of a year later.
until my first paycheck this year," Wallace said.
What makes the case for higher salaries for A.I.'s and T.A.'s at KU so forceful is that Wallace's situation is not unique. He is a typical example of a married graduate student.
There are other problems faced by teaching graduates. Their income is taxable. Last year the major universities in the country worked out an agreement with the government to allow teaching assistants not to pay income taxes.
It now appears the government is backing down on its part of the deal and is trying to collect for the back taxes not paid.
Most graduate students and administrators at KU agree the quality of graduate students teaching here will drop if KU's salaries are not competitive with other schools in the midwest.
This alone gives urgency to the demands for higher salaries for assistant instructors and teaching assistants.
GI war captives discussed in U.N. committee
Mrs. Rita E. Hauser, permanent U.S. representative on the U.N. Human Rights Commission, will raise the question of the fate of 400 to 1,300 U.S. servicemen believed in Hanoi's hands when the General Assembly's Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee begins its rights debate today.
UNITED NATIONS (UPI)— The United States will begin a major drive today for action on North Vietnam's treatment of American prisoners of war.
bringing it before the full assembly as a major agenda issue because the desire was to emphasize the human rights of the captives rather than stir up a political issue, an American spokesman said.
Washington chose to raise the question in the relatively subordinate committee rather than
Official approaches by the U.S. negotiating team at Paris have brought no information from the Hanoi representatives.
The North Vietnamese position is that the prisoner-of-war question must await settlement of political issues. Hanoi contends that U.S. captives in its hands are "war criminals" rather than war
prisoners and therefore are not guaranteed protection under the 1849 Geneva Convention.
Anti-war meeting
The KU Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
This will be the final organizational meeting of the group before the November war moratorium activities begin Friday.
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