Bowling Green State University - Key Yearbook (Bowling Green, OH)

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About 90010 of the Upward Bound students come from a non-farm in- come level of 34,800 or a farm income level of S4,000 or less. These students are also considered academic risks. The program is 80070 federally funded. The rest of the aid comes directly from the University in the form of services. As explained above, students about to enter their junior year of high school are in the first phase of the program. They are academically supplemented with high school-type curriculum for a seven-week period during the sum- mer. These students return the follow- ing summer between their junior and senior year for a similar seven-week period. This completes the Upward Bound part of the program. The next phase of the project is known as the Bridge Program. Stu- dents in the Bridge are graduates of Upward Bound and also newly graduated from high school-ready for college. These students attend the University for ten weeks in the summer. They study biology, mathematics, English and speech. Upon successful com- pletion of this program, they enter as freshmen in the fall. When entering as freshmen, they assume the same status as a normal freshman. They enter into classes with those students who have grad- uated in the top third of their high school class. They must enter into competition with the entire freshman class. Is this right? Are these academically deprived students ready for this? Can they, after being sheltered in their own group, compete in the main- stream?- Franklyn jackson feels they should not. He knows from experience what the struggle is all about. It took him six years to complete a four year college course. He now holds a masters degree and is working on his Ph.D. jackson is the director of the newly- created Student Development Pro- gram. He works primarily with these disadvantaged students, supplement- ing their education with counseling and tutoring. The biggest problem, according to jackson, is not getting these kids into school, but keeping them there. They need guidance in adjustment to all areas of college life . . . not just the academic segment. The Student Develop ment Center tries to meet these problems and solve them. Tutors are available in all academic areas. There is also special counseling available to students with social or emotional problems triggered by poverty or their minority status. A program like Upward Bound can only be as successful as the people who participate in it. If only a frac- tion ofthe students do make it through school, then the success becomes personal for them, but not for the project as a whole. The figures show that the project has not been a complete success. There are many questions yet to be answered and many problems yet to be solved. Only a fraction of the students who begin in the program actually finish all four years of college. The Student Development Program is a proposed solution. Whether or not it is successful does not so much depend on general improvements of the program on a broad scale, but rather success in meeting the individual challenge presented by each of the students it is trying to help. Most important, the drive mustcome from within each individual student, with outside help as a supplement rather than a substitute.

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STORY BY CATHY PRATT I'IIJ UN IDI. YHUIJSE IT'S ICE IDLACE VISIT VCU UIJLD 9 WAN LI EIQE ,ha--f N . . . of course, you happen to be both talented very dedicated to the theatre, because Huron house demands an excessive amount of each. The season stretches from late June to late August with no Three shows are in rehearsal or production simultaneously day doesn't fold after a couple of hours of rehearsal or scene changes. lt goes from 8:30 in the morning to l night. The Huron Playhouse is directly affiliated with the BGSU department. All equipment used at Huron is ofa portable and must be transported to Huron and back to BG at the end in late August. The playhouse operates in the Jr. High School occupying land paying rent fort the g auditorium, several classrooms, cafeteria area, and a area. Huron was chosen as a site for the playhouse its location in the Lake Erie resort area. lts 22-year makes it the oldest continuing playhouse in Ohio. The Huron Playhouse company consists of 29 students, all of act as well as do technical and crew work. About o from Bowling Green. The remainder are a diversified from across the country. Among the Bowling Green the Huron Company are Julie Spitzer, Bob Arnold, and Bianchi all of whom appeared in various BG productions year. Another of the company competed in the l97O Miss contest at Cedar Point, and one of the actresses in the has appeared on television in commercials, a TV movie segment of Hawaii 5-0. Each member of the company receives not only acting 1 but a total theatre experience. lnvaluable first-hand of every aspect of theatre production is gained. As is in the program for one of the productions The members of the Huron Playhouse Company do more ACT in our weekly productions. The Company members struct, paint and assemble the sets, sew the costumes, and change the properties used in each scene,'run the and sound cues for each scene, when necessary, shift between the scenes. They strike the set after the final mance of each production. Tonight's leading lady may curtain for next week's production. The Company me the Playhouse Office, too. They answer the tele' tickets, type and address all the publicityand program ments that you receive in the mail. Included in this total theatre experience concept is not on-stage and back-stage time of the company but almost time of the company from the moment they arrive at 29 students live with the staff members in four cottages lake-dormitory-like fashion. They eat together in a c mosphere. And between acting and crew work, the Cor helps out in the kitchen or the offices on a part-time basis to defray the cost of their room and board. Rough you think? Well, you're right, it's certainly not an easy way to