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Thursday, November 19. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
GTAs lack full tuition waiver, but still can get some breaks
By JENNIFER ROWLAND
By JENNIFER ROWLAND Staff writer
Another disadvantage KU graduate teaching assistants face is the lack of a 100 percent tuition waiver for graduate students, according to an April 1985 report prepared by the Task Force on Graduate Students.
Janet Riley, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, said KU's 75 percent tuition waiver was one of the ways KU hoped to get its foot in the door and attract good graduate students.
Graduate students with half-time teaching appointments or slightly
less are granted a 75 percent tuition waiver, are eligible for tuition by the credit hour, and qualify to pay fees at an in-state rate if they are non-resident. Graduate students with at least one-third-time appointments are granted a 55 percent remission.
According to the office of institutional research and planning, two of KU's peer institutions offer 100 percent fee waivers to graduate students, and three offer resident tuition
"That's another way we're attempting to compete." Riley said. "That's another tool we use to attract the best graduate students."
rates to non-resident graduate students.
In past years, KU has lobbed the kansas Legislature for a 100 percent fee on all tax bills.
But, Stanley Koplik, executive director of the state Board of Regents, said the 100 percent tuition waiver had not been proposed in the Margin of Excellence, this year's proposal for university budgets.
"I think we tried enough on this to get a feel for the Legislature's response," Koplik said.
Sorority
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Several sorority representatives came to support the apartment development.
Brenda Bachofe, of the Delta Gamma sorority, 1015 Emery Road, said that this year 20 members were living out of the sorority house. Next year that number will be 50, she said. Because of the new Panhellenic policy and the increased number of sorority women, traffic on Emery has increased, she said.
Elizabeth Polka, second vice president of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, 1500 Sigma Nu Place, said that although her sorority wasn't allowed to have a formal agreement to house members outside the sorority house,
current pledges had agreed unanimously to live at the development.
Terri Howard, president of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, 1510 Sigma Nu Place, said that because the project site was right behind her sorority, it would ease housing problems. She said that now her sorority had 40 members that it could not house.
On Campus
■ "Excuses: Defenses of Adulthood," an adult development colloquium speech by Charles R. Snyder, professor of psychology, is scheduled at 11:30 a.m. at eCumcalen Christian School, 1294 Oread Ave.
■ "Glutathione-S-Transferases and Glutathione-S-transferase-Mediated Detoxification Reactions in E. Coli," a microbiology lecture by Simon Kuo, is scheduled at 12:30 p.m. today at 6031 Harwall Hall.
■ "India on Film," a presentation by Robert Minor, associate professor of religious studies, is scheduled at 3:30 p.m. today in the West Gallery at the Kansas Union.
Enviros Club meeting is scheduled at 3:30 p.m. today in the Walnut Room at the Kansas Union.
- "Ant and Ant-termite Interactions; Communication and Deference," a lecture by P.E. Howse, of the department of biology and chemistry at the University of Southampton, England, is scheduled at 4 p.m. today at 1005 Haworth Hall.
- Tryouts and practice for the KU Men's Soccer Club are scheduled at 5 p.m. today at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets.
Latin American Solidarity meeting to plan spring 1988 activities is scheduled at p.6m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread
"Singing Women in 19th Century Literature," a German department lecture by George C. Schoolfield, professor of German and Scandinavian literatures, Yale University, is scheduled at 8 p.m. today in the Daisy Hill Room at the Burge Union.
■ "Six Years After Divorce: The Adjustment of Parents and Children," a psychology lecture by E. Mavis Hetherington, James M. Page professor of psychology, University of Virginia, is scheduled at 8 p.m. today in woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
A master's recital by Emily Ng on piano is scheduled at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recita! Hall at Murphy Park.
A KU Fencing Club meeting is scheduled at 8:30 p.m. today at Robinson Gymnasium.
WEATHER Lawrence Forecast
Personnel
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Co-pilot at controls during Denver crash
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences agreed that the program should change. But the college doesn't want to abolish it, he said.
Carothers was chairman of a college personnel administration review committee that said enrollment was too large for the number of faculty members teaching in the program.
James Drury, professor of political science and personnel administration program adviser, said that KU had a commitment to students now enrolled in the program.
The KU committee's report said that although personnel administration had begun as a small, elite group, it has now grown into a reputation of being "an easy major."
The Associated Press
DENVER — Continental Airlines said yesterday that Flight 1713's copilot, who had only 36 hours of flying time on a DC-9, was at the controls when the jet crashed in a snowstorm, killing 28 people and injuring 54.
Capt. Richard Hillman, Continental vice president for flight operations, said the captain did not act improperly in assigning co-plot Lee Bruecher to handle the takeoff Sunday at Stapleton International Airport.
The Continental executive would not comment on reports from sources close to the investigation that Capt. Frank Zvonek may have tried to take over at the last moment.
"The decision as to who makes the takeoff is left to the captain," Hillman said. "It's not unusual at all for a captain to assign the duties of flying the airplane to the co-pilot."
Hillman said that Bruecker had 25 hours' flying time on a DC-9 during training, but that he did not know whether any of the 11 hours Bruecker had flown since completing training had been in snowy weather.
Hillman said Continental has determined that all the checklists that were to be completed before takeoff were done by the book.
"There were no flaws at all in the procedure followed by this group," he said. "There was absolutely no sign of complacency or sloppiness."
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