_Forum_
GTFs can't live on eroding wages
Ify Carol I aulknor
Right now contract negoti
ations betyveen graduate teat h
mg fellows and the I'niversity
have reached an impasse Here
are the fat Is (,11 s make on
the average. $4t>‘) per month In
the last year, the tost of living
has itit rea.sed percent; rents
have itit reasetl pert enl
anil AS! I) health insurant e
rates have gone up a minimum
of *>() pert.enl over 100 per
cent for families
The I'niversiH has its own
set of hit ts I he\ sa\ tliev t an t
afford the health care payroll
deduction plan am more 1'hey
_Commentary_
say they don't have the money
to offer more than 11 and t per
cent raises lor the next two
years respet lively
I could go on anil on w ith
fat Is hut this is not a problem
ol facts It's a problem ol peo
pie
It you are an undergraduate,
this is about the (ITf in front ol
your Knglish sot iology Span
ish, I’K. history . phy sit s hioln
gy and probably several other
t lasses That person goes home
every night anti busts his or her
butt to he a good teachei ami
worries about money l h.it per
son sweats over every dollar
she has to spend We don’t get
a t het k from Mom or Dad eat h
month Many ol us are moms
and dads
l.et me tell you lum most
(i l l s started this yeni \Sl ( )
announced its mm insurant e
rates on Aug It) I'rru weeks
Ih'IoIV l lassos started llll‘ [MY
roll office was still assuring
(1Id's that thi' payroll dediu
lion plan would !><• avail.ihle to
tlii'iu Tim iiilmini.stratiou had
not informed payroll of tin1
t hange in polu \ I had to per
sonallv ( all tin- graduate si lioo!
to h.ive the mis up straightened
out
Manx (i l l s did not know
what was going to hit them un
III they walked into registra
tinn l or mam C. l l s these ex
orbitant eosts are not optional
foreign (ills are not even al
lowed to register without proof
that they are insured
So what does this have to do
w ilh you ' Well, the tpialitv ol a
school is not contained hi its
buildings, hut in its leai hers
and rescan hers and (ills
teai h JT> It) peri ent of all tin
dergraduate classes Do you
pav your high tuition so that
you i all he taught in people
who live at the poverty level
vv ho liter, illy c an not go to a
doctor w hen they are sic k'
How long ( an this go on before
the quality ol viiui edut alum
suffers •’
Idle ('.radii.ite d’e.u hing l ei
lows federation has been very
reasonable m its demands
from the vers beginning, we
asked mils tor ’> pen ent in
creases each year just
enough to keep up with liilla
tion It is not as it we believe
the rniversitv has i ash sitting
around that it pist refuses to
give to (i l l s U e know that Is
not true Hut we also know
that the l adversity has an enor
minis budget and we know
that budgets i ail be juggled
Just as you and I i an spend
Musique Gourmet
Catering to the
Discriminating Collector
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED
CLASSICAL & OPERATIC
MUSIC ON COMPACT DISC
AND LASER VIDEODISC
| CDs from $6.95~j
NOW OFFERING SELECT
CLASSIC FILMS FROM THE
CRITERION COLLECTION
ON LASER VIDEODISC
BRADFORD S ' 343-9000 I
THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
"He was magnificent! Just magnificent!
And I almost had him!... I can't talk about it
right now."
.i 11 of our mmu'v on .1 fa n< \ 1 ,11
.mil not have enough tor net es
siti*‘s. tin' t'mversitv 1 .ill spend
m I I S UIIMMIU of Its llionev roll
nvalmg the new presulenl 's
mansion S 1 I (it 10 on a stuiK ol
the f’hvsu al Plant whit li
didn’t tell us nn\ thin# new
and not have ennuith to offer
tillsa del rill livillK
( b\ en 1 111 rent ei onomit 1 011
rlitions, a 2 and I peri enl pav
mi rease is not a raise it's a ti
ll 111 tion People who live at the
povertv levels cannot ahsorh
even a small erosion in their
ini nine
Right now l i I I s are 1.000
strong t'ndei graduates could
make us 10.000 strung Please
support s our ('.TPs (imie to
our rallies and show us and
Muir administration that von
1 are about our t ause
(.'.mil l.iulknri is thr inr
jin‘sitlrnt ol (>ix<iniy.it ion tor
thr irrn
Oregon IKiiI\
<>U-»> Daily f
111 Publi
University of Oregon Eugene O»o
The Emerald in operated tmiep
... . . ... . , . ... .. t< i>
rsdy wdh
1 the Asm><
Eme
liable by
E dttor
Managing Editor
E ddonal E ddor
Graphic* Editor
E ncore E dilor
Now* f ditor
Supplement* E dilor
Night Editor
Associate E dilors
Community H W i ► Student Government-Activities • I
Higher E duration Administration • r • , h features
Reporters - A •.!• *• ?.• P. . i" ; : • »'••?••• ;*..*>■ A ■ .■, ► . ■
E i*. I Of Catherine HiiaIi'v Stephanie Holland Jams Joseph lay no Lake fish 4,»m
Photographers d.-ve t ' I* H.n
Advertising Sales i. I i ' , r . M.i B. • h.i.;." i •«. 1
H * • •!' M A , > Asm , Mifte '•.fiM*<it N.1 • i Part. >* t V'»i)i i
Pf.ift »• t .* Shu Kn-di StolhOf l drt.i'd Wnns h
Production '• A- • . t < rW A: i m ! i; i*n l '
M If -j I • i1 •• k!i • Yv.'Mi' i.». ; Jennifer Mw, l • !.l Ki.i.l d « ' ■" M r- VVemty
M mis A i M , I'M.'.,- I'.t ■.*•.«, A i Hc'i't'r ► i >-t ?. I'.'t'.T ! fj
Shepier S. ott Smith Carthn Stark Jennifer Th.ana*. Jennifer V»ale Ingrid White
Kelly Will'am-.
General Stall
Advertising Director • Assistant to the Publisher i '.%?■
Production Manager M •* R Advertising Coordinator i dm in >•
Accounts Receivable Circulation Newsroom 686 SS11
Classified Advertising 686 4 J4J
Display Advertising 686 3712
Production Graphic Services 686 4381
TELEPHONE
T M I Ml AMI CUllURAt
0 H t* on T U N I T l | '
N 11 Ml M < Ml s A . l . T
1 N . • M W H N
0 I W AM o li N i' M | M I
1 AN tl I !0 I VI H »
ON TH( M . MU f
I I M
NO
¥ Q U
> N f
V A 1 t 0 U Of O
s ! u 0 INI I D i S * 0 • S
II HM *. ‘ ■ I
S T U 0 f NT iNCintNTAi
t i » •, »*«ovideo *n
tOOPI RATION WITH
A S SOt I A I II) SluOf NIS
UNIVf HSlTY Of ONI GON
Laneiyarmit District
nnry poop
mm
"Tight spates make me nervous
Ms laMc leans more louard opera