July 14, 1982 (vol. 92, iss. 39) • Page Image 1
… look fairly peaceable at the Peaceable Kingdom on W. Liberty yesterday as a patron browses among the fare offered for sale. Shultz backs stronguer US. ies with Arabs By CHARLES THOMSON Officials of the…
… contains provisions for graduated salary increases, a training program for teaching assistants, an im- provement in tuition benefits for graduate students, and restrictions on class sizes for teaching…
… assistants. Sources also said the tentative agreement includes a promise from the University that it will review and modify its current affirmative action programs for graduate students. THE PROPOSED pact will…
… Univer- sity and the GEO, which represents more than 1,500 teaching assistants and student assistants. The TAs and SAs had no contract between 1976 and November 1981. In November, the Michigan Employment…
… Relations Commission ruled that most of the University's graduate student assistants were employees of the University and had the right to organize a union. That MERC decision forced the University to sign…
… passed," said Harris. Harris would only say that the tentative agreement pledges the University to revise its affirmative action guidelines for graduate students. A source within the union, however, said…
… increases for graduate students to the average increase received by University faculty mem- bers. The source said those increases are expected to be between 12 and 18 per- cent over the life of the new…
… contract. The contract also reportedly redefines "tuition grants" - the discounts on tuition given to graduate student assistants by the University - as "tuition waivers." The changes will mean that graduate…
… students will not have to pay income tax on the grants. HARRIS confirmed that the new agreement contains a provision for training programs for teaching assistants. He refused to say what the details of the…
… overall commitment to "wide and ever- strengthening ties with the Arabs." While Shultz repudiated none of the longstanding specific guideposts in American policy toward the Mideast, his testimony to the…

















































