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...students who showed up Tuesday morning to apply for almost 250 temporary dorm crew jobs, the long wait in the morning cold was a worthwhile proposition. Lured by the prospect of a quick $150 for a week's work following exams, many showed up late Monday night armed with sleeping bags and blankets. By the time the Student Employment Office opened its doors to receive the flood of applicants, Radcliffe Yard looked like a public campground...
Dennis J. Rinehart '77 had been recruited in a similar way in the fall of 1974, through a friend he worked with on the dorm crew. Rinehart also left his Southwestern job in Phoenix--after four weeks--and went home after writing Southwestern a check for $120 to pay for the books he sold. Later, they sent him a check for $150. There was no $30 profit, however. Rinehart paid his own transportation from Boston to Nashville, where he went through a week of training, and from Nashville to Phoenix, along with his hotel and meal costs...
Sleeping bags and blankets littered the grass outside Byerly Hall hours before the office opened at 8:30 a.m. The special dorm crews will stage a "precommencement clean-up" of the campus next month...
...added that financial aid students receive absolute preference on other student jobs such as positions on the year-round dorm crews...
John S. Harwell, director of the Employment Office, said yesterday that it has not previously been the office's policy to award total preference to financial 'aid students when considering applications for the special dorm crews...