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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1969)
TAs support families via loans, luck Editor’s note: The Jan. 10 Emerald reported that a re port was made to the Graduate Student Council which alleged that the TA wages are “set at a level insufficient to sustain de cent minimum standards of liv ing.” The Emerald, in a follow up to this story, interviewed four TAs. Whether or not these four TAs represent the norm is unknown. Other TAs in other departments may be in differ ent positions. By LES BLUMENTHAL Of the Emerald Marvin Feuerberg is 29 years old, has a wife and two pre school children, is finishing his M.A. in sociology, and has been a teaching assistant in that field for the past three years. Feuer berg is paid $2,400. “Without loans I wouldn’t be able to .continue my educa tion. I was supposed to have a National Defense Loan this year, but two weeks before school started they told me the monej had not come through. “I was sweating it. but I came up with a State Guarantee Loan I am willing to insure the debt now almost $5,000 worth. I am not willing to let my wife work —this would have a negative consequence on the kidp. I would quit school rather than have her work,” he said. Feuerberg and his family liv ed in the Amazon Park Hous ing project for two years, but due to the need for more space they moved into a place that has double the rent. Last year one of his children had a sick ness that was not diagnosed for a year. “I felt the pinch. My sal ary can't sustain any mishaps.” he said. Feuerberg ideally sees a TA assistantship as part of profes sional training for a teaching job. He feels, though, that de partments have not systematical ly developed the assistantship so that training occurs. MARVIN FUERBERG “My salary can’t sustain any mishaps" Cover approved for EMU court By KATHY KUCERA Of the Emerald The University Buildings and Grounds Committee approved plans Thursday for a translucent plastic roof to cover the pres ently open court in the EMU. The structure will be per manently installed over the area to control leakage. Water leak age in the basement bowling area through the tile floor of the court makes some kind of floor ing repair necessary. Several alternatives have been proposed but all methods of con trolling the leakage have been termed risks. No definite source of the leakage has been discov ered by Physical Plant officials and others who have investigat ed the site. University architects Photographers needed The Emerald is looking for more photographers. Anyone in terested may inquire at 301 Al len or call the Emerald office, ext. 1817. jlizza 4006 Franklin Blvd. For Pizza to Go— Call 726-4415 have devised the roof method to hopefully prevent the leak age. They are reasonably certain that it will work. Committee members approv ed the motion by a vote of 4-3. Unless a suitable alternate pro posal is presented soon, the plans will be carried out as soon as possible. The roof will be financed with money from the rehabilitation fund of the EMU at a cost of about $G,000. During the past year $3,000 has been spent in patchwork on the tile floor, ac cording to Dick Reynolds, EMU director. “I am disheartened with the result of the committee’s vote,” said Reynolds. “We are quite reluctantly going to go ahead.” He explained that because of shifts in the cement beneath the tile the area has been re paired three times within the last year and a half. No defi nite cause of the leaking has been found, despite tests to de termine the source of the water. A temporary structure below the ceiling of the bowling al ley now collects and drains off the water. In other committee business, preliminary plans for the de velopment of the Eugene Sand and Gravel Co. property north of the campus were presented. The committee directed sugges tions for further sudies to the architect present. No formal ac tion was taken. The committee reviewed gen eral policy concerning parking permits and granted a parking permit to a petitioner. His first year he was paid $2,000 for his work, the second year $2,200. This year he figures that he puts in 15 hours of work a week correcting papers, making up test questions and seeing students. “Salaries should be based on need. Maybe there should be a children’s allowance. It appears to be in my department that most TAs are single, or are mar ried with the wife working, or they have no children, but there are some in my position. Even given the existing limits on funds there should be provi sions made for those TA fam ilies that have children,” Feuer berg said. Jan Newton, a TA in eco nomics, is married to a student and has two young children. “The small salary forces you to go outside for other sources of income. We have taken out large loans and are subsisting,” she said. No Correlation She sees no correlation be tween teaching and money as motivation, and says she tries to do a good job, because of pride. “Becoming a TA was my very last alternative. I had a fel lowship that payed almost twice as much but that ran out. I applied for a research grant from the government and other teaching jobs, but these didn’t come through. This was my last resort, and we had to have something to live on,” she said. Mrs. Newton feels that this selective process filters people down to those who become TAs as a last resort. “I will go from a subsistence level to a substantial level this summer, as hopefully my salary will leap from $2,200 to $11, 000 if I become a real member of the faculty. I will have the same duties and the responsibil ities as I now have, without any real change in my experience,” she said. Some Discussion She also mentioned that there had been some discussion among TAs in economics departments who maintain that they take over the duty of the principals who are now teaching courses in the 200 sequence, and divide the salary of the professors ac cordingly. Richard Block is married and his only means of support, be sides his previous savings, is his salary for being a TA in psy chology. “The Graduate Student Council’s report is very true and very relevant. I estimated my salary on an hourly basis and that wasn’t too bad, and Police arrest two on drug charge EUGENE (AP)—Two Port land men who police said had 45 “lids’’ of marijuana hidden in suitcases, were arrested as they walked on a street near the Uni versity of Oregon campus Fri day night. Charged with illegal posses sion of narcotics were Norman John Brindley, 20, and Bruce Gordon Fraser, 19. The two were not University students. They were held in lieu of $2,000 bail each on the felony charge. A “lid” is a small plastic bag of marijuana. University writer is among best PRINCEON, N.J. UP>_Wan dalyn Rice of Monmouth, Ore., a sophomore at the University, is one of 82 of the nation’s best journalism prospects as select ed by the Newspaper Fund. She will receive a $500 scholarship after a summer of work as a be ginning newspaper reporter. The Newspaper Fund reported that more than 300 college stu dents applied for the fund’s scholarships. The program is in tended to give each student at least 10 weeks of practical ex perience in newspaper report ing. the experience is excellent, but making a living on this salary is something else. “I’m breaking about even, and we haven't been starving, but that is about it,” he said. Block said he knew what the pay was and could have gone elsewhere, but he decided to come to the University after four years at Michigan. ‘Limited Budget* “I came here because it is a good department, the cost of liv ing is lower out here, and the general geographic location was what I wanted. I don't know what can be done, everyone these days are working under a limited budget,” he said. A1 Mandelberg, a TA in phil osophy, isn't having too bad a time, but “I don’t see how mar ried TAs, especially with kids, could possibly live on a TA wage. “I know a man in the de partment who 10 years ago at Nebraska was getting $1,800 as a TA; today at the University I'm getting $2,000 and the price of living has certainly doubled," he said. He sees TAs as "plastic imi tation faculty members” and the teaching as a job that can be negotiated and strikes called. "The financial aids depart - ment views the TA salary as a scholarship, and if you're caught on another job, you lose that scholarship. 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