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High School Equivalency Program
Former counselor agrees with
by CAROL ANDERSON
Nbrskn Staff Writtr
A former HEP (High School
Equivalency Program)
counselor agrees with charges
of racism made against HEP
last week by ASUN Sen. Phil
Medcalf.
After a year and a half with
HEP, Genia Bolich said she
was fired last month because
she disagrees with the pro
gram's philosophy of anglosiz
ing HEP minority group
students, most of whom are
Chicano.
Miss Bolich said that she was
fired supposedly for dating a
HEP student who had
graduated from the program
six months earlier.
She pressed the issue' with
officials of the Nebraska
Human Resources Research
Foundation, which operates
HEP "Basically they said if I
didn't agree with the
philosophy I should get out,"
Miss Bolich said.
In staff meetings Miss Bolich
said her opinions deviated from
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the philosophy of those ad
ministering HEP.
"I thought HEP should be
more student oriented than
curriculum oriented. They
(HEP administrators) are
more interested in the program
running smoothly," she said.
Student counselors are hired
to be a friend to the HEP
students who come mostly from
migrant families whose educa
tional opportunities are
haphazard. Miss Bolich says all
the counselors are white and
receive no HEP training to help
them understand the Chicano
culture.
At last week's ASUN Senate
meeting Mercedes Crawford,
HEP reading teacher who is
also Chicano, said that
although counselors are given
little formal training concern
ing the Chicano culture, that
she is always available for the
formal sessions.
HEP Director Gale Muller
told ASUN that "special ef
forts" are made to recruit
, Chicano counselors, but so far
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Not only does HEP Ignore the
students' cultural differences
but the program gives the
students little say in planning
their social activities, Miss
Bolich charged. She said the
students should have more
freedom on weekends instead
of counselors setting upmost
social activities.
Miss Bolich was among three
fired HEP counselors attending
the ASUN meeting along with
Nonvoters will defeat
voters in ASUN election
All full-time Unievrsity students are cordially Invited
to attend the sixth annual ASUN elections today. But how
many will show up?
Electoral Commissioner Glenn Nees foresees a low
turnout of about 3,000 students. ASUN President Bill ,
Chaloupka said he expects 3,000 to 4,000 students will vote
Wednesday.
If the past two ASUN elections are any indication then
there will be a low turnout for today's elections. Last
year 26 percent (3,423) of the eligible students voted and
in 1968, in the lowest voting turnout in ASUN history,
19 percent (2,660) cast ballots.
The highest turnout occurred in 1967 when 43 percent
(5,763) voted. However, in the five previous ASUN elections
the average turnout has been 31 percent of the eligible
voters.
Nees said he expects a low turnout today because this
year's election campaign was not very exciting. However,
he hopes the election tent and the voting for the May
Queen will boost the voting turnout.
Chaloupka expects a low turnout because "the campus
hasn't really been excited about a particular issue or can
didate." F. E. I. Hamilton lectures April 22
London School of Economics
Professor F. E. Ian Hamilton
will lecture Wednesday at 4:00
p.m. on "Locational Decision
Making in Eastern Europe."
Hamilton's lecture will be in
ttie small auditorium in the
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charges
one former counselor who said
he quit before he was fired. He,
too, said he disagreed with the
HEP philosophy of Anglosizing
the students.
HEP Director Muller refused
to discuss the firings of
counselors before ASUN, but
said HEP standards are not
necessarily value-laden.
Muller was contacted Tues
day by the Daily Nebraskan
and again refused to comment.
basement of the Nebraska
Union.
The lecture Is being spon
sored by the Department of
Geography and Slavic and East
European Studies Committee.
All interested persons are in
vited to attend.
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WEDNESDAY,. APRIL 22, 1970
Conference
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pollution
Three national leaders in the
area of environment will speak
at the 1970 Montgomery Con
ference entitled "Man and En
vironment" May 8 at the
University of Nebraska Union.
Guest speakers at the after
noon and evening program in
clude: Stewart L. Udall, former
U.S. Secretary of Interior, now
chairman of the board of
Overview Group, an interna
tional firm dealing with en
vironmental problems.
Robert L. Rudd, professor
of zoology at the University of
California at Davis and author
of "Pesticides and the Living
Landscape." '
Thomas H. Jukes, pro
fessor of biochemistry and
associate director of the Space
Sciences Labo ratory,
University of California at
Berkeley.
Joseph Soshnik, president of
the Lincoln campuses and
outstate activities, will preside
at the afternoon session. The
event is open to the public and
there is no registration fee, ac
cording to James Drew,
chairman of the Montgomery
committee.
Chancellor Durward B.
Varner will moderate a panel
discussion at 6:30 p.m. May 8,
featuring the three afternoon
speakers, Dr. Everett
Peterson, professor of
agricultural economics at the
University; T. C. Reeves,
farmer at Central City and
member of the' Nebraka Water
Pollution Control Council; and
two University students who
will be named later.
Happy birthday
Today is the one hundredth
anniversary of Vladimir Ilyich
Lenin's birthday.
Happy Earth Day birthday.
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