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Arizona Daily Wildcat
And this is Denise.
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Name: Denise Flachsbart
Major: Marketing junior
Age: 20
Job Description: Stand, actually sit, as the UA Rec Center guardian at the front desk. Take fitness freaks' Cat Cards, swipe them through a machine. If the green light flashes, let 'em in. If the light shows up red, give 'em the boot. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
Job Advantages: Gets to talk on the phone on the job and see friends a lot. Gets a nice power trip. After all, she is the Guardian of the Rec.
Job Disadvantages: Repetitive job. Repetitive job. Repetitive job. Did we mention that the job was repetitive?
Most everything about Denise Flachsbart's life is repetitive. Take her sorority: Delta Delta Delta. Not much variety in that name. Take her job: She sits at the Rec Center front desk and swipes Cat Cards, one after another.
"Most of the time it's not this busy," said Flachsbart during a recent Rec-rush. "Usually I can do some homework."
There's no getting into the Rec Center without a Cat Card. It's been that way since August 24, 1998, when the UA initiated the policy. Some UA students have had trouble accepting this harsh reality. Even Mike Bibby couldn't get in last semester when he tried to enter without a Cat Card.
It's Flachsbart's duty to enforce this policy. She accepts it with semi-open arms.
"It kind of sucks because I can't let my friends in if they forget their ID," Flachsbart said. "But that's the way it is."
Flachsbart worked at the Rec Center's "A" Camp last summer, but noticed that the job didn't put enough money in her pockets. She hooked herself up at the front desk 10 months ago.
Dastardly students have tried all kinds of crazy methods to sneak their way into the Rec Center. Flachsbart has seen them all. The most common method that thugs use to break down security is to walk through the gates behind the front desk, blatantly disobeying the sign that says "EXIT ONLY."
Flachsbart unleashes her trademark yell if someone decides to try and slip through that way.
This stops most criminals in their paths, but if the roustabout ignores the yell and keeps on walking, Flachsbart calls security.
All that responsibility, but no publicity until now. Now that the limelight is on her, what does she have to say?
"My arm really hurts right now," she said.
- phil villarreal
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