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Palmer, who teaching this semester in Sweden, accepted in absentia the award for best teaching by a junior faculty member. He joked in an e-mail sent to Chopra that he looked forward to receiving the million dollar stipend that he hoped came with the award...
Laura E. Clancy ’02-’03 received the award for outstanding student achievement, with Dorothy A. Fortenberry ’02 and Lavanya Kondapalli ’02 receiving honorable mentions. The award carries with it a $750 stipend...
...many industries, unions perform the necessary role of bargaining to secure fair pay, benefits and safe working conditions. RAs have argued that they need the protection a union offers in their work—caring for undergraduates. However, UMass RAs are already well paid, receiving a small weekly stipend and subsidized housing in exchange for their 20 hours of work a week. And by highlighting the menial aspects of their work, RAs overlook the fact that their job is not fundamentally about cleaning up after a party, but about counseling and guiding students—a job that is both...
...response to a barrage of recent accusations that Catholic priests had molested children in Greater Boston, His Eminence Cardinal Bernard F. Law last week stripped Rev. D. George Spagnolia of his ability to exercise priestly ministry and revoked his monthly stipend of $1,400. The cardinal claims that this action was justified by the Archdiocese’s new “zero-tolerance” policy for alleged molesters, which was developed as a response to scandals over the past months that have uncovered hundreds of potential victims. As a result of the Cardinal’s swift-handed...
...Beijing Olympians, are privately held. The rest are either partially or wholly owned by government entities (the August 1 Rockets team is fielded by the People's Liberation Army). Each is expected to subsist mainly on an annual allowance doled out by the league. This year the stipend is $133,000 per team, which is supposed to help cover player salaries, food, equipment and travel for a 26-game schedule, plus play-offs. It doesn't go far. One poverty-stricken club in Shanxi province reportedly can't afford to feed its players meat during the season...