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...TAS' principal complaint is that members' median salary of $5460 does not cover the administration's estimated cost of living of $8370. T.A.'s have also complained that they put in unpaid overtime and are not trained to teach, and that teaching interferes with their writing dissertations, according to a reporter at The Yale Daily News...
Graduate students are also beginning to take on the job of T.A. in their first year, although they were not intended to teach until their third year, says Ray Lurie, former press liaison for TAS...
...response to TAS' requests, William Nordhaus, who resigned last week from his position as provost, suggested that T.A.'s borrow money to supplement their salaries...
...TAS spokesperson Yvette Huginnie says that graduate students are already overburdened with debts. "Graduate students are currently arriving at Yale with an average of $8900 in loans if they went to a private college," she says...
...earn extra money, T.A.'s often take on jobs outside the university. "Most of us have second and third jobs," says TAS member Ruth Oldenziel, adding that she holds three jobs...