Cowley College - Tiger Daze Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

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Mission possible: J The $5 date £.« by. Chuck Sigler One would almost think that the possibility of a $5 date in Arkansas City is non-existant, and to some people, it probably is. One also must consider the money available. For now we will assume that all we can get ahold of is $5. Then you must take into consideration what you had wan- ted to do. After realizing that you are down to $5, you disregard that com- pletely. Once you have come to terms with your financial situation, you then place the call to make your date. Everything goes smoothly until she asks, What did you have in mind for Thursday night? You stutter and say, Gee, uh, I don ' t know. What would you like to do? She, not being ex- perienced either says, Gosh, I don ' t know. This could lead to serious problems. The person on one end of the phone is thinking, I would sure like to have a fun evening out, while the other prays desperately that no one knows that he tried to go out on a date for $5 or less. You wind up the long draggy, silent, conversation with a, Let ' s just decide Thursday, in hope that she will think you are just an impetuous person. No such luck, she hangs up thinking, He must be short of money. She knows that she will have a terrible time, and might even already regret saying yes. However you sit at home and con- template your possibilities. No, I will not go to McDonalds for a Happy Meal. ' The sad part is, you can ' t af- ford it anyway. Then you hit on an idea. Thursday is ladies dollar night at the 13th Hour in Winfield. What an idea! We don ' t have to get uproariously drunk (especially since you can ' t afford it) but, we can go and dance, maybe even share a drink. You call her back and tell her your idea, not all of it, but the good part anyway. She loved it, and everything is set. Now that you have a pleasing arrangement, a bundle of ideas pass through your mind. You could have changed the date to Tuesday and gone to dollar night at the Burford or spent an afternoon playing tennis or horseback riding. If the lady is in- viting someone out, the couple could eat a home-cooked meal, and spend an evening with friends playing Trivial Pursuit, or Monopoly, or just watcheing movies at home. The date went extremely well, and you both had a good time. Your worrying was needless and will not be present again as long as you remember these helpful and thrifty (Continued on page 29)

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ENDLESS LOVE-Virginia Dickson serves a sloppy joe during lonch at the Nelson Student Center. She has been a professional cook for 28 years and says she still enjoys cooking and loves young people. (Photo by Mike Ennis) The students told me that the biscuits wouldn ' t rise until they put gravy on them. They made me vow never to leave again, she said. More recently, Dickson saved the day when she created a miracle dessert from what most people would call a disaster. We had a batch of brownies that were undercooked and had been sit- ting for about an hour. They were real mushy, Fritz said. I wanted to throw them out but Virginia never wants to waste anything so she just added a few things -a box of pudding, a cake mix, peanut butter and a package of chocolate chips She baked it and stuck it on the line for the students. They kept coming up and asking what was the name of that cake because it was the best they had ever eaten. Virginia told them it was her miracle cake ' but she told me she didn ' t know if she could ever make it again. Dickson is not only head cook, she is part of the family She approaches her cooking with the same down- homeness of mom. Some of her most popular foods are her home made chili, potato soup, fresh baked pies and banana bread. She even mashes the bananas by hand so the ingredients will be fresh for the 110 students and faculty who will eat it. She ' d like to use all fresh ingredients but we just can ' t afford it, Fritz said. Sometimes the labor to snap green beans and prepare other fresh foods is just too ex- pensive, but she tries to use fresh ingredients whenever she can. Dickson likes doing things for the students but she says they do things for her, too. One of the most gratifying times on the job is at Christmas when she receives a lot of cards from students who are more like adopted children. Cowley ' s own Ron Ryer is one of her most remem- bered students. He used to get up early to help her make hamburger patties when he attended Cowley. All in all, Dickson says she has the best job in the world. A job she says she wouldn ' t miss for anything... ' -COUPON- This Pass Entitles You To ONE FREE TRIAL VISIT THE IMAGE Ladies Fitness Center HOURS: Mon-Wed-Fri 6:30a.m.- 8p.m. Tue-Thur 9a.m. -8 p.m. 117 West Central Arkansas City, Ks. 67005 Phone (316) 442-7621 No Obligation A free press: Your key to freedom. Traveler All the news... in writing

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Sudsiri your duds: a regular soap opera If there were a Head Start program in dirty laundry, I ' d be a different jock today — one with clean jockey shorts at least, ' ' sophomore Moe Mythical said as he sat riveted with fascination at the suds building up in the circular window of the automatic washer. If only my high school had offered Intro to Laundry I, he sighed. I got my basic laun- dry training, like all the other guys, at the Fourteenth Minute the second weekend I arrived on campus as a fresh- man. The contracts to trade soap suds for beer suds were sealed there, he recalled. The agreements were made with sophomore coeds, who knew what they were talking about. And why not, they said they were curren- tly enrolled in Directed Studies in Laundry II, he said. Moe and his freshman friends believed it, every word. Little did we know w end up paying for not only chore with resignation and dread. (Photo by Don Shrubsheil) soap suds but also beer suds ij LAUNDRYMAN-Sophomore Greg Heikes makes a visit to a laundromat on Summit Street. Heikes, like most Cowley students, faces the routine Each week we were unceremoniously presented with the coeds ' expense accounts including labor, supplies, utilities and beer used, he said. But second semester I finally aced ' Remedial Laun- dry, ' and discovered it wasn ' t true that my wash-and- wear shirts took 15 minutes to iron, he explained. He collected his clean, wet togs from the washer, tossed them into the companion dryer and left through the side door. Getting laundry done is part of the routine for nearly every Cowley student and according to Virgil Watson, Director of Student Life, it ' s a little business all its own. The washers and dryers in the basement of the College Dormitory bring in about $32 a week. Figuring 50 cents to wash each load and 25 cents to dry, the machines there average about 40 loads of laundry a week. That, of course, does not include the great number of loads of laundry done at places other than the dormitory. Joey Wilson, Anderson, Ind., freshman, lives in the dorm and that ' s where he does his laundry. I do a lot, once every two weeks at least, he said. I stretch my clothes out as far as they can go and wear them as often as I can, ' ' Wilson said. I do it late at night so I can leave em in the dryer and I go out and around. Then I get them out the next mor- ning, he said. Finding time for laundry is no problem for some Cowley males. Jay Huston, Udall sophomore, does his laundry at his girl friend ' s home, or that is, she does it. Other methods of getting the chore done vary from taking it home to mom, to using the local laundromats. Freshman Stacey Sawyer, Eureka, takes it home. If she doesn ' t get home on the weekend, she does it at the laundromat on South Summit. At least two baskets full, Sawyer said about the amount of laundry she accumulates in a week. My mom does it for me at home. I go out with friends, or my boy friend, and we play ball. I play a lot of catch. All it costs (Continued on page 25) by Joan Renek Art by Mike Wheeler