La Voz de Aztlan, March 16 1970
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La Voz de Aztlan, March 16 1970
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Associated Students of Fresno State
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La Voz de Aztlan (Daily Collegian, California State University, Fresno)
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Fresno, California
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3/16/1970
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, March 16, 1970
Sistar Sadie
He don't
say nuthin'
You know, yo all be talking
bout how bad things ts out at the
college, talking bout how this
• Acttn• cat done falked things up
and all such a stuff as that. But
when you actually come right
down to it, this administration got
a piss po way of doln things and
that's a natural fact.
You ask ole Mr . .,Actin" about
the firins and he say he don't
know nothin about em. Yet you
don't see him re-hirin none of
them people what been fired.
cat say there will be an Ethnic
Studies Program next year, yet
he ain't ask none of the Black
Studies teachers to come back.
You ask him if he gon rehire
Dick Keyes, the Chairman of
Ethnic Studies and he say he can't
discuss •personnel matters• in
public. And plus all that, the
people in Black Studies got registered letters on February 28,
1970 saying - and I quotes •California State College Administrative Code, Title 5, Section 42700 defines the position
of Lecturer as a non-permanent
academic assignment. Accordingly your appointment as Lecturer expires at the close of
duties of the 1969-70 academic
year.•
My home girl what teaches out
there came to see me bout all
this. She kinda dizzy but she
known for bein able pour piss
outta boots - which is more than
I can say for that • Actin• cat
and the rest of his friends.
•Sadie," she say, • these people at Fresno State have a piss
poor way of doing business."
(She a very smart girl.) "I don't
know if I'm hired or fired."
•wen, if you got one of them
letters, the whole thing should be
clear to you."
-.•Yes.
But Phil Walker_saysthe
nominations for Ethnic Studies
are stlll being considered and we
shouldn't get upset. But, I tell
you, Sadie, I am upset.•
•well," I tells her, •my sainted
mamma always said, 'don't never
believe the man gon ever do a
thing for you less'n he put it in
writing then only believe one
tenth of that. If he say he gon
give you a hundred dollars, look
for ten and hold him to five.' •
•That's all very well but according to what you say I should
be looking for a job that would
start next week •.• and the Man
say-•
•You notice that 'Actin' cat
ain't said nothin don't you? And
all you really got to go by ls what
you got in writing. This Walker
cat done put this other stuff in
writing?•
•Not as far as I know."
•Humpn." I tell her. -Humph,
you know what they laying dead
to do. Yo all make one wrong
move tween now and June - call
the wrong white man a hunkie,
say, or mistake a cop for a pig and they just ease yo all on out
in June and say, •wen, this ain't
no spur of the moment thing. We
told you that contract was gon be
up in June." But you all be good
and they may keep you round for
another year. Maybe."
•But, Sadie, that's really putting us in a bind. We don't know
if we should be looking for other
jobs or not."
•Girl, if you ain't learned no
mor'n that inaUthetimeyoubeen
in school then I sho can't say
much for yo education."
-okay, okay. I see what you're
saying. If we wait around, it
makes it look like we tommed to
stay here . Maybe we should raise
sand now and take our chances
later."
•I tell you one thing: rt that
'Actin' cat won't talk about personnel matters in public, then you
better go ask him to write you
something in private. Cause it's
more than just yo job. H's the
whole program that's in danger.
These folks ain't Just mess in with
you, they messin with all the
minority people in the Fresno
Area."
•That's right, Sadie. So if we
raise any kind of sand at all, it'll
be with the idea of winning and
staying, winning and keeping Ethnic Studies,"
•Girl," I tell her, •you finally
learnin how to pour piss outta a
boot."
SANCHEZ & HALL MORTUARY
Phone 237-3532
commentary
Walker, the Honorable
states ( correctly) that my appointment was to be fore one year
only. But what he seems to forget - probably on purpose - is
ALL LECTURESIIlPS ARE FOR
ONE YEAR ONLY and are renewed for the following year.
Wow! does he ever have •Honor•!
Walker, The Honorable, says
that, though my student evaluations are strongly favorable, they
are average or below average.
He even cites ms method of
statistic ratings, ie., 23.4 per
cent of the students said I was
average in ONE OUT OF A LIST
OF FIVE CATEGORIES. His
"HONOR" for-gets (again) that
by his own mathematics 78.6
students gave me the highest
ratings. But even more important
than that is the FACT that NOT
ONE STUDENT GA VE ME A BAD
RA TING. I told you he was amazing.
Here now (Glory be!) is the LuLu. Walker, the Honorable, says
although my -extraordinary attainments" as a writer justify my
position, my lack of formal academic training ought to disqualify
me as an instructor. Isn't that
something coming from a man
who has for over a decade failed
to get his Ph.D. - and he's been
in and around colleges and universities for half his life '; !
I am personally getting a bit
sick of educated fools like Walker, and I'm damn mad at his
'ERVE: to expect people to fall
for his ssinine "masons" for
comrniting his stupid acts, which
are bas d on pet t v. narrow-
By Nathan C. Heard
Though some ot you may have
read that I have been rehired,
the fact is that Phillip Walker, .
the Honorable, has decreed that
I NOT be rehired for next year.
Now we all expected that reaction
from him, but what nobody expected was that he would try to
be •objective" about his decision.
The man is a constant amazement, folks!
His first 'reason' is that I'm
supposed to be teaching ONLY
creative writing and not my additional course in modern black
writing. Now he says this despite
that FACT that when I was first
hired the Dean, in nominating me,
said I was to be a lecturer IN A
VARIETY OF COURSES AT THE
COLLEGE. I was ASSIGNED the
black writer's course, I didn't
make it up. Yes, Phillip Walker
is an •Honorable" man.
His second •reason" (I know
my students are going to find this
hilarious) is that my enrollment
is BELOW •staffing form u 1a
Classifications". The Fact Is: I
have nearly DOUBLE the enrollments in ALL my classes that is
required by the courses. There
are 30 students in my English
149.3 class, 34 students in
English 40.3, and 3G students in
English 175.1. Does that sound
like it's BELOW average'; If
Walker were trying to lighten my
work-load I would he appreciative, but I will not allow him to
justify his LI ES at my expense.
Walker, the llonorable also
Black vs. white press
Bight o ff the b.tl, it i.s a very
acc-urat
description for hlack
people to view th press a heing
white, There are le ·s than one
huncl red hlack people working
for the niaJor newspapers in
t hi c·ount r~·.
The press te 11s
th
public that there are not
enough qualified black Jou 1·u.ili st.-;, Black people hold contt>mpt !or the word "qualified"
and nghtly so. It alwa\·simplies
that someone is setting the standarcis.
White people can not
set the standard& for the needs
of black people. Eldridge Cleaver could get a Joh writing for
Ramparts. hut I douht seriously
if a major r1ewspaper would have
hired him.
When I read news
or editorials ahout black people
by whites, 1 sometimes wonder
who qualified them.
The white press has a tendency to overlook or treat lightly
things that are pertinent to black
people.
Black people feel the
neeed for more interpretative and
in depth reporting. To pick up
a newspaper and read the headlines: Riot, Six Killed. etc .. and
to find that the story supports
no more than the headline is a
sham. Newspaper reporters report the behavior of black people
without giving the public an understanding of that behavior. The
world needs to know the real cri-
By Bill Riddl spni?;g r
It appeared the Department of
Journalism, Fre ·no late
ollege, was not too happy when
the staff of the Daily Collegian
and Board of Puhlications could
see the feasibility of having separate editions for ethnic groups.
I found it ironic that the Dept.
of .Journalism would have offered any objection to separate
editions controlled by lilack students. Tab~, morethananyother
department, know the ~hort-comings of a white press when it
comes to reportin R news on and
about black people.
The white press is just another white insititution that has
created and maintained adverse
social
conditions
for black
people.
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mindedness, or race or PoU.
If FSC is any kind of exam tics,
what lies ahead for this c Ple ot
then there is no hope
Utountry
• • • era11
NO HOPE, because the stud Y
are apathetic automatons ents
will never be able to brea1c Who
holds which • educated• t lhe
nincompoops like WalkershUPid
a\'e
on th em ••• and, if such is t
case, then perhaps it is 1 he
n rny
best interests to leave her be
fore I become like one or an~th of FSC's nothings.
er
I won't make but passing
c
.
orn.
men t on th e. safe, secure , corn.
f or t a bl e maJority of faculty m
ern.
bers who have become mentai
faggots (an attitude which has
leaked out to the students) so that
the atmosphere at the college .
incompatible with t~ue educat1~~
because the college 1s run by I>eople who hate change, staffed by
people who fear change, and at.
tended by people who hope that
chang: won't really BE change,
Yes, 1t may be best if I split,
I am a creative writer and there's
little creativ!ty at this college,
I see what 1s supposed to be
educated people all around me•
I'm supposed to be living amon~
the best educated people in the
world.
But their •education•
didn't prevent them from fucking
up the WHOLE, world, which
shows me quite clearly that there
is nothing so stupid as an educated man if he's not dealing With
the things he's educated in,
Walker is NOT educated in
honor , ethics nor humanity, but he
holds a position which is defined
as •honorable" . That should put
the whole concept of honor in this
society in doubt, but it won't because Walker is probably in a
majority on this campus and in
this society (see elected officials). Perhaps I will not be like
Pete Everwine, perhaps I will
indeed go away quietly. And, perhaps, somewhere, I'll really
bump into some honor.
minal in a just perspective . The
d ep underlying causes of black
p ople's b havior is fraudulent
at the expense of superficial
cover..1.ge .
r remember during
the sit-lll demonstrations the
new. papers made me think that
hla<'k people will go through alot
of hell Just to sit next to while
people,
urel~· it wasn't just
that.
Th()re are some people who
say ditors and reporte rs have
tu he ohjective. I can not a,z; ree
to that. After looking the word
up in the dictionary, it tells me
that newspapers workers must
he impersonal. impartial. etc.
Those reporters a: 11d eciitors can
do black people no good, to be
sure. the\· are cietri mental to
hlark people. Being objective is
being too dose to neutral. I
think bias is a bette r word.
Newspaper workers must get involved by being biased against adverse social conditions that are
killing blark people. James Bassett of the Los Angeles Times,
states. •r must acknowledge that
we, like maw, other major papers of the so-called enlightened
~orth, engaged in this exercfse
too self-consciously. too dispassionatel \'.
Whether purposely
or not." we manage to remai~
non-involved." Black people nee
non - involvement like a punk
needs a condom.
The staff of the Daily Collegian,
be they black, white, brown
otherwise can not be concerne
with what makes the Dept. 01
Journalism happy at this school,
It takes more than having aheart
for the plight of black people,
A heart without courage is useless in a revolution. The Uhuru
will point the way.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Published five days a week excep!
holidays and examination periods _bY
the Fresno State College Associa·
tion. Mail subscriptions $8 a se;ester, $1S a year.
Editorial ofic ~•.
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Business 23!!, telephone 487-2 ;
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Business office, College Union
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telephone 487-2266.
Davis Speaks
to Ag Senate
BY Gloria Davis
collegian Managing Editor
,
ui I\ recent attempt to •estabUsh open lines of com municatton :
t,etween students from the Schoel
of Agriculture and the rest of the
collegiate community,• the Ag
senate invited several student
leaders to speak to them.
osby Davis, past president of
the Union of Black Students; GU
Acuna, president pro tem of the
student Senate and Doug Broten,
ASB president, answered questions and offered comments to
the Ag Senate. During the discussion, Davis, BrotenandAcuna
attempted to clarify any false
ideas and misconceptions about
minority students the Ag students
had, and the Ag students attempted to clarify themselves.
Davis, the principle speaker,
spoke in behalf of the minority
students at Fresno State College
and the services set aside for
them. He stated the minority students feel the administrative is
making moves to eliminate them,
and more specifically the Educational Opportunity Program,
which keeps most of them in
school.
Davis made it clear that the
only special treatments EOP students receive are special entrance requirements and permission to preregister during
their first year at FSC. •once
here," he added, •they (EOP
students) must compete with
you.•
OSBY DAVIS
ASB nomination
petitions ready
l\'. om ination petitions for the
upcoming April primary election
of Associated student Body officers are available beginning today in the Student Activities Office.
To qualify for a place on the
April 13 primary ballot a candidate must obtain 25 slgnatures
on petitions and have them turned
back into Student Activities by
5 P, m. Tuesday, March 31.
Bruce Morris chairman of the
ASB Elections 'committee, reminds candidates that the date
for 2 ,- tive campaigning is April
6. Active campaigning before the
Official date is punishable by fine
or disqualification.
In continuing, he said the !'Illnority students have trouble adjusting to llfe at FSC becauae ~
open racism and hypocrisy. After
enumerating the actions taken by
Acting President Falk he stated
•o r. Falk says he is 'in favor of'
EOP and Ethnic Studies but clearly his actions show differently.
•1 feel,• he continued, •there is
a definite need for students to
get together because they (students) don't realize the power
they wield. Students should be
concerned because the administration does the very things students are taught are wrong.•
Davis commented that advances have been made but they could
be greater if priorities were established or re-established and
students were able to confront
the real problems instead of each
other.
In closing he stated, •rn order
to be effective, we need campus
unity. We need to have responsible students questioning the
actions of the administration.
We need to have you responsible
students saying 'we don't like ll
either'."
Monday, March 16,
INTERVIEWS
Raul Contreras (Senior student):
I. Was the hunger strike a suc-
cess?
-In terms of focus attention on
the educatianal needs and problems of the Chicanos.•
II. What will the Chicanos do
next?
•r will hope tlrst of all there is
no violence because v 1o 1e n c e
plays into the hands of the Ral-
fertys, Reagans, and Falks.•
III. What would you do?
•In my opinion what they should
do is use peaceful means. we
should solicit support from civic
leaders of the Chicano community."
John Sanchez (parent and gardener at FSC):
I. Was the hunger strike a success?
•It was because • it got a lot of
attention in the news media out
in the community."
•Falk and Fikes' minds are
made up of what they plan to do.
Nothing short of violence wm
change their minds.•
II. What do you think the Chicanos on campus wm do next?
•r have no idea.•
III, What would you do?
letters
'Law and order'
•The streets of our country
are in turmoil. The universities
are filled with students rebelling
and rioting. Communists are
seeking to destroy our country.
Russia is threatening us with her
might and the Republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and
without. We need law and order.•
Adolf Hitler, 1932
or was it Ronnie Reagan, 1966
or was it George Wallace, 1968
or was it Jim, The Gunman,
Fikes, 1969
Isn't it funny that statements
made by Adolf Hitler, a killer of
millions. nearly forty years ago
are so similar to that of Governor Ronald Reagan that it is difficult and almost impossible to
identify the speakers by their
respective statements. Ronnie
has made a numberofstatements
concerning our streets. our country. turmoil and universities being filled with rebelling and rioting students.
George has made many speeches concerning Communists being
at the roots of freedom marches
and so-called riots. Through his
reasoning such men as: Rev.
Martin Luther King. Cesar Chavez, Malcolm X, Rev. Jessie
Jackson and Stokley Carmichael
probably sit on the central committee of the Communist Party
(obviously unrealistic).
Jim, the Gunman, Fikes has
often proclaimed that •law and
order• must be kept on campus,
while he continues w violate or
ignore all (or nearly all) laws
and campus' procedures. Jim and
his side-kick. Karl L. Falk have
employed an old Hitler tactic remove from office or strip away
the power of any persons who
dare oppose the administration rs this so hard to see?
Well, Ronnie, George, and Jim
-Hitler has said what you are
now saying. Hitler has done what
you are seeking to do. The world
will place you where they placed
Hitler; if you continue to do so.
_ can You Dig It?
P,S.: campus, now that you
know you are sick, why not get
treated? If you have syphilis you
don't take an x-ray (investig~tions). You treat it - before 1t
spreads.
LaVert Lucas
•we can rely on Phil Sanchez
for support and take peaceful
means for goals we want to acquire.•
Q. Was the strike a success?
What will Chicanos do next?
A. Gene Guzman: It was a success because 20 out of 700
students started the camp-out
and it turned out to be a success.
They didn't pay attention to
non-violence so now there's
only one alternative. Bad attitudes tow a rd s Chicanos.
They can't see Chicanos getting ahead, so they try to put
us down.
John Givens (teacher): The
camp-in was definitely a success.
The Chicanos have done a lot
in the community and they've
done it on campus, too. They
helped in Hanford and have
been helping out in the community.
Dave Hutton (Black student):
The strike was a success in
a way. It put out an idea to
the people. [ would have gone
out H I were asked. I don't
know, but whatever they do,
['m behind them.
2 DAYS ONlY
MARGOT
FONTEYN
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3
Mr. 6963:
'I don't giV.e a f ... '
Mr. Schedule 6963 walked into his 8:10 class, bright-eyed
with a Jim Clinton suit, Today
was report day. Among his tew
early morning students sat a
brown hairy Chicano, No. •152•
Ph. D. smiled a hls small class
and politely trcnored the Chicano sitting directly in front of
the podium. Today was Monday
1nd the last class reports were
to be gi'V8n. The Chicano M.A.
volunteered to peak and asked
to stand and tac the class, being
that his chair !aced the blackboard and blackboards weren't
people. He opened his topic described his subject, position,
and quoted a paragraph trom
Hegel. The white Ph. D. retorted with educative, authoritarian, overton s - •you're con!unsing the class; you've misinterpreted the assignment, and
are wasting the class's time.•
The Chicano M.A. tumbled and
mumbled • •r would Uke to explain further, material in my
subject matter o! the •clinical
type• ts somewhat limited.•
The verbal fisticuffs continued
for about six minutes to the
thrtlling awe of the education
students. The tomb-like room
was filled with fomented vibrations. The mangled M.A. sat
down, his empty mind, upon the
empty chair, trickling down to
his feet, where had he gone
wrong on his report?
The second round of the fight
began about two minutes afterward, when Mr. Gil began his
class assignment #2.
I could not keep quiet, nor did
I really believe what I was hearing. An assignment on research
of prenatel-grade school children was registered by the class.
Suddenly a question was proposed by another student, Maria
Hernandez - How about research
on bilingual children (Chicano
Pa...
children)?? Tbe -ntta
D. '•
instantaneous replY wu no., w ...
cause there was net enoup ftu1
lnterest. Based on the ~ tbai
the majority of the cla.ss were
Anglo ex.eept for Marta and my-,
nlf.
Ch.a.llenging this faet, I
ra.lsed my hand and replied -i would be interested - since
I am, or just interested, Chicano and am currently involved
in the Ethnic Studies Progr&.m
at Fresno state College. Hi
immediate response to my answer was - •you - are causing
1a disturbance in my class. I
believe you should leave the
room!" I left muttering and confused, thinking those things can
only happen in high school what is this, high school aga.ln?
I, the Chicano M.A., got up
and walked slowly out, muttering a confused dialogue about
certain things not being clear.
Wednesday morning found the
M.A. (me) sittlng in the same
seat, at the same time, with a
smile on my face, and nervous.
The white Ph. D. walked in,
smlled to the class, then spotted the Chicano M.A. and his
smile shattered and fell to the
floor. Whispering about talking
outside we went out where no
one could hear.
He said I Ph. D. I said me M.A. He said! don't give a fuck what you
I said ---1""'1_m_s_o_rry, but I've
published too.
He said in what field?
I said you'll find out.
I published (an in thing)
February
1970
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Poeua. els HU RAJA
Miro •...•••.•. la angustia y la pobreza
el barco lleno de ninos
y la gente discutiendo temas
que no importan
Miro •.•.•...•• la sociedad en agonia
sueno la derrota de los temas
Busco en un mundo Vano
las calles
llenas de pajaros vagantes
sonando suenos
Busco el silencio
que tu dejaste
En los ninos
de tu ilusion
Traigo •.•••.•.•. llantos desde lejos
ya no soy yo •.•.•.•.••
Traigo •••.•.•.•. pedacitos de arbol manzanero
mensajes de ilusiones
clavados en tu esperanza
Bebo suenos neg ros
en el vaso
de mi corazon
Ojas verdes caen
como nieve
en este dia de tinieblas
ya no soy yo •.•.•...•.
Sombras •.•.•..••. consum iendo est rel las
cons um iendo el corazon
que busco en ilusion
ya no soy yo ..•.•.•.•.
G. F. Martinez
O. L. Salinas
IND I A
Cuando te vi
se em peso mi vida
Mis sentidos se reventahan
para oi r tu voz
Mis ojos lloraban
para ver tu bel leza
Mis brazos rezaban
para cager mi vida
Y mi alma se perdio en
tu hermosura de Bronze
Y pase un tiempo de fel icidacl
· pero ya la verdad se revcla
Eran solo rpomentos robados
entre la noche
Que se burlan en mis suenos
mi ser lo hice menos
Y qui zas sera mi I lorona
creia que eras solo para mis brazo5
Pero te vi en otros
La vida ya no cs nada
Soy un Pasajero de la vida
Porque me ciegue
Al desengano
Jorge Leos
CDC
,,..he California Democratic
Cc mcil met in Fresno last week-
eno and approved several resolutions, two of which affect Chica os, for the party platform in
the upcoming state election.
r he council delegates supported the United Farm Workers
Organizing Committee's boycott
of California table grapes but
refused a non-supporting amendment for candidates not publicly
backing the boycott.
Another CDC resolution asked
the removal of Superior Court
Judge Gerald B. Chargin (Santa
Clara County) for his •racist•
remarks towards Chicanos while
sentencing a Chicano youth for
incest last year in San Jose.
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A few months ago a young
teacher corps member of the
Woodlake High School History
Department gave his class their
choice of a project. The class
decided on editing and distributing a weekly bulletin to the
community. The name they chose
for their bulletin was LaNoticia.
A few weeks later the board of
trustees got hold of a copy and
declared it as being connected
with the Con Safas paper written
by the alleged drug abusers. This
in return made Francisco Razo
the teacher corps supervisor , ~
condoner of drug abusers. He
was immediately dismissed.
About a week later a student
strike was called. At approximately 10:10 a.m. on February
20th. 126 students walked out of
classes at Woodlake High School.
All this in protest of Razo's dismissal. At the same time three
other teacher corps workers resigned. All 126 of the demonstrating students were suspended. They were refused readmittance until they returned with a
parent or parents. The conditions
were that each student who had
been involved or in anyway participated in the walkout sign a
declaration of loyalty to the
school and swear under oath
never to be a part of am antischool- ruling activities again.
SPECIAL BOARD '.\-1EF:TI~G
HEQUESTED
A special meetrni; of the hoard
of trustees was called for by the
students and at that time was
denied them.
Several letters were written
to school administrcl.tors and authorities hy . turlents and parents
asking for an inveshg-ation of the
so-call d "model school•.
During this time a steady pick
et line held fast for over a week .
On l\tarch 10th a meeting of the
board was called in which the
parents and students coultl be
present. A number of demands
were presented to the hoard the main one being the rehirinR
of Razo - all but this one were
agreed upon.
Later a private meeting of
students and parents was arranged. A play for boycotting the
businesses seemed the only way
to get the attention of the board
of trustees since they are the
business people of the town.
This is the Woodlake situation
as it stands now, the mass media
has recorded this battle as being
far from over.
is dying
"'La Adelita," Me Xi can Revolution herione is gravely ill in
San Antonio.
In 1913 with a revolution raging in Mexico, 13-year-old Adela
Valarde went to the home of
Mrs. Leona Villegas de Mazon
in Cuidad Juarez, across the
border from El Paso.
The little girl told the woman
she wanted to be part of the
revolution - as a nurse.
•But you are just a child,•
Mrs. Mazon said. "You are at an
age when you should be playing
with toys instead of being exposed
to the gruesome sights and horror of war and the sad view of
brother fighting against brother."
"But I feel there is a job to
do,• the little girl said, "and
someone must do it .•
The little girl, who became
known only by the affectionate
name of • Adelita •. became the
herione of Mexico's revolution.
:\"ow Mrs. Adela Velarde de
Villegas, 70, lies ill and fighting
for her life in Baptist Memorial
Hospital in San Antoanio.
The classic ballad of Mexico's
re volution is •La Adelita,• This
ballad was written about hP,r and
for her.
The teenage nurse scurried
about the fie Id of carnage gl ving
aid and succor. The horror of
war goes hand :n hand with romance, and f .1elita was linked
with some of the most famous
name!-. of the revolution. including P<1ncho Vifol.
But it v.asn 'r the generals Ci"
colonels who caught her heart,
hut a seri; eant in the medical
corps, Antonio del Rio Armento.
It was he who composed the
famous "La Adelita." He l?ter
died in Adelita's arms.
Later she became the wife of
Col. Alfrer.o Villegas, a revolutionary hero who, with Adelita,
have lived in retirement at Cuidad ,\cu11a. across from Del Rio.
Texas. 1 he Col011el. now 80, has
heen at Adelita's hedside in an
Antonio.
While there have been other
girls who claimed to be Adelita.
Mrs. Villegas passes the credentials that prove her identitv·
a plaque from the Archbishop
Mexico. LuL \1. !\!artinez, dated
March 17. 1950. rt says: "To
the Authentic Adelita with my
blessings."
She has decorations from the
Mexican Legion of Honor. Association of the White Cross. and
scrolls from President Gustavo
Diaz Ordaz and the late president
Adolfo Lopez Mateos.
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The NFPC, which says it represents 35,000 of the 55,000
Catholic priests in the United
States, said its members will
ask their parishioners to refrain
from buying grapes.
The strongly worded resolution l4SO stated the NF PC will
ask the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops, scheduled to
meet next month in San Francisco, to endorse the boycott and
support it with money.
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Striking foundrymen at the
~resno Brass Works and Catalina Brass Co. have reversed
!heir nonunion stand to join the
mde_p endent United Electrical
Radio & Machine Workers 0 f
America (U E).
Bill Freitas, a staff organizer
fo~ the UE'_s Sanger Local 10141
~a1? the umon has signed a maJonty of the foundry men anct
that membership cards still a
bein g received.
re
The strikers claim 55 Fresno
Brass workers and 17 Catalina
employes are involved. Fresno
Brass was struck March 2 and
the Catalina foundrymen began
picketing two days later.
Freitas said he plans to notify the company formally today
that the union is representing the
foundry men .
The strikers today were distributing broadsides in English
and Spanish which read:
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safety measures are inadequate
(3) insurance hen e tits unde;
present conditions greatly fall
short ot the workers needs, (4)
the foremen are constantly pushing. harassing and threatentnr
us, (5) higher wages, and ttnally
the most important _ (6) we want
a union c:ontract. Without a union,
we believe that nothing would bt
improved,•
The foundrymen earlier had
said they did not want union
representation.
The plants' management has
notified the foundrymen it considers them to have quit their
Jobs as a result of the walkout.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, March 16, 1970
Sistar Sadie
He don't
say nuthin'
You know, yo all be talking
bout how bad things ts out at the
college, talking bout how this
• Acttn• cat done falked things up
and all such a stuff as that. But
when you actually come right
down to it, this administration got
a piss po way of doln things and
that's a natural fact.
You ask ole Mr . .,Actin" about
the firins and he say he don't
know nothin about em. Yet you
don't see him re-hirin none of
them people what been fired.
cat say there will be an Ethnic
Studies Program next year, yet
he ain't ask none of the Black
Studies teachers to come back.
You ask him if he gon rehire
Dick Keyes, the Chairman of
Ethnic Studies and he say he can't
discuss •personnel matters• in
public. And plus all that, the
people in Black Studies got registered letters on February 28,
1970 saying - and I quotes •California State College Administrative Code, Title 5, Section 42700 defines the position
of Lecturer as a non-permanent
academic assignment. Accordingly your appointment as Lecturer expires at the close of
duties of the 1969-70 academic
year.•
My home girl what teaches out
there came to see me bout all
this. She kinda dizzy but she
known for bein able pour piss
outta boots - which is more than
I can say for that • Actin• cat
and the rest of his friends.
•Sadie," she say, • these people at Fresno State have a piss
poor way of doing business."
(She a very smart girl.) "I don't
know if I'm hired or fired."
•wen, if you got one of them
letters, the whole thing should be
clear to you."
-.•Yes.
But Phil Walker_saysthe
nominations for Ethnic Studies
are stlll being considered and we
shouldn't get upset. But, I tell
you, Sadie, I am upset.•
•well," I tells her, •my sainted
mamma always said, 'don't never
believe the man gon ever do a
thing for you less'n he put it in
writing then only believe one
tenth of that. If he say he gon
give you a hundred dollars, look
for ten and hold him to five.' •
•That's all very well but according to what you say I should
be looking for a job that would
start next week •.• and the Man
say-•
•You notice that 'Actin' cat
ain't said nothin don't you? And
all you really got to go by ls what
you got in writing. This Walker
cat done put this other stuff in
writing?•
•Not as far as I know."
•Humpn." I tell her. -Humph,
you know what they laying dead
to do. Yo all make one wrong
move tween now and June - call
the wrong white man a hunkie,
say, or mistake a cop for a pig and they just ease yo all on out
in June and say, •wen, this ain't
no spur of the moment thing. We
told you that contract was gon be
up in June." But you all be good
and they may keep you round for
another year. Maybe."
•But, Sadie, that's really putting us in a bind. We don't know
if we should be looking for other
jobs or not."
•Girl, if you ain't learned no
mor'n that inaUthetimeyoubeen
in school then I sho can't say
much for yo education."
-okay, okay. I see what you're
saying. If we wait around, it
makes it look like we tommed to
stay here . Maybe we should raise
sand now and take our chances
later."
•I tell you one thing: rt that
'Actin' cat won't talk about personnel matters in public, then you
better go ask him to write you
something in private. Cause it's
more than just yo job. H's the
whole program that's in danger.
These folks ain't Just mess in with
you, they messin with all the
minority people in the Fresno
Area."
•That's right, Sadie. So if we
raise any kind of sand at all, it'll
be with the idea of winning and
staying, winning and keeping Ethnic Studies,"
•Girl," I tell her, •you finally
learnin how to pour piss outta a
boot."
SANCHEZ & HALL MORTUARY
Phone 237-3532
commentary
Walker, the Honorable
states ( correctly) that my appointment was to be fore one year
only. But what he seems to forget - probably on purpose - is
ALL LECTURESIIlPS ARE FOR
ONE YEAR ONLY and are renewed for the following year.
Wow! does he ever have •Honor•!
Walker, The Honorable, says
that, though my student evaluations are strongly favorable, they
are average or below average.
He even cites ms method of
statistic ratings, ie., 23.4 per
cent of the students said I was
average in ONE OUT OF A LIST
OF FIVE CATEGORIES. His
"HONOR" for-gets (again) that
by his own mathematics 78.6
students gave me the highest
ratings. But even more important
than that is the FACT that NOT
ONE STUDENT GA VE ME A BAD
RA TING. I told you he was amazing.
Here now (Glory be!) is the LuLu. Walker, the Honorable, says
although my -extraordinary attainments" as a writer justify my
position, my lack of formal academic training ought to disqualify
me as an instructor. Isn't that
something coming from a man
who has for over a decade failed
to get his Ph.D. - and he's been
in and around colleges and universities for half his life '; !
I am personally getting a bit
sick of educated fools like Walker, and I'm damn mad at his
'ERVE: to expect people to fall
for his ssinine "masons" for
comrniting his stupid acts, which
are bas d on pet t v. narrow-
By Nathan C. Heard
Though some ot you may have
read that I have been rehired,
the fact is that Phillip Walker, .
the Honorable, has decreed that
I NOT be rehired for next year.
Now we all expected that reaction
from him, but what nobody expected was that he would try to
be •objective" about his decision.
The man is a constant amazement, folks!
His first 'reason' is that I'm
supposed to be teaching ONLY
creative writing and not my additional course in modern black
writing. Now he says this despite
that FACT that when I was first
hired the Dean, in nominating me,
said I was to be a lecturer IN A
VARIETY OF COURSES AT THE
COLLEGE. I was ASSIGNED the
black writer's course, I didn't
make it up. Yes, Phillip Walker
is an •Honorable" man.
His second •reason" (I know
my students are going to find this
hilarious) is that my enrollment
is BELOW •staffing form u 1a
Classifications". The Fact Is: I
have nearly DOUBLE the enrollments in ALL my classes that is
required by the courses. There
are 30 students in my English
149.3 class, 34 students in
English 40.3, and 3G students in
English 175.1. Does that sound
like it's BELOW average'; If
Walker were trying to lighten my
work-load I would he appreciative, but I will not allow him to
justify his LI ES at my expense.
Walker, the llonorable also
Black vs. white press
Bight o ff the b.tl, it i.s a very
acc-urat
description for hlack
people to view th press a heing
white, There are le ·s than one
huncl red hlack people working
for the niaJor newspapers in
t hi c·ount r~·.
The press te 11s
th
public that there are not
enough qualified black Jou 1·u.ili st.-;, Black people hold contt>mpt !or the word "qualified"
and nghtly so. It alwa\·simplies
that someone is setting the standarcis.
White people can not
set the standard& for the needs
of black people. Eldridge Cleaver could get a Joh writing for
Ramparts. hut I douht seriously
if a major r1ewspaper would have
hired him.
When I read news
or editorials ahout black people
by whites, 1 sometimes wonder
who qualified them.
The white press has a tendency to overlook or treat lightly
things that are pertinent to black
people.
Black people feel the
neeed for more interpretative and
in depth reporting. To pick up
a newspaper and read the headlines: Riot, Six Killed. etc .. and
to find that the story supports
no more than the headline is a
sham. Newspaper reporters report the behavior of black people
without giving the public an understanding of that behavior. The
world needs to know the real cri-
By Bill Riddl spni?;g r
It appeared the Department of
Journalism, Fre ·no late
ollege, was not too happy when
the staff of the Daily Collegian
and Board of Puhlications could
see the feasibility of having separate editions for ethnic groups.
I found it ironic that the Dept.
of .Journalism would have offered any objection to separate
editions controlled by lilack students. Tab~, morethananyother
department, know the ~hort-comings of a white press when it
comes to reportin R news on and
about black people.
The white press is just another white insititution that has
created and maintained adverse
social
conditions
for black
people.
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mindedness, or race or PoU.
If FSC is any kind of exam tics,
what lies ahead for this c Ple ot
then there is no hope
Utountry
• • • era11
NO HOPE, because the stud Y
are apathetic automatons ents
will never be able to brea1c Who
holds which • educated• t lhe
nincompoops like WalkershUPid
a\'e
on th em ••• and, if such is t
case, then perhaps it is 1 he
n rny
best interests to leave her be
fore I become like one or an~th of FSC's nothings.
er
I won't make but passing
c
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orn.
men t on th e. safe, secure , corn.
f or t a bl e maJority of faculty m
ern.
bers who have become mentai
faggots (an attitude which has
leaked out to the students) so that
the atmosphere at the college .
incompatible with t~ue educat1~~
because the college 1s run by I>eople who hate change, staffed by
people who fear change, and at.
tended by people who hope that
chang: won't really BE change,
Yes, 1t may be best if I split,
I am a creative writer and there's
little creativ!ty at this college,
I see what 1s supposed to be
educated people all around me•
I'm supposed to be living amon~
the best educated people in the
world.
But their •education•
didn't prevent them from fucking
up the WHOLE, world, which
shows me quite clearly that there
is nothing so stupid as an educated man if he's not dealing With
the things he's educated in,
Walker is NOT educated in
honor , ethics nor humanity, but he
holds a position which is defined
as •honorable" . That should put
the whole concept of honor in this
society in doubt, but it won't because Walker is probably in a
majority on this campus and in
this society (see elected officials). Perhaps I will not be like
Pete Everwine, perhaps I will
indeed go away quietly. And, perhaps, somewhere, I'll really
bump into some honor.
minal in a just perspective . The
d ep underlying causes of black
p ople's b havior is fraudulent
at the expense of superficial
cover..1.ge .
r remember during
the sit-lll demonstrations the
new. papers made me think that
hla<'k people will go through alot
of hell Just to sit next to while
people,
urel~· it wasn't just
that.
Th()re are some people who
say ditors and reporte rs have
tu he ohjective. I can not a,z; ree
to that. After looking the word
up in the dictionary, it tells me
that newspapers workers must
he impersonal. impartial. etc.
Those reporters a: 11d eciitors can
do black people no good, to be
sure. the\· are cietri mental to
hlark people. Being objective is
being too dose to neutral. I
think bias is a bette r word.
Newspaper workers must get involved by being biased against adverse social conditions that are
killing blark people. James Bassett of the Los Angeles Times,
states. •r must acknowledge that
we, like maw, other major papers of the so-called enlightened
~orth, engaged in this exercfse
too self-consciously. too dispassionatel \'.
Whether purposely
or not." we manage to remai~
non-involved." Black people nee
non - involvement like a punk
needs a condom.
The staff of the Daily Collegian,
be they black, white, brown
otherwise can not be concerne
with what makes the Dept. 01
Journalism happy at this school,
It takes more than having aheart
for the plight of black people,
A heart without courage is useless in a revolution. The Uhuru
will point the way.
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to Ag Senate
BY Gloria Davis
collegian Managing Editor
,
ui I\ recent attempt to •estabUsh open lines of com municatton :
t,etween students from the Schoel
of Agriculture and the rest of the
collegiate community,• the Ag
senate invited several student
leaders to speak to them.
osby Davis, past president of
the Union of Black Students; GU
Acuna, president pro tem of the
student Senate and Doug Broten,
ASB president, answered questions and offered comments to
the Ag Senate. During the discussion, Davis, BrotenandAcuna
attempted to clarify any false
ideas and misconceptions about
minority students the Ag students
had, and the Ag students attempted to clarify themselves.
Davis, the principle speaker,
spoke in behalf of the minority
students at Fresno State College
and the services set aside for
them. He stated the minority students feel the administrative is
making moves to eliminate them,
and more specifically the Educational Opportunity Program,
which keeps most of them in
school.
Davis made it clear that the
only special treatments EOP students receive are special entrance requirements and permission to preregister during
their first year at FSC. •once
here," he added, •they (EOP
students) must compete with
you.•
OSBY DAVIS
ASB nomination
petitions ready
l\'. om ination petitions for the
upcoming April primary election
of Associated student Body officers are available beginning today in the Student Activities Office.
To qualify for a place on the
April 13 primary ballot a candidate must obtain 25 slgnatures
on petitions and have them turned
back into Student Activities by
5 P, m. Tuesday, March 31.
Bruce Morris chairman of the
ASB Elections 'committee, reminds candidates that the date
for 2 ,- tive campaigning is April
6. Active campaigning before the
Official date is punishable by fine
or disqualification.
In continuing, he said the !'Illnority students have trouble adjusting to llfe at FSC becauae ~
open racism and hypocrisy. After
enumerating the actions taken by
Acting President Falk he stated
•o r. Falk says he is 'in favor of'
EOP and Ethnic Studies but clearly his actions show differently.
•1 feel,• he continued, •there is
a definite need for students to
get together because they (students) don't realize the power
they wield. Students should be
concerned because the administration does the very things students are taught are wrong.•
Davis commented that advances have been made but they could
be greater if priorities were established or re-established and
students were able to confront
the real problems instead of each
other.
In closing he stated, •rn order
to be effective, we need campus
unity. We need to have responsible students questioning the
actions of the administration.
We need to have you responsible
students saying 'we don't like ll
either'."
Monday, March 16,
INTERVIEWS
Raul Contreras (Senior student):
I. Was the hunger strike a suc-
cess?
-In terms of focus attention on
the educatianal needs and problems of the Chicanos.•
II. What will the Chicanos do
next?
•r will hope tlrst of all there is
no violence because v 1o 1e n c e
plays into the hands of the Ral-
fertys, Reagans, and Falks.•
III. What would you do?
•In my opinion what they should
do is use peaceful means. we
should solicit support from civic
leaders of the Chicano community."
John Sanchez (parent and gardener at FSC):
I. Was the hunger strike a success?
•It was because • it got a lot of
attention in the news media out
in the community."
•Falk and Fikes' minds are
made up of what they plan to do.
Nothing short of violence wm
change their minds.•
II. What do you think the Chicanos on campus wm do next?
•r have no idea.•
III, What would you do?
letters
'Law and order'
•The streets of our country
are in turmoil. The universities
are filled with students rebelling
and rioting. Communists are
seeking to destroy our country.
Russia is threatening us with her
might and the Republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and
without. We need law and order.•
Adolf Hitler, 1932
or was it Ronnie Reagan, 1966
or was it George Wallace, 1968
or was it Jim, The Gunman,
Fikes, 1969
Isn't it funny that statements
made by Adolf Hitler, a killer of
millions. nearly forty years ago
are so similar to that of Governor Ronald Reagan that it is difficult and almost impossible to
identify the speakers by their
respective statements. Ronnie
has made a numberofstatements
concerning our streets. our country. turmoil and universities being filled with rebelling and rioting students.
George has made many speeches concerning Communists being
at the roots of freedom marches
and so-called riots. Through his
reasoning such men as: Rev.
Martin Luther King. Cesar Chavez, Malcolm X, Rev. Jessie
Jackson and Stokley Carmichael
probably sit on the central committee of the Communist Party
(obviously unrealistic).
Jim, the Gunman, Fikes has
often proclaimed that •law and
order• must be kept on campus,
while he continues w violate or
ignore all (or nearly all) laws
and campus' procedures. Jim and
his side-kick. Karl L. Falk have
employed an old Hitler tactic remove from office or strip away
the power of any persons who
dare oppose the administration rs this so hard to see?
Well, Ronnie, George, and Jim
-Hitler has said what you are
now saying. Hitler has done what
you are seeking to do. The world
will place you where they placed
Hitler; if you continue to do so.
_ can You Dig It?
P,S.: campus, now that you
know you are sick, why not get
treated? If you have syphilis you
don't take an x-ray (investig~tions). You treat it - before 1t
spreads.
LaVert Lucas
•we can rely on Phil Sanchez
for support and take peaceful
means for goals we want to acquire.•
Q. Was the strike a success?
What will Chicanos do next?
A. Gene Guzman: It was a success because 20 out of 700
students started the camp-out
and it turned out to be a success.
They didn't pay attention to
non-violence so now there's
only one alternative. Bad attitudes tow a rd s Chicanos.
They can't see Chicanos getting ahead, so they try to put
us down.
John Givens (teacher): The
camp-in was definitely a success.
The Chicanos have done a lot
in the community and they've
done it on campus, too. They
helped in Hanford and have
been helping out in the community.
Dave Hutton (Black student):
The strike was a success in
a way. It put out an idea to
the people. [ would have gone
out H I were asked. I don't
know, but whatever they do,
['m behind them.
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Mr. 6963:
'I don't giV.e a f ... '
Mr. Schedule 6963 walked into his 8:10 class, bright-eyed
with a Jim Clinton suit, Today
was report day. Among his tew
early morning students sat a
brown hairy Chicano, No. •152•
Ph. D. smiled a hls small class
and politely trcnored the Chicano sitting directly in front of
the podium. Today was Monday
1nd the last class reports were
to be gi'V8n. The Chicano M.A.
volunteered to peak and asked
to stand and tac the class, being
that his chair !aced the blackboard and blackboards weren't
people. He opened his topic described his subject, position,
and quoted a paragraph trom
Hegel. The white Ph. D. retorted with educative, authoritarian, overton s - •you're con!unsing the class; you've misinterpreted the assignment, and
are wasting the class's time.•
The Chicano M.A. tumbled and
mumbled • •r would Uke to explain further, material in my
subject matter o! the •clinical
type• ts somewhat limited.•
The verbal fisticuffs continued
for about six minutes to the
thrtlling awe of the education
students. The tomb-like room
was filled with fomented vibrations. The mangled M.A. sat
down, his empty mind, upon the
empty chair, trickling down to
his feet, where had he gone
wrong on his report?
The second round of the fight
began about two minutes afterward, when Mr. Gil began his
class assignment #2.
I could not keep quiet, nor did
I really believe what I was hearing. An assignment on research
of prenatel-grade school children was registered by the class.
Suddenly a question was proposed by another student, Maria
Hernandez - How about research
on bilingual children (Chicano
Pa...
children)?? Tbe -ntta
D. '•
instantaneous replY wu no., w ...
cause there was net enoup ftu1
lnterest. Based on the ~ tbai
the majority of the cla.ss were
Anglo ex.eept for Marta and my-,
nlf.
Ch.a.llenging this faet, I
ra.lsed my hand and replied -i would be interested - since
I am, or just interested, Chicano and am currently involved
in the Ethnic Studies Progr&.m
at Fresno state College. Hi
immediate response to my answer was - •you - are causing
1a disturbance in my class. I
believe you should leave the
room!" I left muttering and confused, thinking those things can
only happen in high school what is this, high school aga.ln?
I, the Chicano M.A., got up
and walked slowly out, muttering a confused dialogue about
certain things not being clear.
Wednesday morning found the
M.A. (me) sittlng in the same
seat, at the same time, with a
smile on my face, and nervous.
The white Ph. D. walked in,
smlled to the class, then spotted the Chicano M.A. and his
smile shattered and fell to the
floor. Whispering about talking
outside we went out where no
one could hear.
He said I Ph. D. I said me M.A. He said! don't give a fuck what you
I said ---1""'1_m_s_o_rry, but I've
published too.
He said in what field?
I said you'll find out.
I published (an in thing)
February
1970
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Poeua. els HU RAJA
Miro •...•••.•. la angustia y la pobreza
el barco lleno de ninos
y la gente discutiendo temas
que no importan
Miro •.•.•...•• la sociedad en agonia
sueno la derrota de los temas
Busco en un mundo Vano
las calles
llenas de pajaros vagantes
sonando suenos
Busco el silencio
que tu dejaste
En los ninos
de tu ilusion
Traigo •.•••.•.•. llantos desde lejos
ya no soy yo •.•.•.•.••
Traigo •••.•.•.•. pedacitos de arbol manzanero
mensajes de ilusiones
clavados en tu esperanza
Bebo suenos neg ros
en el vaso
de mi corazon
Ojas verdes caen
como nieve
en este dia de tinieblas
ya no soy yo •.•.•...•.
Sombras •.•.•..••. consum iendo est rel las
cons um iendo el corazon
que busco en ilusion
ya no soy yo ..•.•.•.•.
G. F. Martinez
O. L. Salinas
IND I A
Cuando te vi
se em peso mi vida
Mis sentidos se reventahan
para oi r tu voz
Mis ojos lloraban
para ver tu bel leza
Mis brazos rezaban
para cager mi vida
Y mi alma se perdio en
tu hermosura de Bronze
Y pase un tiempo de fel icidacl
· pero ya la verdad se revcla
Eran solo rpomentos robados
entre la noche
Que se burlan en mis suenos
mi ser lo hice menos
Y qui zas sera mi I lorona
creia que eras solo para mis brazo5
Pero te vi en otros
La vida ya no cs nada
Soy un Pasajero de la vida
Porque me ciegue
Al desengano
Jorge Leos
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,,..he California Democratic
Cc mcil met in Fresno last week-
eno and approved several resolutions, two of which affect Chica os, for the party platform in
the upcoming state election.
r he council delegates supported the United Farm Workers
Organizing Committee's boycott
of California table grapes but
refused a non-supporting amendment for candidates not publicly
backing the boycott.
Another CDC resolution asked
the removal of Superior Court
Judge Gerald B. Chargin (Santa
Clara County) for his •racist•
remarks towards Chicanos while
sentencing a Chicano youth for
incest last year in San Jose.
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La Adelita
MODEL
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SCHOOL. • •
for v,hom?
A few months ago a young
teacher corps member of the
Woodlake High School History
Department gave his class their
choice of a project. The class
decided on editing and distributing a weekly bulletin to the
community. The name they chose
for their bulletin was LaNoticia.
A few weeks later the board of
trustees got hold of a copy and
declared it as being connected
with the Con Safas paper written
by the alleged drug abusers. This
in return made Francisco Razo
the teacher corps supervisor , ~
condoner of drug abusers. He
was immediately dismissed.
About a week later a student
strike was called. At approximately 10:10 a.m. on February
20th. 126 students walked out of
classes at Woodlake High School.
All this in protest of Razo's dismissal. At the same time three
other teacher corps workers resigned. All 126 of the demonstrating students were suspended. They were refused readmittance until they returned with a
parent or parents. The conditions
were that each student who had
been involved or in anyway participated in the walkout sign a
declaration of loyalty to the
school and swear under oath
never to be a part of am antischool- ruling activities again.
SPECIAL BOARD '.\-1EF:TI~G
HEQUESTED
A special meetrni; of the hoard
of trustees was called for by the
students and at that time was
denied them.
Several letters were written
to school administrcl.tors and authorities hy . turlents and parents
asking for an inveshg-ation of the
so-call d "model school•.
During this time a steady pick
et line held fast for over a week .
On l\tarch 10th a meeting of the
board was called in which the
parents and students coultl be
present. A number of demands
were presented to the hoard the main one being the rehirinR
of Razo - all but this one were
agreed upon.
Later a private meeting of
students and parents was arranged. A play for boycotting the
businesses seemed the only way
to get the attention of the board
of trustees since they are the
business people of the town.
This is the Woodlake situation
as it stands now, the mass media
has recorded this battle as being
far from over.
is dying
"'La Adelita," Me Xi can Revolution herione is gravely ill in
San Antonio.
In 1913 with a revolution raging in Mexico, 13-year-old Adela
Valarde went to the home of
Mrs. Leona Villegas de Mazon
in Cuidad Juarez, across the
border from El Paso.
The little girl told the woman
she wanted to be part of the
revolution - as a nurse.
•But you are just a child,•
Mrs. Mazon said. "You are at an
age when you should be playing
with toys instead of being exposed
to the gruesome sights and horror of war and the sad view of
brother fighting against brother."
"But I feel there is a job to
do,• the little girl said, "and
someone must do it .•
The little girl, who became
known only by the affectionate
name of • Adelita •. became the
herione of Mexico's revolution.
:\"ow Mrs. Adela Velarde de
Villegas, 70, lies ill and fighting
for her life in Baptist Memorial
Hospital in San Antoanio.
The classic ballad of Mexico's
re volution is •La Adelita,• This
ballad was written about hP,r and
for her.
The teenage nurse scurried
about the fie Id of carnage gl ving
aid and succor. The horror of
war goes hand :n hand with romance, and f .1elita was linked
with some of the most famous
name!-. of the revolution. including P<1ncho Vifol.
But it v.asn 'r the generals Ci"
colonels who caught her heart,
hut a seri; eant in the medical
corps, Antonio del Rio Armento.
It was he who composed the
famous "La Adelita." He l?ter
died in Adelita's arms.
Later she became the wife of
Col. Alfrer.o Villegas, a revolutionary hero who, with Adelita,
have lived in retirement at Cuidad ,\cu11a. across from Del Rio.
Texas. 1 he Col011el. now 80, has
heen at Adelita's hedside in an
Antonio.
While there have been other
girls who claimed to be Adelita.
Mrs. Villegas passes the credentials that prove her identitv·
a plaque from the Archbishop
Mexico. LuL \1. !\!artinez, dated
March 17. 1950. rt says: "To
the Authentic Adelita with my
blessings."
She has decorations from the
Mexican Legion of Honor. Association of the White Cross. and
scrolls from President Gustavo
Diaz Ordaz and the late president
Adolfo Lopez Mateos.
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The NFPC, which says it represents 35,000 of the 55,000
Catholic priests in the United
States, said its members will
ask their parishioners to refrain
from buying grapes.
The strongly worded resolution l4SO stated the NF PC will
ask the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops, scheduled to
meet next month in San Francisco, to endorse the boycott and
support it with money.
-From The Fresno Bee
Striking foundrymen at the
~resno Brass Works and Catalina Brass Co. have reversed
!heir nonunion stand to join the
mde_p endent United Electrical
Radio & Machine Workers 0 f
America (U E).
Bill Freitas, a staff organizer
fo~ the UE'_s Sanger Local 10141
~a1? the umon has signed a maJonty of the foundry men anct
that membership cards still a
bein g received.
re
The strikers claim 55 Fresno
Brass workers and 17 Catalina
employes are involved. Fresno
Brass was struck March 2 and
the Catalina foundrymen began
picketing two days later.
Freitas said he plans to notify the company formally today
that the union is representing the
foundry men .
The strikers today were distributing broadsides in English
and Spanish which read:
•we are striking for the following reasons: ( 1) working conditions here are deplorable, (2)
safety measures are inadequate
(3) insurance hen e tits unde;
present conditions greatly fall
short ot the workers needs, (4)
the foremen are constantly pushing. harassing and threatentnr
us, (5) higher wages, and ttnally
the most important _ (6) we want
a union c:ontract. Without a union,
we believe that nothing would bt
improved,•
The foundrymen earlier had
said they did not want union
representation.
The plants' management has
notified the foundrymen it considers them to have quit their
Jobs as a result of the walkout.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, March 16, 1970
Sistar Sadie
He don't
say nuthin'
You know, yo all be talking
bout how bad things ts out at the
college, talking bout how this
• Acttn• cat done falked things up
and all such a stuff as that. But
when you actually come right
down to it, this administration got
a piss po way of doln things and
that's a natural fact.
You ask ole Mr . .,Actin" about
the firins and he say he don't
know nothin about em. Yet you
don't see him re-hirin none of
them people what been fired.
cat say there will be an Ethnic
Studies Program next year, yet
he ain't ask none of the Black
Studies teachers to come back.
You ask him if he gon rehire
Dick Keyes, the Chairman of
Ethnic Studies and he say he can't
discuss •personnel matters• in
public. And plus all that, the
people in Black Studies got registered letters on February 28,
1970 saying - and I quotes •California State College Administrative Code, Title 5, Section 42700 defines the position
of Lecturer as a non-permanent
academic assignment. Accordingly your appointment as Lecturer expires at the close of
duties of the 1969-70 academic
year.•
My home girl what teaches out
there came to see me bout all
this. She kinda dizzy but she
known for bein able pour piss
outta boots - which is more than
I can say for that • Actin• cat
and the rest of his friends.
•Sadie," she say, • these people at Fresno State have a piss
poor way of doing business."
(She a very smart girl.) "I don't
know if I'm hired or fired."
•wen, if you got one of them
letters, the whole thing should be
clear to you."
-.•Yes.
But Phil Walker_saysthe
nominations for Ethnic Studies
are stlll being considered and we
shouldn't get upset. But, I tell
you, Sadie, I am upset.•
•well," I tells her, •my sainted
mamma always said, 'don't never
believe the man gon ever do a
thing for you less'n he put it in
writing then only believe one
tenth of that. If he say he gon
give you a hundred dollars, look
for ten and hold him to five.' •
•That's all very well but according to what you say I should
be looking for a job that would
start next week •.• and the Man
say-•
•You notice that 'Actin' cat
ain't said nothin don't you? And
all you really got to go by ls what
you got in writing. This Walker
cat done put this other stuff in
writing?•
•Not as far as I know."
•Humpn." I tell her. -Humph,
you know what they laying dead
to do. Yo all make one wrong
move tween now and June - call
the wrong white man a hunkie,
say, or mistake a cop for a pig and they just ease yo all on out
in June and say, •wen, this ain't
no spur of the moment thing. We
told you that contract was gon be
up in June." But you all be good
and they may keep you round for
another year. Maybe."
•But, Sadie, that's really putting us in a bind. We don't know
if we should be looking for other
jobs or not."
•Girl, if you ain't learned no
mor'n that inaUthetimeyoubeen
in school then I sho can't say
much for yo education."
-okay, okay. I see what you're
saying. If we wait around, it
makes it look like we tommed to
stay here . Maybe we should raise
sand now and take our chances
later."
•I tell you one thing: rt that
'Actin' cat won't talk about personnel matters in public, then you
better go ask him to write you
something in private. Cause it's
more than just yo job. H's the
whole program that's in danger.
These folks ain't Just mess in with
you, they messin with all the
minority people in the Fresno
Area."
•That's right, Sadie. So if we
raise any kind of sand at all, it'll
be with the idea of winning and
staying, winning and keeping Ethnic Studies,"
•Girl," I tell her, •you finally
learnin how to pour piss outta a
boot."
SANCHEZ & HALL MORTUARY
Phone 237-3532
commentary
Walker, the Honorable
states ( correctly) that my appointment was to be fore one year
only. But what he seems to forget - probably on purpose - is
ALL LECTURESIIlPS ARE FOR
ONE YEAR ONLY and are renewed for the following year.
Wow! does he ever have •Honor•!
Walker, The Honorable, says
that, though my student evaluations are strongly favorable, they
are average or below average.
He even cites ms method of
statistic ratings, ie., 23.4 per
cent of the students said I was
average in ONE OUT OF A LIST
OF FIVE CATEGORIES. His
"HONOR" for-gets (again) that
by his own mathematics 78.6
students gave me the highest
ratings. But even more important
than that is the FACT that NOT
ONE STUDENT GA VE ME A BAD
RA TING. I told you he was amazing.
Here now (Glory be!) is the LuLu. Walker, the Honorable, says
although my -extraordinary attainments" as a writer justify my
position, my lack of formal academic training ought to disqualify
me as an instructor. Isn't that
something coming from a man
who has for over a decade failed
to get his Ph.D. - and he's been
in and around colleges and universities for half his life '; !
I am personally getting a bit
sick of educated fools like Walker, and I'm damn mad at his
'ERVE: to expect people to fall
for his ssinine "masons" for
comrniting his stupid acts, which
are bas d on pet t v. narrow-
By Nathan C. Heard
Though some ot you may have
read that I have been rehired,
the fact is that Phillip Walker, .
the Honorable, has decreed that
I NOT be rehired for next year.
Now we all expected that reaction
from him, but what nobody expected was that he would try to
be •objective" about his decision.
The man is a constant amazement, folks!
His first 'reason' is that I'm
supposed to be teaching ONLY
creative writing and not my additional course in modern black
writing. Now he says this despite
that FACT that when I was first
hired the Dean, in nominating me,
said I was to be a lecturer IN A
VARIETY OF COURSES AT THE
COLLEGE. I was ASSIGNED the
black writer's course, I didn't
make it up. Yes, Phillip Walker
is an •Honorable" man.
His second •reason" (I know
my students are going to find this
hilarious) is that my enrollment
is BELOW •staffing form u 1a
Classifications". The Fact Is: I
have nearly DOUBLE the enrollments in ALL my classes that is
required by the courses. There
are 30 students in my English
149.3 class, 34 students in
English 40.3, and 3G students in
English 175.1. Does that sound
like it's BELOW average'; If
Walker were trying to lighten my
work-load I would he appreciative, but I will not allow him to
justify his LI ES at my expense.
Walker, the llonorable also
Black vs. white press
Bight o ff the b.tl, it i.s a very
acc-urat
description for hlack
people to view th press a heing
white, There are le ·s than one
huncl red hlack people working
for the niaJor newspapers in
t hi c·ount r~·.
The press te 11s
th
public that there are not
enough qualified black Jou 1·u.ili st.-;, Black people hold contt>mpt !or the word "qualified"
and nghtly so. It alwa\·simplies
that someone is setting the standarcis.
White people can not
set the standard& for the needs
of black people. Eldridge Cleaver could get a Joh writing for
Ramparts. hut I douht seriously
if a major r1ewspaper would have
hired him.
When I read news
or editorials ahout black people
by whites, 1 sometimes wonder
who qualified them.
The white press has a tendency to overlook or treat lightly
things that are pertinent to black
people.
Black people feel the
neeed for more interpretative and
in depth reporting. To pick up
a newspaper and read the headlines: Riot, Six Killed. etc .. and
to find that the story supports
no more than the headline is a
sham. Newspaper reporters report the behavior of black people
without giving the public an understanding of that behavior. The
world needs to know the real cri-
By Bill Riddl spni?;g r
It appeared the Department of
Journalism, Fre ·no late
ollege, was not too happy when
the staff of the Daily Collegian
and Board of Puhlications could
see the feasibility of having separate editions for ethnic groups.
I found it ironic that the Dept.
of .Journalism would have offered any objection to separate
editions controlled by lilack students. Tab~, morethananyother
department, know the ~hort-comings of a white press when it
comes to reportin R news on and
about black people.
The white press is just another white insititution that has
created and maintained adverse
social
conditions
for black
people.
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mindedness, or race or PoU.
If FSC is any kind of exam tics,
what lies ahead for this c Ple ot
then there is no hope
Utountry
• • • era11
NO HOPE, because the stud Y
are apathetic automatons ents
will never be able to brea1c Who
holds which • educated• t lhe
nincompoops like WalkershUPid
a\'e
on th em ••• and, if such is t
case, then perhaps it is 1 he
n rny
best interests to leave her be
fore I become like one or an~th of FSC's nothings.
er
I won't make but passing
c
.
orn.
men t on th e. safe, secure , corn.
f or t a bl e maJority of faculty m
ern.
bers who have become mentai
faggots (an attitude which has
leaked out to the students) so that
the atmosphere at the college .
incompatible with t~ue educat1~~
because the college 1s run by I>eople who hate change, staffed by
people who fear change, and at.
tended by people who hope that
chang: won't really BE change,
Yes, 1t may be best if I split,
I am a creative writer and there's
little creativ!ty at this college,
I see what 1s supposed to be
educated people all around me•
I'm supposed to be living amon~
the best educated people in the
world.
But their •education•
didn't prevent them from fucking
up the WHOLE, world, which
shows me quite clearly that there
is nothing so stupid as an educated man if he's not dealing With
the things he's educated in,
Walker is NOT educated in
honor , ethics nor humanity, but he
holds a position which is defined
as •honorable" . That should put
the whole concept of honor in this
society in doubt, but it won't because Walker is probably in a
majority on this campus and in
this society (see elected officials). Perhaps I will not be like
Pete Everwine, perhaps I will
indeed go away quietly. And, perhaps, somewhere, I'll really
bump into some honor.
minal in a just perspective . The
d ep underlying causes of black
p ople's b havior is fraudulent
at the expense of superficial
cover..1.ge .
r remember during
the sit-lll demonstrations the
new. papers made me think that
hla<'k people will go through alot
of hell Just to sit next to while
people,
urel~· it wasn't just
that.
Th()re are some people who
say ditors and reporte rs have
tu he ohjective. I can not a,z; ree
to that. After looking the word
up in the dictionary, it tells me
that newspapers workers must
he impersonal. impartial. etc.
Those reporters a: 11d eciitors can
do black people no good, to be
sure. the\· are cietri mental to
hlark people. Being objective is
being too dose to neutral. I
think bias is a bette r word.
Newspaper workers must get involved by being biased against adverse social conditions that are
killing blark people. James Bassett of the Los Angeles Times,
states. •r must acknowledge that
we, like maw, other major papers of the so-called enlightened
~orth, engaged in this exercfse
too self-consciously. too dispassionatel \'.
Whether purposely
or not." we manage to remai~
non-involved." Black people nee
non - involvement like a punk
needs a condom.
The staff of the Daily Collegian,
be they black, white, brown
otherwise can not be concerne
with what makes the Dept. 01
Journalism happy at this school,
It takes more than having aheart
for the plight of black people,
A heart without courage is useless in a revolution. The Uhuru
will point the way.
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Davis Speaks
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BY Gloria Davis
collegian Managing Editor
,
ui I\ recent attempt to •estabUsh open lines of com municatton :
t,etween students from the Schoel
of Agriculture and the rest of the
collegiate community,• the Ag
senate invited several student
leaders to speak to them.
osby Davis, past president of
the Union of Black Students; GU
Acuna, president pro tem of the
student Senate and Doug Broten,
ASB president, answered questions and offered comments to
the Ag Senate. During the discussion, Davis, BrotenandAcuna
attempted to clarify any false
ideas and misconceptions about
minority students the Ag students
had, and the Ag students attempted to clarify themselves.
Davis, the principle speaker,
spoke in behalf of the minority
students at Fresno State College
and the services set aside for
them. He stated the minority students feel the administrative is
making moves to eliminate them,
and more specifically the Educational Opportunity Program,
which keeps most of them in
school.
Davis made it clear that the
only special treatments EOP students receive are special entrance requirements and permission to preregister during
their first year at FSC. •once
here," he added, •they (EOP
students) must compete with
you.•
OSBY DAVIS
ASB nomination
petitions ready
l\'. om ination petitions for the
upcoming April primary election
of Associated student Body officers are available beginning today in the Student Activities Office.
To qualify for a place on the
April 13 primary ballot a candidate must obtain 25 slgnatures
on petitions and have them turned
back into Student Activities by
5 P, m. Tuesday, March 31.
Bruce Morris chairman of the
ASB Elections 'committee, reminds candidates that the date
for 2 ,- tive campaigning is April
6. Active campaigning before the
Official date is punishable by fine
or disqualification.
In continuing, he said the !'Illnority students have trouble adjusting to llfe at FSC becauae ~
open racism and hypocrisy. After
enumerating the actions taken by
Acting President Falk he stated
•o r. Falk says he is 'in favor of'
EOP and Ethnic Studies but clearly his actions show differently.
•1 feel,• he continued, •there is
a definite need for students to
get together because they (students) don't realize the power
they wield. Students should be
concerned because the administration does the very things students are taught are wrong.•
Davis commented that advances have been made but they could
be greater if priorities were established or re-established and
students were able to confront
the real problems instead of each
other.
In closing he stated, •rn order
to be effective, we need campus
unity. We need to have responsible students questioning the
actions of the administration.
We need to have you responsible
students saying 'we don't like ll
either'."
Monday, March 16,
INTERVIEWS
Raul Contreras (Senior student):
I. Was the hunger strike a suc-
cess?
-In terms of focus attention on
the educatianal needs and problems of the Chicanos.•
II. What will the Chicanos do
next?
•r will hope tlrst of all there is
no violence because v 1o 1e n c e
plays into the hands of the Ral-
fertys, Reagans, and Falks.•
III. What would you do?
•In my opinion what they should
do is use peaceful means. we
should solicit support from civic
leaders of the Chicano community."
John Sanchez (parent and gardener at FSC):
I. Was the hunger strike a success?
•It was because • it got a lot of
attention in the news media out
in the community."
•Falk and Fikes' minds are
made up of what they plan to do.
Nothing short of violence wm
change their minds.•
II. What do you think the Chicanos on campus wm do next?
•r have no idea.•
III, What would you do?
letters
'Law and order'
•The streets of our country
are in turmoil. The universities
are filled with students rebelling
and rioting. Communists are
seeking to destroy our country.
Russia is threatening us with her
might and the Republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and
without. We need law and order.•
Adolf Hitler, 1932
or was it Ronnie Reagan, 1966
or was it George Wallace, 1968
or was it Jim, The Gunman,
Fikes, 1969
Isn't it funny that statements
made by Adolf Hitler, a killer of
millions. nearly forty years ago
are so similar to that of Governor Ronald Reagan that it is difficult and almost impossible to
identify the speakers by their
respective statements. Ronnie
has made a numberofstatements
concerning our streets. our country. turmoil and universities being filled with rebelling and rioting students.
George has made many speeches concerning Communists being
at the roots of freedom marches
and so-called riots. Through his
reasoning such men as: Rev.
Martin Luther King. Cesar Chavez, Malcolm X, Rev. Jessie
Jackson and Stokley Carmichael
probably sit on the central committee of the Communist Party
(obviously unrealistic).
Jim, the Gunman, Fikes has
often proclaimed that •law and
order• must be kept on campus,
while he continues w violate or
ignore all (or nearly all) laws
and campus' procedures. Jim and
his side-kick. Karl L. Falk have
employed an old Hitler tactic remove from office or strip away
the power of any persons who
dare oppose the administration rs this so hard to see?
Well, Ronnie, George, and Jim
-Hitler has said what you are
now saying. Hitler has done what
you are seeking to do. The world
will place you where they placed
Hitler; if you continue to do so.
_ can You Dig It?
P,S.: campus, now that you
know you are sick, why not get
treated? If you have syphilis you
don't take an x-ray (investig~tions). You treat it - before 1t
spreads.
LaVert Lucas
•we can rely on Phil Sanchez
for support and take peaceful
means for goals we want to acquire.•
Q. Was the strike a success?
What will Chicanos do next?
A. Gene Guzman: It was a success because 20 out of 700
students started the camp-out
and it turned out to be a success.
They didn't pay attention to
non-violence so now there's
only one alternative. Bad attitudes tow a rd s Chicanos.
They can't see Chicanos getting ahead, so they try to put
us down.
John Givens (teacher): The
camp-in was definitely a success.
The Chicanos have done a lot
in the community and they've
done it on campus, too. They
helped in Hanford and have
been helping out in the community.
Dave Hutton (Black student):
The strike was a success in
a way. It put out an idea to
the people. [ would have gone
out H I were asked. I don't
know, but whatever they do,
['m behind them.
2 DAYS ONlY
MARGOT
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Mr. 6963:
'I don't giV.e a f ... '
Mr. Schedule 6963 walked into his 8:10 class, bright-eyed
with a Jim Clinton suit, Today
was report day. Among his tew
early morning students sat a
brown hairy Chicano, No. •152•
Ph. D. smiled a hls small class
and politely trcnored the Chicano sitting directly in front of
the podium. Today was Monday
1nd the last class reports were
to be gi'V8n. The Chicano M.A.
volunteered to peak and asked
to stand and tac the class, being
that his chair !aced the blackboard and blackboards weren't
people. He opened his topic described his subject, position,
and quoted a paragraph trom
Hegel. The white Ph. D. retorted with educative, authoritarian, overton s - •you're con!unsing the class; you've misinterpreted the assignment, and
are wasting the class's time.•
The Chicano M.A. tumbled and
mumbled • •r would Uke to explain further, material in my
subject matter o! the •clinical
type• ts somewhat limited.•
The verbal fisticuffs continued
for about six minutes to the
thrtlling awe of the education
students. The tomb-like room
was filled with fomented vibrations. The mangled M.A. sat
down, his empty mind, upon the
empty chair, trickling down to
his feet, where had he gone
wrong on his report?
The second round of the fight
began about two minutes afterward, when Mr. Gil began his
class assignment #2.
I could not keep quiet, nor did
I really believe what I was hearing. An assignment on research
of prenatel-grade school children was registered by the class.
Suddenly a question was proposed by another student, Maria
Hernandez - How about research
on bilingual children (Chicano
Pa...
children)?? Tbe -ntta
D. '•
instantaneous replY wu no., w ...
cause there was net enoup ftu1
lnterest. Based on the ~ tbai
the majority of the cla.ss were
Anglo ex.eept for Marta and my-,
nlf.
Ch.a.llenging this faet, I
ra.lsed my hand and replied -i would be interested - since
I am, or just interested, Chicano and am currently involved
in the Ethnic Studies Progr&.m
at Fresno state College. Hi
immediate response to my answer was - •you - are causing
1a disturbance in my class. I
believe you should leave the
room!" I left muttering and confused, thinking those things can
only happen in high school what is this, high school aga.ln?
I, the Chicano M.A., got up
and walked slowly out, muttering a confused dialogue about
certain things not being clear.
Wednesday morning found the
M.A. (me) sittlng in the same
seat, at the same time, with a
smile on my face, and nervous.
The white Ph. D. walked in,
smlled to the class, then spotted the Chicano M.A. and his
smile shattered and fell to the
floor. Whispering about talking
outside we went out where no
one could hear.
He said I Ph. D. I said me M.A. He said! don't give a fuck what you
I said ---1""'1_m_s_o_rry, but I've
published too.
He said in what field?
I said you'll find out.
I published (an in thing)
February
1970
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Poeua. els HU RAJA
Miro •...•••.•. la angustia y la pobreza
el barco lleno de ninos
y la gente discutiendo temas
que no importan
Miro •.•.•...•• la sociedad en agonia
sueno la derrota de los temas
Busco en un mundo Vano
las calles
llenas de pajaros vagantes
sonando suenos
Busco el silencio
que tu dejaste
En los ninos
de tu ilusion
Traigo •.•••.•.•. llantos desde lejos
ya no soy yo •.•.•.•.••
Traigo •••.•.•.•. pedacitos de arbol manzanero
mensajes de ilusiones
clavados en tu esperanza
Bebo suenos neg ros
en el vaso
de mi corazon
Ojas verdes caen
como nieve
en este dia de tinieblas
ya no soy yo •.•.•...•.
Sombras •.•.•..••. consum iendo est rel las
cons um iendo el corazon
que busco en ilusion
ya no soy yo ..•.•.•.•.
G. F. Martinez
O. L. Salinas
IND I A
Cuando te vi
se em peso mi vida
Mis sentidos se reventahan
para oi r tu voz
Mis ojos lloraban
para ver tu bel leza
Mis brazos rezaban
para cager mi vida
Y mi alma se perdio en
tu hermosura de Bronze
Y pase un tiempo de fel icidacl
· pero ya la verdad se revcla
Eran solo rpomentos robados
entre la noche
Que se burlan en mis suenos
mi ser lo hice menos
Y qui zas sera mi I lorona
creia que eras solo para mis brazo5
Pero te vi en otros
La vida ya no cs nada
Soy un Pasajero de la vida
Porque me ciegue
Al desengano
Jorge Leos
CDC
,,..he California Democratic
Cc mcil met in Fresno last week-
eno and approved several resolutions, two of which affect Chica os, for the party platform in
the upcoming state election.
r he council delegates supported the United Farm Workers
Organizing Committee's boycott
of California table grapes but
refused a non-supporting amendment for candidates not publicly
backing the boycott.
Another CDC resolution asked
the removal of Superior Court
Judge Gerald B. Chargin (Santa
Clara County) for his •racist•
remarks towards Chicanos while
sentencing a Chicano youth for
incest last year in San Jose.
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La Adelita
MODEL
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SCHOOL. • •
for v,hom?
A few months ago a young
teacher corps member of the
Woodlake High School History
Department gave his class their
choice of a project. The class
decided on editing and distributing a weekly bulletin to the
community. The name they chose
for their bulletin was LaNoticia.
A few weeks later the board of
trustees got hold of a copy and
declared it as being connected
with the Con Safas paper written
by the alleged drug abusers. This
in return made Francisco Razo
the teacher corps supervisor , ~
condoner of drug abusers. He
was immediately dismissed.
About a week later a student
strike was called. At approximately 10:10 a.m. on February
20th. 126 students walked out of
classes at Woodlake High School.
All this in protest of Razo's dismissal. At the same time three
other teacher corps workers resigned. All 126 of the demonstrating students were suspended. They were refused readmittance until they returned with a
parent or parents. The conditions
were that each student who had
been involved or in anyway participated in the walkout sign a
declaration of loyalty to the
school and swear under oath
never to be a part of am antischool- ruling activities again.
SPECIAL BOARD '.\-1EF:TI~G
HEQUESTED
A special meetrni; of the hoard
of trustees was called for by the
students and at that time was
denied them.
Several letters were written
to school administrcl.tors and authorities hy . turlents and parents
asking for an inveshg-ation of the
so-call d "model school•.
During this time a steady pick
et line held fast for over a week .
On l\tarch 10th a meeting of the
board was called in which the
parents and students coultl be
present. A number of demands
were presented to the hoard the main one being the rehirinR
of Razo - all but this one were
agreed upon.
Later a private meeting of
students and parents was arranged. A play for boycotting the
businesses seemed the only way
to get the attention of the board
of trustees since they are the
business people of the town.
This is the Woodlake situation
as it stands now, the mass media
has recorded this battle as being
far from over.
is dying
"'La Adelita," Me Xi can Revolution herione is gravely ill in
San Antonio.
In 1913 with a revolution raging in Mexico, 13-year-old Adela
Valarde went to the home of
Mrs. Leona Villegas de Mazon
in Cuidad Juarez, across the
border from El Paso.
The little girl told the woman
she wanted to be part of the
revolution - as a nurse.
•But you are just a child,•
Mrs. Mazon said. "You are at an
age when you should be playing
with toys instead of being exposed
to the gruesome sights and horror of war and the sad view of
brother fighting against brother."
"But I feel there is a job to
do,• the little girl said, "and
someone must do it .•
The little girl, who became
known only by the affectionate
name of • Adelita •. became the
herione of Mexico's revolution.
:\"ow Mrs. Adela Velarde de
Villegas, 70, lies ill and fighting
for her life in Baptist Memorial
Hospital in San Antoanio.
The classic ballad of Mexico's
re volution is •La Adelita,• This
ballad was written about hP,r and
for her.
The teenage nurse scurried
about the fie Id of carnage gl ving
aid and succor. The horror of
war goes hand :n hand with romance, and f .1elita was linked
with some of the most famous
name!-. of the revolution. including P<1ncho Vifol.
But it v.asn 'r the generals Ci"
colonels who caught her heart,
hut a seri; eant in the medical
corps, Antonio del Rio Armento.
It was he who composed the
famous "La Adelita." He l?ter
died in Adelita's arms.
Later she became the wife of
Col. Alfrer.o Villegas, a revolutionary hero who, with Adelita,
have lived in retirement at Cuidad ,\cu11a. across from Del Rio.
Texas. 1 he Col011el. now 80, has
heen at Adelita's hedside in an
Antonio.
While there have been other
girls who claimed to be Adelita.
Mrs. Villegas passes the credentials that prove her identitv·
a plaque from the Archbishop
Mexico. LuL \1. !\!artinez, dated
March 17. 1950. rt says: "To
the Authentic Adelita with my
blessings."
She has decorations from the
Mexican Legion of Honor. Association of the White Cross. and
scrolls from President Gustavo
Diaz Ordaz and the late president
Adolfo Lopez Mateos.
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The NFPC, which says it represents 35,000 of the 55,000
Catholic priests in the United
States, said its members will
ask their parishioners to refrain
from buying grapes.
The strongly worded resolution l4SO stated the NF PC will
ask the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops, scheduled to
meet next month in San Francisco, to endorse the boycott and
support it with money.
-From The Fresno Bee
Striking foundrymen at the
~resno Brass Works and Catalina Brass Co. have reversed
!heir nonunion stand to join the
mde_p endent United Electrical
Radio & Machine Workers 0 f
America (U E).
Bill Freitas, a staff organizer
fo~ the UE'_s Sanger Local 10141
~a1? the umon has signed a maJonty of the foundry men anct
that membership cards still a
bein g received.
re
The strikers claim 55 Fresno
Brass workers and 17 Catalina
employes are involved. Fresno
Brass was struck March 2 and
the Catalina foundrymen began
picketing two days later.
Freitas said he plans to notify the company formally today
that the union is representing the
foundry men .
The strikers today were distributing broadsides in English
and Spanish which read:
•we are striking for the following reasons: ( 1) working conditions here are deplorable, (2)
safety measures are inadequate
(3) insurance hen e tits unde;
present conditions greatly fall
short ot the workers needs, (4)
the foremen are constantly pushing. harassing and threatentnr
us, (5) higher wages, and ttnally
the most important _ (6) we want
a union c:ontract. Without a union,
we believe that nothing would bt
improved,•
The foundrymen earlier had
said they did not want union
representation.
The plants' management has
notified the foundrymen it considers them to have quit their
Jobs as a result of the walkout.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, March 16, 1970
Sistar Sadie
He don't
say nuthin'
You know, yo all be talking
bout how bad things ts out at the
college, talking bout how this
• Acttn• cat done falked things up
and all such a stuff as that. But
when you actually come right
down to it, this administration got
a piss po way of doln things and
that's a natural fact.
You ask ole Mr . .,Actin" about
the firins and he say he don't
know nothin about em. Yet you
don't see him re-hirin none of
them people what been fired.
cat say there will be an Ethnic
Studies Program next year, yet
he ain't ask none of the Black
Studies teachers to come back.
You ask him if he gon rehire
Dick Keyes, the Chairman of
Ethnic Studies and he say he can't
discuss •personnel matters• in
public. And plus all that, the
people in Black Studies got registered letters on February 28,
1970 saying - and I quotes •California State College Administrative Code, Title 5, Section 42700 defines the position
of Lecturer as a non-permanent
academic assignment. Accordingly your appointment as Lecturer expires at the close of
duties of the 1969-70 academic
year.•
My home girl what teaches out
there came to see me bout all
this. She kinda dizzy but she
known for bein able pour piss
outta boots - which is more than
I can say for that • Actin• cat
and the rest of his friends.
•Sadie," she say, • these people at Fresno State have a piss
poor way of doing business."
(She a very smart girl.) "I don't
know if I'm hired or fired."
•wen, if you got one of them
letters, the whole thing should be
clear to you."
-.•Yes.
But Phil Walker_saysthe
nominations for Ethnic Studies
are stlll being considered and we
shouldn't get upset. But, I tell
you, Sadie, I am upset.•
•well," I tells her, •my sainted
mamma always said, 'don't never
believe the man gon ever do a
thing for you less'n he put it in
writing then only believe one
tenth of that. If he say he gon
give you a hundred dollars, look
for ten and hold him to five.' •
•That's all very well but according to what you say I should
be looking for a job that would
start next week •.• and the Man
say-•
•You notice that 'Actin' cat
ain't said nothin don't you? And
all you really got to go by ls what
you got in writing. This Walker
cat done put this other stuff in
writing?•
•Not as far as I know."
•Humpn." I tell her. -Humph,
you know what they laying dead
to do. Yo all make one wrong
move tween now and June - call
the wrong white man a hunkie,
say, or mistake a cop for a pig and they just ease yo all on out
in June and say, •wen, this ain't
no spur of the moment thing. We
told you that contract was gon be
up in June." But you all be good
and they may keep you round for
another year. Maybe."
•But, Sadie, that's really putting us in a bind. We don't know
if we should be looking for other
jobs or not."
•Girl, if you ain't learned no
mor'n that inaUthetimeyoubeen
in school then I sho can't say
much for yo education."
-okay, okay. I see what you're
saying. If we wait around, it
makes it look like we tommed to
stay here . Maybe we should raise
sand now and take our chances
later."
•I tell you one thing: rt that
'Actin' cat won't talk about personnel matters in public, then you
better go ask him to write you
something in private. Cause it's
more than just yo job. H's the
whole program that's in danger.
These folks ain't Just mess in with
you, they messin with all the
minority people in the Fresno
Area."
•That's right, Sadie. So if we
raise any kind of sand at all, it'll
be with the idea of winning and
staying, winning and keeping Ethnic Studies,"
•Girl," I tell her, •you finally
learnin how to pour piss outta a
boot."
SANCHEZ & HALL MORTUARY
Phone 237-3532
commentary
Walker, the Honorable
states ( correctly) that my appointment was to be fore one year
only. But what he seems to forget - probably on purpose - is
ALL LECTURESIIlPS ARE FOR
ONE YEAR ONLY and are renewed for the following year.
Wow! does he ever have •Honor•!
Walker, The Honorable, says
that, though my student evaluations are strongly favorable, they
are average or below average.
He even cites ms method of
statistic ratings, ie., 23.4 per
cent of the students said I was
average in ONE OUT OF A LIST
OF FIVE CATEGORIES. His
"HONOR" for-gets (again) that
by his own mathematics 78.6
students gave me the highest
ratings. But even more important
than that is the FACT that NOT
ONE STUDENT GA VE ME A BAD
RA TING. I told you he was amazing.
Here now (Glory be!) is the LuLu. Walker, the Honorable, says
although my -extraordinary attainments" as a writer justify my
position, my lack of formal academic training ought to disqualify
me as an instructor. Isn't that
something coming from a man
who has for over a decade failed
to get his Ph.D. - and he's been
in and around colleges and universities for half his life '; !
I am personally getting a bit
sick of educated fools like Walker, and I'm damn mad at his
'ERVE: to expect people to fall
for his ssinine "masons" for
comrniting his stupid acts, which
are bas d on pet t v. narrow-
By Nathan C. Heard
Though some ot you may have
read that I have been rehired,
the fact is that Phillip Walker, .
the Honorable, has decreed that
I NOT be rehired for next year.
Now we all expected that reaction
from him, but what nobody expected was that he would try to
be •objective" about his decision.
The man is a constant amazement, folks!
His first 'reason' is that I'm
supposed to be teaching ONLY
creative writing and not my additional course in modern black
writing. Now he says this despite
that FACT that when I was first
hired the Dean, in nominating me,
said I was to be a lecturer IN A
VARIETY OF COURSES AT THE
COLLEGE. I was ASSIGNED the
black writer's course, I didn't
make it up. Yes, Phillip Walker
is an •Honorable" man.
His second •reason" (I know
my students are going to find this
hilarious) is that my enrollment
is BELOW •staffing form u 1a
Classifications". The Fact Is: I
have nearly DOUBLE the enrollments in ALL my classes that is
required by the courses. There
are 30 students in my English
149.3 class, 34 students in
English 40.3, and 3G students in
English 175.1. Does that sound
like it's BELOW average'; If
Walker were trying to lighten my
work-load I would he appreciative, but I will not allow him to
justify his LI ES at my expense.
Walker, the llonorable also
Black vs. white press
Bight o ff the b.tl, it i.s a very
acc-urat
description for hlack
people to view th press a heing
white, There are le ·s than one
huncl red hlack people working
for the niaJor newspapers in
t hi c·ount r~·.
The press te 11s
th
public that there are not
enough qualified black Jou 1·u.ili st.-;, Black people hold contt>mpt !or the word "qualified"
and nghtly so. It alwa\·simplies
that someone is setting the standarcis.
White people can not
set the standard& for the needs
of black people. Eldridge Cleaver could get a Joh writing for
Ramparts. hut I douht seriously
if a major r1ewspaper would have
hired him.
When I read news
or editorials ahout black people
by whites, 1 sometimes wonder
who qualified them.
The white press has a tendency to overlook or treat lightly
things that are pertinent to black
people.
Black people feel the
neeed for more interpretative and
in depth reporting. To pick up
a newspaper and read the headlines: Riot, Six Killed. etc .. and
to find that the story supports
no more than the headline is a
sham. Newspaper reporters report the behavior of black people
without giving the public an understanding of that behavior. The
world needs to know the real cri-
By Bill Riddl spni?;g r
It appeared the Department of
Journalism, Fre ·no late
ollege, was not too happy when
the staff of the Daily Collegian
and Board of Puhlications could
see the feasibility of having separate editions for ethnic groups.
I found it ironic that the Dept.
of .Journalism would have offered any objection to separate
editions controlled by lilack students. Tab~, morethananyother
department, know the ~hort-comings of a white press when it
comes to reportin R news on and
about black people.
The white press is just another white insititution that has
created and maintained adverse
social
conditions
for black
people.
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mindedness, or race or PoU.
If FSC is any kind of exam tics,
what lies ahead for this c Ple ot
then there is no hope
Utountry
• • • era11
NO HOPE, because the stud Y
are apathetic automatons ents
will never be able to brea1c Who
holds which • educated• t lhe
nincompoops like WalkershUPid
a\'e
on th em ••• and, if such is t
case, then perhaps it is 1 he
n rny
best interests to leave her be
fore I become like one or an~th of FSC's nothings.
er
I won't make but passing
c
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orn.
men t on th e. safe, secure , corn.
f or t a bl e maJority of faculty m
ern.
bers who have become mentai
faggots (an attitude which has
leaked out to the students) so that
the atmosphere at the college .
incompatible with t~ue educat1~~
because the college 1s run by I>eople who hate change, staffed by
people who fear change, and at.
tended by people who hope that
chang: won't really BE change,
Yes, 1t may be best if I split,
I am a creative writer and there's
little creativ!ty at this college,
I see what 1s supposed to be
educated people all around me•
I'm supposed to be living amon~
the best educated people in the
world.
But their •education•
didn't prevent them from fucking
up the WHOLE, world, which
shows me quite clearly that there
is nothing so stupid as an educated man if he's not dealing With
the things he's educated in,
Walker is NOT educated in
honor , ethics nor humanity, but he
holds a position which is defined
as •honorable" . That should put
the whole concept of honor in this
society in doubt, but it won't because Walker is probably in a
majority on this campus and in
this society (see elected officials). Perhaps I will not be like
Pete Everwine, perhaps I will
indeed go away quietly. And, perhaps, somewhere, I'll really
bump into some honor.
minal in a just perspective . The
d ep underlying causes of black
p ople's b havior is fraudulent
at the expense of superficial
cover..1.ge .
r remember during
the sit-lll demonstrations the
new. papers made me think that
hla<'k people will go through alot
of hell Just to sit next to while
people,
urel~· it wasn't just
that.
Th()re are some people who
say ditors and reporte rs have
tu he ohjective. I can not a,z; ree
to that. After looking the word
up in the dictionary, it tells me
that newspapers workers must
he impersonal. impartial. etc.
Those reporters a: 11d eciitors can
do black people no good, to be
sure. the\· are cietri mental to
hlark people. Being objective is
being too dose to neutral. I
think bias is a bette r word.
Newspaper workers must get involved by being biased against adverse social conditions that are
killing blark people. James Bassett of the Los Angeles Times,
states. •r must acknowledge that
we, like maw, other major papers of the so-called enlightened
~orth, engaged in this exercfse
too self-consciously. too dispassionatel \'.
Whether purposely
or not." we manage to remai~
non-involved." Black people nee
non - involvement like a punk
needs a condom.
The staff of the Daily Collegian,
be they black, white, brown
otherwise can not be concerne
with what makes the Dept. 01
Journalism happy at this school,
It takes more than having aheart
for the plight of black people,
A heart without courage is useless in a revolution. The Uhuru
will point the way.
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holidays and examination periods _bY
the Fresno State College Associa·
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Davis Speaks
to Ag Senate
BY Gloria Davis
collegian Managing Editor
,
ui I\ recent attempt to •estabUsh open lines of com municatton :
t,etween students from the Schoel
of Agriculture and the rest of the
collegiate community,• the Ag
senate invited several student
leaders to speak to them.
osby Davis, past president of
the Union of Black Students; GU
Acuna, president pro tem of the
student Senate and Doug Broten,
ASB president, answered questions and offered comments to
the Ag Senate. During the discussion, Davis, BrotenandAcuna
attempted to clarify any false
ideas and misconceptions about
minority students the Ag students
had, and the Ag students attempted to clarify themselves.
Davis, the principle speaker,
spoke in behalf of the minority
students at Fresno State College
and the services set aside for
them. He stated the minority students feel the administrative is
making moves to eliminate them,
and more specifically the Educational Opportunity Program,
which keeps most of them in
school.
Davis made it clear that the
only special treatments EOP students receive are special entrance requirements and permission to preregister during
their first year at FSC. •once
here," he added, •they (EOP
students) must compete with
you.•
OSBY DAVIS
ASB nomination
petitions ready
l\'. om ination petitions for the
upcoming April primary election
of Associated student Body officers are available beginning today in the Student Activities Office.
To qualify for a place on the
April 13 primary ballot a candidate must obtain 25 slgnatures
on petitions and have them turned
back into Student Activities by
5 P, m. Tuesday, March 31.
Bruce Morris chairman of the
ASB Elections 'committee, reminds candidates that the date
for 2 ,- tive campaigning is April
6. Active campaigning before the
Official date is punishable by fine
or disqualification.
In continuing, he said the !'Illnority students have trouble adjusting to llfe at FSC becauae ~
open racism and hypocrisy. After
enumerating the actions taken by
Acting President Falk he stated
•o r. Falk says he is 'in favor of'
EOP and Ethnic Studies but clearly his actions show differently.
•1 feel,• he continued, •there is
a definite need for students to
get together because they (students) don't realize the power
they wield. Students should be
concerned because the administration does the very things students are taught are wrong.•
Davis commented that advances have been made but they could
be greater if priorities were established or re-established and
students were able to confront
the real problems instead of each
other.
In closing he stated, •rn order
to be effective, we need campus
unity. We need to have responsible students questioning the
actions of the administration.
We need to have you responsible
students saying 'we don't like ll
either'."
Monday, March 16,
INTERVIEWS
Raul Contreras (Senior student):
I. Was the hunger strike a suc-
cess?
-In terms of focus attention on
the educatianal needs and problems of the Chicanos.•
II. What will the Chicanos do
next?
•r will hope tlrst of all there is
no violence because v 1o 1e n c e
plays into the hands of the Ral-
fertys, Reagans, and Falks.•
III. What would you do?
•In my opinion what they should
do is use peaceful means. we
should solicit support from civic
leaders of the Chicano community."
John Sanchez (parent and gardener at FSC):
I. Was the hunger strike a success?
•It was because • it got a lot of
attention in the news media out
in the community."
•Falk and Fikes' minds are
made up of what they plan to do.
Nothing short of violence wm
change their minds.•
II. What do you think the Chicanos on campus wm do next?
•r have no idea.•
III, What would you do?
letters
'Law and order'
•The streets of our country
are in turmoil. The universities
are filled with students rebelling
and rioting. Communists are
seeking to destroy our country.
Russia is threatening us with her
might and the Republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and
without. We need law and order.•
Adolf Hitler, 1932
or was it Ronnie Reagan, 1966
or was it George Wallace, 1968
or was it Jim, The Gunman,
Fikes, 1969
Isn't it funny that statements
made by Adolf Hitler, a killer of
millions. nearly forty years ago
are so similar to that of Governor Ronald Reagan that it is difficult and almost impossible to
identify the speakers by their
respective statements. Ronnie
has made a numberofstatements
concerning our streets. our country. turmoil and universities being filled with rebelling and rioting students.
George has made many speeches concerning Communists being
at the roots of freedom marches
and so-called riots. Through his
reasoning such men as: Rev.
Martin Luther King. Cesar Chavez, Malcolm X, Rev. Jessie
Jackson and Stokley Carmichael
probably sit on the central committee of the Communist Party
(obviously unrealistic).
Jim, the Gunman, Fikes has
often proclaimed that •law and
order• must be kept on campus,
while he continues w violate or
ignore all (or nearly all) laws
and campus' procedures. Jim and
his side-kick. Karl L. Falk have
employed an old Hitler tactic remove from office or strip away
the power of any persons who
dare oppose the administration rs this so hard to see?
Well, Ronnie, George, and Jim
-Hitler has said what you are
now saying. Hitler has done what
you are seeking to do. The world
will place you where they placed
Hitler; if you continue to do so.
_ can You Dig It?
P,S.: campus, now that you
know you are sick, why not get
treated? If you have syphilis you
don't take an x-ray (investig~tions). You treat it - before 1t
spreads.
LaVert Lucas
•we can rely on Phil Sanchez
for support and take peaceful
means for goals we want to acquire.•
Q. Was the strike a success?
What will Chicanos do next?
A. Gene Guzman: It was a success because 20 out of 700
students started the camp-out
and it turned out to be a success.
They didn't pay attention to
non-violence so now there's
only one alternative. Bad attitudes tow a rd s Chicanos.
They can't see Chicanos getting ahead, so they try to put
us down.
John Givens (teacher): The
camp-in was definitely a success.
The Chicanos have done a lot
in the community and they've
done it on campus, too. They
helped in Hanford and have
been helping out in the community.
Dave Hutton (Black student):
The strike was a success in
a way. It put out an idea to
the people. [ would have gone
out H I were asked. I don't
know, but whatever they do,
['m behind them.
2 DAYS ONlY
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Mr. 6963:
'I don't giV.e a f ... '
Mr. Schedule 6963 walked into his 8:10 class, bright-eyed
with a Jim Clinton suit, Today
was report day. Among his tew
early morning students sat a
brown hairy Chicano, No. •152•
Ph. D. smiled a hls small class
and politely trcnored the Chicano sitting directly in front of
the podium. Today was Monday
1nd the last class reports were
to be gi'V8n. The Chicano M.A.
volunteered to peak and asked
to stand and tac the class, being
that his chair !aced the blackboard and blackboards weren't
people. He opened his topic described his subject, position,
and quoted a paragraph trom
Hegel. The white Ph. D. retorted with educative, authoritarian, overton s - •you're con!unsing the class; you've misinterpreted the assignment, and
are wasting the class's time.•
The Chicano M.A. tumbled and
mumbled • •r would Uke to explain further, material in my
subject matter o! the •clinical
type• ts somewhat limited.•
The verbal fisticuffs continued
for about six minutes to the
thrtlling awe of the education
students. The tomb-like room
was filled with fomented vibrations. The mangled M.A. sat
down, his empty mind, upon the
empty chair, trickling down to
his feet, where had he gone
wrong on his report?
The second round of the fight
began about two minutes afterward, when Mr. Gil began his
class assignment #2.
I could not keep quiet, nor did
I really believe what I was hearing. An assignment on research
of prenatel-grade school children was registered by the class.
Suddenly a question was proposed by another student, Maria
Hernandez - How about research
on bilingual children (Chicano
Pa...
children)?? Tbe -ntta
D. '•
instantaneous replY wu no., w ...
cause there was net enoup ftu1
lnterest. Based on the ~ tbai
the majority of the cla.ss were
Anglo ex.eept for Marta and my-,
nlf.
Ch.a.llenging this faet, I
ra.lsed my hand and replied -i would be interested - since
I am, or just interested, Chicano and am currently involved
in the Ethnic Studies Progr&.m
at Fresno state College. Hi
immediate response to my answer was - •you - are causing
1a disturbance in my class. I
believe you should leave the
room!" I left muttering and confused, thinking those things can
only happen in high school what is this, high school aga.ln?
I, the Chicano M.A., got up
and walked slowly out, muttering a confused dialogue about
certain things not being clear.
Wednesday morning found the
M.A. (me) sittlng in the same
seat, at the same time, with a
smile on my face, and nervous.
The white Ph. D. walked in,
smlled to the class, then spotted the Chicano M.A. and his
smile shattered and fell to the
floor. Whispering about talking
outside we went out where no
one could hear.
He said I Ph. D. I said me M.A. He said! don't give a fuck what you
I said ---1""'1_m_s_o_rry, but I've
published too.
He said in what field?
I said you'll find out.
I published (an in thing)
February
1970
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Poeua. els HU RAJA
Miro •...•••.•. la angustia y la pobreza
el barco lleno de ninos
y la gente discutiendo temas
que no importan
Miro •.•.•...•• la sociedad en agonia
sueno la derrota de los temas
Busco en un mundo Vano
las calles
llenas de pajaros vagantes
sonando suenos
Busco el silencio
que tu dejaste
En los ninos
de tu ilusion
Traigo •.•••.•.•. llantos desde lejos
ya no soy yo •.•.•.•.••
Traigo •••.•.•.•. pedacitos de arbol manzanero
mensajes de ilusiones
clavados en tu esperanza
Bebo suenos neg ros
en el vaso
de mi corazon
Ojas verdes caen
como nieve
en este dia de tinieblas
ya no soy yo •.•.•...•.
Sombras •.•.•..••. consum iendo est rel las
cons um iendo el corazon
que busco en ilusion
ya no soy yo ..•.•.•.•.
G. F. Martinez
O. L. Salinas
IND I A
Cuando te vi
se em peso mi vida
Mis sentidos se reventahan
para oi r tu voz
Mis ojos lloraban
para ver tu bel leza
Mis brazos rezaban
para cager mi vida
Y mi alma se perdio en
tu hermosura de Bronze
Y pase un tiempo de fel icidacl
· pero ya la verdad se revcla
Eran solo rpomentos robados
entre la noche
Que se burlan en mis suenos
mi ser lo hice menos
Y qui zas sera mi I lorona
creia que eras solo para mis brazo5
Pero te vi en otros
La vida ya no cs nada
Soy un Pasajero de la vida
Porque me ciegue
Al desengano
Jorge Leos
CDC
,,..he California Democratic
Cc mcil met in Fresno last week-
eno and approved several resolutions, two of which affect Chica os, for the party platform in
the upcoming state election.
r he council delegates supported the United Farm Workers
Organizing Committee's boycott
of California table grapes but
refused a non-supporting amendment for candidates not publicly
backing the boycott.
Another CDC resolution asked
the removal of Superior Court
Judge Gerald B. Chargin (Santa
Clara County) for his •racist•
remarks towards Chicanos while
sentencing a Chicano youth for
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La Adelita
MODEL
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SCHOOL. • •
for v,hom?
A few months ago a young
teacher corps member of the
Woodlake High School History
Department gave his class their
choice of a project. The class
decided on editing and distributing a weekly bulletin to the
community. The name they chose
for their bulletin was LaNoticia.
A few weeks later the board of
trustees got hold of a copy and
declared it as being connected
with the Con Safas paper written
by the alleged drug abusers. This
in return made Francisco Razo
the teacher corps supervisor , ~
condoner of drug abusers. He
was immediately dismissed.
About a week later a student
strike was called. At approximately 10:10 a.m. on February
20th. 126 students walked out of
classes at Woodlake High School.
All this in protest of Razo's dismissal. At the same time three
other teacher corps workers resigned. All 126 of the demonstrating students were suspended. They were refused readmittance until they returned with a
parent or parents. The conditions
were that each student who had
been involved or in anyway participated in the walkout sign a
declaration of loyalty to the
school and swear under oath
never to be a part of am antischool- ruling activities again.
SPECIAL BOARD '.\-1EF:TI~G
HEQUESTED
A special meetrni; of the hoard
of trustees was called for by the
students and at that time was
denied them.
Several letters were written
to school administrcl.tors and authorities hy . turlents and parents
asking for an inveshg-ation of the
so-call d "model school•.
During this time a steady pick
et line held fast for over a week .
On l\tarch 10th a meeting of the
board was called in which the
parents and students coultl be
present. A number of demands
were presented to the hoard the main one being the rehirinR
of Razo - all but this one were
agreed upon.
Later a private meeting of
students and parents was arranged. A play for boycotting the
businesses seemed the only way
to get the attention of the board
of trustees since they are the
business people of the town.
This is the Woodlake situation
as it stands now, the mass media
has recorded this battle as being
far from over.
is dying
"'La Adelita," Me Xi can Revolution herione is gravely ill in
San Antonio.
In 1913 with a revolution raging in Mexico, 13-year-old Adela
Valarde went to the home of
Mrs. Leona Villegas de Mazon
in Cuidad Juarez, across the
border from El Paso.
The little girl told the woman
she wanted to be part of the
revolution - as a nurse.
•But you are just a child,•
Mrs. Mazon said. "You are at an
age when you should be playing
with toys instead of being exposed
to the gruesome sights and horror of war and the sad view of
brother fighting against brother."
"But I feel there is a job to
do,• the little girl said, "and
someone must do it .•
The little girl, who became
known only by the affectionate
name of • Adelita •. became the
herione of Mexico's revolution.
:\"ow Mrs. Adela Velarde de
Villegas, 70, lies ill and fighting
for her life in Baptist Memorial
Hospital in San Antoanio.
The classic ballad of Mexico's
re volution is •La Adelita,• This
ballad was written about hP,r and
for her.
The teenage nurse scurried
about the fie Id of carnage gl ving
aid and succor. The horror of
war goes hand :n hand with romance, and f .1elita was linked
with some of the most famous
name!-. of the revolution. including P<1ncho Vifol.
But it v.asn 'r the generals Ci"
colonels who caught her heart,
hut a seri; eant in the medical
corps, Antonio del Rio Armento.
It was he who composed the
famous "La Adelita." He l?ter
died in Adelita's arms.
Later she became the wife of
Col. Alfrer.o Villegas, a revolutionary hero who, with Adelita,
have lived in retirement at Cuidad ,\cu11a. across from Del Rio.
Texas. 1 he Col011el. now 80, has
heen at Adelita's hedside in an
Antonio.
While there have been other
girls who claimed to be Adelita.
Mrs. Villegas passes the credentials that prove her identitv·
a plaque from the Archbishop
Mexico. LuL \1. !\!artinez, dated
March 17. 1950. rt says: "To
the Authentic Adelita with my
blessings."
She has decorations from the
Mexican Legion of Honor. Association of the White Cross. and
scrolls from President Gustavo
Diaz Ordaz and the late president
Adolfo Lopez Mateos.
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The NFPC, which says it represents 35,000 of the 55,000
Catholic priests in the United
States, said its members will
ask their parishioners to refrain
from buying grapes.
The strongly worded resolution l4SO stated the NF PC will
ask the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops, scheduled to
meet next month in San Francisco, to endorse the boycott and
support it with money.
-From The Fresno Bee
Striking foundrymen at the
~resno Brass Works and Catalina Brass Co. have reversed
!heir nonunion stand to join the
mde_p endent United Electrical
Radio & Machine Workers 0 f
America (U E).
Bill Freitas, a staff organizer
fo~ the UE'_s Sanger Local 10141
~a1? the umon has signed a maJonty of the foundry men anct
that membership cards still a
bein g received.
re
The strikers claim 55 Fresno
Brass workers and 17 Catalina
employes are involved. Fresno
Brass was struck March 2 and
the Catalina foundrymen began
picketing two days later.
Freitas said he plans to notify the company formally today
that the union is representing the
foundry men .
The strikers today were distributing broadsides in English
and Spanish which read:
•we are striking for the following reasons: ( 1) working conditions here are deplorable, (2)
safety measures are inadequate
(3) insurance hen e tits unde;
present conditions greatly fall
short ot the workers needs, (4)
the foremen are constantly pushing. harassing and threatentnr
us, (5) higher wages, and ttnally
the most important _ (6) we want
a union c:ontract. Without a union,
we believe that nothing would bt
improved,•
The foundrymen earlier had
said they did not want union
representation.
The plants' management has
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