Features Website of the Week Scholarships for students are now available online by Mike Cooklis staff writer A student’s daily college work can be overwhelming at some times. And with the rising cost of school, a schol arship can always be a welcome fi nancial aid. Another way to look at a scholar ship is as free money. This money is never expected to be paid back. There are many different scholarships avail able to students, but the way that you searched for them in high school might be the way of the past, Today, one of the easiest and fast est ways to search is on the web. One of these sites is fieescholarships.com. This site is exactly what its name is.. .free. It would compare almost to a lottery system. Winners are picked daily, monthly, and quarterly. And 4 ' ' Happenings in Erie . ■* s ’ April 14 « i„.<;, ■ Jr’s Comedy Club Mike Hessmann and special guests April 15 Jr’s Comedy Club Mike Hessmann and special guests Forward Hall Frog Tree Gorge Band, 5 Cubic Feet you don’t have to be qualified for these scholarships. To become eligible for the schol arships that are being .offered, you must first register. Registration is very easy, requiring you only to cre ate your own login name and pass word. Right away you are given one chance to win in each drawing, The daily drawing gives awaylo,ooo dol lars, the monthly gives away 25,000 dollars, and the quarterly gives away 50,000 dollars. To earn more chances, you can do many things. Searching the web page or playing games on the site can earn you more chances. Even referring a friend to the site will earn you more chances of winning. Another way of winning on the site is by earning “schollars”. Each time you earn a chance, you are also eam ing a schollar. The schollar is the / WWW. \ [ freescholarships. i com J MMkvS'’ Ivfi online currency of the site, You can spend this “money” at the freescholarships.com online auction. At this auction, you can bid on many different items in the same way you would bet on an item at an auc tion house. There are many great prizes to be won, and you can even bid on more scholarships. This is a new part of the site, and it is not yet running, but you can still save your scholiars for when it does open. I anxiously await every drawing in the hope that I might come away with a scholarship.. 1 have not yet won, but I would like to think that my chances are getting better every day. For the amount of time that it takes to get set up at this site, there is no excuse that everyone shouldn’t be a part of freescholarships.com. Beth Wood lights up Behrend by Leanne Acklin staff writer Bare foot and bare voiced, Beth Wood performed acoustically in front of a humble crowd Saturday night in Bruno’s. With a rich, clean voice, Wood belted out nearly ten originals spanning her three CDs including her most recent release, “Late Night Radio.” Wood’s tunes ranged from tales of major disappointment to playful storytelling, while they combined pop and folk music with spry country lyrics. Calm, upbeat tempos dominated the evening, evident in songs such as, “Late Night Radio,” “My Miles Davis ‘Kind of Blue,’’’and a new one she tested called “Company Man,” which Wood accredits to her hard working, understanding “sweetie.” Wood also performed a cover of U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” doing no dishonor to U 2. Some Behrend students such as Stephanie Falcone seemed hooked on Wood's lyrics. “She’s so great, she’s a fantastic songwriter,” remarked Falcone. While the lyrics were often witty, Wood’s voice quality is undoubtedly her most remarkable attribute. During the performance of “My Miles Davis ‘Kind of Blue,”’ Wood proved her pure, clear voice was also extremely versatile, as the song’s vocal range was quite demanding. Even while singing the piece in a large room with, sadly, only a dozen people, her voice sustained flawlessly. Influenced by singers such as Shawn Colvin and Chris Whitley, Wood decided to take on her music full time about three years ago. Behrend was just one stop of her spring tour which covers the East Coast in promotion of her independently released third album, Crossword ACROSS 1 Commonplace writing 6 Musical improvisations 11 Building addition 14 Travels far and wide 15 Dickens’ Heep 16 Churchill’s gesture 17 Preminger and Kruger 18 Arms of the sea 20 Beer barrel 22 Lurks 23 Misdirects anger at 29 "Ars Amatoria" poet 30 Telescope element 31 Make into law 35 Lady's title 36 Hightail it 37 Dimensions estimator 38 Scads 39 Cinders 41 Identify 42 Shadings 44 Cartooter 45 Valley 46Arden" 47 Black-and-white cookie 48 Watch over 49 Small, fast warships 52 Endeavored with effort 55 Faux _ 56 Fishburne and Olivier 60 Asian capital 64 Partof TGIF 65 Practice recycling 66 _ cotta 67 Cushion 68 Brushed 69 Idyllic gardens DOWN 1 Paid athlete 2 Decay 3 Cereal grain 4 Fire-safety device “Late Night Radio." “It’s going great,” she said of the tour, “I’m really racking up the miles." Wood stated that the new album was based on “grass roots," and mentioned that "Border’s (Books & Music) has been really helpful” in the promotion of it, where the CD is being featured in listening posts across the country, Beth Wood performed at Bruno's last Saturday 5 Curvy letters Solutions 6 Regret 7 Tax grp. 8 Match up 9 Soul seller 10 Military dress hats 11 Villainous 12 Onion's kin 13 Fewer 19 Deteriorating 21 Radnerof'The Woman in Red" 23 So far 24 King Arthur’s paradise 25 Geisha garb 26 Small British restaurant 27 Toward the coast 28 Led to a seat 32 Flowering shrub 33 Concrete ingredient 34 Prevailing movements 40 Eavesdropper 43 Pushers page 11, The Behrend Beacon, April 14, 2000 50 Make fresh 51 Moisten periodically 52 Willowy 53 Casual farewell 54 Oxidation 57 Pool tool? according to Wood s website. With a classic voice and continued exposure at colleges and clubs across the country, success tor this heartened singer/songwriter appears inevitable. For more information on Beth Wood, including ways of obtaining CDs and mailing list information, visit www.bethwoodinusic.com. Mind-reading letters Prepared Mine vein Coffee server Presley movie, “Viva _ Vegas" FILE PHOTO
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