Lightened Burden for GI Teaching Fellows Guaranteed by Buck

With teaching fellows studying under the G.I. Bill of Rights unable to receive more than $200 monthly in combined government compensation and University salary, the Teachers Union obtained assurance last week from Provost Buck that men will not be called upon to teach more courses and tutees than they can be paid for in the Spring term.

Instructors affected by the Congressional ruling will have the option, according to the Union, of reducing their teaching load "to the point where their allowance from the Veterans Administration will not be reduced." Extra time made available for their own studies, the Union statement added, "should shorten the period during which they will be subject to such income restrictions.

F. O. Matthiesson, professor of History and Literature and president of the Teachers Union, summed up the Union's case saying, "The Union believes Union's case saying, "The Union belives that the shortage of teachers is not an adequate reason for holding student-teachers to teaching commitments for which they are, in effect, unable to receive compensation."

"Every effort," he added, "will be made to see that no individual instructor is victimized." The Union is also working with other groups to "effect a change in the current law."