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Cassie Myers on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 02:48 pm
Feel like you need to weigh in on the ongoing “whose university” debate? Prepare for that itch to be scratched. An annual scholarship has come to the Clog’s attention: the Lili Fabilli and Eric Hoffer Essay Prize. Think about it: you could win up to $3000 for answering “our university.”
The contest is simple: write 500 words or less on the topic “whose university.” No joke, that is the entire topic. So get your world-weary genius attitude working for you (a melancholic sigh here, an essay about American apathy there).
Why 500 words? According to Hoffer, “…wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.”
In solidarity, then, we’ll end here. Submissions are due Monday, Dec. 1 to 229 Sproul Hall. More rules for the contest are available here.
Lili Fabilli and Eric Hoffer Essay Prize [UC Berkeley Financial Aid Office]
Image source: Martin Kingsley under Creative Commons
If you’re pithy and in need of money, then boy do we have a humdinger of a scholarship for you!
Twitter is back, and it’s not just for celebrities anymore. It helped in Iran, and it can help fill your pockets. So what is this (apologies in advance for the unavoidable pun) “Tweet” deal?
Well, Twitter is giving out $14,014.00 in scholarships (presumably in an adorable homage to their own 140 character limit). First prize is $10000 big ones. What you have to do is quite simple: read more »
Many are aware of the generous financial aid available through Cal Vet for the military brats that fulfill a short list of requirements, but whatever happened to this same financial aid for the veterans themselves? Took ‘em long enough, but as of August 2009, our new generation of military women and men will take advantage of free tuition at any California public university. This movement is to help ease the transition from warfare to higher learning.
‘So how does this apply to me, a civilian Cal student?’ We’re getting there, you pansy. read more »
Campus Magazine has ranked the ASUC program to provide scholarships to students with drug convictions No. 2 on its annual “College Outrage Awards.”
For what got a negligible reaction on campus, the bill got a lot of play in the media, especially on the national media scale in January.
Now it’s getting a media revival thanks to the awards, which appear to be the norm for Campus Magazine, a conservative publication for the collegiate masses. In term of its Campus Outrage Awards, it declares:
“We use these awards to shed light on the most outrageous instances of intolerance and intimidation on the part of college officials and to let conservative students know they are not alone in battling political correctness on America’s campuses,” said Stephen Klugewicz, executive director of the Collegiate Network.
Moreover, this isn’t the first time UC Berkeley’s radical politics have landed it on the list. 2003’s 4th place showing references 2002’s entry as well:
And after winning a “Polly” last year for funding the criminal ethnic separatist student group, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), Berkeley still hasn’t learned the consequences of allocating student fees to radical student groups. The U.C. Berkeley Queer Alliance receives $9,000 in student fees, which the group uses to maintain an online message board on which students discuss campus locations where they can engage in illicit sexual activities.
The group has also drilled a series of “glory holes” in Berkeley’s bathrooms to encourage these trysts. Though the University Student Code of Conduct outlaws “conduct which threatens the health or safety of any person,” Berkeley has done nothing to moderate the group’s website.
AP covered UC Berkeley’s 2007 placement and the story has been picked up by the Chron, the CoCo and Mercury News.
Earlier: ASUC Pushes Scholarship for Students with Drug Convictions
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