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Group electing
officers
Into the Streets will be holding
elections at 7 p.m. today
in RHUU 302.
* Journalism
meeting held
The National Association of
Black Journalists is holding
a meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday
in the CEO Room of the
Carolina Coliseum.
SG sponsoring
clothing drive
Student Government is holding
a clothing drive to benefit
local charities from Wednesday,
April 8 to Wednesday,
April 15. Drop boxes will be
located outside the Student
Government office and in
residence halls.
USC professor
to lecture
English professor Thomas J.
Rice will give the annual
USC Educational Foundation
Research Award in Humanities
and Social Sciences
lecture at 4 p.m. Tuesday in
Gambrell Hall, room 429. He
^ will discuss the complexity of
contemporary novel topics.
Karate expert
offers tips
World karate champion Bill
"Superfoot" Wallace will
teach advanced stretching
methods, advanced kicking
^ drills, pad and bag drills and
tips to improve fighting technique
April 16, at the Spring
Valley High School gym.
Cost is $5 per adult spectator
and $15 per participant. For
more information, call Mike
or Shelley Genova at 7364777.
% AAAS needs
chairpersons
AAAS, The Association of
African-American Students,
is accepting applications for
committee chairpersons. Applications
are available in
the Multicultural Student
Affairs Office, RHUU 33. For
more information call 7775061.
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Unity meetings
to be held
The USC Baha'i Club will be
viewing and discussing "The
Power of Race Unity" video
at 7 p.m. in RHUU 302
Wednesday.
^ iS O O i* Golden Key
||j monday National Honor
I S Society, 5 p.m.,
L(3 RHUU 309.
jlj \ [ "Into the
i1- ~ Streets," 7 p.m.,
every other Monday, RHUU
302.
/~q o ' The World
Tuesday Tae Kwon Do
7 Club, 7:30 to 9
p.m., Booker T.
v ^Washington
^ Students Allied for a Greener
Earth, 8 p.m., RHUU 303.
Palm Campus prayer meeting,
12:30 p.m., PALM Center.
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
prayer meeting, 7 a.m.,
Rutledge Chapel.
Fencing Club meeting, 7 to
^ 9 p.m., Blatt 308.
Financial Management Assoc!
^-Lion meeting, 5 p.m^BA
363.
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Students
copy editor OOUHIE KARICKHOFF ?
Are you a good neighbor? *
How many people on your floor do
you pass by everyday and don't even ^
know their names? ?
Do you stop to speak to the people ?
in the apartment next door? Have you
ever just knocked on their door just to t
say hi?
Members of the Baptist Student T
Union are hoping to change all of that
today, the day they have designated as
the first Good Neighbor Day on campus.
"The objective is to take a day and
focus on someone else for a little while,"
said BSU president, Jon Sherer, who
came up with the idea for the event
while spending an exchange day with
USC President John Palms.
Sherer won the day with President
Palms as part of a BSU fund-raising
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scholarships
The University of Texas at Arlington
will award 20 scholarships for their
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program. Admissions deadline
is May 20, and scholarship deadline is
June 1. For more information call
(817) 272-2340 or e-mail at
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Sherer created Good Neighbor Day. oi
"This is a day when you do somehing
nice for one another," Sherer said. B
"Say hello to total strangers as you
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nembers or other religious organiza- a
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o spread the "good" word about makng
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ties, participants will hand out special
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The Harry Truman Scholarship Foundation
is accepting applications from
college juniors interested in not-forprofit
government careers. Eighty
scholarships are available. For more
information call Novella Beskid at
777-0958.
Undergraduate
Southern Studies
application offered
Southern Studies scholarships are
open to undergraduates who have
completed least six hours of work
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Southern Studies. Applications are
available in Gambrell Hall room 107. SCll
The deadline is 5 p.m. Wednesday 3f)t
April 15.
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j simple acts of thoughtful- The Senate Labor and Human Relar0
a long way," he said. tions Committee on Wednesday approved
p will meet at the Baptist Stu- a bill that would extend the Higher Eduon
at 11:30 a m. today to cation Act another five years.
? neighbors around the Union The bill, which is expected to go to the
ne of the dorms on campus. full Senate later this month, would inhose
students who don't crease the amount spent on Pell Grants
to join them, try to take a lit- and would decrease the costs of education
i do something nice for some- loans to students.
>day and be a good neighbor. . But its passage is not guaranteed,
? because the Clinton Administration disagrees
with some of the bill's provisions,
which it says are too generous to bankers.
The maximum Pell Grant for the 199899
school year is set at $3,000, but the bill
proposes that that amount be increased to
$5,000 in time for the 1999-2Q00 academic
year, and increased by an additional
$200 each of the following four years.
Among the bill's other provisions are
the suspension of student aid for people
convicted of drug offenses and wider eligibility
standards for Pell Grants.
The proposed legislation would net
more students who are financially independent
of their parents and more dependent
students who workin addition to
going to college.
The bill would increase from $3,000 to
$4,250 the amount of money independent
students could earn and still be qualified
for a grant.
It also would increase from $1,750 to
$2,200 the amount of earnings a dependent
student could exclude from statements
about his or her family's need.
The forgiveness of student-loan debt
Bup to $10,000 would be provided for graduates
who teach for three years in a school
with a large representation of low-income
families.
The amount of time lenders must give
students who are more than $30,000 in
debt to repay their loans would be extended
from 10 years to 25 years instead.
The bill mandates that colleges and
universities disclose to the public more
detailed financial information so that students
and their parents can make more
informed choices.
Colleges failing to provide such information
would be fined up to $25,000 for
H|r each offense.
The bill also authorizes $10 million
MM iH grants for colleges needing to improve
l&p their facilities to better meet the needs of
disabled students.
Much of Wednesday's discussion focused
on another of the bill's provisions,
which would lower the interest rates stu*
dents would have to pay on their loans.
. Republicans and Democrats agree that the
WJP rates should be cut, but they don't see eyeto-eye
on how to lower the rates.
Republicans have proposed to offset
Iff-; j "'** ' the lower interest rates by increasing
the amount of in subsidies the government
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pense of taxpayers, who would have to shell
out more money to pay the higher subsidies.
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The official opening of the 1999-2000
Cr!pnrpc competition for Fulbright Grants for
ill jLlCIltCa graduate study or research abroad in
prtmhin academic fields and for professional
F training in creative and performing
locations arts *s I- Applications must be
received at the U.S. Student Pro.S.
Geological Survey Earth Sci- grams Division at IIE/New York by
Internship Program is continu- Oct. 23. For more information call the
icepting appl. ations for hands- HE New York Headquarters at (212)
jointments. The program is 984-5330.