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Page 10 Section II Portland Observer, August 11, 1902 OSU EOP program supports students The Educational O pportunities Program (EOP) at Oregon State University is a very successful stu dent support program for non-tradi- tional students which has assisted 23$ students to graduate from high er education during the thirteen years of its existence. The groups o f students which the program is dedi cated to assisting are Black Amer icans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, resident refugees, low- income students, and older returning students. The program o f fers support and assitance in all areas o f admission, financial aid, academic planning and growth, and personal concerns. EOP at OSU is now beginning its fourteenth year, (t is well-established in the commu nity and has developed a vast net work o f services for students, valua ble contacts at the university and in the com m unity, and resources at other schools and agencies throughout Oregon. The program has gained a favorable reputation with these contacts resulting in more students being referred to EOP. EOP offers a wide range o f sup port services to its students, includ ing academic developmental classes, tutoring, career counseling, and per sonal counseling. When a student applies to the university, the EOP office acts in the capacity o f an ad missions office until the file is com plete and ready fo r o ffic ia l admis sion. The application fee and hous- with the Career Planning und Place ment Office to ussisl students in pre paring resumes and interviewing loi employment upon graduation. EOP students are also given the opportunity to attend various cul tural affairs on and o ff campus. In the past, students have attended a poetry reading in Portland. Shake spcarcan plays in Ashland, and weic able to watch fellow classmates per form in plays at OSU’ s M itchell Playhouse. LAVERNE WOODS Another facet o f EOP is recruit ing. It is the mission of the recruiters to see that inform ation and assist ance is given to a ll students in Ore gon and in the Pacific Northwest to enable them to gel a higher educa tion, if that is the desire o f the stud ent. Several counselors travel around the state visitin g high schools and com m unity colleges, OR. LAWRENCE GRIGGS ing deposit are deferred u n til the student arrives on campus. New EOP students attend special orienta- tin sessions, including an overnight retreat where they have an oppor tu n ity to meet and interact w ith people from various departments on campus, including OSU’s president. Companies in the Corvallis area al so send representatives to this re treat. Each student is assigned to a counselor who assists in both aca demic and personal areas. Academic skills are evaluated through testing so that students can be placed in the proper classes. Developmental courses are available in the areas o f reading, writing, math, personal de velopment, and study skills. When EOP students need extra assistance in any particular course, they can turn to EOP’s own Learning Center where the students arc matched up w ith tutors who have expertise in that particular area. The students al so have access to audio-visual teach ing aids in EOP's Learning Lab. I f a student should encounter problems w ith financial aid, the EOP assistant director. Dr. Law rence Griggs, counsels and acts as a liaison with the OSU Financial Aid Office. Dr. Griggs has information on scholarhips and grants which are not available to a m ajority o f stu- dents, and he aids the students in applying for these funds. An EOP student has available (he services o f a Cooperative Education Counselor, Monte Freeman. Coop erative Education is a university- wide program which enables stu dents to gain employment experience in their fields, receive credit toward graduation, and often receive a salary as well. In addition, other EOP counselors work directly talking with students about the op portunities and services available through EOP at OSU. Information packets and applications are given out, and slide presentations are giv en. One o f these recruiters, LaVernc Woods, visits the Portland area reg ularly. LaVernc recently joined the EOP s ta ff after re tirin g from the A rm y w ith the rank o f Sergeant- Major. He had been working on the OSU campus for several years with the Army ROTC. V.A. loan program expanded The Veterans A d m in is tra tio n ’s Loan Guaranty program has ex panded its services to veterans and their dependents with acceptance of Growing Equity Mortgages (GEM). Under this new mortgage con cept, loans are arranged to mature much earlier than standard 30-year mortgages, according to W illia m Cipolla, Loan Guaranty O fficer at the Portland Regional Office. “ In some cases the loan could be satisfied in 11 years, even though early mortgage payments are in the same amount as those for a 30-year loan,” Cipolla explained. The early p a yo ff results from a gradual increase in mortgage pay ments, typically no more than 3 to 5 per cent each year. Unlike variable interest rate mortgages, however, all o f the payment increase is applied to principal rather than interest, result ing in an accelerated reduction in the loan balance. In addition to an early payoff o f a Center selects director Ellen Dressier has been selected as Director for the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Commissioner Jor dan announced Tuesday. funded by a $420,000 federal re hab grant by the Urban Parks and Recreation Recovery Program (UPARR) matched by a $180,000 C ity G rant (H C D ) to convert an abandoned firehouse located at 5340 N. Interstate Street, the com munity cultural center w ill provide recreational, artistic, and cultural program m ing to include physical fitness, drama, crafts, dance, music, photography and social activities. The new D irecto r, a native o f P ortland, recently served as Director o f Cultural A ffairs for the City o f Charleston where employed for the last four years. In addition to her management, program devel opment and public relations skills, Ellen has excellent experience working with community organiza tions, gained while employed with the City o f Montgomery, Alabama as its C ultural A rts Supervisor in 1977 and Galassini Advertising as Creative Services Director in 1976. Her public relations skills were ac quired during her tenure with WSFA-TV in 1974 and Fuller and Dees Publishers, also in Alabama. She attended Portland State Uni versity from 1961-1964 as a music major. She has also attended Westmin ster C hoir College in P rincetoin, New Jersey and the U niversity o f N orth Carolina fo r post graduate study in arts management and recre ation. She is President o f the South Car olina Alliance o f Community Arts Agencies and serves on the Gover n o r’ s A rts Task Force. Ellen also serves as Advocacy Chairman and as a member o f the Board o f Direc tors for the N a fo n a l Assembly o f Community Arts Agencies. In addi tio n , she chairs the W orking Sub committee for the Arts for the U.S. Conference o f Mayors. Miss Dressier w ill be responsible for managing the day-to-day opera tions o f the center which is sche duled to o fficia lly open in October GEM , another advantage to the borrower is that the investment in the property grows rapidly at a rela tively low monthly cost. Lenders al so benefit by receiving an early pay back o f capital and a lessening risk o f loss as the property equity in creases. Like other types o f VA financing, VA-guaranteed GEMS are obtained through mortgage lenders and other traditional residential loan sources, according to Cipolla. Oregon State University Educational Opportunities Program Would you like to go to college? Get a degree? Now IT IS POSSIBLE through E.O.P. atO.S.U. The Educational Opportunities Program at Oregon State University will help you to apply to the university, to apply for all scholarships and grants available to you, offers academic developmental classes, has tutors available, offers career counseling, personal counseling, Co-operative Education opportunities, cultural enrichment activities. AND MOREI You may qualify Do you feel that your high school GPA is too low to get you into college? Are your math, reading or written skills marginal? Do you think that you may not qualify for funds to help you through college? Do you live in an isolated rural area? Meet David Abbott, Cablesystems Pacific's Quality Control Technician. David has been with us since January, 1982. After receiving his technical training as Missile Facilities Specialist for the United States Air Force, David decided to focus on a career in the communications industry. Why? Let David tell you: I fin d my jo b and the fie ld o f communications very challenging. 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