University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 25, 1991
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Recruitment process brings Hispanic 8th-graders to KU
Program designed to lower number of high school dropouts
By Lara Gold
By Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
Marsiol Romero thinks bringing Hispanic junior high school students to KU is an important part of the minority recruitment process.
"They need to get a feel for university life," said Romero. Topeka freshman and Hispanic American Leadership Organization member. "It gives them an incentive to get through high school."
Romero, along with other HALO members, the office of minority affairs, the office of educational services and the office of admissions brought 43 Hispanic eighth-graders from junior high schools in the Kansas City area to the University of Kansas yesterday as part of a Hispanic-American recruitment program.
Loue Lopez, HALO president, said that targeting junior high school students encouraged them to stay in school. Their grade levels so they could go to college.
He said that exposing eight-graders to university life and to positive Hispanic role models would give students a chance to stay in high school and go to college.
"The statistics are up there and against us, but we can change that," he said.
Eladio Valdez, an employee of the office of admissions, said that many of the eighth-graders did not want to go home because they liked the interaction with KU students.
KU students from various professional schools spoke to the eighth-graders about subjects such as medicine, law, journalism and education.
Valdez told the students that they could succeed at whatever they wished.
"The program was one way we
thought to curb the drop rate." he said.
He said the skits that HALO members performed helped break negative labels that guidance counselors use on Hispanic-American students.
He said that the program showed the eighth-graders that college life should not be feared and that many Americans were succeeding at KU.
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