M.-imped-unreasonably during her junior and senior years. Laura is from Muskegon, and Continued from Page 9 says that Ann Arbor is a very expensive town. "Everything is Laura has found many problems higher in Ann Arbor, especially with the University's office of clothing. It's such a big financial aid, while she was discrepancy. It's amazing. struggling to pay tuition. She said "It's a little disheartening to go she could not meet the financial to school here when you have expectations the office had for her. people in October planning which The amount of money she was resort they'll go to in Colorado for required to earn during the summers spring break... There is a lot of DER , w ,.. - .. - ' :;: , , , . . r ^ _ " - , .. X , wealth around here, and it push prices up. I worked in Ulrich's a restaurants and stuff. You ha people who come in a lot and don look at prices. "You get a little bitter." Steve Counselman w beginning his sophomore ye when he was forced to drop out school because of financ: problems. This is the fourth ter he's taking off from school to wo for tuition money. Counselm said he registered for courses for t first term of his sophomore ye but when the classes began h name was not on any of the roste He had a $500 hold credit on h account, which he thought had be taken care of during the summe and his financial aid had not be processed. He checked with t registrar and discovered that he w not even a student anymore. "That left a real bitter taste my mouth," Counselman said. I dropped out of school to work. said to hell with it and decided stand back from it for a while to g the money back to get in." He now a stockman in a grocery store Counselman comes from t Upper Peninsula, an area financial strapped and economical depressed. He said he had problem adjusting to the University and An es Arbor coming from a small, guys," Counselman said. "I was an nd impoverished town. arrogant overbearing ass. I've tye "I should have been more careful mellowed out a lot. Life has been n't with how I spent money freshman put in perspective for me. I've year. I was overawed by the place. I never failed in anything - in high was a country kid, a hick... This is school, I cake-walked through. as an expensive town to live in, the Failure is good for the soul." mar cost of living is high. I still don't He-echoes the feeling that many of know how to spend money." students who work to support ial He said when he came to school themselves express: "Even though rm his mother was unable to carry a I'm not in school, I'm still irk job that could sent him to school expanding my horizons. I think I'm an and his father was unemployed. a better person. I've suffered. he "He's always felt bad about not Leaving school was one of the ar, giving me money for school. I hardest things I've ever done. I'm a his don't like asking for money. I'm better person for it. I haven't had rs. pretty independent," Counselman my parents or the University his said. protect me." en It's been tough, emotionally and A friend stops in the room and er, even physically, he said. In the asks to borrow $1.50. Counselman en beginning, he did not have a house pulls out two dollar bills and hands he and was staying illegally in his them over. He says he does not vas friends' rooms in the dorms. He consider himself poor. "I could said one of the toughest things for never do this a year ago," he said. in him to do was to sell his music "It feels good." He tapes so he could have some cash. Many other students at the "I "One of my pride and joys in life University are also working their to was my tape collection. There came way through school although they get a time when I was selling my tapes may not come from backgrounds is back to a used tape and record store. that are as financially disadvantaged. e I loved my tapes like brothers and Residential College sophomore he sisters. I sold them so I could get Beth Wesolowski said she has had lly food to eat. I lived out of cans. I'd to move out of the dorm and drop ly buy jumbo ravioli cans and eat out out of school winter term in order Ms of them for days. to work to earn money to cover nn "I was like a lot of freshman tuition. She does not receive VOL. 5, NO. 13 ]I the MfIidPan B tigq ------------- M A G A Z I N E jId "One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns!" Ooh, remember? Tongues as loose as Mother Goose. And then you really had one, and felt grown up. A hot cross bun, and a cup of coffee... Mother always said you'd be more than a little shaver once she stopped making your coffee: half milk and a ladle of sugar. You may be asking yourself--"Has Ramona, the Corner Market Coffee Lady, swung wide the Door of Sentimentality?" Yes, it"s true. Call it love. Call it nostalgia. Call it a hot cross bun and a cup of java. Ramona knows what's good. And so do you. Come for yours at the Corner Market. As I always say, If you haven't been to the Corner Market lately, Honey, you haven't been to market! COME JOIN OUR STAFF The University of Michigan Housing Division RESIDENCE HALL POSITIONS 1987-88 The Housing Division is looking for well-qualified candidates to serve as resident staff members in Residence Halls. We specifically are looking for students interested in: -Serving as positive academic and group living role models 4 -Fostering a spirit of community -Developing and strengthening leadership, communication and group skills and -Developing programs for a diverse student population. THERE WILL BE TWO INFORMATION MEETINGS: Sunday, January 25, 1987 - 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 27, 1987 - 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. IN AUDITORIUM 3 - MODERN LANGUAGE BUILDING Representatives from the Housing Division will be there to provide information and answer questions regarding candidate qualifications, selection processes and job expectations. Applications are available only at these meetings. ALL NEW APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND ON OF THESE MEETINGS An Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer n a - t L N7MiE ._'.v-- P. 9 5' * financial aid, but she, and not her parents, is responsible for paying her entire tuition. "I'm taking this semester off because I owe tuition, room, and board from last semester... I cannot register with this debt and if I did, I could not remain registered," she said. Wesolowski said that she worked 25 to 30 hours a week while going to school last term, and the workload caused her to fail two out of three classes she took. She said the times she worked often prevented her from socializing with her friends, but she says she feels better having worked for her education than having received a free ride from her parents. Fetterman said he has learned tricks to get by when the money isn't available. Rent is major problem. "I knew I wasn't going to have the money for a while, so I gave him (the landlord) a check that I knew would bounce. By the time it got back to him, I knew I would have money to pay him the cash," he said. "You learn to play a lot of tricks like that. At the end of most terms I had a hold credit on because I didn't pay all the tuition. I'd write a check to the hold credit the day I had to register and it would go through. Two days later the check would bo'unce, but I'd be registered anyway." Richardson also finds herself struggling to get by. The choices, she says, are not always easy. "In my situation you would really have to plan down to the last penny. I don't do that. I have to live with not having food in my refrigerator and not going to movies Friday nights. I just have to live with it." Weekdays 7:30 a.m.- Weekends 12 noon- 7 Michigan Union, gr Bring in this ad the purchase of EXP. 2115/87 "12 midnight p.m. ound floor for 1/2 off 1 cup of coffee with a hot cross bun. Plus: XTC 'Critical Condition' Interview: Leo Heati PAGE 12 WEEKEND/JANUARY 23, 1987