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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, December 13, 1968
KSTA explains welfare stand
By MARLA BABCOCK Kansan Staff Writer
Joe McFarland, a representative of the Kansas State Teachers Association (KSTA), and Doran Bowen, past president of Missouri local 691 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), presented their organizations' stands on teacher welfare and representation at a meeting of Student Education Association last night in McColum Hall.
McFarland said the KSTA, representing the National Education Association on the state level, is working to improve teachers' salaries and working conditions through political action and professional negotiation.
McFarland said the KSTA works primarily through its local
McFarland described several teacher welfare proposals which will be presented to the state legislature in January.
Film magazine available; edited by KU professor
The "Cinema Journal" Volume VIII, the publication of the Society of Cinematologists, has just been published, said Richard MacCann, KU associate professor of radio-television-film and editor of the magazine.
MacCann said the purpose of the journal is to serve its members and those who are interested in the field by an exchange of ideas.
The "Cinema Journal" is the only academic magazine in the country that is devoted to film history and criticism, MacCann said.
The journal, originally a yearly publication, will become semiannual starting this issue.
The contents of this issue include an article by Peter Dart, KU associate professor of radio-television-film, and "Cinema in Eastern Europe" by Jerzy Toeplitz, UCLA professor who based his article on a public lecture he gave at KU.
branch organizations, supplying them with data on problems within the teaching profession
The journal is now available at Kansas Union bookstore.
Bowen said the union approach to achieving improvements in teaching conditions and salary is aimed at action, not research.
Other AFT members later told students individually that certain Missouri and Kansas districts have yellow dog contracts, in which teachers must agree not to join a union during tenures covered by the contracts.
Bowen said the question of administrative or union representation for teachers is based on the classification of teaching.
"We believe in causing something to happen," Bowen said. The open meeting is the best way to stimulate action, he said.
Bowen agreed with McFarland's statement, but charged that this extensive membership is not completely voluntary. "It is difficult to get 100 per cent participation in voluntary organizations," he said.
In answer to a member's question, McFarland told the group that the KSTA has local organizations in every district in Kansas.
Bowen said teachers are not
represented by teachers themselves, but by administrators. Workers in other occupations dictate pay scales, he said, but teachers do not.
"They (boards of education) tell you (the teacher) what they'll give you. It should be the other way around--you should be telling them what you'll work for," Bowen said.
Ee. ill not required
The Undergraduate Affairs Committee of the School of Business has voted to discontinue Economics 111 as a precore requisite.
The course, which deals with macroeconomics, will remain a requirement for graduation for business students, Conni Tobin, Prairie Village junior and committee member said.
Negro Program At Ala. College
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI)
Alabama State College is conducting a 24-part lecture series running to April, 1969, on the role of the Negro in American culture.
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