Schosership

Trouble financing your studies? The Schoser scholarship is for you then - more particularly the 'Otto and Virgina Schoser Scholarship'. It requires you however to study at the Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, USA.

The scholarship is named after Virigina Schoser, alumni in the class of 1928 of this college, and her husband Otto 'Barney' Schoser. As it happens, two Schosers seem to be studying Business Admininstration at this college: Chase Thomas Schoser and Chance Joseph Schoser. It is however not reported whether they are receiving this scholarship. In any event, Chance graduated in May 2010 with the Bachelor of Arts degree.

The Member of Parliament

Having been reelected to the City Council of Cologne in August 2009, Martin stood for yet another election on 9 May 2010. At stake was a seat in the regional Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia for which he needed to obtain a relative majority of votes in the Cologne II constituency. Martin succeeded by obtaining 38% of the personal votes (corresponding to 27 745 votes), 6.3 percentage points more than the second placed candidate.

Martin managed to gather more personal votes than there were votes for his party in the same constituency (23 831 votes corresponding to 32.6%). Martin will now be one of the 181 members of the North Rhine-Westphalia Parliament for the next five years.