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Show T PAL HI IE UTAH O . (j : ! w -" ' : " Q iS nCKijftQ&ft IliC3 iiQOr) lV(J TAs and TFs Protest Pay Inequity by Awarding A's Baby Steps... course per quarter. In comparison, TAs arc paid $6,800 and TFs $7,250 in the languages and literature department. A pay increase for the employees in the languages and literature department is "practically impossible," according to College of Humanities dean Patricia Hanna. At a Wednesday meeting, the TAs and TFs met with Hanna to discuss the dispute. The TAs and TFs alleged that four-hou- r LINDSAY WOOD Chronicle Staff Writer - A dispute over pay inequality has resulted in protest action by teaching assistants and teaching fellows that will affect the grades s of nearly 1,000 University of Utah students studying Spanish, U j yf A German and French. The TAs and TFs of the department of languages and literature will give A grades to all students in 100- - to 300-lcvclasses, fellow to Greg teaching according Roberts. Students must fulfill the "We feel totally legal requirements of the class, which includes taking finals, but will Our contract says we have receive A grades regardless of to in and correct finals, their scores. Those students not completing homework the class requirements will get E correct grades. The protest action will be effec- turn in gradesheets." tive immediately., Greg Roberts uWe feel it's totally Jcgal," Roberts said. "Our contract says we have to fill in and correct finals, correct homework and turn in grade sheets About 40 TAs and TFs will take part in the dispute, which Hanna would refuse to attend the may continue after summer if the meeting if tape recorders or anyconflict is not resolved, Roberts one from The Daily Utah Chronicle were present. said.. a because of arose The dispute According to the TAs and TFs who TAs the between of attended, the meeting was pay disparity and TFs in the department of lan- not successful. They said they believed the guages and literature and those in other departments within the dean was not interested in their issues. College of Humanities. Yvettc fellow TAs and Teaching English department TFs arc paid $7,323 and $8,145 Pollastrini said Hanna docs not respectively for teaching one subscribe to the "equal pay for its Jill and - , , ..... X H09 1100 sJSS Cmumcu hum Km Mitchell Dave Hunt escorts Chloc Cypress. Hunt on an excursion through the Marriott Plaza fountain Wednesday. equal work" principle. "She doesn't believe fairness applies in this situation," Roberts said. According to teaching fellow Caroline Malassignc-Donnelly- , Dean Hanna brought the TA and TF employment contracts to the meeting and implied if the situation were unbearable, they could tear up their own contracts. After the meeting, Hanna said the meeting was private and declined comment. to Department chair Carolyn Morrow also declined to comment. In a recent external review of the department of languages and literature, a report by John Lyons of the University of Virginia said the involvement of senior TAs and TFs "is one of the best in the country." "It is with bitter irony that a program of national stature should be on the verge of collapse because of teaching stipends so low that graduate students cither leavx the program or take second jobs," the report said. "Arbitrary, capricious, random, irregular and unexplained decisions about personnel and budget" have resulted in a morale and confidence crisis in the department, according to Lyons' report. A 1986 department review reported an "inability to budget reliably for teaching assistants." The latest report indicated the problem still exists and that some of the best graduate students may decide to go out of state to better-fundeprograms. d Twitch Does After 3 Years DAVID JACKSON Chronicle Staff Writer ' a budget excluding an arts and After three years in the making, magazine, the arts and entertainment section of The Daily Utah Chronicle, makes its final appearance today. Twitch Robert Jones, next year's editor in chief, has decided to change the way entertainment activities arc presented in the newspaper. There will still be an entertainment magazine in the newspaper on Thursdays, but it will not be called Twitch? Jones says. Chronicle Business Manager Robert McOmbcr says however that funds havx not as of yet been allocated for an entertainment mag- Chronicle The Daily Utah Chronicle 240 Union Building University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 841 12 azine next year. But Jones, who initially proposed ' entertainment magazine, will present budget modifications to the Publications Council for subsequent approval by them and the Board of Trustees. If accepted, the magazine will not only emerge bearing a new name, but its content will change as wclL The campus will bcthc main focus," Jones says. "I feel there is not enough focus on activities of the students on campus However, Twitch editor. Christian Arial dislikes that kind of emphasis. "It sounds a lot more homoge. - he nous and says. "I don't think it's as profesas it should sional and broad-basebe" 'school-spirit'-like,- " d - Jones also wants to move the focus from performing arts to a cultural art emphasis. Therefore, the name Twitch does not apply," he says. The whole focus of Twitch was on a minority of students," he says. "It is very alternative, but it's not what the majority of students are interested in." But Kristen Ricdclbach, current editor in chief, disagrees. "I do think they have a pretty good sense of what art and entertainment is," she says. "I really do think they Lip into (various genres and they cover a lot of local music" Vc have tried to present an extremely broad base in arts and entertainment " Arial says. "We have covered everything from Nee Twitch on page .1 GO Cnonai hi htm BULK RATE U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. I S2t Salt Lake Ck UT |