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CASH CRISIS Amused by the students in the gameroom. this work study student faundtheMtnOspilereenjoyable because ar her ~-entralposition in soon the checking or savings work-study job turned out observing the campus people. account seemed to be run- some friendly relationships. ning dry. CWS supplies a monthly ills, bills.and more bills. The alternative? Work! paycheck on the first Friday B One disedvernege of The school supplied colfege of the first week of each being on your own meant work-study grants to stu- month. The last two weeks bills addressed to you per- dents and according to need we became dreadfully cheap sonally, not Mom and Dad were granted a certain as we scrounged all last nick- anymore. The phone bi/{ amount of hours per week. els, dimes or pennies until "killed" most of us. Those Employment ranged from of- Friday. urges to cafl long distance fice aid to a potscrubber in Responsibility - that's friends and then gab too long the "pit" to stars at football what we were learning. usually resulted in regret. games. The situations pro- Maintaining a part-time job Other bills added up and vided enough variety to keep while carrying 15 credits the student workers fairfy wasn't always easy. Time had satisfied with their part time to be budgeted carefully. But Esther Griffith assistscol/ege work jobs. once we got our paycheck, study student Cindy Robey to look up Many of the students in- and restored the cash flow a zip code for another student. Cindy teracted well with the em- back to normal, all the com- worked in the post office every ployed workers and a num- weekday sluffinc mailboxes. plaining stopped and we delivering mail and zipcodinClelterS ber of times a part-time knew we had worked for it. 25' College Work Study