Council to Study Teaching Fellow Financial Status

"An intensive study of the financial conditions of University teaching fellows will soon be inaugurated," Richard C. Hodgson 2G, Student Council member, stated last night.

Hodgson will head a new sub-committee to be formed from a permanent committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Student Council. "We hope to write to 30 different universities before the vacation and compare the financial situations of teaching fellows there with those at Harvard," he said.

The Student Council decided last night to investigate the situation in answer to recent complaints from many of the University's 870 teaching fellows.

Under present, conditions, teaching follows' salaries are taxable. But they are responsible for tuition, which is usually paid from their salaries. Complainants state that the University should give a salary minus the tuition charges. The salary reduction would thus greatly reduce teaching fellow's taxes.

The present financial condition of teaching fellows was described as "difficult" at the Council meeting. Married graduates are here most deeply concerned, since they have greater financial responsibility than the unmarried graduates.

"If we find that teaching fellows in other universities pay a smaller tax on their total income than they do at Harvard, we hope to take steps to amend the situation," Hodgson added.