Re: reception

[Latisha LaRue <kfischer@keller.clarke.edu>]

I don't much worry about food and drink around the computer keyboards 
since Dickie Selfe mentioned that in ten years of having eating and 
embibing in their lab, they've only lost one keyboard.  I drink and eat 
over my keyboard all the time and I don't think college-age students are 
any less careful than I am, but whoa the "we wouldn't dare let anyone
eat or drink near a computer!" response is overwhelming in schools.
					Katie

On Wed, 12 Jul 1995, Jeanne H. Simpson wrote:

> Jim
> 
> If you feed them sugar and/or caffeine, they will come.  
> 
> I kept coffee in the writing center for years, though sometimes I wondered
> about that as people set coffee cups on computer stations and left the
> spigot open and demonstrated a remarkable facility for making messes. 
> Even so, the message indeed was: this is a welcoming sort of place.
> 
> And now I keep a bowl of candy (mostly jelly beans or spice drops) in my
> office, a lair that many people probably don't want to come to.  I have to
> refill it frequently. I get regular anonymous "donations" of replacement
> bags of candy or dollar bills.  And lots of drop-in traffic, which I like
> to have since I learn something from every visit. 
> 
> A good idea, you bet.
> 
> Jeanne Simpson
> csjhs@eiu.edu
>