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Student arouD’s founder still learning
By Christopher Blair
t meiaid Managing Ediioi
In ]'M>7. |t‘Mis Estrada would
have been perfectly satisfied
working as a mechanic
' W here I was coming from I
had renc her! all my goals." said
Estrada, now working on Ins
doctorate in education at the
University "I was working I
t <>11 Id wear a uniform that they
provided I wasn't working in
the fields; that was a big deal
When he was growing up in
the 1 'Kills. Estrada's family
worked as migrant farm lalmr
ers. which kept them on the
move from stale to state Along
the way. school records got
lost Estrada's parents could
not speak English well enough
to vouc h for his academic
skills, and he was being held
back at new schools
In 1‘)ti7. tH years old and in
the ninth grade. Estrada quit
si hiKil He had worked in a gas
station in his home of Weiser.
Idaho, and wanted to get his
(General Education Diploma to
qualify for w ork on < ars
Estrada came to I fie Universi
tv that summer as a parti< ipanl
in the firsi vear of the High
School Equivalency program,
still thinking of being a me
chanic
Hut by the time fie left the
University in I‘i7l. Estrada had
been elected to the Student
Senate, founded the Chicano
Student Union (now known as
MEUhA). and helped Ins fellow
HEP students as a student
teai her
"It was a radical thing lor
me." he said "I had dropped
out of school 1 hated teachers
There was no one in the world I
hated worse than teachers
Estrada said that during his
time at the University, he real
ized that it wasn't all teachers
Jesus Kstrada
In- disagreed with, hut those
who "weren't student-cen
tered." or who came from rac
ist or elitist backgrounds and
couldn't understand the needs
of individual students
In the years since he first
arrived in Kugene. Kstrada
earned his master's in bilingual
education from the University,
and worker! as a teacher and
counselor in Portland. Salem
and Woodburn often with stu
dents ol migrant families He
also served on the st bool board
in Salem
HKP students in the pro
gram's first \e.ir were given
three terms to earn their UKI).
something Kstrada accom
plished m one It gave him the
opportunity to take University
classes and see the campus
Hispanic and t'hicano stu
dents were being asked as indi
viduals about their opinions on
social issues, making the CSU
nee essar\ . Kstrada said
"We found that we were go
ing to have to get our thoughts
together if we were going to
represent the t'hicano commu
nity." he said.
Estrada went before the ln< i
dental Foe Committee for mon
ey for the group, and was
granted not only operating
funds, but an office, which
now is occupied hv the Hree/.e
vvny ('.afe
In the CSU's first year, it
brought farmworker advocate
Cesar Chavez to campus and
helped organized a Poor Peo
ples' March from Eugene to Sa
lem. In the early 70s, the group
became a chapter in the nation
al student group Movimiento
Edstudiantil Chi can os de
Aztlan. and remains a MKChA
group today.
Through his years as a teach
er and a student. Estrada has
worked on ways to better teach
students who are floundering
iti this country's educational
system, lie said part of the
problem is the use of and belief
in the term "at-risk youth."
"I think it's an at-risk insti
tution.’ " he said. "They do
not deal with student needs I
think that's extended to the up
per-middle class white student,
too. now. because they're 'mak
ing the decision to leave '
"It's tunny tor the minority
student, because they 'drop
out For upper-middle class
students, they 'make the deci
sion to leave ' The point is. the
system is not meeting the needs
of the students '
Estrada said his school was
simply not meeting his needs,
and that he's glad he dropped
out H\ the time his ( lass had
graduated high school. Estrada
had two and a half years of col
lege credit.
"it was an opportunity I'm
grateful for," he said. "The
movement of ( hange in the 'GOs
was real helpful in providing a
lot of opportunities, a lot ol
awareness, to everyone."
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