UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 28,1995
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GTAs to rally for health care
Union to sponsor two-day meeting for other schools
By Novelda Sommers
Kansan staff writer
KU graduate teaching assistants want to get KU administrators' attention by holding a rally for university-subsidized health care tomorrow.
The rally will be part of a conference sponsored by the Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition, the University's GTA union. The conference is for GTAs from around the country who have formed a union or are trying to form one. The rally for health care will be held from noon to 1 p.m. tomorrow on the steps in front of Wescoe Hall.
"This is leading up to contract negotiations for next year," said Michael Johnson, Lawrence graduate student and union press contact.
Johnson said health care was a concern for GTAs because many of them were married or had fam-
illies and could not afford health care.
"We're not asking for the Cadillac of health car plans," he said.
We think the University should subsidize a plan that makes health insurance affordable to GTAs."
Conference organizers said they expected between 30 and 40 delegates to attend from universities in Oregon, Wisconsin, Michigan and several midwestern states.
At the rally, GTAs from other universities will speak about their efforts to secure health care plans, and KU GTAs will be asked to sign a petition for university-subsidized health care. Johnson said.
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Marc Adin, KU director of human relations and the University's representative in negotiations with GTAC, said that when contract negotiations began, health care plans would be considered.
them and come up with a reasonable package," Adin said. "We have not been approached by the GTAs with a date they would like
"The economic environment isn't rosy for us right now, but we certainly want to sit down with
Karen Helleksen, Lawrence graduate student and GTAC president, said the University was chosen as a conference site because the KU union had created excitement among other GTA unions in the nation.
"We were the 11th in the nation to unionize, and we also want to show that GTAC has
ties nationwide," Hellekson said.
Kansas State University GTAs soon could join the list of if they are successful with union campaigns.
Representatives from K-State will be on campus for the conference, which runs through Saturday in the Kansas Union.
"We all have to help each other out," said Bruce Reid, a GTA and union organizer from K-State who will be at the conference. "KU has cleared the way for us, especially with some of the legal battles."
World Wide Web complements teaching plans
Professors use Internet to communicate with class
By Brenden Sager
Kansan staff writer
If John Charnes forgets to mention something to students during his business class lectures, he doesn't worry — he uses the Internet.
Charnes, associate professor of business, is one of many instructors at the University of Kansas using the Internet to communicate with students.
Charnes said that he posted information about his quantitative analysis class on his World Wide Web home page — an online electronic document that Charnes created.
"Some of my students think it's great," he said.
The information posted is not essential for the class, like homework assignments, but it can help the students by providing extra information, Charnes said.
Charnes said his page could be
"Some of my students think it's great."
John Charnes
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associate professors for courses,
referring to information
he posts on the World Wide Web
for his class
for his class
accessed by anyone who was interested in what he posted, although he expressed some doubt about the average web user's interest in his business class.
On his home page, Charnes provides web sites, which are intersections on the web where students can get additional information about business topics. The web sites can lead users to other sites anywhere on the Internet.
Charnes said that he could access the Internet from computers at the business school, from his office or from his home. Charnes said he sometimes spent hours seeing what information was available.
However, Charnes said that he still puts phone to ear, chalk to slate and face to face.
"The web is not my sole means of communication," he said.
of communication," he said. Catherine Shenoy, assistant professor of business, said that she had just started posting information on the Internet this semester for her business statistics class.
Shenoy said that she, like Charnes, posted information that was not essential for class but that could enhance students' understanding of business topics. She also provides web sites where her students can go to find more information.
However, the days when homework is turned in on-line may not be far away.
Matthew Indovina, Pennsylvania State University junior, said that he had to turn in papers for his history classes via the Internet as often as twice a week.
Indovina said that he did not own a computer and had to walk to Penn State's computer center to complete his assignments.
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