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students for the department. Saul said his department had good graduate teaching assistants this semester. But he will be hard pressed to get more good teaching assistants with the salary offers he is forced to make, he said.
Losing the best?
"The real problem there is our low
siphons compared to other universi-
tial systems."
Howard Baumgartel, associate dean for graduate programs in the college, said most graduate students would accept a teaching assistant job at a university where they wanted to study, even if stipends there were low.
"If somebody gets admitted to graduate school at Harvard, they're going to go despite the stipend," he said.
But Baumgartel said the total stipend and benefit package at KU was not enough to attract the best applicants.
"I think the problem is that we lose some of the most talented," he said.
"It is a major concern of our graduate programs of the college."
Janet Riley, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, said, "We're behind nationwide for what we pay graduate teaching assistants for comparable universities. But we're doing the best we can.
"We feel like we're losing the battles still."
Executive Vice Chancellor Judith Ramaley agrees that many factors figure into a graduate teaching assistant's choice.
"Our graduate stipends, when indexed to our peers, are about as far off as our faculty salaries are, so we are not at competitive," she said.
"On the other hand, students pick
an institution for graduate study based in part on stipend, and in part on the actual cost of going to that institution and partly on the basis of the reputation of the faculty," she said.
"I think graduate students are probably drawn to KU for a number of reasons, but I don't think high graduate teaching assistant stipends are one of them," said James Woelfel, director of the Western Civilization program.
Many department heads agree that other things might attract graduate students to KU.
"I think a lot of our faculty would argue that our stipends are too low, and that that does contribute to how attractive the institution is to particularly bright and able students," she said. "But because of the faculty and our programs, we are able to balance that."
Marlin Harmony, chairman of the chemistry department, said the $7,800 GTA stipend in his department was not enough to draw the best applicants.
"It's far harder to attract a good teaching assistant than it is a faculty member," Harmony said. "That's the least that's one of the major factors."
"We lose a whole bunch that never even apply." he said.
This fall, Harmony said the department hired 20 GTAs and would have liked more in the department, but academic students didn't allow for more.
To make up for graduate student shortages in the department, Harmony said about six undergraduates were hired as teaching assistants.
"We're forced to do too much of t," he said.
Students debate on deficits
By VIRGINIA McGRATH Staff writer
College Republicans, KU Democrats argue their views
Kyle Wetzel, Topeka freshman, and Tom Walker, Concordia freshman, members of College Republicans, argued that the U.S. economy is strong right now, no matter what the trade and budget deficit is. Walker said the U.S economy was in its 61st month of recovery.
"Trade deficits are very cyclical. It will balance out," Walker said. He said spending should be cut but taxes need not be raised.
crats, disagreed. He said that the deficit would not solve itself and that instead of beginning to buy U.S. corporate bonds soon be buying U.S. corporations.
Doug Johnston, Wichita junior and member of the KU Demo-
Kevin Sullivan, Lawrence second-year law student, and Joe Orrick, Prairie Village junior, of KU Democrats, said the present health of the economy had been created at the cost of a huge deficit that would create problems later. They said taxes must be increased and spending decreased to reduce the deficit.
Wetzel said the government needed to start cutting some of the social programs that hadn't been cut in 20 years. He suggested job training and a phase-out of welfare programs.
rams, but that the proper place for those programs was in the states.
He said, however, that Republi-
cans weren't ignoring the poor and
those in need of government prog-
Mike Lowry, Hastings, Neb..
sophomore and a member of KU Democrats, was a moderator of the debate. He said that although the debates were intended to be informal, a lack of good questions from the audience slowed the debate down.
Orrick said the federal government already had made too many domestic spending cuts, including on education and the poor.
"The audience was kind of apathetic. The debaters didn't get to address any questions that could have brought heated debate. But the debaters knew their stuff. They made their points," he said.
Police have no leads in robbery; bank offers reward for tips
By a Kansan reporter
Lawrence police have no leads in the armed robbery Monday of the Lawrence National Bank branch at 27th and Iowa streets, police spokesman Sgt. Don Dalquest said yesterday.
But the bank's security director, Janis Bunker, said that a $5,000 reward was being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the robber.
He wore a dark blue stocking cap and a dark-colored jacket when he walked into the bank branch office at 10:43 a.m. He pulled out a gun and took an undisclosed amount of money from the teller's window.
Bunker said that the reward was a standard amount offered by the Kansas Banking Association whenever a member bank was robbed. But she said she did not know whether Lawrence National Bank would offer any additional rewards.
Witnesses said that the man escaped on foot west of the bank about one minute later.
Official police reports describe the robber as a white male in his late teens or early 20s, between 5 feet 10 and 6 feet tall, with a slim build.
Police, who arrived a couple of minutes after the incident, searched the area.
Jim Bakker being sued by partners
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Big-money contributors to PTL filed a $758 million racketeering and fraud suit yesterday against Jim Bakker and several associates, alleging widespread fraud in obtaining donations
Lifetime partners are contributors who donated $1,000 to PTL in exchange for three nights' free hotel lodging a year for life at the TV ministry's Christian theme park. Heritage USA, in Fort MILLE, S.C.
The lawsuit, which was accompanied by 250 pages of exhibits, alleges that former PTL officials conspired with builders, banks and accounting firms to commit numerous fraudulent acts in violation of federal and state laws.
Specifically, the suit accuses Bakker, some of his associates, banks and an accounting firm of fraudulent transactions from 160,000 lifetime partners.
"It is important that punitive damages be assessed against the defendants to teach them a lesson and to teach others that this kind of conduct cannot be condoned," said Thomas T. Anderson, an attorney for the plaintiffs.
Anderson said the suit asks for triple damages of more than $550 million under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, plus damages under federal and state securities law and other statutes.
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