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offered by the department, Johnson has had to hire GTAs at a lower stipend. He said lower stipends meant fewer students had chosen to do graduate work in English at KU.
Ron Morrison, GTA in English, said he chose to do graduate work at KU because it had a good program but said he thought the stipends were too low.
Morrison said he also agreed that ENGL 102 classes were overflowing. As the enrollment has increased over the last eight years, only half of the faculty members who have left the department have been replaced during the same period of time.
The problem created is not immediate, Johnson said. But the average age of the 45 tenured faculty members in the department this semester is 55 years, and in 10 years, several of them will retire and create the need for new tenured faculty.
Johnson said that, because of the low number of graduate students, it was difficult to attract new tenure-track faculty members to the department.
The same cuts responsible for lower GTA stipends also are responsible for a lack of funds needed to replace faculty members.
"The state's got to come up with some more money," Morrison said.
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Several students in the Union yesterday had differing reactions to the bookstore's new product.
Davis Morris, Lawrence senior,
said, "It's a typically commercial vau-
lae."
Parking problems around the Union and many students' lack of access to a television might be problems to the success of the business, he said.
“Unless they can really undercut the prices and have a really big selection, they're not going to do well,” he said.
Janet Cinell, Overland Park freshman, disagreed.
"I think it's a good idea because the Union is really accessible," she said. "Videos are fun."
Reid said the idea to begin the video business came from a company's presentation at an October convention of union and private college bookstores.
Chris Marshall, Kansas City, Mo. freshman, said the program sounded like a good deal.
"I'd probably invest in it myself," he said.
Barry Weissman, president of the company, Media Marketing Services inc., visited KU yesterday to help store employees get started.
TOPEKA The salaries of school superintendents, principals and teachers increased by about 25 per cent over the past three years, according to an audit by the Legislature's watchdog agency.
School salaries rise 25 percent
The Associated Press
The audit, released Wednesday, reflected only base salaries. Fringe benefits were ignored because the Legislative Division of Post Audit said it wanted more consistent base figures to use for comparison.
The auditors found that in the three-year period which ended June 30, salaries of superintendents statewide jumped 24.9 percent, while pay for principals increased 25 percent and classroom teachers received 26.6 percent more.
Teacher salaries in Kansas averaged $21,121, while the average
For teachers, the 1985 salary, represented a $4,402 increase over the average pay level reported three years prior. The average pay for principals last year was $6,711 higher, while superintendents experienced an $8,343 pay hike over the same time period.
school principal in the state made
$33,596 and superintendents received
$41,839.
"Salary increases for teachers and administrators have far exceeded inflation during the past years," the audit said. "While average salaries went up 25-26 percent, consumer price rose 12 to 14 percent from 1982 through 1985. Therefore, each of the three groups has gained purchasing power during the period."
The audit noted that percentage increases in teacher and administrator salaries are nearly as large as the 27
percent increase in state general fund aid to school districts authorized by the Legislature during the same period.
Teachers and administrators in the larger enrollment categories fared the best in terms of salary.
Most teachers and administrators statewide received pay boosts in the 20-30 percent range between fiscal years 1982-85, the audit said.
In the 104 schools districts with less than 400 students, teachers earned an average $19,134, principals earned $30,258 and superintendents earned $36,451 last year. In the five districts with more than 10,000 students, teachers earned $22,387, principals earned $37,608 and superintendents earned $68,837.
Junction City had the biggest discrepancy in salaries, according to the audit. Its superintendent had the
highest salary in its enrollment category while its teachers had the lowest average salary in that category.
The lowest salary for a superintendent in Kansas was $27,000 paid in the Herndon district. Herndon is the state's smallest district with only 77 students. As in other small districts, the Herndon superintendent also serves as school principal.
The highest paid superintendent in Kansas was in Topeka with $82,800, about $900 more than the salary of the Shawnee Mission school district superintendent.
The White Rock school district had the lowest paid principals earning an average of $22,000. West Graham had the highest paid principals with an average salary of $42,000.
The lowest paid teachers in Kansas were in West Solomon Valley district.
U.S. needs a fiscal straitjacket, Dole says
United Press International
HUTCHINSON — Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said yesterday that the Gramm-Rudman law was a fiscal straitjacket, but that the spending cuts required by the law would help the country's continued economic growth.
Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Hutchinson, Dole said deficit reduction, tax reform and a more realistic U.S. trade posture were the top issues facing the country's leaders in 1986.
In 1985, the federal government overspent by nearly $1,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States. Dole said. The national debt costs taxpayers $130 billion, almost three times the amount of five years ago.
"Gramm-Rudmann is a device to reduce federal spending," Dole said. "It is not a tax increase plan."
*This is 3.8 percent of the Gross National Product and 13.5 percent of*
the entire 1985 budget," said Dole. "It equals the total federal outlays for 1966, the entire defense budget in 1980 and twice the level of Medicare funding today."
The first round of automatic cuts under the Gramm-Rudman law must be announced on Feb. 1, and take effect on March 1.
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