College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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Working at the Campus Center Can- Giving campus tours to prospective dy counter can be a fuir ' -filling job. students is hard work mixed in with One of Becky Harvey ' s duties is to fun Answering naive questions is just keep the candy well stocked. part of the job. Manning the bar at Berret ' s. Keith Driscoll gets to meet hun- dreds of students and tourists a week. Middle: Working at the Trellis can be a ' rewarding ' experience. Debbie Linden often receives big tips from tourists. Left; The art department in An- drews hall regularly hires stu- dents to help put up new art dis- plays in the building ' s front foyer. Above. Taking orders for sta food. Anita Rutkowski keeps track by writing down the order exactly ensuring her of a good tip. Student Employment 21

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Around the Campus Cash Conscious Everyone works while they ' re at school. Some people get paid for it. Over one third of the stu- dents were employed on or off camous. Some did it to pay back student loans, some did it to earn pocket cash regardless of the reason, student employ- ees provided a valuable work force to the College and the community. Almost every office on cam- pus employs student workers — from anthropology to admis- sions, from Marriott to the li- brary; almost every business in Williamsburg employs students — from Kinko ' s to Safeway; stu- dents who wanted jobs usually had very little trouble finding them. Some students got their jobs on their own, others utilized the placement assistance available through the office of Financial Aid. One program many stu- dents took advantage of is called work study. Work study guar- antees a student a certain amount of money through a job on campus; participating stu- dents are given placement pref- erence over nonwork study stu- dents. Sophomore Jeryl Rose has worked in the Office of Academ- ic Support for two years. I like working on campus, you get to know what ' s going on, you get to meet the administration and it ' s convenient. Rose started her job as part of work study, and continued it when her work study was over. Next year I ' m going to be working in the gov- ernment office, it ' s my major and it seems like a career mind- ed thing to do. Cindy Janis, who is also a sophomore, was employed at Sammy and Nick ' s Steak House as a hostess. Working off campus, in addition to giving me extra money, let me meet people other than college stu- dents. I liked that, Janis said. Janis enjoyed periodic breaks from the campus life, but added, If I hadn ' t had a car, 1 could never have had my job. Transportation has been a de- ciding factor for students when i choosing whether to work ' on or ° off campus. Having a car can (but doesn ' t always) mean an off- campus job. To a freshman or sophomore, an off-campus job means permission to have a car. Until the school pays us to study, about thirty-five percent of the students will spend hours a week working hard for their money. The rest of us will con- tinue to just work hard. — Jennifer Murphy

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Around the Campus, Life Out of Bounds Tinee God provides an easy access to necessities forgotten while shopping in Safeway. Tom Evans enjoys a Big Gulp while shopping for spaghetti. Believe it or not. this article was actually written in a location which happened to be extremely off-campus in nature, it probably was an acceptable vantage point from which to spew some type of an overview circumscribing the ectasies and evils of off-cam- pus living. With the beginning of each new academic year students were faced with a most momen- tus decision: whether or not to journey beyond the boundaries of reason and to take up resi- dence in surrounding Billsburg and the wilderness beyond. But where did one go? As close as Richmond or Jamestown Road or as far as Newport News or Richmond. Most people chose a place in between: Scotland Street, Spring Roads, Pepper- tree, Jamestown Apartments, Governor ' s Square The list went on and on. And on. Like everything else, off-cam- Hanging out in front of Sigma Nu Kevin Karney and Tracy Risachcr enjoy the life of living in sorority court. Although those living in the houses are subject to ORL rules they do not have to go through the rigors of lottery in the Spring. Bottom; Their own furniture, their own room, their own bath only people who live off campus can really enjoy the full effect of having such things. Carrie Omps and Jeff Lenser enjoy the free- dom of being able to share an apartment to reduce expenses. 22 Life off Campus pus living had its pros and cons. Cons began with the absence of a free toilet paper supply. Transportation was an expen- sive problem, but it presented one with a valid reason for tak- ing one of the family cars to school. Having a vehicle, wheth- er it was a battery-operated mo- tor scooter or a nuclear- powered eighteen-wheeler. opened a world of cultural op- portunity, shortening distances to Va Beach. Washington DC. and LA (of course). However, cars broke. Cars chose to break at the best times — 150 miles from Williamsburg the night be- fore the first final when only for- ty cents remained in the bank account. Groceries, cooking, rent, and utilities tended to- wards the Maximum Suckage Point in many instances. The independence of off-cam- pus living was the single most attraction which drew students from the tyranny of ORL. Off- campus students had a larger control over their environment, their activities, their TV sets, and their destinies. Isolation from restriction allowed chaos. These students partied as they so desired and further freed their habits of the academic pressures of the dorm. Other at- tractions included private bath- rooms, bathtubs, swimming pools, tennis courts, balconies and fireplaces. Whether in houses or in apartments, most day students agreed on one fact: off-campus living was fun. As student MP McSpew stated, It ' s twice the party for half the cost. — Mikeljon Nikolich ' 4 Pi I if '