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daily nebraskan
friday, november3, 1978
Candidate offers Rocky Mountains, good teeth if elected
By Barb Richardson
A write-in candidate for governor promises to name the
armadillo as Nebraska's state animal and change the state
flower to lavender petunia, if elected.
"Ellanora Ward, coordinator of the Women's Resource
Center, also promises to build a bubble over the UNL
campus to protect students from the natural elements,
rain, snow, and wind," said Velveeta Sage, friend and
campaigner for Ellanora Ward.
Sage added that if elected Ellanora also will turn Ne
braska into a resort area by moving the Rocky Mountains
east and building a canal from the Gulf of Mexico to Ne
braska. "It all started as a joke," Ward said. She explained that
about two weeks ago, after visiting the dentist, she told
friends that she didn't have any cavities and they thought
that was a good reason to run for governor because she
wouldn't be making trips to the dentist and could devote
time to the office.
No one offers anything
"The serious part of the campaign is that the candi
dates that are presently running for governor have nothing
to offer," said Kathy Wengard, another Ward campaigner.
Kathy added that all of the candidates are running on
platforms that are jokes.
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Ellanora Ward, candidate for governor, says "it's my
party and 111 cry if I want to."
to make choices are some issues the candidates should
address themselves to," Ward said. She added that
armadillo rights should also be addressed by the candi
dates. "Ellanora's platform, 'Throw the Weenies Out,' does
not refer to any one particular candidate but to all of
them in general," Wengard said.
Elleanora's campaign coordinator, Mary Emanuel, said
that the campaign fund consists of $2.40. Ward added
that the campaign fund proves that she will be a cheap
governor for those concerned about taxes.
Ward said that she will not participate in any
debates.
Not stealing votes
Talking seriously, coordinator Emanuel said, "I don't
feel that Ellanora will be taking away votes from other
candidates because the people that plan to vote for her
did not plan to vote for either of the candidates presently
running for governor."
Responding to the controversy over the bottle and
lid bills, Ward said, "Every bottle should have a lid."
Another campaign promise of Ward's is that after being
elected, she plans to establish a female militia that will
attack all states that have not approved the ERA. "We will
probably attack from the south," Ward said.
Although Ward is coordinator of the Women's Re
source Center, she stressed that her campaign is not a
WRC project.
High School Equivalency Program
offers innovations during tenth year
By Sue Brown
The High School Equivalency Program, in its tenth
year at UNL, offers students an orientation period, a full
time residence hall staff member and a campus friend pro
gram which, according to HEP director John McVay are
all recent additions.
HEP students come to UNL from Western Nebraska,
Colorado, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas and
Missouri.
To qualify for the program, prospective students must
be out of high school for six months or more and be be
tween the ages of 17 and 24. They must be citizens or
legal residents of the United States and have had seasonal
or migrant farm experience. They also must be at or
below the federal poverty guidelines.
Newsletters list qualifications
These qualifications are listed in a newsletter which is
used as a recuiting tool and sent 10 interested students.
McVay added that students must have at least a sixth
grade reading level to be accepted .
McVay said all HEP students are accepted on pro
bationary status as they go through the two-week orienta
tion program , which was added last December.
The orientation program is a way of rating the students
in attendance, academics, behavior in the residence halls
and includes a final interview. Students are asked why
they want to be a part of HEP and why they felt they
should be accepted.
Students can earn a possible 100 points, and students
scoring less than 75 are sent home.
Elimination process
"It's a type of elimination process to see if students are
really serious about the program," McVay said.
It's also a way to get the students conditioned into
studying right away. They are given homework every
night during the orientation period, he added.
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After the orientation period is over, students are in
structed at the 501 Building in math, science, literature,
social studies, and English grammar. Five teachers, each
concentrating on a different area, conduct classes from
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p. m. Monday through Friday.
Although the content of the material is important,
classes also emphasize reading skills and the ability to
make deductions and inferences, McVay said.
National exam
To graduate from the HEP program, a student must
pass the General Educational Development test, a national
exam given by the State Department of Education.
Teachers give a pre GED test to prepare the students for
the final GED.
Students in the HEP program receive individual
attention, work and take tests at their own rate. Includ
ing the orientation period, the program lasts 12 weeks,
unless a student completes all the material and passes the
GED early.
University counselors
HEP students stay at Harper and Smith residence halls.
Of the 48 students, there are 16 women and 32 men.
Each floor has a university counselor who gets to know
the students on the floor and according to McVay, builds
personal friendships with the students. This is designed
to eliminate misbehavior in the halls as the students can
always talk to their counselors and do not want to jeo
pardize those friendships, McVay said.
Another addition to the program, which has dramati
cally decreased the amount of incidents in the resi
dence halls is the staffing of a full time counselor who is
on duty until about midnight during the week and 3 ajn.
on weekends.
Infant' program
The Campus Friend program, which according to
McVay in its "infant stages," is a new addition this year.
It assigns a university student to a HEP student living on
the same floor. The purpose of the program is to help
HEP students adjust to their new surroundings, McVay
said. The program will be developed further next year
after evaluating it with feedback from HEP and university
students, he adJed .
"We've had exceptional support from the (UNL) ad
ministration. If something goes wrong they're the first
to say, 'What can we do to help?'." he said.
McVay said 75 percent of the students graduate and
90 to 95 percent of those students are placed in jobs.
Students who have been out on their own seem to do very
well in the program, he added.
Former counselor
McVay said he became interested in the program when
he was a HEP counselor in 1969. After he received his
masters degree, he was appointed placement director for
the program, helping students find jobs after graduation.
He then was promoted to director of the program, a
position he has held for fwe years.
The HEP program is funded by the government, with
all money coming directly from Washington.
"I feel that it is a tremendous challenge," McVay said,
adding that the program is accountable to the federal
government, to the university, and to the administration
as well as to the students.
"The whole program is evolutionary. Staff members
constantly add to the program to improve it and think of
how things could be done differently to make it better,"
tie said.
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