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...financial status of teaching fellows is a point of contention between the Union and the GSAS Administration. The Union claims that a new tuition abatement program is providing teaching fellows with about $250,000 less aid that they received last year under the old Staff Tuition Scholarship (STS) program...
Already, then, the Square is becoming a high-priced shopping and restaurant district in anticipation of the estimated one million unsuspecting persons to visit the Library annually. In the past two and a half years, the facade of Boylston and Mt. Auburn Sts. has given way to boutiques, eateries and quick-purchase trend stores, housed in expanded and remodeled quarters which purportedly justify rent hikes of well over 50 per cent in some instances. There have been more additions up Brattle Street, and one of the few redeeming features of the new-look Square. Brattlewalk, succumbed to pressure from edgy...
...substitution of the new program for Staff Tuition Scholarships (STS) last Spring led to the formation of the Union. Union spokesmen have continually maintained that less assistance for teaching fellows will be forthcoming under the new program and their success this year hinges to a great extent on the validity of this claim...
...Union knows that calling the STS a grant instead of a salary works their advantage when they fill out their income tax," he said...
...Union demanded that the STS program be restored. Pressured by the imminence of a Union work stoppage, the Committee on Fellowships and Other Aid last Spring announced a special tuition abatement program for teaching fellows. Wilcox said he sees the two programs as essentially the same. "The only change has been a semantic one," he explained...