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The Working Class For many at Davidson, school and jobs don ' t mix. Jobs are things to be found in the summer or, better yet, to be postponed until one faces the real world. Others manage to combine the hasty academic schedule at Davidson with real work — pay checks and everything! Many students find that jobs are an economic necessity. Well over one- third of the student body participates in the work-study program. This idea is for them to work their way through their education Abe Lincoln style. According to the pro- gram, work-study students are to earn two- thirds of the money which they are granted in their financial aid package. The work- study wage is $3.25 an hour. Students in the program generally assist the faculty and staff with administrative work. Some students help the maintenance staff. Oth- ers act as staff secretaries. And others work at the CJnion Desk. TheiSCollege Dining Service employs nearly 100 students. Senior Bill Alibone serves as the student supervisor in the Commons, where dozens of students work on the cafeteria line. In the 900 Room senior Lynne Roglch leads a relatively small staff of bartenders who like to call themselves the 900 Room Executives. Other students see their jobs as a learn- ing experience rather than as a source of dollars. Emily Davis landed a paid intern- ship in Charlotte with the world renowned IBM. Davis thought that a temporary job with one of the world ' s,most powerful cor- porations would be an invaluable supple- ment to a liberal arts education. I couldn ' t pass up the chance to work with them, she said. They ' re one of the best companies I know of to work for. Davis served as a marketing assistant, educating customers to the uses of certain computers. Some students are lucky to find reward- ing work with businesses much closer to campus. Polly Fishback was offered a job by Piedmont Bank on Main Street where she was employed as a branch teller. She applied for the job for spending money and also hoping that the experience would help me in the future. Chris Woods sought another type of parttime job. He is em- ployed by Blakely ' s Organ Makers. Woods took the job because he likes the balance between work with the hands and with the mind. Woods is involved mostly with the carpentry aspect of production. Scott Otto, on the other hand, works for no one: he is his own boss. An entrepreneur- ial capitalist. Otto planned his own money- making scheme. With the photography of Randy Stroud and Jim Morgan and the help of 12 male students who agreed to serve as models. Otto designed a macho calendar which he intends to sell to Davidson coeds as well as to students at Salem and Queens College. He printed 1000 calendars, which he priced at five dollars. Otto has confessed that the project has entailed much more work than he anticipated. We ' ll soon see if it pays off, he asserted. — Dick Richards What ' ll you have? Senior Howie Wilkins makes ex- tra spending money for himself by working in the 900 Room. Providing information and answering the telephone at the (Jnion desk is a vital work-study job. Far left: Senior Dave Hessler, who works for the Com- mons, serves wine at one of the many College-spon- sored receptions. Working Class 25
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College: to your health? i , vs Amidst all the confusion of learning my way around campus during freshman orien- tation, the one building that I remember en- tering for the first time is the college infir- mary. My naive hopes of never having to cross that street again were all in vain, as I soon found out that college can be very hazardous to one ' s health. Doesn ' t it seem that, at one time, there are more people maneuvering around cam- pus on crutches and complaining of flu symptoms at Davidson than there are on General Hospital? We all agree that the incredible amount of analyzing, figuring, translating, reporting, and organizing that we do and the lack of pure vegetation that we indulge in can lead to ail sorts of mental and emotional disor- ders, problems, complexes, and malfunc- tions, but the amount of physical illness that is suffered here is astounding to any- one. (And people wonder why we have so many pre-meds!) Tendonitis and sprained ankles are no fun to have, granted, but why do they occur with our students on an almost daily basis? We aren ' t climbing the Adirondacks — and not even very many stairs! And what about the phenomenal number of colds that we and our peers suffer through, consum- ing truckloads of Robitussin AC (the good kind with codeine) and entire for- ests worth of Kleenex? This is North Caroli- na, not the North Pole, for you non-English majors. Perhaps we Davidson students are just exceptionally clumsy or maybe we just think so hard at times that we forget to pay attention to where we are going or what we are doing and just happen to walk off a curb abruptly or accidentally miss one or two steps . . . The fact remains that no matter how hard one tries, almost everyone eventually pays a visit to the nostalgic Preyer Infirma- ry during the course of his Davidson career. Gpon sight of the medicine cabinets and equipment, reminiscent of the 1940 ' s, one is instantly swept back through time. But rest assured — with all of the experience the nurses have accumulated from caring for young patients, they are sure to get you back on your feet and back in class as soon as possible — unless, of course, you suffer from one of those incurable diseases such as Sophomore Slump or Senioritis . . . — Patricia Lennon 26 STUDENT LIFE
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