HEP gives migrants a chance
by MICK MORIARTY
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Most children of migrant
workers never get a chance to
receive much education. This is
the rule rather than the excep
tion. It is not uncommon for most
to never finish grade school.
Few have the opportunity to
get a high school diploma.
Students and faculty
members at the University of
Nebraska are trying to
alleviate some of the problems
these children face due to in
adequate education.
Under the High School
Equivalency Program (KEP),
staff members and student
counselors of the federally
financed program work to help
HEP students receive the
equivalent to a high school
diploma.
Most of the HEP students
come from Texas, Arizona,
Mississippi and other areas
densely populated by migrant
workers. Some also come from
Nebraska.
"HEP is an experimental
program in which young
migrants 17-22 are recruited.
They come to the University to
receive better educations,
thereby getting better jobs,"
HEP Director Gale Muller
said.
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There are about 50 HEP
students this year and nine
regular staff members. For
each student, there is one
counselor. The counselors are
students at the University who
volunteer to help HEP students
adjust to the academic en
vironment and to encourage
good study habits. They are
paid minimal saJaries.
The HEP students primarily
study mathematics, English
and history in their classrooms
located in the basement of Love
Library.
Muller said that over the past
two years, since the HEP pro
gram began, 105 students have
taken tests to receive their high
school diplomas. One thundred
two have passed the 10-13 hour
comprehensive exam.
Of the number who receive
diplomas, approximately 20 per
cent continue their education at
the college level, Muller said.
One HEP student summed up
the feeling of the others quite
well when he said, "HEP gives
most of us a chance to receive
semthing we never had an op
portunity to get before an
education."
Another HEP student said
the best thing about the pro
gram was that the people who
work in HEP are "interested
and concerned."
Although the students
verbally expressed their ap
preciation for the HEP pro
gram, few words realty express
their feelings.
Nor can their enthusiasm be
read about. It must be seen.
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Black feminist speaks Friday
Florynce ' Kennedy, well
known black feminist and civil
rights attorney, will be on
campus Friday to discuss in
stitutional oppression as part of
the Time-Out program.
Kennedy, director of the
Media Workshop and Consumer
Information Service in New
York City will speak at 3:30
p.m. Friday in the Nebraska
Union.
"Where a system of op
pression has become' in
stituionalized it is unnecessary
for individuals to be op-
LiiiLiH vo VI ' rm
pressive," she says. Her ap
pearance is sponsored by t h e
Women's Action Group, which is
concerned during Time-out with
"Sexism and Women's
Rights."
She emphasizes the roles of
the church, courts, family,
media and schools in the op
pression of women and cites
parallels between the Black
Power Movement and the
Women's Liberation Move
ment. She has also been a delegate
to the National Conference on
Black Power for the past three
years, and teaches a course in
institutional oppression at
Alternate University in New
York.
Kennedy wiU also appear in
two panel discussions Friday in
the Union. The first, at 11:30
a.m deals with local problems
of women. The panel discussion
will include Betty Jeanne
II o Icomib-KelJer, Governor's
Commission on the Status of
Women: Margaret Brown, Pro
ject Director of Women in
Community Service; Linda
Pratt, Chairman, Faculty Com
mittee on Women's Rights; and
Sandra Little, University
Women's Action Group
(UWAG).
The second, at 2:15 p.m. will
be a discussion with Larry
Magid, educational reformer;
Fred Anderson, student; Harry
Cannon, Director of Counseling
Service; and Patt! Kaminski,
UWAG. It will discuss op
pression in a broader sense, ac
cording to UWAG member, Toni
HiJlard.
At 9 p.m. there will be a rap
session with Kennedy in Cen
tennial College Grass room.
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contact Charley Jackman (466
5201) or Debbie Bourne (434-0198).
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THE NEBRASKAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER t5, 1970