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FEATURES FEBRUARY26, 2004 -Page 5 Dirty socks and medical experiments: creative cash solutions LAUREN WILSON "[She] needed an alternative qualified, she was accepted STAFF WRITER income," because she did not into the study. Desperate times call for make enough money work- Taradrove herself to the desperate measures, and since mg on campus. Medical Center, located in whenhavecollegestudentsnot Pundt decided that the Baltimore, approximately been desperate for cash? man contacting her was (our times per week. Whether students want beer, "...relativelyharmless,justa Upon her first visit she to drink, and for six weeks ~cl)anieIVVinter books,or a trip to the Bahamas, man with a sock fetish," she was given en oral vaccination they all need money. Fel- low classmates serve at she came in to have her local restaurants, baby- blood drawn and tested. sit satanic children, and At home, she took her tem- VVonderland: flipping burgers for perature twice daily, and hours simply to make kept a log of unusual ends meet. symptoms and / or side ef- The McDaniel College community enjoyed According to fhe fects. Financial Aid Office, She earned $750.00 time off at the start of the semester, taking the roughly 190 students are from participating in the opportunity to enjoy sledding and other win- employed in McDaniel's study. When asked if she ter fun on the Golf Course. work study program. would recommend this ex- They typically earn the perience to others she an- PHOTOS BY SARAH BLACK federal minimum wage swered, jokingly, "Yes, if of $5.15 per hour. Every you're not afraid of year of campus employ- needles or getting sick." ment provides a ten-cent .. Last summer, a pay raise, allowing some . sophomore psychology students to make up to major was dared by a $5.45 per hour by their friend to participate in a senior year! replied laughing. strip club audition. "I was Fortunately, money-mak- Since then, Jacq has met broke and I had always ing schemes are not as hopeless with the anonymous stranger wanted to do it, and I would as they might seem. Some four times in the Safeway get $10," she recalls, "They McDaniel College students Parking lot to make the ex- hired me on the spot. /I have decided to apply a bit of changes, adding "I'm a bas- Since then, the student liberal arts creativity to their ketball player; r have a Jot of has worked at two different non-traditional pursuits of the dirty socks." locations. She wishes to re- big bucks, and have made out Senior Tara Meredith main anonymous in this ar- like bandits. was in one of her social work ticle partly because her par- It was about a year ago classes when a professor told ents are unaware of the situ- when junior communications her students that she had ation, stating it would major [acq Pundt was chatting paid her way through college "...cause a lot of turmoil in on Instant Messenger when she by participating in medical my family if they fOW1dout." found her money making op- studies. A light bulb went off However, she does love portunity. A message from an for Meredith, "I wanted her job, citing her newfound unknown user popped onto the money and I didn't want a self-confidence as the biggest screen asking her if she would job; it was an easy way to benefit. When she performs sell him her socks.' "At first," make money." "It's the ultimate power trip," she stated, "I said 'of course That same day, she and is able to earn $150 or not,"' believing that the indi- looked in the wanted section more on a "good night." vidual contacting her was of the Baltimore City Paper and This student plans on "crazy." noticed a Typhoid Fever vac- continuing her job as a strip- Bu'tthe man persisted, of- cine study sponsored by the per for the rest of college and fering her forty dollars per pair University of Maryland perhaps through graduate of socks. The only stipulation: Medical Center. After a few school because "working -they had to be dirty. jacq re-con- phone calls and a brief there for a few weeks could sidered the offer, realizing, screening to make sure she pay for an entire semester." .-- - '('.l."(\. ~o~ :~:~:\,o",...rf\. viESTMINSTE!t CIGAR ~c1.S r-s;;;i;ls~;;t;;-g;~-l '" . I Premium Handmade I c'~ I 6-Cigar'Sampler Packs I Reisterstown ! $19 ,'P! 95 Open 7 Days LlR.!... ~1~!J .. Spanish cedar-Hned • World's best selection hun ...idors from. $49.00 .. Im.ported Cigarettes of"hard-to-find cigars featuring Arturo .. Cigarette Rolling Fuente, Padron, Mach.in(.~s, Tubes & Ashton, VSG, TobaccO!> .•• Save 70% Pea-domo, DiUQlond on EfYO cigarettes Crown. Dl"cw- Estate. CAO •.. .. "~anta8tic pjpe,;; & Exotic TobaccOS .. STIloking Loung(~ 1.1700 Rc.lstl'r",toW"n R()'ld 2:; E. Main !"it! oet 410-517-0555 41"0':876:4786 ((Jppo~tfe 0 M co» Wush) vvww.W"cstnlinFOtercig"ar.coJll