Salaries give 'inadequate' support
(Editors' note: This is the second of two articles on the financial plight of graduate students teaching at the University of Kansas. The first article appeared in the Monday Kansan.)
By CRAIG PARKER Kansan Staff Writer
Assistant instructors (A.I.'s) at the University of Kansas receive a salary of $2,400 their first year. The salary does not increase quickly after that and can reach a high of only $3,200.
Alan B. Wallace, assistant instructor of English, has been a graduate student at KU for six years. He makes $2,800 a year as an A. I.
Wallace, who is married and has two children.
"Salaries for A.I.'s are totally inadequate to support a man with a wife and family." said Wallace.
agrees with other graduate students that salaries at KU are too low.
He said unlike many other universities, KU makes no allowance in its salaries to graduate students for the number of dependents they have.
Wallace said he and his family were able to survive for two reasons.
"My wife and I have learned to live cheaply," said Wallace. "Neither of us come from families where there was a lot of extra money, so we're pretty thrifty."
The other reason Wallace can get by is that
he has come across some good deals. He rents a house for only $75 a month and both he and his wife work part time.
"Summer is the worst time of the year," Wallace said, "because it's hard to get a job in Lawrence. In September we have to pay rent, tuition, and buy books. My first paycheck doesn't come until October L."
In his six years as a graduate student, Wallace has gone to summer school only once.
"If I didn't have to work every summer, I could have finished my graduate studies a year earlier. I'd like to take courses in the summer, but I can't afford to," he said.
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80th Year, No.42
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 1969
UDK News Roundup
Tear gas in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn—Police sprayed tear gas down half a block of a south Memphis street Monday night to quell 600 Negro demonstrators angered by the arrest of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and 53 of his followers.
Moments after Abernathy and the others were taken away in a bus when they defied police orders against a rush hour march, bottles and bricks began flying on Hernando Street. At least one firebomb was reported.
Haynsworth loses vote
WASHINGTON—Sen. Thomas J. McIntyre, D-N.H., who had been counted among the undecided in the controversy over the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, announced Monday he would vote against the Greenville, S.C., appeals court judge.
This brought to 44 the number of senators considered firmly against President Nixon's nominee, against 37 in favor and 19 still undecided. It is those who still have not made up their minds who will decide the issue after Senate debate on the nomination begins Thursday.
At least 13 persons were murdered in political crimes Monday and early today, pushing the death toll to 56 since campaigning started July 1.
WASHINGTON — America's Catholic priests asked their bishops Monday for a full voice in the policy-making councils of the church.
Violence mars election
Priests ask policy vote
MANILA — Filipinos voted in general elections today amid reports of new political violence, including ambushes, kidnapings and killings. Officials said that a Communist killer squad was out to assassinate President Ferdinand E. Marcos who is running for an unprecedented second term.
They received immediate assurances the U.S. Catholic hierarchy is moving in that direction.
The priests' plea for greater sharing of authority was similar to the one made by bishops of the world at a meeting with the Pope in Rome last month. Pope Paul VI promised he will collaborate closely with bishops in making a decision affecting the whole church.
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Military alerted for M-day march
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Defense Department has alerted an unspecified number of troops to be ready to put down any disorders in the Washington area during this week's antiwar demonstrations, the Pentagon said Monday.
Last week, the Justice Department cited the possibility of violence in refusing to permit war protesters to conduct a mass march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House.
Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim said the units alerted are more than 100 miles from Washington and are in addition to 28,000 regular military personnel already available here, plus the 2,700 men in the District of Columbia National Guard.
"Certain commanders have been advised to assure that the responsiveness of their units is appropriate to meet possible needs," Friedheim said.
He refused to identify the units alerted or the numbers of men involved, but they presumably included elements of the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N.C., which have been used here twice in the last two years for such purposes.
Backers of a pro-administration Veterans Day rally meantime predicted that 10,000 persons would attend the event at the Washington Monument grounds at 1 p.m. CST today.
"I think it is high time we had a public outpouring of sentiment for those who support the effort to reach a lasting peace in Vietnam through strength," said Sen. John G. Towers, R-Tex., one of the backers.
While continuing to discuss the mass march with the protesters, the Justice Department issued a permit to allow the new mobilization committee to hold a 40-hour march beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday and lasting until 10 a.m. Saturday.
Participants, to be permitted to carry candles and small placards bearing names, will move single file across memorial bridge over the Potomac River to Pennsylvania Avenue, then east on Pennsylvania in front of the White House and on to the Capitol.
Photo by Ron Bishon
Those were the days
In the age of instant replay, people sometimes get carried away. This bulletin board listing candidates for last spring's Student Senate elections recently was placed in front of Strong Hall. The lists were apparently left on the board when it was put away for the summer.
The parade permit requires them to remain on the sidewalk at all times.
The president of the student body and the chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee are pushing for freshman representatives in the Student Senate.
Freshmen in Senate ask voice
Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y., law student and chairman of the committee, said he and David S. Awbrey, Hutchinson senior and student body president will present a motion to the University Council Thursday asking the University Senate to amend the Senate Code allowing officers of the freshman class to automatically become student senators.
George said many senators feel freshman are being shut out from University government.
"Freshman have gripes and problems most of the older senators have long forgotten about. If we could have freshman representation in the Senate,we could hear of the problems and the freshmen would have a voice in student government," George said.
George favors officers as senators because double elections would be avoided.
"If the elected officers were immediately appointed to the Senate, double elections involving personalities would be avoided. The senators would know the freshman senators were capable and intelligent," George said.
The idea of freshman representatives was presented to Awbrey and George by Steve Hicks, Overland Park freshman and candidate for Freshmen Class president.