Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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unnatural resources One of the great epiphanal moments at Davidson College is that when you final- ly open your bank statement and see the computer ' s blood red type: HA. HA. HA. TWO CHECKS. NO MONEY. $24, PLEASE. Suddenly it all becomes clear. You haven ' t kept a balance since the week- end your parents left freshman year, and you ' ve managed to turn your checkbook into the financial laughingstock of rural North Carolina. Bankers across America EARNING EXTRA MONEY AROUND CAMPUS, Ronnie Cox answers the phone at the Union Desk. Carol Roche types papers for students, and Vinita Pottsdamer checks out books at the library. Blakely Organbuilders off Main Street also employs sever- al students. are exchanging Xerox copies of your statement for kicks. You ' re about to be- come Fortune ' s Financial Irresponsibil- ity Poster Child for the coming year, and Sally Struthers is using your picture in her new Adopt a First-World Pauper campaign. Any way you look at it, you ' re headed for financial meltdown. Only one avenue of escape remains — after all. you ' ve already soaked your par- ents for all they ' re worth. It ' s embarrass- ing enough that they won ' t answer the phone anymore because they think it ' s you. And you ' ve already rented out all your roommate ' s records, among his oth- er possesssions. What ' s left but to get a part-time (gasp) job? Many students find work outside the college each year, so it shouldn ' t be too hard, even for you. Prostitution is out of the question — not because of the moral implications, but because you ' d starve. Ditto for any kind of manual labor. There are still a number of options available, however, and Davidson stu- dents spent a large part of the 1982-83 school year employing them, or being employed. Both the Peregrine House and Giorgio ' s once again obtained a mer- ry-go-round of student labor to wait, cook and deliver munchies to wealthier students. For those of more discriminat- ing taste, Krispy Kreme doughnuts were the top-rated campus edibles, sold and beloved by hundreds. Somebody even wheeled around a dessert cart full of original delectables, like spinach-pizza Rudding. Anything for money. If you were lucky enough to get finan- cial aid, a wide vista of interesting occu- pations opened itself to you. For action- packed, whirlwind experiences it is hard to beat the Gallery. Sometimes the tele- phone even rings. The life of a messen- ger, flitting from dorm to dorm like the FTD Florist, is certainly more than inter- esting. Embarrassing, for instance. But when you want to stay in school, you do what you can. Advice to the job-seeker: get one. It ' s difficult to persuade people to give you money. They have to think you are doing something for them, whether you actual- ly are or not. And when you finally grad- uate, if you finally graduate, you ' ll at least have some practice at convincing people they need your personal qualifi- cations, contradiction though that may be. — Mike Mason Making Money 23