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GOME HOME TO $ FUN IN THE SUNlI f • Free tanning >• Fully furnished • Resort style pool ) • Ethernet/Water included * • Free shuttle to USC , • Awesome Leasing specials STERLING UNIVERSITY Riverside l .1 215 Spencer Place Cayce, SC 29033 (803) 739 - 0899 ww^sterlM Student loans CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Sanders advises students to con solidate their loans once they graduate and attempt to pay off as much as they can in the six-month grace period before the interest rates go up drastically. Many students need nnanciat assistance to come to college. “While I could have come to USC without the Stafford Loan, it helped me out a lot when my mom lost her main source of income and I didn’t have a job,” said third-year business student Megan Hinson. Other students feel it is too much of a burden to pay off loans. Allison Shaw, a second-year ex ercise science student, received the Stafford Loan her freshman year at USC, but decided to rely on scholarships instead. “I’m just working hard right now to pay for school instead of having to work even harder after I graduate to pay off a loan,” she said. Interest rates on loans have dropped dramatically since the 2000-2001 academic year, when students paid 8.19 percent inter est on Stafford Loans. The rates are based on short term treasury yields measured in a 91-day period ending in May and adjusted annually July 1. Treasury yields have fallen the past year as a result of general economic weakness, lowering in terest rates. Students can find more infor mation and advice about loans at www.ed.gov or log on to www.sc.edu/financiEdaid. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu 4 * Surf Yourself Back TSi *11 A : i SaMMavMNMHwiwiniiiiir v ■ Find out more information about loans at Q vrw .dli!yoam*:ocl c ■■■■■■■■■<■■■■■■■■■ www.ed.gov or www.sc.edu/financialaid. @ Uw »am» Fay ® Aypfc__ N.C. radio station won’t air ad against illegal immigration WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - A ra dio station temporarily suspended airing an ad for Republican con gressional candidate Vernon Robinson that rails against illegal immigration and signs off in Spanish with the words “Yo, Gringo!" WSJS-AM said it made the de cision over the holiday weekend because it was unclear if the spon sor was identified in the other wise-English ad, which contends the prevalence of Spanish spoken in the Uni’ted States can make Americans feel like they’re in “The Twilight Zone.” Only the final line is in Spanish, in words that translate to: “Yo, Gringo! This episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’ was paid for by Robinson for Congress.” Robinson said Tuesday that the tag line was intended as a way to underscore his message, but he grudgingly agreed to let the sta tion edit it into English. The catch phrase “Yo, Gringo!” — a con temptuous Spanish term for Americans—remains. WSJS manager Tom Hamilton said other political ads were tem porarily suspended on the station until the problem with Robinson’s ad was resolved Tuesday. in a statement, Kooinson said the flap over the last line does not change the overall message of the ad: “To show the impor tance of securing our borders, stopping the illegal immigration invasion and making English the official language of the United States.”