From: a_rosati@guvax.georgetown.edu
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: NAGPS & HR 4418/taxes & stipends
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:10:21 GMT
Organization: Georgetown University

To all... 

The item following my signature is an official item from NAGPS. Please read 
and reply by Email to Kevin Boyer (our executive assistant) at the following 
Email address:

71551.3365@compuserve.com

Please note... Do NOT reply to me! Although I am on the board of directors, 
it is Kevin who is collating this information for us, not me. 

Thanks! Please join us in this and other efforts to make your life in
graduate school better and more focused.


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| Anthony V. Rosati              |                                |
| Department of Chemistry,       | "A nation that cannot think,   |
| Georgetown University          |  cannot survive."              |
| Washington, D.C. 20057-2222    |                                |
| A_ROSATI@GUVAX.BITNET          |          - Norman Mailer, 1992 |
| A_ROSATI@GUVAX.GEORGETOWN.EDU  |            National Press Club |
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| Southeastern Regional Coordinator & Member, Board of Directors  |
| National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS)  |
| 1992 - 1993                                                     |
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From:	IN%"71551.3365@compuserve.com"  "NAGPS Ex Asst" 
Date:	27-JUL-1992 19:35:57
Subj:	More on HR 4418/Taxes & Stipends

NAGPS Folks:

Though I have dropped mail in your e-mail box implying that support for 
the Lewis bill (HR 4418) should not be a high priority, I am aware that
others may feel differently.  Liaison that I am between the e-mailers
and the snail-mailers (U.S.Postal Service), I wanted to forward to you
the following letter written by the President of the GSA at Penn State.
I do not believe Penn State is on the e-mail network, so he is not aware
of some of the conversations we have been having.  However, he makes
some good points of which you all might find interesting.

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TO:  Ms. Gina Pearson NAGPS Legislative/Employment Concerns Director

As you know, on March 10, 1992, the Honorable Mr. Lewis of Florida
introduced HR 4418.  The bill's title is "To amend the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 to restore the prior law exclusion for scholarships and
fellowships."  The bill was referred to the house committee on Ways
and Means.

The Pennsylvania State University Graduate Student Association has
encouraged all of its members to write letters to their Representatives
and members of the committee to encourage the passage of this bill.
A sample letter has been provided.

It is the opinion of our Assembly that all affiliated NAGPS members 
[should] write to their representatives, as well as the members of the
committee ,in support of this bill. It is hoped that some type of 
correspondence to all NAGPS members can be coordinated by you to
increase our effectiveness.

I would appreciate it if you would review this matter and report your
findings and views to me, as well as any efforts that your office
has initiated in relation to this bill.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Rudy Glocker, President

                 ______________________________________

Since Gina is not presently on e-mail, I will be glad to solicit your
comments on her behalf. The NAGPS Board meets in Phoenix [at the end of 
this week] and information can be transferred to them via me (and my trusty 
fax machine). Should the NAGPS Board encourage all members to support this 
legislation? Given that the Higher Education community seems to feel that 
this legislation has little chance of passing, should NAGPS attempt to secure
support so that either 
	a) it has a better chance of passing, or 
	b) the principle of taxation of scholarships/fellowships/stipends be 
		opposed?

Are your campuses ready and able to gear up for a legislative campaign
this fall?  In 1988 and 1989, we were able to drop nearly 25,000 letters
to Congress and convince them to reverse the taxation of tuition waivers.
My own, modest, belief is that unless we are able to commit our member
campuses to a real campaign to secure the passage of legislation, an
effort should not be launched.  A piss-poor legislation campaign can be
worse than no campaign at all.

Please try to get comments to me by Thursday, July 30, 1992.  I will
forward these comments on to Joy Ward and the rest of the NAGPS Board.

Kevin Boyer
NAGPS Executive Assistant
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