La Voz de Aztlan, October 19 1970
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Title
La Voz de Aztlan, October 19 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
Date
10/19/1970
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'For
every step
forward •••
Within thos
· lls we call a
c mpu com munlty, there exists
, 11 the igotry nd hypocrisy or
tn lnantm l equ llty . .A within
th nature or this v Bey, the
root history h impl nted have
I ft quality hut a word and expre s1011 for th pow rle
a word that th powerful u e s
a tool of p ciflcaUon, to l u ed
convem ntly t the xp ns of
th pow rl ·s. Pr
nt and p t
ampus administrations, · nd th
apathy impov ri •hing the majority of thi c. mpu are obvious t stam nt to this.
lt may havt• se m d at on
time -that f re no tat, ollege
would he come a progr ssi ve
force in lJrldging thos chasms
created by r a ci a 1 prejudice;
chasms which are visible 1 both
internally and externally 111 this
in titution. But "American Progress• has left its scars; the
hopes of Chicanos, to become
full participants in this institution have all but been destroyed.
Within a year and a half all
that might have made FSC relevant to a total society has been
eliminated.
Those elements on campus,
who had empathy for the needs
'
of the powerless, were rel ated
to a posltion where they could no
longer effectively confront inju tlce on this campus.
L Raza f culty and administration were persecuted for their
b liefs in desiring n institution
th, t promote solutions to soci 1
ill:; rather than compounding the
problem , and th n purged from
the ampus.
In cane lli11g L R za Studies
the ~ dminl ·tration refused selfdet rmina ion and denied human
dignity for a p ople making up
one th! rd of this Valley."
The 1inority ouncll originally proposed by minorities on
campus has b en compromised by
Raxter into a powerles · token
council, which only reveals further his insincerity to deal with
those he has never been accustomed to accepting in his definition of equality.
Cessar Chavez, has said "For
every step we move forward we
wtll regress four." The seeding
of institutional racism on this
campus has proven this. We must
learn from these experiences
that only through unity and commitment can we challenge this
disease.
D~AZTI.AN
CHicanos Educational Alternatives
CHEA- 'community education'
By Phrllis '.\lartin
Chicanos for Educational Al~ernati ves (CHEA) is exactlv what
it means....
·
The Anglo educational system
has rejected the c hicano and
~ow· the Chicano is totall~ reJecting the Anglo educational system.
_
"Chicanos are convinced that
the,,J cannot get an education
th rough established institutions.
Ch'
. icanos don't ever expect these
1nst itutions to accomodate the
minorities."
charged Tomas
Gonzalez, former Fresno State
College La Raza Studies teacher
a nd now working on CHEA.
w_asn't a result of La Raza stu~ies cancellation because it had
een in the planning since spring
of th·ts year. Therefore, there
would have been a Chea despite
La Raza Studies.
f CHEA·~ classes would be oferect through extension from an
;ccredited college or university
or $11 a unit. However, CHEA
would be different from the Anglo
college community because it
would emcompass thewholeChicano community, and not Just
those people Anglo society defines as "college students."
Gonzalez said Chicano students
are involved in CHEA and so is
the community, a community involvement which has nothing to
do with FSC.
•our intentions are to build a
totallv ne•;. institution and not
to c~py FSC's La Raza Studies
program," Gonzalez stated.
•La Raza Studies by itself
wasn't education for minorities.
we wanted some say in every
department on campus that affected minorities, and we never
got that say. The curriculum was
a part of it," he said.
CHEA is, in effect, community
education and its purpose is to
"bring into existence educational
activities'' aimed at various levels of the Chicano community.
The potential of this community
involvement. according to Gonzalez, would include pre-school,
prim ry. secondarr, community
college. degree progr m , and
adult education.
CHE,.'s concept of adult education vcul • Wtd.lly dis reg r society's detin1tion of. again, a
•college student." For example,
Gonzalez cited, i1 a c::.mpesino
wanted to take a class that would
normally require some college
prerequisite in an Anglo college
situ t1on, this prerequisite process. would lherefnre. be nonexisteut in CHEA.
Last week a tentativ student
sign-up for CHEA was ildtiated
on campus to check how many
student would be interested in
enrolling and for what classes.
Students signing the class lists
understood this beforeh nd, and
also, no fees were collected because students were voicing interest in classes offered and not
actually
enrolling for any
classes.
COM ENT ARIO
EOP misconceptions
There are quite a few misconceptions about E.O.P. circulating arounrt campu . I would therefore like to clarify some
of them for the benefit of the general student body.
. The E. 0. P. program was specifically designed for the financially a~d academically disadvantaged minority student. It has
at no time drawn ny color lines, being available to black
brown, white, orient 1 and any other national origin. Bein;
a member of the E.O.P. pro ram does not guarantee a student
financial aid. The same federal guidelines used for regular
students ln determining their financial needs are applied to the
E.O. P. student. There are E.O.P. students that may not need
financial aid, hut re admitted into the program because they
are not qualified for admission academically.
Another misconception is that E.O.P. ls the same term as
E.O.G. ltho. gh these two pro rams correlate, they are not
the same thing. E.O.P. is the bbrebiation for Educational
Opportunity Pro ram, which 1 the tual program E o G i
an abbreviation for Educational Opportunity Grant, ·which is :
grant designed for the student who shows financial need in
order to continue his education at an institution of higher learning. One of the quallfJcations for receiving an E.O.G. is that
you must come from a family with a low-income history The
controversial •catch• to this qualification is that it is ap~lled
to all students regardless of age. For instance, if you are 35
years of age, married and the father of three children you
are not eligible for E.O.G. if your parents' earning ~wer
exceeds the parental income ceiling of $6,000 with one parent
(Continued on Page 2, Col. I)
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, October 19, 1970
(Continued from page 1)
working and $7,500 with both
parents working.
The three financial aid programs which are most readily
available to the EOP students
are the National Defense Student
Loan (NDSL formerly known as
NDEA), the Educational Opportunity Grant(EOG), and the WorkStudy Program (W /S).
In order to qualify for the Educational Opportunity Program,
aside from the financial need and
the academic standpoint, you
must apply to the program before
being accepted for admission to
the college. A student who has
already been accepted through
the regular channels and is currently attending the college cannot apply or be admitted into the
program. You must be an incoming freshman or transferring
from a junior college.
Some of the benefits that the
program has to offer to students
are financial aid, tutors and
special classes geared to the students' particular ethnic group.
These classes are Black Studies
(BLST), La Raza Studies (LRST),
Native American Studies (NAST),
and other ethnic classes.
The program was originally
initiated September of 1967 with
an enrollment of 17 special action
students (students who fell short
of the academic requirements
for admission) on an experimental basis known as "Project
17". The program had extremely
good results and in the fall of
'68, the enrollment was increased
to 89, climbing to a new high of
150 students in the fall of 1969.
In the academic year of 19G8-
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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holiday• and examination period• by
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Unio'!. 316, telephone 487•2266.
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1969, the program progressed
considerably with a full faculty
and staff. It was, in reality, one
of the most promising EOP programs in the State and had exceptionally good potential for
success.
This year the program has
reached an impressive enrollment of 200 students. Unfortunately, it is in the worst state
it has been in since its initiation
in 1967, due to the political
manipulations by the Falk and
Baxter administrations and state
officials such as Dumke and Phillip Sanchez. The program this
fall is nothing but an empty
shell.
Its present staff consists of
an EOP Director, two Assistant
Directors, five co-ordinators, 36
contact workers, and ls in the
process of hiring several tutors.
But the program has no Chicano
faculty, with the exception of
Ernesto Palomino, who was hired
as a last minute attempt to pacify the brown student and community members. (Not to belittle
Mr. Palomino's qualifications
because they are comparable to
other La Raza Studies' Faculty
applicants ) Obviously, you can't
have La Raza Studies if you have
no faculty, but that's another
story.
What the absence of a Chicano
Faculty and La Raza courses
basically means is that the program has the ability to enroll
minority students by special action, which is a feat in itself,
but has nothing to offer them after
they are admitted to the college.
The EOP student needs courses
which would be more relevant
to his background. These courses
would help bridge the gap that
exists between an inadequate academic background, especially
in the secondary level and normal college work. The regular
student can easily make the trans ltion
without these special
courses.
In summary, the reason why
this year's program is all glittering shell and no substance
is that although it's a notable
achievement to be able to bring
these students to the college
campus by special action, it wlll
remain an empty gesture unless
the facilities are maintained to
support him through a most difficult endeavor. He needs much
more support than the average
student--not •equal• opportunity
and certainly not an atmosphere
in which his chanches are further
undercut by political expediency
and racial pressures. If he's
going to get a break, give him
one that means something.
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LETTERS
Flimsy excuses
There has been all kinds of
excuses given as to the tearing
down of the Ethnic classes here
at Fresno State College. However, when examined closely the
excuses dissipate into the filth
of racism, conservatism, stupidity, and ignorance that is typical
of the community and reflected
here on campus by administration, some yokels on faculty, and
offsprings of racists here on
campus.
Look
at the facts. Ethnic
studies have become a real part
and are established in the curriculum of many colleges, yet
here at Fresno they are part of
a bitter controversy that may
yet erupt into greater conflict.
Flimsy excuses have been
made as to the breaking up ofthe
faculty that t0re up the Chicano
studies. Now the reactionary,
backward mentality that in the
past has produced exterminators
of the American Indian. lynchers
of the blacks. and would-be masters of the Chicano farmworker
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has proceeded to delude themselves into thinking that if they
get rid of so-called mllitants,
things will continue in the good
"'ole American way.•
For members of the "Mexican American If group whose only
goal is to be *good• Mexicans,
so as to succeed, who go around
scraping and accepting the paternalistic rules of a whiteoriented dominant group, only
perpetuate the happiness of their
masters.
If there is such a thing as
something "boffolt this people
represent this condition. They
will succeed in this society but
at what price?
What is the answer? Or rather
what is the choice?
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least feeling free.
Dispierten , no s ean TioTacos!
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MECHA member
Answers Sister
Dear Sister.
Your formality in calling me
"~iss Martin., (Collegian. Letters to th1 • Editor, Oct. 15) contradicted your uptight Women's
Lib rap on female equality. Next
time you address me , Sister,
call me Martin.
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Indians form club
By Phil Martin Navasya
The American Indian students
of Fresno State College have expressed
a
strong interest
in forming an organization to
promote their image and life
to the campus and community,
The organization has established as its purposes to share
information on all aspects of the
cultural heritage and contemporary life of the American Indian.
Also. to encourage educational
achievements of the American
Indian students and to provide
a common ground for the inter-
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action of this organization with
all peoples regardless of race,
creed, religion or political affiliation. And. above all, to establish a better understanding
through this interaction and to
create a greater appreciation
of the American Indian.
With thes~ stated intents and
purposes. we hope that, as a
new organization striving for life
and recognition. we can create
within anr FSC student a curiousitv to se~k us out. to learn about
the Ame rican Indian. and join
with us to make this a successful organization,
Some of the futur e events
planned by the Ameri ca n Indian
students are the presentation of
a cultural show an all Indian
Pow-Wow , vari~us fund raising
projects ,
the appearance of
prominent Indian speakers and
most interesting of all, a trip
to Indian coun.try, the Island of
Alcatraz.
Membership is open to all FSC
students. The next meeting will
be Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 3:30 p.rn,
in the New Administration Building, Room 219.
_Monday, October 19, 19'!0
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
LISTEN TO OMAR
La Raza at Fresno State College
There was a scuffle
at Fresno State College
in which Chicanos
beat up Anglos /
Belleau Woods
Germany Korea
Viet Nam
the ground is tarnished
with Mexican
bravery /
The blood of our forefathers
runs thick
in our bellys /
and here in Fresno, California
we are harrassed
put in jail
and called
animals.
It sounds bad
and makes Chicanos
look very
guilty/
but you see
when you refuse
to let a man breathe
he might even
kill you /
and Mejicanos
have a rig ht
to some sort of
educat i ona I
destiny /
and this has b n
d ni d th m I
tak e away
" Los Der chos •
of the Chicano
ar:id you're i n for t rouble
LAS ADE Li TAS, a service organization of Chicana women at Fresno
State Coll ege, are having a daily food sale in front of the cafeteria.
Las Adel it as st art making the food - burritos and chili beans_ at
five each morn ing.
Al l Chi canas ar e invited to attend Las Adelitas meetings, Meeting
times and dates ar e re gularly posted on campus;
Chi canos ayunden a Las Adelitas, Que estamos con ustedes.
MOV IE RE V IEW
'Soldier Blue'
By Leo Gallegos
"Men of the 11th Calvary, you
will go down in the annals of
American History as gallant and
brave men , for your actions today. When you become old and
wise , you can tell your grandchildren, you were a member of
the famous 11th Calvary."
Thos tc were the words of the
Commanding officer of the 11th
Calvary after a battle in Colorado. The battle consisted of a
cavalry unit pr oceeding into a
peaceful Indian village and commencing to massacre beyond human belief. T here were scenes
of men cutting off parts of the
bodies of not only Indian warriors but also of women and
children.
Heads were chopped
off and placed on guide-ans. About
this time I tu rned to my wife and
said, • And they have made the
world believe that the Indian
is the savage."
For the first
time I've seen a movie that when
I left I was confused as to who
the savages really were.
When we di scuss history and
say we want to hear it like it
was, it is not that we want to
Promote hate of the white man
or that we hate all things that
represent white society, but that
we would like to present white
society to search their souls
when they say they don't understand why Indians in mass numhers have not been ahle to succeed in society.
Intelligent people will understand that when a man's spirit
is broken, the will to compete
or exist becomes very difficult.
This is very evident in the Korean
War that when a man's spirit is
broken it has no prejudice. Some
of America's highest caliber of
officers with strong patriotic family traditions sang like canaries
once their spirits were broken,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
and his administration were highly shocked.
The American Indians were
thrown into reservations which
were nothing more than glorified
concentration camps, and were
humiliated just a few degrees
above spiritual annihilation. Yet
they were supposed to survive
and compete in this society.
I close by asking and recommending to our white brothers on
campus who don't understand
about spirit to go see Soldier
Blue, not to feel guilty for what
your forefathers have done, but
to understand a Red Man's point
of view.
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The cries of " Viva miliano Zapata•
of " Viva rrancisco Villa•
still r ing in the " Cora zon . • '
of el ' hicano
and thr eat s: imprisonment
paro les
and powder ed
egg s
for breakfast will not
chang e
it /
Anglo oriented
education
is that what the constitution
says
Equality
we hear it every day
unless you' re Mexican
we' re fed up with mistreatment
our jails
are ful I
of Mexicans
who have been
kicked out of school
beat up by pol icemen
and tol-d they're unworthy.
A man can take so much America
listen
don't condemn
the ch icano
listen
t o the sound of the Aztec in children
th beautiful songs
th e ,
hat pr egnant in Am er ica
was not caused
by us
and t he religi on
that says t reat
man as your brother
is t his only a game
are you puttin g us on ?
Wake up Amer ica
LI BER TY AND EQUALITY
FOR M EJI CANOS
your educational system stinks
we pick your tomatoes
don't complain
if they rot in the vines
or if we walk
out of schools
OUR TIME HAS COME
Viva la Raza
we'll go to our graves
fighting
for what we believe is right
are you willing
to understand the Chicano?
Don't call us animals
because we believe in justice
don't call us names
because we believe
in a right educational
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Monday, October 19, f970
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cancellation of La Raza Studies mean to you?
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Graciela
Solis
Celia
Vasquez
Susana
Mata
The cancellation of La Raza Studies was not too
much of a surprise to me, I wondered what the
reaction of the Chicano students and community
would be.
The cancellation made me realize
exactly how the adminis• ration like.i to play games
with the Chicano segment of the campus. I guess
the administration just doesn't re alize how important and powerful the Chicanos are, or maybe
they do, that's why they are afraid of making us
more aware of how things really are.
The two classes I was going to take were very
important to me since I have almost no knowledge of what my people have done and I want
to learn very badly.
Most people don't know
any more than I do, which is really sad. It's
something we all should learn. I don't understand why La Raza Studies was cut out whe n I
know there are qualified teachers and why no
other ethnic studies programs were affected.
La Raza studies were first instituted to make
education relevant to the Chicano. This meant
to study about our history , heritage and culture.
This is something that has been denied to us for
over 300 years.
The cancellation of La Raza
studies only proves Baxter's insincerity, and unsympathetic attitude toward fulfilling the needs
of Chicano students at Fresno State College. In
my opinion, this is only the firs t step towards
the elimination of all ethnic studies, with Black
Studies being the next target.
I became convinced that the administration (white
establishment) not only didn 't want us to become
educated but also didn,. want our Chicano "'thought"
around. They still want to dictate to us as ~o what
is right or wrong.
Jaime
Noriega
Manuel
Pickett
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Jess
Martinez
The terminati on of La Haza Studies was not
only an attack on Chicano students but the Chicano community a WPll. Until last year when
Ethnic Studies was in Pxistence, FSC was c·ornpletely dominated hy thP Anglo culture (if any)
and, the •white ways of life." Most of the 'hicanos who succeed 111 the institution. only swceed if they forget their tru identity anc1 accept
the Anglo way, "dog eat do~."
The action taken by naxter, f ,ilk . and I· 1kes
against La Haza, have violated my rights to l arn
the wholesome, spiritually filled culture, wh1ch
makes me what I am. A Chicano.
Therefore. I am cha r ging these three "puppets"
of the power system with acting irrationally
and inhumanly towards the people of the land.
Venceremos!
The cancellat,on of La Haza Stuc11es means that
many of us (Chicanos) are severed off from ctevoloping meaningful, social. political and communal awareness. Men SUC'h as Norman Baxter and
the State government have shown that they are
afraid of real awareness for minorities at any
level of education.
This move on the part of the administration
has made the Chicano community more determined to continue its fight for relevant education.
Chicanos
start new
fraternity
A high school student of Mexican descent hasn't considered
college because he doesn't know
who to contact, or because he
doesn't have the money or the
grades.
Mrs. Gloria Ramirez will not
be able to give her children
anything special for Thanksgiving
or Christmas.
A Mexican student at Fresno
State College doesn't go to any
campus activities because she
feels out of place.
Craig, a white student, feels
uneasy around Mexicans because
"I don't know what they're like.
I haven't met or talked with any
of them."
These are the m ain reasons
why Delta Alpha Chi, a Chicano
fraternity, was formed. Service
to the minority community and
to those students on campus
hasn't really been tapped by a
large group of students.
•There are a lot of students
on this campus who really want
to help but they Just didn't have
an avenue open to them before,"
Lupe de la Cruz, fraternit:i, president, explained.
Organized last semester by
seven Chicano students, the fraternity now has 22 pledges and
ahout 20 Little Sisters.
In order to let the campus
k11ow that the fraternity exists
and is willing to participate in
colleRe activities, the fraternity
is sponsoring Hosemary Franco
for Ilomecorning Queen.
Several speaking ngag ments
hav been set with various orf:(at112atio11s in the c·ommu11ity to
I t them know th~1t the fraternity
is sPrious in its goals and. i11
turn. to see if tile cornrnunity
will he willinK to participate
witlt the frat rnity. Also. fraternity committee · have h en
set up d alln•T with speciri<' areas
in th community that n eel and
want st11de11t aid .
nut the questi 11 most often
asked i s. why a fraternity•~
The answer is in the word
itself. Fraternity means brotherhood. When a ~roup forms to
work hard towards one goal,
a bond is built up between these
men. Respect for each other
leads to re spect for other . and
this is neet.led more now than
ever before.
Chicanos interested in joinin g
the fraternity m:iy call 224-G7G9.
Membership
deadline is next
Monctar. Oct. 2G.
ROSEMARY FRANCO, a sophomore Spanish major, has been selected
IJy Delta Alpha Chi as their candidate for Hom ec oming Queen.
Rosemary is a dancer of "Los Mixtlatecos," a Me xi can folk dance
group her in Fresno. Th, s dance group per fo r ms all through the
San Joaquin Valley.
Ffosemarv's future ambition is to be a te ach er , Durinq the past
two years she has worked with migrant chi ldr r n i n the Mini-Cor ps
program. In discussing her future p lans Rosem ary sai d, "I' d like to
teach t>lemcntarv school chi ldrcn because th e chi ldr cn'c; nee ds are
qr atest at that age.•
MECHA
officers
~Jovi rniento Estudiantil C hieano de Aztlan (:\IECHA) recently
elected a spokesman anct rnemher · of El Concilio. :\IE HA' ·
governing l>odv. for 1970- 71,
The n w spokesman is Cres
1Ierna11<le2.
U Concilio member ar 1 Hobert H,1mirez , Legal I>ete11~e Committee: ,Jess
~1artint•7,, Puhlic Helations Committe~ ; ,Jes:-; .\larquez, Iluelga
0111r11ittee:
Dolores .J1min(lG,
High School Committee :
aml
Susana :\lata , Juruor College anrl
Hur.ii .\ rf.'a Committee.
:'1ewly eleC'ted serretarie are
S ther Castillo and Ofelia Garcia.
~lore than ever before. Chicano
student.s niust assume the rolP
of making FSC meet the needs
of our PEOPLE,
It is only
th rough CAR. ILIS~fO and UNITY
that we. La Raza. can challenge
the injustices on this campus.
l\IECHA i~ the Vehicle Organi sense y Adelanto Raza.
All Chicanos 011 rarripus are
urged to attend '.\IECl!A meeting. Times and dates are posted
we1.,kly on campus.
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Com • .ttee.
Omar Luis Salinas and Dr,
Lillian Faderrnan, assis tant professor of English, are now collecting Chicano poetry, art. and
prose for a future Chicano anthology publication. All interested Chicanos may submit material
to Dr. Faderman in the English
Department at La VozdeAztlan's
box in the Collegian Office, or
mail it to 2009 Ninth Street,
Sanger, California.
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Within thos
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c mpu com munlty, there exists
, 11 the igotry nd hypocrisy or
tn lnantm l equ llty . .A within
th nature or this v Bey, the
root history h impl nted have
I ft quality hut a word and expre s1011 for th pow rle
a word that th powerful u e s
a tool of p ciflcaUon, to l u ed
convem ntly t the xp ns of
th pow rl ·s. Pr
nt and p t
ampus administrations, · nd th
apathy impov ri •hing the majority of thi c. mpu are obvious t stam nt to this.
lt may havt• se m d at on
time -that f re no tat, ollege
would he come a progr ssi ve
force in lJrldging thos chasms
created by r a ci a 1 prejudice;
chasms which are visible 1 both
internally and externally 111 this
in titution. But "American Progress• has left its scars; the
hopes of Chicanos, to become
full participants in this institution have all but been destroyed.
Within a year and a half all
that might have made FSC relevant to a total society has been
eliminated.
Those elements on campus,
who had empathy for the needs
'
of the powerless, were rel ated
to a posltion where they could no
longer effectively confront inju tlce on this campus.
L Raza f culty and administration were persecuted for their
b liefs in desiring n institution
th, t promote solutions to soci 1
ill:; rather than compounding the
problem , and th n purged from
the ampus.
In cane lli11g L R za Studies
the ~ dminl ·tration refused selfdet rmina ion and denied human
dignity for a p ople making up
one th! rd of this Valley."
The 1inority ouncll originally proposed by minorities on
campus has b en compromised by
Raxter into a powerles · token
council, which only reveals further his insincerity to deal with
those he has never been accustomed to accepting in his definition of equality.
Cessar Chavez, has said "For
every step we move forward we
wtll regress four." The seeding
of institutional racism on this
campus has proven this. We must
learn from these experiences
that only through unity and commitment can we challenge this
disease.
D~AZTI.AN
CHicanos Educational Alternatives
CHEA- 'community education'
By Phrllis '.\lartin
Chicanos for Educational Al~ernati ves (CHEA) is exactlv what
it means....
·
The Anglo educational system
has rejected the c hicano and
~ow· the Chicano is totall~ reJecting the Anglo educational system.
_
"Chicanos are convinced that
the,,J cannot get an education
th rough established institutions.
Ch'
. icanos don't ever expect these
1nst itutions to accomodate the
minorities."
charged Tomas
Gonzalez, former Fresno State
College La Raza Studies teacher
a nd now working on CHEA.
w_asn't a result of La Raza stu~ies cancellation because it had
een in the planning since spring
of th·ts year. Therefore, there
would have been a Chea despite
La Raza Studies.
f CHEA·~ classes would be oferect through extension from an
;ccredited college or university
or $11 a unit. However, CHEA
would be different from the Anglo
college community because it
would emcompass thewholeChicano community, and not Just
those people Anglo society defines as "college students."
Gonzalez said Chicano students
are involved in CHEA and so is
the community, a community involvement which has nothing to
do with FSC.
•our intentions are to build a
totallv ne•;. institution and not
to c~py FSC's La Raza Studies
program," Gonzalez stated.
•La Raza Studies by itself
wasn't education for minorities.
we wanted some say in every
department on campus that affected minorities, and we never
got that say. The curriculum was
a part of it," he said.
CHEA is, in effect, community
education and its purpose is to
"bring into existence educational
activities'' aimed at various levels of the Chicano community.
The potential of this community
involvement. according to Gonzalez, would include pre-school,
prim ry. secondarr, community
college. degree progr m , and
adult education.
CHE,.'s concept of adult education vcul • Wtd.lly dis reg r society's detin1tion of. again, a
•college student." For example,
Gonzalez cited, i1 a c::.mpesino
wanted to take a class that would
normally require some college
prerequisite in an Anglo college
situ t1on, this prerequisite process. would lherefnre. be nonexisteut in CHEA.
Last week a tentativ student
sign-up for CHEA was ildtiated
on campus to check how many
student would be interested in
enrolling and for what classes.
Students signing the class lists
understood this beforeh nd, and
also, no fees were collected because students were voicing interest in classes offered and not
actually
enrolling for any
classes.
COM ENT ARIO
EOP misconceptions
There are quite a few misconceptions about E.O.P. circulating arounrt campu . I would therefore like to clarify some
of them for the benefit of the general student body.
. The E. 0. P. program was specifically designed for the financially a~d academically disadvantaged minority student. It has
at no time drawn ny color lines, being available to black
brown, white, orient 1 and any other national origin. Bein;
a member of the E.O.P. pro ram does not guarantee a student
financial aid. The same federal guidelines used for regular
students ln determining their financial needs are applied to the
E.O. P. student. There are E.O.P. students that may not need
financial aid, hut re admitted into the program because they
are not qualified for admission academically.
Another misconception is that E.O.P. ls the same term as
E.O.G. ltho. gh these two pro rams correlate, they are not
the same thing. E.O.P. is the bbrebiation for Educational
Opportunity Pro ram, which 1 the tual program E o G i
an abbreviation for Educational Opportunity Grant, ·which is :
grant designed for the student who shows financial need in
order to continue his education at an institution of higher learning. One of the quallfJcations for receiving an E.O.G. is that
you must come from a family with a low-income history The
controversial •catch• to this qualification is that it is ap~lled
to all students regardless of age. For instance, if you are 35
years of age, married and the father of three children you
are not eligible for E.O.G. if your parents' earning ~wer
exceeds the parental income ceiling of $6,000 with one parent
(Continued on Page 2, Col. I)
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Monday, October 19, 1970
(Continued from page 1)
working and $7,500 with both
parents working.
The three financial aid programs which are most readily
available to the EOP students
are the National Defense Student
Loan (NDSL formerly known as
NDEA), the Educational Opportunity Grant(EOG), and the WorkStudy Program (W /S).
In order to qualify for the Educational Opportunity Program,
aside from the financial need and
the academic standpoint, you
must apply to the program before
being accepted for admission to
the college. A student who has
already been accepted through
the regular channels and is currently attending the college cannot apply or be admitted into the
program. You must be an incoming freshman or transferring
from a junior college.
Some of the benefits that the
program has to offer to students
are financial aid, tutors and
special classes geared to the students' particular ethnic group.
These classes are Black Studies
(BLST), La Raza Studies (LRST),
Native American Studies (NAST),
and other ethnic classes.
The program was originally
initiated September of 1967 with
an enrollment of 17 special action
students (students who fell short
of the academic requirements
for admission) on an experimental basis known as "Project
17". The program had extremely
good results and in the fall of
'68, the enrollment was increased
to 89, climbing to a new high of
150 students in the fall of 1969.
In the academic year of 19G8-
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holiday• and examination period• by
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Oplnlon1 expre .. ed in Daily Colle&ian apeclal edition ■ are not necesaarlly thoae or Fresno State College
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1969, the program progressed
considerably with a full faculty
and staff. It was, in reality, one
of the most promising EOP programs in the State and had exceptionally good potential for
success.
This year the program has
reached an impressive enrollment of 200 students. Unfortunately, it is in the worst state
it has been in since its initiation
in 1967, due to the political
manipulations by the Falk and
Baxter administrations and state
officials such as Dumke and Phillip Sanchez. The program this
fall is nothing but an empty
shell.
Its present staff consists of
an EOP Director, two Assistant
Directors, five co-ordinators, 36
contact workers, and ls in the
process of hiring several tutors.
But the program has no Chicano
faculty, with the exception of
Ernesto Palomino, who was hired
as a last minute attempt to pacify the brown student and community members. (Not to belittle
Mr. Palomino's qualifications
because they are comparable to
other La Raza Studies' Faculty
applicants ) Obviously, you can't
have La Raza Studies if you have
no faculty, but that's another
story.
What the absence of a Chicano
Faculty and La Raza courses
basically means is that the program has the ability to enroll
minority students by special action, which is a feat in itself,
but has nothing to offer them after
they are admitted to the college.
The EOP student needs courses
which would be more relevant
to his background. These courses
would help bridge the gap that
exists between an inadequate academic background, especially
in the secondary level and normal college work. The regular
student can easily make the trans ltion
without these special
courses.
In summary, the reason why
this year's program is all glittering shell and no substance
is that although it's a notable
achievement to be able to bring
these students to the college
campus by special action, it wlll
remain an empty gesture unless
the facilities are maintained to
support him through a most difficult endeavor. He needs much
more support than the average
student--not •equal• opportunity
and certainly not an atmosphere
in which his chanches are further
undercut by political expediency
and racial pressures. If he's
going to get a break, give him
one that means something.
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Flimsy excuses
There has been all kinds of
excuses given as to the tearing
down of the Ethnic classes here
at Fresno State College. However, when examined closely the
excuses dissipate into the filth
of racism, conservatism, stupidity, and ignorance that is typical
of the community and reflected
here on campus by administration, some yokels on faculty, and
offsprings of racists here on
campus.
Look
at the facts. Ethnic
studies have become a real part
and are established in the curriculum of many colleges, yet
here at Fresno they are part of
a bitter controversy that may
yet erupt into greater conflict.
Flimsy excuses have been
made as to the breaking up ofthe
faculty that t0re up the Chicano
studies. Now the reactionary,
backward mentality that in the
past has produced exterminators
of the American Indian. lynchers
of the blacks. and would-be masters of the Chicano farmworker
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get rid of so-called mllitants,
things will continue in the good
"'ole American way.•
For members of the "Mexican American If group whose only
goal is to be *good• Mexicans,
so as to succeed, who go around
scraping and accepting the paternalistic rules of a whiteoriented dominant group, only
perpetuate the happiness of their
masters.
If there is such a thing as
something "boffolt this people
represent this condition. They
will succeed in this society but
at what price?
What is the answer? Or rather
what is the choice?
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want to live my short life at
least feeling free.
Dispierten , no s ean TioTacos!
Tony Roque
MECHA member
Answers Sister
Dear Sister.
Your formality in calling me
"~iss Martin., (Collegian. Letters to th1 • Editor, Oct. 15) contradicted your uptight Women's
Lib rap on female equality. Next
time you address me , Sister,
call me Martin.
Martin
Indians form club
By Phil Martin Navasya
The American Indian students
of Fresno State College have expressed
a
strong interest
in forming an organization to
promote their image and life
to the campus and community,
The organization has established as its purposes to share
information on all aspects of the
cultural heritage and contemporary life of the American Indian.
Also. to encourage educational
achievements of the American
Indian students and to provide
a common ground for the inter-
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through this interaction and to
create a greater appreciation
of the American Indian.
With thes~ stated intents and
purposes. we hope that, as a
new organization striving for life
and recognition. we can create
within anr FSC student a curiousitv to se~k us out. to learn about
the Ame rican Indian. and join
with us to make this a successful organization,
Some of the futur e events
planned by the Ameri ca n Indian
students are the presentation of
a cultural show an all Indian
Pow-Wow , vari~us fund raising
projects ,
the appearance of
prominent Indian speakers and
most interesting of all, a trip
to Indian coun.try, the Island of
Alcatraz.
Membership is open to all FSC
students. The next meeting will
be Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 3:30 p.rn,
in the New Administration Building, Room 219.
_Monday, October 19, 19'!0
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
LISTEN TO OMAR
La Raza at Fresno State College
There was a scuffle
at Fresno State College
in which Chicanos
beat up Anglos /
Belleau Woods
Germany Korea
Viet Nam
the ground is tarnished
with Mexican
bravery /
The blood of our forefathers
runs thick
in our bellys /
and here in Fresno, California
we are harrassed
put in jail
and called
animals.
It sounds bad
and makes Chicanos
look very
guilty/
but you see
when you refuse
to let a man breathe
he might even
kill you /
and Mejicanos
have a rig ht
to some sort of
educat i ona I
destiny /
and this has b n
d ni d th m I
tak e away
" Los Der chos •
of the Chicano
ar:id you're i n for t rouble
LAS ADE Li TAS, a service organization of Chicana women at Fresno
State Coll ege, are having a daily food sale in front of the cafeteria.
Las Adel it as st art making the food - burritos and chili beans_ at
five each morn ing.
Al l Chi canas ar e invited to attend Las Adelitas meetings, Meeting
times and dates ar e re gularly posted on campus;
Chi canos ayunden a Las Adelitas, Que estamos con ustedes.
MOV IE RE V IEW
'Soldier Blue'
By Leo Gallegos
"Men of the 11th Calvary, you
will go down in the annals of
American History as gallant and
brave men , for your actions today. When you become old and
wise , you can tell your grandchildren, you were a member of
the famous 11th Calvary."
Thos tc were the words of the
Commanding officer of the 11th
Calvary after a battle in Colorado. The battle consisted of a
cavalry unit pr oceeding into a
peaceful Indian village and commencing to massacre beyond human belief. T here were scenes
of men cutting off parts of the
bodies of not only Indian warriors but also of women and
children.
Heads were chopped
off and placed on guide-ans. About
this time I tu rned to my wife and
said, • And they have made the
world believe that the Indian
is the savage."
For the first
time I've seen a movie that when
I left I was confused as to who
the savages really were.
When we di scuss history and
say we want to hear it like it
was, it is not that we want to
Promote hate of the white man
or that we hate all things that
represent white society, but that
we would like to present white
society to search their souls
when they say they don't understand why Indians in mass numhers have not been ahle to succeed in society.
Intelligent people will understand that when a man's spirit
is broken, the will to compete
or exist becomes very difficult.
This is very evident in the Korean
War that when a man's spirit is
broken it has no prejudice. Some
of America's highest caliber of
officers with strong patriotic family traditions sang like canaries
once their spirits were broken,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
and his administration were highly shocked.
The American Indians were
thrown into reservations which
were nothing more than glorified
concentration camps, and were
humiliated just a few degrees
above spiritual annihilation. Yet
they were supposed to survive
and compete in this society.
I close by asking and recommending to our white brothers on
campus who don't understand
about spirit to go see Soldier
Blue, not to feel guilty for what
your forefathers have done, but
to understand a Red Man's point
of view.
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of " Viva rrancisco Villa•
still r ing in the " Cora zon . • '
of el ' hicano
and thr eat s: imprisonment
paro les
and powder ed
egg s
for breakfast will not
chang e
it /
Anglo oriented
education
is that what the constitution
says
Equality
we hear it every day
unless you' re Mexican
we' re fed up with mistreatment
our jails
are ful I
of Mexicans
who have been
kicked out of school
beat up by pol icemen
and tol-d they're unworthy.
A man can take so much America
listen
don't condemn
the ch icano
listen
t o the sound of the Aztec in children
th beautiful songs
th e ,
hat pr egnant in Am er ica
was not caused
by us
and t he religi on
that says t reat
man as your brother
is t his only a game
are you puttin g us on ?
Wake up Amer ica
LI BER TY AND EQUALITY
FOR M EJI CANOS
your educational system stinks
we pick your tomatoes
don't complain
if they rot in the vines
or if we walk
out of schools
OUR TIME HAS COME
Viva la Raza
we'll go to our graves
fighting
for what we believe is right
are you willing
to understand the Chicano?
Don't call us animals
because we believe in justice
don't call us names
because we believe
in a right educational
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Omar Salinas
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Graciela
Solis
Celia
Vasquez
Susana
Mata
The cancellation of La Raza Studies was not too
much of a surprise to me, I wondered what the
reaction of the Chicano students and community
would be.
The cancellation made me realize
exactly how the adminis• ration like.i to play games
with the Chicano segment of the campus. I guess
the administration just doesn't re alize how important and powerful the Chicanos are, or maybe
they do, that's why they are afraid of making us
more aware of how things really are.
The two classes I was going to take were very
important to me since I have almost no knowledge of what my people have done and I want
to learn very badly.
Most people don't know
any more than I do, which is really sad. It's
something we all should learn. I don't understand why La Raza Studies was cut out whe n I
know there are qualified teachers and why no
other ethnic studies programs were affected.
La Raza studies were first instituted to make
education relevant to the Chicano. This meant
to study about our history , heritage and culture.
This is something that has been denied to us for
over 300 years.
The cancellation of La Raza
studies only proves Baxter's insincerity, and unsympathetic attitude toward fulfilling the needs
of Chicano students at Fresno State College. In
my opinion, this is only the firs t step towards
the elimination of all ethnic studies, with Black
Studies being the next target.
I became convinced that the administration (white
establishment) not only didn 't want us to become
educated but also didn,. want our Chicano "'thought"
around. They still want to dictate to us as ~o what
is right or wrong.
Jaime
Noriega
Manuel
Pickett
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Jess
Martinez
The terminati on of La Haza Studies was not
only an attack on Chicano students but the Chicano community a WPll. Until last year when
Ethnic Studies was in Pxistence, FSC was c·ornpletely dominated hy thP Anglo culture (if any)
and, the •white ways of life." Most of the 'hicanos who succeed 111 the institution. only swceed if they forget their tru identity anc1 accept
the Anglo way, "dog eat do~."
The action taken by naxter, f ,ilk . and I· 1kes
against La Haza, have violated my rights to l arn
the wholesome, spiritually filled culture, wh1ch
makes me what I am. A Chicano.
Therefore. I am cha r ging these three "puppets"
of the power system with acting irrationally
and inhumanly towards the people of the land.
Venceremos!
The cancellat,on of La Haza Stuc11es means that
many of us (Chicanos) are severed off from ctevoloping meaningful, social. political and communal awareness. Men SUC'h as Norman Baxter and
the State government have shown that they are
afraid of real awareness for minorities at any
level of education.
This move on the part of the administration
has made the Chicano community more determined to continue its fight for relevant education.
Chicanos
start new
fraternity
A high school student of Mexican descent hasn't considered
college because he doesn't know
who to contact, or because he
doesn't have the money or the
grades.
Mrs. Gloria Ramirez will not
be able to give her children
anything special for Thanksgiving
or Christmas.
A Mexican student at Fresno
State College doesn't go to any
campus activities because she
feels out of place.
Craig, a white student, feels
uneasy around Mexicans because
"I don't know what they're like.
I haven't met or talked with any
of them."
These are the m ain reasons
why Delta Alpha Chi, a Chicano
fraternity, was formed. Service
to the minority community and
to those students on campus
hasn't really been tapped by a
large group of students.
•There are a lot of students
on this campus who really want
to help but they Just didn't have
an avenue open to them before,"
Lupe de la Cruz, fraternit:i, president, explained.
Organized last semester by
seven Chicano students, the fraternity now has 22 pledges and
ahout 20 Little Sisters.
In order to let the campus
k11ow that the fraternity exists
and is willing to participate in
colleRe activities, the fraternity
is sponsoring Hosemary Franco
for Ilomecorning Queen.
Several speaking ngag ments
hav been set with various orf:(at112atio11s in the c·ommu11ity to
I t them know th~1t the fraternity
is sPrious in its goals and. i11
turn. to see if tile cornrnunity
will he willinK to participate
witlt the frat rnity. Also. fraternity committee · have h en
set up d alln•T with speciri<' areas
in th community that n eel and
want st11de11t aid .
nut the questi 11 most often
asked i s. why a fraternity•~
The answer is in the word
itself. Fraternity means brotherhood. When a ~roup forms to
work hard towards one goal,
a bond is built up between these
men. Respect for each other
leads to re spect for other . and
this is neet.led more now than
ever before.
Chicanos interested in joinin g
the fraternity m:iy call 224-G7G9.
Membership
deadline is next
Monctar. Oct. 2G.
ROSEMARY FRANCO, a sophomore Spanish major, has been selected
IJy Delta Alpha Chi as their candidate for Hom ec oming Queen.
Rosemary is a dancer of "Los Mixtlatecos," a Me xi can folk dance
group her in Fresno. Th, s dance group per fo r ms all through the
San Joaquin Valley.
Ffosemarv's future ambition is to be a te ach er , Durinq the past
two years she has worked with migrant chi ldr r n i n the Mini-Cor ps
program. In discussing her future p lans Rosem ary sai d, "I' d like to
teach t>lemcntarv school chi ldrcn because th e chi ldr cn'c; nee ds are
qr atest at that age.•
MECHA
officers
~Jovi rniento Estudiantil C hieano de Aztlan (:\IECHA) recently
elected a spokesman anct rnemher · of El Concilio. :\IE HA' ·
governing l>odv. for 1970- 71,
The n w spokesman is Cres
1Ierna11<le2.
U Concilio member ar 1 Hobert H,1mirez , Legal I>ete11~e Committee: ,Jess
~1artint•7,, Puhlic Helations Committe~ ; ,Jes:-; .\larquez, Iluelga
0111r11ittee:
Dolores .J1min(lG,
High School Committee :
aml
Susana :\lata , Juruor College anrl
Hur.ii .\ rf.'a Committee.
:'1ewly eleC'ted serretarie are
S ther Castillo and Ofelia Garcia.
~lore than ever before. Chicano
student.s niust assume the rolP
of making FSC meet the needs
of our PEOPLE,
It is only
th rough CAR. ILIS~fO and UNITY
that we. La Raza. can challenge
the injustices on this campus.
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All Chicanos 011 rarripus are
urged to attend '.\IECl!A meeting. Times and dates are posted
we1.,kly on campus.
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Omar Luis Salinas and Dr,
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prose for a future Chicano anthology publication. All interested Chicanos may submit material
to Dr. Faderman in the English
Department at La VozdeAztlan's
box in the Collegian Office, or
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Within thos
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c mpu com munlty, there exists
, 11 the igotry nd hypocrisy or
tn lnantm l equ llty . .A within
th nature or this v Bey, the
root history h impl nted have
I ft quality hut a word and expre s1011 for th pow rle
a word that th powerful u e s
a tool of p ciflcaUon, to l u ed
convem ntly t the xp ns of
th pow rl ·s. Pr
nt and p t
ampus administrations, · nd th
apathy impov ri •hing the majority of thi c. mpu are obvious t stam nt to this.
lt may havt• se m d at on
time -that f re no tat, ollege
would he come a progr ssi ve
force in lJrldging thos chasms
created by r a ci a 1 prejudice;
chasms which are visible 1 both
internally and externally 111 this
in titution. But "American Progress• has left its scars; the
hopes of Chicanos, to become
full participants in this institution have all but been destroyed.
Within a year and a half all
that might have made FSC relevant to a total society has been
eliminated.
Those elements on campus,
who had empathy for the needs
'
of the powerless, were rel ated
to a posltion where they could no
longer effectively confront inju tlce on this campus.
L Raza f culty and administration were persecuted for their
b liefs in desiring n institution
th, t promote solutions to soci 1
ill:; rather than compounding the
problem , and th n purged from
the ampus.
In cane lli11g L R za Studies
the ~ dminl ·tration refused selfdet rmina ion and denied human
dignity for a p ople making up
one th! rd of this Valley."
The 1inority ouncll originally proposed by minorities on
campus has b en compromised by
Raxter into a powerles · token
council, which only reveals further his insincerity to deal with
those he has never been accustomed to accepting in his definition of equality.
Cessar Chavez, has said "For
every step we move forward we
wtll regress four." The seeding
of institutional racism on this
campus has proven this. We must
learn from these experiences
that only through unity and commitment can we challenge this
disease.
D~AZTI.AN
CHicanos Educational Alternatives
CHEA- 'community education'
By Phrllis '.\lartin
Chicanos for Educational Al~ernati ves (CHEA) is exactlv what
it means....
·
The Anglo educational system
has rejected the c hicano and
~ow· the Chicano is totall~ reJecting the Anglo educational system.
_
"Chicanos are convinced that
the,,J cannot get an education
th rough established institutions.
Ch'
. icanos don't ever expect these
1nst itutions to accomodate the
minorities."
charged Tomas
Gonzalez, former Fresno State
College La Raza Studies teacher
a nd now working on CHEA.
w_asn't a result of La Raza stu~ies cancellation because it had
een in the planning since spring
of th·ts year. Therefore, there
would have been a Chea despite
La Raza Studies.
f CHEA·~ classes would be oferect through extension from an
;ccredited college or university
or $11 a unit. However, CHEA
would be different from the Anglo
college community because it
would emcompass thewholeChicano community, and not Just
those people Anglo society defines as "college students."
Gonzalez said Chicano students
are involved in CHEA and so is
the community, a community involvement which has nothing to
do with FSC.
•our intentions are to build a
totallv ne•;. institution and not
to c~py FSC's La Raza Studies
program," Gonzalez stated.
•La Raza Studies by itself
wasn't education for minorities.
we wanted some say in every
department on campus that affected minorities, and we never
got that say. The curriculum was
a part of it," he said.
CHEA is, in effect, community
education and its purpose is to
"bring into existence educational
activities'' aimed at various levels of the Chicano community.
The potential of this community
involvement. according to Gonzalez, would include pre-school,
prim ry. secondarr, community
college. degree progr m , and
adult education.
CHE,.'s concept of adult education vcul • Wtd.lly dis reg r society's detin1tion of. again, a
•college student." For example,
Gonzalez cited, i1 a c::.mpesino
wanted to take a class that would
normally require some college
prerequisite in an Anglo college
situ t1on, this prerequisite process. would lherefnre. be nonexisteut in CHEA.
Last week a tentativ student
sign-up for CHEA was ildtiated
on campus to check how many
student would be interested in
enrolling and for what classes.
Students signing the class lists
understood this beforeh nd, and
also, no fees were collected because students were voicing interest in classes offered and not
actually
enrolling for any
classes.
COM ENT ARIO
EOP misconceptions
There are quite a few misconceptions about E.O.P. circulating arounrt campu . I would therefore like to clarify some
of them for the benefit of the general student body.
. The E. 0. P. program was specifically designed for the financially a~d academically disadvantaged minority student. It has
at no time drawn ny color lines, being available to black
brown, white, orient 1 and any other national origin. Bein;
a member of the E.O.P. pro ram does not guarantee a student
financial aid. The same federal guidelines used for regular
students ln determining their financial needs are applied to the
E.O. P. student. There are E.O.P. students that may not need
financial aid, hut re admitted into the program because they
are not qualified for admission academically.
Another misconception is that E.O.P. ls the same term as
E.O.G. ltho. gh these two pro rams correlate, they are not
the same thing. E.O.P. is the bbrebiation for Educational
Opportunity Pro ram, which 1 the tual program E o G i
an abbreviation for Educational Opportunity Grant, ·which is :
grant designed for the student who shows financial need in
order to continue his education at an institution of higher learning. One of the quallfJcations for receiving an E.O.G. is that
you must come from a family with a low-income history The
controversial •catch• to this qualification is that it is ap~lled
to all students regardless of age. For instance, if you are 35
years of age, married and the father of three children you
are not eligible for E.O.G. if your parents' earning ~wer
exceeds the parental income ceiling of $6,000 with one parent
(Continued on Page 2, Col. I)
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, October 19, 1970
(Continued from page 1)
working and $7,500 with both
parents working.
The three financial aid programs which are most readily
available to the EOP students
are the National Defense Student
Loan (NDSL formerly known as
NDEA), the Educational Opportunity Grant(EOG), and the WorkStudy Program (W /S).
In order to qualify for the Educational Opportunity Program,
aside from the financial need and
the academic standpoint, you
must apply to the program before
being accepted for admission to
the college. A student who has
already been accepted through
the regular channels and is currently attending the college cannot apply or be admitted into the
program. You must be an incoming freshman or transferring
from a junior college.
Some of the benefits that the
program has to offer to students
are financial aid, tutors and
special classes geared to the students' particular ethnic group.
These classes are Black Studies
(BLST), La Raza Studies (LRST),
Native American Studies (NAST),
and other ethnic classes.
The program was originally
initiated September of 1967 with
an enrollment of 17 special action
students (students who fell short
of the academic requirements
for admission) on an experimental basis known as "Project
17". The program had extremely
good results and in the fall of
'68, the enrollment was increased
to 89, climbing to a new high of
150 students in the fall of 1969.
In the academic year of 19G8-
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1969, the program progressed
considerably with a full faculty
and staff. It was, in reality, one
of the most promising EOP programs in the State and had exceptionally good potential for
success.
This year the program has
reached an impressive enrollment of 200 students. Unfortunately, it is in the worst state
it has been in since its initiation
in 1967, due to the political
manipulations by the Falk and
Baxter administrations and state
officials such as Dumke and Phillip Sanchez. The program this
fall is nothing but an empty
shell.
Its present staff consists of
an EOP Director, two Assistant
Directors, five co-ordinators, 36
contact workers, and ls in the
process of hiring several tutors.
But the program has no Chicano
faculty, with the exception of
Ernesto Palomino, who was hired
as a last minute attempt to pacify the brown student and community members. (Not to belittle
Mr. Palomino's qualifications
because they are comparable to
other La Raza Studies' Faculty
applicants ) Obviously, you can't
have La Raza Studies if you have
no faculty, but that's another
story.
What the absence of a Chicano
Faculty and La Raza courses
basically means is that the program has the ability to enroll
minority students by special action, which is a feat in itself,
but has nothing to offer them after
they are admitted to the college.
The EOP student needs courses
which would be more relevant
to his background. These courses
would help bridge the gap that
exists between an inadequate academic background, especially
in the secondary level and normal college work. The regular
student can easily make the trans ltion
without these special
courses.
In summary, the reason why
this year's program is all glittering shell and no substance
is that although it's a notable
achievement to be able to bring
these students to the college
campus by special action, it wlll
remain an empty gesture unless
the facilities are maintained to
support him through a most difficult endeavor. He needs much
more support than the average
student--not •equal• opportunity
and certainly not an atmosphere
in which his chanches are further
undercut by political expediency
and racial pressures. If he's
going to get a break, give him
one that means something.
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Flimsy excuses
There has been all kinds of
excuses given as to the tearing
down of the Ethnic classes here
at Fresno State College. However, when examined closely the
excuses dissipate into the filth
of racism, conservatism, stupidity, and ignorance that is typical
of the community and reflected
here on campus by administration, some yokels on faculty, and
offsprings of racists here on
campus.
Look
at the facts. Ethnic
studies have become a real part
and are established in the curriculum of many colleges, yet
here at Fresno they are part of
a bitter controversy that may
yet erupt into greater conflict.
Flimsy excuses have been
made as to the breaking up ofthe
faculty that t0re up the Chicano
studies. Now the reactionary,
backward mentality that in the
past has produced exterminators
of the American Indian. lynchers
of the blacks. and would-be masters of the Chicano farmworker
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has proceeded to delude themselves into thinking that if they
get rid of so-called mllitants,
things will continue in the good
"'ole American way.•
For members of the "Mexican American If group whose only
goal is to be *good• Mexicans,
so as to succeed, who go around
scraping and accepting the paternalistic rules of a whiteoriented dominant group, only
perpetuate the happiness of their
masters.
If there is such a thing as
something "boffolt this people
represent this condition. They
will succeed in this society but
at what price?
What is the answer? Or rather
what is the choice?
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Dispierten , no s ean TioTacos!
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Answers Sister
Dear Sister.
Your formality in calling me
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Martin
Indians form club
By Phil Martin Navasya
The American Indian students
of Fresno State College have expressed
a
strong interest
in forming an organization to
promote their image and life
to the campus and community,
The organization has established as its purposes to share
information on all aspects of the
cultural heritage and contemporary life of the American Indian.
Also. to encourage educational
achievements of the American
Indian students and to provide
a common ground for the inter-
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through this interaction and to
create a greater appreciation
of the American Indian.
With thes~ stated intents and
purposes. we hope that, as a
new organization striving for life
and recognition. we can create
within anr FSC student a curiousitv to se~k us out. to learn about
the Ame rican Indian. and join
with us to make this a successful organization,
Some of the futur e events
planned by the Ameri ca n Indian
students are the presentation of
a cultural show an all Indian
Pow-Wow , vari~us fund raising
projects ,
the appearance of
prominent Indian speakers and
most interesting of all, a trip
to Indian coun.try, the Island of
Alcatraz.
Membership is open to all FSC
students. The next meeting will
be Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 3:30 p.rn,
in the New Administration Building, Room 219.
_Monday, October 19, 19'!0
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
LISTEN TO OMAR
La Raza at Fresno State College
There was a scuffle
at Fresno State College
in which Chicanos
beat up Anglos /
Belleau Woods
Germany Korea
Viet Nam
the ground is tarnished
with Mexican
bravery /
The blood of our forefathers
runs thick
in our bellys /
and here in Fresno, California
we are harrassed
put in jail
and called
animals.
It sounds bad
and makes Chicanos
look very
guilty/
but you see
when you refuse
to let a man breathe
he might even
kill you /
and Mejicanos
have a rig ht
to some sort of
educat i ona I
destiny /
and this has b n
d ni d th m I
tak e away
" Los Der chos •
of the Chicano
ar:id you're i n for t rouble
LAS ADE Li TAS, a service organization of Chicana women at Fresno
State Coll ege, are having a daily food sale in front of the cafeteria.
Las Adel it as st art making the food - burritos and chili beans_ at
five each morn ing.
Al l Chi canas ar e invited to attend Las Adelitas meetings, Meeting
times and dates ar e re gularly posted on campus;
Chi canos ayunden a Las Adelitas, Que estamos con ustedes.
MOV IE RE V IEW
'Soldier Blue'
By Leo Gallegos
"Men of the 11th Calvary, you
will go down in the annals of
American History as gallant and
brave men , for your actions today. When you become old and
wise , you can tell your grandchildren, you were a member of
the famous 11th Calvary."
Thos tc were the words of the
Commanding officer of the 11th
Calvary after a battle in Colorado. The battle consisted of a
cavalry unit pr oceeding into a
peaceful Indian village and commencing to massacre beyond human belief. T here were scenes
of men cutting off parts of the
bodies of not only Indian warriors but also of women and
children.
Heads were chopped
off and placed on guide-ans. About
this time I tu rned to my wife and
said, • And they have made the
world believe that the Indian
is the savage."
For the first
time I've seen a movie that when
I left I was confused as to who
the savages really were.
When we di scuss history and
say we want to hear it like it
was, it is not that we want to
Promote hate of the white man
or that we hate all things that
represent white society, but that
we would like to present white
society to search their souls
when they say they don't understand why Indians in mass numhers have not been ahle to succeed in society.
Intelligent people will understand that when a man's spirit
is broken, the will to compete
or exist becomes very difficult.
This is very evident in the Korean
War that when a man's spirit is
broken it has no prejudice. Some
of America's highest caliber of
officers with strong patriotic family traditions sang like canaries
once their spirits were broken,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
and his administration were highly shocked.
The American Indians were
thrown into reservations which
were nothing more than glorified
concentration camps, and were
humiliated just a few degrees
above spiritual annihilation. Yet
they were supposed to survive
and compete in this society.
I close by asking and recommending to our white brothers on
campus who don't understand
about spirit to go see Soldier
Blue, not to feel guilty for what
your forefathers have done, but
to understand a Red Man's point
of view.
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of " Viva rrancisco Villa•
still r ing in the " Cora zon . • '
of el ' hicano
and thr eat s: imprisonment
paro les
and powder ed
egg s
for breakfast will not
chang e
it /
Anglo oriented
education
is that what the constitution
says
Equality
we hear it every day
unless you' re Mexican
we' re fed up with mistreatment
our jails
are ful I
of Mexicans
who have been
kicked out of school
beat up by pol icemen
and tol-d they're unworthy.
A man can take so much America
listen
don't condemn
the ch icano
listen
t o the sound of the Aztec in children
th beautiful songs
th e ,
hat pr egnant in Am er ica
was not caused
by us
and t he religi on
that says t reat
man as your brother
is t his only a game
are you puttin g us on ?
Wake up Amer ica
LI BER TY AND EQUALITY
FOR M EJI CANOS
your educational system stinks
we pick your tomatoes
don't complain
if they rot in the vines
or if we walk
out of schools
OUR TIME HAS COME
Viva la Raza
we'll go to our graves
fighting
for what we believe is right
are you willing
to understand the Chicano?
Don't call us animals
because we believe in justice
don't call us names
because we believe
in a right educational
system.
In the battlefields
of Okinawa
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What did
Monday, October 19, f970
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cancellation of La Raza Studies mean to you?
'
Graciela
Solis
Celia
Vasquez
Susana
Mata
The cancellation of La Raza Studies was not too
much of a surprise to me, I wondered what the
reaction of the Chicano students and community
would be.
The cancellation made me realize
exactly how the adminis• ration like.i to play games
with the Chicano segment of the campus. I guess
the administration just doesn't re alize how important and powerful the Chicanos are, or maybe
they do, that's why they are afraid of making us
more aware of how things really are.
The two classes I was going to take were very
important to me since I have almost no knowledge of what my people have done and I want
to learn very badly.
Most people don't know
any more than I do, which is really sad. It's
something we all should learn. I don't understand why La Raza Studies was cut out whe n I
know there are qualified teachers and why no
other ethnic studies programs were affected.
La Raza studies were first instituted to make
education relevant to the Chicano. This meant
to study about our history , heritage and culture.
This is something that has been denied to us for
over 300 years.
The cancellation of La Raza
studies only proves Baxter's insincerity, and unsympathetic attitude toward fulfilling the needs
of Chicano students at Fresno State College. In
my opinion, this is only the firs t step towards
the elimination of all ethnic studies, with Black
Studies being the next target.
I became convinced that the administration (white
establishment) not only didn 't want us to become
educated but also didn,. want our Chicano "'thought"
around. They still want to dictate to us as ~o what
is right or wrong.
Jaime
Noriega
Manuel
Pickett
\
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Jess
Martinez
The terminati on of La Haza Studies was not
only an attack on Chicano students but the Chicano community a WPll. Until last year when
Ethnic Studies was in Pxistence, FSC was c·ornpletely dominated hy thP Anglo culture (if any)
and, the •white ways of life." Most of the 'hicanos who succeed 111 the institution. only swceed if they forget their tru identity anc1 accept
the Anglo way, "dog eat do~."
The action taken by naxter, f ,ilk . and I· 1kes
against La Haza, have violated my rights to l arn
the wholesome, spiritually filled culture, wh1ch
makes me what I am. A Chicano.
Therefore. I am cha r ging these three "puppets"
of the power system with acting irrationally
and inhumanly towards the people of the land.
Venceremos!
The cancellat,on of La Haza Stuc11es means that
many of us (Chicanos) are severed off from ctevoloping meaningful, social. political and communal awareness. Men SUC'h as Norman Baxter and
the State government have shown that they are
afraid of real awareness for minorities at any
level of education.
This move on the part of the administration
has made the Chicano community more determined to continue its fight for relevant education.
Chicanos
start new
fraternity
A high school student of Mexican descent hasn't considered
college because he doesn't know
who to contact, or because he
doesn't have the money or the
grades.
Mrs. Gloria Ramirez will not
be able to give her children
anything special for Thanksgiving
or Christmas.
A Mexican student at Fresno
State College doesn't go to any
campus activities because she
feels out of place.
Craig, a white student, feels
uneasy around Mexicans because
"I don't know what they're like.
I haven't met or talked with any
of them."
These are the m ain reasons
why Delta Alpha Chi, a Chicano
fraternity, was formed. Service
to the minority community and
to those students on campus
hasn't really been tapped by a
large group of students.
•There are a lot of students
on this campus who really want
to help but they Just didn't have
an avenue open to them before,"
Lupe de la Cruz, fraternit:i, president, explained.
Organized last semester by
seven Chicano students, the fraternity now has 22 pledges and
ahout 20 Little Sisters.
In order to let the campus
k11ow that the fraternity exists
and is willing to participate in
colleRe activities, the fraternity
is sponsoring Hosemary Franco
for Ilomecorning Queen.
Several speaking ngag ments
hav been set with various orf:(at112atio11s in the c·ommu11ity to
I t them know th~1t the fraternity
is sPrious in its goals and. i11
turn. to see if tile cornrnunity
will he willinK to participate
witlt the frat rnity. Also. fraternity committee · have h en
set up d alln•T with speciri<' areas
in th community that n eel and
want st11de11t aid .
nut the questi 11 most often
asked i s. why a fraternity•~
The answer is in the word
itself. Fraternity means brotherhood. When a ~roup forms to
work hard towards one goal,
a bond is built up between these
men. Respect for each other
leads to re spect for other . and
this is neet.led more now than
ever before.
Chicanos interested in joinin g
the fraternity m:iy call 224-G7G9.
Membership
deadline is next
Monctar. Oct. 2G.
ROSEMARY FRANCO, a sophomore Spanish major, has been selected
IJy Delta Alpha Chi as their candidate for Hom ec oming Queen.
Rosemary is a dancer of "Los Mixtlatecos," a Me xi can folk dance
group her in Fresno. Th, s dance group per fo r ms all through the
San Joaquin Valley.
Ffosemarv's future ambition is to be a te ach er , Durinq the past
two years she has worked with migrant chi ldr r n i n the Mini-Cor ps
program. In discussing her future p lans Rosem ary sai d, "I' d like to
teach t>lemcntarv school chi ldrcn because th e chi ldr cn'c; nee ds are
qr atest at that age.•
MECHA
officers
~Jovi rniento Estudiantil C hieano de Aztlan (:\IECHA) recently
elected a spokesman anct rnemher · of El Concilio. :\IE HA' ·
governing l>odv. for 1970- 71,
The n w spokesman is Cres
1Ierna11<le2.
U Concilio member ar 1 Hobert H,1mirez , Legal I>ete11~e Committee: ,Jess
~1artint•7,, Puhlic Helations Committe~ ; ,Jes:-; .\larquez, Iluelga
0111r11ittee:
Dolores .J1min(lG,
High School Committee :
aml
Susana :\lata , Juruor College anrl
Hur.ii .\ rf.'a Committee.
:'1ewly eleC'ted serretarie are
S ther Castillo and Ofelia Garcia.
~lore than ever before. Chicano
student.s niust assume the rolP
of making FSC meet the needs
of our PEOPLE,
It is only
th rough CAR. ILIS~fO and UNITY
that we. La Raza. can challenge
the injustices on this campus.
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All Chicanos 011 rarripus are
urged to attend '.\IECl!A meeting. Times and dates are posted
we1.,kly on campus.
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Com • .ttee.
Omar Luis Salinas and Dr,
Lillian Faderrnan, assis tant professor of English, are now collecting Chicano poetry, art. and
prose for a future Chicano anthology publication. All interested Chicanos may submit material
to Dr. Faderman in the English
Department at La VozdeAztlan's
box in the Collegian Office, or
mail it to 2009 Ninth Street,
Sanger, California.
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, 11 the igotry nd hypocrisy or
tn lnantm l equ llty . .A within
th nature or this v Bey, the
root history h impl nted have
I ft quality hut a word and expre s1011 for th pow rle
a word that th powerful u e s
a tool of p ciflcaUon, to l u ed
convem ntly t the xp ns of
th pow rl ·s. Pr
nt and p t
ampus administrations, · nd th
apathy impov ri •hing the majority of thi c. mpu are obvious t stam nt to this.
lt may havt• se m d at on
time -that f re no tat, ollege
would he come a progr ssi ve
force in lJrldging thos chasms
created by r a ci a 1 prejudice;
chasms which are visible 1 both
internally and externally 111 this
in titution. But "American Progress• has left its scars; the
hopes of Chicanos, to become
full participants in this institution have all but been destroyed.
Within a year and a half all
that might have made FSC relevant to a total society has been
eliminated.
Those elements on campus,
who had empathy for the needs
'
of the powerless, were rel ated
to a posltion where they could no
longer effectively confront inju tlce on this campus.
L Raza f culty and administration were persecuted for their
b liefs in desiring n institution
th, t promote solutions to soci 1
ill:; rather than compounding the
problem , and th n purged from
the ampus.
In cane lli11g L R za Studies
the ~ dminl ·tration refused selfdet rmina ion and denied human
dignity for a p ople making up
one th! rd of this Valley."
The 1inority ouncll originally proposed by minorities on
campus has b en compromised by
Raxter into a powerles · token
council, which only reveals further his insincerity to deal with
those he has never been accustomed to accepting in his definition of equality.
Cessar Chavez, has said "For
every step we move forward we
wtll regress four." The seeding
of institutional racism on this
campus has proven this. We must
learn from these experiences
that only through unity and commitment can we challenge this
disease.
D~AZTI.AN
CHicanos Educational Alternatives
CHEA- 'community education'
By Phrllis '.\lartin
Chicanos for Educational Al~ernati ves (CHEA) is exactlv what
it means....
·
The Anglo educational system
has rejected the c hicano and
~ow· the Chicano is totall~ reJecting the Anglo educational system.
_
"Chicanos are convinced that
the,,J cannot get an education
th rough established institutions.
Ch'
. icanos don't ever expect these
1nst itutions to accomodate the
minorities."
charged Tomas
Gonzalez, former Fresno State
College La Raza Studies teacher
a nd now working on CHEA.
w_asn't a result of La Raza stu~ies cancellation because it had
een in the planning since spring
of th·ts year. Therefore, there
would have been a Chea despite
La Raza Studies.
f CHEA·~ classes would be oferect through extension from an
;ccredited college or university
or $11 a unit. However, CHEA
would be different from the Anglo
college community because it
would emcompass thewholeChicano community, and not Just
those people Anglo society defines as "college students."
Gonzalez said Chicano students
are involved in CHEA and so is
the community, a community involvement which has nothing to
do with FSC.
•our intentions are to build a
totallv ne•;. institution and not
to c~py FSC's La Raza Studies
program," Gonzalez stated.
•La Raza Studies by itself
wasn't education for minorities.
we wanted some say in every
department on campus that affected minorities, and we never
got that say. The curriculum was
a part of it," he said.
CHEA is, in effect, community
education and its purpose is to
"bring into existence educational
activities'' aimed at various levels of the Chicano community.
The potential of this community
involvement. according to Gonzalez, would include pre-school,
prim ry. secondarr, community
college. degree progr m , and
adult education.
CHE,.'s concept of adult education vcul • Wtd.lly dis reg r society's detin1tion of. again, a
•college student." For example,
Gonzalez cited, i1 a c::.mpesino
wanted to take a class that would
normally require some college
prerequisite in an Anglo college
situ t1on, this prerequisite process. would lherefnre. be nonexisteut in CHEA.
Last week a tentativ student
sign-up for CHEA was ildtiated
on campus to check how many
student would be interested in
enrolling and for what classes.
Students signing the class lists
understood this beforeh nd, and
also, no fees were collected because students were voicing interest in classes offered and not
actually
enrolling for any
classes.
COM ENT ARIO
EOP misconceptions
There are quite a few misconceptions about E.O.P. circulating arounrt campu . I would therefore like to clarify some
of them for the benefit of the general student body.
. The E. 0. P. program was specifically designed for the financially a~d academically disadvantaged minority student. It has
at no time drawn ny color lines, being available to black
brown, white, orient 1 and any other national origin. Bein;
a member of the E.O.P. pro ram does not guarantee a student
financial aid. The same federal guidelines used for regular
students ln determining their financial needs are applied to the
E.O. P. student. There are E.O.P. students that may not need
financial aid, hut re admitted into the program because they
are not qualified for admission academically.
Another misconception is that E.O.P. ls the same term as
E.O.G. ltho. gh these two pro rams correlate, they are not
the same thing. E.O.P. is the bbrebiation for Educational
Opportunity Pro ram, which 1 the tual program E o G i
an abbreviation for Educational Opportunity Grant, ·which is :
grant designed for the student who shows financial need in
order to continue his education at an institution of higher learning. One of the quallfJcations for receiving an E.O.G. is that
you must come from a family with a low-income history The
controversial •catch• to this qualification is that it is ap~lled
to all students regardless of age. For instance, if you are 35
years of age, married and the father of three children you
are not eligible for E.O.G. if your parents' earning ~wer
exceeds the parental income ceiling of $6,000 with one parent
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(Continued from page 1)
working and $7,500 with both
parents working.
The three financial aid programs which are most readily
available to the EOP students
are the National Defense Student
Loan (NDSL formerly known as
NDEA), the Educational Opportunity Grant(EOG), and the WorkStudy Program (W /S).
In order to qualify for the Educational Opportunity Program,
aside from the financial need and
the academic standpoint, you
must apply to the program before
being accepted for admission to
the college. A student who has
already been accepted through
the regular channels and is currently attending the college cannot apply or be admitted into the
program. You must be an incoming freshman or transferring
from a junior college.
Some of the benefits that the
program has to offer to students
are financial aid, tutors and
special classes geared to the students' particular ethnic group.
These classes are Black Studies
(BLST), La Raza Studies (LRST),
Native American Studies (NAST),
and other ethnic classes.
The program was originally
initiated September of 1967 with
an enrollment of 17 special action
students (students who fell short
of the academic requirements
for admission) on an experimental basis known as "Project
17". The program had extremely
good results and in the fall of
'68, the enrollment was increased
to 89, climbing to a new high of
150 students in the fall of 1969.
In the academic year of 19G8-
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1969, the program progressed
considerably with a full faculty
and staff. It was, in reality, one
of the most promising EOP programs in the State and had exceptionally good potential for
success.
This year the program has
reached an impressive enrollment of 200 students. Unfortunately, it is in the worst state
it has been in since its initiation
in 1967, due to the political
manipulations by the Falk and
Baxter administrations and state
officials such as Dumke and Phillip Sanchez. The program this
fall is nothing but an empty
shell.
Its present staff consists of
an EOP Director, two Assistant
Directors, five co-ordinators, 36
contact workers, and ls in the
process of hiring several tutors.
But the program has no Chicano
faculty, with the exception of
Ernesto Palomino, who was hired
as a last minute attempt to pacify the brown student and community members. (Not to belittle
Mr. Palomino's qualifications
because they are comparable to
other La Raza Studies' Faculty
applicants ) Obviously, you can't
have La Raza Studies if you have
no faculty, but that's another
story.
What the absence of a Chicano
Faculty and La Raza courses
basically means is that the program has the ability to enroll
minority students by special action, which is a feat in itself,
but has nothing to offer them after
they are admitted to the college.
The EOP student needs courses
which would be more relevant
to his background. These courses
would help bridge the gap that
exists between an inadequate academic background, especially
in the secondary level and normal college work. The regular
student can easily make the trans ltion
without these special
courses.
In summary, the reason why
this year's program is all glittering shell and no substance
is that although it's a notable
achievement to be able to bring
these students to the college
campus by special action, it wlll
remain an empty gesture unless
the facilities are maintained to
support him through a most difficult endeavor. He needs much
more support than the average
student--not •equal• opportunity
and certainly not an atmosphere
in which his chanches are further
undercut by political expediency
and racial pressures. If he's
going to get a break, give him
one that means something.
Cres Hernandez
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Flimsy excuses
There has been all kinds of
excuses given as to the tearing
down of the Ethnic classes here
at Fresno State College. However, when examined closely the
excuses dissipate into the filth
of racism, conservatism, stupidity, and ignorance that is typical
of the community and reflected
here on campus by administration, some yokels on faculty, and
offsprings of racists here on
campus.
Look
at the facts. Ethnic
studies have become a real part
and are established in the curriculum of many colleges, yet
here at Fresno they are part of
a bitter controversy that may
yet erupt into greater conflict.
Flimsy excuses have been
made as to the breaking up ofthe
faculty that t0re up the Chicano
studies. Now the reactionary,
backward mentality that in the
past has produced exterminators
of the American Indian. lynchers
of the blacks. and would-be masters of the Chicano farmworker
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has proceeded to delude themselves into thinking that if they
get rid of so-called mllitants,
things will continue in the good
"'ole American way.•
For members of the "Mexican American If group whose only
goal is to be *good• Mexicans,
so as to succeed, who go around
scraping and accepting the paternalistic rules of a whiteoriented dominant group, only
perpetuate the happiness of their
masters.
If there is such a thing as
something "boffolt this people
represent this condition. They
will succeed in this society but
at what price?
What is the answer? Or rather
what is the choice?
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Dispierten , no s ean TioTacos!
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MECHA member
Answers Sister
Dear Sister.
Your formality in calling me
"~iss Martin., (Collegian. Letters to th1 • Editor, Oct. 15) contradicted your uptight Women's
Lib rap on female equality. Next
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Martin
Indians form club
By Phil Martin Navasya
The American Indian students
of Fresno State College have expressed
a
strong interest
in forming an organization to
promote their image and life
to the campus and community,
The organization has established as its purposes to share
information on all aspects of the
cultural heritage and contemporary life of the American Indian.
Also. to encourage educational
achievements of the American
Indian students and to provide
a common ground for the inter-
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creed, religion or political affiliation. And. above all, to establish a better understanding
through this interaction and to
create a greater appreciation
of the American Indian.
With thes~ stated intents and
purposes. we hope that, as a
new organization striving for life
and recognition. we can create
within anr FSC student a curiousitv to se~k us out. to learn about
the Ame rican Indian. and join
with us to make this a successful organization,
Some of the futur e events
planned by the Ameri ca n Indian
students are the presentation of
a cultural show an all Indian
Pow-Wow , vari~us fund raising
projects ,
the appearance of
prominent Indian speakers and
most interesting of all, a trip
to Indian coun.try, the Island of
Alcatraz.
Membership is open to all FSC
students. The next meeting will
be Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 3:30 p.rn,
in the New Administration Building, Room 219.
_Monday, October 19, 19'!0
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LISTEN TO OMAR
La Raza at Fresno State College
There was a scuffle
at Fresno State College
in which Chicanos
beat up Anglos /
Belleau Woods
Germany Korea
Viet Nam
the ground is tarnished
with Mexican
bravery /
The blood of our forefathers
runs thick
in our bellys /
and here in Fresno, California
we are harrassed
put in jail
and called
animals.
It sounds bad
and makes Chicanos
look very
guilty/
but you see
when you refuse
to let a man breathe
he might even
kill you /
and Mejicanos
have a rig ht
to some sort of
educat i ona I
destiny /
and this has b n
d ni d th m I
tak e away
" Los Der chos •
of the Chicano
ar:id you're i n for t rouble
LAS ADE Li TAS, a service organization of Chicana women at Fresno
State Coll ege, are having a daily food sale in front of the cafeteria.
Las Adel it as st art making the food - burritos and chili beans_ at
five each morn ing.
Al l Chi canas ar e invited to attend Las Adelitas meetings, Meeting
times and dates ar e re gularly posted on campus;
Chi canos ayunden a Las Adelitas, Que estamos con ustedes.
MOV IE RE V IEW
'Soldier Blue'
By Leo Gallegos
"Men of the 11th Calvary, you
will go down in the annals of
American History as gallant and
brave men , for your actions today. When you become old and
wise , you can tell your grandchildren, you were a member of
the famous 11th Calvary."
Thos tc were the words of the
Commanding officer of the 11th
Calvary after a battle in Colorado. The battle consisted of a
cavalry unit pr oceeding into a
peaceful Indian village and commencing to massacre beyond human belief. T here were scenes
of men cutting off parts of the
bodies of not only Indian warriors but also of women and
children.
Heads were chopped
off and placed on guide-ans. About
this time I tu rned to my wife and
said, • And they have made the
world believe that the Indian
is the savage."
For the first
time I've seen a movie that when
I left I was confused as to who
the savages really were.
When we di scuss history and
say we want to hear it like it
was, it is not that we want to
Promote hate of the white man
or that we hate all things that
represent white society, but that
we would like to present white
society to search their souls
when they say they don't understand why Indians in mass numhers have not been ahle to succeed in society.
Intelligent people will understand that when a man's spirit
is broken, the will to compete
or exist becomes very difficult.
This is very evident in the Korean
War that when a man's spirit is
broken it has no prejudice. Some
of America's highest caliber of
officers with strong patriotic family traditions sang like canaries
once their spirits were broken,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
and his administration were highly shocked.
The American Indians were
thrown into reservations which
were nothing more than glorified
concentration camps, and were
humiliated just a few degrees
above spiritual annihilation. Yet
they were supposed to survive
and compete in this society.
I close by asking and recommending to our white brothers on
campus who don't understand
about spirit to go see Soldier
Blue, not to feel guilty for what
your forefathers have done, but
to understand a Red Man's point
of view.
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The cries of " Viva miliano Zapata•
of " Viva rrancisco Villa•
still r ing in the " Cora zon . • '
of el ' hicano
and thr eat s: imprisonment
paro les
and powder ed
egg s
for breakfast will not
chang e
it /
Anglo oriented
education
is that what the constitution
says
Equality
we hear it every day
unless you' re Mexican
we' re fed up with mistreatment
our jails
are ful I
of Mexicans
who have been
kicked out of school
beat up by pol icemen
and tol-d they're unworthy.
A man can take so much America
listen
don't condemn
the ch icano
listen
t o the sound of the Aztec in children
th beautiful songs
th e ,
hat pr egnant in Am er ica
was not caused
by us
and t he religi on
that says t reat
man as your brother
is t his only a game
are you puttin g us on ?
Wake up Amer ica
LI BER TY AND EQUALITY
FOR M EJI CANOS
your educational system stinks
we pick your tomatoes
don't complain
if they rot in the vines
or if we walk
out of schools
OUR TIME HAS COME
Viva la Raza
we'll go to our graves
fighting
for what we believe is right
are you willing
to understand the Chicano?
Don't call us animals
because we believe in justice
don't call us names
because we believe
in a right educational
system.
In the battlefields
of Okinawa
Omar Salinas
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What did
Monday, October 19, f970
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cancellation of La Raza Studies mean to you?
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Graciela
Solis
Celia
Vasquez
Susana
Mata
The cancellation of La Raza Studies was not too
much of a surprise to me, I wondered what the
reaction of the Chicano students and community
would be.
The cancellation made me realize
exactly how the adminis• ration like.i to play games
with the Chicano segment of the campus. I guess
the administration just doesn't re alize how important and powerful the Chicanos are, or maybe
they do, that's why they are afraid of making us
more aware of how things really are.
The two classes I was going to take were very
important to me since I have almost no knowledge of what my people have done and I want
to learn very badly.
Most people don't know
any more than I do, which is really sad. It's
something we all should learn. I don't understand why La Raza Studies was cut out whe n I
know there are qualified teachers and why no
other ethnic studies programs were affected.
La Raza studies were first instituted to make
education relevant to the Chicano. This meant
to study about our history , heritage and culture.
This is something that has been denied to us for
over 300 years.
The cancellation of La Raza
studies only proves Baxter's insincerity, and unsympathetic attitude toward fulfilling the needs
of Chicano students at Fresno State College. In
my opinion, this is only the firs t step towards
the elimination of all ethnic studies, with Black
Studies being the next target.
I became convinced that the administration (white
establishment) not only didn 't want us to become
educated but also didn,. want our Chicano "'thought"
around. They still want to dictate to us as ~o what
is right or wrong.
Jaime
Noriega
Manuel
Pickett
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Jess
Martinez
The terminati on of La Haza Studies was not
only an attack on Chicano students but the Chicano community a WPll. Until last year when
Ethnic Studies was in Pxistence, FSC was c·ornpletely dominated hy thP Anglo culture (if any)
and, the •white ways of life." Most of the 'hicanos who succeed 111 the institution. only swceed if they forget their tru identity anc1 accept
the Anglo way, "dog eat do~."
The action taken by naxter, f ,ilk . and I· 1kes
against La Haza, have violated my rights to l arn
the wholesome, spiritually filled culture, wh1ch
makes me what I am. A Chicano.
Therefore. I am cha r ging these three "puppets"
of the power system with acting irrationally
and inhumanly towards the people of the land.
Venceremos!
The cancellat,on of La Haza Stuc11es means that
many of us (Chicanos) are severed off from ctevoloping meaningful, social. political and communal awareness. Men SUC'h as Norman Baxter and
the State government have shown that they are
afraid of real awareness for minorities at any
level of education.
This move on the part of the administration
has made the Chicano community more determined to continue its fight for relevant education.
Chicanos
start new
fraternity
A high school student of Mexican descent hasn't considered
college because he doesn't know
who to contact, or because he
doesn't have the money or the
grades.
Mrs. Gloria Ramirez will not
be able to give her children
anything special for Thanksgiving
or Christmas.
A Mexican student at Fresno
State College doesn't go to any
campus activities because she
feels out of place.
Craig, a white student, feels
uneasy around Mexicans because
"I don't know what they're like.
I haven't met or talked with any
of them."
These are the m ain reasons
why Delta Alpha Chi, a Chicano
fraternity, was formed. Service
to the minority community and
to those students on campus
hasn't really been tapped by a
large group of students.
•There are a lot of students
on this campus who really want
to help but they Just didn't have
an avenue open to them before,"
Lupe de la Cruz, fraternit:i, president, explained.
Organized last semester by
seven Chicano students, the fraternity now has 22 pledges and
ahout 20 Little Sisters.
In order to let the campus
k11ow that the fraternity exists
and is willing to participate in
colleRe activities, the fraternity
is sponsoring Hosemary Franco
for Ilomecorning Queen.
Several speaking ngag ments
hav been set with various orf:(at112atio11s in the c·ommu11ity to
I t them know th~1t the fraternity
is sPrious in its goals and. i11
turn. to see if tile cornrnunity
will he willinK to participate
witlt the frat rnity. Also. fraternity committee · have h en
set up d alln•T with speciri<' areas
in th community that n eel and
want st11de11t aid .
nut the questi 11 most often
asked i s. why a fraternity•~
The answer is in the word
itself. Fraternity means brotherhood. When a ~roup forms to
work hard towards one goal,
a bond is built up between these
men. Respect for each other
leads to re spect for other . and
this is neet.led more now than
ever before.
Chicanos interested in joinin g
the fraternity m:iy call 224-G7G9.
Membership
deadline is next
Monctar. Oct. 2G.
ROSEMARY FRANCO, a sophomore Spanish major, has been selected
IJy Delta Alpha Chi as their candidate for Hom ec oming Queen.
Rosemary is a dancer of "Los Mixtlatecos," a Me xi can folk dance
group her in Fresno. Th, s dance group per fo r ms all through the
San Joaquin Valley.
Ffosemarv's future ambition is to be a te ach er , Durinq the past
two years she has worked with migrant chi ldr r n i n the Mini-Cor ps
program. In discussing her future p lans Rosem ary sai d, "I' d like to
teach t>lemcntarv school chi ldrcn because th e chi ldr cn'c; nee ds are
qr atest at that age.•
MECHA
officers
~Jovi rniento Estudiantil C hieano de Aztlan (:\IECHA) recently
elected a spokesman anct rnemher · of El Concilio. :\IE HA' ·
governing l>odv. for 1970- 71,
The n w spokesman is Cres
1Ierna11<le2.
U Concilio member ar 1 Hobert H,1mirez , Legal I>ete11~e Committee: ,Jess
~1artint•7,, Puhlic Helations Committe~ ; ,Jes:-; .\larquez, Iluelga
0111r11ittee:
Dolores .J1min(lG,
High School Committee :
aml
Susana :\lata , Juruor College anrl
Hur.ii .\ rf.'a Committee.
:'1ewly eleC'ted serretarie are
S ther Castillo and Ofelia Garcia.
~lore than ever before. Chicano
student.s niust assume the rolP
of making FSC meet the needs
of our PEOPLE,
It is only
th rough CAR. ILIS~fO and UNITY
that we. La Raza. can challenge
the injustices on this campus.
l\IECHA i~ the Vehicle Organi sense y Adelanto Raza.
All Chicanos 011 rarripus are
urged to attend '.\IECl!A meeting. Times and dates are posted
we1.,kly on campus.
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NOTICIAS
El Chicano, the musical group
which recorded "Viva Tirado,"
will provide the music for Halloween Dance, Oct, 29, at the
Convention Center from 8 p.m.
to midnight. Daace
'•ets are
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$44 per mo. per man, 4 man rate,
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students is scheduled this Thursday noon, Oct. 22 , in the lnter'ltional Room to discuss the form. '"n of the EOP Advisory
Com • .ttee.
Omar Luis Salinas and Dr,
Lillian Faderrnan, assis tant professor of English, are now collecting Chicano poetry, art. and
prose for a future Chicano anthology publication. All interested Chicanos may submit material
to Dr. Faderman in the English
Department at La VozdeAztlan's
box in the Collegian Office, or
mail it to 2009 Ninth Street,
Sanger, California.
Deadline is Nov. 27, 1\170.
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