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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1978)
Romero takes HEP Dost i ‘Students must learn to cope’ with academia Story and Photo By AN AM ARIA BELL Of the Emerald The University’s new High School Equivalency (HEP) direc tor says the program’s students must learn to cope with their new environment to function construc tively. “I want the students to realize they are in a middle class, academic, anglo environment,” says Jim Romero, who replaced Enrique Gallegos in the post. Gal legos resigned to continue graduate studies. “The whole thing is very differ ent to them,” Romero said. “These students have never really had any leisure time, so they really don’t know how to deal with the leisure time afforded them here.” HEP gives migrant workers who have dropped out of school a chance to gain proficiency in the basic skills needed to gain high school equivalency diplomas, compete for jobs, go to college or obtain vocational skills. Romero says HEP tries to en courage studying with the aid of tutorial assistance. “These students have never been in an academic environ ment of eight to 12 hours a day,” Romero says. “I want to see that they not only earn a GED (graduate equiva lency degree), but also that they acquire basic survival skills such as the abilities to solve personal problems as well as to communi cate and relate to different races and cultures,” Romero explains. For HEP students, those types of skills are perhaps more impor tant than basic literary skills, Romero says. Romero began teaching in 1961, after graduating with B.A. from the University of Denver. Ini tially he taught in a Denver junior high school and later earned a Master’s degree from Union Col lege in New York. Romero holds a Ph.D. in educa Jim Romero, the new director of the High School Equivilency Program says HEP students must learn how to adapt to live at the University and learn how to use their leisure time. Romero took over the post when Enrique Gallegos returned to graduate studies. tional administration. Romero was also the central administrator for the Denver Pub lic School System from 1970-77, before transferring directly to his new University position. Romero became aware of HEP’s vacant position while on a recent vacation in Oregon. “I am very impressed with the Univer sity,'’ he says. “The different de partments are eager to help me out any way they can.” Romero doesn’t plan drastic changes in the HEP program in the near future, but plans to “work closely with my staff, speak with them and see where they are com ing from. We are a team.” Romero says he wants to make the public aware of HEP. “We want to reach out and find more people who are interested in becoming involved with us,” he says, emphasizing the need for tutors. Student environmental groups form council to strenothen clout By MELISSA HILTON Of the Emerald A new amalgamation will be created at the University: the Stu dent Environmental Council. The council will be composed of six environmental groups on campus including the Environ mental Studies Center (ESC), the Survival Center, Public Lands Re search Group (PLRG), the Out door Program, Land Air Water, and OSPIRG. Representatives of the six groups have been meeting to gether once a week and will soon declare themselves an official student organization, recognized, but not funded, by the ASUO. Members of the various groups see several benefits in the crea tion of the council. The activities of each environmental group will be coordinated with the others, eliminating duplication and gain ing support from the other groups for its projects. “We can support each other,” declares Marjorie Butterfield, representative from ESC. Members of the Student En vironmental Council can sit on University committees to repres ent the environmentalist viewpoint and encourage the development of an environmental curriculum. The Student Environmental Council will be an entity in itself, presenting a single, unified front to local businesses, student funding groups, and outside groups the student must deal with. “The more credible we are, the better success we'll have,” says Dave Brown, representative of PLRG. At the council’s first meeting last Friday, representatives from each organization announced their cur rent activities and asked for sup port from the other member groups. The Survival Center is planning an Alaska Wilderness Conservation Day on April 15, and will be holding an Alaska Bake Sale on March 14. PLRG is conducting the "Uni versity of the Wilderness" course in the Oregon desert spring term, and will be holding a Desert Wil derness Workshop March 31-April 2. 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