4 Academics on Food Stamps

Richard E. Aberle, 56

Graduate student and adjunct professor, State U. of New York at Plattsburgh
Receives food stamps, Medicaid, heating assistance

Mr. Aberle, who is married and has three children, took a one-third pay cut last fall when the dean's office began to enforce a university policy that prohibits adjuncts from teaching more than three courses per semester. He says he will earn less than $18,000 this academic