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Conversation 1 - Arrange Work Space For A Club

Narrator: Listen to a conversation between a student and an employee at the student activity center.

Student: This is the administrative office, right?

Employee: Uh-huh. How can I help you?

Student: Well, I am stopping by to reserve a place for my school club that meet and work, pretty much on a regular basis. Ideally, our preference would be to have our own office.

Employee: Hmm…well, we are out of private offices.But we do have some semiprivate options still available.

Student: What do you mean?

Employee: Well, it’s a setup where you’ll have a larger workspace shared by two other clubs. In other words, each club would have its own work area within that one room.

Student: Oh. Are there any divider, walls or anything?

Employee: Oh, yes. There will be a couple of dividers, so there’s some privacy.

Student: Um. We’ll work with that then. I wouldn’t want to be without an office.

Employee: OK. Here are the two forms you have to fill out. Why don’t you do it now while I set that up throughout computer system?

Student: OK.

Employee: So what’s your club’s name? And the last name of the club president.

Student: Oh, it’s the photography club. And it’s Williams. That’s me. John Williams.

Employee: Hmm…that’s not pulling up anything on my screen. Um…let me try something else. Uh, how about your faculty advisor’s name?

Student: Sarah Baker. She is in the Arts Department.

Employee: Hmm…No. Strange. You know your club is just not showing up in my online records. Is this an established club?

Student: No. Actually it’s a brand-new one.

Employee: Hmm…have you completed the registration process?

Student: Yeah, last week. That was my very first step.

Employee: Right. Well, for my purposes, a club definitely has to be registered before I can proceed further. At the moment, however, it appears that there’s no record of your club’s registration.

Student: Really? I thought everything was finalized last week.

Employee: Well, it is surprising. Usually there’s a 24-hour turnaround in our computer database. So then do you have the registration approval letter from the review committee? That would give me the verification I need.

Student: Yeah. I do. I mean, well, I don’t have it with me. But … I… I, uh, can get it from my dorm room, bring it back with me and submit it with those forms you need from me.

Employee: Great! That’ll work. And just so you are aware, there’re lots of benefits to being registered.

Student: Oh, yeah. I think the university will give us permission to set up a website, right? I want to get students sharing their ideas on the website, you know, establish a photography blog.

Employee: Yes. You’ll be able to do that. And…um…actually there’s more. You’ll be allowed the use of audiovisual equipment at no cost. You’ll receive a club mailbox and a club email address.You’ll be allowed to post your flyers and posters around the campus for publicity. And you could be eligible for funding for club events.

Student: Well, we are definitely interested in hiring a professional speaker at one of our campus events at some point in the semester. And speakers almost always charge a fee. So I’ll definitely follow up on that.