La Voz de Aztlan, February 22 1971
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Title
La Voz de Aztlan, February 22 1971
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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
2/22/1971
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ERNIE PALOMINO, FSC Chicano art instructor, is currently in the process of creating the first of several barrio murals. Since this December he and Ez(quiel "Lee"
Orona and Joaquin Patino have been working steadily on the mural on a cantina wall
at Tulare and F Streets. Completion is expected within a month.
Of the mural Palomino says, "When I hit this town the Fresno Chicano heavies said
I should paint a mural in Chinatown. But the Ruco who owned the building wasn't ready
for it. So I just waited for a while - it was worth it. Now I drink a few beers while I
paint it on the outside of a beer joint. It belongs to an old friend of my Jefito. The
mural is getting far out, and is taking a long time to finish it, and may take much
longer, because the winitos keep µuking on it, and pissing there. There are old Huelgistas around and they dig on it. And some of the Mayates think Lee's image looks
African, but I tel I them that Quetzal coat I is a long way from being a black. The mural .
is no big thing actually, they have them everywhere, except in Fresno. Fresno is the ·
only place where people would rather I isten to the news instead of Santana or just look
at free shit.
Art is hard to guarantee outside on Tulare and F, but at least it's better than looking
at Pepsi-Cola signs. And by the time they wipe it out, maybe there'll be a few more.
Gradually they wi 11 be harder to wipe out."
LXXVl/85 .
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1971
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES?
An open letter to the FSC Student Body
We, the Indian students of
Fresno State College, would like
to know what happened to the
Native American Studies Program? Have we again been sold
down the river by contemporary
treaty breakers wearing Ivy
league suits instead of buckskins?
Have we been conveniently swept
under the carpet into our usual
· pile after the white man's house
cleaning?
Since the Chicano and Black
students were the instrumental
force in the creation of an American Indian contingent on campus,
they are already painfully aware
of the mysterious disappearance
of the facilities for Native
Americans; but, perhaps the significant others on campus would
like some information.
During the fall of 1969 the
EOP Director (with nd a small
amount of coaxing) petitioned the
administration for 25 positions
for Native American students to
enroll with 250 Blacks and
Browns. A recruitment team visited nearby rancherias or reservations (the Redman's ghetto or
barrio) and convinced 25 Indians
that joining the system was bet-
Farm workers strike at Vie-Del
Farmworkers employed at VieDel vineyards, located at Caruthers on Kamm arid Cornelia walked
out on strike on January 11, 1971;
They went on strik~ because the
corporation had them harnessed
to an automated pruning machine
that was ·impossible to keep pace
with, and the low wages being
paid. Some of the striking farmworkers had worked for Vie-Del
seven years, yet there was little
increase of pay for those with
seniority. Also, fringe benefits
and health plan were practically
non-existent. The majority have
sought to be represented by the
United Farmworkers Organizing
Committee. The. ·farmworkers
want the right to bargain collectively and union recognition.
Vie-Del has responded by declaring they ·would not recognize
or negotiate with the . strikers.
Vie-Del has hired gun-toting contractors who bring in winos,
threatening and harassing picktransients and inexperienced
ets at the Vie-Del ranch, Sunday,
workers to break the strike. They
February 15, 1971. He was carpay the scabs $2.65 per hour,
rying a .38 caliber revolver and
compared to the $1.85 they were
bayonet.
paying the farmworkers before.
Monday; February 15th, a
The multi-million dollar corpormarch from Caruthers to Fresno,
ation has county deputy sheriffs
covering 22 miles, ended with a
and constables escorting the
rally at the local county courtscabs into the fields. The deputy
house park. The march was orsheriffs and constables are quick
ganized by MECHA students from
to cite the strikers if they violate
the injunction Vie-Del has se- . FSC and FCC, farmworkers;
Brown Berets · and members of
cured from the courts. However,
the Teatro Campesino. Approxiwhen one of Vie-Del's gun-toting
mately 500 participated, among
contractors openly threatened to
them families and community
.shoot one of the strikers, the local
members. The march took place
officers did nothing to control or
disarm him. The result was one
to symbolize the farmworkers'.
of the strikers was shotgunned in
reaffirmation to remain nonthe face and hospitalized. The
violent, that Vie-Del Corpor~contractor was arrested and
tion was unwilling to negotiate
charged with a misdemeanor, not
and to expose the lack of police
a felony. His bail was a meager
protection for the striking farmworkers. . .
.
$500, not the regular felony bail
of $2500. The sheriff's deputies
Vie-Del, .a multi-million dollar
finally arrested a scab who was
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rhetoric of white men who continue to talk of the need to enroll
more Indian students in college,
yet when we do enroll, the campus situation is so constituted as
to systematically push us toward
failure.
Picture, if you can, a young
Indian coming off the Tule River
Reservation or the Lemoore Rancheria into the Fresno State ColBecause the Chicano and Black
lege campus. He looks different
progNms were viable at that
and he _is treated with indiffertime, we Indiansgrabbedontothe _ ence, not because he is an Indian
tails of their programs and realone; but, because the instituceived a little of their services.
tion ls so agonizingly imperWe were allowed to have an Insonal. The effect of this treatdian Studies curricuh1m (one
ment is doubly damaging to the
course in relevant Indian culture
fragile self esteem of the failure
as long as it wasn't too relevant) · programmed Indian. ft is so much
with one of our brothers ·voluneasier for us to return to the
teering to instruct the course.
reservation-rancheria where, at
The coordinator of the program · least, someone . gives a damn.
met with Acting Dean .Phillip
We need the facilltiies (counselWalker who assured our program . ing, tutorial, personal undera place on the 1970-71 budgetfor
standing of our needs) to help
the creation and implementation
our people integrate themselves
of the Native American Studies
into a system that we hardly unProgram. This 1t e m was apderstand. We need a coordinated
proved by AP&P (Academic Proprogram that deals with our probgram and Planning Committee)
lems · - we need a NativeArnerand placed .on the budget. There
ican Studies Program. if you are
would pe a coordinator, staff and
interested ·in understanding your
facilities.
Red 'brother - not becoming his
What happened? We do not be- · keeper ~ stop one of us on campus and listen to us. You may
lieve that the program was intenfind out that we have quite a lot
tionally sidestepped; we believe
to say and in other more prothat the white man has again asfound subjects than basket weavsuaged his collective guilt with
.lng and ceremonial dancing.
promises and then has convenThe American Indian
iently forgotten to carry out those.
Students <>f FSC
promises. We are used to the
ter than fulfilling the white man's
prophecy with a 47 cent bottle
of Muscatel. Twenty-five bright
and hopefullndians entered Fresno State with the reservation
tribal leaders and traditionalists
laughing at them for buying the
guilt ameliorating promises soft
sold by the new Indian agents. But
we w,ere going to show them.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, February 22, 1971
LETTER$ TO THE EDITOR
EOP
To me, the Educational Opportunity Program has been like receiving a transfusion of new spirit
and a burning desire to be a productive member of the affluent
society of which this country has
to offer.
My childhood was a nightmare
of labor camps and two- room
dwellings without indoor facilities. When I went to school as a
child, my main priority was to
hide the holes in my socks and
the patches on my pants. To learn
- was very low on the list of
priorities. High on the list of
priorities - was just •plain surFlag incident vival.•
During
the 1840s c e rt a in
My family spent ten years on
American
ranchers asked perwelfare after my mother divorced
mission of the Mexican governmy father, and with the stigma
ment to farm land in Texas.
that goes with on being on welTexas was then part of Mexico.
fare, about the only thing that
The Mexican government grachanges, is that you are not hunciously granted some l00Amerigry as often. Your spirit to com.,
cans this privilege. As wild fire
pete is still low and is some
cases, lower than before. I am · word spread to other Americans'
not knocking the fact that society particularly those in the South~
ern states, that all Americans
tried to help - because I am very
grateful for the h~lp we received · were welcome. Land was up for
grabs. A veritable foreign tnva- _
when we were down, 1t is only
sion of Texas (Mexico)began. The
the stigma that goes with it that a
Mexican
government naturally
young- person has nothing to do
became alarmed; originally given
with that hurts - and gives a feelpermission to only a few familing of failure.
ies, they now had a greedy, mass
After I finished my military
invasion of their count r y • It
obligation, and matured intowhat
sounds a little like Southeast
I feel was a conscientious perAsia, doesn't it? The Mexican
son, I had a dream of going to
college and, maybe later, becom- · government ·issued a warning that
no more Americans were to cross
ing a productive, viable part of
their }:>orders. You know what
our society. With the grades that
happened? The American ranchI maintained in high school, my
ers
in Texas contacted their
chances of going to college were
American congressmen and told
zero; but the Education Opporthem they were being maligned,
tunity Program has given me a
mistreated. The poor mistreated
chance to succeed, _or fall in the
Americans
finally aroused the
conquest of my new founddream.
pity of their fellow Americans
I am going into my fourth seand the United States declared
mester and I have completed 51
war on Mexico~ Abraham Lincoln
units with almost a •B" average.
then a young legislator from II~
With the completion of my fourth
linois, was the only human besemester, I wlll be six units
ing with enough guts to stand up .
above what is considered normal
in Congress and say, "This is an
progress.
_outrage. The United States has no
right whatsoever to be in Mexico."
Now the Fresno County supervisors want to b:;tr the flying
of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee flag and the
Mexican flag from county property. Two of the supervisors
most vocal about this are, of
CANVAS BAG
course, ranchers. Don't they
know the Texas legislature has
just honored Cesar Chavez as an
for carrying :
BOOKS
·
outstanding citizen of that state?
Are we to see Fresno insult
Chavez?
NAVY
We might remind the supervisors that in the Treaty of Hilonly
BELL
dalgo, whereby certain concesBOTTOMS
sions were given to Mexico by
the United St~tes, the US signed
this treaty thereby insuring that
the State of California would be
AIR FORCE
bilingual - Spanish and English,
SUN
that all government documents in
GLASSES
this state would be printed in both
languages, that dealings in this
state would be in Spanish and
English.
BEAN BAG
In the spirit of the Treaty of
Hidalgo, let us have all the meetCHAIRS
ings of the supervisors in both
YOUR OWN
languages; let
display both the
SAVE ON
, American and the Mexican fiags,
STY R E N E --B E ADS
and finally, all Californians
AND FABRICS
should be required to speak in
both languages. As th e y say,
FREE
•Love Atzlan (ancient Mexican
name for California) or leave it.•
Memo Sarata
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I feel, at this point, that I will
succeed in earning a degree and
also of contributing something of
importance to society. I thank the
people of the S!Jlte ok.California
and especially the persons most
responsible for the wonderful
creative Educational Opportunity
Program. I firmly believe that
someday, the Educational Opportunity Program will prove to be
one of the most productive - if
not the most productive program
conquering the social ills of our
State.
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MEXICAN FLAG
An open letter to the
Board of Supervisors
Your readiness and quickness
to move an ordinance prohibiting
such acts as the raising of the
Mexican and UFWOC flags at the
Fresno County courthouse on
Feb. 15, must be commended.
Rarely do we as citizens of Fresno see our government officials
move with such haste and speed
for the •public interest and welfare.• Where we differ, gentlemen, is in our interpretation of
what is vital for the public interest and welfare. There is no doubt
in my mind that it would be highly
pertinent to the interests of the
ENTIRE people you serve, for you
and your company, Mr. Craven,
to introduce an ordinance banning
and outlawing ·racism in the
county; but of course, this is much
too optimistic of a gesture, considering it would be in direct
violation of your moral code or
I should say interests. No doubt
there would be popular overreaction from the community. Mr.
Wash and his colleagues would
probably never recuperate from
the relapse c a us e d by their
•shock• and Mr. Ventura would
find himself in the predicament
that Humpty Dumpty did when he
became •unglued."
imposed on Blacks and Chicanos.
You are all part of this history
and as products of it I can easily
understand your apathy. Now gentlemen, before you begin to disagree, examine what has been
said. Don't make the same mistake twice as your counterpart,
the Fresno Guide, and deem this
letter "militant" or "commie• it
is written by one of the peo;le
you represent.
As always no doubt you will
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Reporters , . . .. . . . .• Susana Mata
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Irma Alvarado
ITLAMA TINIME
•Forgive them Father, for they
know no! what they do."
Racist incident at
Yosemite Junior High
District Administrator Chester
Slate, have attempted to label this
racist attack on a 15 year old girl
as a "misunderstanding.• Furthermore, Allred has tried to pit
white against Mexican at Yosemite.
The Mexican students had demanded that Dean Gilbert be removed from Yosemite, that he obviously has no place in an educational institution.
Jess Quintery, regional director of the Mexican-American Political Association, headed a
committee that supported Yosemite students in asking for the
removal of Gilbert.
February 5, 1971, Chester
Slate, administrator of the Fresno City Unified School District,
sent a letter to Quintero.
It stated: "The District Administration does not feel it is in the
best interest of all the students
at Yosemite Junior High School,
as well as the total community,
that Mr. Gilbert be •trans. ferred.• We are, therefore, returning him to Yosemite Junior
Gilbert was immediately placed · High School at the end of his
on •sick leave" by the principal
present illness to resume his duRalph Allred. At a meeting with
ties as dean." Gilbert returned
concerned Mexican . and white
to Yosemite, and is back!
parents and community members
Chicanos for Justice in EducaGilbert admitted he kicked th~
tion feel that unless the Fresno
girl. Since the admission of guilt
City Unified School District Adh~ has refused to say anythin~
ministration does not make a
with regard to the incident. Concommittment to halting racist atveniently, the Fresno c'i ty Unified
tacks they will continue.
School District has stated it is a
Therefore, Chicanos for Jus•personnel matter,• therefore,
tice in Education are circulating
they cannot discuss it.
petitions for the immediate reThe Yosemite principal, Ralph
moval of Mr. Gilbert. Any stuAllred and Fresno City School
dent can sign this petition.
On January 20, 1971 a fight
broke out between two girls at
Yosemite Junior High. The participants were both ninth graders;
one was Mexican, the other white.
The Dean of Students broke up
the fight and separated the two
girls. Howev~r, he told the white
girl to proceed to liis office but
started yelling and pushin~ the
Mexican girl toward his office.
Then the Mexican girl replied she
could walk, whereupon Gilbert,
apparently enraged and out of
The hyper-reaction to the Feb.
control, attempted to grab her
15 incident connotes a mentality
carried down from generation to - and carry her to his office.
generation in the form of double
In the ensuing assault by Dean
standards. This stigma which
Gilbert, the girl was kicked
separates •your" interests from
struck and .knocked down, he;
the interests of those •others•
hair pulled and lost conscioushas historically broken down into
ness by Gilbert. All this took
racial, religious and ethnic lines.
place before hundreds of students
No one can negate the early Calat Yosemite Junior High. When
vinistic history, the Manifest
two Mexican students attempted·
Destiny of the Westward expanto intervene and yelled at Gilbert
sion, the anti-foreign sentiment
to stop his attack, they were
of the yellow peril and the racism
threatened with immediate expulsion, and in turn were pushed
and shoved.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
rationalize your insecurity by ·
basing your arguments on some
off the wall Fourth of July patriotic loyalty. So do not forget
that there are millions of people
both within and without this country y.,ho have felt the repercussions of your neurotic patriotisms.
I
Monday, February 22, 1971
PENSAMIENTOS
The Governor's new budget has AXED Educational Opportunity
·~
CEOP) funds at four state colleges - Bakersfielfi, Stanislaus,
Humboldt, San Bernardino - and. has also CUT HALF the EOP
budget at the state level.
In view of the fact that these programs were highly successful and
have proven to be the most effective way of stopping the poverty
cycle, what are your views on the Governor's action?
Fernando Gaeta
The E.O.P. program has definitely played a major
role in recruiting minorities to get an equal chance
in the educational system. The program can use
more funds. The majority of the educationallydisadvantaged still aren't in school. The E.O.P.
program is being defeated by another of Reagan's
strategic cutback moves.
Arlette Atwater
I believe that it is just a beginning of Reagan
and his administration's future plans for minorities.
Reagan realizes that E.O.P. is a supporting factor
in allowing minorities on campus. Obviously, Reagan doesn't want minorities on any campus; this
(the cutback) is his supposed solution to the problem. I don't believe this will ban all minorities, but
it definitely will disable many future minority students' chance for better education.
D. Castrillo
A lot of people fail to realize that \he cuts in the
E.O.P. budget are not only restricting brown and
blakcs from being able to attend school but affect
many white students as well. The E.O.P. program
if operated correctly eliminates high-family-income as being a qualification to attend school.
Terry Merritt
I feel that the Educational Opportunity Program
has many bad aspects. I have worked my way·
through school on my own without help from my
family and I feel that anyone could do the same if
they really want to. I could not qualify for EOP
because my father makes--- too much money, yet I
get no more support from him than the people in
EOP get from their parents. I say if someone
wants to go to college bad enough they can make it
on__!!!eir own and they should make it on their own.
Lalo Acevedo
Mr. Reagan's financial cutback of the E.O.P. is
an example of institutionalized racism by his administration. Tuition is already imposed on students at the university level and tuition is going to
be instituted at the state college level. All E.O.P.
students will be affected by the cutback. Those
students who would be eligible for the coming
academic year would have an imposing obstacle
to overcome and many would not be able to continue their education. To me, Reagan is going
against the Qi vil Rights for equal opportunity in
education.
Tom Cantu
· It seems to be a regular thing -with Reagan to
cut money where it is most needed. Because the
number of E.O.P. students is smallisnotsufficient
justification for eliminating the whole program. He
is pretending to play •you know who• and deciding
who can go to school and who can't.
We want to end poverty but our present method
is just a vicious cycle thatis doing little when compared to what could be done. However, E.O.P. is
a positive way of ridding poverty.
Bette Goodwin
The E,O.P, program is almost completely foreign_ to me because of the lack of communication,
for mstance, on the high school level. I had always
thought that the program was limited to minority
students: blacks and Mexican-Americans. I know
that if I had known more about the program before
I entered college, I would have been better equipped
financial 1 • to meet the next four years because
I could mos t likely qualify for the program (even
though I am "hit t),
3
Speculation on proposed cuts in EOP
To speculate on the effects of
the proposed cut of state funds
on the Educational Opportunity
Program (EOP) at this time
would be just that: speculation.
It is quite evident that funds from
the federal or state level are as
reliable as the local weatherman. However, whatever turn of
events materializes in Sacramento, you can bet your cowboy
boots that it will definitely have
an impact on the program. If the
present Democratic state legislature defeats the Governor's
proposal to cut 50 per cent of the .
state aid to state colleges, he
will undoubtedly blue-pencil the
budget by a considerable amciunt
anyway.
EOP received a total of$84,000
for special action incoming students for the academic year 197071. If the Governor's proposal
passes, those funds would be reduced to $42,000. At the same
time, the program would be losing $42,000 federal matching
funds, plus possibly all the funds
that presently operate EOP supporttve services (counseling, tu-
Statewide EOP
An Ad Hoc Educational Opportunity Program Committee of
Concerned Citizens and Students
went to Sacramento for a statewide EOP conference last weekend to talk to State Legislators
to vote EOP funds intact for the
following school year.
Miss Josefina Mena, committee chairman, said EOP representatives from community colleges, state colleges, and universities met with the State
Ray Michael Allen Jr.
The E.O.P, financial aids cutbacks appear to
stem from the overall refusal of certain individuals
or organizations which have strong influence within
the California State College educational system.
This influence appears to be aimed at decreasing the
admittance of minority students into California
State Colleges.
THE DAILY COLLEGIA.N
.N.OTICIAS
Attention
torial). If this is the case, EOP
will definitely be crippled. We
are aware that this cut ls only
part of the national conspiracy
to railroad Educational Opportunity Programs from state colleges to junior colleges. It would
be unwise and very disadvantageous to the educationally disadvantaged student if such move
takes place in a campus like
Fresno State, due to the large
number of minority students now
enrolled at this institution. Nevertheless, a definite financial
setback is upon us.
conference
Assembly Education Committee
to explain the EOP needs and why
the program should be continued.
EOP representatives were also
lobbying against Governor Ronald
·Reagan's proposed EOP slash
from $4 million to $1.6 million.
Members of the Education
Committee include chairmanLeroy Greene CD-Sacramento), Ken
Maddy CR-Fresno), George Zenovich CD-Fresno), PeteChacon(DSan Diego). John Vaconcellos (DSan Jose), and Mervyn Dymally
(D-Los Angeles).
Leo Gallegos, an EOP student
and a committee member, said
people involved in EOP shoul'd let
the legislature know how vital
EOP is in breaking the poverty
cycle. •This program enables
poor students to attend college
for the opportunity of a better
life in a society that has ignored
the poor," he stated.
Adding that four state colleges
had EOP wiped out as a result
held
of Reagan's budget cuts, Miss
Mena said the only alternative
left for EOP's survival is for
EOP supporters to lobby in the
legislature against R·e agan's budget cuts.
EOP critics claim EOP has
been successful because Ethnic
Studies courses allow EOP students a higher grade point average. However, statistics revealed
that seven colleges don't offer
Ethnic Studies, and of the remaining ten colleges, six showed
less than one-fifth of EOP students enrolled in Ethnic Studies.
Starting in 1967, EOP is considered the most successful program in the Anti-Poverty Program by EOP participants. In
1967, Fresno State College started with 17 students (originally
called •project 17"). FSC's current EOP enrollment is 463 students.
Reprinted from the
California Advocate
EOP students
Financial aids applications for
academic year 1971-72, are due
March 1, 1971. For further information, contact Cres Hernandez at the EOP office, New
Administration Building, Room
239, Monday through Friday, 14 p.m.
~~i~~w~~,~
FOR
Women's Lib
Campus Women for Liberation
will meet at 7 p.m. today in Col ...
lege Union, Room 304. The program will include planning of
. Women's Month activities.
MECHA
All Chicano students are invited to a •sock Out" to be held
at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 23,
at Fresno City College Student
Lounge, behind the bookstore.
The •sock Out" is sponsored byMechistas from Fresno State and
Fresno City Colleges.
•sock out" - time Chicanos
take out to initiate and motivate
discussion of issues relevant to
Chicano students and the community.
f-Jra@ !I.lilCil
Strike
(Continued from Page 1)
corporation with 3,000 land parcels in Fresno- County alone, is a
subsidiary of Seagram's distilleries, one of the top ten manufacturers of alcoholic beverages
in the United States. Gilbert Padilla, an official of the Farmworkers Union, stated that a
secondary boycott against Seagrams, Calvert, Four Roses and
Frankfurt liquor beverages is being planned.
SALES AND SALES MANAGEMENT
TRAINING PROGRAM
This Program is designed to develop young college graduates for careers in life insurance sales and sales management. It provides an initial training period of 3 months
-(including 2 weeks at a Home Office School) before moving
into full sales work.
Those who are interested in and who are found qualified
for management responsibilHy are assured .of ample opportunity to move on to such work in either our field offices or
in the Home Office after an initial period in sales.
Aggressive expansion plans provide unusual opportunities
for those accepted.
Arrange with the placement office for an interview.
_
W e'll be on cam·pus tom~rrow
Tuesday,
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February ·2 3
or ·call 2 3 3-0103
Co.nnecticut Mutual Life
INSURANCE COMPANY• HARTFORD
TH£ BLUE CHIP COMPANY• SINCE 1846
an Equal Opportunity Employer
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN , Monday, February 22, 1971
that can be understood by all
members of La Raza. The educated cannot get ahead of the uneducated. The activists cannot
get ahead of the non-activists. A
movement which unites all Chicanos: aware Chicanos, motivatpend
on
gringos
to
bring
about
ism,
hatred,
and
revenge
will
not
.saying •the fight for socl~ jusissues. The Chicano Movementls · ed Chicanos, concerned Chicasustain the Chicano Movement.
tice and economic f'reedom is
nos, unaware Chicanos, unmotia
life-long struggle.
•That
intense
emotion
of
the
first
· here in Aztlan - our land!•
vated Chicanos, and unconcerned
few hours falls to pieces if it is
Emiliano Zapata's cryof•tierra,
Chicanos which is built on the
At
times,
Chicanos
feel
that
left
to
feed
on
its
own
subjusticia, y libertad• has become
peoples' support will be an inthings are changing. Chicanos are
stance.• (Fanon's, The Wretched
the cry of thousands of Chicanos.
evitable triumph. The unification
so
starved
for
anything
that
a
of
the
Earth).
Neither
will
the
Chicanos have realized that
of La Raza when it arises out
few bones thrown to them will
struggle survive on once a week
gringos are no better than they
of a struggle for justice gives
overwhelm
them.
"Things
are
rallies,
yelling
•viva
La
Raza,"
,,are. Chicano individuality is
each person a common cause changing," they say. "We have
and •Chicano Power," or picketworth as much as the gringo's.
La Causa. Chicanismo is reallzed
ing
Safeway
Stores.
The
gringo
students
at
Stanford
University,
He is no longer subservient. In
to
its fullest capacity and people
will always give the Chicano milChicano Studies Departments in
fact he is regarded a subversive
are willing to die for La Causa.
itant
fresh
motives
for
hating
many
colleges,
city
council
membecause he claims to have equal
Chicanos have to be made
him and new reasons to burn
bers, and even a Heismann Trorights. It is a strange feeling disaware that they have no real
cities down. A perfect example of
phy winner.• They must realize
tinct from any other to actually
voice in this democratic governthis was the August 29th National
that these are minor accomplishfeel one's mind expanding. It is
Moratorium in Los Angeles. The
ments. These concessions should . ment. •Taxation without reprebeautiful to know that the mind is
sentation,• a fighting slogan for
incidents which resulted were
not deceive him. The goal has not
open and receptive to distinct
the founders of this country, can
justifiable. Violence can cleanse
been accomplished. It is not the
ideas. The Chicano controls his
very well be a fighting slogan for
the individual of the inferiority
gringo who has granted the condestiny. He will determine what
Chicanos. Chicanos have to learn
complex projected onto him by
cessions but the Chicano who has
is beneficial and what is detrito look for the real motives of the
the gringo. He gains self-respect.
extracted them from him.
mental to him and his people.
politicians who speak on the SpanHowever, these moves alone will
Chicanos must unify. This uniChicanos cannot afford to just
ish speaking radio and television
not suffice. Chicanos cannot defication has to take a position
develop a good conscience. Raestations. These politicians even
learn a little Spanish to gain
Chicano votes. That is about as
much as they will ever do for
the Chicano.
Unification calls for education,
Everything depends on the education of La Raza. This teaching
does not mean giving speeches.
•The principle ingredient of
resulted in benefits to the ChiWe need help - we need stuLearning will come by working
the licensee's obligation to opercano community.
dent volunteers' help to spread
and experiencing things together.
ate his station in the public in- . our community base. We need
Chicanos have to be taught that
terest- -i-s- .tbe di.ligQn~ ~ V t : ,
The large percentage of Spanpeople who are interested in helpeverything depends on them. Edand continuing effort by the liish surnamed individuals in the
ing our committee to develop veucation is not carried out by uscensee· to discover and fulfill
station's service area have a
hicles within the MEDIA for the
ing theories or impressive lanthe tastes, needs and desires of
right to petition on behalf of their
needs of our completely disreguage. This has to be done in a
his community. (F.c.c. 60-1970
needs. The airways are public
garded community.
language that all people underJuly 29, 2960)
property; private individuals or
You who are interested, are instand. You have to talk to Chicorporations are licensed with
vited to attend a meeting to be
canos about bringing some very
WE are that community. We are
certain responsibilities to the
held at the Teatro Campesino,
basic needs into their homes:
not being served and our needs
communities they serve. In an
1447 Van Ness, this coming Tueslike education, like Chicanos paycertainly are not being met, let
F.C.C. report on Policy it is
day, Feb. 23, 1971 at 8:30 p.m.,
ing fair interest rates, like free
stated:
alone our desires.
in regard to this issue.
food lunches in the schools for
everyone, like free medical care,
and like bringing their sons home
from Vietnam. They understand
this and start relating personal
experiences. They realize that
being poor is not the result of
being inferior but rather the product of an organized gringo system.
haven't gotten too many of you
Not too long ago, there was
it is a Chicano issue. If it's
The regaining of dignity will
excited by this bit of news, bemuch publicity on what MECHA
"gabacho oriented", it's because
cause Chicanos to realize their
cause I have some good news to
at Stanford had done for the
we let it go that way. If Chicanos
worth as human beings and give
add to it. Cesar was released on
huelga. Stanford's MECHA had
want to handle an issue in their
them an optimistic view of what
Christmas Eve. If any of you
gotten scab lettuce off campus.
own unique way, then Chicanos
can be a future with legitimacy
were waiting for the right time
So, those responsible had their
will have to get to work and doit.
for Chicanos. They create their
to initiate some action, it's a litbacks patted. and everything was
It's up to us to make any huelga
own destiny. And so Chicanos
tle late.
quiet again. We have started off
victory a Chicano victory.
aim at uniting La Raza. Unity
The re are two main points to
the quarter, and all we can look
For those of you that didn't
starts when each person wants
most ·of the arguments used by
back on is that same, "impresknow, the huelga didn't end with
to be united with the other one.
Chicanos who won't work with
sive" action. Nothing else has
the grape strike victory. Nor will
Something more than a good conthe huelga. One point is that
happened, and no one has any
it end with the lettuce strike vicscience has developed. And this
many Chicanos don't know the
plans. As a matter of fact, sevtory. The huelga will continue
is called Chicano Self-Determinfacts. I suggest that you start
eral Chicanos don't even know
until farmworkers regain every
ation. Furthermore, in the politiwhat's happening.
looking for the facts. There's an
bit of their dignity, and it will
cal arena this has meant the
office in San Jose and one in Palo
During the time right before
continue to be our issue as long
organization of a Chicano partyAlto. Some of us here on camp 11s
Christmas, Cesar Chavez, the
as there is Raza involved.
La Raza Unida Party.
know a lot about the huelga, and
UFWOC (United Farmworkers
·chicanos. I'm telling you again
there is also much written inOrganizing Committee) leader,
-the huelga is still 011 and it still
formation. All a person has to do
was imprisoned. As soon as I
concerns us. And it's just sitting
is ask. The second point is that
heard about it I thought, "This
there, waiting for you to make
is what we need! Something to / the huelga is "gabacho oriented•
it your issue.
stir up the people.• A couple of
and that it wo~ks within the sys-Estudiante por La Causa
us rushed over to San Jose for
tem. All that can be said is that
-Reprinted from Chicanismo
the vigil for Cesar. It was terChicanos are involved; therefore,
rible! There were a few volunteers from the huelga offices and
a few students from the San Jose
area; that was all. The many
supporters of Cesar Chavez were
nowhere in sight. I hope that I
A call for self-determination
For over a hundred years Chi- ·
canos have lived under authoritative racists and cruel oppression in .a land stolen from them
in the name of •Manifest pestiny. • Education in the United
States had miseducated Chicanos.
The melting pot concept has mutilated Chicano culture and forced
Chicanos to speak English and reject Spanish. This violates expansion of the mind. Development of
individuality as Chicanos has
been suppressed. Yet, Chicano
casualties in World War II, the
Korean War, andnowVietnamare
outrageously out of proportion to
their population. Chicanos are
fighting for social justice and .
economic freedom in Vietnam.
But they themselves have not
participated in any of it at home.
Many Chicanos have become
aware of these facts and are now
KMAK's GARY DEE
The bigot of Fresno broadcasting
KMAK's Gary Dee - a radio
talk show personality who is down
on long hairs, Chicanos, minorities, people on welfare, and students in general, has a long history of publicly denouncing people of Mexican descent on the
RADIO by telling them to •go
back to Mexico" and other derogatory remarks.
On February 3, a community
group picketed KMAK demanding:
1. the removal of Gary Dee
2. that KMAK apologize for
slurs and derogatory remarks
made against Mexicans, Chicanos
. and Mexican-Americans.
3. that KMAK provide regular
coverage of Chicano and Black
community news and cultural enrichment programs to serve the
interests of the Spanish surname
and Black communities.
4. that KMAK observe laws and
policies requiring equal employment practices and begin action
to hire and train minority per-.
sonnel, for Chicano and Black
news coverage.
' 5. that KMAK stimulate interest for purpose of recruiting
minority personnel by holding
workshops, publishing job availabilities in minority media, and
visiting minority student groups
on campuses(MECHA, BSU,etc.),
to initiate minority student recruitment into the field of ratioTV broadcasting.
A community group of those
participating in the demonstration entered and conferred with
Station Manager John Ogden who
refused to meet the first two demands. Other demands were submitted on February 11, and as of
yet, we have had no reply from
the station's management.
The community group has been
in contact with the Citizen's Com- .
inunication Center in Washington,
D.C.. a legal assistance group
who have offered help in filing
petitions with the Federal Communications Commission to deny
KMAK's renewal ofllcensewhlch
expires September, 1971. Asimilar procedure was followed with
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Orona and Joaquin Patino have been working steadily on the mural on a cantina wall
at Tulare and F Streets. Completion is expected within a month.
Of the mural Palomino says, "When I hit this town the Fresno Chicano heavies said
I should paint a mural in Chinatown. But the Ruco who owned the building wasn't ready
for it. So I just waited for a while - it was worth it. Now I drink a few beers while I
paint it on the outside of a beer joint. It belongs to an old friend of my Jefito. The
mural is getting far out, and is taking a long time to finish it, and may take much
longer, because the winitos keep µuking on it, and pissing there. There are old Huelgistas around and they dig on it. And some of the Mayates think Lee's image looks
African, but I tel I them that Quetzal coat I is a long way from being a black. The mural .
is no big thing actually, they have them everywhere, except in Fresno. Fresno is the ·
only place where people would rather I isten to the news instead of Santana or just look
at free shit.
Art is hard to guarantee outside on Tulare and F, but at least it's better than looking
at Pepsi-Cola signs. And by the time they wipe it out, maybe there'll be a few more.
Gradually they wi 11 be harder to wipe out."
LXXVl/85 .
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1971
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES?
An open letter to the FSC Student Body
We, the Indian students of
Fresno State College, would like
to know what happened to the
Native American Studies Program? Have we again been sold
down the river by contemporary
treaty breakers wearing Ivy
league suits instead of buckskins?
Have we been conveniently swept
under the carpet into our usual
· pile after the white man's house
cleaning?
Since the Chicano and Black
students were the instrumental
force in the creation of an American Indian contingent on campus,
they are already painfully aware
of the mysterious disappearance
of the facilities for Native
Americans; but, perhaps the significant others on campus would
like some information.
During the fall of 1969 the
EOP Director (with nd a small
amount of coaxing) petitioned the
administration for 25 positions
for Native American students to
enroll with 250 Blacks and
Browns. A recruitment team visited nearby rancherias or reservations (the Redman's ghetto or
barrio) and convinced 25 Indians
that joining the system was bet-
Farm workers strike at Vie-Del
Farmworkers employed at VieDel vineyards, located at Caruthers on Kamm arid Cornelia walked
out on strike on January 11, 1971;
They went on strik~ because the
corporation had them harnessed
to an automated pruning machine
that was ·impossible to keep pace
with, and the low wages being
paid. Some of the striking farmworkers had worked for Vie-Del
seven years, yet there was little
increase of pay for those with
seniority. Also, fringe benefits
and health plan were practically
non-existent. The majority have
sought to be represented by the
United Farmworkers Organizing
Committee. The. ·farmworkers
want the right to bargain collectively and union recognition.
Vie-Del has responded by declaring they ·would not recognize
or negotiate with the . strikers.
Vie-Del has hired gun-toting contractors who bring in winos,
threatening and harassing picktransients and inexperienced
ets at the Vie-Del ranch, Sunday,
workers to break the strike. They
February 15, 1971. He was carpay the scabs $2.65 per hour,
rying a .38 caliber revolver and
compared to the $1.85 they were
bayonet.
paying the farmworkers before.
Monday; February 15th, a
The multi-million dollar corpormarch from Caruthers to Fresno,
ation has county deputy sheriffs
covering 22 miles, ended with a
and constables escorting the
rally at the local county courtscabs into the fields. The deputy
house park. The march was orsheriffs and constables are quick
ganized by MECHA students from
to cite the strikers if they violate
the injunction Vie-Del has se- . FSC and FCC, farmworkers;
Brown Berets · and members of
cured from the courts. However,
the Teatro Campesino. Approxiwhen one of Vie-Del's gun-toting
mately 500 participated, among
contractors openly threatened to
them families and community
.shoot one of the strikers, the local
members. The march took place
officers did nothing to control or
disarm him. The result was one
to symbolize the farmworkers'.
of the strikers was shotgunned in
reaffirmation to remain nonthe face and hospitalized. The
violent, that Vie-Del Corpor~contractor was arrested and
tion was unwilling to negotiate
charged with a misdemeanor, not
and to expose the lack of police
a felony. His bail was a meager
protection for the striking farmworkers. . .
.
$500, not the regular felony bail
of $2500. The sheriff's deputies
Vie-Del, .a multi-million dollar
finally arrested a scab who was
· (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3)
rhetoric of white men who continue to talk of the need to enroll
more Indian students in college,
yet when we do enroll, the campus situation is so constituted as
to systematically push us toward
failure.
Picture, if you can, a young
Indian coming off the Tule River
Reservation or the Lemoore Rancheria into the Fresno State ColBecause the Chicano and Black
lege campus. He looks different
progNms were viable at that
and he _is treated with indiffertime, we Indiansgrabbedontothe _ ence, not because he is an Indian
tails of their programs and realone; but, because the instituceived a little of their services.
tion ls so agonizingly imperWe were allowed to have an Insonal. The effect of this treatdian Studies curricuh1m (one
ment is doubly damaging to the
course in relevant Indian culture
fragile self esteem of the failure
as long as it wasn't too relevant) · programmed Indian. ft is so much
with one of our brothers ·voluneasier for us to return to the
teering to instruct the course.
reservation-rancheria where, at
The coordinator of the program · least, someone . gives a damn.
met with Acting Dean .Phillip
We need the facilltiies (counselWalker who assured our program . ing, tutorial, personal undera place on the 1970-71 budgetfor
standing of our needs) to help
the creation and implementation
our people integrate themselves
of the Native American Studies
into a system that we hardly unProgram. This 1t e m was apderstand. We need a coordinated
proved by AP&P (Academic Proprogram that deals with our probgram and Planning Committee)
lems · - we need a NativeArnerand placed .on the budget. There
ican Studies Program. if you are
would pe a coordinator, staff and
interested ·in understanding your
facilities.
Red 'brother - not becoming his
What happened? We do not be- · keeper ~ stop one of us on campus and listen to us. You may
lieve that the program was intenfind out that we have quite a lot
tionally sidestepped; we believe
to say and in other more prothat the white man has again asfound subjects than basket weavsuaged his collective guilt with
.lng and ceremonial dancing.
promises and then has convenThe American Indian
iently forgotten to carry out those.
Students <>f FSC
promises. We are used to the
ter than fulfilling the white man's
prophecy with a 47 cent bottle
of Muscatel. Twenty-five bright
and hopefullndians entered Fresno State with the reservation
tribal leaders and traditionalists
laughing at them for buying the
guilt ameliorating promises soft
sold by the new Indian agents. But
we w,ere going to show them.
2
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, February 22, 1971
LETTER$ TO THE EDITOR
EOP
To me, the Educational Opportunity Program has been like receiving a transfusion of new spirit
and a burning desire to be a productive member of the affluent
society of which this country has
to offer.
My childhood was a nightmare
of labor camps and two- room
dwellings without indoor facilities. When I went to school as a
child, my main priority was to
hide the holes in my socks and
the patches on my pants. To learn
- was very low on the list of
priorities. High on the list of
priorities - was just •plain surFlag incident vival.•
During
the 1840s c e rt a in
My family spent ten years on
American
ranchers asked perwelfare after my mother divorced
mission of the Mexican governmy father, and with the stigma
ment to farm land in Texas.
that goes with on being on welTexas was then part of Mexico.
fare, about the only thing that
The Mexican government grachanges, is that you are not hunciously granted some l00Amerigry as often. Your spirit to com.,
cans this privilege. As wild fire
pete is still low and is some
cases, lower than before. I am · word spread to other Americans'
not knocking the fact that society particularly those in the South~
ern states, that all Americans
tried to help - because I am very
grateful for the h~lp we received · were welcome. Land was up for
grabs. A veritable foreign tnva- _
when we were down, 1t is only
sion of Texas (Mexico)began. The
the stigma that goes with it that a
Mexican
government naturally
young- person has nothing to do
became alarmed; originally given
with that hurts - and gives a feelpermission to only a few familing of failure.
ies, they now had a greedy, mass
After I finished my military
invasion of their count r y • It
obligation, and matured intowhat
sounds a little like Southeast
I feel was a conscientious perAsia, doesn't it? The Mexican
son, I had a dream of going to
college and, maybe later, becom- · government ·issued a warning that
no more Americans were to cross
ing a productive, viable part of
their }:>orders. You know what
our society. With the grades that
happened? The American ranchI maintained in high school, my
ers
in Texas contacted their
chances of going to college were
American congressmen and told
zero; but the Education Opporthem they were being maligned,
tunity Program has given me a
mistreated. The poor mistreated
chance to succeed, _or fall in the
Americans
finally aroused the
conquest of my new founddream.
pity of their fellow Americans
I am going into my fourth seand the United States declared
mester and I have completed 51
war on Mexico~ Abraham Lincoln
units with almost a •B" average.
then a young legislator from II~
With the completion of my fourth
linois, was the only human besemester, I wlll be six units
ing with enough guts to stand up .
above what is considered normal
in Congress and say, "This is an
progress.
_outrage. The United States has no
right whatsoever to be in Mexico."
Now the Fresno County supervisors want to b:;tr the flying
of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee flag and the
Mexican flag from county property. Two of the supervisors
most vocal about this are, of
CANVAS BAG
course, ranchers. Don't they
know the Texas legislature has
just honored Cesar Chavez as an
for carrying :
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outstanding citizen of that state?
Are we to see Fresno insult
Chavez?
NAVY
We might remind the supervisors that in the Treaty of Hilonly
BELL
dalgo, whereby certain concesBOTTOMS
sions were given to Mexico by
the United St~tes, the US signed
this treaty thereby insuring that
the State of California would be
AIR FORCE
bilingual - Spanish and English,
SUN
that all government documents in
GLASSES
this state would be printed in both
languages, that dealings in this
state would be in Spanish and
English.
BEAN BAG
In the spirit of the Treaty of
Hidalgo, let us have all the meetCHAIRS
ings of the supervisors in both
YOUR OWN
languages; let
display both the
SAVE ON
, American and the Mexican fiags,
STY R E N E --B E ADS
and finally, all Californians
AND FABRICS
should be required to speak in
both languages. As th e y say,
FREE
•Love Atzlan (ancient Mexican
name for California) or leave it.•
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succeed in earning a degree and
also of contributing something of
importance to society. I thank the
people of the S!Jlte ok.California
and especially the persons most
responsible for the wonderful
creative Educational Opportunity
Program. I firmly believe that
someday, the Educational Opportunity Program will prove to be
one of the most productive - if
not the most productive program
conquering the social ills of our
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An open letter to the
Board of Supervisors
Your readiness and quickness
to move an ordinance prohibiting
such acts as the raising of the
Mexican and UFWOC flags at the
Fresno County courthouse on
Feb. 15, must be commended.
Rarely do we as citizens of Fresno see our government officials
move with such haste and speed
for the •public interest and welfare.• Where we differ, gentlemen, is in our interpretation of
what is vital for the public interest and welfare. There is no doubt
in my mind that it would be highly
pertinent to the interests of the
ENTIRE people you serve, for you
and your company, Mr. Craven,
to introduce an ordinance banning
and outlawing ·racism in the
county; but of course, this is much
too optimistic of a gesture, considering it would be in direct
violation of your moral code or
I should say interests. No doubt
there would be popular overreaction from the community. Mr.
Wash and his colleagues would
probably never recuperate from
the relapse c a us e d by their
•shock• and Mr. Ventura would
find himself in the predicament
that Humpty Dumpty did when he
became •unglued."
imposed on Blacks and Chicanos.
You are all part of this history
and as products of it I can easily
understand your apathy. Now gentlemen, before you begin to disagree, examine what has been
said. Don't make the same mistake twice as your counterpart,
the Fresno Guide, and deem this
letter "militant" or "commie• it
is written by one of the peo;le
you represent.
As always no doubt you will
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•Forgive them Father, for they
know no! what they do."
Racist incident at
Yosemite Junior High
District Administrator Chester
Slate, have attempted to label this
racist attack on a 15 year old girl
as a "misunderstanding.• Furthermore, Allred has tried to pit
white against Mexican at Yosemite.
The Mexican students had demanded that Dean Gilbert be removed from Yosemite, that he obviously has no place in an educational institution.
Jess Quintery, regional director of the Mexican-American Political Association, headed a
committee that supported Yosemite students in asking for the
removal of Gilbert.
February 5, 1971, Chester
Slate, administrator of the Fresno City Unified School District,
sent a letter to Quintero.
It stated: "The District Administration does not feel it is in the
best interest of all the students
at Yosemite Junior High School,
as well as the total community,
that Mr. Gilbert be •trans. ferred.• We are, therefore, returning him to Yosemite Junior
Gilbert was immediately placed · High School at the end of his
on •sick leave" by the principal
present illness to resume his duRalph Allred. At a meeting with
ties as dean." Gilbert returned
concerned Mexican . and white
to Yosemite, and is back!
parents and community members
Chicanos for Justice in EducaGilbert admitted he kicked th~
tion feel that unless the Fresno
girl. Since the admission of guilt
City Unified School District Adh~ has refused to say anythin~
ministration does not make a
with regard to the incident. Concommittment to halting racist atveniently, the Fresno c'i ty Unified
tacks they will continue.
School District has stated it is a
Therefore, Chicanos for Jus•personnel matter,• therefore,
tice in Education are circulating
they cannot discuss it.
petitions for the immediate reThe Yosemite principal, Ralph
moval of Mr. Gilbert. Any stuAllred and Fresno City School
dent can sign this petition.
On January 20, 1971 a fight
broke out between two girls at
Yosemite Junior High. The participants were both ninth graders;
one was Mexican, the other white.
The Dean of Students broke up
the fight and separated the two
girls. Howev~r, he told the white
girl to proceed to liis office but
started yelling and pushin~ the
Mexican girl toward his office.
Then the Mexican girl replied she
could walk, whereupon Gilbert,
apparently enraged and out of
The hyper-reaction to the Feb.
control, attempted to grab her
15 incident connotes a mentality
carried down from generation to - and carry her to his office.
generation in the form of double
In the ensuing assault by Dean
standards. This stigma which
Gilbert, the girl was kicked
separates •your" interests from
struck and .knocked down, he;
the interests of those •others•
hair pulled and lost conscioushas historically broken down into
ness by Gilbert. All this took
racial, religious and ethnic lines.
place before hundreds of students
No one can negate the early Calat Yosemite Junior High. When
vinistic history, the Manifest
two Mexican students attempted·
Destiny of the Westward expanto intervene and yelled at Gilbert
sion, the anti-foreign sentiment
to stop his attack, they were
of the yellow peril and the racism
threatened with immediate expulsion, and in turn were pushed
and shoved.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
rationalize your insecurity by ·
basing your arguments on some
off the wall Fourth of July patriotic loyalty. So do not forget
that there are millions of people
both within and without this country y.,ho have felt the repercussions of your neurotic patriotisms.
I
Monday, February 22, 1971
PENSAMIENTOS
The Governor's new budget has AXED Educational Opportunity
·~
CEOP) funds at four state colleges - Bakersfielfi, Stanislaus,
Humboldt, San Bernardino - and. has also CUT HALF the EOP
budget at the state level.
In view of the fact that these programs were highly successful and
have proven to be the most effective way of stopping the poverty
cycle, what are your views on the Governor's action?
Fernando Gaeta
The E.O.P. program has definitely played a major
role in recruiting minorities to get an equal chance
in the educational system. The program can use
more funds. The majority of the educationallydisadvantaged still aren't in school. The E.O.P.
program is being defeated by another of Reagan's
strategic cutback moves.
Arlette Atwater
I believe that it is just a beginning of Reagan
and his administration's future plans for minorities.
Reagan realizes that E.O.P. is a supporting factor
in allowing minorities on campus. Obviously, Reagan doesn't want minorities on any campus; this
(the cutback) is his supposed solution to the problem. I don't believe this will ban all minorities, but
it definitely will disable many future minority students' chance for better education.
D. Castrillo
A lot of people fail to realize that \he cuts in the
E.O.P. budget are not only restricting brown and
blakcs from being able to attend school but affect
many white students as well. The E.O.P. program
if operated correctly eliminates high-family-income as being a qualification to attend school.
Terry Merritt
I feel that the Educational Opportunity Program
has many bad aspects. I have worked my way·
through school on my own without help from my
family and I feel that anyone could do the same if
they really want to. I could not qualify for EOP
because my father makes--- too much money, yet I
get no more support from him than the people in
EOP get from their parents. I say if someone
wants to go to college bad enough they can make it
on__!!!eir own and they should make it on their own.
Lalo Acevedo
Mr. Reagan's financial cutback of the E.O.P. is
an example of institutionalized racism by his administration. Tuition is already imposed on students at the university level and tuition is going to
be instituted at the state college level. All E.O.P.
students will be affected by the cutback. Those
students who would be eligible for the coming
academic year would have an imposing obstacle
to overcome and many would not be able to continue their education. To me, Reagan is going
against the Qi vil Rights for equal opportunity in
education.
Tom Cantu
· It seems to be a regular thing -with Reagan to
cut money where it is most needed. Because the
number of E.O.P. students is smallisnotsufficient
justification for eliminating the whole program. He
is pretending to play •you know who• and deciding
who can go to school and who can't.
We want to end poverty but our present method
is just a vicious cycle thatis doing little when compared to what could be done. However, E.O.P. is
a positive way of ridding poverty.
Bette Goodwin
The E,O.P, program is almost completely foreign_ to me because of the lack of communication,
for mstance, on the high school level. I had always
thought that the program was limited to minority
students: blacks and Mexican-Americans. I know
that if I had known more about the program before
I entered college, I would have been better equipped
financial 1 • to meet the next four years because
I could mos t likely qualify for the program (even
though I am "hit t),
3
Speculation on proposed cuts in EOP
To speculate on the effects of
the proposed cut of state funds
on the Educational Opportunity
Program (EOP) at this time
would be just that: speculation.
It is quite evident that funds from
the federal or state level are as
reliable as the local weatherman. However, whatever turn of
events materializes in Sacramento, you can bet your cowboy
boots that it will definitely have
an impact on the program. If the
present Democratic state legislature defeats the Governor's
proposal to cut 50 per cent of the .
state aid to state colleges, he
will undoubtedly blue-pencil the
budget by a considerable amciunt
anyway.
EOP received a total of$84,000
for special action incoming students for the academic year 197071. If the Governor's proposal
passes, those funds would be reduced to $42,000. At the same
time, the program would be losing $42,000 federal matching
funds, plus possibly all the funds
that presently operate EOP supporttve services (counseling, tu-
Statewide EOP
An Ad Hoc Educational Opportunity Program Committee of
Concerned Citizens and Students
went to Sacramento for a statewide EOP conference last weekend to talk to State Legislators
to vote EOP funds intact for the
following school year.
Miss Josefina Mena, committee chairman, said EOP representatives from community colleges, state colleges, and universities met with the State
Ray Michael Allen Jr.
The E.O.P, financial aids cutbacks appear to
stem from the overall refusal of certain individuals
or organizations which have strong influence within
the California State College educational system.
This influence appears to be aimed at decreasing the
admittance of minority students into California
State Colleges.
THE DAILY COLLEGIA.N
.N.OTICIAS
Attention
torial). If this is the case, EOP
will definitely be crippled. We
are aware that this cut ls only
part of the national conspiracy
to railroad Educational Opportunity Programs from state colleges to junior colleges. It would
be unwise and very disadvantageous to the educationally disadvantaged student if such move
takes place in a campus like
Fresno State, due to the large
number of minority students now
enrolled at this institution. Nevertheless, a definite financial
setback is upon us.
conference
Assembly Education Committee
to explain the EOP needs and why
the program should be continued.
EOP representatives were also
lobbying against Governor Ronald
·Reagan's proposed EOP slash
from $4 million to $1.6 million.
Members of the Education
Committee include chairmanLeroy Greene CD-Sacramento), Ken
Maddy CR-Fresno), George Zenovich CD-Fresno), PeteChacon(DSan Diego). John Vaconcellos (DSan Jose), and Mervyn Dymally
(D-Los Angeles).
Leo Gallegos, an EOP student
and a committee member, said
people involved in EOP shoul'd let
the legislature know how vital
EOP is in breaking the poverty
cycle. •This program enables
poor students to attend college
for the opportunity of a better
life in a society that has ignored
the poor," he stated.
Adding that four state colleges
had EOP wiped out as a result
held
of Reagan's budget cuts, Miss
Mena said the only alternative
left for EOP's survival is for
EOP supporters to lobby in the
legislature against R·e agan's budget cuts.
EOP critics claim EOP has
been successful because Ethnic
Studies courses allow EOP students a higher grade point average. However, statistics revealed
that seven colleges don't offer
Ethnic Studies, and of the remaining ten colleges, six showed
less than one-fifth of EOP students enrolled in Ethnic Studies.
Starting in 1967, EOP is considered the most successful program in the Anti-Poverty Program by EOP participants. In
1967, Fresno State College started with 17 students (originally
called •project 17"). FSC's current EOP enrollment is 463 students.
Reprinted from the
California Advocate
EOP students
Financial aids applications for
academic year 1971-72, are due
March 1, 1971. For further information, contact Cres Hernandez at the EOP office, New
Administration Building, Room
239, Monday through Friday, 14 p.m.
~~i~~w~~,~
FOR
Women's Lib
Campus Women for Liberation
will meet at 7 p.m. today in Col ...
lege Union, Room 304. The program will include planning of
. Women's Month activities.
MECHA
All Chicano students are invited to a •sock Out" to be held
at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 23,
at Fresno City College Student
Lounge, behind the bookstore.
The •sock Out" is sponsored byMechistas from Fresno State and
Fresno City Colleges.
•sock out" - time Chicanos
take out to initiate and motivate
discussion of issues relevant to
Chicano students and the community.
f-Jra@ !I.lilCil
Strike
(Continued from Page 1)
corporation with 3,000 land parcels in Fresno- County alone, is a
subsidiary of Seagram's distilleries, one of the top ten manufacturers of alcoholic beverages
in the United States. Gilbert Padilla, an official of the Farmworkers Union, stated that a
secondary boycott against Seagrams, Calvert, Four Roses and
Frankfurt liquor beverages is being planned.
SALES AND SALES MANAGEMENT
TRAINING PROGRAM
This Program is designed to develop young college graduates for careers in life insurance sales and sales management. It provides an initial training period of 3 months
-(including 2 weeks at a Home Office School) before moving
into full sales work.
Those who are interested in and who are found qualified
for management responsibilHy are assured .of ample opportunity to move on to such work in either our field offices or
in the Home Office after an initial period in sales.
Aggressive expansion plans provide unusual opportunities
for those accepted.
Arrange with the placement office for an interview.
_
W e'll be on cam·pus tom~rrow
Tuesday,
I
February ·2 3
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4
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN , Monday, February 22, 1971
that can be understood by all
members of La Raza. The educated cannot get ahead of the uneducated. The activists cannot
get ahead of the non-activists. A
movement which unites all Chicanos: aware Chicanos, motivatpend
on
gringos
to
bring
about
ism,
hatred,
and
revenge
will
not
.saying •the fight for socl~ jusissues. The Chicano Movementls · ed Chicanos, concerned Chicasustain the Chicano Movement.
tice and economic f'reedom is
nos, unaware Chicanos, unmotia
life-long struggle.
•That
intense
emotion
of
the
first
· here in Aztlan - our land!•
vated Chicanos, and unconcerned
few hours falls to pieces if it is
Emiliano Zapata's cryof•tierra,
Chicanos which is built on the
At
times,
Chicanos
feel
that
left
to
feed
on
its
own
subjusticia, y libertad• has become
peoples' support will be an inthings are changing. Chicanos are
stance.• (Fanon's, The Wretched
the cry of thousands of Chicanos.
evitable triumph. The unification
so
starved
for
anything
that
a
of
the
Earth).
Neither
will
the
Chicanos have realized that
of La Raza when it arises out
few bones thrown to them will
struggle survive on once a week
gringos are no better than they
of a struggle for justice gives
overwhelm
them.
"Things
are
rallies,
yelling
•viva
La
Raza,"
,,are. Chicano individuality is
each person a common cause changing," they say. "We have
and •Chicano Power," or picketworth as much as the gringo's.
La Causa. Chicanismo is reallzed
ing
Safeway
Stores.
The
gringo
students
at
Stanford
University,
He is no longer subservient. In
to
its fullest capacity and people
will always give the Chicano milChicano Studies Departments in
fact he is regarded a subversive
are willing to die for La Causa.
itant
fresh
motives
for
hating
many
colleges,
city
council
membecause he claims to have equal
Chicanos have to be made
him and new reasons to burn
bers, and even a Heismann Trorights. It is a strange feeling disaware that they have no real
cities down. A perfect example of
phy winner.• They must realize
tinct from any other to actually
voice in this democratic governthis was the August 29th National
that these are minor accomplishfeel one's mind expanding. It is
Moratorium in Los Angeles. The
ments. These concessions should . ment. •Taxation without reprebeautiful to know that the mind is
sentation,• a fighting slogan for
incidents which resulted were
not deceive him. The goal has not
open and receptive to distinct
the founders of this country, can
justifiable. Violence can cleanse
been accomplished. It is not the
ideas. The Chicano controls his
very well be a fighting slogan for
the individual of the inferiority
gringo who has granted the condestiny. He will determine what
Chicanos. Chicanos have to learn
complex projected onto him by
cessions but the Chicano who has
is beneficial and what is detrito look for the real motives of the
the gringo. He gains self-respect.
extracted them from him.
mental to him and his people.
politicians who speak on the SpanHowever, these moves alone will
Chicanos must unify. This uniChicanos cannot afford to just
ish speaking radio and television
not suffice. Chicanos cannot defication has to take a position
develop a good conscience. Raestations. These politicians even
learn a little Spanish to gain
Chicano votes. That is about as
much as they will ever do for
the Chicano.
Unification calls for education,
Everything depends on the education of La Raza. This teaching
does not mean giving speeches.
•The principle ingredient of
resulted in benefits to the ChiWe need help - we need stuLearning will come by working
the licensee's obligation to opercano community.
dent volunteers' help to spread
and experiencing things together.
ate his station in the public in- . our community base. We need
Chicanos have to be taught that
terest- -i-s- .tbe di.ligQn~ ~ V t : ,
The large percentage of Spanpeople who are interested in helpeverything depends on them. Edand continuing effort by the liish surnamed individuals in the
ing our committee to develop veucation is not carried out by uscensee· to discover and fulfill
station's service area have a
hicles within the MEDIA for the
ing theories or impressive lanthe tastes, needs and desires of
right to petition on behalf of their
needs of our completely disreguage. This has to be done in a
his community. (F.c.c. 60-1970
needs. The airways are public
garded community.
language that all people underJuly 29, 2960)
property; private individuals or
You who are interested, are instand. You have to talk to Chicorporations are licensed with
vited to attend a meeting to be
canos about bringing some very
WE are that community. We are
certain responsibilities to the
held at the Teatro Campesino,
basic needs into their homes:
not being served and our needs
communities they serve. In an
1447 Van Ness, this coming Tueslike education, like Chicanos paycertainly are not being met, let
F.C.C. report on Policy it is
day, Feb. 23, 1971 at 8:30 p.m.,
ing fair interest rates, like free
stated:
alone our desires.
in regard to this issue.
food lunches in the schools for
everyone, like free medical care,
and like bringing their sons home
from Vietnam. They understand
this and start relating personal
experiences. They realize that
being poor is not the result of
being inferior but rather the product of an organized gringo system.
haven't gotten too many of you
Not too long ago, there was
it is a Chicano issue. If it's
The regaining of dignity will
excited by this bit of news, bemuch publicity on what MECHA
"gabacho oriented", it's because
cause Chicanos to realize their
cause I have some good news to
at Stanford had done for the
we let it go that way. If Chicanos
worth as human beings and give
add to it. Cesar was released on
huelga. Stanford's MECHA had
want to handle an issue in their
them an optimistic view of what
Christmas Eve. If any of you
gotten scab lettuce off campus.
own unique way, then Chicanos
can be a future with legitimacy
were waiting for the right time
So, those responsible had their
will have to get to work and doit.
for Chicanos. They create their
to initiate some action, it's a litbacks patted. and everything was
It's up to us to make any huelga
own destiny. And so Chicanos
tle late.
quiet again. We have started off
victory a Chicano victory.
aim at uniting La Raza. Unity
The re are two main points to
the quarter, and all we can look
For those of you that didn't
starts when each person wants
most ·of the arguments used by
back on is that same, "impresknow, the huelga didn't end with
to be united with the other one.
Chicanos who won't work with
sive" action. Nothing else has
the grape strike victory. Nor will
Something more than a good conthe huelga. One point is that
happened, and no one has any
it end with the lettuce strike vicscience has developed. And this
many Chicanos don't know the
plans. As a matter of fact, sevtory. The huelga will continue
is called Chicano Self-Determinfacts. I suggest that you start
eral Chicanos don't even know
until farmworkers regain every
ation. Furthermore, in the politiwhat's happening.
looking for the facts. There's an
bit of their dignity, and it will
cal arena this has meant the
office in San Jose and one in Palo
During the time right before
continue to be our issue as long
organization of a Chicano partyAlto. Some of us here on camp 11s
Christmas, Cesar Chavez, the
as there is Raza involved.
La Raza Unida Party.
know a lot about the huelga, and
UFWOC (United Farmworkers
·chicanos. I'm telling you again
there is also much written inOrganizing Committee) leader,
-the huelga is still 011 and it still
formation. All a person has to do
was imprisoned. As soon as I
concerns us. And it's just sitting
is ask. The second point is that
heard about it I thought, "This
there, waiting for you to make
is what we need! Something to / the huelga is "gabacho oriented•
it your issue.
stir up the people.• A couple of
and that it wo~ks within the sys-Estudiante por La Causa
us rushed over to San Jose for
tem. All that can be said is that
-Reprinted from Chicanismo
the vigil for Cesar. It was terChicanos are involved; therefore,
rible! There were a few volunteers from the huelga offices and
a few students from the San Jose
area; that was all. The many
supporters of Cesar Chavez were
nowhere in sight. I hope that I
A call for self-determination
For over a hundred years Chi- ·
canos have lived under authoritative racists and cruel oppression in .a land stolen from them
in the name of •Manifest pestiny. • Education in the United
States had miseducated Chicanos.
The melting pot concept has mutilated Chicano culture and forced
Chicanos to speak English and reject Spanish. This violates expansion of the mind. Development of
individuality as Chicanos has
been suppressed. Yet, Chicano
casualties in World War II, the
Korean War, andnowVietnamare
outrageously out of proportion to
their population. Chicanos are
fighting for social justice and .
economic freedom in Vietnam.
But they themselves have not
participated in any of it at home.
Many Chicanos have become
aware of these facts and are now
KMAK's GARY DEE
The bigot of Fresno broadcasting
KMAK's Gary Dee - a radio
talk show personality who is down
on long hairs, Chicanos, minorities, people on welfare, and students in general, has a long history of publicly denouncing people of Mexican descent on the
RADIO by telling them to •go
back to Mexico" and other derogatory remarks.
On February 3, a community
group picketed KMAK demanding:
1. the removal of Gary Dee
2. that KMAK apologize for
slurs and derogatory remarks
made against Mexicans, Chicanos
. and Mexican-Americans.
3. that KMAK provide regular
coverage of Chicano and Black
community news and cultural enrichment programs to serve the
interests of the Spanish surname
and Black communities.
4. that KMAK observe laws and
policies requiring equal employment practices and begin action
to hire and train minority per-.
sonnel, for Chicano and Black
news coverage.
' 5. that KMAK stimulate interest for purpose of recruiting
minority personnel by holding
workshops, publishing job availabilities in minority media, and
visiting minority student groups
on campuses(MECHA, BSU,etc.),
to initiate minority student recruitment into the field of ratioTV broadcasting.
A community group of those
participating in the demonstration entered and conferred with
Station Manager John Ogden who
refused to meet the first two demands. Other demands were submitted on February 11, and as of
yet, we have had no reply from
the station's management.
The community group has been
in contact with the Citizen's Com- .
inunication Center in Washington,
D.C.. a legal assistance group
who have offered help in filing
petitions with the Federal Communications Commission to deny
KMAK's renewal ofllcensewhlch
expires September, 1971. Asimilar procedure was followed with
Channel 30 and n~gotiations have
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ERNIE PALOMINO, FSC Chicano art instructor, is currently in the process of creating the first of several barrio murals. Since this December he and Ez(quiel "Lee"
Orona and Joaquin Patino have been working steadily on the mural on a cantina wall
at Tulare and F Streets. Completion is expected within a month.
Of the mural Palomino says, "When I hit this town the Fresno Chicano heavies said
I should paint a mural in Chinatown. But the Ruco who owned the building wasn't ready
for it. So I just waited for a while - it was worth it. Now I drink a few beers while I
paint it on the outside of a beer joint. It belongs to an old friend of my Jefito. The
mural is getting far out, and is taking a long time to finish it, and may take much
longer, because the winitos keep µuking on it, and pissing there. There are old Huelgistas around and they dig on it. And some of the Mayates think Lee's image looks
African, but I tel I them that Quetzal coat I is a long way from being a black. The mural .
is no big thing actually, they have them everywhere, except in Fresno. Fresno is the ·
only place where people would rather I isten to the news instead of Santana or just look
at free shit.
Art is hard to guarantee outside on Tulare and F, but at least it's better than looking
at Pepsi-Cola signs. And by the time they wipe it out, maybe there'll be a few more.
Gradually they wi 11 be harder to wipe out."
LXXVl/85 .
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1971
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES?
An open letter to the FSC Student Body
We, the Indian students of
Fresno State College, would like
to know what happened to the
Native American Studies Program? Have we again been sold
down the river by contemporary
treaty breakers wearing Ivy
league suits instead of buckskins?
Have we been conveniently swept
under the carpet into our usual
· pile after the white man's house
cleaning?
Since the Chicano and Black
students were the instrumental
force in the creation of an American Indian contingent on campus,
they are already painfully aware
of the mysterious disappearance
of the facilities for Native
Americans; but, perhaps the significant others on campus would
like some information.
During the fall of 1969 the
EOP Director (with nd a small
amount of coaxing) petitioned the
administration for 25 positions
for Native American students to
enroll with 250 Blacks and
Browns. A recruitment team visited nearby rancherias or reservations (the Redman's ghetto or
barrio) and convinced 25 Indians
that joining the system was bet-
Farm workers strike at Vie-Del
Farmworkers employed at VieDel vineyards, located at Caruthers on Kamm arid Cornelia walked
out on strike on January 11, 1971;
They went on strik~ because the
corporation had them harnessed
to an automated pruning machine
that was ·impossible to keep pace
with, and the low wages being
paid. Some of the striking farmworkers had worked for Vie-Del
seven years, yet there was little
increase of pay for those with
seniority. Also, fringe benefits
and health plan were practically
non-existent. The majority have
sought to be represented by the
United Farmworkers Organizing
Committee. The. ·farmworkers
want the right to bargain collectively and union recognition.
Vie-Del has responded by declaring they ·would not recognize
or negotiate with the . strikers.
Vie-Del has hired gun-toting contractors who bring in winos,
threatening and harassing picktransients and inexperienced
ets at the Vie-Del ranch, Sunday,
workers to break the strike. They
February 15, 1971. He was carpay the scabs $2.65 per hour,
rying a .38 caliber revolver and
compared to the $1.85 they were
bayonet.
paying the farmworkers before.
Monday; February 15th, a
The multi-million dollar corpormarch from Caruthers to Fresno,
ation has county deputy sheriffs
covering 22 miles, ended with a
and constables escorting the
rally at the local county courtscabs into the fields. The deputy
house park. The march was orsheriffs and constables are quick
ganized by MECHA students from
to cite the strikers if they violate
the injunction Vie-Del has se- . FSC and FCC, farmworkers;
Brown Berets · and members of
cured from the courts. However,
the Teatro Campesino. Approxiwhen one of Vie-Del's gun-toting
mately 500 participated, among
contractors openly threatened to
them families and community
.shoot one of the strikers, the local
members. The march took place
officers did nothing to control or
disarm him. The result was one
to symbolize the farmworkers'.
of the strikers was shotgunned in
reaffirmation to remain nonthe face and hospitalized. The
violent, that Vie-Del Corpor~contractor was arrested and
tion was unwilling to negotiate
charged with a misdemeanor, not
and to expose the lack of police
a felony. His bail was a meager
protection for the striking farmworkers. . .
.
$500, not the regular felony bail
of $2500. The sheriff's deputies
Vie-Del, .a multi-million dollar
finally arrested a scab who was
· (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3)
rhetoric of white men who continue to talk of the need to enroll
more Indian students in college,
yet when we do enroll, the campus situation is so constituted as
to systematically push us toward
failure.
Picture, if you can, a young
Indian coming off the Tule River
Reservation or the Lemoore Rancheria into the Fresno State ColBecause the Chicano and Black
lege campus. He looks different
progNms were viable at that
and he _is treated with indiffertime, we Indiansgrabbedontothe _ ence, not because he is an Indian
tails of their programs and realone; but, because the instituceived a little of their services.
tion ls so agonizingly imperWe were allowed to have an Insonal. The effect of this treatdian Studies curricuh1m (one
ment is doubly damaging to the
course in relevant Indian culture
fragile self esteem of the failure
as long as it wasn't too relevant) · programmed Indian. ft is so much
with one of our brothers ·voluneasier for us to return to the
teering to instruct the course.
reservation-rancheria where, at
The coordinator of the program · least, someone . gives a damn.
met with Acting Dean .Phillip
We need the facilltiies (counselWalker who assured our program . ing, tutorial, personal undera place on the 1970-71 budgetfor
standing of our needs) to help
the creation and implementation
our people integrate themselves
of the Native American Studies
into a system that we hardly unProgram. This 1t e m was apderstand. We need a coordinated
proved by AP&P (Academic Proprogram that deals with our probgram and Planning Committee)
lems · - we need a NativeArnerand placed .on the budget. There
ican Studies Program. if you are
would pe a coordinator, staff and
interested ·in understanding your
facilities.
Red 'brother - not becoming his
What happened? We do not be- · keeper ~ stop one of us on campus and listen to us. You may
lieve that the program was intenfind out that we have quite a lot
tionally sidestepped; we believe
to say and in other more prothat the white man has again asfound subjects than basket weavsuaged his collective guilt with
.lng and ceremonial dancing.
promises and then has convenThe American Indian
iently forgotten to carry out those.
Students <>f FSC
promises. We are used to the
ter than fulfilling the white man's
prophecy with a 47 cent bottle
of Muscatel. Twenty-five bright
and hopefullndians entered Fresno State with the reservation
tribal leaders and traditionalists
laughing at them for buying the
guilt ameliorating promises soft
sold by the new Indian agents. But
we w,ere going to show them.
2
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, February 22, 1971
LETTER$ TO THE EDITOR
EOP
To me, the Educational Opportunity Program has been like receiving a transfusion of new spirit
and a burning desire to be a productive member of the affluent
society of which this country has
to offer.
My childhood was a nightmare
of labor camps and two- room
dwellings without indoor facilities. When I went to school as a
child, my main priority was to
hide the holes in my socks and
the patches on my pants. To learn
- was very low on the list of
priorities. High on the list of
priorities - was just •plain surFlag incident vival.•
During
the 1840s c e rt a in
My family spent ten years on
American
ranchers asked perwelfare after my mother divorced
mission of the Mexican governmy father, and with the stigma
ment to farm land in Texas.
that goes with on being on welTexas was then part of Mexico.
fare, about the only thing that
The Mexican government grachanges, is that you are not hunciously granted some l00Amerigry as often. Your spirit to com.,
cans this privilege. As wild fire
pete is still low and is some
cases, lower than before. I am · word spread to other Americans'
not knocking the fact that society particularly those in the South~
ern states, that all Americans
tried to help - because I am very
grateful for the h~lp we received · were welcome. Land was up for
grabs. A veritable foreign tnva- _
when we were down, 1t is only
sion of Texas (Mexico)began. The
the stigma that goes with it that a
Mexican
government naturally
young- person has nothing to do
became alarmed; originally given
with that hurts - and gives a feelpermission to only a few familing of failure.
ies, they now had a greedy, mass
After I finished my military
invasion of their count r y • It
obligation, and matured intowhat
sounds a little like Southeast
I feel was a conscientious perAsia, doesn't it? The Mexican
son, I had a dream of going to
college and, maybe later, becom- · government ·issued a warning that
no more Americans were to cross
ing a productive, viable part of
their }:>orders. You know what
our society. With the grades that
happened? The American ranchI maintained in high school, my
ers
in Texas contacted their
chances of going to college were
American congressmen and told
zero; but the Education Opporthem they were being maligned,
tunity Program has given me a
mistreated. The poor mistreated
chance to succeed, _or fall in the
Americans
finally aroused the
conquest of my new founddream.
pity of their fellow Americans
I am going into my fourth seand the United States declared
mester and I have completed 51
war on Mexico~ Abraham Lincoln
units with almost a •B" average.
then a young legislator from II~
With the completion of my fourth
linois, was the only human besemester, I wlll be six units
ing with enough guts to stand up .
above what is considered normal
in Congress and say, "This is an
progress.
_outrage. The United States has no
right whatsoever to be in Mexico."
Now the Fresno County supervisors want to b:;tr the flying
of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee flag and the
Mexican flag from county property. Two of the supervisors
most vocal about this are, of
CANVAS BAG
course, ranchers. Don't they
know the Texas legislature has
just honored Cesar Chavez as an
for carrying :
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·
outstanding citizen of that state?
Are we to see Fresno insult
Chavez?
NAVY
We might remind the supervisors that in the Treaty of Hilonly
BELL
dalgo, whereby certain concesBOTTOMS
sions were given to Mexico by
the United St~tes, the US signed
this treaty thereby insuring that
the State of California would be
AIR FORCE
bilingual - Spanish and English,
SUN
that all government documents in
GLASSES
this state would be printed in both
languages, that dealings in this
state would be in Spanish and
English.
BEAN BAG
In the spirit of the Treaty of
Hidalgo, let us have all the meetCHAIRS
ings of the supervisors in both
YOUR OWN
languages; let
display both the
SAVE ON
, American and the Mexican fiags,
STY R E N E --B E ADS
and finally, all Californians
AND FABRICS
should be required to speak in
both languages. As th e y say,
FREE
•Love Atzlan (ancient Mexican
name for California) or leave it.•
Memo Sarata
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I feel, at this point, that I will
succeed in earning a degree and
also of contributing something of
importance to society. I thank the
people of the S!Jlte ok.California
and especially the persons most
responsible for the wonderful
creative Educational Opportunity
Program. I firmly believe that
someday, the Educational Opportunity Program will prove to be
one of the most productive - if
not the most productive program
conquering the social ills of our
State.
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An open letter to the
Board of Supervisors
Your readiness and quickness
to move an ordinance prohibiting
such acts as the raising of the
Mexican and UFWOC flags at the
Fresno County courthouse on
Feb. 15, must be commended.
Rarely do we as citizens of Fresno see our government officials
move with such haste and speed
for the •public interest and welfare.• Where we differ, gentlemen, is in our interpretation of
what is vital for the public interest and welfare. There is no doubt
in my mind that it would be highly
pertinent to the interests of the
ENTIRE people you serve, for you
and your company, Mr. Craven,
to introduce an ordinance banning
and outlawing ·racism in the
county; but of course, this is much
too optimistic of a gesture, considering it would be in direct
violation of your moral code or
I should say interests. No doubt
there would be popular overreaction from the community. Mr.
Wash and his colleagues would
probably never recuperate from
the relapse c a us e d by their
•shock• and Mr. Ventura would
find himself in the predicament
that Humpty Dumpty did when he
became •unglued."
imposed on Blacks and Chicanos.
You are all part of this history
and as products of it I can easily
understand your apathy. Now gentlemen, before you begin to disagree, examine what has been
said. Don't make the same mistake twice as your counterpart,
the Fresno Guide, and deem this
letter "militant" or "commie• it
is written by one of the peo;le
you represent.
As always no doubt you will
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Irma Alvarado
ITLAMA TINIME
•Forgive them Father, for they
know no! what they do."
Racist incident at
Yosemite Junior High
District Administrator Chester
Slate, have attempted to label this
racist attack on a 15 year old girl
as a "misunderstanding.• Furthermore, Allred has tried to pit
white against Mexican at Yosemite.
The Mexican students had demanded that Dean Gilbert be removed from Yosemite, that he obviously has no place in an educational institution.
Jess Quintery, regional director of the Mexican-American Political Association, headed a
committee that supported Yosemite students in asking for the
removal of Gilbert.
February 5, 1971, Chester
Slate, administrator of the Fresno City Unified School District,
sent a letter to Quintero.
It stated: "The District Administration does not feel it is in the
best interest of all the students
at Yosemite Junior High School,
as well as the total community,
that Mr. Gilbert be •trans. ferred.• We are, therefore, returning him to Yosemite Junior
Gilbert was immediately placed · High School at the end of his
on •sick leave" by the principal
present illness to resume his duRalph Allred. At a meeting with
ties as dean." Gilbert returned
concerned Mexican . and white
to Yosemite, and is back!
parents and community members
Chicanos for Justice in EducaGilbert admitted he kicked th~
tion feel that unless the Fresno
girl. Since the admission of guilt
City Unified School District Adh~ has refused to say anythin~
ministration does not make a
with regard to the incident. Concommittment to halting racist atveniently, the Fresno c'i ty Unified
tacks they will continue.
School District has stated it is a
Therefore, Chicanos for Jus•personnel matter,• therefore,
tice in Education are circulating
they cannot discuss it.
petitions for the immediate reThe Yosemite principal, Ralph
moval of Mr. Gilbert. Any stuAllred and Fresno City School
dent can sign this petition.
On January 20, 1971 a fight
broke out between two girls at
Yosemite Junior High. The participants were both ninth graders;
one was Mexican, the other white.
The Dean of Students broke up
the fight and separated the two
girls. Howev~r, he told the white
girl to proceed to liis office but
started yelling and pushin~ the
Mexican girl toward his office.
Then the Mexican girl replied she
could walk, whereupon Gilbert,
apparently enraged and out of
The hyper-reaction to the Feb.
control, attempted to grab her
15 incident connotes a mentality
carried down from generation to - and carry her to his office.
generation in the form of double
In the ensuing assault by Dean
standards. This stigma which
Gilbert, the girl was kicked
separates •your" interests from
struck and .knocked down, he;
the interests of those •others•
hair pulled and lost conscioushas historically broken down into
ness by Gilbert. All this took
racial, religious and ethnic lines.
place before hundreds of students
No one can negate the early Calat Yosemite Junior High. When
vinistic history, the Manifest
two Mexican students attempted·
Destiny of the Westward expanto intervene and yelled at Gilbert
sion, the anti-foreign sentiment
to stop his attack, they were
of the yellow peril and the racism
threatened with immediate expulsion, and in turn were pushed
and shoved.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
rationalize your insecurity by ·
basing your arguments on some
off the wall Fourth of July patriotic loyalty. So do not forget
that there are millions of people
both within and without this country y.,ho have felt the repercussions of your neurotic patriotisms.
I
Monday, February 22, 1971
PENSAMIENTOS
The Governor's new budget has AXED Educational Opportunity
·~
CEOP) funds at four state colleges - Bakersfielfi, Stanislaus,
Humboldt, San Bernardino - and. has also CUT HALF the EOP
budget at the state level.
In view of the fact that these programs were highly successful and
have proven to be the most effective way of stopping the poverty
cycle, what are your views on the Governor's action?
Fernando Gaeta
The E.O.P. program has definitely played a major
role in recruiting minorities to get an equal chance
in the educational system. The program can use
more funds. The majority of the educationallydisadvantaged still aren't in school. The E.O.P.
program is being defeated by another of Reagan's
strategic cutback moves.
Arlette Atwater
I believe that it is just a beginning of Reagan
and his administration's future plans for minorities.
Reagan realizes that E.O.P. is a supporting factor
in allowing minorities on campus. Obviously, Reagan doesn't want minorities on any campus; this
(the cutback) is his supposed solution to the problem. I don't believe this will ban all minorities, but
it definitely will disable many future minority students' chance for better education.
D. Castrillo
A lot of people fail to realize that \he cuts in the
E.O.P. budget are not only restricting brown and
blakcs from being able to attend school but affect
many white students as well. The E.O.P. program
if operated correctly eliminates high-family-income as being a qualification to attend school.
Terry Merritt
I feel that the Educational Opportunity Program
has many bad aspects. I have worked my way·
through school on my own without help from my
family and I feel that anyone could do the same if
they really want to. I could not qualify for EOP
because my father makes--- too much money, yet I
get no more support from him than the people in
EOP get from their parents. I say if someone
wants to go to college bad enough they can make it
on__!!!eir own and they should make it on their own.
Lalo Acevedo
Mr. Reagan's financial cutback of the E.O.P. is
an example of institutionalized racism by his administration. Tuition is already imposed on students at the university level and tuition is going to
be instituted at the state college level. All E.O.P.
students will be affected by the cutback. Those
students who would be eligible for the coming
academic year would have an imposing obstacle
to overcome and many would not be able to continue their education. To me, Reagan is going
against the Qi vil Rights for equal opportunity in
education.
Tom Cantu
· It seems to be a regular thing -with Reagan to
cut money where it is most needed. Because the
number of E.O.P. students is smallisnotsufficient
justification for eliminating the whole program. He
is pretending to play •you know who• and deciding
who can go to school and who can't.
We want to end poverty but our present method
is just a vicious cycle thatis doing little when compared to what could be done. However, E.O.P. is
a positive way of ridding poverty.
Bette Goodwin
The E,O.P, program is almost completely foreign_ to me because of the lack of communication,
for mstance, on the high school level. I had always
thought that the program was limited to minority
students: blacks and Mexican-Americans. I know
that if I had known more about the program before
I entered college, I would have been better equipped
financial 1 • to meet the next four years because
I could mos t likely qualify for the program (even
though I am "hit t),
3
Speculation on proposed cuts in EOP
To speculate on the effects of
the proposed cut of state funds
on the Educational Opportunity
Program (EOP) at this time
would be just that: speculation.
It is quite evident that funds from
the federal or state level are as
reliable as the local weatherman. However, whatever turn of
events materializes in Sacramento, you can bet your cowboy
boots that it will definitely have
an impact on the program. If the
present Democratic state legislature defeats the Governor's
proposal to cut 50 per cent of the .
state aid to state colleges, he
will undoubtedly blue-pencil the
budget by a considerable amciunt
anyway.
EOP received a total of$84,000
for special action incoming students for the academic year 197071. If the Governor's proposal
passes, those funds would be reduced to $42,000. At the same
time, the program would be losing $42,000 federal matching
funds, plus possibly all the funds
that presently operate EOP supporttve services (counseling, tu-
Statewide EOP
An Ad Hoc Educational Opportunity Program Committee of
Concerned Citizens and Students
went to Sacramento for a statewide EOP conference last weekend to talk to State Legislators
to vote EOP funds intact for the
following school year.
Miss Josefina Mena, committee chairman, said EOP representatives from community colleges, state colleges, and universities met with the State
Ray Michael Allen Jr.
The E.O.P, financial aids cutbacks appear to
stem from the overall refusal of certain individuals
or organizations which have strong influence within
the California State College educational system.
This influence appears to be aimed at decreasing the
admittance of minority students into California
State Colleges.
THE DAILY COLLEGIA.N
.N.OTICIAS
Attention
torial). If this is the case, EOP
will definitely be crippled. We
are aware that this cut ls only
part of the national conspiracy
to railroad Educational Opportunity Programs from state colleges to junior colleges. It would
be unwise and very disadvantageous to the educationally disadvantaged student if such move
takes place in a campus like
Fresno State, due to the large
number of minority students now
enrolled at this institution. Nevertheless, a definite financial
setback is upon us.
conference
Assembly Education Committee
to explain the EOP needs and why
the program should be continued.
EOP representatives were also
lobbying against Governor Ronald
·Reagan's proposed EOP slash
from $4 million to $1.6 million.
Members of the Education
Committee include chairmanLeroy Greene CD-Sacramento), Ken
Maddy CR-Fresno), George Zenovich CD-Fresno), PeteChacon(DSan Diego). John Vaconcellos (DSan Jose), and Mervyn Dymally
(D-Los Angeles).
Leo Gallegos, an EOP student
and a committee member, said
people involved in EOP shoul'd let
the legislature know how vital
EOP is in breaking the poverty
cycle. •This program enables
poor students to attend college
for the opportunity of a better
life in a society that has ignored
the poor," he stated.
Adding that four state colleges
had EOP wiped out as a result
held
of Reagan's budget cuts, Miss
Mena said the only alternative
left for EOP's survival is for
EOP supporters to lobby in the
legislature against R·e agan's budget cuts.
EOP critics claim EOP has
been successful because Ethnic
Studies courses allow EOP students a higher grade point average. However, statistics revealed
that seven colleges don't offer
Ethnic Studies, and of the remaining ten colleges, six showed
less than one-fifth of EOP students enrolled in Ethnic Studies.
Starting in 1967, EOP is considered the most successful program in the Anti-Poverty Program by EOP participants. In
1967, Fresno State College started with 17 students (originally
called •project 17"). FSC's current EOP enrollment is 463 students.
Reprinted from the
California Advocate
EOP students
Financial aids applications for
academic year 1971-72, are due
March 1, 1971. For further information, contact Cres Hernandez at the EOP office, New
Administration Building, Room
239, Monday through Friday, 14 p.m.
~~i~~w~~,~
FOR
Women's Lib
Campus Women for Liberation
will meet at 7 p.m. today in Col ...
lege Union, Room 304. The program will include planning of
. Women's Month activities.
MECHA
All Chicano students are invited to a •sock Out" to be held
at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 23,
at Fresno City College Student
Lounge, behind the bookstore.
The •sock Out" is sponsored byMechistas from Fresno State and
Fresno City Colleges.
•sock out" - time Chicanos
take out to initiate and motivate
discussion of issues relevant to
Chicano students and the community.
f-Jra@ !I.lilCil
Strike
(Continued from Page 1)
corporation with 3,000 land parcels in Fresno- County alone, is a
subsidiary of Seagram's distilleries, one of the top ten manufacturers of alcoholic beverages
in the United States. Gilbert Padilla, an official of the Farmworkers Union, stated that a
secondary boycott against Seagrams, Calvert, Four Roses and
Frankfurt liquor beverages is being planned.
SALES AND SALES MANAGEMENT
TRAINING PROGRAM
This Program is designed to develop young college graduates for careers in life insurance sales and sales management. It provides an initial training period of 3 months
-(including 2 weeks at a Home Office School) before moving
into full sales work.
Those who are interested in and who are found qualified
for management responsibilHy are assured .of ample opportunity to move on to such work in either our field offices or
in the Home Office after an initial period in sales.
Aggressive expansion plans provide unusual opportunities
for those accepted.
Arrange with the placement office for an interview.
_
W e'll be on cam·pus tom~rrow
Tuesday,
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February ·2 3
or ·call 2 3 3-0103
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN , Monday, February 22, 1971
that can be understood by all
members of La Raza. The educated cannot get ahead of the uneducated. The activists cannot
get ahead of the non-activists. A
movement which unites all Chicanos: aware Chicanos, motivatpend
on
gringos
to
bring
about
ism,
hatred,
and
revenge
will
not
.saying •the fight for socl~ jusissues. The Chicano Movementls · ed Chicanos, concerned Chicasustain the Chicano Movement.
tice and economic f'reedom is
nos, unaware Chicanos, unmotia
life-long struggle.
•That
intense
emotion
of
the
first
· here in Aztlan - our land!•
vated Chicanos, and unconcerned
few hours falls to pieces if it is
Emiliano Zapata's cryof•tierra,
Chicanos which is built on the
At
times,
Chicanos
feel
that
left
to
feed
on
its
own
subjusticia, y libertad• has become
peoples' support will be an inthings are changing. Chicanos are
stance.• (Fanon's, The Wretched
the cry of thousands of Chicanos.
evitable triumph. The unification
so
starved
for
anything
that
a
of
the
Earth).
Neither
will
the
Chicanos have realized that
of La Raza when it arises out
few bones thrown to them will
struggle survive on once a week
gringos are no better than they
of a struggle for justice gives
overwhelm
them.
"Things
are
rallies,
yelling
•viva
La
Raza,"
,,are. Chicano individuality is
each person a common cause changing," they say. "We have
and •Chicano Power," or picketworth as much as the gringo's.
La Causa. Chicanismo is reallzed
ing
Safeway
Stores.
The
gringo
students
at
Stanford
University,
He is no longer subservient. In
to
its fullest capacity and people
will always give the Chicano milChicano Studies Departments in
fact he is regarded a subversive
are willing to die for La Causa.
itant
fresh
motives
for
hating
many
colleges,
city
council
membecause he claims to have equal
Chicanos have to be made
him and new reasons to burn
bers, and even a Heismann Trorights. It is a strange feeling disaware that they have no real
cities down. A perfect example of
phy winner.• They must realize
tinct from any other to actually
voice in this democratic governthis was the August 29th National
that these are minor accomplishfeel one's mind expanding. It is
Moratorium in Los Angeles. The
ments. These concessions should . ment. •Taxation without reprebeautiful to know that the mind is
sentation,• a fighting slogan for
incidents which resulted were
not deceive him. The goal has not
open and receptive to distinct
the founders of this country, can
justifiable. Violence can cleanse
been accomplished. It is not the
ideas. The Chicano controls his
very well be a fighting slogan for
the individual of the inferiority
gringo who has granted the condestiny. He will determine what
Chicanos. Chicanos have to learn
complex projected onto him by
cessions but the Chicano who has
is beneficial and what is detrito look for the real motives of the
the gringo. He gains self-respect.
extracted them from him.
mental to him and his people.
politicians who speak on the SpanHowever, these moves alone will
Chicanos must unify. This uniChicanos cannot afford to just
ish speaking radio and television
not suffice. Chicanos cannot defication has to take a position
develop a good conscience. Raestations. These politicians even
learn a little Spanish to gain
Chicano votes. That is about as
much as they will ever do for
the Chicano.
Unification calls for education,
Everything depends on the education of La Raza. This teaching
does not mean giving speeches.
•The principle ingredient of
resulted in benefits to the ChiWe need help - we need stuLearning will come by working
the licensee's obligation to opercano community.
dent volunteers' help to spread
and experiencing things together.
ate his station in the public in- . our community base. We need
Chicanos have to be taught that
terest- -i-s- .tbe di.ligQn~ ~ V t : ,
The large percentage of Spanpeople who are interested in helpeverything depends on them. Edand continuing effort by the liish surnamed individuals in the
ing our committee to develop veucation is not carried out by uscensee· to discover and fulfill
station's service area have a
hicles within the MEDIA for the
ing theories or impressive lanthe tastes, needs and desires of
right to petition on behalf of their
needs of our completely disreguage. This has to be done in a
his community. (F.c.c. 60-1970
needs. The airways are public
garded community.
language that all people underJuly 29, 2960)
property; private individuals or
You who are interested, are instand. You have to talk to Chicorporations are licensed with
vited to attend a meeting to be
canos about bringing some very
WE are that community. We are
certain responsibilities to the
held at the Teatro Campesino,
basic needs into their homes:
not being served and our needs
communities they serve. In an
1447 Van Ness, this coming Tueslike education, like Chicanos paycertainly are not being met, let
F.C.C. report on Policy it is
day, Feb. 23, 1971 at 8:30 p.m.,
ing fair interest rates, like free
stated:
alone our desires.
in regard to this issue.
food lunches in the schools for
everyone, like free medical care,
and like bringing their sons home
from Vietnam. They understand
this and start relating personal
experiences. They realize that
being poor is not the result of
being inferior but rather the product of an organized gringo system.
haven't gotten too many of you
Not too long ago, there was
it is a Chicano issue. If it's
The regaining of dignity will
excited by this bit of news, bemuch publicity on what MECHA
"gabacho oriented", it's because
cause Chicanos to realize their
cause I have some good news to
at Stanford had done for the
we let it go that way. If Chicanos
worth as human beings and give
add to it. Cesar was released on
huelga. Stanford's MECHA had
want to handle an issue in their
them an optimistic view of what
Christmas Eve. If any of you
gotten scab lettuce off campus.
own unique way, then Chicanos
can be a future with legitimacy
were waiting for the right time
So, those responsible had their
will have to get to work and doit.
for Chicanos. They create their
to initiate some action, it's a litbacks patted. and everything was
It's up to us to make any huelga
own destiny. And so Chicanos
tle late.
quiet again. We have started off
victory a Chicano victory.
aim at uniting La Raza. Unity
The re are two main points to
the quarter, and all we can look
For those of you that didn't
starts when each person wants
most ·of the arguments used by
back on is that same, "impresknow, the huelga didn't end with
to be united with the other one.
Chicanos who won't work with
sive" action. Nothing else has
the grape strike victory. Nor will
Something more than a good conthe huelga. One point is that
happened, and no one has any
it end with the lettuce strike vicscience has developed. And this
many Chicanos don't know the
plans. As a matter of fact, sevtory. The huelga will continue
is called Chicano Self-Determinfacts. I suggest that you start
eral Chicanos don't even know
until farmworkers regain every
ation. Furthermore, in the politiwhat's happening.
looking for the facts. There's an
bit of their dignity, and it will
cal arena this has meant the
office in San Jose and one in Palo
During the time right before
continue to be our issue as long
organization of a Chicano partyAlto. Some of us here on camp 11s
Christmas, Cesar Chavez, the
as there is Raza involved.
La Raza Unida Party.
know a lot about the huelga, and
UFWOC (United Farmworkers
·chicanos. I'm telling you again
there is also much written inOrganizing Committee) leader,
-the huelga is still 011 and it still
formation. All a person has to do
was imprisoned. As soon as I
concerns us. And it's just sitting
is ask. The second point is that
heard about it I thought, "This
there, waiting for you to make
is what we need! Something to / the huelga is "gabacho oriented•
it your issue.
stir up the people.• A couple of
and that it wo~ks within the sys-Estudiante por La Causa
us rushed over to San Jose for
tem. All that can be said is that
-Reprinted from Chicanismo
the vigil for Cesar. It was terChicanos are involved; therefore,
rible! There were a few volunteers from the huelga offices and
a few students from the San Jose
area; that was all. The many
supporters of Cesar Chavez were
nowhere in sight. I hope that I
A call for self-determination
For over a hundred years Chi- ·
canos have lived under authoritative racists and cruel oppression in .a land stolen from them
in the name of •Manifest pestiny. • Education in the United
States had miseducated Chicanos.
The melting pot concept has mutilated Chicano culture and forced
Chicanos to speak English and reject Spanish. This violates expansion of the mind. Development of
individuality as Chicanos has
been suppressed. Yet, Chicano
casualties in World War II, the
Korean War, andnowVietnamare
outrageously out of proportion to
their population. Chicanos are
fighting for social justice and .
economic freedom in Vietnam.
But they themselves have not
participated in any of it at home.
Many Chicanos have become
aware of these facts and are now
KMAK's GARY DEE
The bigot of Fresno broadcasting
KMAK's Gary Dee - a radio
talk show personality who is down
on long hairs, Chicanos, minorities, people on welfare, and students in general, has a long history of publicly denouncing people of Mexican descent on the
RADIO by telling them to •go
back to Mexico" and other derogatory remarks.
On February 3, a community
group picketed KMAK demanding:
1. the removal of Gary Dee
2. that KMAK apologize for
slurs and derogatory remarks
made against Mexicans, Chicanos
. and Mexican-Americans.
3. that KMAK provide regular
coverage of Chicano and Black
community news and cultural enrichment programs to serve the
interests of the Spanish surname
and Black communities.
4. that KMAK observe laws and
policies requiring equal employment practices and begin action
to hire and train minority per-.
sonnel, for Chicano and Black
news coverage.
' 5. that KMAK stimulate interest for purpose of recruiting
minority personnel by holding
workshops, publishing job availabilities in minority media, and
visiting minority student groups
on campuses(MECHA, BSU,etc.),
to initiate minority student recruitment into the field of ratioTV broadcasting.
A community group of those
participating in the demonstration entered and conferred with
Station Manager John Ogden who
refused to meet the first two demands. Other demands were submitted on February 11, and as of
yet, we have had no reply from
the station's management.
The community group has been
in contact with the Citizen's Com- .
inunication Center in Washington,
D.C.. a legal assistance group
who have offered help in filing
petitions with the Federal Communications Commission to deny
KMAK's renewal ofllcensewhlch
expires September, 1971. Asimilar procedure was followed with
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Orona and Joaquin Patino have been working steadily on the mural on a cantina wall
at Tulare and F Streets. Completion is expected within a month.
Of the mural Palomino says, "When I hit this town the Fresno Chicano heavies said
I should paint a mural in Chinatown. But the Ruco who owned the building wasn't ready
for it. So I just waited for a while - it was worth it. Now I drink a few beers while I
paint it on the outside of a beer joint. It belongs to an old friend of my Jefito. The
mural is getting far out, and is taking a long time to finish it, and may take much
longer, because the winitos keep µuking on it, and pissing there. There are old Huelgistas around and they dig on it. And some of the Mayates think Lee's image looks
African, but I tel I them that Quetzal coat I is a long way from being a black. The mural .
is no big thing actually, they have them everywhere, except in Fresno. Fresno is the ·
only place where people would rather I isten to the news instead of Santana or just look
at free shit.
Art is hard to guarantee outside on Tulare and F, but at least it's better than looking
at Pepsi-Cola signs. And by the time they wipe it out, maybe there'll be a few more.
Gradually they wi 11 be harder to wipe out."
LXXVl/85 .
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1971
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES?
An open letter to the FSC Student Body
We, the Indian students of
Fresno State College, would like
to know what happened to the
Native American Studies Program? Have we again been sold
down the river by contemporary
treaty breakers wearing Ivy
league suits instead of buckskins?
Have we been conveniently swept
under the carpet into our usual
· pile after the white man's house
cleaning?
Since the Chicano and Black
students were the instrumental
force in the creation of an American Indian contingent on campus,
they are already painfully aware
of the mysterious disappearance
of the facilities for Native
Americans; but, perhaps the significant others on campus would
like some information.
During the fall of 1969 the
EOP Director (with nd a small
amount of coaxing) petitioned the
administration for 25 positions
for Native American students to
enroll with 250 Blacks and
Browns. A recruitment team visited nearby rancherias or reservations (the Redman's ghetto or
barrio) and convinced 25 Indians
that joining the system was bet-
Farm workers strike at Vie-Del
Farmworkers employed at VieDel vineyards, located at Caruthers on Kamm arid Cornelia walked
out on strike on January 11, 1971;
They went on strik~ because the
corporation had them harnessed
to an automated pruning machine
that was ·impossible to keep pace
with, and the low wages being
paid. Some of the striking farmworkers had worked for Vie-Del
seven years, yet there was little
increase of pay for those with
seniority. Also, fringe benefits
and health plan were practically
non-existent. The majority have
sought to be represented by the
United Farmworkers Organizing
Committee. The. ·farmworkers
want the right to bargain collectively and union recognition.
Vie-Del has responded by declaring they ·would not recognize
or negotiate with the . strikers.
Vie-Del has hired gun-toting contractors who bring in winos,
threatening and harassing picktransients and inexperienced
ets at the Vie-Del ranch, Sunday,
workers to break the strike. They
February 15, 1971. He was carpay the scabs $2.65 per hour,
rying a .38 caliber revolver and
compared to the $1.85 they were
bayonet.
paying the farmworkers before.
Monday; February 15th, a
The multi-million dollar corpormarch from Caruthers to Fresno,
ation has county deputy sheriffs
covering 22 miles, ended with a
and constables escorting the
rally at the local county courtscabs into the fields. The deputy
house park. The march was orsheriffs and constables are quick
ganized by MECHA students from
to cite the strikers if they violate
the injunction Vie-Del has se- . FSC and FCC, farmworkers;
Brown Berets · and members of
cured from the courts. However,
the Teatro Campesino. Approxiwhen one of Vie-Del's gun-toting
mately 500 participated, among
contractors openly threatened to
them families and community
.shoot one of the strikers, the local
members. The march took place
officers did nothing to control or
disarm him. The result was one
to symbolize the farmworkers'.
of the strikers was shotgunned in
reaffirmation to remain nonthe face and hospitalized. The
violent, that Vie-Del Corpor~contractor was arrested and
tion was unwilling to negotiate
charged with a misdemeanor, not
and to expose the lack of police
a felony. His bail was a meager
protection for the striking farmworkers. . .
.
$500, not the regular felony bail
of $2500. The sheriff's deputies
Vie-Del, .a multi-million dollar
finally arrested a scab who was
· (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3)
rhetoric of white men who continue to talk of the need to enroll
more Indian students in college,
yet when we do enroll, the campus situation is so constituted as
to systematically push us toward
failure.
Picture, if you can, a young
Indian coming off the Tule River
Reservation or the Lemoore Rancheria into the Fresno State ColBecause the Chicano and Black
lege campus. He looks different
progNms were viable at that
and he _is treated with indiffertime, we Indiansgrabbedontothe _ ence, not because he is an Indian
tails of their programs and realone; but, because the instituceived a little of their services.
tion ls so agonizingly imperWe were allowed to have an Insonal. The effect of this treatdian Studies curricuh1m (one
ment is doubly damaging to the
course in relevant Indian culture
fragile self esteem of the failure
as long as it wasn't too relevant) · programmed Indian. ft is so much
with one of our brothers ·voluneasier for us to return to the
teering to instruct the course.
reservation-rancheria where, at
The coordinator of the program · least, someone . gives a damn.
met with Acting Dean .Phillip
We need the facilltiies (counselWalker who assured our program . ing, tutorial, personal undera place on the 1970-71 budgetfor
standing of our needs) to help
the creation and implementation
our people integrate themselves
of the Native American Studies
into a system that we hardly unProgram. This 1t e m was apderstand. We need a coordinated
proved by AP&P (Academic Proprogram that deals with our probgram and Planning Committee)
lems · - we need a NativeArnerand placed .on the budget. There
ican Studies Program. if you are
would pe a coordinator, staff and
interested ·in understanding your
facilities.
Red 'brother - not becoming his
What happened? We do not be- · keeper ~ stop one of us on campus and listen to us. You may
lieve that the program was intenfind out that we have quite a lot
tionally sidestepped; we believe
to say and in other more prothat the white man has again asfound subjects than basket weavsuaged his collective guilt with
.lng and ceremonial dancing.
promises and then has convenThe American Indian
iently forgotten to carry out those.
Students <>f FSC
promises. We are used to the
ter than fulfilling the white man's
prophecy with a 47 cent bottle
of Muscatel. Twenty-five bright
and hopefullndians entered Fresno State with the reservation
tribal leaders and traditionalists
laughing at them for buying the
guilt ameliorating promises soft
sold by the new Indian agents. But
we w,ere going to show them.
2
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Monday, February 22, 1971
LETTER$ TO THE EDITOR
EOP
To me, the Educational Opportunity Program has been like receiving a transfusion of new spirit
and a burning desire to be a productive member of the affluent
society of which this country has
to offer.
My childhood was a nightmare
of labor camps and two- room
dwellings without indoor facilities. When I went to school as a
child, my main priority was to
hide the holes in my socks and
the patches on my pants. To learn
- was very low on the list of
priorities. High on the list of
priorities - was just •plain surFlag incident vival.•
During
the 1840s c e rt a in
My family spent ten years on
American
ranchers asked perwelfare after my mother divorced
mission of the Mexican governmy father, and with the stigma
ment to farm land in Texas.
that goes with on being on welTexas was then part of Mexico.
fare, about the only thing that
The Mexican government grachanges, is that you are not hunciously granted some l00Amerigry as often. Your spirit to com.,
cans this privilege. As wild fire
pete is still low and is some
cases, lower than before. I am · word spread to other Americans'
not knocking the fact that society particularly those in the South~
ern states, that all Americans
tried to help - because I am very
grateful for the h~lp we received · were welcome. Land was up for
grabs. A veritable foreign tnva- _
when we were down, 1t is only
sion of Texas (Mexico)began. The
the stigma that goes with it that a
Mexican
government naturally
young- person has nothing to do
became alarmed; originally given
with that hurts - and gives a feelpermission to only a few familing of failure.
ies, they now had a greedy, mass
After I finished my military
invasion of their count r y • It
obligation, and matured intowhat
sounds a little like Southeast
I feel was a conscientious perAsia, doesn't it? The Mexican
son, I had a dream of going to
college and, maybe later, becom- · government ·issued a warning that
no more Americans were to cross
ing a productive, viable part of
their }:>orders. You know what
our society. With the grades that
happened? The American ranchI maintained in high school, my
ers
in Texas contacted their
chances of going to college were
American congressmen and told
zero; but the Education Opporthem they were being maligned,
tunity Program has given me a
mistreated. The poor mistreated
chance to succeed, _or fall in the
Americans
finally aroused the
conquest of my new founddream.
pity of their fellow Americans
I am going into my fourth seand the United States declared
mester and I have completed 51
war on Mexico~ Abraham Lincoln
units with almost a •B" average.
then a young legislator from II~
With the completion of my fourth
linois, was the only human besemester, I wlll be six units
ing with enough guts to stand up .
above what is considered normal
in Congress and say, "This is an
progress.
_outrage. The United States has no
right whatsoever to be in Mexico."
Now the Fresno County supervisors want to b:;tr the flying
of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee flag and the
Mexican flag from county property. Two of the supervisors
most vocal about this are, of
CANVAS BAG
course, ranchers. Don't they
know the Texas legislature has
just honored Cesar Chavez as an
for carrying :
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outstanding citizen of that state?
Are we to see Fresno insult
Chavez?
NAVY
We might remind the supervisors that in the Treaty of Hilonly
BELL
dalgo, whereby certain concesBOTTOMS
sions were given to Mexico by
the United St~tes, the US signed
this treaty thereby insuring that
the State of California would be
AIR FORCE
bilingual - Spanish and English,
SUN
that all government documents in
GLASSES
this state would be printed in both
languages, that dealings in this
state would be in Spanish and
English.
BEAN BAG
In the spirit of the Treaty of
Hidalgo, let us have all the meetCHAIRS
ings of the supervisors in both
YOUR OWN
languages; let
display both the
SAVE ON
, American and the Mexican fiags,
STY R E N E --B E ADS
and finally, all Californians
AND FABRICS
should be required to speak in
both languages. As th e y say,
FREE
•Love Atzlan (ancient Mexican
name for California) or leave it.•
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I feel, at this point, that I will
succeed in earning a degree and
also of contributing something of
importance to society. I thank the
people of the S!Jlte ok.California
and especially the persons most
responsible for the wonderful
creative Educational Opportunity
Program. I firmly believe that
someday, the Educational Opportunity Program will prove to be
one of the most productive - if
not the most productive program
conquering the social ills of our
State.
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An open letter to the
Board of Supervisors
Your readiness and quickness
to move an ordinance prohibiting
such acts as the raising of the
Mexican and UFWOC flags at the
Fresno County courthouse on
Feb. 15, must be commended.
Rarely do we as citizens of Fresno see our government officials
move with such haste and speed
for the •public interest and welfare.• Where we differ, gentlemen, is in our interpretation of
what is vital for the public interest and welfare. There is no doubt
in my mind that it would be highly
pertinent to the interests of the
ENTIRE people you serve, for you
and your company, Mr. Craven,
to introduce an ordinance banning
and outlawing ·racism in the
county; but of course, this is much
too optimistic of a gesture, considering it would be in direct
violation of your moral code or
I should say interests. No doubt
there would be popular overreaction from the community. Mr.
Wash and his colleagues would
probably never recuperate from
the relapse c a us e d by their
•shock• and Mr. Ventura would
find himself in the predicament
that Humpty Dumpty did when he
became •unglued."
imposed on Blacks and Chicanos.
You are all part of this history
and as products of it I can easily
understand your apathy. Now gentlemen, before you begin to disagree, examine what has been
said. Don't make the same mistake twice as your counterpart,
the Fresno Guide, and deem this
letter "militant" or "commie• it
is written by one of the peo;le
you represent.
As always no doubt you will
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ITLAMA TINIME
•Forgive them Father, for they
know no! what they do."
Racist incident at
Yosemite Junior High
District Administrator Chester
Slate, have attempted to label this
racist attack on a 15 year old girl
as a "misunderstanding.• Furthermore, Allred has tried to pit
white against Mexican at Yosemite.
The Mexican students had demanded that Dean Gilbert be removed from Yosemite, that he obviously has no place in an educational institution.
Jess Quintery, regional director of the Mexican-American Political Association, headed a
committee that supported Yosemite students in asking for the
removal of Gilbert.
February 5, 1971, Chester
Slate, administrator of the Fresno City Unified School District,
sent a letter to Quintero.
It stated: "The District Administration does not feel it is in the
best interest of all the students
at Yosemite Junior High School,
as well as the total community,
that Mr. Gilbert be •trans. ferred.• We are, therefore, returning him to Yosemite Junior
Gilbert was immediately placed · High School at the end of his
on •sick leave" by the principal
present illness to resume his duRalph Allred. At a meeting with
ties as dean." Gilbert returned
concerned Mexican . and white
to Yosemite, and is back!
parents and community members
Chicanos for Justice in EducaGilbert admitted he kicked th~
tion feel that unless the Fresno
girl. Since the admission of guilt
City Unified School District Adh~ has refused to say anythin~
ministration does not make a
with regard to the incident. Concommittment to halting racist atveniently, the Fresno c'i ty Unified
tacks they will continue.
School District has stated it is a
Therefore, Chicanos for Jus•personnel matter,• therefore,
tice in Education are circulating
they cannot discuss it.
petitions for the immediate reThe Yosemite principal, Ralph
moval of Mr. Gilbert. Any stuAllred and Fresno City School
dent can sign this petition.
On January 20, 1971 a fight
broke out between two girls at
Yosemite Junior High. The participants were both ninth graders;
one was Mexican, the other white.
The Dean of Students broke up
the fight and separated the two
girls. Howev~r, he told the white
girl to proceed to liis office but
started yelling and pushin~ the
Mexican girl toward his office.
Then the Mexican girl replied she
could walk, whereupon Gilbert,
apparently enraged and out of
The hyper-reaction to the Feb.
control, attempted to grab her
15 incident connotes a mentality
carried down from generation to - and carry her to his office.
generation in the form of double
In the ensuing assault by Dean
standards. This stigma which
Gilbert, the girl was kicked
separates •your" interests from
struck and .knocked down, he;
the interests of those •others•
hair pulled and lost conscioushas historically broken down into
ness by Gilbert. All this took
racial, religious and ethnic lines.
place before hundreds of students
No one can negate the early Calat Yosemite Junior High. When
vinistic history, the Manifest
two Mexican students attempted·
Destiny of the Westward expanto intervene and yelled at Gilbert
sion, the anti-foreign sentiment
to stop his attack, they were
of the yellow peril and the racism
threatened with immediate expulsion, and in turn were pushed
and shoved.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
rationalize your insecurity by ·
basing your arguments on some
off the wall Fourth of July patriotic loyalty. So do not forget
that there are millions of people
both within and without this country y.,ho have felt the repercussions of your neurotic patriotisms.
I
Monday, February 22, 1971
PENSAMIENTOS
The Governor's new budget has AXED Educational Opportunity
·~
CEOP) funds at four state colleges - Bakersfielfi, Stanislaus,
Humboldt, San Bernardino - and. has also CUT HALF the EOP
budget at the state level.
In view of the fact that these programs were highly successful and
have proven to be the most effective way of stopping the poverty
cycle, what are your views on the Governor's action?
Fernando Gaeta
The E.O.P. program has definitely played a major
role in recruiting minorities to get an equal chance
in the educational system. The program can use
more funds. The majority of the educationallydisadvantaged still aren't in school. The E.O.P.
program is being defeated by another of Reagan's
strategic cutback moves.
Arlette Atwater
I believe that it is just a beginning of Reagan
and his administration's future plans for minorities.
Reagan realizes that E.O.P. is a supporting factor
in allowing minorities on campus. Obviously, Reagan doesn't want minorities on any campus; this
(the cutback) is his supposed solution to the problem. I don't believe this will ban all minorities, but
it definitely will disable many future minority students' chance for better education.
D. Castrillo
A lot of people fail to realize that \he cuts in the
E.O.P. budget are not only restricting brown and
blakcs from being able to attend school but affect
many white students as well. The E.O.P. program
if operated correctly eliminates high-family-income as being a qualification to attend school.
Terry Merritt
I feel that the Educational Opportunity Program
has many bad aspects. I have worked my way·
through school on my own without help from my
family and I feel that anyone could do the same if
they really want to. I could not qualify for EOP
because my father makes--- too much money, yet I
get no more support from him than the people in
EOP get from their parents. I say if someone
wants to go to college bad enough they can make it
on__!!!eir own and they should make it on their own.
Lalo Acevedo
Mr. Reagan's financial cutback of the E.O.P. is
an example of institutionalized racism by his administration. Tuition is already imposed on students at the university level and tuition is going to
be instituted at the state college level. All E.O.P.
students will be affected by the cutback. Those
students who would be eligible for the coming
academic year would have an imposing obstacle
to overcome and many would not be able to continue their education. To me, Reagan is going
against the Qi vil Rights for equal opportunity in
education.
Tom Cantu
· It seems to be a regular thing -with Reagan to
cut money where it is most needed. Because the
number of E.O.P. students is smallisnotsufficient
justification for eliminating the whole program. He
is pretending to play •you know who• and deciding
who can go to school and who can't.
We want to end poverty but our present method
is just a vicious cycle thatis doing little when compared to what could be done. However, E.O.P. is
a positive way of ridding poverty.
Bette Goodwin
The E,O.P, program is almost completely foreign_ to me because of the lack of communication,
for mstance, on the high school level. I had always
thought that the program was limited to minority
students: blacks and Mexican-Americans. I know
that if I had known more about the program before
I entered college, I would have been better equipped
financial 1 • to meet the next four years because
I could mos t likely qualify for the program (even
though I am "hit t),
3
Speculation on proposed cuts in EOP
To speculate on the effects of
the proposed cut of state funds
on the Educational Opportunity
Program (EOP) at this time
would be just that: speculation.
It is quite evident that funds from
the federal or state level are as
reliable as the local weatherman. However, whatever turn of
events materializes in Sacramento, you can bet your cowboy
boots that it will definitely have
an impact on the program. If the
present Democratic state legislature defeats the Governor's
proposal to cut 50 per cent of the .
state aid to state colleges, he
will undoubtedly blue-pencil the
budget by a considerable amciunt
anyway.
EOP received a total of$84,000
for special action incoming students for the academic year 197071. If the Governor's proposal
passes, those funds would be reduced to $42,000. At the same
time, the program would be losing $42,000 federal matching
funds, plus possibly all the funds
that presently operate EOP supporttve services (counseling, tu-
Statewide EOP
An Ad Hoc Educational Opportunity Program Committee of
Concerned Citizens and Students
went to Sacramento for a statewide EOP conference last weekend to talk to State Legislators
to vote EOP funds intact for the
following school year.
Miss Josefina Mena, committee chairman, said EOP representatives from community colleges, state colleges, and universities met with the State
Ray Michael Allen Jr.
The E.O.P, financial aids cutbacks appear to
stem from the overall refusal of certain individuals
or organizations which have strong influence within
the California State College educational system.
This influence appears to be aimed at decreasing the
admittance of minority students into California
State Colleges.
THE DAILY COLLEGIA.N
.N.OTICIAS
Attention
torial). If this is the case, EOP
will definitely be crippled. We
are aware that this cut ls only
part of the national conspiracy
to railroad Educational Opportunity Programs from state colleges to junior colleges. It would
be unwise and very disadvantageous to the educationally disadvantaged student if such move
takes place in a campus like
Fresno State, due to the large
number of minority students now
enrolled at this institution. Nevertheless, a definite financial
setback is upon us.
conference
Assembly Education Committee
to explain the EOP needs and why
the program should be continued.
EOP representatives were also
lobbying against Governor Ronald
·Reagan's proposed EOP slash
from $4 million to $1.6 million.
Members of the Education
Committee include chairmanLeroy Greene CD-Sacramento), Ken
Maddy CR-Fresno), George Zenovich CD-Fresno), PeteChacon(DSan Diego). John Vaconcellos (DSan Jose), and Mervyn Dymally
(D-Los Angeles).
Leo Gallegos, an EOP student
and a committee member, said
people involved in EOP shoul'd let
the legislature know how vital
EOP is in breaking the poverty
cycle. •This program enables
poor students to attend college
for the opportunity of a better
life in a society that has ignored
the poor," he stated.
Adding that four state colleges
had EOP wiped out as a result
held
of Reagan's budget cuts, Miss
Mena said the only alternative
left for EOP's survival is for
EOP supporters to lobby in the
legislature against R·e agan's budget cuts.
EOP critics claim EOP has
been successful because Ethnic
Studies courses allow EOP students a higher grade point average. However, statistics revealed
that seven colleges don't offer
Ethnic Studies, and of the remaining ten colleges, six showed
less than one-fifth of EOP students enrolled in Ethnic Studies.
Starting in 1967, EOP is considered the most successful program in the Anti-Poverty Program by EOP participants. In
1967, Fresno State College started with 17 students (originally
called •project 17"). FSC's current EOP enrollment is 463 students.
Reprinted from the
California Advocate
EOP students
Financial aids applications for
academic year 1971-72, are due
March 1, 1971. For further information, contact Cres Hernandez at the EOP office, New
Administration Building, Room
239, Monday through Friday, 14 p.m.
~~i~~w~~,~
FOR
Women's Lib
Campus Women for Liberation
will meet at 7 p.m. today in Col ...
lege Union, Room 304. The program will include planning of
. Women's Month activities.
MECHA
All Chicano students are invited to a •sock Out" to be held
at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 23,
at Fresno City College Student
Lounge, behind the bookstore.
The •sock Out" is sponsored byMechistas from Fresno State and
Fresno City Colleges.
•sock out" - time Chicanos
take out to initiate and motivate
discussion of issues relevant to
Chicano students and the community.
f-Jra@ !I.lilCil
Strike
(Continued from Page 1)
corporation with 3,000 land parcels in Fresno- County alone, is a
subsidiary of Seagram's distilleries, one of the top ten manufacturers of alcoholic beverages
in the United States. Gilbert Padilla, an official of the Farmworkers Union, stated that a
secondary boycott against Seagrams, Calvert, Four Roses and
Frankfurt liquor beverages is being planned.
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TRAINING PROGRAM
This Program is designed to develop young college graduates for careers in life insurance sales and sales management. It provides an initial training period of 3 months
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into full sales work.
Those who are interested in and who are found qualified
for management responsibilHy are assured .of ample opportunity to move on to such work in either our field offices or
in the Home Office after an initial period in sales.
Aggressive expansion plans provide unusual opportunities
for those accepted.
Arrange with the placement office for an interview.
_
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I
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4
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN , Monday, February 22, 1971
that can be understood by all
members of La Raza. The educated cannot get ahead of the uneducated. The activists cannot
get ahead of the non-activists. A
movement which unites all Chicanos: aware Chicanos, motivatpend
on
gringos
to
bring
about
ism,
hatred,
and
revenge
will
not
.saying •the fight for socl~ jusissues. The Chicano Movementls · ed Chicanos, concerned Chicasustain the Chicano Movement.
tice and economic f'reedom is
nos, unaware Chicanos, unmotia
life-long struggle.
•That
intense
emotion
of
the
first
· here in Aztlan - our land!•
vated Chicanos, and unconcerned
few hours falls to pieces if it is
Emiliano Zapata's cryof•tierra,
Chicanos which is built on the
At
times,
Chicanos
feel
that
left
to
feed
on
its
own
subjusticia, y libertad• has become
peoples' support will be an inthings are changing. Chicanos are
stance.• (Fanon's, The Wretched
the cry of thousands of Chicanos.
evitable triumph. The unification
so
starved
for
anything
that
a
of
the
Earth).
Neither
will
the
Chicanos have realized that
of La Raza when it arises out
few bones thrown to them will
struggle survive on once a week
gringos are no better than they
of a struggle for justice gives
overwhelm
them.
"Things
are
rallies,
yelling
•viva
La
Raza,"
,,are. Chicano individuality is
each person a common cause changing," they say. "We have
and •Chicano Power," or picketworth as much as the gringo's.
La Causa. Chicanismo is reallzed
ing
Safeway
Stores.
The
gringo
students
at
Stanford
University,
He is no longer subservient. In
to
its fullest capacity and people
will always give the Chicano milChicano Studies Departments in
fact he is regarded a subversive
are willing to die for La Causa.
itant
fresh
motives
for
hating
many
colleges,
city
council
membecause he claims to have equal
Chicanos have to be made
him and new reasons to burn
bers, and even a Heismann Trorights. It is a strange feeling disaware that they have no real
cities down. A perfect example of
phy winner.• They must realize
tinct from any other to actually
voice in this democratic governthis was the August 29th National
that these are minor accomplishfeel one's mind expanding. It is
Moratorium in Los Angeles. The
ments. These concessions should . ment. •Taxation without reprebeautiful to know that the mind is
sentation,• a fighting slogan for
incidents which resulted were
not deceive him. The goal has not
open and receptive to distinct
the founders of this country, can
justifiable. Violence can cleanse
been accomplished. It is not the
ideas. The Chicano controls his
very well be a fighting slogan for
the individual of the inferiority
gringo who has granted the condestiny. He will determine what
Chicanos. Chicanos have to learn
complex projected onto him by
cessions but the Chicano who has
is beneficial and what is detrito look for the real motives of the
the gringo. He gains self-respect.
extracted them from him.
mental to him and his people.
politicians who speak on the SpanHowever, these moves alone will
Chicanos must unify. This uniChicanos cannot afford to just
ish speaking radio and television
not suffice. Chicanos cannot defication has to take a position
develop a good conscience. Raestations. These politicians even
learn a little Spanish to gain
Chicano votes. That is about as
much as they will ever do for
the Chicano.
Unification calls for education,
Everything depends on the education of La Raza. This teaching
does not mean giving speeches.
•The principle ingredient of
resulted in benefits to the ChiWe need help - we need stuLearning will come by working
the licensee's obligation to opercano community.
dent volunteers' help to spread
and experiencing things together.
ate his station in the public in- . our community base. We need
Chicanos have to be taught that
terest- -i-s- .tbe di.ligQn~ ~ V t : ,
The large percentage of Spanpeople who are interested in helpeverything depends on them. Edand continuing effort by the liish surnamed individuals in the
ing our committee to develop veucation is not carried out by uscensee· to discover and fulfill
station's service area have a
hicles within the MEDIA for the
ing theories or impressive lanthe tastes, needs and desires of
right to petition on behalf of their
needs of our completely disreguage. This has to be done in a
his community. (F.c.c. 60-1970
needs. The airways are public
garded community.
language that all people underJuly 29, 2960)
property; private individuals or
You who are interested, are instand. You have to talk to Chicorporations are licensed with
vited to attend a meeting to be
canos about bringing some very
WE are that community. We are
certain responsibilities to the
held at the Teatro Campesino,
basic needs into their homes:
not being served and our needs
communities they serve. In an
1447 Van Ness, this coming Tueslike education, like Chicanos paycertainly are not being met, let
F.C.C. report on Policy it is
day, Feb. 23, 1971 at 8:30 p.m.,
ing fair interest rates, like free
stated:
alone our desires.
in regard to this issue.
food lunches in the schools for
everyone, like free medical care,
and like bringing their sons home
from Vietnam. They understand
this and start relating personal
experiences. They realize that
being poor is not the result of
being inferior but rather the product of an organized gringo system.
haven't gotten too many of you
Not too long ago, there was
it is a Chicano issue. If it's
The regaining of dignity will
excited by this bit of news, bemuch publicity on what MECHA
"gabacho oriented", it's because
cause Chicanos to realize their
cause I have some good news to
at Stanford had done for the
we let it go that way. If Chicanos
worth as human beings and give
add to it. Cesar was released on
huelga. Stanford's MECHA had
want to handle an issue in their
them an optimistic view of what
Christmas Eve. If any of you
gotten scab lettuce off campus.
own unique way, then Chicanos
can be a future with legitimacy
were waiting for the right time
So, those responsible had their
will have to get to work and doit.
for Chicanos. They create their
to initiate some action, it's a litbacks patted. and everything was
It's up to us to make any huelga
own destiny. And so Chicanos
tle late.
quiet again. We have started off
victory a Chicano victory.
aim at uniting La Raza. Unity
The re are two main points to
the quarter, and all we can look
For those of you that didn't
starts when each person wants
most ·of the arguments used by
back on is that same, "impresknow, the huelga didn't end with
to be united with the other one.
Chicanos who won't work with
sive" action. Nothing else has
the grape strike victory. Nor will
Something more than a good conthe huelga. One point is that
happened, and no one has any
it end with the lettuce strike vicscience has developed. And this
many Chicanos don't know the
plans. As a matter of fact, sevtory. The huelga will continue
is called Chicano Self-Determinfacts. I suggest that you start
eral Chicanos don't even know
until farmworkers regain every
ation. Furthermore, in the politiwhat's happening.
looking for the facts. There's an
bit of their dignity, and it will
cal arena this has meant the
office in San Jose and one in Palo
During the time right before
continue to be our issue as long
organization of a Chicano partyAlto. Some of us here on camp 11s
Christmas, Cesar Chavez, the
as there is Raza involved.
La Raza Unida Party.
know a lot about the huelga, and
UFWOC (United Farmworkers
·chicanos. I'm telling you again
there is also much written inOrganizing Committee) leader,
-the huelga is still 011 and it still
formation. All a person has to do
was imprisoned. As soon as I
concerns us. And it's just sitting
is ask. The second point is that
heard about it I thought, "This
there, waiting for you to make
is what we need! Something to / the huelga is "gabacho oriented•
it your issue.
stir up the people.• A couple of
and that it wo~ks within the sys-Estudiante por La Causa
us rushed over to San Jose for
tem. All that can be said is that
-Reprinted from Chicanismo
the vigil for Cesar. It was terChicanos are involved; therefore,
rible! There were a few volunteers from the huelga offices and
a few students from the San Jose
area; that was all. The many
supporters of Cesar Chavez were
nowhere in sight. I hope that I
A call for self-determination
For over a hundred years Chi- ·
canos have lived under authoritative racists and cruel oppression in .a land stolen from them
in the name of •Manifest pestiny. • Education in the United
States had miseducated Chicanos.
The melting pot concept has mutilated Chicano culture and forced
Chicanos to speak English and reject Spanish. This violates expansion of the mind. Development of
individuality as Chicanos has
been suppressed. Yet, Chicano
casualties in World War II, the
Korean War, andnowVietnamare
outrageously out of proportion to
their population. Chicanos are
fighting for social justice and .
economic freedom in Vietnam.
But they themselves have not
participated in any of it at home.
Many Chicanos have become
aware of these facts and are now
KMAK's GARY DEE
The bigot of Fresno broadcasting
KMAK's Gary Dee - a radio
talk show personality who is down
on long hairs, Chicanos, minorities, people on welfare, and students in general, has a long history of publicly denouncing people of Mexican descent on the
RADIO by telling them to •go
back to Mexico" and other derogatory remarks.
On February 3, a community
group picketed KMAK demanding:
1. the removal of Gary Dee
2. that KMAK apologize for
slurs and derogatory remarks
made against Mexicans, Chicanos
. and Mexican-Americans.
3. that KMAK provide regular
coverage of Chicano and Black
community news and cultural enrichment programs to serve the
interests of the Spanish surname
and Black communities.
4. that KMAK observe laws and
policies requiring equal employment practices and begin action
to hire and train minority per-.
sonnel, for Chicano and Black
news coverage.
' 5. that KMAK stimulate interest for purpose of recruiting
minority personnel by holding
workshops, publishing job availabilities in minority media, and
visiting minority student groups
on campuses(MECHA, BSU,etc.),
to initiate minority student recruitment into the field of ratioTV broadcasting.
A community group of those
participating in the demonstration entered and conferred with
Station Manager John Ogden who
refused to meet the first two demands. Other demands were submitted on February 11, and as of
yet, we have had no reply from
the station's management.
The community group has been
in contact with the Citizen's Com- .
inunication Center in Washington,
D.C.. a legal assistance group
who have offered help in filing
petitions with the Federal Communications Commission to deny
KMAK's renewal ofllcensewhlch
expires September, 1971. Asimilar procedure was followed with
Channel 30 and n~gotiations have
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