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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.
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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. However, he is in agree
ment with Lobisser that “the com
mittee’s goal with hiring is to make
it as inclusive as possible,” and
would include the input of more
students, especially those involved
with the MCC or one of the other
cultural or ethnic organizations.
“We anticipated this search
would be complex, because it’s a
student-funded position, and it’s a
new position,” Lobisser said. “The
MCC staff feels passionately about
their program, so there is a big in
vestment in this hire.”
Lobisser and Breslow will meet
today to further discuss the com
mittee’s direction.
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