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MARK PWAS Staff Writer
Scholarships are available to students
who meet various criteria dictated by
the individual or group offering the
scholarship.
Requirements for scholarships can vaiy
from the trivial (such as requiring a student to
be red-headed or left-handed) to requisites based
on a student's major, grade point average, religion,
race or age.
Scholarships are a great method to help
students pay for their tuition fees, but not every
student is eligible for the benefit of scholarship
financial aid. Or are they?
There are three scholarship services available
to students and prospective students free of
charge.
"Hie financial aid office at 1714 Blossom Street
has a financial aid advisor to help students locate
scholarships that are available to them.
Scholarship advisement is offered free of
charge to all full-time students at USC.
There are also resources available at the
Thomas Cooper Library, in which a student can
look through lists of scholarships that are offered
based upon various criterion.
There is also a service available that anyone
can use from the comfort of their own home or
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If that's the case, forget about
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there when you need him or her, shows ^
personal concern for you, remembers
things about you from the last meeting Pre'en
that are important, does more than just Wh
"schedule" you for classes, knows how winne
to get you through some of those recogn
impossible academic requirements without com e s
all the red tape, makes good selections reflect!
about electives, minors, cognates and all othe
other details of your academic program on you]
and has your best interests at heart- Ad\
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dorm room with a computer that is equipped for
internet access.
It is a service that is similar to those offered
by companies that require a $50 to $80 fee, but
the internet service is offered for free.
Interested students can find the internet
address for this service at http://www.finaid.com.
The service is listed under "scholarship
searches"'and requires an individual to fill out
a series of forms that ask for information regarding
a plethora of criteria.
After filling out the series of forms to find out
about scholarship eligibility, the individual must
apply for a mailbox on the system.
Hie whole process takes from 10 to 20 minutes
to complete, but it can take a few days for all of
the available scholarships to be found by the |
system.
All three of these services are available free
of charge, and the internet service does not require
the individual interested in scholarship eligibility
to be either a student or even a prospective student
But there are scholarships out there that are |
eeared towards certain students based on more
specific guidelines. <
The National Research Scholarship Service
compiles an annual "Top 10" list of strange awards
offered to college students. Here's a few oddball
endowments that have made the list: i
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The Women's Western Golf Foundation has
$2,000 a year awaiting female high school seniors
who are US. Citizens and who have high academic
standing, financial need and an involvement with
golf. Skill is not a criterion.
A Fragrance Research Fund grant of up to
$50,000 is available to clinical psychologists doing
post-graduate research in aroma-chology.
Arts Management Ltd. offers $12,000 to any
Australian woman painter whose portrait is
judged best. Recipients can use the Portia Geach
Memorial Award for anything they want.
The International Union for Vacuum Science's
Welch Foundation Research Scholarship offers
up to $12,300 for post-graduate students doing
research in vacuum science.
American high school seniors in the top 25
percent of their class who have been golf caddies
for the past two or more years can apply for an
Evans Scholarship Program though the Western
Golf Association. The award pays full tuition and
housing.
For graduate students interested in doing
research on crossbows, shillelaghs, muskets and
other antique weapons, the American Society of
Arms Collectors offers the $5,000 Antique Weapons
Research Fellowship. Applicants must be willing
to write a scholarly report that would be published
in the society's bulletin.
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money and her car. She's 84 percent knew theii
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taken a self defense class." of sexual wl
men will have the assault,assault
to attend Chimera, an and relationship r
and self defense workshop, violence,"
i. until 9:30 p.m. today at Associate CC
ter in the aerobics studio. Direct or of
hop is sponsored by Sexual Health and
vices, Sexual Health Wellness Programs 1
Rape Education (SHARE) Women are assau
tape Awareness. Chimera strangers, but also fri
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Students whose last names are Anderson, i
Baxendale, Borden, Bright or Murphy may qualify |
for Harvard Radcliffe Scholarships. 1
For women flyers who prefer helicopters, {
International Women Helicopter Pilots/Whirly j
Girls Scholarships grant $4,000 to encourage ]
careers in vertical flight. |
The Mycological Society of America offers $1,000 i
to PhD. candidates at US. or Canadian universities <
who are interested in the study of fungus. I
For a left-handed freshman enrolled at Juniata (
College and who needs the money, Beckley 1
Scholarship Foundation offers $700. \
For graduates of Mt. Carmel High School who |
don't drink, smoke, play rough sports or live
anywhere but Mt. Carmel, Pa., the G J. Deppen
& Voris Auten Teetotaling Non-Athletic Scholarship
Fund offers scholarships for all areas of study at
Bucknell University.
High school seniors and undergraduates with
the surname of Gatlin or Gatling might want to
take a shot at the John Gatling Scholarship
Program which offers full scholarships up to
$8,000 at North Carolina State University. i
For students whose ancestors put their John
Hancocks on the Declaration of Independence, t
Descendants of the Signers of The Declaration t
of Independence Scholarship/Grant Program
offers grants of $800 to $1,000 for all areas of lop
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Scholarship Program could pay your way to
graduation at Ball State University if you are a
unior telecommunications major with an "average
pet creative" mind.
I Tupperware Home Parties scholarships are
available for undergraduate study to Tupperware ,
dealers, managers and their offspring.
I Are you a little out of shape? Hie New England
Chapter of the National Association of Advance
Fat Acceptance offers $500 to high school seniors
vho will be going to college and who are fat.
I Valparaiso University in Indiana offers
scholarships to sets of twins who will be attending
:he university. One twin gets a free ride through
school with fiill tuition paid.
I The Billy Bartle Foundation offers $2,000
scholarships for people of short stature, with no
imit to what you can study.
So, those who have an interest in vacuum
science of are an ancestor of a signer of the
Declaration of Independence may get some help
n funding their education.
Students can visit the financial aid office or
he internet service and find a weird scholarship
hat my only pertain to them.
There's nothing to lose and money to gain.
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learn Although Chimera teaches awareness
t e c t and avoidance, students also learn to
ss in a block, kick, strike and break holds. In
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a can techniques and warning signs of an
their attack as well as tactics of an attacker.
Dmen Students can obtain additional
jives, information and register for the workshop I
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