Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Stilwell frogs and change

This was published in The Cauldron, Cleveland State University's student newspaper, on Feb. 1, 1972, just a tad over 40 years ago. It's newly restored and, as of today, digitally published. What popped out at me after seeing this cartoon after so many years is how much cheaper vending machine food was back then, even with the vending company mark-up, as alluded to on the candy machine. I found it aggravating that the cafeteria cashier genuinely did give people a hard time if they asked for change for the machines. The cafeteria management probably had nothing to do with those machines, but, come on, how about helping out a few starving college students, for crying out loud? There were no change-making machines, by the way. If you didn't have coinage, tough.

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