La Voz de Aztlan, December 15 1969
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La Voz de Aztlan, December 15 1969
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FRESNO STATE COLLEGE , FRESNO, CALIFORNIA
Daily
Collegian
LXXV /62
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1969
LAVOZD~
LAN
An Open Letter To Walker
Dear Phil:
Yesterday, December 10, I recei ved several calls from Chicanos present at a luncheon in
which yourself, the acting president, and other faculty of Fresno
State College were featured
speake rs . To my surprise, because I had not been informed,
the topic was La Raza Studies at
Fresno State College. It appeared
somewhat un-professional that a
program of the college be discussed publicly without any of the
members of the staff of the program being present or informed.
Nevertheless, that oversight on
your par t does not bother me, or
other members of the staff! have
consulted with, as much as the
fac t that several of the statements reported there seemed to
be gross misrepresentations and
deviously misleading. Unfortunately, I have no access to a recording or steno copy of those
statements, but I will try to answer some of those statements,
as reported to me by Chicanos
present at the luncheon.
Inaccurate statement No. 1.
•La Raza Studies touches only
25 percent of all Chicanos on
campus , 75 percent are being
turned off.,,
·
I have no idea as to the source
of these statistics, but they seem
to be in con f 1 i c t with official
school data. Action report No. 5
of F. S, C. Institutional Studies reports on the Wish Card Analysis
for Fall 1969, gives La Raza
Studies 58,33 percent of students'
Wishes granted. That figure is
wen above the 51.67 percent figure for the School of Arts and
Sciences average, and above the
all college average of 57.8 percent . Incidentally,_ the figure for
Speech r 1 rts is only 60.20 percent, only 1.87 percentage points
over the figure for La Raza
Studies,
If you consider the fact that
Fall 1969 is the first semester
of the program, that the listing
of La Raza courses was not on
the new catalog and it did not become available until the week of
registration, and, furthermore,
that a degree program has not
been instituted as yet, my guess
is that the wish card analysis
reflects only a small portion of
the success of the program.
I would like to hear your answer to those figures, Phil.
Inaccurate statement No. 2.
"We are concerned about what
is being taught, we are afraid
they are teaching revolution.•
Phil, apart from the fact that
the statement casts a shadow of
distrust and questions the honesty of the staff, it seems to me
that it speaks more for the fear
of the person making the statement than any analysis of the
program.
In the first place, the only way
you, or anybody else, has of
knowing what is taught in La Raza
Studies is to read the course descriptions, check the reading
lists for the courses and on reserve at the library, talk to some
of the students taking the courses, and, if not afraid to, attend
some of our classes. You will be
surprised to find out we are
teaching what we said we were
going to.
On the other hand, we are, as
a matter of fact, teaching revolution. we are teaching that it
will take a social revolution to
kill the myth of superiority fostered by your people, and the
myth of inferiority in which the
educational system has tried to
straitjacket the Chicano for 120
years. We are teaching about
Cesar Chavez and the Farm
Workers Union, about Reies Tijerina and the Alianza, Corky
Gonzalez and the Crusade for
J ustice, M.A.P.A.M A,M,A.E.,
C.S.O., L.U.L.A.C., the Brown
Berets, and many other things
that are the institutions of the
Chicano community to protect
themselves against exploitation,
discrimination, and cultural genocide.
More than that , Phil, we are
trying to compensate for the miseducation and lack of education
that Institutions of Elementary
and Secondary education have inflicted on the Chicano, while
boasting of millions of dollars
spent on compensatory, migrant,
and other educational programs.
Furthermore, we on the stat!
have to spend hours sensitizing
faculty, administration, and students to the fact of cultural and
ethnic pluralism, and to the reasons why anglo-oriented education is detrimental and destructive to the spiritual, psychologjcal, social, political, artistic and
economic well being ot the Chicano.
We are against the Chicano being a victim.
Inaccurate statement No. 3.
"They are getting tno many POsitions, it is unfair to other departments.•
This one would make us laugh,
if it was not a sad commentary
on the sickness of higher education in the U.S.
In an area in which 35 percent
of the population is Chicano, only
4.5 percent of the students at
Fresno State College have Spanish surnames, and an even lower
number of facuity and staff. At
the decision making level within
the institution no one represents
3 5 percent of the population in
the service area, and only one
person out of fourteen in the College Advisory Board. Enough of
the numbers game.
Ta.ld.ng into account the demographic composition of the service area, let's take a look at the
academic service areas of our
institution. How many positions
are allocated to the School of
Agriculture that has for years
helped to build Agribusiness in
the Valley? At the same time,
which department has tried to
develop somethlng to help build
farm labor?
How many positions go to train
people in Education, Law Enrorcement, Business and Public
Administration, Jou r n a 1 ism,
Health Science, Home Economics, Industrial Arts, and scores
of other fields, without - to our
knowledge - teaching Chicanos
about how to cope with those institutions and with the negatl ve
and damaging effects they have
in the Chicano community.
How many po s i ti on s do you
think we might need merely to
make up the deficiencies and
gaps the institution has left in
educating and servicing 35 percent of the population within the
service area in the years since
1911 when Fresno NormalSchool
was established?
Look at our staff Phil, and
then reconsider whether we are
overstaffed or understaffed. We
must teach Chicano Theatre because the Theatre Arts Department won't recognize that here
in Fresno we have a nationally
and internationally acclaimed expert on Chicano Theatre. We
must teach Chicano Literature
because Literati! don't even know
it exists. We must teach about
Chicanos in Education because
Educators have not found out yet
the Chicano e xists. We must
teach about Chicanos and the Political and Governmental Institutions because the Scientists don't
have enough data, yet. And much
more.
How much more do we have to
teach Phil, before you will accept
the fact that we are not overstaffed?
Inaccurate statement No. 4.
•La Raza Studies rejected a
proposal for community evaluation of the Program.• (!or proposed evaulatlon of Ethnic Studies
Program, see page 4.)
This one, Phil, I find personally offensive.
At a meeting of the Deans
Council and Kitchen Cabinet, last
July , we proposed the formation
of a Council on Minority Education composed of minority faculty, administrative staff, students
and COMMUNITY. The purpose
of that council would be similar
to that of the Graduate Council,
and would be charged with the
evaluation of Living-Learning
Project, Educational Opportunity
Program, Ethnic Studies, and
ALL programs, departments, and
services of the college in so far
as they DID or DID NOT function
to the benefit of minority students
at Fresno State College. Upon returning from Europe, President
Ness endorsed the idea, but we
have not heard whether the acting
administration is ready to allow
the community, both intra - and
extra-mural', to examine, evaluate, and r ecommendforthewhole
institution. No minority person is
incl uded in the Ad Hoc Committee
on reorganization.
In our Draft Propesal of Jlllle
1969, we called !or a CollegeCommunity Relations Component
which would be charged with developing Urban St u di e and
Rural-Action Laboratories, run
jointly in partnership by the center and the community, and with
a community board of consultants
that wm advise in all of the programs developed (p 18-19).Since
then, members of our staff have
been in preliminary discussion
with the departments of Urban
and Regional Planning, Home Economics, Political Science, Business, and with the Schools of
Social Welfare and Education trying to find ways in which the resources of the college might become available to the community.
Members of the staff and students have engaged in conversations with people from Health,
Education and Welfare, National
Institute of Mental Health, California Rural Development Corporation, Urban Coalition, Urban
Corp., California Rural Legal
Assistance, N.A.A.C.P. Legal
Defense and Education Fund, Universidad Autonoma de Mejico,
Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (C.I.D.O,C.), Southwestern Regional Education Laboratory, Southwestern Council on
Bilingual Education, and many
other agencies and institutions
seeking availabilities ofresources for program development.
Members of the staff and students have consulted with and for
the Western Interstate Commission in Higher Education (W.I.C.
H.E.) , Chicano Council on Higher
Education (C.C.H.E.), Association of Mexican American Education (A.M.A.E.), Outreach Program of the University of California at Santa Cruz, California
Central Action Associates, Economic Opportunity Commission,
Head Start, etc., further exploring which kinds of programs
would be of short and long range
bgnefit to the community.
Members of the staff and students have consulted and worked
with M.A.P.A., C,S,O., C,E.P.,
Junior College and High School
students and faculty, Parent Advisory Councils, Advisory Councils to E.S.E.A., Campesinos,
Brown Berets, etc., trying to ftnd
out ways in which the program
can be made relevant to the commun•ty.
Parents, agency people, students, interested people from the
community have attended classes
and cuitural events, open houses
at Baker Hall, meetings, and other programs. In our formal proposal for an M.A. in La Raza
Studies we ask for each student
to have a Program Committee
which would include a membe;
of the community, something no
other program in this college is
calling for or allows.
How can you say that we rejected community evaluation ot
the program? Maybeyouintended
to say that we might have n:1jected your propesal foraPresidential Blue Ribb on Ci tizen's
(Continu ed on Page 2, Col. 5)
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday,,pecember 15, 1969
Editorial
Having presented in many ways the situation of ethnic minority life'
in the United States the staff of the Chicano special edition feels that
the newspaper is ready to go into a transitional phase. Communication through the paper has begun by means of representative readership on the part of the student body.
The early editions were hard for the majority of the student body
to relate to and understand; now they understand our daily plight.
La Raza students were able to polarize themselves into a working
unit which has grouped together to help all its people.
To solve all the problems facing Fresno State would be a dream
come true, but by working together and communicating all students
could claim and cherish the rewards of true brotherhood.
The special editions were the opening of a new door towards understanding and now that the initial task of conveying awareness has
begun, it is time that all F .s.c. students contribute their thoughts,
questions, and hopes to the Chicano paper to begin that inneraction
which is imperative to that peace and freedom which is so highly
regarded by al I men.
Send all letters and articles to Chicano Editor care of The Daily
Collegian office.
Berryhill Makes
Another Racist Statement
Assemblyman Clare Berryhill
of Ceres just cannot keep his true
feelings from showing through.
After the highly publicized eggthrowing incident he managed to
convince some people that he had
been misquoted, was in fact innocent, and indicated that though
mistakes are made, it wouldn't
happen again.
It happened again! In a recent
issue o! the Fresno Guide,
Berryhill is again talking about
Chicanos, and this time he comes
out with a real gem - education
is a way we can solve these
problems. People can then become parts of our society, Berryhill said.
This appeared in a Fresno
newspaper! It is in reference to
Chicanos and is an abvious statement o: the fact he doesn't belie\ e Mexicans are, as he puts it,
•part or our society". Students
of Fresno State College, that is a
form of the institutional racism
we speak of, but no one seems to
understand.
This man is obviously antiChicano and yet he is on a state
agriculture committee that will
determine the future of most
farmworkers; Chlcanos are the
majority in the fields.
Students al Fresno State College who believe in brotherhood
ask what they can do to help
solve problems. Berryhill is a
threat to good will among the
races and it seems logical that
the only true act of justice in his
case is to remove him from any
decision making positions. We
should work together to keep him
from getting re-elected. A benign
cancerous growth is removed before it becomes malignant and in
like fashion individuals who only
widen the gaps created by prejudice and mis understand i n gshould be removed so that true
harmony. among all people may
someday be a reality.
Vietnam's Relevance
To Human Students
Today everyone is aware of
Vietnam and its problems, but
I'm writing of its relevance to
Mexicans and also to you as human beings.
While asking foreign students
how they feel about U.S. foreign
intervention I've observed that
most of them state their opinions
objectively. Yet there is an airing of the idea that at times they
could undoubtedly receive better
treatment at the hands of the
devil. Why doesn't the U.S. let
those foreign countries work out
the best type of government !or
their countries, even if it is
communism?
Checking over the list of recipients of the Medal of Honor
we see that Mexicans are the
majority as an ethnic group, and
in addition make up 50 per cent
of the casualty list from the
Valley. Those who don't return
aren't missed but sometimes pitied and that has never alleviated
their misfortune. Those who
come back are sometimes admired but they can't live on admiration. It's true, some of these
heroes escape returning to
scratching out a meager living,
but their parents and family will
continue to be used as a cheap
source o! labor. This is so because there are still people who
believe that Mexicans, descendants of Indians, are born to be
beasts of burden.
Now I '11 write about the most
common aspect of the issue to all
of us. The government has attempted to decide for us that the
state is of more value than the
continuance of my life. Sorry, but
for obvious reasons I can't accept
that thought trend. Now I picture
myself in Viet Nam. Praying.
Yes, praying, but what for? Praying so that God will help me kill
someone before he kills me. The
most good l can see in Viet Nam
is God acting as a devil adminis-
tering punishment. And He is almost too late since he missed the
slaughter of the Indians.
Now taking another example:
Stand a Vietnamese comm unlst in
front of me here in Fresno,
should I kill him? No, not only
because there are laws that protect him, but because my conscience wouldn't allow me to kill
another human being. Now I picture myself in Viet Nam in the
same situation, resulting from a
one-year all-expense paid retreat sponsored by Uncle Sam,
should I kill him there?Wellnow,
he's not on my soil; he's attempting to determine his own destiny
on his own soil; (it certainly is
more his than ours) and isn't he
a fellow peasant? I have pictured
these situations knowing that we
have continually kept in mind that
he is a human being.
Now I feel obligated to ask how
the government justifies ordering
me to hate and kill designated
factions of Vietnamese, Supposing I could hate a single Vietnamese of those designated, I
certainly could not hate them all;
yet I would be instructed to hate
and kill all members of that designated group. What I'm saying is
that I could dislike an individual,
but I couldn't dislike a whole
group or nation, especially for a
difference in beliefs.
In addition I would like to propose some questions.Isn't it time
for us as F .S.C. students to set
our own standards to live by and
not continue to remain silent and
subservient to those of the government? While thinking about
this I have kept in mind the idea
that any state's capacity to govern is subservient to the will of
those being governed. Only the
indi victual can subordinate his
will to some artificial order.
It's time to act on your own
conscience and beliefs because
life won't get sweeter.
Reymundo Gamboa
White Prejudice
On Television
Mexican-American leaders, at
press conferences here and in
Washington, D.C., yesterday
called on the major TV networks
to take "Frito Bandito" and other
commercials depicting Chicanos
as •inferior, crummy, bandittypes" off the air.
If they don't, warned officials
of the National Mexican-American Anti-Defamation Committee,
the Federal Communications
Commission will be asked to
force the networks to supply "free
time" to counter "such racist
commercials."
"The day is past when you put
the Negro on TV eating a watermelon," but now the Chicano is
variously stereotyped as •thieving, sneaking, short, fat, lazy and
not to be trusted," Armando Rodriquez, national committee chairman and an official of the U.S.
an ce of El::lucation, told nawsm en.
•Frito Bandito," the plump,
mustachioed
cartoon bandit
whose antics promote the sales
of a well-known corn chip, is
"probably the most subtle and insidious• 1 of these commercials
said Rodriguez.
'
Rodriguez and Thomas Martinez, a Stanford University pro-
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fessor, announced at the conference that KNBE-TV of Los
Angeles has already dropped the
"Bandito" commercial.
The nlltional committee, they
said, had been unable to convince
the Frito-Lay Company of Dallas,
Texas, to withdraw the •Frito
Bandito" commercials in private
talks with company officials.
The company produced a survey of attitudes or MexicanAmericans in several major
cities and reported only a small
percentage found the commercial
objectionable, said Martinez.
However, the Stanford sociologist said he questioned the company's "sampling and methodology."
A company official told the
Chronicle from Dallas: "We!re
certainly
not ignoring their
appeal" and said the situation is
"'constantly under review. We
just haven't had a chance to get
back to them.•
Arch West, Frito-Lay executive vice president, said repeated "standard marketing research"
polls of
MexicanAmericans found an "overwhelmingly favorable reaction" to the
chubby bandito corn mercials.
The firm, he said, chose the
character as a "tongue-in-cheek
Mexican version of Robin Hood,•
because he seemed "funny and
enjoyable."
If surveys had found "frito
Bandito" appealed to a "negative
stereotype" of Mexican-Americans, he said, the company would
never have put him on the air.
Insults Do Not
Go Unnoticed
In case of insult, which party
has the initial right of manifesting
anger or discontent? Is it the insulting, or the insulted party;
The case in point is the Berryhill
incident. In a speech presented at
Stockton, he made remarks that
were construed as defamatory to
the Mexican population.
Paraphrasing
the speech,
Assemblyman Berryhill feels
that the cultural level of farm
laborers will never be raised because all they want to do is go
home and eat their tacos. Does
this constitute an insult'; Yes, I
think it does. The insult can be
shrugged off as Anglo crudeness
and lack of taste; it can be thought
of as another majority versus
minority jab, or it can be
answered. In this instance it was
answered by Fresno State students.
The question now is, was it an
appropriate response to the insult? Was the response equated to
the cause?
Asemblyman Berryhill speaks
of farm laborers and implies a
lack of cultural and educational
motivation. He speaks of farm
labor, and we feel and think of our
fathers, mothers, brothers, sis-
ters and of our own youth which
was spent in the fields.
In defense he says that he was
quoted out of context and that he
has a high respect and admiration
for our Mexican culture. It does,
however. seem unlikely that anyone that respectful and admiring
could make such a callous statement.
President Falk has stated. in a
past edition of the Daily Collegian, that he would concern
himself with 90 per cent of the
students and their problems. Now
that the Berryhill response has
overlapped into the •go per cent
of concern," he has taken the
appropriate action, apologizing to
Mr. Berryhill and condemning
the students involved.
It would have been far more
appropriate for President Falk to
apologize to the Mexican community on this campus for Mr.
Berryhill's comments prior to
his speech.
It's been observed that under
majority rule the needs and desires of a minority are under a
constant threat of denial and obstruction. It would appear that
even the human response of justified anger is to be denied.
-----Carlos Rueda
Letter
To Walker
(Continued from Page 1)
Committee (memo of December
1, to Acting President Falk).
If your memory doesn't fail
you Phil, you must remember
that I thought it was a good idea
but questioned four points, ~
follows:
1. The process of selection
was arbitrary, because it doesn't
follow any established college
procedures for development of
Advisory Boards, making it an
Ad-Hoc (or Ad-Lib) structure.
Since the present administration is only an acting one, such
a committee would not have a
lasting institutional role. What
we need is a commitment by the
college as a whole to engage in
self-examination, and not a
staged public relations event.
2. I questioned one of the criteria for selection, namely the
one stipulating that members of
th_e committee should "hold at
least an A.A, degree~, because
that would leave out many members of the community who we
want involved with our program.
Maybe you don't.
3. I questioned whether other
departments in the school would
accept the committee if your suggestion for one of their tasks was
to be implemented. That was task
number two, • An evaluation of the
present Ethnic Studies faculty
with recommendations for the
establishment of criteria for
faculty evaluation and hiring. •
I remember saying to you, that
as far as we were concerned we
were willing to do so,
4. I questioned whether your
ti me allocation was sufficient.
Not even working full time, could
a committee do a good job by
January 15, 1970, your sugges tion for a preliminary report of
finding and recommendations.
Again, Phil, I remember clearly suggesting that you hold on to
the memorandum until the staff
and students could come up with
their recommendations which are
supposed to be presented to the
Presidential Ad Hoc Committee
to study the Re Organization of
the college by December 19, 1970.
I think I would question your
memory, at this point, and your
judgment. It is a misrepresentation to say that we rejected
"community evaluation" of the
program, I hope it is only your
memory that made you evaluate
my answer then as being a negative one.
Since I clearly stated to you
that I thought the best approach
would be to hold on to the proposal until we could study it and
make our recommendations,
since we had made a previous
proposal about the creation of a
Council on Minority Education,
and since the date for our appearance before the Ad Hoc Committee on Reorganization is still
a week away, I must question why
you chose to make public references to your memo without giving any of the background surrounding it.
When you speak to a group of
Chicanos in the community, and
you leave them with the impression that we are rejecting their
participation in the program, that
we are somehow getting the lion's
share of the resources of the college, that we are failing to teach
what we were supposed, or said,
to be teaching, and that we are
not trying to reach as many of
the students as we possibly can,
then I become concerned.
Phil, I hope my information is
wrong, and that you were misquoted. Enough tension and mistrust exists already at Fresno
State College, and we must find
some way to eliminate those. We
must find ways of doing more of
what we were hired to do, namely
educating students. I'd like to
hear from you.
Eliezer Risco-Lozada
Chairman, La Raza
Studies Program
Monday, December 15, 1969
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
3
Interview With Omar Salinas
omar salinas
Any Day Now
On a sk id row dance hall
On a puddle of coca cola
On a cloud
I exi st
Insom nia fo l l ows me through the street
l ike a woman
and t he nig ht oil slicked face talks
The shadows ••• lumps of cold stars drunk lay on the gutters
the shadows
and t he children with huge eyes, hungry, wandering,
offsp r ings of the wind, maternal odors, suspicious,
waiti ng ••.
por Jesus Rodriguez
There are many people who set
their sights on specific object! ves
in life, but few can follow through
With the actual realization of their
dreams. Fresnostatehasalimited number of accomplished individuals in its teaching or student
ranks.
Omar Sallnas has bridged the
chasm which separates student
and teacher into two different
worlds. He teaches expressive
writing which is a part of the La
Raza studies program and concerns itself with the art of
poetry writing. Omar also ls currently enrolled in regular academic courses.
At 29 he can point to many
accomplishments:
editor
of
Backwash, coordinator ror the
Educational Opportunities Program tutorial service, hi teach ing, and the completion of his first
book--Crazy Gypsy. The book, a
work o · poetry, should app ar on
the boo<stands in January.
Fresno State College has become a center or controversy in
many v. ays this semester each
person has formulated his own
opinion of the present stateofthe
campus With this in mind it
seemed that an interview with a
campus intellectual could concei vabl} shed some light on topics
of interest.
Omar Salinas does not consider
himself apart of the silent majority so it was with this in mind that
he shares his thoughts with the
rest of the student body.
Concerning Marvin X, Salinas
feels that the black studies professor was attacked •because of
his religious beliefs" and that
"the academic power structure is
not concerned with freedom of r~ligion CJS long as they have theirs.
Marvin X is relevant to his people
and he can be a great asset to
f.s.c., but is not being given a
chance,• Salinas added that,
•They take a man's bread from
his mouth when they feel he is a
threat, because he might expose
the falseness and hypocrisy of
their attitudes.
•The teaching profession faces
a crisis, to teach the truth and
be reprimanded or to teach hypocrisy and get rewarded," he
aid.
The addition of Dr. Karl Falk
to the administration has been a
controversial move since he
ousted two administratl ve llberals, Drs. Dale Burtner and Harold
Walker.
Salinas is concerned because
he views the sltuation in this way,
"Falk' s pres ence has dampened
the true spirit of education at this
campus.
•That being one where the students do not feel coerced , one in
which there is a climate of free
thinking, and one which respects
the student as an 1ndi vidual ln
this society.•
Turning to student unrest here
Salinas added , •F.S.C. has few
radicals ; they are just students
rallying for that relevant education which is ueing denied them.
After all there wouldn't even be
a college or an administration it
it wasn't for the students."
When asked about the silent
majority, Salinas answered with,
"Apathy and indifference give
food to those elem ents which profess hidden hypocrisy and it is
this attitude which gave rise to
Hitler."
Concerning the special Monday
editions of the Daily Collegian
and the proposed move to take
away their freedom of expression
and of the press, Salinas mentioned , "Getting rid of the special
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The moon sits on the corner of the room
with a white rose ••• I istening to nightingales
Darkness weaves a blanket
for the sky .•• that sits I ike a magician
mirror of night
and mist r ess of the earth
musician of the universe
I
On obscur e streets a taxi cab breathes the chill air
of autumn a baby smiles a mountain
and the gi rls of the neighborhood
giddy w ith new found breasts
chant rock songs
Sleep •.• n ightmare the tits of a honky tonk dancer
staring at the ceiling
•
laughing women ••• the ocean
I am fou r y ears old I want to go to Bolivia
Mermaids on the sides of my belly asking, "what's the name
of this cat?"
Good morn ing Mr. Edgar Allen Poe
Salinas is my name
everything has turned to orange leaves on trees
that remember the names of those dying .•. those dead
·I feel y ou mother earth ••• let your nipples
run through my intestines I ike a Beat woman
washing her brassier on a river of blood
while the milk of the village runs through my veins
editions would be a rational, relatl vely easy, way of getting rid
of the minorities--deny a man a
decent wage tor food for his wife
and children and you have in
ettect done away with him.•This
will undoubtably become of greater lmJX)rtance in the weeks to
come because of the minorities'
concern for their survival on this
campus.
When asked about his message
ln his forthcoming book, Salinas
said, •r am all ve, I want the
world to understand my being
alive in the whimsical fashion
ln which I ll ve under the terrible
conditions or our present oppressive society.
•rn the book I make a plea for
human justice in an unjust world.
it is how one Chicano sees the
stars, the mountains, the people
and how he endures--happy, unhappy-- said , and above all looked
upon as a Chicano, one of the many
who wasn't supposed to finish college and least of all a book."
Reflecting upon poetry in the
world today, saunas beUeves
"poetry is a union of the soul and
the heart, and the little trival
for this country and for its people. It is a pity that poets are not
liked here as much as they are
in other countries.•
Salinas is optimistic about the
future of Chicanos in this country.
"Chicanos are getting together
and doing thing, soon we will have
poets, novelists, authors and
prominent political figures that
wm be able to relate to La Raza
and vice versa.•
Projecting to communication
between the people of the world,
Salinas specualtes that •La Raza
which has been called La Raza
Cosmica (the Cosmic Race, because of our universal blood) by
Jose Vasconcellos (a famous
writer) will extend its basic philosophy of mi casa es tu casa(my
house is your house) to all mankind eventually joining all people
in the true spirit of brotherhood.•
FOR LUIS SALINAS,
POET OF LA RAZA
By Phi I Levine
Sinks whispering in the cold, pinbal I
machines that sweat,
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crying for help, the world is born
over and over in the bleeding
chemistry of your eyes. At dusk
the blue water rising from
the olive trees, it burns I ike an old scar
or a fresh tattoo. You say, Shit,
and wonder what it's good for
and why the trucks
never stop and a storm waits on the way
to anywhere.
The drive-ins are
shrouded in mist, the stars
coming apart, and nothing waits inside
the halos of sleep. Tonight
you're sober, Luis, in America
where no one can tel I, and y our earthen
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, December 15, 1969
Camales:
PrOposecl Evaluation
of Ethnic Studies
The staff of La, Raza Studies, Las Adelitas, and MECHA would like to
invite you to an Open House at our Live-Learn Experiment ( Baker Hall)
december 1, 1969
Thursday, December 18, at [2:00 High Noon.
To : Dr. Karl Falk
Acting President
Vamos a tener un Chicano bufe y refrescos.
From: Phillip Walker, Acting Dean
School of Arts and Sciences
Subject: Proposed Evaluation of Ethnic Studies Program
In this, the first Navidades of our program, we would like you to meet
the students and staff be[ore they go home to a well earned vacation.
It has become increasingly apparent in recent weeks that an extensive and impartial review and evaluation of the Ethnic Studies
-Program ls mandatory. Without such a review and evaluation, the
administrative offices of the college will be denied the informed "ll'l'NVliM'N._...MilW.,_,.IVW'V'IIMWV\NW"'al"a'\NW'V'IINW"W,iNW'll'V'INV\MW,.._MWV\NW'.MMrN'-"-'
judgment upon which should be based the crucial admlnistrati ve decisions concerning this program which must be made withing the next
two or three nonths.
hy Roberto Moralez Perez
It is proposed, therefore, that under the authority of the Acting
but heedPresident a blue ribbon cltizen•s committee be established for the
we have been dead
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purpose of making such a review and evaluation. tt is proposed that'
Basta Ya at 260 Valenica is a
before today.
this committee consist of 12 members, half of whom represent the
place
where it's possible to get
sun raysadult Mexican-American community of our service area and half the
a community-cooked meal for
thereforethey
are
no
more.
black community. Three representatives of the Mexican-American
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under $1.
now light will cease
prepare to head
community and three representatives of the black community should
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to
reach
our
shore.
for
a
new
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be appointed by Professors Keyes and Risco in consultation with the
~ owned and operated by Los Siete
Ethnic Studies faculty, with the identical privilege extended to the
ithe Brown Liberation Moveme nt'.
hut waitmorituri te salutamus
Acting President for the appointment of the remaining six members
!which was formed after seven
there is no lost,
morituri te salutamus.
of this committee. All members of the committee, in my opinion, · •
brothers were framed and
there was no peace;
should meet the following criteria:
ili1
charged with the killing of a
that I ight was false.
1. All should hold at least an AA degree or its equivalent in
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policeman in the Mission District
in collegiate experience.
last spring.
fiat justitia ruat caelum
2. All should be recognized leaders within their respective ethnic
Dinners at Basta Ya are served
fiat justitia ruat caelum.
groups.
from 5 p.m. on and cost less than
a$1. Only one main dish is offered
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3. None should be currently on the faculty of or enrolled in Fresno
• each day. The people in the comState College,
AGRINGADO
munity cook the food, No one is
todayby Roberto Moralez Perez
paid. Beer is sold for 25 cents,
we are looking
4. None should bave a son, daughter or guardian currently
and wine is 15 cents a glass.
for a new I ight;
enrolled in Fresno State College.
last nightThe hours of operation are
we are changing.
i arose above
from noon to midnight.
believe that the charge to this committee should include but not
the people,
•
Basta Ya is a total community
we willnecessarily be 11 mited to:
i arose above
thing.
No one who works there is
begin our task,
myself.
being paid.
commence our fight,
1. An evaluation of the present Ethnic Students Curriculum, with
Various programs are being
and use some tact.
recommendation for its future development.
was i dreaming
:.:" planned for the evenings. Thursor
:- , day nights have been set aside
fiat lux
2. An evaluation of the present Ethnic Studies faculty with rewas i dreaming,
; , for poetry reading.
fiat lux.
commendations for the establishment of criteria for raculty
Los Siete has set up a variety
evaluation and hiring.
i cal led for
of programs. There are tree
disciples but,
E-; breakfasts tor school children
3, An evaluation of and recommendations concerning the Livingno one came;
served every morning at 1249 AlLearning Project.
TH UGHTS OF A REVOLUTIONIST
it's strange.
~ • abama and 120 Julian. A monthly
lly Roberto Moralez Perez
~ newspaper ls being published and
4. A critical evaluation of the phHosophy underlying the Ethnic
was i dreaming
community health projects have
Studies Program.
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or
F I been established.
was i dreaming.
~ Volunteers and donations are
5. A recommendation concerning the possible establishment ofa
this earthi ~ needed. Call 285-3196 or MA 1permanent citizens presidential advisory committe for th
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Ethnic Studies Program and other matters r lated to ethnic
minorities in the Fresno State Coll ge academic community.
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It is finally recommended that (1) this committee be requested to
submit a preliminary report of findings and memorandum of recom- ill. • a human game.
was i dreaming
mendations by January 15 and a final report and memorandum by : ~
or
March 15, and that (2) no commitments for the J!l70-71 academic
memento mori
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Collegian
LXXV /62
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1969
LAVOZD~
LAN
An Open Letter To Walker
Dear Phil:
Yesterday, December 10, I recei ved several calls from Chicanos present at a luncheon in
which yourself, the acting president, and other faculty of Fresno
State College were featured
speake rs . To my surprise, because I had not been informed,
the topic was La Raza Studies at
Fresno State College. It appeared
somewhat un-professional that a
program of the college be discussed publicly without any of the
members of the staff of the program being present or informed.
Nevertheless, that oversight on
your par t does not bother me, or
other members of the staff! have
consulted with, as much as the
fac t that several of the statements reported there seemed to
be gross misrepresentations and
deviously misleading. Unfortunately, I have no access to a recording or steno copy of those
statements, but I will try to answer some of those statements,
as reported to me by Chicanos
present at the luncheon.
Inaccurate statement No. 1.
•La Raza Studies touches only
25 percent of all Chicanos on
campus , 75 percent are being
turned off.,,
·
I have no idea as to the source
of these statistics, but they seem
to be in con f 1 i c t with official
school data. Action report No. 5
of F. S, C. Institutional Studies reports on the Wish Card Analysis
for Fall 1969, gives La Raza
Studies 58,33 percent of students'
Wishes granted. That figure is
wen above the 51.67 percent figure for the School of Arts and
Sciences average, and above the
all college average of 57.8 percent . Incidentally,_ the figure for
Speech r 1 rts is only 60.20 percent, only 1.87 percentage points
over the figure for La Raza
Studies,
If you consider the fact that
Fall 1969 is the first semester
of the program, that the listing
of La Raza courses was not on
the new catalog and it did not become available until the week of
registration, and, furthermore,
that a degree program has not
been instituted as yet, my guess
is that the wish card analysis
reflects only a small portion of
the success of the program.
I would like to hear your answer to those figures, Phil.
Inaccurate statement No. 2.
"We are concerned about what
is being taught, we are afraid
they are teaching revolution.•
Phil, apart from the fact that
the statement casts a shadow of
distrust and questions the honesty of the staff, it seems to me
that it speaks more for the fear
of the person making the statement than any analysis of the
program.
In the first place, the only way
you, or anybody else, has of
knowing what is taught in La Raza
Studies is to read the course descriptions, check the reading
lists for the courses and on reserve at the library, talk to some
of the students taking the courses, and, if not afraid to, attend
some of our classes. You will be
surprised to find out we are
teaching what we said we were
going to.
On the other hand, we are, as
a matter of fact, teaching revolution. we are teaching that it
will take a social revolution to
kill the myth of superiority fostered by your people, and the
myth of inferiority in which the
educational system has tried to
straitjacket the Chicano for 120
years. We are teaching about
Cesar Chavez and the Farm
Workers Union, about Reies Tijerina and the Alianza, Corky
Gonzalez and the Crusade for
J ustice, M.A.P.A.M A,M,A.E.,
C.S.O., L.U.L.A.C., the Brown
Berets, and many other things
that are the institutions of the
Chicano community to protect
themselves against exploitation,
discrimination, and cultural genocide.
More than that , Phil, we are
trying to compensate for the miseducation and lack of education
that Institutions of Elementary
and Secondary education have inflicted on the Chicano, while
boasting of millions of dollars
spent on compensatory, migrant,
and other educational programs.
Furthermore, we on the stat!
have to spend hours sensitizing
faculty, administration, and students to the fact of cultural and
ethnic pluralism, and to the reasons why anglo-oriented education is detrimental and destructive to the spiritual, psychologjcal, social, political, artistic and
economic well being ot the Chicano.
We are against the Chicano being a victim.
Inaccurate statement No. 3.
"They are getting tno many POsitions, it is unfair to other departments.•
This one would make us laugh,
if it was not a sad commentary
on the sickness of higher education in the U.S.
In an area in which 35 percent
of the population is Chicano, only
4.5 percent of the students at
Fresno State College have Spanish surnames, and an even lower
number of facuity and staff. At
the decision making level within
the institution no one represents
3 5 percent of the population in
the service area, and only one
person out of fourteen in the College Advisory Board. Enough of
the numbers game.
Ta.ld.ng into account the demographic composition of the service area, let's take a look at the
academic service areas of our
institution. How many positions
are allocated to the School of
Agriculture that has for years
helped to build Agribusiness in
the Valley? At the same time,
which department has tried to
develop somethlng to help build
farm labor?
How many positions go to train
people in Education, Law Enrorcement, Business and Public
Administration, Jou r n a 1 ism,
Health Science, Home Economics, Industrial Arts, and scores
of other fields, without - to our
knowledge - teaching Chicanos
about how to cope with those institutions and with the negatl ve
and damaging effects they have
in the Chicano community.
How many po s i ti on s do you
think we might need merely to
make up the deficiencies and
gaps the institution has left in
educating and servicing 35 percent of the population within the
service area in the years since
1911 when Fresno NormalSchool
was established?
Look at our staff Phil, and
then reconsider whether we are
overstaffed or understaffed. We
must teach Chicano Theatre because the Theatre Arts Department won't recognize that here
in Fresno we have a nationally
and internationally acclaimed expert on Chicano Theatre. We
must teach Chicano Literature
because Literati! don't even know
it exists. We must teach about
Chicanos in Education because
Educators have not found out yet
the Chicano e xists. We must
teach about Chicanos and the Political and Governmental Institutions because the Scientists don't
have enough data, yet. And much
more.
How much more do we have to
teach Phil, before you will accept
the fact that we are not overstaffed?
Inaccurate statement No. 4.
•La Raza Studies rejected a
proposal for community evaluation of the Program.• (!or proposed evaulatlon of Ethnic Studies
Program, see page 4.)
This one, Phil, I find personally offensive.
At a meeting of the Deans
Council and Kitchen Cabinet, last
July , we proposed the formation
of a Council on Minority Education composed of minority faculty, administrative staff, students
and COMMUNITY. The purpose
of that council would be similar
to that of the Graduate Council,
and would be charged with the
evaluation of Living-Learning
Project, Educational Opportunity
Program, Ethnic Studies, and
ALL programs, departments, and
services of the college in so far
as they DID or DID NOT function
to the benefit of minority students
at Fresno State College. Upon returning from Europe, President
Ness endorsed the idea, but we
have not heard whether the acting
administration is ready to allow
the community, both intra - and
extra-mural', to examine, evaluate, and r ecommendforthewhole
institution. No minority person is
incl uded in the Ad Hoc Committee
on reorganization.
In our Draft Propesal of Jlllle
1969, we called !or a CollegeCommunity Relations Component
which would be charged with developing Urban St u di e and
Rural-Action Laboratories, run
jointly in partnership by the center and the community, and with
a community board of consultants
that wm advise in all of the programs developed (p 18-19).Since
then, members of our staff have
been in preliminary discussion
with the departments of Urban
and Regional Planning, Home Economics, Political Science, Business, and with the Schools of
Social Welfare and Education trying to find ways in which the resources of the college might become available to the community.
Members of the staff and students have engaged in conversations with people from Health,
Education and Welfare, National
Institute of Mental Health, California Rural Development Corporation, Urban Coalition, Urban
Corp., California Rural Legal
Assistance, N.A.A.C.P. Legal
Defense and Education Fund, Universidad Autonoma de Mejico,
Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (C.I.D.O,C.), Southwestern Regional Education Laboratory, Southwestern Council on
Bilingual Education, and many
other agencies and institutions
seeking availabilities ofresources for program development.
Members of the staff and students have consulted with and for
the Western Interstate Commission in Higher Education (W.I.C.
H.E.) , Chicano Council on Higher
Education (C.C.H.E.), Association of Mexican American Education (A.M.A.E.), Outreach Program of the University of California at Santa Cruz, California
Central Action Associates, Economic Opportunity Commission,
Head Start, etc., further exploring which kinds of programs
would be of short and long range
bgnefit to the community.
Members of the staff and students have consulted and worked
with M.A.P.A., C,S,O., C,E.P.,
Junior College and High School
students and faculty, Parent Advisory Councils, Advisory Councils to E.S.E.A., Campesinos,
Brown Berets, etc., trying to ftnd
out ways in which the program
can be made relevant to the commun•ty.
Parents, agency people, students, interested people from the
community have attended classes
and cuitural events, open houses
at Baker Hall, meetings, and other programs. In our formal proposal for an M.A. in La Raza
Studies we ask for each student
to have a Program Committee
which would include a membe;
of the community, something no
other program in this college is
calling for or allows.
How can you say that we rejected community evaluation ot
the program? Maybeyouintended
to say that we might have n:1jected your propesal foraPresidential Blue Ribb on Ci tizen's
(Continu ed on Page 2, Col. 5)
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday,,pecember 15, 1969
Editorial
Having presented in many ways the situation of ethnic minority life'
in the United States the staff of the Chicano special edition feels that
the newspaper is ready to go into a transitional phase. Communication through the paper has begun by means of representative readership on the part of the student body.
The early editions were hard for the majority of the student body
to relate to and understand; now they understand our daily plight.
La Raza students were able to polarize themselves into a working
unit which has grouped together to help all its people.
To solve all the problems facing Fresno State would be a dream
come true, but by working together and communicating all students
could claim and cherish the rewards of true brotherhood.
The special editions were the opening of a new door towards understanding and now that the initial task of conveying awareness has
begun, it is time that all F .s.c. students contribute their thoughts,
questions, and hopes to the Chicano paper to begin that inneraction
which is imperative to that peace and freedom which is so highly
regarded by al I men.
Send all letters and articles to Chicano Editor care of The Daily
Collegian office.
Berryhill Makes
Another Racist Statement
Assemblyman Clare Berryhill
of Ceres just cannot keep his true
feelings from showing through.
After the highly publicized eggthrowing incident he managed to
convince some people that he had
been misquoted, was in fact innocent, and indicated that though
mistakes are made, it wouldn't
happen again.
It happened again! In a recent
issue o! the Fresno Guide,
Berryhill is again talking about
Chicanos, and this time he comes
out with a real gem - education
is a way we can solve these
problems. People can then become parts of our society, Berryhill said.
This appeared in a Fresno
newspaper! It is in reference to
Chicanos and is an abvious statement o: the fact he doesn't belie\ e Mexicans are, as he puts it,
•part or our society". Students
of Fresno State College, that is a
form of the institutional racism
we speak of, but no one seems to
understand.
This man is obviously antiChicano and yet he is on a state
agriculture committee that will
determine the future of most
farmworkers; Chlcanos are the
majority in the fields.
Students al Fresno State College who believe in brotherhood
ask what they can do to help
solve problems. Berryhill is a
threat to good will among the
races and it seems logical that
the only true act of justice in his
case is to remove him from any
decision making positions. We
should work together to keep him
from getting re-elected. A benign
cancerous growth is removed before it becomes malignant and in
like fashion individuals who only
widen the gaps created by prejudice and mis understand i n gshould be removed so that true
harmony. among all people may
someday be a reality.
Vietnam's Relevance
To Human Students
Today everyone is aware of
Vietnam and its problems, but
I'm writing of its relevance to
Mexicans and also to you as human beings.
While asking foreign students
how they feel about U.S. foreign
intervention I've observed that
most of them state their opinions
objectively. Yet there is an airing of the idea that at times they
could undoubtedly receive better
treatment at the hands of the
devil. Why doesn't the U.S. let
those foreign countries work out
the best type of government !or
their countries, even if it is
communism?
Checking over the list of recipients of the Medal of Honor
we see that Mexicans are the
majority as an ethnic group, and
in addition make up 50 per cent
of the casualty list from the
Valley. Those who don't return
aren't missed but sometimes pitied and that has never alleviated
their misfortune. Those who
come back are sometimes admired but they can't live on admiration. It's true, some of these
heroes escape returning to
scratching out a meager living,
but their parents and family will
continue to be used as a cheap
source o! labor. This is so because there are still people who
believe that Mexicans, descendants of Indians, are born to be
beasts of burden.
Now I '11 write about the most
common aspect of the issue to all
of us. The government has attempted to decide for us that the
state is of more value than the
continuance of my life. Sorry, but
for obvious reasons I can't accept
that thought trend. Now I picture
myself in Viet Nam. Praying.
Yes, praying, but what for? Praying so that God will help me kill
someone before he kills me. The
most good l can see in Viet Nam
is God acting as a devil adminis-
tering punishment. And He is almost too late since he missed the
slaughter of the Indians.
Now taking another example:
Stand a Vietnamese comm unlst in
front of me here in Fresno,
should I kill him? No, not only
because there are laws that protect him, but because my conscience wouldn't allow me to kill
another human being. Now I picture myself in Viet Nam in the
same situation, resulting from a
one-year all-expense paid retreat sponsored by Uncle Sam,
should I kill him there?Wellnow,
he's not on my soil; he's attempting to determine his own destiny
on his own soil; (it certainly is
more his than ours) and isn't he
a fellow peasant? I have pictured
these situations knowing that we
have continually kept in mind that
he is a human being.
Now I feel obligated to ask how
the government justifies ordering
me to hate and kill designated
factions of Vietnamese, Supposing I could hate a single Vietnamese of those designated, I
certainly could not hate them all;
yet I would be instructed to hate
and kill all members of that designated group. What I'm saying is
that I could dislike an individual,
but I couldn't dislike a whole
group or nation, especially for a
difference in beliefs.
In addition I would like to propose some questions.Isn't it time
for us as F .S.C. students to set
our own standards to live by and
not continue to remain silent and
subservient to those of the government? While thinking about
this I have kept in mind the idea
that any state's capacity to govern is subservient to the will of
those being governed. Only the
indi victual can subordinate his
will to some artificial order.
It's time to act on your own
conscience and beliefs because
life won't get sweeter.
Reymundo Gamboa
White Prejudice
On Television
Mexican-American leaders, at
press conferences here and in
Washington, D.C., yesterday
called on the major TV networks
to take "Frito Bandito" and other
commercials depicting Chicanos
as •inferior, crummy, bandittypes" off the air.
If they don't, warned officials
of the National Mexican-American Anti-Defamation Committee,
the Federal Communications
Commission will be asked to
force the networks to supply "free
time" to counter "such racist
commercials."
"The day is past when you put
the Negro on TV eating a watermelon," but now the Chicano is
variously stereotyped as •thieving, sneaking, short, fat, lazy and
not to be trusted," Armando Rodriquez, national committee chairman and an official of the U.S.
an ce of El::lucation, told nawsm en.
•Frito Bandito," the plump,
mustachioed
cartoon bandit
whose antics promote the sales
of a well-known corn chip, is
"probably the most subtle and insidious• 1 of these commercials
said Rodriguez.
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Rodriguez and Thomas Martinez, a Stanford University pro-
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fessor, announced at the conference that KNBE-TV of Los
Angeles has already dropped the
"Bandito" commercial.
The nlltional committee, they
said, had been unable to convince
the Frito-Lay Company of Dallas,
Texas, to withdraw the •Frito
Bandito" commercials in private
talks with company officials.
The company produced a survey of attitudes or MexicanAmericans in several major
cities and reported only a small
percentage found the commercial
objectionable, said Martinez.
However, the Stanford sociologist said he questioned the company's "sampling and methodology."
A company official told the
Chronicle from Dallas: "We!re
certainly
not ignoring their
appeal" and said the situation is
"'constantly under review. We
just haven't had a chance to get
back to them.•
Arch West, Frito-Lay executive vice president, said repeated "standard marketing research"
polls of
MexicanAmericans found an "overwhelmingly favorable reaction" to the
chubby bandito corn mercials.
The firm, he said, chose the
character as a "tongue-in-cheek
Mexican version of Robin Hood,•
because he seemed "funny and
enjoyable."
If surveys had found "frito
Bandito" appealed to a "negative
stereotype" of Mexican-Americans, he said, the company would
never have put him on the air.
Insults Do Not
Go Unnoticed
In case of insult, which party
has the initial right of manifesting
anger or discontent? Is it the insulting, or the insulted party;
The case in point is the Berryhill
incident. In a speech presented at
Stockton, he made remarks that
were construed as defamatory to
the Mexican population.
Paraphrasing
the speech,
Assemblyman Berryhill feels
that the cultural level of farm
laborers will never be raised because all they want to do is go
home and eat their tacos. Does
this constitute an insult'; Yes, I
think it does. The insult can be
shrugged off as Anglo crudeness
and lack of taste; it can be thought
of as another majority versus
minority jab, or it can be
answered. In this instance it was
answered by Fresno State students.
The question now is, was it an
appropriate response to the insult? Was the response equated to
the cause?
Asemblyman Berryhill speaks
of farm laborers and implies a
lack of cultural and educational
motivation. He speaks of farm
labor, and we feel and think of our
fathers, mothers, brothers, sis-
ters and of our own youth which
was spent in the fields.
In defense he says that he was
quoted out of context and that he
has a high respect and admiration
for our Mexican culture. It does,
however. seem unlikely that anyone that respectful and admiring
could make such a callous statement.
President Falk has stated. in a
past edition of the Daily Collegian, that he would concern
himself with 90 per cent of the
students and their problems. Now
that the Berryhill response has
overlapped into the •go per cent
of concern," he has taken the
appropriate action, apologizing to
Mr. Berryhill and condemning
the students involved.
It would have been far more
appropriate for President Falk to
apologize to the Mexican community on this campus for Mr.
Berryhill's comments prior to
his speech.
It's been observed that under
majority rule the needs and desires of a minority are under a
constant threat of denial and obstruction. It would appear that
even the human response of justified anger is to be denied.
-----Carlos Rueda
Letter
To Walker
(Continued from Page 1)
Committee (memo of December
1, to Acting President Falk).
If your memory doesn't fail
you Phil, you must remember
that I thought it was a good idea
but questioned four points, ~
follows:
1. The process of selection
was arbitrary, because it doesn't
follow any established college
procedures for development of
Advisory Boards, making it an
Ad-Hoc (or Ad-Lib) structure.
Since the present administration is only an acting one, such
a committee would not have a
lasting institutional role. What
we need is a commitment by the
college as a whole to engage in
self-examination, and not a
staged public relations event.
2. I questioned one of the criteria for selection, namely the
one stipulating that members of
th_e committee should "hold at
least an A.A, degree~, because
that would leave out many members of the community who we
want involved with our program.
Maybe you don't.
3. I questioned whether other
departments in the school would
accept the committee if your suggestion for one of their tasks was
to be implemented. That was task
number two, • An evaluation of the
present Ethnic Studies faculty
with recommendations for the
establishment of criteria for
faculty evaluation and hiring. •
I remember saying to you, that
as far as we were concerned we
were willing to do so,
4. I questioned whether your
ti me allocation was sufficient.
Not even working full time, could
a committee do a good job by
January 15, 1970, your sugges tion for a preliminary report of
finding and recommendations.
Again, Phil, I remember clearly suggesting that you hold on to
the memorandum until the staff
and students could come up with
their recommendations which are
supposed to be presented to the
Presidential Ad Hoc Committee
to study the Re Organization of
the college by December 19, 1970.
I think I would question your
memory, at this point, and your
judgment. It is a misrepresentation to say that we rejected
"community evaluation" of the
program, I hope it is only your
memory that made you evaluate
my answer then as being a negative one.
Since I clearly stated to you
that I thought the best approach
would be to hold on to the proposal until we could study it and
make our recommendations,
since we had made a previous
proposal about the creation of a
Council on Minority Education,
and since the date for our appearance before the Ad Hoc Committee on Reorganization is still
a week away, I must question why
you chose to make public references to your memo without giving any of the background surrounding it.
When you speak to a group of
Chicanos in the community, and
you leave them with the impression that we are rejecting their
participation in the program, that
we are somehow getting the lion's
share of the resources of the college, that we are failing to teach
what we were supposed, or said,
to be teaching, and that we are
not trying to reach as many of
the students as we possibly can,
then I become concerned.
Phil, I hope my information is
wrong, and that you were misquoted. Enough tension and mistrust exists already at Fresno
State College, and we must find
some way to eliminate those. We
must find ways of doing more of
what we were hired to do, namely
educating students. I'd like to
hear from you.
Eliezer Risco-Lozada
Chairman, La Raza
Studies Program
Monday, December 15, 1969
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
3
Interview With Omar Salinas
omar salinas
Any Day Now
On a sk id row dance hall
On a puddle of coca cola
On a cloud
I exi st
Insom nia fo l l ows me through the street
l ike a woman
and t he nig ht oil slicked face talks
The shadows ••• lumps of cold stars drunk lay on the gutters
the shadows
and t he children with huge eyes, hungry, wandering,
offsp r ings of the wind, maternal odors, suspicious,
waiti ng ••.
por Jesus Rodriguez
There are many people who set
their sights on specific object! ves
in life, but few can follow through
With the actual realization of their
dreams. Fresnostatehasalimited number of accomplished individuals in its teaching or student
ranks.
Omar Sallnas has bridged the
chasm which separates student
and teacher into two different
worlds. He teaches expressive
writing which is a part of the La
Raza studies program and concerns itself with the art of
poetry writing. Omar also ls currently enrolled in regular academic courses.
At 29 he can point to many
accomplishments:
editor
of
Backwash, coordinator ror the
Educational Opportunities Program tutorial service, hi teach ing, and the completion of his first
book--Crazy Gypsy. The book, a
work o · poetry, should app ar on
the boo<stands in January.
Fresno State College has become a center or controversy in
many v. ays this semester each
person has formulated his own
opinion of the present stateofthe
campus With this in mind it
seemed that an interview with a
campus intellectual could concei vabl} shed some light on topics
of interest.
Omar Salinas does not consider
himself apart of the silent majority so it was with this in mind that
he shares his thoughts with the
rest of the student body.
Concerning Marvin X, Salinas
feels that the black studies professor was attacked •because of
his religious beliefs" and that
"the academic power structure is
not concerned with freedom of r~ligion CJS long as they have theirs.
Marvin X is relevant to his people
and he can be a great asset to
f.s.c., but is not being given a
chance,• Salinas added that,
•They take a man's bread from
his mouth when they feel he is a
threat, because he might expose
the falseness and hypocrisy of
their attitudes.
•The teaching profession faces
a crisis, to teach the truth and
be reprimanded or to teach hypocrisy and get rewarded," he
aid.
The addition of Dr. Karl Falk
to the administration has been a
controversial move since he
ousted two administratl ve llberals, Drs. Dale Burtner and Harold
Walker.
Salinas is concerned because
he views the sltuation in this way,
"Falk' s pres ence has dampened
the true spirit of education at this
campus.
•That being one where the students do not feel coerced , one in
which there is a climate of free
thinking, and one which respects
the student as an 1ndi vidual ln
this society.•
Turning to student unrest here
Salinas added , •F.S.C. has few
radicals ; they are just students
rallying for that relevant education which is ueing denied them.
After all there wouldn't even be
a college or an administration it
it wasn't for the students."
When asked about the silent
majority, Salinas answered with,
"Apathy and indifference give
food to those elem ents which profess hidden hypocrisy and it is
this attitude which gave rise to
Hitler."
Concerning the special Monday
editions of the Daily Collegian
and the proposed move to take
away their freedom of expression
and of the press, Salinas mentioned , "Getting rid of the special
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The moon sits on the corner of the room
with a white rose ••• I istening to nightingales
Darkness weaves a blanket
for the sky .•• that sits I ike a magician
mirror of night
and mist r ess of the earth
musician of the universe
I
On obscur e streets a taxi cab breathes the chill air
of autumn a baby smiles a mountain
and the gi rls of the neighborhood
giddy w ith new found breasts
chant rock songs
Sleep •.• n ightmare the tits of a honky tonk dancer
staring at the ceiling
•
laughing women ••• the ocean
I am fou r y ears old I want to go to Bolivia
Mermaids on the sides of my belly asking, "what's the name
of this cat?"
Good morn ing Mr. Edgar Allen Poe
Salinas is my name
everything has turned to orange leaves on trees
that remember the names of those dying .•. those dead
·I feel y ou mother earth ••• let your nipples
run through my intestines I ike a Beat woman
washing her brassier on a river of blood
while the milk of the village runs through my veins
editions would be a rational, relatl vely easy, way of getting rid
of the minorities--deny a man a
decent wage tor food for his wife
and children and you have in
ettect done away with him.•This
will undoubtably become of greater lmJX)rtance in the weeks to
come because of the minorities'
concern for their survival on this
campus.
When asked about his message
ln his forthcoming book, Salinas
said, •r am all ve, I want the
world to understand my being
alive in the whimsical fashion
ln which I ll ve under the terrible
conditions or our present oppressive society.
•rn the book I make a plea for
human justice in an unjust world.
it is how one Chicano sees the
stars, the mountains, the people
and how he endures--happy, unhappy-- said , and above all looked
upon as a Chicano, one of the many
who wasn't supposed to finish college and least of all a book."
Reflecting upon poetry in the
world today, saunas beUeves
"poetry is a union of the soul and
the heart, and the little trival
for this country and for its people. It is a pity that poets are not
liked here as much as they are
in other countries.•
Salinas is optimistic about the
future of Chicanos in this country.
"Chicanos are getting together
and doing thing, soon we will have
poets, novelists, authors and
prominent political figures that
wm be able to relate to La Raza
and vice versa.•
Projecting to communication
between the people of the world,
Salinas specualtes that •La Raza
which has been called La Raza
Cosmica (the Cosmic Race, because of our universal blood) by
Jose Vasconcellos (a famous
writer) will extend its basic philosophy of mi casa es tu casa(my
house is your house) to all mankind eventually joining all people
in the true spirit of brotherhood.•
FOR LUIS SALINAS,
POET OF LA RAZA
By Phi I Levine
Sinks whispering in the cold, pinbal I
machines that sweat,
sacks of memorial letters
crying for help, the world is born
over and over in the bleeding
chemistry of your eyes. At dusk
the blue water rising from
the olive trees, it burns I ike an old scar
or a fresh tattoo. You say, Shit,
and wonder what it's good for
and why the trucks
never stop and a storm waits on the way
to anywhere.
The drive-ins are
shrouded in mist, the stars
coming apart, and nothing waits inside
the halos of sleep. Tonight
you're sober, Luis, in America
where no one can tel I, and y our earthen
hands glow with the imprints
of he! 1, and it's all you, your soul
battered like your teeth, the silence,
the blessings, the road, the poor promises
your mother never meant.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, December 15, 1969
Camales:
PrOposecl Evaluation
of Ethnic Studies
The staff of La, Raza Studies, Las Adelitas, and MECHA would like to
invite you to an Open House at our Live-Learn Experiment ( Baker Hall)
december 1, 1969
Thursday, December 18, at [2:00 High Noon.
To : Dr. Karl Falk
Acting President
Vamos a tener un Chicano bufe y refrescos.
From: Phillip Walker, Acting Dean
School of Arts and Sciences
Subject: Proposed Evaluation of Ethnic Studies Program
In this, the first Navidades of our program, we would like you to meet
the students and staff be[ore they go home to a well earned vacation.
It has become increasingly apparent in recent weeks that an extensive and impartial review and evaluation of the Ethnic Studies
-Program ls mandatory. Without such a review and evaluation, the
administrative offices of the college will be denied the informed "ll'l'NVliM'N._...MilW.,_,.IVW'V'IIMWV\NW"'al"a'\NW'V'IINW"W,iNW'll'V'INV\MW,.._MWV\NW'.MMrN'-"-'
judgment upon which should be based the crucial admlnistrati ve decisions concerning this program which must be made withing the next
two or three nonths.
hy Roberto Moralez Perez
It is proposed, therefore, that under the authority of the Acting
but heedPresident a blue ribbon cltizen•s committee be established for the
we have been dead
I.
purpose of making such a review and evaluation. tt is proposed that'
Basta Ya at 260 Valenica is a
before today.
this committee consist of 12 members, half of whom represent the
place
where it's possible to get
sun raysadult Mexican-American community of our service area and half the
a community-cooked meal for
thereforethey
are
no
more.
black community. Three representatives of the Mexican-American
~
under $1.
now light will cease
prepare to head
community and three representatives of the black community should
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The restaurant-coffee houseis
to
reach
our
shore.
for
a
new
ray.
be appointed by Professors Keyes and Risco in consultation with the
~ owned and operated by Los Siete
Ethnic Studies faculty, with the identical privilege extended to the
ithe Brown Liberation Moveme nt'.
hut waitmorituri te salutamus
Acting President for the appointment of the remaining six members
!which was formed after seven
there is no lost,
morituri te salutamus.
of this committee. All members of the committee, in my opinion, · •
brothers were framed and
there was no peace;
should meet the following criteria:
ili1
charged with the killing of a
that I ight was false.
1. All should hold at least an AA degree or its equivalent in
~
policeman in the Mission District
in collegiate experience.
last spring.
fiat justitia ruat caelum
2. All should be recognized leaders within their respective ethnic
Dinners at Basta Ya are served
fiat justitia ruat caelum.
groups.
from 5 p.m. on and cost less than
a$1. Only one main dish is offered
II •
3. None should be currently on the faculty of or enrolled in Fresno
• each day. The people in the comState College,
AGRINGADO
munity cook the food, No one is
todayby Roberto Moralez Perez
paid. Beer is sold for 25 cents,
we are looking
4. None should bave a son, daughter or guardian currently
and wine is 15 cents a glass.
for a new I ight;
enrolled in Fresno State College.
last nightThe hours of operation are
we are changing.
i arose above
from noon to midnight.
believe that the charge to this committee should include but not
the people,
•
Basta Ya is a total community
we willnecessarily be 11 mited to:
i arose above
thing.
No one who works there is
begin our task,
myself.
being paid.
commence our fight,
1. An evaluation of the present Ethnic Students Curriculum, with
Various programs are being
and use some tact.
recommendation for its future development.
was i dreaming
:.:" planned for the evenings. Thursor
:- , day nights have been set aside
fiat lux
2. An evaluation of the present Ethnic Studies faculty with rewas i dreaming,
; , for poetry reading.
fiat lux.
commendations for the establishment of criteria for raculty
Los Siete has set up a variety
evaluation and hiring.
i cal led for
of programs. There are tree
disciples but,
E-; breakfasts tor school children
3, An evaluation of and recommendations concerning the Livingno one came;
served every morning at 1249 AlLearning Project.
TH UGHTS OF A REVOLUTIONIST
it's strange.
~ • abama and 120 Julian. A monthly
lly Roberto Moralez Perez
~ newspaper ls being published and
4. A critical evaluation of the phHosophy underlying the Ethnic
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community health projects have
Studies Program.
I.
or
F I been established.
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~ Volunteers and donations are
5. A recommendation concerning the possible establishment ofa
this earthi ~ needed. Call 285-3196 or MA 1permanent citizens presidential advisory committe for th
1
Ethnic Studies Program and other matters r lated to ethnic
minorities in the Fresno State Coll ge academic community.
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It is finally recommended that (1) this committee be requested to
submit a preliminary report of findings and memorandum of recom- ill. • a human game.
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mendations by January 15 and a final report and memorandum by : ~
or
March 15, and that (2) no commitments for the J!l70-71 academic
memento mori
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memento mori.
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Daily
Collegian
LXXV /62
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1969
LAVOZD~
LAN
An Open Letter To Walker
Dear Phil:
Yesterday, December 10, I recei ved several calls from Chicanos present at a luncheon in
which yourself, the acting president, and other faculty of Fresno
State College were featured
speake rs . To my surprise, because I had not been informed,
the topic was La Raza Studies at
Fresno State College. It appeared
somewhat un-professional that a
program of the college be discussed publicly without any of the
members of the staff of the program being present or informed.
Nevertheless, that oversight on
your par t does not bother me, or
other members of the staff! have
consulted with, as much as the
fac t that several of the statements reported there seemed to
be gross misrepresentations and
deviously misleading. Unfortunately, I have no access to a recording or steno copy of those
statements, but I will try to answer some of those statements,
as reported to me by Chicanos
present at the luncheon.
Inaccurate statement No. 1.
•La Raza Studies touches only
25 percent of all Chicanos on
campus , 75 percent are being
turned off.,,
·
I have no idea as to the source
of these statistics, but they seem
to be in con f 1 i c t with official
school data. Action report No. 5
of F. S, C. Institutional Studies reports on the Wish Card Analysis
for Fall 1969, gives La Raza
Studies 58,33 percent of students'
Wishes granted. That figure is
wen above the 51.67 percent figure for the School of Arts and
Sciences average, and above the
all college average of 57.8 percent . Incidentally,_ the figure for
Speech r 1 rts is only 60.20 percent, only 1.87 percentage points
over the figure for La Raza
Studies,
If you consider the fact that
Fall 1969 is the first semester
of the program, that the listing
of La Raza courses was not on
the new catalog and it did not become available until the week of
registration, and, furthermore,
that a degree program has not
been instituted as yet, my guess
is that the wish card analysis
reflects only a small portion of
the success of the program.
I would like to hear your answer to those figures, Phil.
Inaccurate statement No. 2.
"We are concerned about what
is being taught, we are afraid
they are teaching revolution.•
Phil, apart from the fact that
the statement casts a shadow of
distrust and questions the honesty of the staff, it seems to me
that it speaks more for the fear
of the person making the statement than any analysis of the
program.
In the first place, the only way
you, or anybody else, has of
knowing what is taught in La Raza
Studies is to read the course descriptions, check the reading
lists for the courses and on reserve at the library, talk to some
of the students taking the courses, and, if not afraid to, attend
some of our classes. You will be
surprised to find out we are
teaching what we said we were
going to.
On the other hand, we are, as
a matter of fact, teaching revolution. we are teaching that it
will take a social revolution to
kill the myth of superiority fostered by your people, and the
myth of inferiority in which the
educational system has tried to
straitjacket the Chicano for 120
years. We are teaching about
Cesar Chavez and the Farm
Workers Union, about Reies Tijerina and the Alianza, Corky
Gonzalez and the Crusade for
J ustice, M.A.P.A.M A,M,A.E.,
C.S.O., L.U.L.A.C., the Brown
Berets, and many other things
that are the institutions of the
Chicano community to protect
themselves against exploitation,
discrimination, and cultural genocide.
More than that , Phil, we are
trying to compensate for the miseducation and lack of education
that Institutions of Elementary
and Secondary education have inflicted on the Chicano, while
boasting of millions of dollars
spent on compensatory, migrant,
and other educational programs.
Furthermore, we on the stat!
have to spend hours sensitizing
faculty, administration, and students to the fact of cultural and
ethnic pluralism, and to the reasons why anglo-oriented education is detrimental and destructive to the spiritual, psychologjcal, social, political, artistic and
economic well being ot the Chicano.
We are against the Chicano being a victim.
Inaccurate statement No. 3.
"They are getting tno many POsitions, it is unfair to other departments.•
This one would make us laugh,
if it was not a sad commentary
on the sickness of higher education in the U.S.
In an area in which 35 percent
of the population is Chicano, only
4.5 percent of the students at
Fresno State College have Spanish surnames, and an even lower
number of facuity and staff. At
the decision making level within
the institution no one represents
3 5 percent of the population in
the service area, and only one
person out of fourteen in the College Advisory Board. Enough of
the numbers game.
Ta.ld.ng into account the demographic composition of the service area, let's take a look at the
academic service areas of our
institution. How many positions
are allocated to the School of
Agriculture that has for years
helped to build Agribusiness in
the Valley? At the same time,
which department has tried to
develop somethlng to help build
farm labor?
How many positions go to train
people in Education, Law Enrorcement, Business and Public
Administration, Jou r n a 1 ism,
Health Science, Home Economics, Industrial Arts, and scores
of other fields, without - to our
knowledge - teaching Chicanos
about how to cope with those institutions and with the negatl ve
and damaging effects they have
in the Chicano community.
How many po s i ti on s do you
think we might need merely to
make up the deficiencies and
gaps the institution has left in
educating and servicing 35 percent of the population within the
service area in the years since
1911 when Fresno NormalSchool
was established?
Look at our staff Phil, and
then reconsider whether we are
overstaffed or understaffed. We
must teach Chicano Theatre because the Theatre Arts Department won't recognize that here
in Fresno we have a nationally
and internationally acclaimed expert on Chicano Theatre. We
must teach Chicano Literature
because Literati! don't even know
it exists. We must teach about
Chicanos in Education because
Educators have not found out yet
the Chicano e xists. We must
teach about Chicanos and the Political and Governmental Institutions because the Scientists don't
have enough data, yet. And much
more.
How much more do we have to
teach Phil, before you will accept
the fact that we are not overstaffed?
Inaccurate statement No. 4.
•La Raza Studies rejected a
proposal for community evaluation of the Program.• (!or proposed evaulatlon of Ethnic Studies
Program, see page 4.)
This one, Phil, I find personally offensive.
At a meeting of the Deans
Council and Kitchen Cabinet, last
July , we proposed the formation
of a Council on Minority Education composed of minority faculty, administrative staff, students
and COMMUNITY. The purpose
of that council would be similar
to that of the Graduate Council,
and would be charged with the
evaluation of Living-Learning
Project, Educational Opportunity
Program, Ethnic Studies, and
ALL programs, departments, and
services of the college in so far
as they DID or DID NOT function
to the benefit of minority students
at Fresno State College. Upon returning from Europe, President
Ness endorsed the idea, but we
have not heard whether the acting
administration is ready to allow
the community, both intra - and
extra-mural', to examine, evaluate, and r ecommendforthewhole
institution. No minority person is
incl uded in the Ad Hoc Committee
on reorganization.
In our Draft Propesal of Jlllle
1969, we called !or a CollegeCommunity Relations Component
which would be charged with developing Urban St u di e and
Rural-Action Laboratories, run
jointly in partnership by the center and the community, and with
a community board of consultants
that wm advise in all of the programs developed (p 18-19).Since
then, members of our staff have
been in preliminary discussion
with the departments of Urban
and Regional Planning, Home Economics, Political Science, Business, and with the Schools of
Social Welfare and Education trying to find ways in which the resources of the college might become available to the community.
Members of the staff and students have engaged in conversations with people from Health,
Education and Welfare, National
Institute of Mental Health, California Rural Development Corporation, Urban Coalition, Urban
Corp., California Rural Legal
Assistance, N.A.A.C.P. Legal
Defense and Education Fund, Universidad Autonoma de Mejico,
Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (C.I.D.O,C.), Southwestern Regional Education Laboratory, Southwestern Council on
Bilingual Education, and many
other agencies and institutions
seeking availabilities ofresources for program development.
Members of the staff and students have consulted with and for
the Western Interstate Commission in Higher Education (W.I.C.
H.E.) , Chicano Council on Higher
Education (C.C.H.E.), Association of Mexican American Education (A.M.A.E.), Outreach Program of the University of California at Santa Cruz, California
Central Action Associates, Economic Opportunity Commission,
Head Start, etc., further exploring which kinds of programs
would be of short and long range
bgnefit to the community.
Members of the staff and students have consulted and worked
with M.A.P.A., C,S,O., C,E.P.,
Junior College and High School
students and faculty, Parent Advisory Councils, Advisory Councils to E.S.E.A., Campesinos,
Brown Berets, etc., trying to ftnd
out ways in which the program
can be made relevant to the commun•ty.
Parents, agency people, students, interested people from the
community have attended classes
and cuitural events, open houses
at Baker Hall, meetings, and other programs. In our formal proposal for an M.A. in La Raza
Studies we ask for each student
to have a Program Committee
which would include a membe;
of the community, something no
other program in this college is
calling for or allows.
How can you say that we rejected community evaluation ot
the program? Maybeyouintended
to say that we might have n:1jected your propesal foraPresidential Blue Ribb on Ci tizen's
(Continu ed on Page 2, Col. 5)
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday,,pecember 15, 1969
Editorial
Having presented in many ways the situation of ethnic minority life'
in the United States the staff of the Chicano special edition feels that
the newspaper is ready to go into a transitional phase. Communication through the paper has begun by means of representative readership on the part of the student body.
The early editions were hard for the majority of the student body
to relate to and understand; now they understand our daily plight.
La Raza students were able to polarize themselves into a working
unit which has grouped together to help all its people.
To solve all the problems facing Fresno State would be a dream
come true, but by working together and communicating all students
could claim and cherish the rewards of true brotherhood.
The special editions were the opening of a new door towards understanding and now that the initial task of conveying awareness has
begun, it is time that all F .s.c. students contribute their thoughts,
questions, and hopes to the Chicano paper to begin that inneraction
which is imperative to that peace and freedom which is so highly
regarded by al I men.
Send all letters and articles to Chicano Editor care of The Daily
Collegian office.
Berryhill Makes
Another Racist Statement
Assemblyman Clare Berryhill
of Ceres just cannot keep his true
feelings from showing through.
After the highly publicized eggthrowing incident he managed to
convince some people that he had
been misquoted, was in fact innocent, and indicated that though
mistakes are made, it wouldn't
happen again.
It happened again! In a recent
issue o! the Fresno Guide,
Berryhill is again talking about
Chicanos, and this time he comes
out with a real gem - education
is a way we can solve these
problems. People can then become parts of our society, Berryhill said.
This appeared in a Fresno
newspaper! It is in reference to
Chicanos and is an abvious statement o: the fact he doesn't belie\ e Mexicans are, as he puts it,
•part or our society". Students
of Fresno State College, that is a
form of the institutional racism
we speak of, but no one seems to
understand.
This man is obviously antiChicano and yet he is on a state
agriculture committee that will
determine the future of most
farmworkers; Chlcanos are the
majority in the fields.
Students al Fresno State College who believe in brotherhood
ask what they can do to help
solve problems. Berryhill is a
threat to good will among the
races and it seems logical that
the only true act of justice in his
case is to remove him from any
decision making positions. We
should work together to keep him
from getting re-elected. A benign
cancerous growth is removed before it becomes malignant and in
like fashion individuals who only
widen the gaps created by prejudice and mis understand i n gshould be removed so that true
harmony. among all people may
someday be a reality.
Vietnam's Relevance
To Human Students
Today everyone is aware of
Vietnam and its problems, but
I'm writing of its relevance to
Mexicans and also to you as human beings.
While asking foreign students
how they feel about U.S. foreign
intervention I've observed that
most of them state their opinions
objectively. Yet there is an airing of the idea that at times they
could undoubtedly receive better
treatment at the hands of the
devil. Why doesn't the U.S. let
those foreign countries work out
the best type of government !or
their countries, even if it is
communism?
Checking over the list of recipients of the Medal of Honor
we see that Mexicans are the
majority as an ethnic group, and
in addition make up 50 per cent
of the casualty list from the
Valley. Those who don't return
aren't missed but sometimes pitied and that has never alleviated
their misfortune. Those who
come back are sometimes admired but they can't live on admiration. It's true, some of these
heroes escape returning to
scratching out a meager living,
but their parents and family will
continue to be used as a cheap
source o! labor. This is so because there are still people who
believe that Mexicans, descendants of Indians, are born to be
beasts of burden.
Now I '11 write about the most
common aspect of the issue to all
of us. The government has attempted to decide for us that the
state is of more value than the
continuance of my life. Sorry, but
for obvious reasons I can't accept
that thought trend. Now I picture
myself in Viet Nam. Praying.
Yes, praying, but what for? Praying so that God will help me kill
someone before he kills me. The
most good l can see in Viet Nam
is God acting as a devil adminis-
tering punishment. And He is almost too late since he missed the
slaughter of the Indians.
Now taking another example:
Stand a Vietnamese comm unlst in
front of me here in Fresno,
should I kill him? No, not only
because there are laws that protect him, but because my conscience wouldn't allow me to kill
another human being. Now I picture myself in Viet Nam in the
same situation, resulting from a
one-year all-expense paid retreat sponsored by Uncle Sam,
should I kill him there?Wellnow,
he's not on my soil; he's attempting to determine his own destiny
on his own soil; (it certainly is
more his than ours) and isn't he
a fellow peasant? I have pictured
these situations knowing that we
have continually kept in mind that
he is a human being.
Now I feel obligated to ask how
the government justifies ordering
me to hate and kill designated
factions of Vietnamese, Supposing I could hate a single Vietnamese of those designated, I
certainly could not hate them all;
yet I would be instructed to hate
and kill all members of that designated group. What I'm saying is
that I could dislike an individual,
but I couldn't dislike a whole
group or nation, especially for a
difference in beliefs.
In addition I would like to propose some questions.Isn't it time
for us as F .S.C. students to set
our own standards to live by and
not continue to remain silent and
subservient to those of the government? While thinking about
this I have kept in mind the idea
that any state's capacity to govern is subservient to the will of
those being governed. Only the
indi victual can subordinate his
will to some artificial order.
It's time to act on your own
conscience and beliefs because
life won't get sweeter.
Reymundo Gamboa
White Prejudice
On Television
Mexican-American leaders, at
press conferences here and in
Washington, D.C., yesterday
called on the major TV networks
to take "Frito Bandito" and other
commercials depicting Chicanos
as •inferior, crummy, bandittypes" off the air.
If they don't, warned officials
of the National Mexican-American Anti-Defamation Committee,
the Federal Communications
Commission will be asked to
force the networks to supply "free
time" to counter "such racist
commercials."
"The day is past when you put
the Negro on TV eating a watermelon," but now the Chicano is
variously stereotyped as •thieving, sneaking, short, fat, lazy and
not to be trusted," Armando Rodriquez, national committee chairman and an official of the U.S.
an ce of El::lucation, told nawsm en.
•Frito Bandito," the plump,
mustachioed
cartoon bandit
whose antics promote the sales
of a well-known corn chip, is
"probably the most subtle and insidious• 1 of these commercials
said Rodriguez.
'
Rodriguez and Thomas Martinez, a Stanford University pro-
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fessor, announced at the conference that KNBE-TV of Los
Angeles has already dropped the
"Bandito" commercial.
The nlltional committee, they
said, had been unable to convince
the Frito-Lay Company of Dallas,
Texas, to withdraw the •Frito
Bandito" commercials in private
talks with company officials.
The company produced a survey of attitudes or MexicanAmericans in several major
cities and reported only a small
percentage found the commercial
objectionable, said Martinez.
However, the Stanford sociologist said he questioned the company's "sampling and methodology."
A company official told the
Chronicle from Dallas: "We!re
certainly
not ignoring their
appeal" and said the situation is
"'constantly under review. We
just haven't had a chance to get
back to them.•
Arch West, Frito-Lay executive vice president, said repeated "standard marketing research"
polls of
MexicanAmericans found an "overwhelmingly favorable reaction" to the
chubby bandito corn mercials.
The firm, he said, chose the
character as a "tongue-in-cheek
Mexican version of Robin Hood,•
because he seemed "funny and
enjoyable."
If surveys had found "frito
Bandito" appealed to a "negative
stereotype" of Mexican-Americans, he said, the company would
never have put him on the air.
Insults Do Not
Go Unnoticed
In case of insult, which party
has the initial right of manifesting
anger or discontent? Is it the insulting, or the insulted party;
The case in point is the Berryhill
incident. In a speech presented at
Stockton, he made remarks that
were construed as defamatory to
the Mexican population.
Paraphrasing
the speech,
Assemblyman Berryhill feels
that the cultural level of farm
laborers will never be raised because all they want to do is go
home and eat their tacos. Does
this constitute an insult'; Yes, I
think it does. The insult can be
shrugged off as Anglo crudeness
and lack of taste; it can be thought
of as another majority versus
minority jab, or it can be
answered. In this instance it was
answered by Fresno State students.
The question now is, was it an
appropriate response to the insult? Was the response equated to
the cause?
Asemblyman Berryhill speaks
of farm laborers and implies a
lack of cultural and educational
motivation. He speaks of farm
labor, and we feel and think of our
fathers, mothers, brothers, sis-
ters and of our own youth which
was spent in the fields.
In defense he says that he was
quoted out of context and that he
has a high respect and admiration
for our Mexican culture. It does,
however. seem unlikely that anyone that respectful and admiring
could make such a callous statement.
President Falk has stated. in a
past edition of the Daily Collegian, that he would concern
himself with 90 per cent of the
students and their problems. Now
that the Berryhill response has
overlapped into the •go per cent
of concern," he has taken the
appropriate action, apologizing to
Mr. Berryhill and condemning
the students involved.
It would have been far more
appropriate for President Falk to
apologize to the Mexican community on this campus for Mr.
Berryhill's comments prior to
his speech.
It's been observed that under
majority rule the needs and desires of a minority are under a
constant threat of denial and obstruction. It would appear that
even the human response of justified anger is to be denied.
-----Carlos Rueda
Letter
To Walker
(Continued from Page 1)
Committee (memo of December
1, to Acting President Falk).
If your memory doesn't fail
you Phil, you must remember
that I thought it was a good idea
but questioned four points, ~
follows:
1. The process of selection
was arbitrary, because it doesn't
follow any established college
procedures for development of
Advisory Boards, making it an
Ad-Hoc (or Ad-Lib) structure.
Since the present administration is only an acting one, such
a committee would not have a
lasting institutional role. What
we need is a commitment by the
college as a whole to engage in
self-examination, and not a
staged public relations event.
2. I questioned one of the criteria for selection, namely the
one stipulating that members of
th_e committee should "hold at
least an A.A, degree~, because
that would leave out many members of the community who we
want involved with our program.
Maybe you don't.
3. I questioned whether other
departments in the school would
accept the committee if your suggestion for one of their tasks was
to be implemented. That was task
number two, • An evaluation of the
present Ethnic Studies faculty
with recommendations for the
establishment of criteria for
faculty evaluation and hiring. •
I remember saying to you, that
as far as we were concerned we
were willing to do so,
4. I questioned whether your
ti me allocation was sufficient.
Not even working full time, could
a committee do a good job by
January 15, 1970, your sugges tion for a preliminary report of
finding and recommendations.
Again, Phil, I remember clearly suggesting that you hold on to
the memorandum until the staff
and students could come up with
their recommendations which are
supposed to be presented to the
Presidential Ad Hoc Committee
to study the Re Organization of
the college by December 19, 1970.
I think I would question your
memory, at this point, and your
judgment. It is a misrepresentation to say that we rejected
"community evaluation" of the
program, I hope it is only your
memory that made you evaluate
my answer then as being a negative one.
Since I clearly stated to you
that I thought the best approach
would be to hold on to the proposal until we could study it and
make our recommendations,
since we had made a previous
proposal about the creation of a
Council on Minority Education,
and since the date for our appearance before the Ad Hoc Committee on Reorganization is still
a week away, I must question why
you chose to make public references to your memo without giving any of the background surrounding it.
When you speak to a group of
Chicanos in the community, and
you leave them with the impression that we are rejecting their
participation in the program, that
we are somehow getting the lion's
share of the resources of the college, that we are failing to teach
what we were supposed, or said,
to be teaching, and that we are
not trying to reach as many of
the students as we possibly can,
then I become concerned.
Phil, I hope my information is
wrong, and that you were misquoted. Enough tension and mistrust exists already at Fresno
State College, and we must find
some way to eliminate those. We
must find ways of doing more of
what we were hired to do, namely
educating students. I'd like to
hear from you.
Eliezer Risco-Lozada
Chairman, La Raza
Studies Program
Monday, December 15, 1969
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
3
Interview With Omar Salinas
omar salinas
Any Day Now
On a sk id row dance hall
On a puddle of coca cola
On a cloud
I exi st
Insom nia fo l l ows me through the street
l ike a woman
and t he nig ht oil slicked face talks
The shadows ••• lumps of cold stars drunk lay on the gutters
the shadows
and t he children with huge eyes, hungry, wandering,
offsp r ings of the wind, maternal odors, suspicious,
waiti ng ••.
por Jesus Rodriguez
There are many people who set
their sights on specific object! ves
in life, but few can follow through
With the actual realization of their
dreams. Fresnostatehasalimited number of accomplished individuals in its teaching or student
ranks.
Omar Sallnas has bridged the
chasm which separates student
and teacher into two different
worlds. He teaches expressive
writing which is a part of the La
Raza studies program and concerns itself with the art of
poetry writing. Omar also ls currently enrolled in regular academic courses.
At 29 he can point to many
accomplishments:
editor
of
Backwash, coordinator ror the
Educational Opportunities Program tutorial service, hi teach ing, and the completion of his first
book--Crazy Gypsy. The book, a
work o · poetry, should app ar on
the boo<stands in January.
Fresno State College has become a center or controversy in
many v. ays this semester each
person has formulated his own
opinion of the present stateofthe
campus With this in mind it
seemed that an interview with a
campus intellectual could concei vabl} shed some light on topics
of interest.
Omar Salinas does not consider
himself apart of the silent majority so it was with this in mind that
he shares his thoughts with the
rest of the student body.
Concerning Marvin X, Salinas
feels that the black studies professor was attacked •because of
his religious beliefs" and that
"the academic power structure is
not concerned with freedom of r~ligion CJS long as they have theirs.
Marvin X is relevant to his people
and he can be a great asset to
f.s.c., but is not being given a
chance,• Salinas added that,
•They take a man's bread from
his mouth when they feel he is a
threat, because he might expose
the falseness and hypocrisy of
their attitudes.
•The teaching profession faces
a crisis, to teach the truth and
be reprimanded or to teach hypocrisy and get rewarded," he
aid.
The addition of Dr. Karl Falk
to the administration has been a
controversial move since he
ousted two administratl ve llberals, Drs. Dale Burtner and Harold
Walker.
Salinas is concerned because
he views the sltuation in this way,
"Falk' s pres ence has dampened
the true spirit of education at this
campus.
•That being one where the students do not feel coerced , one in
which there is a climate of free
thinking, and one which respects
the student as an 1ndi vidual ln
this society.•
Turning to student unrest here
Salinas added , •F.S.C. has few
radicals ; they are just students
rallying for that relevant education which is ueing denied them.
After all there wouldn't even be
a college or an administration it
it wasn't for the students."
When asked about the silent
majority, Salinas answered with,
"Apathy and indifference give
food to those elem ents which profess hidden hypocrisy and it is
this attitude which gave rise to
Hitler."
Concerning the special Monday
editions of the Daily Collegian
and the proposed move to take
away their freedom of expression
and of the press, Salinas mentioned , "Getting rid of the special
r····
The moon sits on the corner of the room
with a white rose ••• I istening to nightingales
Darkness weaves a blanket
for the sky .•• that sits I ike a magician
mirror of night
and mist r ess of the earth
musician of the universe
I
On obscur e streets a taxi cab breathes the chill air
of autumn a baby smiles a mountain
and the gi rls of the neighborhood
giddy w ith new found breasts
chant rock songs
Sleep •.• n ightmare the tits of a honky tonk dancer
staring at the ceiling
•
laughing women ••• the ocean
I am fou r y ears old I want to go to Bolivia
Mermaids on the sides of my belly asking, "what's the name
of this cat?"
Good morn ing Mr. Edgar Allen Poe
Salinas is my name
everything has turned to orange leaves on trees
that remember the names of those dying .•. those dead
·I feel y ou mother earth ••• let your nipples
run through my intestines I ike a Beat woman
washing her brassier on a river of blood
while the milk of the village runs through my veins
editions would be a rational, relatl vely easy, way of getting rid
of the minorities--deny a man a
decent wage tor food for his wife
and children and you have in
ettect done away with him.•This
will undoubtably become of greater lmJX)rtance in the weeks to
come because of the minorities'
concern for their survival on this
campus.
When asked about his message
ln his forthcoming book, Salinas
said, •r am all ve, I want the
world to understand my being
alive in the whimsical fashion
ln which I ll ve under the terrible
conditions or our present oppressive society.
•rn the book I make a plea for
human justice in an unjust world.
it is how one Chicano sees the
stars, the mountains, the people
and how he endures--happy, unhappy-- said , and above all looked
upon as a Chicano, one of the many
who wasn't supposed to finish college and least of all a book."
Reflecting upon poetry in the
world today, saunas beUeves
"poetry is a union of the soul and
the heart, and the little trival
for this country and for its people. It is a pity that poets are not
liked here as much as they are
in other countries.•
Salinas is optimistic about the
future of Chicanos in this country.
"Chicanos are getting together
and doing thing, soon we will have
poets, novelists, authors and
prominent political figures that
wm be able to relate to La Raza
and vice versa.•
Projecting to communication
between the people of the world,
Salinas specualtes that •La Raza
which has been called La Raza
Cosmica (the Cosmic Race, because of our universal blood) by
Jose Vasconcellos (a famous
writer) will extend its basic philosophy of mi casa es tu casa(my
house is your house) to all mankind eventually joining all people
in the true spirit of brotherhood.•
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, December 15, 1969
Camales:
PrOposecl Evaluation
of Ethnic Studies
The staff of La, Raza Studies, Las Adelitas, and MECHA would like to
invite you to an Open House at our Live-Learn Experiment ( Baker Hall)
december 1, 1969
Thursday, December 18, at [2:00 High Noon.
To : Dr. Karl Falk
Acting President
Vamos a tener un Chicano bufe y refrescos.
From: Phillip Walker, Acting Dean
School of Arts and Sciences
Subject: Proposed Evaluation of Ethnic Studies Program
In this, the first Navidades of our program, we would like you to meet
the students and staff be[ore they go home to a well earned vacation.
It has become increasingly apparent in recent weeks that an extensive and impartial review and evaluation of the Ethnic Studies
-Program ls mandatory. Without such a review and evaluation, the
administrative offices of the college will be denied the informed "ll'l'NVliM'N._...MilW.,_,.IVW'V'IIMWV\NW"'al"a'\NW'V'IINW"W,iNW'll'V'INV\MW,.._MWV\NW'.MMrN'-"-'
judgment upon which should be based the crucial admlnistrati ve decisions concerning this program which must be made withing the next
two or three nonths.
hy Roberto Moralez Perez
It is proposed, therefore, that under the authority of the Acting
but heedPresident a blue ribbon cltizen•s committee be established for the
we have been dead
I.
purpose of making such a review and evaluation. tt is proposed that'
Basta Ya at 260 Valenica is a
before today.
this committee consist of 12 members, half of whom represent the
place
where it's possible to get
sun raysadult Mexican-American community of our service area and half the
a community-cooked meal for
thereforethey
are
no
more.
black community. Three representatives of the Mexican-American
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under $1.
now light will cease
prepare to head
community and three representatives of the black community should
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to
reach
our
shore.
for
a
new
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be appointed by Professors Keyes and Risco in consultation with the
~ owned and operated by Los Siete
Ethnic Studies faculty, with the identical privilege extended to the
ithe Brown Liberation Moveme nt'.
hut waitmorituri te salutamus
Acting President for the appointment of the remaining six members
!which was formed after seven
there is no lost,
morituri te salutamus.
of this committee. All members of the committee, in my opinion, · •
brothers were framed and
there was no peace;
should meet the following criteria:
ili1
charged with the killing of a
that I ight was false.
1. All should hold at least an AA degree or its equivalent in
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policeman in the Mission District
in collegiate experience.
last spring.
fiat justitia ruat caelum
2. All should be recognized leaders within their respective ethnic
Dinners at Basta Ya are served
fiat justitia ruat caelum.
groups.
from 5 p.m. on and cost less than
a$1. Only one main dish is offered
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3. None should be currently on the faculty of or enrolled in Fresno
• each day. The people in the comState College,
AGRINGADO
munity cook the food, No one is
todayby Roberto Moralez Perez
paid. Beer is sold for 25 cents,
we are looking
4. None should bave a son, daughter or guardian currently
and wine is 15 cents a glass.
for a new I ight;
enrolled in Fresno State College.
last nightThe hours of operation are
we are changing.
i arose above
from noon to midnight.
believe that the charge to this committee should include but not
the people,
•
Basta Ya is a total community
we willnecessarily be 11 mited to:
i arose above
thing.
No one who works there is
begin our task,
myself.
being paid.
commence our fight,
1. An evaluation of the present Ethnic Students Curriculum, with
Various programs are being
and use some tact.
recommendation for its future development.
was i dreaming
:.:" planned for the evenings. Thursor
:- , day nights have been set aside
fiat lux
2. An evaluation of the present Ethnic Studies faculty with rewas i dreaming,
; , for poetry reading.
fiat lux.
commendations for the establishment of criteria for raculty
Los Siete has set up a variety
evaluation and hiring.
i cal led for
of programs. There are tree
disciples but,
E-; breakfasts tor school children
3, An evaluation of and recommendations concerning the Livingno one came;
served every morning at 1249 AlLearning Project.
TH UGHTS OF A REVOLUTIONIST
it's strange.
~ • abama and 120 Julian. A monthly
lly Roberto Moralez Perez
~ newspaper ls being published and
4. A critical evaluation of the phHosophy underlying the Ethnic
was i dreaming
community health projects have
Studies Program.
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or
F I been established.
was i dreaming.
~ Volunteers and donations are
5. A recommendation concerning the possible establishment ofa
this earthi ~ needed. Call 285-3196 or MA 1permanent citizens presidential advisory committe for th
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Ethnic Studies Program and other matters r lated to ethnic
minorities in the Fresno State Coll ge academic community.
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It is finally recommended that (1) this committee be requested to
submit a preliminary report of findings and memorandum of recom- ill. • a human game.
was i dreaming
mendations by January 15 and a final report and memorandum by : ~
or
March 15, and that (2) no commitments for the J!l70-71 academic
memento mori
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Collegian
LXXV /62
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1969
LAVOZD~
LAN
An Open Letter To Walker
Dear Phil:
Yesterday, December 10, I recei ved several calls from Chicanos present at a luncheon in
which yourself, the acting president, and other faculty of Fresno
State College were featured
speake rs . To my surprise, because I had not been informed,
the topic was La Raza Studies at
Fresno State College. It appeared
somewhat un-professional that a
program of the college be discussed publicly without any of the
members of the staff of the program being present or informed.
Nevertheless, that oversight on
your par t does not bother me, or
other members of the staff! have
consulted with, as much as the
fac t that several of the statements reported there seemed to
be gross misrepresentations and
deviously misleading. Unfortunately, I have no access to a recording or steno copy of those
statements, but I will try to answer some of those statements,
as reported to me by Chicanos
present at the luncheon.
Inaccurate statement No. 1.
•La Raza Studies touches only
25 percent of all Chicanos on
campus , 75 percent are being
turned off.,,
·
I have no idea as to the source
of these statistics, but they seem
to be in con f 1 i c t with official
school data. Action report No. 5
of F. S, C. Institutional Studies reports on the Wish Card Analysis
for Fall 1969, gives La Raza
Studies 58,33 percent of students'
Wishes granted. That figure is
wen above the 51.67 percent figure for the School of Arts and
Sciences average, and above the
all college average of 57.8 percent . Incidentally,_ the figure for
Speech r 1 rts is only 60.20 percent, only 1.87 percentage points
over the figure for La Raza
Studies,
If you consider the fact that
Fall 1969 is the first semester
of the program, that the listing
of La Raza courses was not on
the new catalog and it did not become available until the week of
registration, and, furthermore,
that a degree program has not
been instituted as yet, my guess
is that the wish card analysis
reflects only a small portion of
the success of the program.
I would like to hear your answer to those figures, Phil.
Inaccurate statement No. 2.
"We are concerned about what
is being taught, we are afraid
they are teaching revolution.•
Phil, apart from the fact that
the statement casts a shadow of
distrust and questions the honesty of the staff, it seems to me
that it speaks more for the fear
of the person making the statement than any analysis of the
program.
In the first place, the only way
you, or anybody else, has of
knowing what is taught in La Raza
Studies is to read the course descriptions, check the reading
lists for the courses and on reserve at the library, talk to some
of the students taking the courses, and, if not afraid to, attend
some of our classes. You will be
surprised to find out we are
teaching what we said we were
going to.
On the other hand, we are, as
a matter of fact, teaching revolution. we are teaching that it
will take a social revolution to
kill the myth of superiority fostered by your people, and the
myth of inferiority in which the
educational system has tried to
straitjacket the Chicano for 120
years. We are teaching about
Cesar Chavez and the Farm
Workers Union, about Reies Tijerina and the Alianza, Corky
Gonzalez and the Crusade for
J ustice, M.A.P.A.M A,M,A.E.,
C.S.O., L.U.L.A.C., the Brown
Berets, and many other things
that are the institutions of the
Chicano community to protect
themselves against exploitation,
discrimination, and cultural genocide.
More than that , Phil, we are
trying to compensate for the miseducation and lack of education
that Institutions of Elementary
and Secondary education have inflicted on the Chicano, while
boasting of millions of dollars
spent on compensatory, migrant,
and other educational programs.
Furthermore, we on the stat!
have to spend hours sensitizing
faculty, administration, and students to the fact of cultural and
ethnic pluralism, and to the reasons why anglo-oriented education is detrimental and destructive to the spiritual, psychologjcal, social, political, artistic and
economic well being ot the Chicano.
We are against the Chicano being a victim.
Inaccurate statement No. 3.
"They are getting tno many POsitions, it is unfair to other departments.•
This one would make us laugh,
if it was not a sad commentary
on the sickness of higher education in the U.S.
In an area in which 35 percent
of the population is Chicano, only
4.5 percent of the students at
Fresno State College have Spanish surnames, and an even lower
number of facuity and staff. At
the decision making level within
the institution no one represents
3 5 percent of the population in
the service area, and only one
person out of fourteen in the College Advisory Board. Enough of
the numbers game.
Ta.ld.ng into account the demographic composition of the service area, let's take a look at the
academic service areas of our
institution. How many positions
are allocated to the School of
Agriculture that has for years
helped to build Agribusiness in
the Valley? At the same time,
which department has tried to
develop somethlng to help build
farm labor?
How many positions go to train
people in Education, Law Enrorcement, Business and Public
Administration, Jou r n a 1 ism,
Health Science, Home Economics, Industrial Arts, and scores
of other fields, without - to our
knowledge - teaching Chicanos
about how to cope with those institutions and with the negatl ve
and damaging effects they have
in the Chicano community.
How many po s i ti on s do you
think we might need merely to
make up the deficiencies and
gaps the institution has left in
educating and servicing 35 percent of the population within the
service area in the years since
1911 when Fresno NormalSchool
was established?
Look at our staff Phil, and
then reconsider whether we are
overstaffed or understaffed. We
must teach Chicano Theatre because the Theatre Arts Department won't recognize that here
in Fresno we have a nationally
and internationally acclaimed expert on Chicano Theatre. We
must teach Chicano Literature
because Literati! don't even know
it exists. We must teach about
Chicanos in Education because
Educators have not found out yet
the Chicano e xists. We must
teach about Chicanos and the Political and Governmental Institutions because the Scientists don't
have enough data, yet. And much
more.
How much more do we have to
teach Phil, before you will accept
the fact that we are not overstaffed?
Inaccurate statement No. 4.
•La Raza Studies rejected a
proposal for community evaluation of the Program.• (!or proposed evaulatlon of Ethnic Studies
Program, see page 4.)
This one, Phil, I find personally offensive.
At a meeting of the Deans
Council and Kitchen Cabinet, last
July , we proposed the formation
of a Council on Minority Education composed of minority faculty, administrative staff, students
and COMMUNITY. The purpose
of that council would be similar
to that of the Graduate Council,
and would be charged with the
evaluation of Living-Learning
Project, Educational Opportunity
Program, Ethnic Studies, and
ALL programs, departments, and
services of the college in so far
as they DID or DID NOT function
to the benefit of minority students
at Fresno State College. Upon returning from Europe, President
Ness endorsed the idea, but we
have not heard whether the acting
administration is ready to allow
the community, both intra - and
extra-mural', to examine, evaluate, and r ecommendforthewhole
institution. No minority person is
incl uded in the Ad Hoc Committee
on reorganization.
In our Draft Propesal of Jlllle
1969, we called !or a CollegeCommunity Relations Component
which would be charged with developing Urban St u di e and
Rural-Action Laboratories, run
jointly in partnership by the center and the community, and with
a community board of consultants
that wm advise in all of the programs developed (p 18-19).Since
then, members of our staff have
been in preliminary discussion
with the departments of Urban
and Regional Planning, Home Economics, Political Science, Business, and with the Schools of
Social Welfare and Education trying to find ways in which the resources of the college might become available to the community.
Members of the staff and students have engaged in conversations with people from Health,
Education and Welfare, National
Institute of Mental Health, California Rural Development Corporation, Urban Coalition, Urban
Corp., California Rural Legal
Assistance, N.A.A.C.P. Legal
Defense and Education Fund, Universidad Autonoma de Mejico,
Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (C.I.D.O,C.), Southwestern Regional Education Laboratory, Southwestern Council on
Bilingual Education, and many
other agencies and institutions
seeking availabilities ofresources for program development.
Members of the staff and students have consulted with and for
the Western Interstate Commission in Higher Education (W.I.C.
H.E.) , Chicano Council on Higher
Education (C.C.H.E.), Association of Mexican American Education (A.M.A.E.), Outreach Program of the University of California at Santa Cruz, California
Central Action Associates, Economic Opportunity Commission,
Head Start, etc., further exploring which kinds of programs
would be of short and long range
bgnefit to the community.
Members of the staff and students have consulted and worked
with M.A.P.A., C,S,O., C,E.P.,
Junior College and High School
students and faculty, Parent Advisory Councils, Advisory Councils to E.S.E.A., Campesinos,
Brown Berets, etc., trying to ftnd
out ways in which the program
can be made relevant to the commun•ty.
Parents, agency people, students, interested people from the
community have attended classes
and cuitural events, open houses
at Baker Hall, meetings, and other programs. In our formal proposal for an M.A. in La Raza
Studies we ask for each student
to have a Program Committee
which would include a membe;
of the community, something no
other program in this college is
calling for or allows.
How can you say that we rejected community evaluation ot
the program? Maybeyouintended
to say that we might have n:1jected your propesal foraPresidential Blue Ribb on Ci tizen's
(Continu ed on Page 2, Col. 5)
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday,,pecember 15, 1969
Editorial
Having presented in many ways the situation of ethnic minority life'
in the United States the staff of the Chicano special edition feels that
the newspaper is ready to go into a transitional phase. Communication through the paper has begun by means of representative readership on the part of the student body.
The early editions were hard for the majority of the student body
to relate to and understand; now they understand our daily plight.
La Raza students were able to polarize themselves into a working
unit which has grouped together to help all its people.
To solve all the problems facing Fresno State would be a dream
come true, but by working together and communicating all students
could claim and cherish the rewards of true brotherhood.
The special editions were the opening of a new door towards understanding and now that the initial task of conveying awareness has
begun, it is time that all F .s.c. students contribute their thoughts,
questions, and hopes to the Chicano paper to begin that inneraction
which is imperative to that peace and freedom which is so highly
regarded by al I men.
Send all letters and articles to Chicano Editor care of The Daily
Collegian office.
Berryhill Makes
Another Racist Statement
Assemblyman Clare Berryhill
of Ceres just cannot keep his true
feelings from showing through.
After the highly publicized eggthrowing incident he managed to
convince some people that he had
been misquoted, was in fact innocent, and indicated that though
mistakes are made, it wouldn't
happen again.
It happened again! In a recent
issue o! the Fresno Guide,
Berryhill is again talking about
Chicanos, and this time he comes
out with a real gem - education
is a way we can solve these
problems. People can then become parts of our society, Berryhill said.
This appeared in a Fresno
newspaper! It is in reference to
Chicanos and is an abvious statement o: the fact he doesn't belie\ e Mexicans are, as he puts it,
•part or our society". Students
of Fresno State College, that is a
form of the institutional racism
we speak of, but no one seems to
understand.
This man is obviously antiChicano and yet he is on a state
agriculture committee that will
determine the future of most
farmworkers; Chlcanos are the
majority in the fields.
Students al Fresno State College who believe in brotherhood
ask what they can do to help
solve problems. Berryhill is a
threat to good will among the
races and it seems logical that
the only true act of justice in his
case is to remove him from any
decision making positions. We
should work together to keep him
from getting re-elected. A benign
cancerous growth is removed before it becomes malignant and in
like fashion individuals who only
widen the gaps created by prejudice and mis understand i n gshould be removed so that true
harmony. among all people may
someday be a reality.
Vietnam's Relevance
To Human Students
Today everyone is aware of
Vietnam and its problems, but
I'm writing of its relevance to
Mexicans and also to you as human beings.
While asking foreign students
how they feel about U.S. foreign
intervention I've observed that
most of them state their opinions
objectively. Yet there is an airing of the idea that at times they
could undoubtedly receive better
treatment at the hands of the
devil. Why doesn't the U.S. let
those foreign countries work out
the best type of government !or
their countries, even if it is
communism?
Checking over the list of recipients of the Medal of Honor
we see that Mexicans are the
majority as an ethnic group, and
in addition make up 50 per cent
of the casualty list from the
Valley. Those who don't return
aren't missed but sometimes pitied and that has never alleviated
their misfortune. Those who
come back are sometimes admired but they can't live on admiration. It's true, some of these
heroes escape returning to
scratching out a meager living,
but their parents and family will
continue to be used as a cheap
source o! labor. This is so because there are still people who
believe that Mexicans, descendants of Indians, are born to be
beasts of burden.
Now I '11 write about the most
common aspect of the issue to all
of us. The government has attempted to decide for us that the
state is of more value than the
continuance of my life. Sorry, but
for obvious reasons I can't accept
that thought trend. Now I picture
myself in Viet Nam. Praying.
Yes, praying, but what for? Praying so that God will help me kill
someone before he kills me. The
most good l can see in Viet Nam
is God acting as a devil adminis-
tering punishment. And He is almost too late since he missed the
slaughter of the Indians.
Now taking another example:
Stand a Vietnamese comm unlst in
front of me here in Fresno,
should I kill him? No, not only
because there are laws that protect him, but because my conscience wouldn't allow me to kill
another human being. Now I picture myself in Viet Nam in the
same situation, resulting from a
one-year all-expense paid retreat sponsored by Uncle Sam,
should I kill him there?Wellnow,
he's not on my soil; he's attempting to determine his own destiny
on his own soil; (it certainly is
more his than ours) and isn't he
a fellow peasant? I have pictured
these situations knowing that we
have continually kept in mind that
he is a human being.
Now I feel obligated to ask how
the government justifies ordering
me to hate and kill designated
factions of Vietnamese, Supposing I could hate a single Vietnamese of those designated, I
certainly could not hate them all;
yet I would be instructed to hate
and kill all members of that designated group. What I'm saying is
that I could dislike an individual,
but I couldn't dislike a whole
group or nation, especially for a
difference in beliefs.
In addition I would like to propose some questions.Isn't it time
for us as F .S.C. students to set
our own standards to live by and
not continue to remain silent and
subservient to those of the government? While thinking about
this I have kept in mind the idea
that any state's capacity to govern is subservient to the will of
those being governed. Only the
indi victual can subordinate his
will to some artificial order.
It's time to act on your own
conscience and beliefs because
life won't get sweeter.
Reymundo Gamboa
White Prejudice
On Television
Mexican-American leaders, at
press conferences here and in
Washington, D.C., yesterday
called on the major TV networks
to take "Frito Bandito" and other
commercials depicting Chicanos
as •inferior, crummy, bandittypes" off the air.
If they don't, warned officials
of the National Mexican-American Anti-Defamation Committee,
the Federal Communications
Commission will be asked to
force the networks to supply "free
time" to counter "such racist
commercials."
"The day is past when you put
the Negro on TV eating a watermelon," but now the Chicano is
variously stereotyped as •thieving, sneaking, short, fat, lazy and
not to be trusted," Armando Rodriquez, national committee chairman and an official of the U.S.
an ce of El::lucation, told nawsm en.
•Frito Bandito," the plump,
mustachioed
cartoon bandit
whose antics promote the sales
of a well-known corn chip, is
"probably the most subtle and insidious• 1 of these commercials
said Rodriguez.
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Rodriguez and Thomas Martinez, a Stanford University pro-
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fessor, announced at the conference that KNBE-TV of Los
Angeles has already dropped the
"Bandito" commercial.
The nlltional committee, they
said, had been unable to convince
the Frito-Lay Company of Dallas,
Texas, to withdraw the •Frito
Bandito" commercials in private
talks with company officials.
The company produced a survey of attitudes or MexicanAmericans in several major
cities and reported only a small
percentage found the commercial
objectionable, said Martinez.
However, the Stanford sociologist said he questioned the company's "sampling and methodology."
A company official told the
Chronicle from Dallas: "We!re
certainly
not ignoring their
appeal" and said the situation is
"'constantly under review. We
just haven't had a chance to get
back to them.•
Arch West, Frito-Lay executive vice president, said repeated "standard marketing research"
polls of
MexicanAmericans found an "overwhelmingly favorable reaction" to the
chubby bandito corn mercials.
The firm, he said, chose the
character as a "tongue-in-cheek
Mexican version of Robin Hood,•
because he seemed "funny and
enjoyable."
If surveys had found "frito
Bandito" appealed to a "negative
stereotype" of Mexican-Americans, he said, the company would
never have put him on the air.
Insults Do Not
Go Unnoticed
In case of insult, which party
has the initial right of manifesting
anger or discontent? Is it the insulting, or the insulted party;
The case in point is the Berryhill
incident. In a speech presented at
Stockton, he made remarks that
were construed as defamatory to
the Mexican population.
Paraphrasing
the speech,
Assemblyman Berryhill feels
that the cultural level of farm
laborers will never be raised because all they want to do is go
home and eat their tacos. Does
this constitute an insult'; Yes, I
think it does. The insult can be
shrugged off as Anglo crudeness
and lack of taste; it can be thought
of as another majority versus
minority jab, or it can be
answered. In this instance it was
answered by Fresno State students.
The question now is, was it an
appropriate response to the insult? Was the response equated to
the cause?
Asemblyman Berryhill speaks
of farm laborers and implies a
lack of cultural and educational
motivation. He speaks of farm
labor, and we feel and think of our
fathers, mothers, brothers, sis-
ters and of our own youth which
was spent in the fields.
In defense he says that he was
quoted out of context and that he
has a high respect and admiration
for our Mexican culture. It does,
however. seem unlikely that anyone that respectful and admiring
could make such a callous statement.
President Falk has stated. in a
past edition of the Daily Collegian, that he would concern
himself with 90 per cent of the
students and their problems. Now
that the Berryhill response has
overlapped into the •go per cent
of concern," he has taken the
appropriate action, apologizing to
Mr. Berryhill and condemning
the students involved.
It would have been far more
appropriate for President Falk to
apologize to the Mexican community on this campus for Mr.
Berryhill's comments prior to
his speech.
It's been observed that under
majority rule the needs and desires of a minority are under a
constant threat of denial and obstruction. It would appear that
even the human response of justified anger is to be denied.
-----Carlos Rueda
Letter
To Walker
(Continued from Page 1)
Committee (memo of December
1, to Acting President Falk).
If your memory doesn't fail
you Phil, you must remember
that I thought it was a good idea
but questioned four points, ~
follows:
1. The process of selection
was arbitrary, because it doesn't
follow any established college
procedures for development of
Advisory Boards, making it an
Ad-Hoc (or Ad-Lib) structure.
Since the present administration is only an acting one, such
a committee would not have a
lasting institutional role. What
we need is a commitment by the
college as a whole to engage in
self-examination, and not a
staged public relations event.
2. I questioned one of the criteria for selection, namely the
one stipulating that members of
th_e committee should "hold at
least an A.A, degree~, because
that would leave out many members of the community who we
want involved with our program.
Maybe you don't.
3. I questioned whether other
departments in the school would
accept the committee if your suggestion for one of their tasks was
to be implemented. That was task
number two, • An evaluation of the
present Ethnic Studies faculty
with recommendations for the
establishment of criteria for
faculty evaluation and hiring. •
I remember saying to you, that
as far as we were concerned we
were willing to do so,
4. I questioned whether your
ti me allocation was sufficient.
Not even working full time, could
a committee do a good job by
January 15, 1970, your sugges tion for a preliminary report of
finding and recommendations.
Again, Phil, I remember clearly suggesting that you hold on to
the memorandum until the staff
and students could come up with
their recommendations which are
supposed to be presented to the
Presidential Ad Hoc Committee
to study the Re Organization of
the college by December 19, 1970.
I think I would question your
memory, at this point, and your
judgment. It is a misrepresentation to say that we rejected
"community evaluation" of the
program, I hope it is only your
memory that made you evaluate
my answer then as being a negative one.
Since I clearly stated to you
that I thought the best approach
would be to hold on to the proposal until we could study it and
make our recommendations,
since we had made a previous
proposal about the creation of a
Council on Minority Education,
and since the date for our appearance before the Ad Hoc Committee on Reorganization is still
a week away, I must question why
you chose to make public references to your memo without giving any of the background surrounding it.
When you speak to a group of
Chicanos in the community, and
you leave them with the impression that we are rejecting their
participation in the program, that
we are somehow getting the lion's
share of the resources of the college, that we are failing to teach
what we were supposed, or said,
to be teaching, and that we are
not trying to reach as many of
the students as we possibly can,
then I become concerned.
Phil, I hope my information is
wrong, and that you were misquoted. Enough tension and mistrust exists already at Fresno
State College, and we must find
some way to eliminate those. We
must find ways of doing more of
what we were hired to do, namely
educating students. I'd like to
hear from you.
Eliezer Risco-Lozada
Chairman, La Raza
Studies Program
Monday, December 15, 1969
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
3
Interview With Omar Salinas
omar salinas
Any Day Now
On a sk id row dance hall
On a puddle of coca cola
On a cloud
I exi st
Insom nia fo l l ows me through the street
l ike a woman
and t he nig ht oil slicked face talks
The shadows ••• lumps of cold stars drunk lay on the gutters
the shadows
and t he children with huge eyes, hungry, wandering,
offsp r ings of the wind, maternal odors, suspicious,
waiti ng ••.
por Jesus Rodriguez
There are many people who set
their sights on specific object! ves
in life, but few can follow through
With the actual realization of their
dreams. Fresnostatehasalimited number of accomplished individuals in its teaching or student
ranks.
Omar Sallnas has bridged the
chasm which separates student
and teacher into two different
worlds. He teaches expressive
writing which is a part of the La
Raza studies program and concerns itself with the art of
poetry writing. Omar also ls currently enrolled in regular academic courses.
At 29 he can point to many
accomplishments:
editor
of
Backwash, coordinator ror the
Educational Opportunities Program tutorial service, hi teach ing, and the completion of his first
book--Crazy Gypsy. The book, a
work o · poetry, should app ar on
the boo<stands in January.
Fresno State College has become a center or controversy in
many v. ays this semester each
person has formulated his own
opinion of the present stateofthe
campus With this in mind it
seemed that an interview with a
campus intellectual could concei vabl} shed some light on topics
of interest.
Omar Salinas does not consider
himself apart of the silent majority so it was with this in mind that
he shares his thoughts with the
rest of the student body.
Concerning Marvin X, Salinas
feels that the black studies professor was attacked •because of
his religious beliefs" and that
"the academic power structure is
not concerned with freedom of r~ligion CJS long as they have theirs.
Marvin X is relevant to his people
and he can be a great asset to
f.s.c., but is not being given a
chance,• Salinas added that,
•They take a man's bread from
his mouth when they feel he is a
threat, because he might expose
the falseness and hypocrisy of
their attitudes.
•The teaching profession faces
a crisis, to teach the truth and
be reprimanded or to teach hypocrisy and get rewarded," he
aid.
The addition of Dr. Karl Falk
to the administration has been a
controversial move since he
ousted two administratl ve llberals, Drs. Dale Burtner and Harold
Walker.
Salinas is concerned because
he views the sltuation in this way,
"Falk' s pres ence has dampened
the true spirit of education at this
campus.
•That being one where the students do not feel coerced , one in
which there is a climate of free
thinking, and one which respects
the student as an 1ndi vidual ln
this society.•
Turning to student unrest here
Salinas added , •F.S.C. has few
radicals ; they are just students
rallying for that relevant education which is ueing denied them.
After all there wouldn't even be
a college or an administration it
it wasn't for the students."
When asked about the silent
majority, Salinas answered with,
"Apathy and indifference give
food to those elem ents which profess hidden hypocrisy and it is
this attitude which gave rise to
Hitler."
Concerning the special Monday
editions of the Daily Collegian
and the proposed move to take
away their freedom of expression
and of the press, Salinas mentioned , "Getting rid of the special
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The moon sits on the corner of the room
with a white rose ••• I istening to nightingales
Darkness weaves a blanket
for the sky .•• that sits I ike a magician
mirror of night
and mist r ess of the earth
musician of the universe
I
On obscur e streets a taxi cab breathes the chill air
of autumn a baby smiles a mountain
and the gi rls of the neighborhood
giddy w ith new found breasts
chant rock songs
Sleep •.• n ightmare the tits of a honky tonk dancer
staring at the ceiling
•
laughing women ••• the ocean
I am fou r y ears old I want to go to Bolivia
Mermaids on the sides of my belly asking, "what's the name
of this cat?"
Good morn ing Mr. Edgar Allen Poe
Salinas is my name
everything has turned to orange leaves on trees
that remember the names of those dying .•. those dead
·I feel y ou mother earth ••• let your nipples
run through my intestines I ike a Beat woman
washing her brassier on a river of blood
while the milk of the village runs through my veins
editions would be a rational, relatl vely easy, way of getting rid
of the minorities--deny a man a
decent wage tor food for his wife
and children and you have in
ettect done away with him.•This
will undoubtably become of greater lmJX)rtance in the weeks to
come because of the minorities'
concern for their survival on this
campus.
When asked about his message
ln his forthcoming book, Salinas
said, •r am all ve, I want the
world to understand my being
alive in the whimsical fashion
ln which I ll ve under the terrible
conditions or our present oppressive society.
•rn the book I make a plea for
human justice in an unjust world.
it is how one Chicano sees the
stars, the mountains, the people
and how he endures--happy, unhappy-- said , and above all looked
upon as a Chicano, one of the many
who wasn't supposed to finish college and least of all a book."
Reflecting upon poetry in the
world today, saunas beUeves
"poetry is a union of the soul and
the heart, and the little trival
for this country and for its people. It is a pity that poets are not
liked here as much as they are
in other countries.•
Salinas is optimistic about the
future of Chicanos in this country.
"Chicanos are getting together
and doing thing, soon we will have
poets, novelists, authors and
prominent political figures that
wm be able to relate to La Raza
and vice versa.•
Projecting to communication
between the people of the world,
Salinas specualtes that •La Raza
which has been called La Raza
Cosmica (the Cosmic Race, because of our universal blood) by
Jose Vasconcellos (a famous
writer) will extend its basic philosophy of mi casa es tu casa(my
house is your house) to all mankind eventually joining all people
in the true spirit of brotherhood.•
FOR LUIS SALINAS,
POET OF LA RAZA
By Phi I Levine
Sinks whispering in the cold, pinbal I
machines that sweat,
sacks of memorial letters
crying for help, the world is born
over and over in the bleeding
chemistry of your eyes. At dusk
the blue water rising from
the olive trees, it burns I ike an old scar
or a fresh tattoo. You say, Shit,
and wonder what it's good for
and why the trucks
never stop and a storm waits on the way
to anywhere.
The drive-ins are
shrouded in mist, the stars
coming apart, and nothing waits inside
the halos of sleep. Tonight
you're sober, Luis, in America
where no one can tel I, and y our earthen
hands glow with the imprints
of he! 1, and it's all you, your soul
battered like your teeth, the silence,
the blessings, the road, the poor promises
your mother never meant.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, December 15, 1969
Camales:
PrOposecl Evaluation
of Ethnic Studies
The staff of La, Raza Studies, Las Adelitas, and MECHA would like to
invite you to an Open House at our Live-Learn Experiment ( Baker Hall)
december 1, 1969
Thursday, December 18, at [2:00 High Noon.
To : Dr. Karl Falk
Acting President
Vamos a tener un Chicano bufe y refrescos.
From: Phillip Walker, Acting Dean
School of Arts and Sciences
Subject: Proposed Evaluation of Ethnic Studies Program
In this, the first Navidades of our program, we would like you to meet
the students and staff be[ore they go home to a well earned vacation.
It has become increasingly apparent in recent weeks that an extensive and impartial review and evaluation of the Ethnic Studies
-Program ls mandatory. Without such a review and evaluation, the
administrative offices of the college will be denied the informed "ll'l'NVliM'N._...MilW.,_,.IVW'V'IIMWV\NW"'al"a'\NW'V'IINW"W,iNW'll'V'INV\MW,.._MWV\NW'.MMrN'-"-'
judgment upon which should be based the crucial admlnistrati ve decisions concerning this program which must be made withing the next
two or three nonths.
hy Roberto Moralez Perez
It is proposed, therefore, that under the authority of the Acting
but heedPresident a blue ribbon cltizen•s committee be established for the
we have been dead
I.
purpose of making such a review and evaluation. tt is proposed that'
Basta Ya at 260 Valenica is a
before today.
this committee consist of 12 members, half of whom represent the
place
where it's possible to get
sun raysadult Mexican-American community of our service area and half the
a community-cooked meal for
thereforethey
are
no
more.
black community. Three representatives of the Mexican-American
~
under $1.
now light will cease
prepare to head
community and three representatives of the black community should
~
The restaurant-coffee houseis
to
reach
our
shore.
for
a
new
ray.
be appointed by Professors Keyes and Risco in consultation with the
~ owned and operated by Los Siete
Ethnic Studies faculty, with the identical privilege extended to the
ithe Brown Liberation Moveme nt'.
hut waitmorituri te salutamus
Acting President for the appointment of the remaining six members
!which was formed after seven
there is no lost,
morituri te salutamus.
of this committee. All members of the committee, in my opinion, · •
brothers were framed and
there was no peace;
should meet the following criteria:
ili1
charged with the killing of a
that I ight was false.
1. All should hold at least an AA degree or its equivalent in
~
policeman in the Mission District
in collegiate experience.
last spring.
fiat justitia ruat caelum
2. All should be recognized leaders within their respective ethnic
Dinners at Basta Ya are served
fiat justitia ruat caelum.
groups.
from 5 p.m. on and cost less than
a$1. Only one main dish is offered
II •
3. None should be currently on the faculty of or enrolled in Fresno
• each day. The people in the comState College,
AGRINGADO
munity cook the food, No one is
todayby Roberto Moralez Perez
paid. Beer is sold for 25 cents,
we are looking
4. None should bave a son, daughter or guardian currently
and wine is 15 cents a glass.
for a new I ight;
enrolled in Fresno State College.
last nightThe hours of operation are
we are changing.
i arose above
from noon to midnight.
believe that the charge to this committee should include but not
the people,
•
Basta Ya is a total community
we willnecessarily be 11 mited to:
i arose above
thing.
No one who works there is
begin our task,
myself.
being paid.
commence our fight,
1. An evaluation of the present Ethnic Students Curriculum, with
Various programs are being
and use some tact.
recommendation for its future development.
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:.:" planned for the evenings. Thursor
:- , day nights have been set aside
fiat lux
2. An evaluation of the present Ethnic Studies faculty with rewas i dreaming,
; , for poetry reading.
fiat lux.
commendations for the establishment of criteria for raculty
Los Siete has set up a variety
evaluation and hiring.
i cal led for
of programs. There are tree
disciples but,
E-; breakfasts tor school children
3, An evaluation of and recommendations concerning the Livingno one came;
served every morning at 1249 AlLearning Project.
TH UGHTS OF A REVOLUTIONIST
it's strange.
~ • abama and 120 Julian. A monthly
lly Roberto Moralez Perez
~ newspaper ls being published and
4. A critical evaluation of the phHosophy underlying the Ethnic
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community health projects have
Studies Program.
I.
or
F I been established.
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~ Volunteers and donations are
5. A recommendation concerning the possible establishment ofa
this earthi ~ needed. Call 285-3196 or MA 1permanent citizens presidential advisory committe for th
1
Ethnic Studies Program and other matters r lated to ethnic
minorities in the Fresno State Coll ge academic community.
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It is finally recommended that (1) this committee be requested to
submit a preliminary report of findings and memorandum of recom- ill. • a human game.
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mendations by January 15 and a final report and memorandum by : ~
or
March 15, and that (2) no commitments for the J!l70-71 academic
memento mori
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year be made in regard to the Ethnic Studies Program uHtil the final .. ~
memento mori.
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