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Future continued from page 1 tween 8 a.m. and noon, Monday through Thursday. “My number one priority is the regular summer session curricu lum,” he said. “We get lots of non curriculum programs requesting space.” . SEP staff even contacted the chemistry and biology depart ments directly themselves to in quire as to lab space. Regularly scheduled classes were taking place in at least six of the seven bi ology teaching labs, and the only chemistry teaching lab otherwise free was crowded with equipment from a renovation elsewhere, equipment that needed to be in stalled, tested and calibrated. “I would say our instructors are doing a good job making classes ef fective; however, real laboratories and art facilities would lend to ward the optimum experience,” said Andrew Fisher, coordinator of SEP the past three years. Marjorie DeBuse, director of SEP, an adjunct professor at the UO College of Education and a TAG coordinator for Eugene's Dis trict Number 4J, said the need for programs like SEP is great. Oregon has one of the lowest per capita spending rates in the nation for students that are gifted and talented, about $2.60 per TAG student per year. The state focuses teacher attention and resources more on bringing up lower achievers, she said. “But (TAG students) really don't make it on their own,” De Buse said. “They lose their poten tial; they drop out, become adju dicated youth. And their suicide rate is too high. “Often times they turn off to school,” she said. Jade Brooks, 14, a rising 10th grader at South Eugene High School, is back for her third year in SEP. She is taking Musical The ater, Hip Hop Dance and Acting 101, on the one hand, and Epi demiology, Social Policy and In terior Architecture, on the other. She likes what she's into. “I feel like the camp and the teachers and the classes are fo cused toward trying to get the stu dents to ask questions, where as in (regular) school, it's trying to get the students to answer,” she said. Nancy Newman, a journalism instructor at Roosevelt Middle School in Eugene, which this year is sending 17 students to SEP, submitted written recommenda tions for two students this year. Being on the college campus gets 12 to 16 year-olds thinking about themselves as college students in an atmosphere in which intelli gence is valued, Newman said. “They don't have to hide how smart they are. Nobody has to dumb down. In regular school, it’s not cool to be smart,” she said. MCC continued from page 1 hire an interim director for the re mainder of the summer and during the school year, or to bypass it all together to await hiring an individ ual to fill the position permanently. “If an interim director can’t make the transition between sum mer and fall with the students back, it’s probably not a good thing to do,” Lobisser said. Although the committee could decide soon which option to take, Lobisser said that meeting with more students is the best route to go. “It’s just hard getting people to gether during the summer,” he said. ASUO President Jay Breslow stressed that he really hopes to fill the position before fall rolls around. 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