University Daily Kansan, September 1, 1982
Page 11
GradEx opposes firing clause
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
More than 25 graduate students met last night to organize opposition to a new dismissal clause added to their teaching contracts that allows the University to fire them with 30 days notice.
Graduate student leaders say trying to have the clause deleted from the contracts will be an uphill battle.
"We sent 1,000 filers to graduate students," Tom Berger, executive coordinator of the Graduate Student Council Executive Committee, told teaching assistants gathered in the Kansas Union. "Look around you — I think you'll see how unorganized this group really is."
The dismissal clause, which appeared in TA contracts revised in July, approves the termination of any
graduate teaching assistant in times of financial hardship.
BERGER and several other GradEx leaders criticized the administration for not consulting them prior to the revision, although they did so on behalf of the academic affairs, assured them Monday that the change was made in "good faith."
"They stressed the spirit of good faith," Berger said of a meeting with vice chancellors Tacha, Robert Cobb and Frances Horowitz. "I'm not sure how much good faith helps us, though."
Harlard Prechul, graduate student in sociology, told Berger that TAS needed to take a strong stance on the issue of standing against a threat to strike the University.
"Unless we do something of that sort," Precel said, "we are letting the administration do whatever they want without our support."
Berger, however, said he doubted graduate students could organize a successful strike.
"Traditionally, graduate students have never been the strongest members of the student movement" and "We have an image problem."
Instead of a strike threat, graduate students agreed to form a seven-member committee to discuss the legality of the clause and to determine the process the administration might take if firms were needed.
Burger, who probably will be an ex officio member of the new committee, said members would try to extend the notification period. The other changes in the contracts, including discussion of 100 percent graduate fee waivers.
"THERE'S NO DOUBT that this committee will try to make it as
difficult as possible to fire TAs,' Berger said.
Tacha said Monday that the dismissal clause assured the students of a 30-day notification period before termination.
GradEx leaders already have received support from both the University Senate Executive Committee and the Classified Senate Executive Committee. The senate executive said they had sought legal advice in the contract matter.
But Becky Pyles, a member of the 92-member Graduate Council, said other employees of the University — under a similar dismissal clause — were given two months notice before firing. Others, she said, are given a year's notice.
Asked one graduate TA: "We know that we are underpaid. But why don't they give us security for the work we are doing?"
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Student Union Activities is confident that its film series can hold its own, despite some initial concern over the effect that the competing University of Texas films have on attendance at SUA films, said program director Michael Gebert.
"When they first got started, we worried about the effect it might have, but not now. I think we appeal to people with different crowds," Gebert said recently.
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be hundreds of people on campus interested in films, only a handful worked for SUA. That, she said, leaves little opportunity for others to participate in the planning, budgeting and marketing efforts of the series that can be valuable, not just to film majors, but to anyone interested in films.
Conlon said that although there might
"WHAT WE'RE LOOKING for is just a little bit smaller group," Conlon said. "We are not in any way competing with SIU/A."
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