Opportunity is key Editor's note: This is the last in a three-part series on the Educational Opportunity Program. By SARAH BANDA Collegian Staff Writer Although some Educational Opportunity Program par ucipanls criticize the program, at least one student thinks EOF is one of the University’s more positive entities. Lee Coffer ( 18th-arehitecture) said EOP gave him an op por'unity to enter college and excel. "1 am proud to say I am an EOP student,” the 28-year-old Coffer said. “Look, I'm an EOP student and I got to Harvard. " ( oiler said lie is particularly proud of the 4.0 he earned last spring while studying in South America under a foreign studies program toother source of pride, he said, is his taking part in ir.idua'e architectural design courses last s - .imer at Har- 'd t ’in\ ersii v ler said lie tells students to open their eyes and let ng block their goals i an EOP student and 1 got to Harvard.” he said The Penn State Bookstore wishes you a happy term break. o TIL9 CHARGE YOUR/%#> PURCHASE -JO UP TO MONTH NO DOWN PAYMENT QUANTITIES LIMITED Lee Coffer on campus Lookin CLEARAN SAL ViRANTJ Irrpcf ,il GG 2 f P> N ACO *• 'v 1 mFGEMAN T'if’V Many other Spk. specials tagged in store |^r HF(,EMAr, -r. HFGEWAN ' V 5 -p- ,ih. r l BFf kER Mini TQV.FR HEOFR Hi.’ /», -• RECK? R ■( ’ 1 Coffer said EOP was a program in name only when he en tered the program in 1971. There were some EOP counselors then. Coffer said, but be received most help from some experienced EOP students who recruited him for EOP after he served in the military. Coffer said he has been able to watch changes in the com munity and the program during his five years in EOP. For example, he said he does not see the unfair stereotyping of EOP students that formerly existed since the University's colleges have started working with EOP. Professors once thought EOP students were dumb, he said, adding that an EOP student had to work harder than other students to avoid stereotyping. Coffer said he is glad to see that EOP now involves blacks, whites and other minorities because the program was about 99 per cent black in 1971. One new service that pleases Coffer is the freshman Developmental Year program. He said the DY remedial courses do for students what he would like to have had his first year. DY gives EOP students the cushion they need before getting slarted, he said. In addilion, DY allows students to adjust and determine l heir weak and strong academic areas, he said. No remedial courses were offered when he entered the University. Coffer said, so he had to lake additional courses to si rengt hen his deficient areas. Cufler said the constant changes in EOP staffing has helped forward to ext term! /ifsYsra iff/// PRICE is3o9 (if pi rely s■' -505, lAN 81 D44r 89 >S\\ Mi 95 \ r -tf r utM-rt ‘V rrv.i 11' 65 r, ’'l i u.' 65 Basement McAllister Building 863-0205 rod=i 20(TE. COLLEGE AVENUE Wes Has: iwest Prices in Town /etime Warranty on Systems ofessional SAC Consultants \e Only Authorized Warranty vice in State College ITY-SERVICE - VALUE ,/ total retail value $4397 LISTEN SOFT! SAVE BIG! STEREO HEADPHONES^-^^ SE-205 $25 $18.75 SE-305 38 26.25 SE-500 50 37.50 , EOP students say in getting the best qualified staff to fulfill EOP student needs. Another EOP student, Gregory Borichevsky tilth-mining engineering) also said the EOP program has improved despite constant repositioning of staff members. He said the staff has done a successful job though new people unfamiliar with EOP operations coming in every year can hamper a program. Borichevsky said he entered EOP in 1971 when the University suggested he apply through EOP special ad missions after his initial application was reiected. Like Coffer, Borichevsky said the DY courses give students an introduction to college. EOP kept close watch on students through counseling and tutoring when he entered the program, but only offereda short orientation for new students, he said. One problem Borichevsky had to face himself is getting inancial aid, he said. EOP can counsel on how to get aid, Borichevsky said, but he lad to find out his eligibility for various aid through the HUM) , ft] 1 Now these and all other Kudu and CII records are On Sale ALL WEEK! .. . $ 4 29 T h^MLRILHS The Daily Collegian Wednesday. November 12, 1975 student aid office Although older EOP students think the DY courses c,an be beneficial, some newer EOP students think differently. Sharon Johnson (lst-liberal arts) said she likes the EOP program as a whole but would like to get out of her DY courses except for the speech course. Johnson said she thinks she could have entered University accredited courses after a two-week refresher program. She found out about EOP through an Upward Bound pro gram at Uniontown High School, she said. Another student said she was put into DY courses last Fall and Winter Term even though she had taken academic courses in high school and was prepared for college. The fourth term student said she felt she was put in the DY reading course to fill a quota. The EOP counselors can be very beneficial to students who need someone to listen, she said, but she did not like the DY instructor's attitudes. She said the instructors underestimated the abilities of the students in the remedial classes BUT... EVERYTHING IN THE
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