Ball State University - Orient Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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|! am a student and my own em- ployer. My weekly income ranges from $150 to $200 and | seldom leave my apartment. | sell grass. With the growing acceptance of mari- juana on campus, a whole new line of employment has opened up to Ball State students. The stereotype of the evil ‘‘pusher’’ has been replaced with the “friendly dealer’’ image. 1 could live across the hall, down the street or | may even be your roommate. Dealing became my job only after my roommate came back one night with a lid, less than an ounce of grass, for which he had paid $20. It was then | realized that here would be a chance for me to make some money and maybe save other people money. Buying in pounds takes one tele- phone call and one trip to pick it up. Before | make a purchase, | sample it to check its quality. Usually it is good or- ganic Mexican grass, but lately there has been a lot of Indiana weed which has been treated with chemical THC. This Indiana weed gives a nice high but! pre- fer to deal in organic marijuana. A pound of good Mexican grass costs anywhere from $150 to $200, depending On supply and demand. | get 20 lids out of a pound and sell them for $15 each, giving me a profit of about 100%. The only other expense | have is a 69c box of Baggies. Lately the grass market has been flooded. Everyone | know has at least a pound he is trying to push himself. For this reason | have had to start deal- ing hash, hash oil, cocaine and speed. These drugs cost me a little more; so | only buy them when!know the market is good. They are currently the ‘‘in’”’ drugs to do. If you need a couple hits of speed for exams or a snort or two of cocaine for a concert, | can set you up, The only thing | dislike about sell- ing is the paranoia. Sure people are coo| about dope these days but there is always the chance that you might get busted. | try to minimize the risk by keeping a low number of contacts. And when there has been a bust, dealing dies down everywhere. | also avoid dealing hard drugs like heroin or chemicals such as L SD and STP. Some call me a criminal, some an Opportunist, others think of me as a public servant. With the job market as limited as it is, | look at pushing dope as just another job, and at myself as just another student “’working my way through college.’’ F A. Being a secretary is more than just knowing how to type, as Wanda Evans shows different office procedures to Karen Franklin. B. High schoolers aren't the only babysitters available. Vickie Welsch spends an evening entertaining and watching two children. C. Lew Truex watches over chemistry lab students John Bernhardt and Steve Briggs as part of his graduate assistant duties. D. By cooking for students and helping the women in the cafeteria, Beth Breston, Brayton, earns some extra spending money. E. To help pay living expenses, junior Pam Wright works 13 hours weekly in the library. F. Ed Hackett helps a customer with his selection of clothing at the Dug-Out, in the village. G. This is one of the many ways students find to fight the rising costs of education.

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Student employment helps combat higher costs College life gave the youth of America a chance to express themselves — in personal- ity, in clothes and in a job. During their four-year vigil toward life in the big, bad, cold world, students scraped, begged, borrowed, mooched, entertained, swiped, sacrificed and honestly earned money for expenses. Jobs ranged from the common seater in the dining service to being a nude model for an artist. Such jobs were obtained through a friend, a counselor, a work-study program or SOS (Society of Services), which placed students in jobs and voluntary work of their liking. ‘Actually, we work the opposite of an employment agency,’’ claimed Dick Williams, president of SOS and one of its first organ- izers. ‘‘We keep a list of students seeking jobs for employers to check when they contact us.” During the average school year, approxi- mately 2535 employed students received a paycheck from the clerks downstairs in the Ad. Building. The average work week was ten hours, and the time put in could accumu- late to give the working student a much- needed and much-worshipped raise.

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UNI-LEAD reviews now campus issues UNI-LEAD. Unity and leadership com- bined to encourage participants to improve their campus and community. It is as simple as that. For seven years students, faculty and ad- ministrators have gathered for a weekend every fall to discuss what leadership is, what it should be and what it can accomplish. It started in 1965 as a conference for stu- dent organization officers. UNI-LEAD now, in its second year, was opened to all inter- ested students. Through the exchange and development of ideas, those involved sought answers to campus and community con- cerns. This year’s conference at Epworth Forest in North Webster, Indiana, drew some 75 students and 20 faculty and administrators together to discuss problems facing Ball State. During Saturday morning's warm-up ses- sion, participants expressed artistically what UNI-LEAD meant to them. Ten colleges represented the hope that these 95 people would find some answers, if only partial, to the problems they would later attack. At mid-morning, the “University Game”’ was explained. The game’s purpose was to make participants consider the problems and potential of university ‘‘political’’ life, to show how power and status affect decision- making, to demonstrate how power can be exerted through groups and to build and de- velop analytical skills. Participants were assigned a role to play in one of nine groups. During the morning, groups developed proposals for improving the university and community which they thought their own and other groups would support. After lunch, the proposals were presented and explained. The parking problem around Ball State’s campus was an issue of the ‘“Stu- dent Senate.” The “University Senate’ wanted to see a raise in teachers’ salaries. And the “Student Pressure Coalition” was in favor of revamping the present faculty eval- uation system. At the final general session Saturday after- noon, the group proposals were considered and voted upon. “Should Ball State have a registered pharmacist to dispense prescrip- tion drugs?”’ ‘Should Ball State raise faculty salaries by five per cent?’ ‘Should the Health Center provide students with contra- ceptives?’’ To ‘‘win’”’ a group had to receive 45 influence points and the approval of the administrators and Board of Trustees. Saturday evening, participants again im- mersed themselves in some of Ball State’s and Muncie’s problems. Scott Fisher, assist- ant professor of natural resources, and Paul Gipe of ENACT explained what each parti- cipant could do to protect the environment. Tony Edgerton of ACTION encouraged stu- dents to get involved with the community while Mike White of Aquarius House dis- cussed the drug problem in Muncie. The 1972 UNI-LEAD Conference closed with a midnight service by Father Ron Voss. It was then, when all were gathered as one, that the reason for UNI-LEAD was realized. Only through unity will leadership succeed and problems be solved.