UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday. April 10, 1997
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Activism focus of rally for 16 student groups
GTAs renewing campus solidarity
By Paul Eakins Kansan staff writer
Student activism is still alive and well on college campuses. This is the message that 16 student organizations want to bring to the University of Kansas today.
"We're standing together to show student solidarity for activism," said Rochelle Votaw, Lawrence senior and member of Students Taking Action Non-Violent and Direct.
A rally is scheduled for 1 p.m. today at the Kansas Union, led by STAND, the student organization that organized the rally.
The purposes of the rally are to promote student activism and to support the Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition, which has been trying for two years to gain benefits for GTAs.
"Student activism is mushrooming on campus." Votaw said.
Benefits that GTAC wants to see
Officially signed into a contract
between GTAs and the University
include health care. pay increases
based on the cost-of-living and the right to file grievances, said Mark Horowitz, a sociology GTA and co-president of GTAC.
Horowitz said that the chancellor needed a better understanding of the importance of GTAs, who teach at least 25 percent of the classes at the University.
"If you value education, you ought to value those who teach the classes," said Horowitz.
Horowitz said that there was much support for the GTAs by the students at the University, but that the administration was another matter.
"We do already have a lot of support over the student body, but we're intending to build increasing cross-campus unity," he said.
At many of the University's peer institutions, GTAs have gained benefits from the administration, Horowitz said.
"At the University of Iowa, they got a contract in less than a year," he said.
STAND also supports requiring more classes that focus on the mix of cultures within the United States, like African- and Asian-American studies.
In particular, STAND would like to see a U.S.-Latinoid studies program, which would focus on the culture of U.S. citizens of Latin-
Who: Student organizations
Where: Kansas Union
When and What:
11:30 a.m. — Organization information tables will open.
Noon — Local band Norman 360 will perform.
1 p.m.—Rally, focusing on GTA rights will begin. Speaker Kevin Armitage, Western Civilization GTA, will conclude the rally.
American descent, who have a different culture than those in Spanish-speaking countries.
Student organizations including Environs, Pro-Choice Coalition, Black PanHellenic Council, International Students Association and Propionots of Animal Liberation will be among the 16 groups supporting the causes of the rally.
Before the rally, the local band,
Norman 360, will play at noon in
front of the Union to support
STAND.
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