Thursday, January 29, 2009
If you saved money at Gumby’s this week, you might want to thank Johnathan Hurst-Sneh. Hurst-Sneh, Overland Park junior, is an intern for The Campus Special, but you might know him better as the coupon book guy.
Hurst-Sneh is responsible for recruiting other students to hand out coupon books on campus. He says students sometimes recognize him when he’s not working and ask for more coupon books because they want more copies of certain coupons.
Matt Rissien, Overland Park senior, and Ben Antes, Overland Park junior, pass out coupon books to students on campus.
Last Thursday was Overland Park senior Matt Rissien’s first time passing out the books. Rissien, Overland Park senior, says he hopes he’ll get to do it again.
“It’s fun because you get to engage with students, but you know that you’re that annoying guy passing out coupon books,” Rissien says.
He and Ben Antes, Overland Park junior, tried different approaches to get people to take the books, Rissien says. Sometimes they would stay silent, offering coupon books to students without interupting their walks to class. Other times, they’d follow students around campus until they gave in and accepted the books.
“There were a lot of people who stopped and talked, and we made some people laugh. Plus, we saved some people some money,” Rissien says. “That has to be a good day.”
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