Oregon daily emerald., April 28, 1981, Page 7, Image 7

Program brings workers in from the fields
By SHEILA ROSE
Ol the Emerald
Most students in the High
School Equivalency Program
earn a lot more than their Gen
eral Equivalency Diploma, says
acting program director Ca
rolina Murillo.
HEP is an intensive 10-week
study program that helps 17- to
24-year-olds from low-income
migrant and seasonal farm
worker families complete their
GEDs and find placements in
jobs, training programs or col
leges.
Now in its 12th year, the
Testimony ends
in Abscam trial
NEW YORK (AP) - The
defense completed testimony
Monday in the Abscam trial of
Sen. Harrison Williams with the
senator denying for the fourth
day that he ever tried to peddle
political influence for personal
gain.
“I never used my office to
advance my personal financial
interest,” the New Jersey
Democrat told the jury as his
trial entered its fifth week in U S.
District Court in Brooklyn.
Judge George Pratt said
lawyers for both sides would
begin final arguments Tuesday
morning after the replaying of a
tape and other “housecleaning
chores’’ by the defense.
Pratt said that after the sum
mations, which could take as
long as 914 hours to complete,
he will give his instructions to
the jury so it can begin deliber
ations, probably Wednesday af
ternoon.
The defense called 45 wit
nesses over seven days. Wil
liams, who testified for more
than 20 hours including Mon
day’s testimony, was on the
stand the longest.
Williams’ testimony was
similar to last week’s — that he
met with an undercover FBI
agent posing as an Arab sheik
to impress him in hopes the for
eigner might loan $100 million
so the senator’s friends could
operate a Virginia titanium
mine.
The government alleges Wil
liams, a 22-year senate veteran,
accepted a hidden 18 percent
share in the mine for free in
return for agreeing to help the
venture get military contracts.
Williams, 61, on trial for
bribery and conspiracy along
with lawyer Alexander Feinberg
of Cherry Hill, N.J., admitted he
agreed to impress a phony
“sheik” in hopes the loan would
be approved, but denied he had
lied.
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federally-funded program takes
40 students each term out of the
fields and brings them to live
and study at the University. HEP
provides free room and board in
Bean Complex, instruction,
tutoring, counseling, health
care, transportation and up to
$15 a week for good class at
tendance.
“HEP is beyond test taking —
beyond the GED,” Murillo says.
“It’s career exploration, it's
community involvement pro
jects, it’s self-improvement.”
One of the program’s tools is
role models, Murillo says. For
instance, a HEP student inter
ested in law school might talk
with a law student.
And every term there’s a
community project.
r
“Murals, a senior citizen din
ner — whatever it is," Murillo
says, "it’s important to get in
volved. It’s important to give
something back to the com
munity. We help them make a
resume and explore different
careers."
Career planning counselor
Deb Casey says the program
encourages student de
velopment.
"They make the choices, the
changes, the decisions. We
want them to take the power of
their own lives in their own
hands,” Casey says.
HEP students discover
“there's more choice,” agrees
recruiter Edana Paz.
Paz says one of the biggest
obstacles facing a student from
a migranr rarm ramuy is lamny
size.
"It’s not uncommon to have
six children," Paz says. "And
four or five would be considered
on the small side."
Because of the number of
mouths to feed, the father
"needs other hands" to help
him earn enough to support the
family, she says.
And there’s the problem of
the growing season overlapping
with the school year.
"The potato season lasts until
November, and already kids are
saying ‘I’ve got to get back by
the end of the month,' ” Paz
explains.
According to Paz, many HEP
students don't graduate from
public schools because of
credit deficiency — not because
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"The state will allow you to
miss 11 or so days a year Above
that, and you don't get any
credit at all,” Paz says.
The program had two non
readers in the 11th grade, she
says
To meet the educational
needs of students at varied
levels, HEP offers an in
dividualized alternative educa
tion system, Murillo says.
The intense program requires
students to be in class from 8:30
a m. to 3:30 p m., she says.
There are eight to 10 students in
each class.
But it pays off Last year 96
HEP students earned their
GEDs. This year, 84 percent of
first-term students already are
placed in jobs, Murillo says.
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