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Tuesday, February 10, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Chad DeShazo/KANSAN
Bed Sled
Brock Gohlinghorst, left, Overland Park junior, and John Weber, Fairway junior, don't need snow to go sledding. The two used a mattress Saturday afternoon to sedd on a hill near Ninth Street and Emery Road.
Union plan might improve GTA's working conditions
Staff writer
By ROGER COREY
Members of the KU Graduate Executive Council are watching closely the faculty's unionization proposal, Michael Foubert, Gradex member, said last night.
The council members said that they think unionization might improve the working conditions of graduate teaching assistants, who they said are overworked and have received low pay and no benefits.
"If all the GTAs at KU quit torome, the University would come to a riot."
In some departments, GTAS teach 75 percent of the course load, said Travis Patton. Gradex member.
Using GTAs to teach lower-level courses benefits the University
because it saves money that would have to be spent to hire faculty. It also helps the GTAs, who need the income, he said.
The problem is that being a graduate student is a full-time job. Patton said. Teaching and studying a tremendous amount of pressure
Hiring GTAs, allows faculty more time for research, said TED Vaggalis, Gradex member *Vaggalis* is a *Five* year *BA* in *TSA*. Western Civilization 10, a week's work.
It also makes money for the University, Vaggallis said. The College of Arts and Sciences approved its implementation. Western Civilization taught by GTAs.
Western Civilization courses are taught by 30 GTAs. Vaughal said.
"Each of the GTAs teaches eight sections," Vaggali said. "Except me, I teach four sections and then do administrative work."
He said it was much easier for faculty members to unionize because they were united. GTAs are formed in departments throughout KU.
"Not all GTAs are aware of how much KU makes in comparison to how much they are paid for teaching." Vaggali said.
The base salary for GTAs at KU is $6,000, Vaggalis said. At the University of Minnesota, which is unionized, the base salary for GTAs is $10,000.
Racers mush despite weather
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HELENA, Mont. — Mushers in the country's longest sled dog race outside Alaska, hampered by warm weather and little snow, sliced across the Continental Divide yesterday in the 500-mile Governor's Cup race.
Thirteen drivers and their teams of Alaskan and Siberian huskies started the five-day race from the state capitol in Helena, to Holland Lake and back, that would take them across the mountainous Continental Divide six times.
But their ceremonial start Sunday in front of the downtown State Capitol had to be run over bare ashpalt and gravel, with temperatures in the 50s.
The dogs wore boots to protect their feet and sled runners were the best.
The mushing teams, including one woman, went several city blocks.
The early leader in the second day of racing was defending champion Linwood Fiedler, 33, Helena, who covered the first 110 miles in 12 hours. 28 minutes. Four minutes before, in second place, was Eral Pozarsky, 34, Bottheau, N.D. he finished sixth in the race last year.
The teams had gone more than 110 miles into the course after the first
then were trucked to another starting point on a snow-covered mountain trail 18 miles south of Helena.
Some contestants said they would race hardest at night and camp along the trail during the day.
Ray Gordon, 49. Rock Springs, Wyo., was third, with a time of 13 hours. 6 minutes.
The course will take them through dense timber and creek crossings.
Trailing Gordon were Arleigh
Jorgenson, 40, and Mark Nordmann,
32, both of Grand Marais, Minn., and
close behind them was the only
one to watch Lauri Beckstrom,
34, Kalispell, Meut.
John Patten, 43, Grand Marais,
Mimi, suffered a casualty early in
the race when he lost one of his dogs.
Rules require mushers to find any
dog that gets lost before proceeding
further. Patten was reported to be on
foot, looking for the missing dog,
near Lincoln.
Other entries behind Patten were Frank Teasley, 25, Jackson, Wyo.; Kerry Donars, 29, Ely, Minn. Mark Stamm, 29, Bothell, Wash.; George Michaud, 39, Cowdrey, Col.; Bruce Gramm, Seeley Lake, Mont., and Dave Armstrong, 66, Helena
Bill would excuse teachers' loans
The racers are contending for $15,000 in prizes, including $5,000 for first place, offered by Iams, a Midwest kennel food company.
A student at Oliver Hall complained to KU police Friday that an ROTC squad had run in formation past his room chanting cadence early that morning, KU police said. He said the noise had woken him up.
TOPEKA - A bill introduced in the Kansas House yesterday would provide college students seeking teaching degrees with conditional grants whose repayment would be excused in return for a seven-year commitment to teach in Kansas.
A student's conditional grant would be forgiven over a seven-year period of service as a teacher, at a rate of one-seventh of the total each year. A graduate would have to pay interest on the grant each month until he begins teaching.
A color television and a microwave oven, valued at $450, were stolen from a student's house Sunday afternoon, Lawrence police reported. Property damage totaling $20 was also reported.
On the Record
- Items valued at $173 were stolen from a residence hall room sometime between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday, KU police reported.
equal a student's tuition, plus any required fees. The bill specifies that a student would be eligible for the grants for no more than six semesters.
percent interest would have to be repaid. He said the grant program would be open to students enrolled in teacher-education programs at any public or private college in Kansas.
The amount of the grant would
Williams said the program is similar to one used by the University of Kansas Medical Center. That program allows the cost of a medical student's tuition to be picked up by the state in return for a commitment to practice medicine in Kansas.
A $250 car sticker was stolen from a student's car early Sunday morning,
If a student decided to teach in another state, or not to teach at all, Williams said the entire grant plus 10
Gov. Mike Hayden, a longtime supporter of the medical scholarship program, has proposed a similar teacher scholarship program.
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One of the bill's three sponsors,
State Rep. Vernon Williams, R-Wichita, said the measure would encourage the state's top teaching graduates to remain in the state to teach.
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