Writer Tells Trials, Tribulations
Of Life of Co-op Worker
By mrea young
Signs of the times
The phone rang anxiously. The
clerk in the co-op office lifted the
receiver and patiently answered. A
replying voice eagerly inquired if
the approaching all-campus dance
is formal, and are corsages in or
der? A polite “I don’t have that
information” was returned by the
clerk, as she chalked up another
“typical” question that has been
asked of the University co-op em
ployees by the near-sighted stu
dent body.
When Life magazine inflated its
price to twenty cents recently, a
large sign telling of this price in
crease was placed by the cash re
gister. However, there were few
students who wouldn’t quickly pick
up a Life, read the sign, and then
inquire of the cashier, “Is Life
twenty cents now?
The stationery department time
and again must remind students
that stationery departments do not
sell postage stamps. Nor do they
have the often inquired for dance
and football tickets, or Piggers’
Guides. Just mostly stationery.
The co-op cashier will put up a
ten dollar check limit sign when
funds are running low. However,
the sign never saves her the trou
ble of saying “No” to the holder
of the eleven dollar check. And
the plain “No Checks” sign which
appears as a clue to the fact that
the cashier has run out of money,
still leaves the great many of us
from Missouri to ask, “Arc'nt you
cashing any checks?”
And there is the one cautious
coed who made out her checks to
“payable” in compliance to the
sign which states “Please make
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Bad checks, and there are al
ways a few bouncing around the
cashier’s window, are consistently
claimed to be the "scheming”
bank’s error. Although, the bank
will very readily answer to its
checking errors, only one in a hun
drer has to.
The clerks report that invariably
the letter-writer will plunk down
a quarter and ask tor seven tnree
cent stamps.
And when the cashier’s window
is closed, blocked off by a huge
cardboard sign which reads “Win
dow Closed” and only leaves the
cashier’s eyebrows in view, the
I student will rise to tiptoe and ear
nestly inquire “Are you still cash
ing checks?”
The familiar counter next to the
| co-op’s front entrance was inten
I ded to deal primarily in school sup
plies. However, the clerks are still
trying to find the “Information”
sign which they feel must be in
their presence. Across the en
tranceway from this counter, the
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tery was placed under a large sign
which pointed out the relationship
of this receptacle to the student,
'the OSC game tickets, and the
large sign. *
But there remained the unin
formed few who inquired of the
school supply clerks, “Where is
the receptacle for the OSC ticket
lottery?”
And when the list was put up
adjoining their counter, still many
found it easier to ask, “Where?”
Then they tried to buy their tic
kets with their school supplies.
And, finally, there were those that
asked the bewildered clerks,
“What do we wear to the game?”
But, the oldtimers will find the
last laugh on them. There has been
a large sign posted in the co-op
warning veterans of the late dead
line to get supplies on the GI Bill.
However, the vets are still coming
in, looking at the warning sign,
and then seriously questioning the
clerk, “Does that mean me ?”
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From Colorado
Dick Williams, Oregon’s studcn
from the three-day twenty-sixth
annual convention of the Associa
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Springs, Colorado.
Over 90 schools and colleges'
were represented by 270 delegates.
Williams was on a committee
which made recommendations con-’
cerning dance band inequity of fees
and breaking of contracts.
The next meeting will be held in
Boston although an invitation was1
extended by the western schools
to have the meeting on the west
coast.
Poverty is the common fate of
scholars.
Great politeness usually means,
“I want something.”
union director, returned
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