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...offering the patrollers a 2.6 percent raise for 1993 and 1994. Budgets are tight all across the University--except, it seems, when it comes to the police administration's payroll. When you get right down to it, this is an issue of fairness. Harvard's patrollers are underpaid-down the river, at MIT. they make roughly 4 percent more...
...first part of the unhappiness is systemic, for a writing teacher's lot is not always a happy one. Colleges talk a big line about the importance of writing, but they seldom back their commitments with money. Chronically underpaid and overworked, the teachers who take up this cross find themselves scuttling from college to college, sometimes working at two or more jobs at once. For men and women who have put years into getting an advanced degree, the life of an itinerant scholar often comes as a bitter pill. Many of them are trying to make a name for themselves...
That was not likely to satisfy civil-liberties advocates, who can point to numerous cases in which underpaid, overworked or inexperienced defense lawyers missed crucial evidence that surfaced only on appeal. Biden and Attorney General Janet Reno tried to head off that objection by offering to guarantee and fund competent, experienced lawyers for defendants in capital cases. "Good-quality defense counsel in death-penalty cases reduces trial errors," says a law-enforcement representative who took part in the negotiations. "We can live with that. We can even live with federally mandated counsel standards if they're not intrusive...
...typical public defender is underpaid and overwhelmed. When Jacquelyn Robins was appointed New Mexico's state public defender in 1985, there were six lawyers in Albuquerque's Metro court to handle the annual load of 13,000 misdemeanor cases. Three years later Robins persuaded state legislators to put up funds for three more lawyers. Even then, lawyers could manage only cursory conferences with clients just 30 minutes before their court appearance. In 1991 Robins again went begging for dollars. When she was accused of having a "management problem," she quit. The move caused such a furor that the Governor promised...
...Anything that could go wrong had," Carleton says. "There was no curriculum beside the daily lesson plan. The schools were underfunded, there was no computerization, the teachers were underpaid...even the buildings were falling apart...