La Voz de Aztlan, March 14 1973
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Title
La Voz de Aztlan, March 14 1973
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Associated Students of Fresno State
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La Voz de Aztlan (Daily Collegian, California State University, Fresno)
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Fresno, California
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3/14/1973
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MECHA seeks
iustice for Corona
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On Thursday, February 1, the more occurred before tl1e trial,
MECHA. organization on campus but needless to say, they did not
was visited by Senor Luis Or- stop there. The judge continually
tega , head of what has now be- charged the defense attorneywlth
come a movement to defend Juan contempt of court, crippling any
Corona, who is accused of killing attempt to present a vigorous
25 migrant workers in Yuba City. defense. Jury tampering, withholding evidence, all these and
Accompanying Senor Ortega was
many other injustices were used
Pedro Corona, Juan's brother.
· They were here to generafe pub- to bring about the unfair verdict.
lic and financial support on beIt would take several books to
half of a state-wide drive to de- identify all the injustices faced by
fend Juan Corona.
Juan Corona. Some of these are
Before their arrival the plight
hard to understand and it would
of Juari Corona was only another
take a legal mind to decipher
example of how our people are what has taken place.
tried, convicted and sentenced,
This leads us to the reason
before there is an actual formal
Pedro and Senor Ortega visited
trial. A trial which has become a
our campus and many other cam"mockery of justice." A justice
puses and communities. That is,
that only the rich can afford. This
to gain public support and the
injustice is becoming well known
funds needed to get a new trial.
to us. But those at the meeting
Also the funds needed to get lawwho saw the frustration and pain
yers to properly defend Juan
in Pedro Corona's face, were hit
against the prosecution which
with the cold harshness that is
cost taxpayers $500,000. Comaccompanied with reality. The
pare it to the amount spent by the
reality that is awakening our peodefense, $75,ooo;
ple. The reality of Juan Corona's
Immediately following their
plight can be explained in a more
talk, MECHA passed a unanimous
simple term .
resolution to back the Juan Co"Quierren ,chingar a otro•
rona Defense Fund in any way
Many of us believed that
possible, A comite was set up to
"lynching• was a word of the past.
steer the drive on campus.
We felt Chicanos can also have
The comite is planning to get
a fair trial. But Juan Corona is
hold of a television tape that will
being lynched. Not in the same
give a different perspective to
way that many of our people were
those who still believe there is
dragged out of jail and hanged
justice for Chicanos inAmerican
without the dignity of a fair trial.
courts. The co mite will also be in
(Not that it would have done any
charge of distributing literature
· good.) Juan is being lynched in a
about the trial. Along with this
different, more up~to-date way,
literature will be a petition, deequal to the subtle type of dismanding justice for Juan Corona.
crimination shown by the white
The petition charges his trial
world of today.
was wholly inconcistent with
Pedro and Senor Ortega Inbasic due process rights guaranformed us of all fhe injusJ!ces
teed by the constitution.
that led to the unfair conviction
Fresno Clty College has also
of Juan. These-injustices did not
set up a comlte to aid Juan Cobegin at the irial, but at the time
rona. Other comites have been
of arrest where he· was not
s()ringing up all over this area.
properly advised of his rights.
Support for Corona has been
Later, as evidence was being
growing rapidly in the Los gathered, the sheriff gave just
Angeles and San Francisco areas.
enough information to the press
There is now an attempt to unite
so that Juan could be convicted
all the comites in this area. By'
in the eyes of the public. Because
doing this 'we will have a more
of the vast means of communicaorganized
drive. March 19 has
tion available to the news media
it would be impossible to select been set as the date for the joint
comite meetings. Seferino Gonsomeone to the jury who did not
already have a fixed opinion. To . zales of Reedley, the first man to
make matters worse, the judge _invite the Corona family into the
Valley, is acting as a liaison
did not allow the ,trial to be asbetween the comites and Defense
signed to a city (San Francisco).
We all know, and it is a proven Fund headquarters in Yuba City.
The comites can only spearfact, that the chances for convichead the operation, the real suption of a Chicano in a farming
port lies with La Raza. Without
community is much greater than
funds and signatures on the pein the city.
These injustices and many
(Continued on page 4, Col. 3)
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California State University, Fresno
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1973
LXXVll / 96
Meany blasts Teamsters;
still su.pports Chavez
Recent accusations by exTeamster boss Jimmy Hoffa
against the unionizing attempts
by the United Farm Workers in
the Salinas lettuce fields, has
prompted AFL-CIO president
George Meany to publicly denounce the Teamsters.
There were reports that Meany
was attempting to back away
frOJJl the Cesar Chavez-led union.
But during a recent AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting, he assured its members thattheAFLCIO • still fully supports Chavez
in his efforts to -organize the nation's farmworkers."
Meany called the recent grower-Teamster pact "tanyi.mount
to strikebreaking" and added that
"the back door signing with th~
growers to destroy the farm
workers union is disgraceful.•
Meany pointed out that the
Teamsters and the UFW Union
had reached an agreement to
leave the organization of field
workers to the United Farm
Workers, but that si•.·,ce then, apparently yielding to the requests
from growers, the Teamsters
Union has signed contracts covering farmworkers who had no
voice in choosing their own bargaining representatives.
"The CaliforniaSupremeCourt
has characterized such contracts
as 'the ultimate form of favoritism, substituting the employer's
choice for the employeets desire'," said Jerry Cohen, the
Farm Workers Union's General
Counsel.
The farm workers' attorney
said that the state high court
ruled that injunctions issued by a
lower court to restrain picketing
by the farm workers were invalid. The court's 6-to-l decision
held that the State's Jurisdictional Strike Act could not b~
applied to disputes that developed
between the UFWU and the growers in the summer of 1970 which
involved contracts 'signed between the employers and the
Teamsters.
Specifically, the decision said
that employers cannot properly
invoke ,the state;s power to secure their own choice of a bargaining agent for their employees.
Chavez has called the growerTeamster contracts •sweetheart
pacts" and said that no one in
the fields has seen a copy of the
Teamster contracts.
Chavez said that the Teamsters
organizers do not deny that their
contracts are lacking any grievance procedure, protection
against pesticides or control over
mechanization and seniority list.
"Most important," Chavez said,
•is that the teamster contracts
leave out the hiring hall, leaving
the farm _worker back where he
started, at the mercy of the contractors."
Need for student involvement
Where should Chicano students pledge their a·llegiance?
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(Editor's note: This is the
second part ofa series examining
the politically passive Chicano
on campus whose visibility has
been practically nil, the implications of which are of great importance to the movement.)
By Juanita Saragoza
The term "psychological oppression" has become almost
commonplace, so that many people dismiss the concept as mere
rhetoric, or at ·best a radical rationalization for social change.
Thus, many students do not take
seriously the _ culturally corrosive aspects of American society
and its subtle distruction of the
Mexicano. Although the erosion
of Mexican culture in this country
is well-documented, its implications for political socialization
are less known. Clearly, no one
can be forced to analyze the validity of the Chicano Movement,
its goals and its activities. How·ever, there is a deeper problem,
and this is the student who has
been completely socialized away
from the movement. In many
cases, these students are victims
of the system and its ability to
manipulate opinion, to form
images, and to prejudice attitudes.
The mass media has, of course,
played a role in antagonizing
Chicanos to the movement by its
emphasis on the violent and militant aspects, while the violence
perpetrated by the corporations
of this country goes unreported
and unknown to most people. The
movement is painted as unreasonable and excessive. Schooled
in a system basically supplemental in nature to the economic
sphere, and conditioned by the
political attitudes of the AngloSaxon majority, the young Chi-
off to Chicano student groups as
cano student is forced to make a
derogatory of the Chicano student
choice: (1) join the ranks of those
.well, invisible - and silent. Poorganizations.
critical of the system who are
Their criticism justifies their
tentially, these students can be
•radicals," •militant,• "violent,"
political paralysis, which is often
of great service to the liberation
"emotional," "irrational," etc. ad
the result of their socialization
of Chicanos from their political, .
naseum; or (2) maintain one's
away from Chicano student oreconomic, and culturai oppresfaith in the Constitution, in the
ganizations as an alternative for
sion - or they can continue to be
system, and its ability tohelpthe
their political ideas. Thus, their
passive spectators to their own
poor and the disadvantaged. Ironnegative remarks about MECH,\,
destruction.
ically, because of the present
NCHO, Las Adelitas, Delta Alpha
However, lt seems that perhaps
Republican administration and Its
Chi, etc., are merely masks for
they
are reluctant, if not unwillcutbacks, the bankruptcy of the
their frustration and for their
ing accomplices, to a politic~!
second alternative is patently- · lack of alternatives.
tragedy 'in which the victims are
obvious to even the most naive
Such students exist In a twilight
their own worst enemy.
optimist. Unfortunately, to many
zone, caught between the exposed
Chicanos, the first alternative is
But how can we communicate
and naked corruption of this counalso unpalatable. The result is a
with these students if they are
try and a distorted vi!;!W of the
passive group of students, aware 1Movement; they are subject to
turned off in the first place to
to a certain clegree of the probthe ridicule of Chicano activists · Chicano student organizations?
lems of the Chicano, but paraas •vendidos" and the patronizing
How can we establish a dialogue
lyzed by their own fear and conattitudes of an absorbent but
with these disaffected students?
fusion toward the Chicano Movelethal system. Thus, these stuAnd what are the academic imment. Hence, they are on campus
plications of the politically-pasdents are alienated by the system
but non participants in Chicano
si ve Chicano? These questions
- as evidence by their non-paractivities, and though critical of ,ticipation in •other" student acwill be addressed in the next inthe system they are even more
tivities - but they are also turned
stallment of this series.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Wedne~day, March 14, 1973
Chicano
Yo soy Chicano
Whose black eagle soars
And wings lift to give spirit for victory,
And claws that reach out
To scratch in life for its people.
Yo soy Chicano
.
Whose cl inched fist symbolizes strength and brotherhood.
Whose handshake spices brotherhood and unification.
Whose soft brown eyes seek equality which has been taken, .
Whose language speaks for two.
I am the blood and image of my ancestry.
Mestizo, beautiful they are.
My fathers were the lords of creation,
Whose feathers and sombreros gave me culture
And dances that enlighten my being.
Yo soy Chicano
·
Whose honey brown skin-covers green valleys.
Valleys of lettuce, grapes and other foo?s of pleasure.
Whose knees are caked with mud and spinas.
And hands blistered with fever.
Yo soy -Chicano
Scorned by white men
Who say we are born with tacos in one fist,
A shovel in the other
And stand straight in proud Iines of welfare.
And that we are the black sheep of their Melting Pot.
Brown mice of their economical creation, they say.
Yo soy Chicano
Whose musica enlightens my heart.
Whose cumbias scratch floors at the:
San Antonio's fairgrounds,
Kearney Parks,
.
And Rainbow.Ballrooms throughout the United States.
Yo soy Chicano
Whose brown face speckles halls of institutions of learning.
Whose brown face works discrim inately in banks.
And told if we do not like working forJhe
Fat political coyote to go back to Mexico.
1,
Yo soy Chicano
Both wanted and unwanted.
Man in the m icldle, you might say.
Pocho there, pepper-gut here.
By Davici Morales
Yo soy Chicano
MAN!
Sowing seeds of strength and purpos~ for my people.
Giving life.and hope for children to follow.
I FEAR NO ONE! ••••••••••.••••••••• ~ut God'.
By Dan Soleno
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VOZ DE AZTLAN
Co•editors . . . . Susanna Hernand~z,
Cat.ilino Jacques
Reporters . . . . . . . Nora Alvarndo,
Al Casares, Miguel Contreras,
Leo Gallegos, Tomas Hill,
Ron Orozco
Photographer . . . . . . . . Ed Zepeda
Speed Reading Course
Set To Begin in Fresno
Arrangements have been
made to conduct a 21 hour
course in speed reading under
the auspices . of the Americarr
Reading Fo'undation of
Columbus, Ohio, which has
just recently opened their
Califorµia Processing Center
in Riverside. The course is
open to anyone above the age
of 13 and guarantees every
graduate a minimum improvement of 3 times his initial reading speed with better
comprehension. The average
graduate attains 1500-words
per minute.
After the seven week
program
person can read
any, average length book in
less than an hour and understand it better. In addition to
speed reading the course also
emphasizes improved study
techniques, better test taking
skills, and increased concentration and retention abilities.
The course requires a person to attend one class per
a
Time to rethink
week on 'the evening of their
choice. For those who would
like more information, without
obligation fo enroll, a series
of FREE one hour orientation
lectures have been scheduled.
These meetings are free to ,
the public and the course will i
be explained in complete detail
including entrance require- ,
ments , classroom procedures,
tuition, class schedule and
location. You need to attend
only one of the meetings,
whichever is most convenient
for you. These free one hour
orientations will be held as
follows:
Tuesday March 13 at 7:30
p.m.; Wednesday, March 14
at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, March
18 at 1:30 p.m. at the College
Religious Center, 2311 E. Shaw
(Across from California State
University, Fresno - corner
of Jackson and Shaw).
This course is also available to industry and other
groups upon request.
(adv,)
El Movimiento t o_d a y faces
many external societal factors
that hinder its progress. Though
much light has been given to the
external societal factors that hinder el progreso de el Movi miento,
little has been said of the internal factors which are a hindrance
to its progress. The internal
factors that impede the progress
of El Chicano are as real and as
devastating as those external factors we face. Perhaps they are
more detrimental than we care to
admit, for they are a deadly cancer within our people. We don't
talk about them and we sometimes
. refuse to recognize them-though
we are constantly aware of their
presence.
There are certain basic precepts that permeate our Chicano
philosophical outlook, which must
be modified. Being that these precepts were in their very origin
used as tools of suppression to
subjugate our people, I am referring to the precepts of our phi '--losophy whispered to us by our
"Jefitos" - El Hombre tiene que
our
philosophy
temer a .Dios, ser honrable, trabajador y humilde. Of course, the
exact wording varies for each of
us. For those who fail to recognize this as the cornerstone of our
philosophy. Think! and you will
see that the philosophy that was
bequeathed to you stems from
those precepts handed down by the
Spaniards to our people in the
Fifteen Hundreds. While I will not
question the ethical value of these
precepts, I will question their
practicality in our present society. El hombre Uene· que temer
a Dios! By instilling the fear of
God in our people the Spaniards
successfully took an intangjble
fear and produced the tangible
obedience of our people to their
values. While religion has its
place in our Ii ves the realities
of the material world must not be
overlooked. El hombre tiene que
ser honrable! While this precept
has value, it must be remembered
that the moral values of yesterday
are not those of today. El hombre
· tiene que ser trabajador. This
precept was interpreted as justifying or glorifying brute or manual labor. Obviously the meaning-
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is not adequate today, rather we
should interpret it to mean a
drive to produce a better Chicano,
Humilidad! CHALE!!l for humility implies condensation of our
acceptance of a lesser social
state. Not only must we modify
and reinterpret our philosophy,
but we must eliminate the petty
jealousy that divides us.
If one this has no place in El
Movimiento lt is the petty jealousy that prevails between individuals in our various communities. I recall seeing petty jealousy
among my people in childhood,
but what is sad is that it still
exists today; Jose bought a new
car• A hora se cree muy grande! •;
Or, Jose got a new government
job and they bought a new tract
home .•. Vendido! Not only are
the compadre y comadre jealous,
but now they have an emotionally·
charged word which they wield indiscriminately, El Vendido is
someone who denies his cultural
heritage and is suffering from a
deflated self-image.
I have seen Carnales y Carnalas attribute all their inadequacies to society • . . Rationalization. It is true that many of
our misfortunes are caused by
societal factors, but once recognized, can we not by our own effort attempt to eliminate them?
We must recognize the fact that
we are responsible for many of
our own inadequacies. If theChicano is to improve , "Le· tiene
que poner. • If he does not, he must
accept the blame for his own
shortcomings. If La Raza is to
progress, we must adopt aversatile, philosophical outlook. An
outlook in which we retain our
Rich C_ultural Heritage, yet deal
effectively with our present environment. We must remember
that if a Carnal makes it and we
don't, that doesn 't nP·essarily
make him a Vendido. If one Chicano makes it, he has accomplished what the Movimiento is
all about ; . . "El Progreso De
La Raza."
Inadequate interpretation of a
philosophy, jealousy and the rationalization of all our woes to
society will not advance La
C ausa. Rather, they will strangle
our people and tend to check the
real progress we are makin~.
Wednesday, March 14, 1973 THE DAILY COt..,.EGIAN
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Welfare Rights· Committee aids Chic.ano recip.ients
By Stan Santos
There is a committeeofvolunteer students working out of the
Welfare Department, offering its
servic'es to Chicano recipients to
assure that they receive the aid
they are entitled to, with efficient
courteous service. The _reason
this committee formed is to insure that cases similar to the
one cited do not occur, as they
have been occurring, again and
again.
A Spanish-speaking family has
been here in Fresno awaiting the
results of their application for
aid since October. During this
waiting period, they have been
exposed to much undue hardship.
The treatment they have received
has been unfair to the point of
being prejudicial in its nature.
This family has come to the
Welfare Department on about 20
different occasions. They have
had ,to come on foot, bu bus, or
whatever other transportation
was available, if any. Each time
they cave come, they have ended
up having to wait from · five to six
hours at a time. They have been
seen oy a dozen different department workers who were, in many
cases, completely unfamiliar
with their case. They have been
herded like cattle, from one office to another. They have had to
go through the whole application
process four times. This process
entails filling out a 19-pageapplication, along with various othec.
forms, all written in a language
which they cannot even speak, let
alone read or write. As a result
of general department inefficiency, and disregard for their
needs, they have been denied on
the first three applications. The
basis for these denials has been
"refusing to comp!.y with department requirements to supply information · needed to determine
their eligibility."
How could these people be expected to comply with these requirements, when they were
New Chicano education
advisory board is formed
As a result of the rejection by
Fresno Board of Education of a
proposed Chicano A d vi so r y
Board to assist with problems at
the city scht,ols, the Chicano
community has decided to form
such a board-whether sanctioned ·
or not-to work for a more meaningful education for Chicano children within the school system.
The board, which is composed
of three members each from
MAPA, MECHA, Associacion de
Padres, AMAE and El Concilio
has been meeting on a weekly basis. The advisory board is currently becoming familiar with the
whole range of problems confronting Chicano children. These
problems consist of a high dropout rate, E M R and s p e c i a l
classes, the tracking system,
separation of Chicano children
within integrated schools by
means of curriculum, reading
scores, absenteeism, disciplinary procedures and suspension
practices. The board is also interested in what happens to mono- lingual Spanish speaking children, and whose with limited English in the schools and in the
hiring practices of Fresno City
Schools.
One thing is to study the problems and another is to act upon
them. The board feels that it has
enough community support to
launch a concerted effort to ease
the situation that exists within
the school system in regard to
Chicano children. _ The board
plans to take action on these matters.
It will be necessary to hire legal council for what is ahead. With
that in mind the board is planning
a fund-raising dance in the near
future and will need the C'ooperation of all Chicanos.
EN LA UNIDAD EST A LA FUERZA!
language barrier. Through this
example, it is obvious that the
Welfare Department ls insensitive to the needs of the Mexican
community. Through the efforts
of the WelfareRightsGommlttee
this family received · us badl;
needed aid. However, through a
lack of ,volunteers, thecommutee·
is servicing the needs of the
Mexican community on a very
small scale.
The need ls evident for more
Chicano students to make a commitment to end this mistreatment
of their people. Our goal is to see
to it that our people no longer be
exposed to a long, tiring waiting
period, ending only in emptyhanded anger and despair.
If you would like to know more
about the committee, or how you
may assist, please come to San
'Ramon 5, room 121-122, Wednesday, March 14, between 3:00 p.m.
and 5:00 p.m. If you cannot come
at this time, the committee has
its weekly meeting at 4:00 p.m.
at 410 N. Yosemite at Franklin
St.
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Who is it? What's it for? Who
are we?
NCHO is an organization dedicated to overcoming the health
deficiences of La Raza.
It affects you as students directly by encouraging Chicanos to
consider the possibilities of becoming professionals and paraprofessionals.
Did you know that many professional schools are giving preferential consideration to minority
applicants? This could mean you!
Did you know that Harvard is
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CSUF, representing these variou";;
health fields have organized a
local chapter of NCHO . A major
part of our function is to keep
Chicanos infor med of these opportunities .
· If you are interested in any of
these health fields, attend an
NCHO meeting . They are held
each Thurs.day evening at 5:30
p.m . in the Collegiate Room
(cafeteria). For further information contact: La Raza Studies,
487-2848 and ask for Linda Hernande z, vice- chair man of NCHO .
never clearly explained to them
in a langu~ge they could understand? All correspondence which
was sent to this family was in •
English. Not once was a.billngual
department employee used to
communicate very clearly to
these people their rights and re! sponsibillties. The first, and only
' time they had communication with
I a Spanish-speaking employee, it
did not even concern their eligibility for aid.
The Welfare Rights Committee
had called for a Fair Hearing because of all the injustices they
were exposed to. A Spanishspeaking employee of the Welfare
Department asked them over the
phone to withdraw the request
for a Fair Hearing! This case is
typical of the treatment Spanishspeaking people can expect to receive from the Welfare Department, simply because of the fact
that they are Spanish-speaking. _
Incidents similar to this happen
to English-speaking welfare recipients, showing that the problem consists of more .than just a
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Wednesday, March 14, t973
Our music has -been ignor~d, says Calderas
· Rene Calderas, de Texas, has
toured the United States and part
of Mexico in different Ghicano
bands since the age of 14. He
feels t-liat Chicano music in California has been known as the
sounds of Santana, El Chicano,
Malo and Azteca, But then, the
mus.le that El Chicano and the
others play does not really have
a Chicano beat. · It ls more of a
ChiOBno, Puerto Riqtieno, or an
African beat. The language ls
not within the Chicano language.
We are getting too deep with the
Anglo and the Black culture.
The music that he · considers ,
Chicano music ls taken from the
music that my par~nts and your
parents liked at the times that
they w·ere papular. The only dif-.
ference to them now ls that they .
are livelier, more progressive, ·
and more instruments are being
used. They are experimenting
more with the 1-2-3 beat, which
ls the muslca Ranchera, and 1-2
bea!, which is the palka type.
These are some things that we,
as students, and as younger generation should be aware of.
The lack of com munlcatlon with
Chicano music in California is
that it is not being heard. It is
not the ·s tudents' fault that they
are not aware of the music. Itis
the radio stations, promoters and
TV land. Our radio stations do
not seem to understand music
that is played by our younger
generation. For instance, Little ·
Joe, who is now called •La Familia," Sunny and the Sunliners, .
and Freddie Martinez and many
other groups. The music ls so
beyond th~ promoters and the older people that they cannot relate
to it, they don •t understand. They
listen to it and set it aside because it has too much rock, it ·
ls too modern, and too jazzy.
They look at the cover I see the
long hair, and say that they are
hippies, so in turn, they do not
p~ay our music. And you sit
there and let all these things happen.
The Anglo stations will not play
our music because they do not
understand our language or our
style. - But then, they turn
around and play the typical "Dominique ni," and many other such
songs that they play, they are not
even in the English language. But
then, we as students, still g.et
turned on to it.
The promotion here in Fresno
is very bad. We tend to publicize
the rock group more than the Chicano bands. Take a look at the
Rainbow, how many Chicanos go to
the Rainbow on Sundays? Most of
them are Chicanos and most of ·
the music is rock. The bands
that are hired and that are suppased to be playing Chicano music, are playing music tropical.
La muslca tropical is not even
considered as Chicano music . It
Las Adelitas elects officers
Las Adelitas has begun the
spring semester with a team of
nevt officers . The new President
is Amelia Castro, Vice-Presi.dent Mary Zapata, Secretary
Gloria Acosta, Treasurer Dora
Jones, Historian Mary Vasquez,
Publicity Sylvia Lugo and Cathy
Sanchez.
The main business of the last
meeting was tl\e organizing of a
r ecruitment activity. The traditional Adelitas' Ni g ht was
EOP news
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will be available tomorrow
through Monday at 8 a.m., New
Administration Building, room
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EOP applications have been extended for students in the city of
F resno only. The new deadlinets
April 27. Packages can be picked
up at the EOP office, Room 238
of the New Administration Building.
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agreed on by all members. Ade-litas' Night has always proved to
be a successful way of bringing
all the new and old members together outside the classroom.
The date chosen for this night will
be March 16, 1973 at Rosie Gonzales! casa. Flyers with directions and other information will
be available at La Raza Studies.
All Chicanas are more than welcome to attend.
During the last meeting two
guest speakers, Mike Mendoza
and Randy Ramirez informed the
group of the campaign for Mendoza, Padilla and Ramirez for
Central Union High School. An
endorsement for these three Chicanos was given by the members
of Adelita5, Las Adelitas would
like to spread the word to be
sure to vote Mendoza, Padilla and
Ramirez April 17, for the Central
Union High School Board of
TrusteElS,
Also announced' at the last
meeting was the Chicana Conference to be held at Cal State
University, Sacramento, March
24. It ls an all-day workshop conference with a $1.00 registration
fee.
Arrangements are also being
made to have a speaker come to
Las Adelltas from the Family
Planning office. A definite date
has not yet been reached.
The next Adelitas meeting will
be Wednesday, March 24, in the
College Union, Room 304 from
noon to 1:00.
ALL CHICANAS WELCOME!
--BEST ~
IIOMIUTED
FDR4 ACADEMY AWARDS
ICllEEJIPLAY
La Familia, Joe Bravo, Fabulols a music that was created by
sos Cuatro, Herencil;!, Ram, the
the Mexicans in Mexico, Puerto
Rico y Cuba_. We have publicized
it as Chicano music. Even groups
as Santana, Malo, and ElChicano
use these rhythms for their mu- .
sic.
We have never heard the rhythm of music that the younger ~u- sicians are putting out of their
·own imagination . Their music is
dying here in Fresno. We, as
students, must fight this cause
to help the younger Chicano writers to completely-' develop their
talents. Musicians of 15 to 30
years of age are writing music tq
alegrar our people. But we turn
· it around and throw it away. We
go to parties - rock records,
black music; which is all beauti- .
ful music but is not our music,
it is some elses.
The people who should start
this movement are fantastic
groups like Mestizo, Ray Camacho, The Statons, Monsanto
Fascinations, Beto Garcia and
many more. You would probably
have to listen to the music that
Rene Is talking about, most of
these groups are aware of it,
and they will not play this music
because you people will not dance
to or accept it, when you haven't
even tried it,
For more descriptive information buy records of Los Unicos,
Corona
(Continued from Page 1)
tition the comites' work will be ·
useless. We must·become aware
of what is happening to one of our
Raza.
We must rememberthatweare
all in a constant battle against
oppression and injustice. Also
rem em her that when a fellow Chicano is placed on trial we are
all on trial, for we have faced
oppression and injustice in one
form or another.
Juan Corona is now on trial.
He faces all these injustices
alone. But with a united "Raza•
behind him, and only with a united
"Raza", does he stand a chance
to get true justice.
!!!Justicia Para Juan Corona!!!
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On Thursday, February 1, the more occurred before tl1e trial,
MECHA. organization on campus but needless to say, they did not
was visited by Senor Luis Or- stop there. The judge continually
tega , head of what has now be- charged the defense attorneywlth
come a movement to defend Juan contempt of court, crippling any
Corona, who is accused of killing attempt to present a vigorous
25 migrant workers in Yuba City. defense. Jury tampering, withholding evidence, all these and
Accompanying Senor Ortega was
many other injustices were used
Pedro Corona, Juan's brother.
· They were here to generafe pub- to bring about the unfair verdict.
lic and financial support on beIt would take several books to
half of a state-wide drive to de- identify all the injustices faced by
fend Juan Corona.
Juan Corona. Some of these are
Before their arrival the plight
hard to understand and it would
of Juari Corona was only another
take a legal mind to decipher
example of how our people are what has taken place.
tried, convicted and sentenced,
This leads us to the reason
before there is an actual formal
Pedro and Senor Ortega visited
trial. A trial which has become a
our campus and many other cam"mockery of justice." A justice
puses and communities. That is,
that only the rich can afford. This
to gain public support and the
injustice is becoming well known
funds needed to get a new trial.
to us. But those at the meeting
Also the funds needed to get lawwho saw the frustration and pain
yers to properly defend Juan
in Pedro Corona's face, were hit
against the prosecution which
with the cold harshness that is
cost taxpayers $500,000. Comaccompanied with reality. The
pare it to the amount spent by the
reality that is awakening our peodefense, $75,ooo;
ple. The reality of Juan Corona's
Immediately following their
plight can be explained in a more
talk, MECHA passed a unanimous
simple term .
resolution to back the Juan Co"Quierren ,chingar a otro•
rona Defense Fund in any way
Many of us believed that
possible, A comite was set up to
"lynching• was a word of the past.
steer the drive on campus.
We felt Chicanos can also have
The comite is planning to get
a fair trial. But Juan Corona is
hold of a television tape that will
being lynched. Not in the same
give a different perspective to
way that many of our people were
those who still believe there is
dragged out of jail and hanged
justice for Chicanos inAmerican
without the dignity of a fair trial.
courts. The co mite will also be in
(Not that it would have done any
charge of distributing literature
· good.) Juan is being lynched in a
about the trial. Along with this
different, more up~to-date way,
literature will be a petition, deequal to the subtle type of dismanding justice for Juan Corona.
crimination shown by the white
The petition charges his trial
world of today.
was wholly inconcistent with
Pedro and Senor Ortega Inbasic due process rights guaranformed us of all fhe injusJ!ces
teed by the constitution.
that led to the unfair conviction
Fresno Clty College has also
of Juan. These-injustices did not
set up a comlte to aid Juan Cobegin at the irial, but at the time
rona. Other comites have been
of arrest where he· was not
s()ringing up all over this area.
properly advised of his rights.
Support for Corona has been
Later, as evidence was being
growing rapidly in the Los gathered, the sheriff gave just
Angeles and San Francisco areas.
enough information to the press
There is now an attempt to unite
so that Juan could be convicted
all the comites in this area. By'
in the eyes of the public. Because
doing this 'we will have a more
of the vast means of communicaorganized
drive. March 19 has
tion available to the news media
it would be impossible to select been set as the date for the joint
comite meetings. Seferino Gonsomeone to the jury who did not
already have a fixed opinion. To . zales of Reedley, the first man to
make matters worse, the judge _invite the Corona family into the
Valley, is acting as a liaison
did not allow the ,trial to be asbetween the comites and Defense
signed to a city (San Francisco).
We all know, and it is a proven Fund headquarters in Yuba City.
The comites can only spearfact, that the chances for convichead the operation, the real suption of a Chicano in a farming
port lies with La Raza. Without
community is much greater than
funds and signatures on the pein the city.
These injustices and many
(Continued on page 4, Col. 3)
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California State University, Fresno
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1973
LXXVll / 96
Meany blasts Teamsters;
still su.pports Chavez
Recent accusations by exTeamster boss Jimmy Hoffa
against the unionizing attempts
by the United Farm Workers in
the Salinas lettuce fields, has
prompted AFL-CIO president
George Meany to publicly denounce the Teamsters.
There were reports that Meany
was attempting to back away
frOJJl the Cesar Chavez-led union.
But during a recent AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting, he assured its members thattheAFLCIO • still fully supports Chavez
in his efforts to -organize the nation's farmworkers."
Meany called the recent grower-Teamster pact "tanyi.mount
to strikebreaking" and added that
"the back door signing with th~
growers to destroy the farm
workers union is disgraceful.•
Meany pointed out that the
Teamsters and the UFW Union
had reached an agreement to
leave the organization of field
workers to the United Farm
Workers, but that si•.·,ce then, apparently yielding to the requests
from growers, the Teamsters
Union has signed contracts covering farmworkers who had no
voice in choosing their own bargaining representatives.
"The CaliforniaSupremeCourt
has characterized such contracts
as 'the ultimate form of favoritism, substituting the employer's
choice for the employeets desire'," said Jerry Cohen, the
Farm Workers Union's General
Counsel.
The farm workers' attorney
said that the state high court
ruled that injunctions issued by a
lower court to restrain picketing
by the farm workers were invalid. The court's 6-to-l decision
held that the State's Jurisdictional Strike Act could not b~
applied to disputes that developed
between the UFWU and the growers in the summer of 1970 which
involved contracts 'signed between the employers and the
Teamsters.
Specifically, the decision said
that employers cannot properly
invoke ,the state;s power to secure their own choice of a bargaining agent for their employees.
Chavez has called the growerTeamster contracts •sweetheart
pacts" and said that no one in
the fields has seen a copy of the
Teamster contracts.
Chavez said that the Teamsters
organizers do not deny that their
contracts are lacking any grievance procedure, protection
against pesticides or control over
mechanization and seniority list.
"Most important," Chavez said,
•is that the teamster contracts
leave out the hiring hall, leaving
the farm _worker back where he
started, at the mercy of the contractors."
Need for student involvement
Where should Chicano students pledge their a·llegiance?
I
(Editor's note: This is the
second part ofa series examining
the politically passive Chicano
on campus whose visibility has
been practically nil, the implications of which are of great importance to the movement.)
By Juanita Saragoza
The term "psychological oppression" has become almost
commonplace, so that many people dismiss the concept as mere
rhetoric, or at ·best a radical rationalization for social change.
Thus, many students do not take
seriously the _ culturally corrosive aspects of American society
and its subtle distruction of the
Mexicano. Although the erosion
of Mexican culture in this country
is well-documented, its implications for political socialization
are less known. Clearly, no one
can be forced to analyze the validity of the Chicano Movement,
its goals and its activities. How·ever, there is a deeper problem,
and this is the student who has
been completely socialized away
from the movement. In many
cases, these students are victims
of the system and its ability to
manipulate opinion, to form
images, and to prejudice attitudes.
The mass media has, of course,
played a role in antagonizing
Chicanos to the movement by its
emphasis on the violent and militant aspects, while the violence
perpetrated by the corporations
of this country goes unreported
and unknown to most people. The
movement is painted as unreasonable and excessive. Schooled
in a system basically supplemental in nature to the economic
sphere, and conditioned by the
political attitudes of the AngloSaxon majority, the young Chi-
off to Chicano student groups as
cano student is forced to make a
derogatory of the Chicano student
choice: (1) join the ranks of those
.well, invisible - and silent. Poorganizations.
critical of the system who are
Their criticism justifies their
tentially, these students can be
•radicals," •militant,• "violent,"
political paralysis, which is often
of great service to the liberation
"emotional," "irrational," etc. ad
the result of their socialization
of Chicanos from their political, .
naseum; or (2) maintain one's
away from Chicano student oreconomic, and culturai oppresfaith in the Constitution, in the
ganizations as an alternative for
sion - or they can continue to be
system, and its ability tohelpthe
their political ideas. Thus, their
passive spectators to their own
poor and the disadvantaged. Ironnegative remarks about MECH,\,
destruction.
ically, because of the present
NCHO, Las Adelitas, Delta Alpha
However, lt seems that perhaps
Republican administration and Its
Chi, etc., are merely masks for
they
are reluctant, if not unwillcutbacks, the bankruptcy of the
their frustration and for their
ing accomplices, to a politic~!
second alternative is patently- · lack of alternatives.
tragedy 'in which the victims are
obvious to even the most naive
Such students exist In a twilight
their own worst enemy.
optimist. Unfortunately, to many
zone, caught between the exposed
Chicanos, the first alternative is
But how can we communicate
and naked corruption of this counalso unpalatable. The result is a
with these students if they are
try and a distorted vi!;!W of the
passive group of students, aware 1Movement; they are subject to
turned off in the first place to
to a certain clegree of the probthe ridicule of Chicano activists · Chicano student organizations?
lems of the Chicano, but paraas •vendidos" and the patronizing
How can we establish a dialogue
lyzed by their own fear and conattitudes of an absorbent but
with these disaffected students?
fusion toward the Chicano Movelethal system. Thus, these stuAnd what are the academic imment. Hence, they are on campus
plications of the politically-pasdents are alienated by the system
but non participants in Chicano
si ve Chicano? These questions
- as evidence by their non-paractivities, and though critical of ,ticipation in •other" student acwill be addressed in the next inthe system they are even more
tivities - but they are also turned
stallment of this series.
2
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Wedne~day, March 14, 1973
Chicano
Yo soy Chicano
Whose black eagle soars
And wings lift to give spirit for victory,
And claws that reach out
To scratch in life for its people.
Yo soy Chicano
.
Whose cl inched fist symbolizes strength and brotherhood.
Whose handshake spices brotherhood and unification.
Whose soft brown eyes seek equality which has been taken, .
Whose language speaks for two.
I am the blood and image of my ancestry.
Mestizo, beautiful they are.
My fathers were the lords of creation,
Whose feathers and sombreros gave me culture
And dances that enlighten my being.
Yo soy Chicano
·
Whose honey brown skin-covers green valleys.
Valleys of lettuce, grapes and other foo?s of pleasure.
Whose knees are caked with mud and spinas.
And hands blistered with fever.
Yo soy -Chicano
Scorned by white men
Who say we are born with tacos in one fist,
A shovel in the other
And stand straight in proud Iines of welfare.
And that we are the black sheep of their Melting Pot.
Brown mice of their economical creation, they say.
Yo soy Chicano
Whose musica enlightens my heart.
Whose cumbias scratch floors at the:
San Antonio's fairgrounds,
Kearney Parks,
.
And Rainbow.Ballrooms throughout the United States.
Yo soy Chicano
Whose brown face speckles halls of institutions of learning.
Whose brown face works discrim inately in banks.
And told if we do not like working forJhe
Fat political coyote to go back to Mexico.
1,
Yo soy Chicano
Both wanted and unwanted.
Man in the m icldle, you might say.
Pocho there, pepper-gut here.
By Davici Morales
Yo soy Chicano
MAN!
Sowing seeds of strength and purpos~ for my people.
Giving life.and hope for children to follow.
I FEAR NO ONE! ••••••••••.••••••••• ~ut God'.
By Dan Soleno
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El Movimiento t o_d a y faces
many external societal factors
that hinder its progress. Though
much light has been given to the
external societal factors that hinder el progreso de el Movi miento,
little has been said of the internal factors which are a hindrance
to its progress. The internal
factors that impede the progress
of El Chicano are as real and as
devastating as those external factors we face. Perhaps they are
more detrimental than we care to
admit, for they are a deadly cancer within our people. We don't
talk about them and we sometimes
. refuse to recognize them-though
we are constantly aware of their
presence.
There are certain basic precepts that permeate our Chicano
philosophical outlook, which must
be modified. Being that these precepts were in their very origin
used as tools of suppression to
subjugate our people, I am referring to the precepts of our phi '--losophy whispered to us by our
"Jefitos" - El Hombre tiene que
our
philosophy
temer a .Dios, ser honrable, trabajador y humilde. Of course, the
exact wording varies for each of
us. For those who fail to recognize this as the cornerstone of our
philosophy. Think! and you will
see that the philosophy that was
bequeathed to you stems from
those precepts handed down by the
Spaniards to our people in the
Fifteen Hundreds. While I will not
question the ethical value of these
precepts, I will question their
practicality in our present society. El hombre Uene· que temer
a Dios! By instilling the fear of
God in our people the Spaniards
successfully took an intangjble
fear and produced the tangible
obedience of our people to their
values. While religion has its
place in our Ii ves the realities
of the material world must not be
overlooked. El hombre tiene que
ser honrable! While this precept
has value, it must be remembered
that the moral values of yesterday
are not those of today. El hombre
· tiene que ser trabajador. This
precept was interpreted as justifying or glorifying brute or manual labor. Obviously the meaning-
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is not adequate today, rather we
should interpret it to mean a
drive to produce a better Chicano,
Humilidad! CHALE!!l for humility implies condensation of our
acceptance of a lesser social
state. Not only must we modify
and reinterpret our philosophy,
but we must eliminate the petty
jealousy that divides us.
If one this has no place in El
Movimiento lt is the petty jealousy that prevails between individuals in our various communities. I recall seeing petty jealousy
among my people in childhood,
but what is sad is that it still
exists today; Jose bought a new
car• A hora se cree muy grande! •;
Or, Jose got a new government
job and they bought a new tract
home .•. Vendido! Not only are
the compadre y comadre jealous,
but now they have an emotionally·
charged word which they wield indiscriminately, El Vendido is
someone who denies his cultural
heritage and is suffering from a
deflated self-image.
I have seen Carnales y Carnalas attribute all their inadequacies to society • . . Rationalization. It is true that many of
our misfortunes are caused by
societal factors, but once recognized, can we not by our own effort attempt to eliminate them?
We must recognize the fact that
we are responsible for many of
our own inadequacies. If theChicano is to improve , "Le· tiene
que poner. • If he does not, he must
accept the blame for his own
shortcomings. If La Raza is to
progress, we must adopt aversatile, philosophical outlook. An
outlook in which we retain our
Rich C_ultural Heritage, yet deal
effectively with our present environment. We must remember
that if a Carnal makes it and we
don't, that doesn 't nP·essarily
make him a Vendido. If one Chicano makes it, he has accomplished what the Movimiento is
all about ; . . "El Progreso De
La Raza."
Inadequate interpretation of a
philosophy, jealousy and the rationalization of all our woes to
society will not advance La
C ausa. Rather, they will strangle
our people and tend to check the
real progress we are makin~.
Wednesday, March 14, 1973 THE DAILY COt..,.EGIAN
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Welfare Rights· Committee aids Chic.ano recip.ients
By Stan Santos
There is a committeeofvolunteer students working out of the
Welfare Department, offering its
servic'es to Chicano recipients to
assure that they receive the aid
they are entitled to, with efficient
courteous service. The _reason
this committee formed is to insure that cases similar to the
one cited do not occur, as they
have been occurring, again and
again.
A Spanish-speaking family has
been here in Fresno awaiting the
results of their application for
aid since October. During this
waiting period, they have been
exposed to much undue hardship.
The treatment they have received
has been unfair to the point of
being prejudicial in its nature.
This family has come to the
Welfare Department on about 20
different occasions. They have
had ,to come on foot, bu bus, or
whatever other transportation
was available, if any. Each time
they cave come, they have ended
up having to wait from · five to six
hours at a time. They have been
seen oy a dozen different department workers who were, in many
cases, completely unfamiliar
with their case. They have been
herded like cattle, from one office to another. They have had to
go through the whole application
process four times. This process
entails filling out a 19-pageapplication, along with various othec.
forms, all written in a language
which they cannot even speak, let
alone read or write. As a result
of general department inefficiency, and disregard for their
needs, they have been denied on
the first three applications. The
basis for these denials has been
"refusing to comp!.y with department requirements to supply information · needed to determine
their eligibility."
How could these people be expected to comply with these requirements, when they were
New Chicano education
advisory board is formed
As a result of the rejection by
Fresno Board of Education of a
proposed Chicano A d vi so r y
Board to assist with problems at
the city scht,ols, the Chicano
community has decided to form
such a board-whether sanctioned ·
or not-to work for a more meaningful education for Chicano children within the school system.
The board, which is composed
of three members each from
MAPA, MECHA, Associacion de
Padres, AMAE and El Concilio
has been meeting on a weekly basis. The advisory board is currently becoming familiar with the
whole range of problems confronting Chicano children. These
problems consist of a high dropout rate, E M R and s p e c i a l
classes, the tracking system,
separation of Chicano children
within integrated schools by
means of curriculum, reading
scores, absenteeism, disciplinary procedures and suspension
practices. The board is also interested in what happens to mono- lingual Spanish speaking children, and whose with limited English in the schools and in the
hiring practices of Fresno City
Schools.
One thing is to study the problems and another is to act upon
them. The board feels that it has
enough community support to
launch a concerted effort to ease
the situation that exists within
the school system in regard to
Chicano children. _ The board
plans to take action on these matters.
It will be necessary to hire legal council for what is ahead. With
that in mind the board is planning
a fund-raising dance in the near
future and will need the C'ooperation of all Chicanos.
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language barrier. Through this
example, it is obvious that the
Welfare Department ls insensitive to the needs of the Mexican
community. Through the efforts
of the WelfareRightsGommlttee
this family received · us badl;
needed aid. However, through a
lack of ,volunteers, thecommutee·
is servicing the needs of the
Mexican community on a very
small scale.
The need ls evident for more
Chicano students to make a commitment to end this mistreatment
of their people. Our goal is to see
to it that our people no longer be
exposed to a long, tiring waiting
period, ending only in emptyhanded anger and despair.
If you would like to know more
about the committee, or how you
may assist, please come to San
'Ramon 5, room 121-122, Wednesday, March 14, between 3:00 p.m.
and 5:00 p.m. If you cannot come
at this time, the committee has
its weekly meeting at 4:00 p.m.
at 410 N. Yosemite at Franklin
St.
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these health fields, attend an
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never clearly explained to them
in a langu~ge they could understand? All correspondence which
was sent to this family was in •
English. Not once was a.billngual
department employee used to
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these people their rights and re! sponsibillties. The first, and only
' time they had communication with
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did not even concern their eligibility for aid.
The Welfare Rights Committee
had called for a Fair Hearing because of all the injustices they
were exposed to. A Spanishspeaking employee of the Welfare
Department asked them over the
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for a Fair Hearing! This case is
typical of the treatment Spanishspeaking people can expect to receive from the Welfare Department, simply because of the fact
that they are Spanish-speaking. _
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Wednesday, March 14, t973
Our music has -been ignor~d, says Calderas
· Rene Calderas, de Texas, has
toured the United States and part
of Mexico in different Ghicano
bands since the age of 14. He
feels t-liat Chicano music in California has been known as the
sounds of Santana, El Chicano,
Malo and Azteca, But then, the
mus.le that El Chicano and the
others play does not really have
a Chicano beat. · It ls more of a
ChiOBno, Puerto Riqtieno, or an
African beat. The language ls
not within the Chicano language.
We are getting too deep with the
Anglo and the Black culture.
The music that he · considers ,
Chicano music ls taken from the
music that my par~nts and your
parents liked at the times that
they w·ere papular. The only dif-.
ference to them now ls that they .
are livelier, more progressive, ·
and more instruments are being
used. They are experimenting
more with the 1-2-3 beat, which
ls the muslca Ranchera, and 1-2
bea!, which is the palka type.
These are some things that we,
as students, and as younger generation should be aware of.
The lack of com munlcatlon with
Chicano music in California is
that it is not being heard. It is
not the ·s tudents' fault that they
are not aware of the music. Itis
the radio stations, promoters and
TV land. Our radio stations do
not seem to understand music
that is played by our younger
generation. For instance, Little ·
Joe, who is now called •La Familia," Sunny and the Sunliners, .
and Freddie Martinez and many
other groups. The music ls so
beyond th~ promoters and the older people that they cannot relate
to it, they don •t understand. They
listen to it and set it aside because it has too much rock, it ·
ls too modern, and too jazzy.
They look at the cover I see the
long hair, and say that they are
hippies, so in turn, they do not
p~ay our music. And you sit
there and let all these things happen.
The Anglo stations will not play
our music because they do not
understand our language or our
style. - But then, they turn
around and play the typical "Dominique ni," and many other such
songs that they play, they are not
even in the English language. But
then, we as students, still g.et
turned on to it.
The promotion here in Fresno
is very bad. We tend to publicize
the rock group more than the Chicano bands. Take a look at the
Rainbow, how many Chicanos go to
the Rainbow on Sundays? Most of
them are Chicanos and most of ·
the music is rock. The bands
that are hired and that are suppased to be playing Chicano music, are playing music tropical.
La muslca tropical is not even
considered as Chicano music . It
Las Adelitas elects officers
Las Adelitas has begun the
spring semester with a team of
nevt officers . The new President
is Amelia Castro, Vice-Presi.dent Mary Zapata, Secretary
Gloria Acosta, Treasurer Dora
Jones, Historian Mary Vasquez,
Publicity Sylvia Lugo and Cathy
Sanchez.
The main business of the last
meeting was tl\e organizing of a
r ecruitment activity. The traditional Adelitas' Ni g ht was
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agreed on by all members. Ade-litas' Night has always proved to
be a successful way of bringing
all the new and old members together outside the classroom.
The date chosen for this night will
be March 16, 1973 at Rosie Gonzales! casa. Flyers with directions and other information will
be available at La Raza Studies.
All Chicanas are more than welcome to attend.
During the last meeting two
guest speakers, Mike Mendoza
and Randy Ramirez informed the
group of the campaign for Mendoza, Padilla and Ramirez for
Central Union High School. An
endorsement for these three Chicanos was given by the members
of Adelita5, Las Adelitas would
like to spread the word to be
sure to vote Mendoza, Padilla and
Ramirez April 17, for the Central
Union High School Board of
TrusteElS,
Also announced' at the last
meeting was the Chicana Conference to be held at Cal State
University, Sacramento, March
24. It ls an all-day workshop conference with a $1.00 registration
fee.
Arrangements are also being
made to have a speaker come to
Las Adelltas from the Family
Planning office. A definite date
has not yet been reached.
The next Adelitas meeting will
be Wednesday, March 24, in the
College Union, Room 304 from
noon to 1:00.
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FDR4 ACADEMY AWARDS
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La Familia, Joe Bravo, Fabulols a music that was created by
sos Cuatro, Herencil;!, Ram, the
the Mexicans in Mexico, Puerto
Rico y Cuba_. We have publicized
it as Chicano music. Even groups
as Santana, Malo, and ElChicano
use these rhythms for their mu- .
sic.
We have never heard the rhythm of music that the younger ~u- sicians are putting out of their
·own imagination . Their music is
dying here in Fresno. We, as
students, must fight this cause
to help the younger Chicano writers to completely-' develop their
talents. Musicians of 15 to 30
years of age are writing music tq
alegrar our people. But we turn
· it around and throw it away. We
go to parties - rock records,
black music; which is all beauti- .
ful music but is not our music,
it is some elses.
The people who should start
this movement are fantastic
groups like Mestizo, Ray Camacho, The Statons, Monsanto
Fascinations, Beto Garcia and
many more. You would probably
have to listen to the music that
Rene Is talking about, most of
these groups are aware of it,
and they will not play this music
because you people will not dance
to or accept it, when you haven't
even tried it,
For more descriptive information buy records of Los Unicos,
Corona
(Continued from Page 1)
tition the comites' work will be ·
useless. We must·become aware
of what is happening to one of our
Raza.
We must rememberthatweare
all in a constant battle against
oppression and injustice. Also
rem em her that when a fellow Chicano is placed on trial we are
all on trial, for we have faced
oppression and injustice in one
form or another.
Juan Corona is now on trial.
He faces all these injustices
alone. But with a united "Raza•
behind him, and only with a united
"Raza", does he stand a chance
to get true justice.
!!!Justicia Para Juan Corona!!!
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Juan Corona Defense Fund
730 Bridge Street
Yuba City; California 95991
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On Thursday, February 1, the more occurred before tl1e trial,
MECHA. organization on campus but needless to say, they did not
was visited by Senor Luis Or- stop there. The judge continually
tega , head of what has now be- charged the defense attorneywlth
come a movement to defend Juan contempt of court, crippling any
Corona, who is accused of killing attempt to present a vigorous
25 migrant workers in Yuba City. defense. Jury tampering, withholding evidence, all these and
Accompanying Senor Ortega was
many other injustices were used
Pedro Corona, Juan's brother.
· They were here to generafe pub- to bring about the unfair verdict.
lic and financial support on beIt would take several books to
half of a state-wide drive to de- identify all the injustices faced by
fend Juan Corona.
Juan Corona. Some of these are
Before their arrival the plight
hard to understand and it would
of Juari Corona was only another
take a legal mind to decipher
example of how our people are what has taken place.
tried, convicted and sentenced,
This leads us to the reason
before there is an actual formal
Pedro and Senor Ortega visited
trial. A trial which has become a
our campus and many other cam"mockery of justice." A justice
puses and communities. That is,
that only the rich can afford. This
to gain public support and the
injustice is becoming well known
funds needed to get a new trial.
to us. But those at the meeting
Also the funds needed to get lawwho saw the frustration and pain
yers to properly defend Juan
in Pedro Corona's face, were hit
against the prosecution which
with the cold harshness that is
cost taxpayers $500,000. Comaccompanied with reality. The
pare it to the amount spent by the
reality that is awakening our peodefense, $75,ooo;
ple. The reality of Juan Corona's
Immediately following their
plight can be explained in a more
talk, MECHA passed a unanimous
simple term .
resolution to back the Juan Co"Quierren ,chingar a otro•
rona Defense Fund in any way
Many of us believed that
possible, A comite was set up to
"lynching• was a word of the past.
steer the drive on campus.
We felt Chicanos can also have
The comite is planning to get
a fair trial. But Juan Corona is
hold of a television tape that will
being lynched. Not in the same
give a different perspective to
way that many of our people were
those who still believe there is
dragged out of jail and hanged
justice for Chicanos inAmerican
without the dignity of a fair trial.
courts. The co mite will also be in
(Not that it would have done any
charge of distributing literature
· good.) Juan is being lynched in a
about the trial. Along with this
different, more up~to-date way,
literature will be a petition, deequal to the subtle type of dismanding justice for Juan Corona.
crimination shown by the white
The petition charges his trial
world of today.
was wholly inconcistent with
Pedro and Senor Ortega Inbasic due process rights guaranformed us of all fhe injusJ!ces
teed by the constitution.
that led to the unfair conviction
Fresno Clty College has also
of Juan. These-injustices did not
set up a comlte to aid Juan Cobegin at the irial, but at the time
rona. Other comites have been
of arrest where he· was not
s()ringing up all over this area.
properly advised of his rights.
Support for Corona has been
Later, as evidence was being
growing rapidly in the Los gathered, the sheriff gave just
Angeles and San Francisco areas.
enough information to the press
There is now an attempt to unite
so that Juan could be convicted
all the comites in this area. By'
in the eyes of the public. Because
doing this 'we will have a more
of the vast means of communicaorganized
drive. March 19 has
tion available to the news media
it would be impossible to select been set as the date for the joint
comite meetings. Seferino Gonsomeone to the jury who did not
already have a fixed opinion. To . zales of Reedley, the first man to
make matters worse, the judge _invite the Corona family into the
Valley, is acting as a liaison
did not allow the ,trial to be asbetween the comites and Defense
signed to a city (San Francisco).
We all know, and it is a proven Fund headquarters in Yuba City.
The comites can only spearfact, that the chances for convichead the operation, the real suption of a Chicano in a farming
port lies with La Raza. Without
community is much greater than
funds and signatures on the pein the city.
These injustices and many
(Continued on page 4, Col. 3)
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California State University, Fresno
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1973
LXXVll / 96
Meany blasts Teamsters;
still su.pports Chavez
Recent accusations by exTeamster boss Jimmy Hoffa
against the unionizing attempts
by the United Farm Workers in
the Salinas lettuce fields, has
prompted AFL-CIO president
George Meany to publicly denounce the Teamsters.
There were reports that Meany
was attempting to back away
frOJJl the Cesar Chavez-led union.
But during a recent AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting, he assured its members thattheAFLCIO • still fully supports Chavez
in his efforts to -organize the nation's farmworkers."
Meany called the recent grower-Teamster pact "tanyi.mount
to strikebreaking" and added that
"the back door signing with th~
growers to destroy the farm
workers union is disgraceful.•
Meany pointed out that the
Teamsters and the UFW Union
had reached an agreement to
leave the organization of field
workers to the United Farm
Workers, but that si•.·,ce then, apparently yielding to the requests
from growers, the Teamsters
Union has signed contracts covering farmworkers who had no
voice in choosing their own bargaining representatives.
"The CaliforniaSupremeCourt
has characterized such contracts
as 'the ultimate form of favoritism, substituting the employer's
choice for the employeets desire'," said Jerry Cohen, the
Farm Workers Union's General
Counsel.
The farm workers' attorney
said that the state high court
ruled that injunctions issued by a
lower court to restrain picketing
by the farm workers were invalid. The court's 6-to-l decision
held that the State's Jurisdictional Strike Act could not b~
applied to disputes that developed
between the UFWU and the growers in the summer of 1970 which
involved contracts 'signed between the employers and the
Teamsters.
Specifically, the decision said
that employers cannot properly
invoke ,the state;s power to secure their own choice of a bargaining agent for their employees.
Chavez has called the growerTeamster contracts •sweetheart
pacts" and said that no one in
the fields has seen a copy of the
Teamster contracts.
Chavez said that the Teamsters
organizers do not deny that their
contracts are lacking any grievance procedure, protection
against pesticides or control over
mechanization and seniority list.
"Most important," Chavez said,
•is that the teamster contracts
leave out the hiring hall, leaving
the farm _worker back where he
started, at the mercy of the contractors."
Need for student involvement
Where should Chicano students pledge their a·llegiance?
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(Editor's note: This is the
second part ofa series examining
the politically passive Chicano
on campus whose visibility has
been practically nil, the implications of which are of great importance to the movement.)
By Juanita Saragoza
The term "psychological oppression" has become almost
commonplace, so that many people dismiss the concept as mere
rhetoric, or at ·best a radical rationalization for social change.
Thus, many students do not take
seriously the _ culturally corrosive aspects of American society
and its subtle distruction of the
Mexicano. Although the erosion
of Mexican culture in this country
is well-documented, its implications for political socialization
are less known. Clearly, no one
can be forced to analyze the validity of the Chicano Movement,
its goals and its activities. How·ever, there is a deeper problem,
and this is the student who has
been completely socialized away
from the movement. In many
cases, these students are victims
of the system and its ability to
manipulate opinion, to form
images, and to prejudice attitudes.
The mass media has, of course,
played a role in antagonizing
Chicanos to the movement by its
emphasis on the violent and militant aspects, while the violence
perpetrated by the corporations
of this country goes unreported
and unknown to most people. The
movement is painted as unreasonable and excessive. Schooled
in a system basically supplemental in nature to the economic
sphere, and conditioned by the
political attitudes of the AngloSaxon majority, the young Chi-
off to Chicano student groups as
cano student is forced to make a
derogatory of the Chicano student
choice: (1) join the ranks of those
.well, invisible - and silent. Poorganizations.
critical of the system who are
Their criticism justifies their
tentially, these students can be
•radicals," •militant,• "violent,"
political paralysis, which is often
of great service to the liberation
"emotional," "irrational," etc. ad
the result of their socialization
of Chicanos from their political, .
naseum; or (2) maintain one's
away from Chicano student oreconomic, and culturai oppresfaith in the Constitution, in the
ganizations as an alternative for
sion - or they can continue to be
system, and its ability tohelpthe
their political ideas. Thus, their
passive spectators to their own
poor and the disadvantaged. Ironnegative remarks about MECH,\,
destruction.
ically, because of the present
NCHO, Las Adelitas, Delta Alpha
However, lt seems that perhaps
Republican administration and Its
Chi, etc., are merely masks for
they
are reluctant, if not unwillcutbacks, the bankruptcy of the
their frustration and for their
ing accomplices, to a politic~!
second alternative is patently- · lack of alternatives.
tragedy 'in which the victims are
obvious to even the most naive
Such students exist In a twilight
their own worst enemy.
optimist. Unfortunately, to many
zone, caught between the exposed
Chicanos, the first alternative is
But how can we communicate
and naked corruption of this counalso unpalatable. The result is a
with these students if they are
try and a distorted vi!;!W of the
passive group of students, aware 1Movement; they are subject to
turned off in the first place to
to a certain clegree of the probthe ridicule of Chicano activists · Chicano student organizations?
lems of the Chicano, but paraas •vendidos" and the patronizing
How can we establish a dialogue
lyzed by their own fear and conattitudes of an absorbent but
with these disaffected students?
fusion toward the Chicano Movelethal system. Thus, these stuAnd what are the academic imment. Hence, they are on campus
plications of the politically-pasdents are alienated by the system
but non participants in Chicano
si ve Chicano? These questions
- as evidence by their non-paractivities, and though critical of ,ticipation in •other" student acwill be addressed in the next inthe system they are even more
tivities - but they are also turned
stallment of this series.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Wedne~day, March 14, 1973
Chicano
Yo soy Chicano
Whose black eagle soars
And wings lift to give spirit for victory,
And claws that reach out
To scratch in life for its people.
Yo soy Chicano
.
Whose cl inched fist symbolizes strength and brotherhood.
Whose handshake spices brotherhood and unification.
Whose soft brown eyes seek equality which has been taken, .
Whose language speaks for two.
I am the blood and image of my ancestry.
Mestizo, beautiful they are.
My fathers were the lords of creation,
Whose feathers and sombreros gave me culture
And dances that enlighten my being.
Yo soy Chicano
·
Whose honey brown skin-covers green valleys.
Valleys of lettuce, grapes and other foo?s of pleasure.
Whose knees are caked with mud and spinas.
And hands blistered with fever.
Yo soy -Chicano
Scorned by white men
Who say we are born with tacos in one fist,
A shovel in the other
And stand straight in proud Iines of welfare.
And that we are the black sheep of their Melting Pot.
Brown mice of their economical creation, they say.
Yo soy Chicano
Whose musica enlightens my heart.
Whose cumbias scratch floors at the:
San Antonio's fairgrounds,
Kearney Parks,
.
And Rainbow.Ballrooms throughout the United States.
Yo soy Chicano
Whose brown face speckles halls of institutions of learning.
Whose brown face works discrim inately in banks.
And told if we do not like working forJhe
Fat political coyote to go back to Mexico.
1,
Yo soy Chicano
Both wanted and unwanted.
Man in the m icldle, you might say.
Pocho there, pepper-gut here.
By Davici Morales
Yo soy Chicano
MAN!
Sowing seeds of strength and purpos~ for my people.
Giving life.and hope for children to follow.
I FEAR NO ONE! ••••••••••.••••••••• ~ut God'.
By Dan Soleno
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Speed Reading Course
Set To Begin in Fresno
Arrangements have been
made to conduct a 21 hour
course in speed reading under
the auspices . of the Americarr
Reading Fo'undation of
Columbus, Ohio, which has
just recently opened their
Califorµia Processing Center
in Riverside. The course is
open to anyone above the age
of 13 and guarantees every
graduate a minimum improvement of 3 times his initial reading speed with better
comprehension. The average
graduate attains 1500-words
per minute.
After the seven week
program
person can read
any, average length book in
less than an hour and understand it better. In addition to
speed reading the course also
emphasizes improved study
techniques, better test taking
skills, and increased concentration and retention abilities.
The course requires a person to attend one class per
a
Time to rethink
week on 'the evening of their
choice. For those who would
like more information, without
obligation fo enroll, a series
of FREE one hour orientation
lectures have been scheduled.
These meetings are free to ,
the public and the course will i
be explained in complete detail
including entrance require- ,
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tuition, class schedule and
location. You need to attend
only one of the meetings,
whichever is most convenient
for you. These free one hour
orientations will be held as
follows:
Tuesday March 13 at 7:30
p.m.; Wednesday, March 14
at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, March
18 at 1:30 p.m. at the College
Religious Center, 2311 E. Shaw
(Across from California State
University, Fresno - corner
of Jackson and Shaw).
This course is also available to industry and other
groups upon request.
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El Movimiento t o_d a y faces
many external societal factors
that hinder its progress. Though
much light has been given to the
external societal factors that hinder el progreso de el Movi miento,
little has been said of the internal factors which are a hindrance
to its progress. The internal
factors that impede the progress
of El Chicano are as real and as
devastating as those external factors we face. Perhaps they are
more detrimental than we care to
admit, for they are a deadly cancer within our people. We don't
talk about them and we sometimes
. refuse to recognize them-though
we are constantly aware of their
presence.
There are certain basic precepts that permeate our Chicano
philosophical outlook, which must
be modified. Being that these precepts were in their very origin
used as tools of suppression to
subjugate our people, I am referring to the precepts of our phi '--losophy whispered to us by our
"Jefitos" - El Hombre tiene que
our
philosophy
temer a .Dios, ser honrable, trabajador y humilde. Of course, the
exact wording varies for each of
us. For those who fail to recognize this as the cornerstone of our
philosophy. Think! and you will
see that the philosophy that was
bequeathed to you stems from
those precepts handed down by the
Spaniards to our people in the
Fifteen Hundreds. While I will not
question the ethical value of these
precepts, I will question their
practicality in our present society. El hombre Uene· que temer
a Dios! By instilling the fear of
God in our people the Spaniards
successfully took an intangjble
fear and produced the tangible
obedience of our people to their
values. While religion has its
place in our Ii ves the realities
of the material world must not be
overlooked. El hombre tiene que
ser honrable! While this precept
has value, it must be remembered
that the moral values of yesterday
are not those of today. El hombre
· tiene que ser trabajador. This
precept was interpreted as justifying or glorifying brute or manual labor. Obviously the meaning-
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is not adequate today, rather we
should interpret it to mean a
drive to produce a better Chicano,
Humilidad! CHALE!!l for humility implies condensation of our
acceptance of a lesser social
state. Not only must we modify
and reinterpret our philosophy,
but we must eliminate the petty
jealousy that divides us.
If one this has no place in El
Movimiento lt is the petty jealousy that prevails between individuals in our various communities. I recall seeing petty jealousy
among my people in childhood,
but what is sad is that it still
exists today; Jose bought a new
car• A hora se cree muy grande! •;
Or, Jose got a new government
job and they bought a new tract
home .•. Vendido! Not only are
the compadre y comadre jealous,
but now they have an emotionally·
charged word which they wield indiscriminately, El Vendido is
someone who denies his cultural
heritage and is suffering from a
deflated self-image.
I have seen Carnales y Carnalas attribute all their inadequacies to society • . . Rationalization. It is true that many of
our misfortunes are caused by
societal factors, but once recognized, can we not by our own effort attempt to eliminate them?
We must recognize the fact that
we are responsible for many of
our own inadequacies. If theChicano is to improve , "Le· tiene
que poner. • If he does not, he must
accept the blame for his own
shortcomings. If La Raza is to
progress, we must adopt aversatile, philosophical outlook. An
outlook in which we retain our
Rich C_ultural Heritage, yet deal
effectively with our present environment. We must remember
that if a Carnal makes it and we
don't, that doesn 't nP·essarily
make him a Vendido. If one Chicano makes it, he has accomplished what the Movimiento is
all about ; . . "El Progreso De
La Raza."
Inadequate interpretation of a
philosophy, jealousy and the rationalization of all our woes to
society will not advance La
C ausa. Rather, they will strangle
our people and tend to check the
real progress we are makin~.
Wednesday, March 14, 1973 THE DAILY COt..,.EGIAN
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Welfare Rights· Committee aids Chic.ano recip.ients
By Stan Santos
There is a committeeofvolunteer students working out of the
Welfare Department, offering its
servic'es to Chicano recipients to
assure that they receive the aid
they are entitled to, with efficient
courteous service. The _reason
this committee formed is to insure that cases similar to the
one cited do not occur, as they
have been occurring, again and
again.
A Spanish-speaking family has
been here in Fresno awaiting the
results of their application for
aid since October. During this
waiting period, they have been
exposed to much undue hardship.
The treatment they have received
has been unfair to the point of
being prejudicial in its nature.
This family has come to the
Welfare Department on about 20
different occasions. They have
had ,to come on foot, bu bus, or
whatever other transportation
was available, if any. Each time
they cave come, they have ended
up having to wait from · five to six
hours at a time. They have been
seen oy a dozen different department workers who were, in many
cases, completely unfamiliar
with their case. They have been
herded like cattle, from one office to another. They have had to
go through the whole application
process four times. This process
entails filling out a 19-pageapplication, along with various othec.
forms, all written in a language
which they cannot even speak, let
alone read or write. As a result
of general department inefficiency, and disregard for their
needs, they have been denied on
the first three applications. The
basis for these denials has been
"refusing to comp!.y with department requirements to supply information · needed to determine
their eligibility."
How could these people be expected to comply with these requirements, when they were
New Chicano education
advisory board is formed
As a result of the rejection by
Fresno Board of Education of a
proposed Chicano A d vi so r y
Board to assist with problems at
the city scht,ols, the Chicano
community has decided to form
such a board-whether sanctioned ·
or not-to work for a more meaningful education for Chicano children within the school system.
The board, which is composed
of three members each from
MAPA, MECHA, Associacion de
Padres, AMAE and El Concilio
has been meeting on a weekly basis. The advisory board is currently becoming familiar with the
whole range of problems confronting Chicano children. These
problems consist of a high dropout rate, E M R and s p e c i a l
classes, the tracking system,
separation of Chicano children
within integrated schools by
means of curriculum, reading
scores, absenteeism, disciplinary procedures and suspension
practices. The board is also interested in what happens to mono- lingual Spanish speaking children, and whose with limited English in the schools and in the
hiring practices of Fresno City
Schools.
One thing is to study the problems and another is to act upon
them. The board feels that it has
enough community support to
launch a concerted effort to ease
the situation that exists within
the school system in regard to
Chicano children. _ The board
plans to take action on these matters.
It will be necessary to hire legal council for what is ahead. With
that in mind the board is planning
a fund-raising dance in the near
future and will need the C'ooperation of all Chicanos.
EN LA UNIDAD EST A LA FUERZA!
language barrier. Through this
example, it is obvious that the
Welfare Department ls insensitive to the needs of the Mexican
community. Through the efforts
of the WelfareRightsGommlttee
this family received · us badl;
needed aid. However, through a
lack of ,volunteers, thecommutee·
is servicing the needs of the
Mexican community on a very
small scale.
The need ls evident for more
Chicano students to make a commitment to end this mistreatment
of their people. Our goal is to see
to it that our people no longer be
exposed to a long, tiring waiting
period, ending only in emptyhanded anger and despair.
If you would like to know more
about the committee, or how you
may assist, please come to San
'Ramon 5, room 121-122, Wednesday, March 14, between 3:00 p.m.
and 5:00 p.m. If you cannot come
at this time, the committee has
its weekly meeting at 4:00 p.m.
at 410 N. Yosemite at Franklin
St.
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Who is it? What's it for? Who
are we?
NCHO is an organization dedicated to overcoming the health
deficiences of La Raza.
It affects you as students directly by encouraging Chicanos to
consider the possibilities of becoming professionals and paraprofessionals.
Did you know that many professional schools are giving preferential consideration to minority
applicants? This could mean you!
Did you know that Harvard is
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Chicanos infor med of these opportunities .
· If you are interested in any of
these health fields, attend an
NCHO meeting . They are held
each Thurs.day evening at 5:30
p.m . in the Collegiate Room
(cafeteria). For further information contact: La Raza Studies,
487-2848 and ask for Linda Hernande z, vice- chair man of NCHO .
never clearly explained to them
in a langu~ge they could understand? All correspondence which
was sent to this family was in •
English. Not once was a.billngual
department employee used to
communicate very clearly to
these people their rights and re! sponsibillties. The first, and only
' time they had communication with
I a Spanish-speaking employee, it
did not even concern their eligibility for aid.
The Welfare Rights Committee
had called for a Fair Hearing because of all the injustices they
were exposed to. A Spanishspeaking employee of the Welfare
Department asked them over the
phone to withdraw the request
for a Fair Hearing! This case is
typical of the treatment Spanishspeaking people can expect to receive from the Welfare Department, simply because of the fact
that they are Spanish-speaking. _
Incidents similar to this happen
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Wednesday, March 14, t973
Our music has -been ignor~d, says Calderas
· Rene Calderas, de Texas, has
toured the United States and part
of Mexico in different Ghicano
bands since the age of 14. He
feels t-liat Chicano music in California has been known as the
sounds of Santana, El Chicano,
Malo and Azteca, But then, the
mus.le that El Chicano and the
others play does not really have
a Chicano beat. · It ls more of a
ChiOBno, Puerto Riqtieno, or an
African beat. The language ls
not within the Chicano language.
We are getting too deep with the
Anglo and the Black culture.
The music that he · considers ,
Chicano music ls taken from the
music that my par~nts and your
parents liked at the times that
they w·ere papular. The only dif-.
ference to them now ls that they .
are livelier, more progressive, ·
and more instruments are being
used. They are experimenting
more with the 1-2-3 beat, which
ls the muslca Ranchera, and 1-2
bea!, which is the palka type.
These are some things that we,
as students, and as younger generation should be aware of.
The lack of com munlcatlon with
Chicano music in California is
that it is not being heard. It is
not the ·s tudents' fault that they
are not aware of the music. Itis
the radio stations, promoters and
TV land. Our radio stations do
not seem to understand music
that is played by our younger
generation. For instance, Little ·
Joe, who is now called •La Familia," Sunny and the Sunliners, .
and Freddie Martinez and many
other groups. The music ls so
beyond th~ promoters and the older people that they cannot relate
to it, they don •t understand. They
listen to it and set it aside because it has too much rock, it ·
ls too modern, and too jazzy.
They look at the cover I see the
long hair, and say that they are
hippies, so in turn, they do not
p~ay our music. And you sit
there and let all these things happen.
The Anglo stations will not play
our music because they do not
understand our language or our
style. - But then, they turn
around and play the typical "Dominique ni," and many other such
songs that they play, they are not
even in the English language. But
then, we as students, still g.et
turned on to it.
The promotion here in Fresno
is very bad. We tend to publicize
the rock group more than the Chicano bands. Take a look at the
Rainbow, how many Chicanos go to
the Rainbow on Sundays? Most of
them are Chicanos and most of ·
the music is rock. The bands
that are hired and that are suppased to be playing Chicano music, are playing music tropical.
La muslca tropical is not even
considered as Chicano music . It
Las Adelitas elects officers
Las Adelitas has begun the
spring semester with a team of
nevt officers . The new President
is Amelia Castro, Vice-Presi.dent Mary Zapata, Secretary
Gloria Acosta, Treasurer Dora
Jones, Historian Mary Vasquez,
Publicity Sylvia Lugo and Cathy
Sanchez.
The main business of the last
meeting was tl\e organizing of a
r ecruitment activity. The traditional Adelitas' Ni g ht was
EOP news
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EOP applications have been extended for students in the city of
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April 27. Packages can be picked
up at the EOP office, Room 238
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agreed on by all members. Ade-litas' Night has always proved to
be a successful way of bringing
all the new and old members together outside the classroom.
The date chosen for this night will
be March 16, 1973 at Rosie Gonzales! casa. Flyers with directions and other information will
be available at La Raza Studies.
All Chicanas are more than welcome to attend.
During the last meeting two
guest speakers, Mike Mendoza
and Randy Ramirez informed the
group of the campaign for Mendoza, Padilla and Ramirez for
Central Union High School. An
endorsement for these three Chicanos was given by the members
of Adelita5, Las Adelitas would
like to spread the word to be
sure to vote Mendoza, Padilla and
Ramirez April 17, for the Central
Union High School Board of
TrusteElS,
Also announced' at the last
meeting was the Chicana Conference to be held at Cal State
University, Sacramento, March
24. It ls an all-day workshop conference with a $1.00 registration
fee.
Arrangements are also being
made to have a speaker come to
Las Adelltas from the Family
Planning office. A definite date
has not yet been reached.
The next Adelitas meeting will
be Wednesday, March 24, in the
College Union, Room 304 from
noon to 1:00.
ALL CHICANAS WELCOME!
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FDR4 ACADEMY AWARDS
ICllEEJIPLAY
La Familia, Joe Bravo, Fabulols a music that was created by
sos Cuatro, Herencil;!, Ram, the
the Mexicans in Mexico, Puerto
Rico y Cuba_. We have publicized
it as Chicano music. Even groups
as Santana, Malo, and ElChicano
use these rhythms for their mu- .
sic.
We have never heard the rhythm of music that the younger ~u- sicians are putting out of their
·own imagination . Their music is
dying here in Fresno. We, as
students, must fight this cause
to help the younger Chicano writers to completely-' develop their
talents. Musicians of 15 to 30
years of age are writing music tq
alegrar our people. But we turn
· it around and throw it away. We
go to parties - rock records,
black music; which is all beauti- .
ful music but is not our music,
it is some elses.
The people who should start
this movement are fantastic
groups like Mestizo, Ray Camacho, The Statons, Monsanto
Fascinations, Beto Garcia and
many more. You would probably
have to listen to the music that
Rene Is talking about, most of
these groups are aware of it,
and they will not play this music
because you people will not dance
to or accept it, when you haven't
even tried it,
For more descriptive information buy records of Los Unicos,
Corona
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tition the comites' work will be ·
useless. We must·become aware
of what is happening to one of our
Raza.
We must rememberthatweare
all in a constant battle against
oppression and injustice. Also
rem em her that when a fellow Chicano is placed on trial we are
all on trial, for we have faced
oppression and injustice in one
form or another.
Juan Corona is now on trial.
He faces all these injustices
alone. But with a united "Raza•
behind him, and only with a united
"Raza", does he stand a chance
to get true justice.
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On Thursday, February 1, the more occurred before tl1e trial,
MECHA. organization on campus but needless to say, they did not
was visited by Senor Luis Or- stop there. The judge continually
tega , head of what has now be- charged the defense attorneywlth
come a movement to defend Juan contempt of court, crippling any
Corona, who is accused of killing attempt to present a vigorous
25 migrant workers in Yuba City. defense. Jury tampering, withholding evidence, all these and
Accompanying Senor Ortega was
many other injustices were used
Pedro Corona, Juan's brother.
· They were here to generafe pub- to bring about the unfair verdict.
lic and financial support on beIt would take several books to
half of a state-wide drive to de- identify all the injustices faced by
fend Juan Corona.
Juan Corona. Some of these are
Before their arrival the plight
hard to understand and it would
of Juari Corona was only another
take a legal mind to decipher
example of how our people are what has taken place.
tried, convicted and sentenced,
This leads us to the reason
before there is an actual formal
Pedro and Senor Ortega visited
trial. A trial which has become a
our campus and many other cam"mockery of justice." A justice
puses and communities. That is,
that only the rich can afford. This
to gain public support and the
injustice is becoming well known
funds needed to get a new trial.
to us. But those at the meeting
Also the funds needed to get lawwho saw the frustration and pain
yers to properly defend Juan
in Pedro Corona's face, were hit
against the prosecution which
with the cold harshness that is
cost taxpayers $500,000. Comaccompanied with reality. The
pare it to the amount spent by the
reality that is awakening our peodefense, $75,ooo;
ple. The reality of Juan Corona's
Immediately following their
plight can be explained in a more
talk, MECHA passed a unanimous
simple term .
resolution to back the Juan Co"Quierren ,chingar a otro•
rona Defense Fund in any way
Many of us believed that
possible, A comite was set up to
"lynching• was a word of the past.
steer the drive on campus.
We felt Chicanos can also have
The comite is planning to get
a fair trial. But Juan Corona is
hold of a television tape that will
being lynched. Not in the same
give a different perspective to
way that many of our people were
those who still believe there is
dragged out of jail and hanged
justice for Chicanos inAmerican
without the dignity of a fair trial.
courts. The co mite will also be in
(Not that it would have done any
charge of distributing literature
· good.) Juan is being lynched in a
about the trial. Along with this
different, more up~to-date way,
literature will be a petition, deequal to the subtle type of dismanding justice for Juan Corona.
crimination shown by the white
The petition charges his trial
world of today.
was wholly inconcistent with
Pedro and Senor Ortega Inbasic due process rights guaranformed us of all fhe injusJ!ces
teed by the constitution.
that led to the unfair conviction
Fresno Clty College has also
of Juan. These-injustices did not
set up a comlte to aid Juan Cobegin at the irial, but at the time
rona. Other comites have been
of arrest where he· was not
s()ringing up all over this area.
properly advised of his rights.
Support for Corona has been
Later, as evidence was being
growing rapidly in the Los gathered, the sheriff gave just
Angeles and San Francisco areas.
enough information to the press
There is now an attempt to unite
so that Juan could be convicted
all the comites in this area. By'
in the eyes of the public. Because
doing this 'we will have a more
of the vast means of communicaorganized
drive. March 19 has
tion available to the news media
it would be impossible to select been set as the date for the joint
comite meetings. Seferino Gonsomeone to the jury who did not
already have a fixed opinion. To . zales of Reedley, the first man to
make matters worse, the judge _invite the Corona family into the
Valley, is acting as a liaison
did not allow the ,trial to be asbetween the comites and Defense
signed to a city (San Francisco).
We all know, and it is a proven Fund headquarters in Yuba City.
The comites can only spearfact, that the chances for convichead the operation, the real suption of a Chicano in a farming
port lies with La Raza. Without
community is much greater than
funds and signatures on the pein the city.
These injustices and many
(Continued on page 4, Col. 3)
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California State University, Fresno
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1973
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Meany blasts Teamsters;
still su.pports Chavez
Recent accusations by exTeamster boss Jimmy Hoffa
against the unionizing attempts
by the United Farm Workers in
the Salinas lettuce fields, has
prompted AFL-CIO president
George Meany to publicly denounce the Teamsters.
There were reports that Meany
was attempting to back away
frOJJl the Cesar Chavez-led union.
But during a recent AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting, he assured its members thattheAFLCIO • still fully supports Chavez
in his efforts to -organize the nation's farmworkers."
Meany called the recent grower-Teamster pact "tanyi.mount
to strikebreaking" and added that
"the back door signing with th~
growers to destroy the farm
workers union is disgraceful.•
Meany pointed out that the
Teamsters and the UFW Union
had reached an agreement to
leave the organization of field
workers to the United Farm
Workers, but that si•.·,ce then, apparently yielding to the requests
from growers, the Teamsters
Union has signed contracts covering farmworkers who had no
voice in choosing their own bargaining representatives.
"The CaliforniaSupremeCourt
has characterized such contracts
as 'the ultimate form of favoritism, substituting the employer's
choice for the employeets desire'," said Jerry Cohen, the
Farm Workers Union's General
Counsel.
The farm workers' attorney
said that the state high court
ruled that injunctions issued by a
lower court to restrain picketing
by the farm workers were invalid. The court's 6-to-l decision
held that the State's Jurisdictional Strike Act could not b~
applied to disputes that developed
between the UFWU and the growers in the summer of 1970 which
involved contracts 'signed between the employers and the
Teamsters.
Specifically, the decision said
that employers cannot properly
invoke ,the state;s power to secure their own choice of a bargaining agent for their employees.
Chavez has called the growerTeamster contracts •sweetheart
pacts" and said that no one in
the fields has seen a copy of the
Teamster contracts.
Chavez said that the Teamsters
organizers do not deny that their
contracts are lacking any grievance procedure, protection
against pesticides or control over
mechanization and seniority list.
"Most important," Chavez said,
•is that the teamster contracts
leave out the hiring hall, leaving
the farm _worker back where he
started, at the mercy of the contractors."
Need for student involvement
Where should Chicano students pledge their a·llegiance?
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(Editor's note: This is the
second part ofa series examining
the politically passive Chicano
on campus whose visibility has
been practically nil, the implications of which are of great importance to the movement.)
By Juanita Saragoza
The term "psychological oppression" has become almost
commonplace, so that many people dismiss the concept as mere
rhetoric, or at ·best a radical rationalization for social change.
Thus, many students do not take
seriously the _ culturally corrosive aspects of American society
and its subtle distruction of the
Mexicano. Although the erosion
of Mexican culture in this country
is well-documented, its implications for political socialization
are less known. Clearly, no one
can be forced to analyze the validity of the Chicano Movement,
its goals and its activities. How·ever, there is a deeper problem,
and this is the student who has
been completely socialized away
from the movement. In many
cases, these students are victims
of the system and its ability to
manipulate opinion, to form
images, and to prejudice attitudes.
The mass media has, of course,
played a role in antagonizing
Chicanos to the movement by its
emphasis on the violent and militant aspects, while the violence
perpetrated by the corporations
of this country goes unreported
and unknown to most people. The
movement is painted as unreasonable and excessive. Schooled
in a system basically supplemental in nature to the economic
sphere, and conditioned by the
political attitudes of the AngloSaxon majority, the young Chi-
off to Chicano student groups as
cano student is forced to make a
derogatory of the Chicano student
choice: (1) join the ranks of those
.well, invisible - and silent. Poorganizations.
critical of the system who are
Their criticism justifies their
tentially, these students can be
•radicals," •militant,• "violent,"
political paralysis, which is often
of great service to the liberation
"emotional," "irrational," etc. ad
the result of their socialization
of Chicanos from their political, .
naseum; or (2) maintain one's
away from Chicano student oreconomic, and culturai oppresfaith in the Constitution, in the
ganizations as an alternative for
sion - or they can continue to be
system, and its ability tohelpthe
their political ideas. Thus, their
passive spectators to their own
poor and the disadvantaged. Ironnegative remarks about MECH,\,
destruction.
ically, because of the present
NCHO, Las Adelitas, Delta Alpha
However, lt seems that perhaps
Republican administration and Its
Chi, etc., are merely masks for
they
are reluctant, if not unwillcutbacks, the bankruptcy of the
their frustration and for their
ing accomplices, to a politic~!
second alternative is patently- · lack of alternatives.
tragedy 'in which the victims are
obvious to even the most naive
Such students exist In a twilight
their own worst enemy.
optimist. Unfortunately, to many
zone, caught between the exposed
Chicanos, the first alternative is
But how can we communicate
and naked corruption of this counalso unpalatable. The result is a
with these students if they are
try and a distorted vi!;!W of the
passive group of students, aware 1Movement; they are subject to
turned off in the first place to
to a certain clegree of the probthe ridicule of Chicano activists · Chicano student organizations?
lems of the Chicano, but paraas •vendidos" and the patronizing
How can we establish a dialogue
lyzed by their own fear and conattitudes of an absorbent but
with these disaffected students?
fusion toward the Chicano Movelethal system. Thus, these stuAnd what are the academic imment. Hence, they are on campus
plications of the politically-pasdents are alienated by the system
but non participants in Chicano
si ve Chicano? These questions
- as evidence by their non-paractivities, and though critical of ,ticipation in •other" student acwill be addressed in the next inthe system they are even more
tivities - but they are also turned
stallment of this series.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Wedne~day, March 14, 1973
Chicano
Yo soy Chicano
Whose black eagle soars
And wings lift to give spirit for victory,
And claws that reach out
To scratch in life for its people.
Yo soy Chicano
.
Whose cl inched fist symbolizes strength and brotherhood.
Whose handshake spices brotherhood and unification.
Whose soft brown eyes seek equality which has been taken, .
Whose language speaks for two.
I am the blood and image of my ancestry.
Mestizo, beautiful they are.
My fathers were the lords of creation,
Whose feathers and sombreros gave me culture
And dances that enlighten my being.
Yo soy Chicano
·
Whose honey brown skin-covers green valleys.
Valleys of lettuce, grapes and other foo?s of pleasure.
Whose knees are caked with mud and spinas.
And hands blistered with fever.
Yo soy -Chicano
Scorned by white men
Who say we are born with tacos in one fist,
A shovel in the other
And stand straight in proud Iines of welfare.
And that we are the black sheep of their Melting Pot.
Brown mice of their economical creation, they say.
Yo soy Chicano
Whose musica enlightens my heart.
Whose cumbias scratch floors at the:
San Antonio's fairgrounds,
Kearney Parks,
.
And Rainbow.Ballrooms throughout the United States.
Yo soy Chicano
Whose brown face speckles halls of institutions of learning.
Whose brown face works discrim inately in banks.
And told if we do not like working forJhe
Fat political coyote to go back to Mexico.
1,
Yo soy Chicano
Both wanted and unwanted.
Man in the m icldle, you might say.
Pocho there, pepper-gut here.
By Davici Morales
Yo soy Chicano
MAN!
Sowing seeds of strength and purpos~ for my people.
Giving life.and hope for children to follow.
I FEAR NO ONE! ••••••••••.••••••••• ~ut God'.
By Dan Soleno
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El Movimiento t o_d a y faces
many external societal factors
that hinder its progress. Though
much light has been given to the
external societal factors that hinder el progreso de el Movi miento,
little has been said of the internal factors which are a hindrance
to its progress. The internal
factors that impede the progress
of El Chicano are as real and as
devastating as those external factors we face. Perhaps they are
more detrimental than we care to
admit, for they are a deadly cancer within our people. We don't
talk about them and we sometimes
. refuse to recognize them-though
we are constantly aware of their
presence.
There are certain basic precepts that permeate our Chicano
philosophical outlook, which must
be modified. Being that these precepts were in their very origin
used as tools of suppression to
subjugate our people, I am referring to the precepts of our phi '--losophy whispered to us by our
"Jefitos" - El Hombre tiene que
our
philosophy
temer a .Dios, ser honrable, trabajador y humilde. Of course, the
exact wording varies for each of
us. For those who fail to recognize this as the cornerstone of our
philosophy. Think! and you will
see that the philosophy that was
bequeathed to you stems from
those precepts handed down by the
Spaniards to our people in the
Fifteen Hundreds. While I will not
question the ethical value of these
precepts, I will question their
practicality in our present society. El hombre Uene· que temer
a Dios! By instilling the fear of
God in our people the Spaniards
successfully took an intangjble
fear and produced the tangible
obedience of our people to their
values. While religion has its
place in our Ii ves the realities
of the material world must not be
overlooked. El hombre tiene que
ser honrable! While this precept
has value, it must be remembered
that the moral values of yesterday
are not those of today. El hombre
· tiene que ser trabajador. This
precept was interpreted as justifying or glorifying brute or manual labor. Obviously the meaning-
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is not adequate today, rather we
should interpret it to mean a
drive to produce a better Chicano,
Humilidad! CHALE!!l for humility implies condensation of our
acceptance of a lesser social
state. Not only must we modify
and reinterpret our philosophy,
but we must eliminate the petty
jealousy that divides us.
If one this has no place in El
Movimiento lt is the petty jealousy that prevails between individuals in our various communities. I recall seeing petty jealousy
among my people in childhood,
but what is sad is that it still
exists today; Jose bought a new
car• A hora se cree muy grande! •;
Or, Jose got a new government
job and they bought a new tract
home .•. Vendido! Not only are
the compadre y comadre jealous,
but now they have an emotionally·
charged word which they wield indiscriminately, El Vendido is
someone who denies his cultural
heritage and is suffering from a
deflated self-image.
I have seen Carnales y Carnalas attribute all their inadequacies to society • . . Rationalization. It is true that many of
our misfortunes are caused by
societal factors, but once recognized, can we not by our own effort attempt to eliminate them?
We must recognize the fact that
we are responsible for many of
our own inadequacies. If theChicano is to improve , "Le· tiene
que poner. • If he does not, he must
accept the blame for his own
shortcomings. If La Raza is to
progress, we must adopt aversatile, philosophical outlook. An
outlook in which we retain our
Rich C_ultural Heritage, yet deal
effectively with our present environment. We must remember
that if a Carnal makes it and we
don't, that doesn 't nP·essarily
make him a Vendido. If one Chicano makes it, he has accomplished what the Movimiento is
all about ; . . "El Progreso De
La Raza."
Inadequate interpretation of a
philosophy, jealousy and the rationalization of all our woes to
society will not advance La
C ausa. Rather, they will strangle
our people and tend to check the
real progress we are makin~.
Wednesday, March 14, 1973 THE DAILY COt..,.EGIAN
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Welfare Rights· Committee aids Chic.ano recip.ients
By Stan Santos
There is a committeeofvolunteer students working out of the
Welfare Department, offering its
servic'es to Chicano recipients to
assure that they receive the aid
they are entitled to, with efficient
courteous service. The _reason
this committee formed is to insure that cases similar to the
one cited do not occur, as they
have been occurring, again and
again.
A Spanish-speaking family has
been here in Fresno awaiting the
results of their application for
aid since October. During this
waiting period, they have been
exposed to much undue hardship.
The treatment they have received
has been unfair to the point of
being prejudicial in its nature.
This family has come to the
Welfare Department on about 20
different occasions. They have
had ,to come on foot, bu bus, or
whatever other transportation
was available, if any. Each time
they cave come, they have ended
up having to wait from · five to six
hours at a time. They have been
seen oy a dozen different department workers who were, in many
cases, completely unfamiliar
with their case. They have been
herded like cattle, from one office to another. They have had to
go through the whole application
process four times. This process
entails filling out a 19-pageapplication, along with various othec.
forms, all written in a language
which they cannot even speak, let
alone read or write. As a result
of general department inefficiency, and disregard for their
needs, they have been denied on
the first three applications. The
basis for these denials has been
"refusing to comp!.y with department requirements to supply information · needed to determine
their eligibility."
How could these people be expected to comply with these requirements, when they were
New Chicano education
advisory board is formed
As a result of the rejection by
Fresno Board of Education of a
proposed Chicano A d vi so r y
Board to assist with problems at
the city scht,ols, the Chicano
community has decided to form
such a board-whether sanctioned ·
or not-to work for a more meaningful education for Chicano children within the school system.
The board, which is composed
of three members each from
MAPA, MECHA, Associacion de
Padres, AMAE and El Concilio
has been meeting on a weekly basis. The advisory board is currently becoming familiar with the
whole range of problems confronting Chicano children. These
problems consist of a high dropout rate, E M R and s p e c i a l
classes, the tracking system,
separation of Chicano children
within integrated schools by
means of curriculum, reading
scores, absenteeism, disciplinary procedures and suspension
practices. The board is also interested in what happens to mono- lingual Spanish speaking children, and whose with limited English in the schools and in the
hiring practices of Fresno City
Schools.
One thing is to study the problems and another is to act upon
them. The board feels that it has
enough community support to
launch a concerted effort to ease
the situation that exists within
the school system in regard to
Chicano children. _ The board
plans to take action on these matters.
It will be necessary to hire legal council for what is ahead. With
that in mind the board is planning
a fund-raising dance in the near
future and will need the C'ooperation of all Chicanos.
EN LA UNIDAD EST A LA FUERZA!
language barrier. Through this
example, it is obvious that the
Welfare Department ls insensitive to the needs of the Mexican
community. Through the efforts
of the WelfareRightsGommlttee
this family received · us badl;
needed aid. However, through a
lack of ,volunteers, thecommutee·
is servicing the needs of the
Mexican community on a very
small scale.
The need ls evident for more
Chicano students to make a commitment to end this mistreatment
of their people. Our goal is to see
to it that our people no longer be
exposed to a long, tiring waiting
period, ending only in emptyhanded anger and despair.
If you would like to know more
about the committee, or how you
may assist, please come to San
'Ramon 5, room 121-122, Wednesday, March 14, between 3:00 p.m.
and 5:00 p.m. If you cannot come
at this time, the committee has
its weekly meeting at 4:00 p.m.
at 410 N. Yosemite at Franklin
St.
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Who is it? What's it for? Who
are we?
NCHO is an organization dedicated to overcoming the health
deficiences of La Raza.
It affects you as students directly by encouraging Chicanos to
consider the possibilities of becoming professionals and paraprofessionals.
Did you know that many professional schools are giving preferential consideration to minority
applicants? This could mean you!
Did you know that Harvard is
offering a Health Careers Summer Institute for minority students which allows you to learn
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CSUF, representing these variou";;
health fields have organized a
local chapter of NCHO . A major
part of our function is to keep
Chicanos infor med of these opportunities .
· If you are interested in any of
these health fields, attend an
NCHO meeting . They are held
each Thurs.day evening at 5:30
p.m . in the Collegiate Room
(cafeteria). For further information contact: La Raza Studies,
487-2848 and ask for Linda Hernande z, vice- chair man of NCHO .
never clearly explained to them
in a langu~ge they could understand? All correspondence which
was sent to this family was in •
English. Not once was a.billngual
department employee used to
communicate very clearly to
these people their rights and re! sponsibillties. The first, and only
' time they had communication with
I a Spanish-speaking employee, it
did not even concern their eligibility for aid.
The Welfare Rights Committee
had called for a Fair Hearing because of all the injustices they
were exposed to. A Spanishspeaking employee of the Welfare
Department asked them over the
phone to withdraw the request
for a Fair Hearing! This case is
typical of the treatment Spanishspeaking people can expect to receive from the Welfare Department, simply because of the fact
that they are Spanish-speaking. _
Incidents similar to this happen
to English-speaking welfare recipients, showing that the problem consists of more .than just a
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Wednesday, March 14, t973
Our music has -been ignor~d, says Calderas
· Rene Calderas, de Texas, has
toured the United States and part
of Mexico in different Ghicano
bands since the age of 14. He
feels t-liat Chicano music in California has been known as the
sounds of Santana, El Chicano,
Malo and Azteca, But then, the
mus.le that El Chicano and the
others play does not really have
a Chicano beat. · It ls more of a
ChiOBno, Puerto Riqtieno, or an
African beat. The language ls
not within the Chicano language.
We are getting too deep with the
Anglo and the Black culture.
The music that he · considers ,
Chicano music ls taken from the
music that my par~nts and your
parents liked at the times that
they w·ere papular. The only dif-.
ference to them now ls that they .
are livelier, more progressive, ·
and more instruments are being
used. They are experimenting
more with the 1-2-3 beat, which
ls the muslca Ranchera, and 1-2
bea!, which is the palka type.
These are some things that we,
as students, and as younger generation should be aware of.
The lack of com munlcatlon with
Chicano music in California is
that it is not being heard. It is
not the ·s tudents' fault that they
are not aware of the music. Itis
the radio stations, promoters and
TV land. Our radio stations do
not seem to understand music
that is played by our younger
generation. For instance, Little ·
Joe, who is now called •La Familia," Sunny and the Sunliners, .
and Freddie Martinez and many
other groups. The music ls so
beyond th~ promoters and the older people that they cannot relate
to it, they don •t understand. They
listen to it and set it aside because it has too much rock, it ·
ls too modern, and too jazzy.
They look at the cover I see the
long hair, and say that they are
hippies, so in turn, they do not
p~ay our music. And you sit
there and let all these things happen.
The Anglo stations will not play
our music because they do not
understand our language or our
style. - But then, they turn
around and play the typical "Dominique ni," and many other such
songs that they play, they are not
even in the English language. But
then, we as students, still g.et
turned on to it.
The promotion here in Fresno
is very bad. We tend to publicize
the rock group more than the Chicano bands. Take a look at the
Rainbow, how many Chicanos go to
the Rainbow on Sundays? Most of
them are Chicanos and most of ·
the music is rock. The bands
that are hired and that are suppased to be playing Chicano music, are playing music tropical.
La muslca tropical is not even
considered as Chicano music . It
Las Adelitas elects officers
Las Adelitas has begun the
spring semester with a team of
nevt officers . The new President
is Amelia Castro, Vice-Presi.dent Mary Zapata, Secretary
Gloria Acosta, Treasurer Dora
Jones, Historian Mary Vasquez,
Publicity Sylvia Lugo and Cathy
Sanchez.
The main business of the last
meeting was tl\e organizing of a
r ecruitment activity. The traditional Adelitas' Ni g ht was
EOP news
National Defense student Loans
will be available tomorrow
through Monday at 8 a.m., New
Administration Building, room
177.
EOP applications have been extended for students in the city of
F resno only. The new deadlinets
April 27. Packages can be picked
up at the EOP office, Room 238
of the New Administration Building.
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agreed on by all members. Ade-litas' Night has always proved to
be a successful way of bringing
all the new and old members together outside the classroom.
The date chosen for this night will
be March 16, 1973 at Rosie Gonzales! casa. Flyers with directions and other information will
be available at La Raza Studies.
All Chicanas are more than welcome to attend.
During the last meeting two
guest speakers, Mike Mendoza
and Randy Ramirez informed the
group of the campaign for Mendoza, Padilla and Ramirez for
Central Union High School. An
endorsement for these three Chicanos was given by the members
of Adelita5, Las Adelitas would
like to spread the word to be
sure to vote Mendoza, Padilla and
Ramirez April 17, for the Central
Union High School Board of
TrusteElS,
Also announced' at the last
meeting was the Chicana Conference to be held at Cal State
University, Sacramento, March
24. It ls an all-day workshop conference with a $1.00 registration
fee.
Arrangements are also being
made to have a speaker come to
Las Adelltas from the Family
Planning office. A definite date
has not yet been reached.
The next Adelitas meeting will
be Wednesday, March 24, in the
College Union, Room 304 from
noon to 1:00.
ALL CHICANAS WELCOME!
--BEST ~
IIOMIUTED
FDR4 ACADEMY AWARDS
ICllEEJIPLAY
La Familia, Joe Bravo, Fabulols a music that was created by
sos Cuatro, Herencil;!, Ram, the
the Mexicans in Mexico, Puerto
Rico y Cuba_. We have publicized
it as Chicano music. Even groups
as Santana, Malo, and ElChicano
use these rhythms for their mu- .
sic.
We have never heard the rhythm of music that the younger ~u- sicians are putting out of their
·own imagination . Their music is
dying here in Fresno. We, as
students, must fight this cause
to help the younger Chicano writers to completely-' develop their
talents. Musicians of 15 to 30
years of age are writing music tq
alegrar our people. But we turn
· it around and throw it away. We
go to parties - rock records,
black music; which is all beauti- .
ful music but is not our music,
it is some elses.
The people who should start
this movement are fantastic
groups like Mestizo, Ray Camacho, The Statons, Monsanto
Fascinations, Beto Garcia and
many more. You would probably
have to listen to the music that
Rene Is talking about, most of
these groups are aware of it,
and they will not play this music
because you people will not dance
to or accept it, when you haven't
even tried it,
For more descriptive information buy records of Los Unicos,
Corona
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tition the comites' work will be ·
useless. We must·become aware
of what is happening to one of our
Raza.
We must rememberthatweare
all in a constant battle against
oppression and injustice. Also
rem em her that when a fellow Chicano is placed on trial we are
all on trial, for we have faced
oppression and injustice in one
form or another.
Juan Corona is now on trial.
He faces all these injustices
alone. But with a united "Raza•
behind him, and only with a united
"Raza", does he stand a chance
to get true justice.
!!!Justicia Para Juan Corona!!!
- Donations may be mailed to:
Juan Corona Defense Fund
730 Bridge Street
Yuba City; California 95991
-;Ismael Hernandez
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