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wusc dONTINUED(FROM PAGE 1 $4,000 — up from the $3,500 last year. Station Manager Elyn Blackman, a fourth-year philos ophy student, said the station usually does not have trouble reaching its goal. “Our budget is dependent on raising a certain amount of mon ey each year,” she said. “The fund-raiser is an integral part of that.” Blackman said the extra mon ey raised this year will go to ward “exciting improvements” for the station, sueh as convert ing equipment to allow bands to perform in the studio. She said the money raised also will help fund some major projects in the works, such as purchasing a new transmitter and audio computer system. Most of WUSC’s support comes from community mem bers, said Blackman, and the sta tion has been able to raise more money each year. Davie Ferguson, WUSC pub lic affairs director and third year history student, said the station will promote the fund raiser this weekend by elimi nating its non-Top 40 policy and playing any song a donating lis tener requests. Blackman said such WUSC fund-raisers have been going for at least 20 years. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotma il. com One-Year Work/Study Scholarship Program Spend a year in Germany with the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals* www.cdsintl.org/cbyx/index1 .htm Program year runs July-July and includes: • Two-month intensive German language course • Four-month semester at German professional school • Five-month internship with a German host company Applications are available online or by contacting CDS. Applications must be postmarked by December 1 for consideration for the 2004-2005 programl * UScitizenshipor perrrenent residency required German language skills not required GET FIT. GET PAID. 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Pooser said he sees the hotel as his lega cy to Carolina. With work beginning soon on the inn, Sorensen said he’ll now turn his attention to developing the research campus, which also will rely heavily on public-private partnerships. In late October, USC broke ground on a $30 million, 105,000 square-foot complex on the comer of Assembly and College streets to initiate phase one of the research campus plan. Sorensen said the next step will ’ be the development of land bound ed by Blossom, Assembly, Wheat and Main streets, where a Hardee’s restaurant once operated. “I think that now people real ize we can all work together,” Sorensen said, adding, “One never knows what the future will bring.” 'Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Readership CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The State newspaper. Next semester, closed stands will replace the present open stands. The closed stands will re quire students to use their student IDs to open the stand, but students still will not be charged. Dreiling, said the closed stands are a way to make sure only students receive the free papers. Comparisons between the first and second surveys indicated stu dents’ readership habits have im proved and increased. Before the program, 24 percent of surveyed students reported they read the pa per five or more days a week. Following the program, that num ber rose to 31 percent. Sixty-five percent of surveyed students reported their newspa per readership increased after the program. The surveys included a com ment section where students could voice their opinions on the free trial. According to Dreiling, student responses were overwhelmingly positive, and students were thank ful for the program. “I usually always grab a paper,” said Jordan Bryngelson, a third year hotel, restaurant and tourism management student. “I have an economics class, and I have to read The New York Times for my class anyway, so it’s good the pa per is here.” Anthony Conerly, a first-year education student, said he feels the papers keep him informed and up to-date about latest events. “Everybody needs to know what’s going on in the world. I wouldn’t know half the stuff that’s going on right now if it wasn’t for this,” Conerly said. Jack Wyatt, a first-year biology student, said the papers expose him to national events, which he would often be unaware of with out the papers. “It’s nice to have an additional newspaper because I read The Gamecock, too, and it’s good to have both local and national news,” Wyatt said. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com i ^ 'WIW PHOTO BY MORGAN FORD/THE GAMECOCK^^B Randy Mueller, a second year sports management student, quickly picks up a copy of USA Today on his way upstairs In the Russell House. Cocky CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 air here (at WUSC), there are stickers everywhere and there are signs. We’re losing to a nut and a tiger. And we definitely don’t like tigers here. We need to show the world how cool a chicken can be,” said Justin Chapura, a second year journalism student and WUSC disc jockey. But Cocky still has a chance. The Mascot of the Year will be de termined 50 percent by the online poll and 50 percent by judges’ rankings. Some students maintain that they vote every day, “but I don’t feel like my vote is doing any thing,” said Erin Ellis, a first-year advertising student. Second-year exercise science student and Student Gamecock Club member Jacob Poole said voting for Cocky is not a big issue anymore. “I don’t think the mascot chal lenge has as much hype as it did in the beginning. I used to vote ev ery day, but not anymore really,” he said. Dreiling has other thoughts in mind. i.» “We’re trying to pump up the competition here and tell students they can keep voting every day,” she said. Cocky had 16.9 percent of all online votes, trailing behind Aubie with 20.6 percent and Brutus, who had taken a whop ping 37.9 percent of the votes as of Thursday night. “Get online and vote for Cocky,” second-year undeclared student Kristie Flynn said. “USC fans need to represent by voting for Cocky like true fans should.” Voters are allowed to vote once a day online until Dec. 22 at www.capitalonebowl.com. __ Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Exhibit CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the expedition’s completion. Most of the other items have been gifts, particularly from Chapin Rodgers, a Columbia native who moved to Europe in the 1920s and spent his life creating a huge collection of im portant items from early American history. He moved back to Columbia before his death about 25 years ago and donated his collec tion to USC. By combining this col lection with USC’s original mate rials, the library was able to create a comprehensive exhibit at no cost. “A lot of libraries are trying to do Lewis and Clark exhibits this year since it’s the bicentennial an niversary of their expedition, but you won’t find the same extensive original materials or the same thoroughness that our exhibit has,” Scott said. The idea for the exhibit came when Scott was researching Lewis and Clark for a lecture, and he re alized just how extensive USC’s collections were. He immediately decided that this should be the ma jor fall exhibit. According to Scott, visitors of the exhibit can expect to learn about the difficulty of Lewis and Clark’s journey and about others who accompanied them. Diary en- , tries add another perspective and ; include observations of the species that were discovered. The . political dimension of the expedi m tion is also represented, including how the British wanted to find an all-water route to the West Coast • before the Americans did, essen- . tially making it a race to the , Pacific. The exhibit contains no less than 100 items and should take about 20 to 30 minutes to look , through. According to Patrick Scott, if there is one thing to see at the ex- > hibit, it is the valuable illustra- . tions of new species and of Native Americans by Karl Bodmer, who - accompanied Lewis and Clark. The exhibit is free and open during regular library hours. -- | Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com f 1 ■ - % , ._ _ I • Lounge Area 794-2948 •Multistation *T . - . 100RiverbendDrive Computer Lab Tenn,s Courts West Columbia •Swimming Pools •Fax & Modem Station linked to USC Campus • State-of-the-art Fitness Center rt • 1-4 Bedroom Apartments -