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...well as being "underpaid and overworked," we TAs are usually much maligned, both by the academic community and by the parents of the little darlings we are sweating and slaving to educate. I hope that your article will result, if not in immediate raises, at least in improvement of our image...
Frantically pursuing their own Ph.D.s while they carry a substantial share of the university teaching, TAs are generally the most enthusiastic, underpaid and overworked members of a university teaching staff. They are getting more numerous all the time. Of Harvard's 1,816 teachers, 893 are teaching fellows. The University of California's Berkeley campus has 1,303 TAs out of 3,460 teachers. The University of Michigan had only four teaching fellows in its Literary College in 1933, has 579 today...
...Scenic designers," he maintains, "are the most underpaid people in the theater." And he notes that the cost of carting off and burning the sets of Kelly, after its inadvertent one-night stand on Broadway last month, was $6,000-slightly more than Smith's fee for creating them. Not that Smith is hurting. His take from My Fair Lady alone reached $65,000, with royalties still acoming. And in any case, he has managed to move out of the old artists' commune to a bachelor pad of his own a few blocks away. It is a yellow...
...into debt during three years in Washington, added: "You can't expect me to maintain this Government with underpaid men. I'm afraid that a lot of people will leave because they aren't making enough money." The bureaucrats got their pay raise...
Noting that 5000 bills are submitted in Massachusetts every year, Grossman said that "Massachusetts legislators are woefully underpaid and can't possibly hire the necessary staff to deal with these bills...