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USC helping students find money for school j ■ \ ■ 3 scholarship workshops planned for this week By JON TURNER THE GAMECOCK There’s no such thing as free money, but the USC Office of Fellowships and Scholar programs helps students through the application process to find the next best thing. Three scholarship workshops are scheduled this week. Novella Beskid, director of the fellowships and scholar programs, said that while there’s no guarantee students would win every award they targeted, the application process could benefit them in other ways. “It really helps students clarify their academic goals and their career goals when they’re putting together different applications,” she said. “So we find that it’s a development process in itself.” Beskid encourages students to write their applications early to allow time for the extensive advisement and review process. “Last year we had 120 students apply for national fellowships and scholarships,” Beskid said. “We probably had eight (hundred) to 900 attend workshops or come by and consider applying. Forty students won national awards last year.” Rachel Spence, a third-year international studies student who attended the Fulbright grant workshop Monday, said that she had been to a few of the meetings, but that many didn’t apply to her major. She said she wasn’t sure where she would go if she won. “1 have no idea what I want to do,” she said. “I can’t even apply this year, because it’s just for graduating seniors.” She added, though, that the program was a good prospect for the future. “I just think it’s a really good opportunity to go abroad, especially with an ♦ Please see SCHOLAR, page 6 ■ REPUBLICANS Continued from page 1 same level as the state party. He said each chapter gets two votes for every 10 members at the state conference, so “if you an combine these two groups, we can have enough votes to virtually carry an election by ourselves,” he said. Dargan, Wilson and Buchanon all spoke of working in the best interest of the party as a key to the group’s union. “Combining the two groups will provide the Republican Party with the grassroots foot soldiers that will enable us to send our candidates to their respective offices,” Dargan said. “The two groups combined will give USC one of the largest chapters of College Republicans in the country.” Courtney Herring, the group’s spokeswoman, said the newly united group would have more than 900 members. “With the recruitment drives we’ve set up and the Greek recruitment drive, this will provide the Republican Party with more volunteers then they could have ever imagined,” she said. Wilson said the new group would put USC back on the political map in the confederation. An organizational meeting for the Republican group will be held tonight at 7:30 in Gambrell, room 250. Among the speakers will be Columbia Sen. John Courson and members of Victory 2004 and Jim DeMint’s Senate campaign. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc. edu Revamped dining hall opens after two months of waiting Left: Mac McQuillin, a fourth-year political science student, grabs dinner in the newly renovated Preston dining hall. The remodeling began in June. Below: Philip Diley, a Sodexho worker, cleans up after hours in the Preston Dining Hall. PHOTOS BY JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK By WINNIE WINFORD THE GAMECOCK Preston dining hall opened Tuesday after completing renovations that started in June. While some students said they found the noise of the construction inconvenient, Preston dining services officials said students who eat at Preston are pleased with the dining hall’s new look. “It’s gorgeous. We’ve had comments that the students love it. People are more than welcome to come for dinner and see how excited the students are about their dining hall,” Preston dining hall employee Shirley Wilkson said. Helen Zeigler, director of USC business affairs, could not comment on the renovations’ costs. The dining facility is intended for Preston students and USC faculty members. But any student can pay the $7 cost of dinner at Preston and eat in the dining hall. Student Government Vice President Yvonne Miller said the sounds of the construction were distracting for the SG offices. 1 “With the renovations over in Preston there has been some drilling and sawing noises, and the phone lines went down one day,” she said. “It hasn’t been horrible, but it has been distracting when I’m trying to have meetings.” Russell House Uqiversity Union Director Carmela Carr said that the opening of Preston dining hall completes the major construction at the Russell House. The restrooms on the second floor of the union will be renovated next, followed by renovations of some open space on the third floor, which USC will lease out to businesses. 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