The War on Chocolate (and magazines…and frozen pizzas)
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September 23, 2009 • Sarah Cohen
Filed under Clubs, Student Life
Do you want to buy a chocolate bar? How about a magazine subscription? Well then, how about some frozen calzones, pizzas, or cheesecakes?
If you are a cheerleader, in the Beta Club, a junior, or in the band, you are very familiar with these phrases. During this time of the year it seems that everyone is selling something. If you belong to more than one club that sells, then you have to get rid of multiple products, all around the same time period. With all the products expected to be sold, one wonders if NAHS is full of students or salesmen.
Students are told that the products they are selling will “sell themselves” but even if it is the world’s finest, only so much chocolate can be consumed. With the economy the way it is, most families can only afford one of these products. Living in a small town doesn’t help anything either. Students are literally competing with their neighbors.
Juniors were asked to sell magazine subscriptions in order to raise money for prom and graduation. To get a free ticket to prom, juniors had to sell five subscriptions; to get on the junior advisory board, fifteen magazines had to be sold. Juniors were given approximately two weeks to sell these subscriptions.
Beta Club members had to sell fifty bars of chocolate. This is less than previous years when members had to sell a hundred bars. Beta Club members were also given about two weeks to sell. The money raised from chocolate is used for service projects and the Beta Club convention.
Cheerleaders had to sell a hundred bars of chocolate. The money raised will go towards new uniforms for next year.
Band members had to sell Joe Corbi frozen foods. The money raised goes to helping the band pay for instruments, music, competition fees, traveling fees, and various other things.
The problem comes in when all the clubs’ selling times intersect. Being in many different clubs means that students have to sell multiple products at the same time.
Junior Rachel Ellefson, who belongs to band and Beta Club, says that it’s hard to sell all the products at the same time because she “sell(s) to all the same people, and you can only sell so many products to one person.”
“It’s hard to [sell]because everyone else is selling at the same time” says Junior Chelsea Galliard. Students don’t like having to sell like they do.
Some students see ways in which the burden could be eased. Junior Kaitlyn Speiker says that she would like “longer deadlines and for the clubs to sell at different times.”
Junior Marina Clements said that clubs should try to “mix it up and sell something different.” Marina is a cheerleader and is in Beta Club.
All these suggestions should be taken into consideration. A possible solution to the selling madness would be for the advisors of the clubs that sell to get together and form a calendar of when to sell in order to avoid fund raising conflicts.
No one is arguing that selling is the best way to raise money, however students wish that the timing could be better.
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