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off-and-on negotiations between GTAC and the University. Carey said this contract was a big victory for the coalition because of the minimum salaries established for GTAs in the contract.
The contract sets a base salary of $8,000 in the first year of the contract, $9,000 in the second year and $10,000 in the third year for half-time GTAs. Half-time GTAs typically teach two classes a week.
Provost David Shulenburger said the contract now must be approved by the Board of Regents and the state secretary of administration.
Shutenburger credits the tuition increase for making these salaries possible.
No minimum salary for GTAs existed before this contract, said Robert Vodicka, lead negotiator for GTAC.
"With the new GTAs, I told them on Sept. 19 when the Regents vote yes to thank their students," Shulenburger said.
Under the contract, the University also would increase the merit salary pool for GTA raises by 10 percent each year of the contract.
"Before this contract, we weren't even on the same field as most of our peer institutions," Vodicka said.
Disagreement about salaries brought talks to a halt in December.
"There's nothing better than working hard and having it pay off," Carey said. "Literally, in this case."
Vodicka said the new GTA contract would improve the edu
cational environment at the University.
"We think it's an enormous leap for working conditions for graduate teachers," Vodicka said, "and we think that translates to very much-improved learning conditions for undergraduates."
With the improved salaries, Carey said some GTAs might be able to quit their second jobs and focus more on teaching and their own studies.
Eve Clark, a GTA in sociology, said many GTAs struggled to live on their current salaries.
"I don't think anyone is doing it for the money," she said, "but we live in a world we have to survive in."
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KUID
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The Burge Union and Wescoe Terrace have equipment to read only the information encoded in the chip on the front of the KUID. Meal plan information is stored on the black magnetic strip on the back of the card. Stoner said that by next semester, all locations should be equipped to read the strip.
The University began using the new card readers at the Union Market on Thursday.
Stoner said the department of student housing contemplated giving students the option of increasing the amount of money and decreasing the number of meals per week.
If given the choice of places to use their meal plans, some students said they would make a decision based on which residence hall they live in, said Liz Nartowicz, Lawrence freshman.
Nartowicz said she didn't necessarily want cash instead of meals because she lived in Corbin Hall, which was close enough to walk back for lunch between classes.
"I if lived in Naimsith, I don't know if I'd want to make that walk." Nartowicz said.
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said there was also a party Friday night and about 15 police officers had come to break it up.
"It's annoying now," he said. "It's a total party place."
The complex is a gated community, but Hines said the gates were rarely closed.
"There are so many thefts here," he said. "I worry about keeping my car in the parking lot."
Lara Kantack said the problem needed to be addressed.
"I think something needs to be done with management and security. This place is a wasteland," she said of the area left with debris from the parties.
Both management from Jefferson Commons and officials from JPI, the Dallas-based company that owns the complex, declined to comment on the weekend's events or complex policy until they had received a copy of the police report.
-Michelle Burhenn contributed to this report.
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