La Voz de Aztlan, May 9 1975
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La Voz de Aztlan, May 9 1975
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Friday, May i, '1975
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LXXIX/132
A special
edition of
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California State University, Fresno
Baxter refuses to nullify Semana de ICI Raza'
elections this year
week called successful
CSUF President Norman Baxter Wednesday refused to overrule Dean of Student Affairs David
Bell and nullify student body elections held two weeks ago.
Several members of the Cruz
Bustamante slate, which had lost
most student government positions in that election, had met
with Baxter for several hours
before the decision.
Members of the slate, includ-
Third Worl·d
•
communique
(Editor's Note: Third World
students are distributing this
leaflet to make all students,
faculty, and community people
aware of the discrimination and
oppression that are being practiced on Chicanos, Asians and
other Third World People.)
1. Since the inception of La
Raza Studies in 1969, the CSUF
administration has set a pattern
of constant turnover of faculty
in the program. The university
has never committed itself to a
program that has the capacity for
growth, stability and more important, degree giving status. In
1975, after six years of preparation, La Raza Studies acquired
all the requirements for departmentalization. The administration then inserted an additional
requirement that makes departme~talization for La Raza Studies
virtually impossible for almost
five yeears. Once again, the Chicano community is denied relevant education parity and stability. Therefore, Chicano students,
faculty and community are beginning a campaign to garner departmental status for La Raza
Studies.
2. Asian American students
are also not being given an op(Continued on Page 4, Col. 1)
ing Bustamante, cited eight election irregularities they said were
grounds for nullification.
. Members of the slate who met
with Baxter included Bestamante,
who was defeated for his bid to
gain the presidency; Shane Abbas
Panjvani, who had run for legislarive vice-president; Anna Noriega, who had sought the College
Union Vice-President post; and
Tom Yin, who had run for senator-at- large, Post 3.
Baxter's position in not allowing results to be overturned was
that he would not rule against
Dean Bell and the elections com. mittee sanctioning the results.
"My role in this is to see that
the machinery functions," said
Baxter. "I'm not going to make
their (Dean Bell's and the election
committee's) decisions for them.
My role is to make sure the committee and the Dean were there
and heard the protests." ·
The students argued against
Baxter's decision, and said the
process did not work as it should
have.
The eight grievances listed by
the Bustamante ticket included:
1. That there was unauthorized
personnel at the voting booths.
· 2. That The Daily Collegian
listed write-in candidates from
the Price ticket without listing
those from the Bustamante slate.
3. That there were no indications that the voting booths were
open for an hour and 40 minutes,
even though the booths were open.
4. That requirements to vote
were sometimes different at different voting booths. This included requirements that potential voters be listed on comput~r ,
print-outs at some stations, but
not at others.
5. That there were 30 unaccounted-for ballots, and that last
year one main reason for throwing the election out was that there
were six unaccounted-for ballots.
7. That the election eommittee
made at ·~ast one ruling that
would have been difficult for all
candidates to know about after the
Semana de la Raza '75 ended
Monday with a performqnce appropriately titled• El fin del Mundo" (the end of the world).
After a five day program involving both students and the
community, the original Teatro
Campesino performed their latest production before a capacity
Pl NA TA
election voting had already begun.
This involved, said Bustamante, a
ruling that election campaign literature could not be handed out in
buildings.
8. That the deadline for filing
election protests varied.
Throughout the session between
the students and Baxter, Bustamante attempted to point out to
the university president what he
c row d in the C allege Union
Lounge.
The weekend was completely
devoted to the community with
the CSUF Machistas extending
the festivities Saturday to Kearny
Park for a Tardeada. A pinata
was busted by the children. A
dance and dinner were also held.
Monday began with the loud
TIME
' called inconsistencies between
administrative rulings this year
and those of last year.
While Bustamante said the
rulings were inconsistent, and
that they should be consistent,
Baxter said that it-was not valid
to compare the election of last
year with that of this year.
Much of the debate between the
. (Continued on Page 4, Col. 1) ·
Villareal · speaks on Chicano Literature
By Angie Rios
A lot of what has been considered Chicano Literature is nothing more than political writing,
according to Jose Antonio Villareal, considered by some to be
the father of Chicano Literature.
The silver-haired Villareal
was one of the keynote speakers
during Semana De La Raza. He
is the author of •pocho," the
first novel (written in 1959)dealing with Chicanos, and another
recent publication, •The Fifth
Horseman."
Villareal's topic was •Chicano
Literature, Where It Was and
What It Will Be." He said that
. in the past there has been some
validity in letting the literature
get away from the content because
it was necessary for a form of
expression and for political reasons. Chicano Literature was
anything that was political and
dealt with the socio-economic
aspects of the Chicano, he said.
•This was necessary in order
to te; ··h the young about their
background, Mexico, and to have
pride in it," he said. •we have
though it sometimes led to mediocre publications.
•we find that this is now changing, " said Villareal. •Now we
have students in universities that
are receiving an education in literature. Thus, they will be able
to provide us with that type of
literature which is relevant to
us as Chicanos, and yet has the
universal appeal of true literature."
JOSE ANTONIO VIL LARE AL
to also teach them not to feel inferior."
Villareal felt that in 1968 and
1972 anything with a Spanish surname •could do no wrong." •A
writers point, which was valid
at the time, was to go out to receive the feedback that was seen
by the people," he said. This
often ended up as policital rhetoric at this time. It too was
necessary in presenting brutal
messages from the poets, al-
Villareal, currently a lecturer
at the University of California
at Santa Clara, said he took exception with oneChicanoeducator
who said, "Mana es Hoy." Villareal said, «J believe we are on
the threshold of achieving great
literature. We have made strides
recently towards that, and I know
we are going forward.•
The quick - to - smile author
would occasionally reminisce
with the audience about his own
generation. Near the end of his
talk, he read a poem about his
Mamacity which nearly brought
him to tears, and the audience
with him.
He said the poem was dedicated
to the cookout, which is now considered a leisure-time pursuit
but when he was a boy a cookout
was an everyday occurence, •not
because we wanted to, but because
we had to," he said.
Villareal said he only writes
when he feels like it because that
is the only way to treat an art.
The gentlemanly author optimistically predicted the future
would probably p r o du c e the
•Great American Novel," which
he said he hoped would be him ·
who would write it.
peal of laughter and the sound of
tiny feet stomping out Mexican
fold dances. Mini - Danzantes
from several Fresno area elementary schools performed what
they had learned of their culture
on the dance floor.
Frantic teachers and parent
escorts hurried t.o avert pandemonium, but everything eventually seemed to turn-out alright.
Questioned whether getting a
class of second-graders ready
for a performance was much
trouble, a harried-looking teacher looked up from slipping a costume off a pig-tailed little girl
and surprisingly smiled and said,
*Oh, it's a lot of fun. I wish we
could do it all the time."
Jose Torres, chairman for Semana '75, said the number of
children attending the celebrations for the first days was well
over 1,000.
"It's been a very successful
week," said Torres. "In fact
it's been one of the most successful functions ever."
Torres gave much of the credit
for the success to the committee
which worked with him.
During the afternoon on Monday, Hose Antonio Villareal, the
author of "Pacho," spoke on "Chicano Literature," he was followed
by Elizar Risco, the first chairman of La Raza Studies atCSUF,
currently an editor of a Los Aneles newspaper, "La Raza."
The evening began with CSUF
Comparsa, a group which performs music and songs of Mexico. They performed several popular songs. The group of 17
singers and 8 musicians is directed by Manuel Pena.
Toshta, an Indian from the Rincon Reservation located in Pauma
Valley, Calif., returned on what
Torres said was •popular demand."
At times the colorful Toshta
seemed to be espousing a philosophy somewhere between Tonto
and Euel Gibbons.
"What I eat and what I drink
will affect the future. As we see
the people of the past, the indigenous, their prophecies are
coming true."
He also had a
tom-tom which he beat in the
dark.
The final acto which closed the
Cinco de Mayo week was a play
be Teatro Campesino titled "El
fin Del Mundo."
The play dealt with a surrealistic world near the brink of
doom because of the inability of
the races to communicate effectively.
The performance was enthusiastically received and applauded
as the lively troupe of six actors
were able to get their message
through.
Fund raiser -dance scheduled
A fund-raiser dance for La
Raza Unida Party will be held
Saturday, May 17, featuring music
by Azteca and the Head Hunters, ·
at the J~nior Exhibit Hall of the
Fresno County Fairgrounds.
Al Lopez, coordinator for the
event, said the money raised will
be to benefit various community
service organizations, such as
Operacton Navidad, a toy drive
for needy families during Christ-
mas.
Other org~izations that will
benefit from the dance will include El Colegio de La Tierra
de Aztlan, Telemex, Barrio Art
Studios, and other communltyy,ride organizations.
The funds will also help with.
the campaign costs of the party's
school board candidate in the last
elections, Jess Rodriguez, said
Lopez.
2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
COMMENTARY
Friday, May 9, 1975
Student court
uniustly rules
•
The Teamsters 1n
their 'blackest hour'
on elections
Selected to head Teamster
By Alfredo de la Fe
farm worker efforts in Coachella,
The events that took place in
Delano and Fresno was organizer
the farm labor struggle in 1973
Cono
Macias. During the UFW
will never be forgotten by farm
grape strike in Delano in the early
workers and people who study
'60s, Macias was a member and
1 ab or organizing. In '73, the
one-time director of rig~t-toTeamsters Union moved into the
work group called the Agriculture
fields and conducted a mass raid
Workers Freedom to Work Assoon contracts that the United Farm
ciation. The AWFWA was sponWorkers had gained through ten
sored by Delano area growers
years of hard struggle. By the
and agribusiness-related busiend of '73.)- two United Farm
nesses. It sponsored anti-Chavez
Workers members were dead and
rallies and even used growers'
the Teamsters had taken 90 contracts once held by the UFW in • pickup trucks.
An anti'-union man, considered
one of the greatest examples of
to be a long-time growers' man,
employer-union collusion of all
all of a sudden was the spokestime. It will go down as one of
man for a farm workers union.
the blackest hours in the history
Teamster officials admit that
of labor organizing.
one
reason they moved into the
The Teamsters' move into the
fields was he cause if Chavez ever
field was well-planned. About
led successful strikes of field
50 organizers were hired at$200
workers it would put off work for
a. week. When growers refused to
Teamster members in the sheds,
renew contracts with the UFW,
canneries and trucking. There
these •organizers" gathered peare also indications that the
titions which showed that workers
Teamsters are scared that if
wanted Teamster representation.
Chavez gained a foothold in the
There is no machinery for free
fields, the United Farm Workers
elections for farm workers so
would go after shed and cannery
Teamster organizers were free
· to forge signatures on petitions ·contracts. Many of the workers in
the sheds and canneries are Chi- and authorization cards. Meancanos and in one instarwe in Cryswhile growers, playing their role
tal City, Texas, Chicano workers
in the masquerade, told the press
voted the Teamsters out and the
that their workers rejected the
UFW in. Be c:ause of the TeamUFW and wanted Teamster conster record of discrimination
tracts.
against Chicanos it is likely that
It is indeed absurd that the
other farm workers, not just field ·
Teamsters claim to be some new
hands, would reject the Teamkind of savior of farm workers,
sters and go over to thf! United
most of whom are Chicanos. The
Farm Workers.
Teamsters Union is a white
GrowP.rs and Teamsters. claim
middle class union with a lon~
that the United Farm Workers
history of oppres~ing and selling
didn't do lhf' things it ·promised
out the rights of minority workand that's - why worke rs wanted
ers. Recently the Justice DeTeamsh•r coutra<'ts. Chavez adpartment threatened the Tea m111its the uni on lllade som P rni s sters and trucking companies
take s hut it was only part or the
with a lawsuit charging discri migrowing proc'E':'iS of a youngunion
nation against Cllkanos and
which had the guts to start fightBlacks in trucking johs. There is
ing for fa rm work <> rs.
another suit pending charging the
Soon
aftPr the Tt•a111stt>rs
union with discriminating ag-ain~t
started pointing at tlw mistakt-s
Chicano workers in California's
of th(> UI•'W, theTl'amstPrs themcanneries. During the blue-collar
St>lVl-'S, the ri<"hest, tllost powt-rworkers' strike in 1-·resno in July
fnl union in tht> country, startt>d
1974, Teamster organized waste
havini:; prohle111s. Within a Yt'ar
disposal companies made overafter tlw Tt>a111stt>rs took ovt•r
hires to the City of Fresno to take
c·ontrads, it was brought out that
over garbage collection. Ir the
although tht> union was suppost•d
offers had heen accepted, strikto hP rt>pt'l'Sl'llting !i0,000 working garhagemen would have been
ers, tlH'Y a<"t11ally had I 'i,000
fired and Teamster crt>ws brought
work!:'rs sig1H•d.
out. Chicanos make up half of
HP<·ans(• or poor ad111i11ist rathe garhagem<-m in the City of
tion. farm workt•rs undt>r Tea111Fresno and Rla<"ks 20 per cent.
_stt>r l'ontrads wt>rt> 1 o s i 11 ~
Within the ranks of tlw Tea 111 lwnefits l>t>!'~lltSt' tlwi r workingsters farm workers organiwrs.
n•<"ords wt>n• not kt>pt properly
there was evidence of tlw <·olluas they movt>d around tht• statt'.
si ve agreement between th!:' union
In addition, tht-> Teamstt>r ('(inand growers.
-
,,,_
(Editor's Note: The above cartoon appeared on the April cover of the
Guild Journal, a monthly newsletter of the Sacramento Newspaper
Writers' Guild. It is a rough drawing submitted by a staff cartoonist
to the Sacramento Bee hut not used.)
tracts allowed growers to use
farm labor contractors who traditionally have exploited local
workers and supplied illegal
workers to also he exploited.
Last fall, the situa tion cam e to
a head . Cono Ma c ias and ahout
30 other organize rs we re fir e d in
a major house cleaning. Teamster officials say it wa s an "econ-
Student elections
By Anna Noriega
Asso<"iate d Student Body ele.ctions are an example of discrimination on this campus .
In Hl74, a minority slate won
most ol' the Se nate posts and the
pr1:>sidencr. A series of vague
prot(•sts · wer1:> lodgecl, including
011P which <'it(>d six ballots more
than thPrl:' wPre signatures. As
a r(>sUlt the 1974 e!Pdion was invalidated h~· tlw CSUF administration.
Tlw t>lP<'tion was rerun. at
which timt> th!:' opposing <'Ull<iidah•s pla~·t>d up 011 tht• anti-minority ft•Plirigs hPl<f 1,y a ra<'ist
faction at CSUF and m:rnagt•d to
ganwr 1:>nough support to takP tht-el1:><'tio11 which had het>n rig·ht)y
T & M PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
HELEN REDDY
May 26th
~
8:00 PM
SELLAND ARENA
'9.50,
omy move,·• however, sources
within tne T e amsters admitted
that Macia s and others hadn't
heen servicing contracts. As a
result the re was worker disenchantment , the loss of dues, ana
bad publicity whi ch apparently
was hurting Tea ms ter organizing
efforts .
(Continued on Page 4 , Col. 3)
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Tickets on Sale at Convention Center
Box Office ond AH 1..,aar Outlet,
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won hy the minoritr sla te in the
original election.
In 197:i. an all-anglo slatP won
most of thP s e natP posts and the
presidenc~·. Ag a i n student s
lodged a serie s of s e emingly valid protests, inclucling onP which
cited thirt~· ballots morti than
tht're werl:' signatures . This time
the CSUF administration rPfUSPd
to invalidatP the t>leC'tion.
Tht>~· tril-'d tu Pxplain thf' thirty ballot~ h~· claiming that out-!
pagt> of signatures C"ould have>
hPell 111ispl:H'Pd.
How eonveni1:>11t .
As a rPSlllt of th!:'SP f-11:'ctions
Third World ,·anclidat~s now ht>ld
thn•t> SPIW.tt-- position~ and onP
colleg-<' union hoard position .
Tlwn• was also thP chanct-> of
ohtai11i11g two nHH'I:' st-nate positions and onP c·olh>gf' union hoard
position in tht> tltr(>P ra<•f-s which
wt>n• going to hi:' rl-'nm in tlH? fall.
,\ddin~!: i 11sult to injury, on!:' of
tlw vi<'tors appPalPd 01w of the
dt>cisiol1s t concerning t>xpem,tst:ltPnwntsl rnadl-' by thi> PlPctiun
C'Olll llli ttPt' to student C'0ll rt.
Student court o\·e1-rult?d tl11-•
t>l!:'c·tion c·o111mittt>e and c1isquali-
.
ELCO
Kennel Bookstor;
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
8
a.m. - 7 p.m.
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
9 a.m. - 1 :30 p.m.
C.U. Coffee Shop
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
7 a,m, - 9 p,m.
7 a.m. - 5 p,m.
9 a.m .• 4 p.m.
(Continu ed on Page 4, Col. 4)
example of discrimination
VINTAGE DAYS' GUESTS,
By Simon Chale
The Student Court had a secret
meeting at 8:30 Thursd-ay morning. The only· people there were
supp9rters of the "Price Ticket,"
At this unannounced meeting, Student Court was reviewing decisions made by the ElectionCommittee. Dave Davenport filed a
protest to thP "Price Stacked"
court hearing concerning a decision in expense statements.
The meeting was held under the
supervision of the Student Affairs
Office for the reason and the result of disqualifying all candidates
opposed to the •Price Ticket."
It seems rather funny that there
was no notice given to members
of the opposing side, to tell them
what the court intended to discuss. Neither were the members
of the Election Committee informed about the meeting, overriding com m itte e decisions.
From wha t is gathered, the chairperson, Penny Doyle, took it upon
herself to act as spokesman for
the Election Committee, even
when she had no vote in anv of
the decisions. (Can you see what·s
happening? )
Student Court ac ted in deceit
because the · administration is
getting pressure from students
to invalidate this year·s election.
Ten in consistencies occurred
this year during the elections.
These we r e more than enough to
invalidate the entire election. Yet
they don·t se em to meet administr ation requireme nts. They aren't being consi s te nt :
E!
fit>d a ll of the T hird World candidates on a 2 - l vote . Which in
effe ct me an t th at the Price ticket
won all e xecntive ,se nate andcollege union boa rel po s itions by detault.
Once 'again Third World people
are without a voic e in student
government. Anoth Pr a lternative
to havP their voic f' S heard must
nov: be found.
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L ..\ \"OZ DE . .\ZTL..\~
Editor . . . . . . . . . . Larry Romero
Photographer .. . . . . . . Larry Leon
Reporters . . . . . . . Ernes t o Morenc,.
Anna Noriega . A n gie Rios,
Gra ce Solis ,
Friday, May 9, 1975
THE DAILY COLLF' ,AN-3
News from the UFW's Fresno Boycott Office
BY Grace Solis
The Fresno Boycott Office
would like to take this opportunity
to inform the public that our office is now open and located at
841 W. Belmont ( corner of Pacific
p.Ad Belmont, across from Roed/ing Park). The office is usually
open from 8 a. m. on into the ev!-
ning. To be sure, call 266-1391
before coming over.
We are in the process of stocking the office, but are still short
of many supplies. If you know of
any office supplies that might be
donated to us, please let us know
or bring them down yourself.
Although opened officially only
two and a half weeks ago, the
L~TTER TO T·HE EDITOR
Asian-American Studies'
director search questioned
office has already cleared 44
stores of SCAB , GALLO WINES.
The greater majority of these
stores are located in West Fresno. our thanks to the Black
Brothers and Sisters who support
us in the neighborhood.
Support was also received from
Brother Les Kimber, publisher
of the California Advocate, w_ho
printed a full page endorsement
for the United Farm Workers.
Thanks a million!
Democratic Assemblymen
Richard Alatorre and Art Torres
were at the Fresno Boycott Office April 23 to discuss AB-1,
the farm labor bill endorsed by
the UFW. Over 250 farmworkers .
were there to let the legislators
know how they feel about the bill.
Alatorre and Torres, the first
VFW member to be elected to the
California State Legislature, received loud applause as they detailed their plans to hel°p the
campesino struggle.
A caravan of UFW supporters
was to have traveled to Sacramento on May 5 to attend the
hearings on AB-1, but after the
current negotiations and compromises the trip is questionable.
Anyone wishing further information should contact the Boycott
Office at 266-1391 or La Raza
Studies at 487-2848.
Editor:
"Confidentiality" was the Dean
of the School of Social Science
The deadline for all applications for the position of the new / and the President's response.
Asian-American studies coordi- · CONFIDENTIALITY?? Are the
students that unscrupulous? Why .
natc,r has passed.
then, even allow these "confidenThe selection committee is
tial files" to leave the campus
currently reviewing the applicafor the convenience of the dean
tions submitted. Yet, tnere is only
to browse through at his leisure?
one non-voting student member
Wasn't he also concerned about
on this selection committee. The
the •innocent bystander" losing
remaining me mbers are instruchis "virginity" at the sight of
tors out of the Asian-American
those "confidential files." (My,
studies discipline and one nonthe Nixon tapes should have been
voting community representative.
so protected.)
This is understandable .- considNo, this explanation is dubious'.
ering that there is presently only
How can he permit only one stuone Asian-American studies indent to view these "confidential
structor and he is among the apOur thanks also to the Fresno
files" and yet maintain his poplicants . It would be slightly un. Unitarian Church who recently
sition of confidentiality by perfair to include him as a member
sponsored the showing of "Wny
mitting these files to leave his
of this committee. (He may vote
We Boycot t" and "Si Se Puede,"
office, let alone the campus?
. against himself.~
two VFW made films helping la
All we request is t.hat the stucausa. On Sunday, May 18, "Why
The situation is that there
dents he given an opportunity to
We
Boycott'' will he shown on
aren't any othe r Asian-American
vindicate their "low morals ." The
Channel 24 . The film will be
Studies instructors, whose instudents• a re the ones who are ulbroadcast as part of "La Comusights would be invaluable as to
timately affected by the comnidad del Valle," a weekly show
the intangible aspects required
mittee's decision. Morally. the
sponsored by TACOMA (Teleof the new .coordinator, to fill this
students should have an equal
vision Advisory Committee of
void ,
voice on the course that their
M-exi'"can-Americans).
program will chart. Education is
The question that now arises is
travelled along a two-way street.
"Why can't more student repreThe development of a curriousentation be admitted onto theselum should neither rest solely on
lection committee: ·· In lieu of this
the faculty nor the students, but
missing dimension, shouldn't the
in conjunction with each other's
students be consulted: "Tokenperspective of education.
ism'' does not constitute viable
consultation.
Beurp Junior
C·h ihuahua Tortilleria named
best small . business in area
BY Ernesto ~Ioreno
The Chihuahua Restaurant and
Tamale Factory opened its doors
for husiness on August 4. 1948
at 719 "G" St. in Fresno, California.
·
Twenty-seven years later, the
business now known as the Chihuahua Tortilleria is being recognized for being the hest small
husi111:1ss in the western region of
the United States and in the
San Joaquin Valley.
The business has been awarded
the National Economic Developmi.>nt Association award, the·
Small Business Administration
award for the San Joaquin Valley
and
thP
MexicaQ-American
Chamber of Commerce Award, ·
which is statewide.
Ttw business was founded by
Fidencio Victor Villegas and his .
parents. Jose Francisco and
Hilaria Villegas in August, 1948.
The founders of the business
are considered . by many to be
the pioneers in the retailing and
wholesaling of tortillas in the
San Joaquin Valley.
The business sprung from a
small restaurant and tamale factory on the old "GM Street location
into the modern plant and distribution center at 718 "F" St.
In speaking with Fidel Villegas
about ·the business that he says
belongs to his family, which includes his brother Jose Francis~;') Vijlegas, his wife Corina
and nis sister-in-law Elaine, the
years of de ter mination and dedi-
cation were evident as the man
spoke with pride.
Speaking with any member of
the Villegas family, one can sense
the respe t and admiration they
all hold for the man who sacrificed many years of his early life
to · make the business what it is
today. ·
Francisco, or ~iko as he is
better known among his family
aµd friends, recalled when his
older brother first tried to sell
the tortil · a as a product to a grocery store.
The owner of the store, said
Kiko, threw the product in Fidel's
face stating, "I don't want any
Mexican produc.ts or any Mexican
people in my store."
Although Fidel encountered
these harriers and obstacles, he
was determined in making this
business venture a success.
In response to this, Fidel said,
although he has encountered people such as the store owner men tioned above, he also has met
people who were willing to give
him th~ opportunity to sell his
produc~
·
He said, "I appreciate any and
all people for treating me with
respect and for allowing me to
accomplish the goal of making the
tortilla business a success.
"I feel good about the awards
given us as a company, I plan to
continue the business in the same
manner . . . I don't plan to quit.
Hopefully the awards will ·give us
more enthusiasm to continue i m proving our business."
Anyone interested in helping
coor-dinate a fund raising dance
for the Boycott Office may call
266-1391 or 48-7 -2848 and ask for
Grace Solis.
If you are interested in arrang-
ing for a UFW representative to
speak to your group or class,
please let the Boycott Office
know. We have some good speakers available. No fee, but donations are also welcome.
WOULD _YOU Ll'KE TO HE.LP?
_ _ I would like to pledge $ _
all the SCAB GALLO WINE).
$5-, $10--;$20 - for the next six months beginning with the month of
NAME _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
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__ I would liketohelporganize
fundraisers.
PHONE _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
_ _ I would like to help collect
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Please fiil out and return to:
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841 W. Belmont
Fresno, CA 93705
__ I can refer names of organizations who are willing to
help.
Phone: (209) 266-1391
_ _ I canhelpcollectofficesupplies.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS
SUMMER THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HELPING WIN
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_ _ I can help full-time in the
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__ I can help picket.
__ I can help in this way
The Boycott Office is in desperate need of office supplies,
~specially scotch tape, poster
hoards, tables, Roolidex cards,
a bulletin board,. cardboard for
signs, poster paint, brushes,
staples, file cabinets, felt pens,
thumh tacks, stencils, dittomasters, duplicating fluid, photocopy
paper (for speedo printer), dictionaries, calendars, city maps
and a garbage can with a lid (for
The UFW needs. single people
who don't have heavy financial
obligations to work on the Los
Angeles Boycott..
Full-time staff members are
paid room and board plus five
dollars a week. The key months
will be from June to September.
Our goal is to maintain the
stores we have already cleaned
of SCAB GAL,,LO WINE, as well
as make sure that non-union
grapes aren't sold in Los Angeles.
For more information contact:
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Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 381-1136
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Friday, May 9, 1975
Grievance
(Continued from Page 1)
portunlty to have a voice in their
education. A faculty position in
Asian American Studies is being
selected by a committeeoffaculty from other disciplines, with
little knowledge of the program.
Only one student is involved in
the selection process. Is this
university interested in student
needs or are they more concerned
with maintaining their puppet-like
bureaucracy? This is not the first
attempt to thwart students' educational process, nor the last.
Let's stop it now.
3. The Department of Education is critical to liberation of all
Third World People. CSUF is no
exception, since it is the only
major university for almost 100
miles north or south. The CSUF
School of Education has only one
minority faculty member. There
is a total of 50 faculty em ployed
by the School. The curriculum is
not sensitive to various ethnic
groups' cultural differences and
historical contributions. CHE
(Chicanos in Higher Education),
a committee of M.E.C.H.A., has
been trying to obtain the following information:
1) Statistical data on the num ber of Chicanos admitted and
credentialed by the School of
Education.
2) Statistical data on the number of Chicano instructors in
the School
3) The availability of curriculum on the Chicano child
There have been repeated efforts to obtain this information
from Dean Evans, President Baxter and Vice-President Swanson.
None of the requests have been
answered.
4. Affirmative Action is a policy developed by the federal government to insure that parity
takes place in employment for
minorities. At CSUF, the only
parity that is reflected with regard to Third World People is
their representation among custodians, landscapers, and other
maintenance employees. Currently of the 1,019 faculty employed at CSU F, only 36 are
Chicano (16 of these are parttime). All but two of the 36 are
at the lowest classification of
faculty employment. This is in the
CSUF service area comprised of
over 30 per cent Chicanos, or
104,000 residents in Fresno
County.
In the 50 departmentsatCSUF,
only two administrators are minority members and .only nine
departments have any Chicano
faculty. At the rate that the CSUF
administration is complying with
affirmative action plans it will he
2050 hefore any Third World im-,
pact can he realized at CSU F.
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(Continued from Page 2)
As an example~ officials with
a Sanger food processing plant
passed out copies of a Fresno Bee
article pointing to the faults of
the Teamster farm worker project to workers before an election. The Teamsters lost the
election.
ousted o r g a n i z e r Macias
charged that Teamster officials
were planning to dilute the power
of the farm worker locals by putting ,them under other Teamster
locals. That happened a few
mo_nths later.
The Teamsters have been
known tQ be a disruptive force
on the side of the growers whenever efforts were made to organize field hands. In a recent
bribery trial of two Salinas grow!'i. ASB elections are another
ers, witnesses told how a Teamexample of discrimination. In
ster organizer brought in Team1974 a minority slate won most - sters from out of town to disrupt
of the Senate posts and the presiUFW organizing efforts. In redency. A series of vague protests
turn, the Teamsters official made
were lodged, including one citing
demands on growers for "exsix ballots that were unaccounted
penses."
for. The protests were declared
Soon after the UFW moved
valid and the election was invaliinto the Salinas Valley, following
dated. [n 197!'i, a minority slate
the signing of the grape contracts,
narrowly lost most of the posts.
growers in Salinas Valley anA series of valid protests, includnounced that they- had signed a
ing 30 ballots unaccounted for
contract with the Teamsters covwere then filed. The protests
ering field hands. A judge later
were clenied and the election reruled that the contracts had been
sults were certified hy Dean Bell.
signed without any consent from
Once again, discrimination is
the workers.
practiced on minority students.
When the Teamsters made
their decision to move into the
These and other discri minafields, Teamster boss Frank
tory practices continue to occur
Fitzsimmons made the announceevery day. Don't think it can't
ment at, of all places, the
happen to you!! Student rights
American Farm Bureau Convenare constantly violated hy this
tion in Los Angeles in 1972.
The Farm Bureau Ls known as
an anti-labor group, and Fitzsimmons became the first labor
official to address the Bureau.
It would take a book to show all
election should he nulli ficd.
Baxter · said several elec-tions
the evidence of the collusion between growers and Teamsters,
would he run again he rausf' it
seem1:1d as though the 30 unhath middle-class t,.nglo conservative groups, known for opaccountect for hallots would make
pressing Chicanos. But more and
a difference in those rac-es.
Bustamante said this was not
more, people are seeing that the
United Farm Workers have been
enough concession, anct said he
the only group that has fought for
felt the university should follow
the interf'St of farm workers on
the same logic this year as he
felt it had last year.
hoth the state and national level.
"Then it is all or nothing?.,
As Cf'sar Chavez put it, "We
asked Baxter.
shook thP. tree and the Teamsters
"Right," said Bustamante.
pickPd up the fruit."
"Are you asking me to overIt is time for all Chicanos and
any person who calls himself a
turn the dean?" Baxter continued.
"Yes," replied Bustamante.
good union- man to denounce the
•My decision is not to overcorrupt Teamster move into the
rule," said Baxter.
fields. Some Teamster officials
Baxter said the machinery was
have admitted that their only
functioning properly, hut the stuhave admitted that they are only
dents said it was not. Baxter arinterested in organizing machine
gued that the interpretations deoperators on farms for the dues
pended on who was interpreting.
money, and in the process sell
Bustamante said one final time
out the field hands.
that the decision to overrule the
The scenes of Teamster goons
results was natural and that it
heating on farm workers, includshould be done on the "logic of
ing women, in the Coachella
last year."
valley and Kern Count~· are vivid
•I'.m not going to do that~ Cruz,"
in many people•s minds. You
said Baxter, "unless Dean Bell
might say it's the Teamst_ers'
recommends that to me . • . "
way of doing things.
Baxter_'s election ruling
(Continued from Page 1)
two centered around the so-called
"Bell Memorandum," which was
the document issued last year to
nullify the entire student body
elections and force them to he
run again.
The controversy both this year
and last year was heightened because during the elections last
year, the forced re-running of
the elections caused the removal
of the winning slate from power.
That slate was topped by Grace
Solis, who received the most
votes for president; Maria Garcia, who was unopposed for administrative vice-president; and
Mario Galvan, who was not challenged in his bid to be legislative vice-president.
The re-running of the election
reversed these victories, and
made Steve Moe president; Janet
Pender administrative vicepresident; and David Price III
legislative vice-president.
Dean Bell defended his decision
of las_t year during the meeting,
and said the main difference between the variances of this year
and those of last year was that
last year the variances involved
actions before the elections be·gan. This year, he said, the actions involved were concerned
mainly with when voting was going
on.
Bustamante argued the logic
used in both cases was the same;
that in some cases students had
to wait 15 or more minutes in
order to_ vote and became discouraged; that because there was
sometimes no indication that voting was going on, many students
did not vote; and that all of the
grievances together indicated the
administration.
Students' rights and ethnic programs are being denied. Third
World students invite you to support us in our struggle.
Court
(Continued from Page 2)
# 1 a charge that wasn't prop-
erly addressed by the administration is the matter of people
in charge of a polling area, when
they had no business being in
there. In the Election Code, it
very clearly indicates that the.
chairperson is responsible for
the recruitment of poll workers.
Yet Mohan Singh, only a poll
worker himself, decided to leave
his area of responsibility and in
doing so left an unauthorized
student to take care of any business.
#2 there were 30 ballots unaccounted for. A Chicano dominated election last year was invalidated because of a discrepancy of six (6) ballots. It was
branded, at the time, as "probable
stuffing" of the ballot box.
This year when Chicanos were
defeated, the administra ton has
pawned off the 30 ballots by saying it's very possible that one of
the sheets with signatures has
been lost. This is exactly the opposite reaction and clearly shows
a biased and double-standard
policy being applied.
#3 and #4 in two instances,
some students were not allowed to
vote.
a. Because the computer print:outs were so screwed up, students' names were not on the
print-out sheets. Even whenID
and activities cards were shown
students still were not allowed
to vote in the school elections.
b. Students wanting to vote we re
pressured into not voting due
to long lines at the polls. Students t 1d to decide between going to class or voting.
#5 and #6 The election committee
amended the election code when
they had no authority to do so.
They decided to write in a prohibiting on leafleting in buildings.
They had no right. Their job was
to interpret what was written,
not to make up things as they
went along.
Also the committee decided
two protests without proper representation by the individuals filing the protests.
The Election Committee, in
order to come to a valid decision on protests should ask participants from all sides concerned, then decide when all
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the facts are in.
Other inconsistencies included
things like #7, misinformation by
the Student Affairs Office (concerning the filing ofprotests)anct
#8, unfair coverage by The Dail
Collegian to write-in candidate;
except for those on the ~Pric;
ticket."
Still other things included #9
voting booths which were not
up at their specified time (an
hour and forty minutes in one specific case) and #10, decisions
made by the Election Committee
were not al ways accessible to all
candidates during the election.
When Dean Bell was confronted
with all the discrepancies he
said, "I only recommend t; the
President." When we confronted
the President he said, "Dean Bell
has the authority."
So it went, rhetoric and the
runaround from both of them.
Students are now, for the first
time, realizing that their institution has a policy based on hypocrisy, prejudice and obvious
double standards.
Discussion is rapidly coming
to an end, even though all communicative levels are being tried.
This article is an attempt to
establish awareness among students and hopefully to let the powers on campus understand we are
still going to pursue this and
other issues that face us on this
campus.
Students need to make sure
that they're informed and then
act on that information.
They will!
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LXXIX/132
A special
edition of
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California State University, Fresno
Baxter refuses to nullify Semana de ICI Raza'
elections this year
week called successful
CSUF President Norman Baxter Wednesday refused to overrule Dean of Student Affairs David
Bell and nullify student body elections held two weeks ago.
Several members of the Cruz
Bustamante slate, which had lost
most student government positions in that election, had met
with Baxter for several hours
before the decision.
Members of the slate, includ-
Third Worl·d
•
communique
(Editor's Note: Third World
students are distributing this
leaflet to make all students,
faculty, and community people
aware of the discrimination and
oppression that are being practiced on Chicanos, Asians and
other Third World People.)
1. Since the inception of La
Raza Studies in 1969, the CSUF
administration has set a pattern
of constant turnover of faculty
in the program. The university
has never committed itself to a
program that has the capacity for
growth, stability and more important, degree giving status. In
1975, after six years of preparation, La Raza Studies acquired
all the requirements for departmentalization. The administration then inserted an additional
requirement that makes departme~talization for La Raza Studies
virtually impossible for almost
five yeears. Once again, the Chicano community is denied relevant education parity and stability. Therefore, Chicano students,
faculty and community are beginning a campaign to garner departmental status for La Raza
Studies.
2. Asian American students
are also not being given an op(Continued on Page 4, Col. 1)
ing Bustamante, cited eight election irregularities they said were
grounds for nullification.
. Members of the slate who met
with Baxter included Bestamante,
who was defeated for his bid to
gain the presidency; Shane Abbas
Panjvani, who had run for legislarive vice-president; Anna Noriega, who had sought the College
Union Vice-President post; and
Tom Yin, who had run for senator-at- large, Post 3.
Baxter's position in not allowing results to be overturned was
that he would not rule against
Dean Bell and the elections com. mittee sanctioning the results.
"My role in this is to see that
the machinery functions," said
Baxter. "I'm not going to make
their (Dean Bell's and the election
committee's) decisions for them.
My role is to make sure the committee and the Dean were there
and heard the protests." ·
The students argued against
Baxter's decision, and said the
process did not work as it should
have.
The eight grievances listed by
the Bustamante ticket included:
1. That there was unauthorized
personnel at the voting booths.
· 2. That The Daily Collegian
listed write-in candidates from
the Price ticket without listing
those from the Bustamante slate.
3. That there were no indications that the voting booths were
open for an hour and 40 minutes,
even though the booths were open.
4. That requirements to vote
were sometimes different at different voting booths. This included requirements that potential voters be listed on comput~r ,
print-outs at some stations, but
not at others.
5. That there were 30 unaccounted-for ballots, and that last
year one main reason for throwing the election out was that there
were six unaccounted-for ballots.
7. That the election eommittee
made at ·~ast one ruling that
would have been difficult for all
candidates to know about after the
Semana de la Raza '75 ended
Monday with a performqnce appropriately titled• El fin del Mundo" (the end of the world).
After a five day program involving both students and the
community, the original Teatro
Campesino performed their latest production before a capacity
Pl NA TA
election voting had already begun.
This involved, said Bustamante, a
ruling that election campaign literature could not be handed out in
buildings.
8. That the deadline for filing
election protests varied.
Throughout the session between
the students and Baxter, Bustamante attempted to point out to
the university president what he
c row d in the C allege Union
Lounge.
The weekend was completely
devoted to the community with
the CSUF Machistas extending
the festivities Saturday to Kearny
Park for a Tardeada. A pinata
was busted by the children. A
dance and dinner were also held.
Monday began with the loud
TIME
' called inconsistencies between
administrative rulings this year
and those of last year.
While Bustamante said the
rulings were inconsistent, and
that they should be consistent,
Baxter said that it-was not valid
to compare the election of last
year with that of this year.
Much of the debate between the
. (Continued on Page 4, Col. 1) ·
Villareal · speaks on Chicano Literature
By Angie Rios
A lot of what has been considered Chicano Literature is nothing more than political writing,
according to Jose Antonio Villareal, considered by some to be
the father of Chicano Literature.
The silver-haired Villareal
was one of the keynote speakers
during Semana De La Raza. He
is the author of •pocho," the
first novel (written in 1959)dealing with Chicanos, and another
recent publication, •The Fifth
Horseman."
Villareal's topic was •Chicano
Literature, Where It Was and
What It Will Be." He said that
. in the past there has been some
validity in letting the literature
get away from the content because
it was necessary for a form of
expression and for political reasons. Chicano Literature was
anything that was political and
dealt with the socio-economic
aspects of the Chicano, he said.
•This was necessary in order
to te; ··h the young about their
background, Mexico, and to have
pride in it," he said. •we have
though it sometimes led to mediocre publications.
•we find that this is now changing, " said Villareal. •Now we
have students in universities that
are receiving an education in literature. Thus, they will be able
to provide us with that type of
literature which is relevant to
us as Chicanos, and yet has the
universal appeal of true literature."
JOSE ANTONIO VIL LARE AL
to also teach them not to feel inferior."
Villareal felt that in 1968 and
1972 anything with a Spanish surname •could do no wrong." •A
writers point, which was valid
at the time, was to go out to receive the feedback that was seen
by the people," he said. This
often ended up as policital rhetoric at this time. It too was
necessary in presenting brutal
messages from the poets, al-
Villareal, currently a lecturer
at the University of California
at Santa Clara, said he took exception with oneChicanoeducator
who said, "Mana es Hoy." Villareal said, «J believe we are on
the threshold of achieving great
literature. We have made strides
recently towards that, and I know
we are going forward.•
The quick - to - smile author
would occasionally reminisce
with the audience about his own
generation. Near the end of his
talk, he read a poem about his
Mamacity which nearly brought
him to tears, and the audience
with him.
He said the poem was dedicated
to the cookout, which is now considered a leisure-time pursuit
but when he was a boy a cookout
was an everyday occurence, •not
because we wanted to, but because
we had to," he said.
Villareal said he only writes
when he feels like it because that
is the only way to treat an art.
The gentlemanly author optimistically predicted the future
would probably p r o du c e the
•Great American Novel," which
he said he hoped would be him ·
who would write it.
peal of laughter and the sound of
tiny feet stomping out Mexican
fold dances. Mini - Danzantes
from several Fresno area elementary schools performed what
they had learned of their culture
on the dance floor.
Frantic teachers and parent
escorts hurried t.o avert pandemonium, but everything eventually seemed to turn-out alright.
Questioned whether getting a
class of second-graders ready
for a performance was much
trouble, a harried-looking teacher looked up from slipping a costume off a pig-tailed little girl
and surprisingly smiled and said,
*Oh, it's a lot of fun. I wish we
could do it all the time."
Jose Torres, chairman for Semana '75, said the number of
children attending the celebrations for the first days was well
over 1,000.
"It's been a very successful
week," said Torres. "In fact
it's been one of the most successful functions ever."
Torres gave much of the credit
for the success to the committee
which worked with him.
During the afternoon on Monday, Hose Antonio Villareal, the
author of "Pacho," spoke on "Chicano Literature," he was followed
by Elizar Risco, the first chairman of La Raza Studies atCSUF,
currently an editor of a Los Aneles newspaper, "La Raza."
The evening began with CSUF
Comparsa, a group which performs music and songs of Mexico. They performed several popular songs. The group of 17
singers and 8 musicians is directed by Manuel Pena.
Toshta, an Indian from the Rincon Reservation located in Pauma
Valley, Calif., returned on what
Torres said was •popular demand."
At times the colorful Toshta
seemed to be espousing a philosophy somewhere between Tonto
and Euel Gibbons.
"What I eat and what I drink
will affect the future. As we see
the people of the past, the indigenous, their prophecies are
coming true."
He also had a
tom-tom which he beat in the
dark.
The final acto which closed the
Cinco de Mayo week was a play
be Teatro Campesino titled "El
fin Del Mundo."
The play dealt with a surrealistic world near the brink of
doom because of the inability of
the races to communicate effectively.
The performance was enthusiastically received and applauded
as the lively troupe of six actors
were able to get their message
through.
Fund raiser -dance scheduled
A fund-raiser dance for La
Raza Unida Party will be held
Saturday, May 17, featuring music
by Azteca and the Head Hunters, ·
at the J~nior Exhibit Hall of the
Fresno County Fairgrounds.
Al Lopez, coordinator for the
event, said the money raised will
be to benefit various community
service organizations, such as
Operacton Navidad, a toy drive
for needy families during Christ-
mas.
Other org~izations that will
benefit from the dance will include El Colegio de La Tierra
de Aztlan, Telemex, Barrio Art
Studios, and other communltyy,ride organizations.
The funds will also help with.
the campaign costs of the party's
school board candidate in the last
elections, Jess Rodriguez, said
Lopez.
2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
COMMENTARY
Friday, May 9, 1975
Student court
uniustly rules
•
The Teamsters 1n
their 'blackest hour'
on elections
Selected to head Teamster
By Alfredo de la Fe
farm worker efforts in Coachella,
The events that took place in
Delano and Fresno was organizer
the farm labor struggle in 1973
Cono
Macias. During the UFW
will never be forgotten by farm
grape strike in Delano in the early
workers and people who study
'60s, Macias was a member and
1 ab or organizing. In '73, the
one-time director of rig~t-toTeamsters Union moved into the
work group called the Agriculture
fields and conducted a mass raid
Workers Freedom to Work Assoon contracts that the United Farm
ciation. The AWFWA was sponWorkers had gained through ten
sored by Delano area growers
years of hard struggle. By the
and agribusiness-related busiend of '73.)- two United Farm
nesses. It sponsored anti-Chavez
Workers members were dead and
rallies and even used growers'
the Teamsters had taken 90 contracts once held by the UFW in • pickup trucks.
An anti'-union man, considered
one of the greatest examples of
to be a long-time growers' man,
employer-union collusion of all
all of a sudden was the spokestime. It will go down as one of
man for a farm workers union.
the blackest hours in the history
Teamster officials admit that
of labor organizing.
one
reason they moved into the
The Teamsters' move into the
fields was he cause if Chavez ever
field was well-planned. About
led successful strikes of field
50 organizers were hired at$200
workers it would put off work for
a. week. When growers refused to
Teamster members in the sheds,
renew contracts with the UFW,
canneries and trucking. There
these •organizers" gathered peare also indications that the
titions which showed that workers
Teamsters are scared that if
wanted Teamster representation.
Chavez gained a foothold in the
There is no machinery for free
fields, the United Farm Workers
elections for farm workers so
would go after shed and cannery
Teamster organizers were free
· to forge signatures on petitions ·contracts. Many of the workers in
the sheds and canneries are Chi- and authorization cards. Meancanos and in one instarwe in Cryswhile growers, playing their role
tal City, Texas, Chicano workers
in the masquerade, told the press
voted the Teamsters out and the
that their workers rejected the
UFW in. Be c:ause of the TeamUFW and wanted Teamster conster record of discrimination
tracts.
against Chicanos it is likely that
It is indeed absurd that the
other farm workers, not just field ·
Teamsters claim to be some new
hands, would reject the Teamkind of savior of farm workers,
sters and go over to thf! United
most of whom are Chicanos. The
Farm Workers.
Teamsters Union is a white
GrowP.rs and Teamsters. claim
middle class union with a lon~
that the United Farm Workers
history of oppres~ing and selling
didn't do lhf' things it ·promised
out the rights of minority workand that's - why worke rs wanted
ers. Recently the Justice DeTeamsh•r coutra<'ts. Chavez adpartment threatened the Tea m111its the uni on lllade som P rni s sters and trucking companies
take s hut it was only part or the
with a lawsuit charging discri migrowing proc'E':'iS of a youngunion
nation against Cllkanos and
which had the guts to start fightBlacks in trucking johs. There is
ing for fa rm work <> rs.
another suit pending charging the
Soon
aftPr the Tt•a111stt>rs
union with discriminating ag-ain~t
started pointing at tlw mistakt-s
Chicano workers in California's
of th(> UI•'W, theTl'amstPrs themcanneries. During the blue-collar
St>lVl-'S, the ri<"hest, tllost powt-rworkers' strike in 1-·resno in July
fnl union in tht> country, startt>d
1974, Teamster organized waste
havini:; prohle111s. Within a Yt'ar
disposal companies made overafter tlw Tt>a111stt>rs took ovt•r
hires to the City of Fresno to take
c·ontrads, it was brought out that
over garbage collection. Ir the
although tht> union was suppost•d
offers had heen accepted, strikto hP rt>pt'l'Sl'llting !i0,000 working garhagemen would have been
ers, tlH'Y a<"t11ally had I 'i,000
fired and Teamster crt>ws brought
work!:'rs sig1H•d.
out. Chicanos make up half of
HP<·ans(• or poor ad111i11ist rathe garhagem<-m in the City of
tion. farm workt•rs undt>r Tea111Fresno and Rla<"ks 20 per cent.
_stt>r l'ontrads wt>rt> 1 o s i 11 ~
Within the ranks of tlw Tea 111 lwnefits l>t>!'~lltSt' tlwi r workingsters farm workers organiwrs.
n•<"ords wt>n• not kt>pt properly
there was evidence of tlw <·olluas they movt>d around tht• statt'.
si ve agreement between th!:' union
In addition, tht-> Teamstt>r ('(inand growers.
-
,,,_
(Editor's Note: The above cartoon appeared on the April cover of the
Guild Journal, a monthly newsletter of the Sacramento Newspaper
Writers' Guild. It is a rough drawing submitted by a staff cartoonist
to the Sacramento Bee hut not used.)
tracts allowed growers to use
farm labor contractors who traditionally have exploited local
workers and supplied illegal
workers to also he exploited.
Last fall, the situa tion cam e to
a head . Cono Ma c ias and ahout
30 other organize rs we re fir e d in
a major house cleaning. Teamster officials say it wa s an "econ-
Student elections
By Anna Noriega
Asso<"iate d Student Body ele.ctions are an example of discrimination on this campus .
In Hl74, a minority slate won
most ol' the Se nate posts and the
pr1:>sidencr. A series of vague
prot(•sts · wer1:> lodgecl, including
011P which <'it(>d six ballots more
than thPrl:' wPre signatures. As
a r(>sUlt the 1974 e!Pdion was invalidated h~· tlw CSUF administration.
Tlw t>lP<'tion was rerun. at
which timt> th!:' opposing <'Ull<iidah•s pla~·t>d up 011 tht• anti-minority ft•Plirigs hPl<f 1,y a ra<'ist
faction at CSUF and m:rnagt•d to
ganwr 1:>nough support to takP tht-el1:><'tio11 which had het>n rig·ht)y
T & M PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
HELEN REDDY
May 26th
~
8:00 PM
SELLAND ARENA
'9.50,
omy move,·• however, sources
within tne T e amsters admitted
that Macia s and others hadn't
heen servicing contracts. As a
result the re was worker disenchantment , the loss of dues, ana
bad publicity whi ch apparently
was hurting Tea ms ter organizing
efforts .
(Continued on Page 4 , Col. 3)
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won hy the minoritr sla te in the
original election.
In 197:i. an all-anglo slatP won
most of thP s e natP posts and the
presidenc~·. Ag a i n student s
lodged a serie s of s e emingly valid protests, inclucling onP which
cited thirt~· ballots morti than
tht're werl:' signatures . This time
the CSUF administration rPfUSPd
to invalidatP the t>leC'tion.
Tht>~· tril-'d tu Pxplain thf' thirty ballot~ h~· claiming that out-!
pagt> of signatures C"ould have>
hPell 111ispl:H'Pd.
How eonveni1:>11t .
As a rPSlllt of th!:'SP f-11:'ctions
Third World ,·anclidat~s now ht>ld
thn•t> SPIW.tt-- position~ and onP
colleg-<' union hoard position .
Tlwn• was also thP chanct-> of
ohtai11i11g two nHH'I:' st-nate positions and onP c·olh>gf' union hoard
position in tht> tltr(>P ra<•f-s which
wt>n• going to hi:' rl-'nm in tlH? fall.
,\ddin~!: i 11sult to injury, on!:' of
tlw vi<'tors appPalPd 01w of the
dt>cisiol1s t concerning t>xpem,tst:ltPnwntsl rnadl-' by thi> PlPctiun
C'Olll llli ttPt' to student C'0ll rt.
Student court o\·e1-rult?d tl11-•
t>l!:'c·tion c·o111mittt>e and c1isquali-
.
ELCO
Kennel Bookstor;
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
8
a.m. - 7 p.m.
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
9 a.m. - 1 :30 p.m.
C.U. Coffee Shop
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
7 a,m, - 9 p,m.
7 a.m. - 5 p,m.
9 a.m .• 4 p.m.
(Continu ed on Page 4, Col. 4)
example of discrimination
VINTAGE DAYS' GUESTS,
By Simon Chale
The Student Court had a secret
meeting at 8:30 Thursd-ay morning. The only· people there were
supp9rters of the "Price Ticket,"
At this unannounced meeting, Student Court was reviewing decisions made by the ElectionCommittee. Dave Davenport filed a
protest to thP "Price Stacked"
court hearing concerning a decision in expense statements.
The meeting was held under the
supervision of the Student Affairs
Office for the reason and the result of disqualifying all candidates
opposed to the •Price Ticket."
It seems rather funny that there
was no notice given to members
of the opposing side, to tell them
what the court intended to discuss. Neither were the members
of the Election Committee informed about the meeting, overriding com m itte e decisions.
From wha t is gathered, the chairperson, Penny Doyle, took it upon
herself to act as spokesman for
the Election Committee, even
when she had no vote in anv of
the decisions. (Can you see what·s
happening? )
Student Court ac ted in deceit
because the · administration is
getting pressure from students
to invalidate this year·s election.
Ten in consistencies occurred
this year during the elections.
These we r e more than enough to
invalidate the entire election. Yet
they don·t se em to meet administr ation requireme nts. They aren't being consi s te nt :
E!
fit>d a ll of the T hird World candidates on a 2 - l vote . Which in
effe ct me an t th at the Price ticket
won all e xecntive ,se nate andcollege union boa rel po s itions by detault.
Once 'again Third World people
are without a voic e in student
government. Anoth Pr a lternative
to havP their voic f' S heard must
nov: be found.
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Friday, May 9, 1975
THE DAILY COLLF' ,AN-3
News from the UFW's Fresno Boycott Office
BY Grace Solis
The Fresno Boycott Office
would like to take this opportunity
to inform the public that our office is now open and located at
841 W. Belmont ( corner of Pacific
p.Ad Belmont, across from Roed/ing Park). The office is usually
open from 8 a. m. on into the ev!-
ning. To be sure, call 266-1391
before coming over.
We are in the process of stocking the office, but are still short
of many supplies. If you know of
any office supplies that might be
donated to us, please let us know
or bring them down yourself.
Although opened officially only
two and a half weeks ago, the
L~TTER TO T·HE EDITOR
Asian-American Studies'
director search questioned
office has already cleared 44
stores of SCAB , GALLO WINES.
The greater majority of these
stores are located in West Fresno. our thanks to the Black
Brothers and Sisters who support
us in the neighborhood.
Support was also received from
Brother Les Kimber, publisher
of the California Advocate, w_ho
printed a full page endorsement
for the United Farm Workers.
Thanks a million!
Democratic Assemblymen
Richard Alatorre and Art Torres
were at the Fresno Boycott Office April 23 to discuss AB-1,
the farm labor bill endorsed by
the UFW. Over 250 farmworkers .
were there to let the legislators
know how they feel about the bill.
Alatorre and Torres, the first
VFW member to be elected to the
California State Legislature, received loud applause as they detailed their plans to hel°p the
campesino struggle.
A caravan of UFW supporters
was to have traveled to Sacramento on May 5 to attend the
hearings on AB-1, but after the
current negotiations and compromises the trip is questionable.
Anyone wishing further information should contact the Boycott
Office at 266-1391 or La Raza
Studies at 487-2848.
Editor:
"Confidentiality" was the Dean
of the School of Social Science
The deadline for all applications for the position of the new / and the President's response.
Asian-American studies coordi- · CONFIDENTIALITY?? Are the
students that unscrupulous? Why .
natc,r has passed.
then, even allow these "confidenThe selection committee is
tial files" to leave the campus
currently reviewing the applicafor the convenience of the dean
tions submitted. Yet, tnere is only
to browse through at his leisure?
one non-voting student member
Wasn't he also concerned about
on this selection committee. The
the •innocent bystander" losing
remaining me mbers are instruchis "virginity" at the sight of
tors out of the Asian-American
those "confidential files." (My,
studies discipline and one nonthe Nixon tapes should have been
voting community representative.
so protected.)
This is understandable .- considNo, this explanation is dubious'.
ering that there is presently only
How can he permit only one stuone Asian-American studies indent to view these "confidential
structor and he is among the apOur thanks also to the Fresno
files" and yet maintain his poplicants . It would be slightly un. Unitarian Church who recently
sition of confidentiality by perfair to include him as a member
sponsored the showing of "Wny
mitting these files to leave his
of this committee. (He may vote
We Boycot t" and "Si Se Puede,"
office, let alone the campus?
. against himself.~
two VFW made films helping la
All we request is t.hat the stucausa. On Sunday, May 18, "Why
The situation is that there
dents he given an opportunity to
We
Boycott'' will he shown on
aren't any othe r Asian-American
vindicate their "low morals ." The
Channel 24 . The film will be
Studies instructors, whose instudents• a re the ones who are ulbroadcast as part of "La Comusights would be invaluable as to
timately affected by the comnidad del Valle," a weekly show
the intangible aspects required
mittee's decision. Morally. the
sponsored by TACOMA (Teleof the new .coordinator, to fill this
students should have an equal
vision Advisory Committee of
void ,
voice on the course that their
M-exi'"can-Americans).
program will chart. Education is
The question that now arises is
travelled along a two-way street.
"Why can't more student repreThe development of a curriousentation be admitted onto theselum should neither rest solely on
lection committee: ·· In lieu of this
the faculty nor the students, but
missing dimension, shouldn't the
in conjunction with each other's
students be consulted: "Tokenperspective of education.
ism'' does not constitute viable
consultation.
Beurp Junior
C·h ihuahua Tortilleria named
best small . business in area
BY Ernesto ~Ioreno
The Chihuahua Restaurant and
Tamale Factory opened its doors
for husiness on August 4. 1948
at 719 "G" St. in Fresno, California.
·
Twenty-seven years later, the
business now known as the Chihuahua Tortilleria is being recognized for being the hest small
husi111:1ss in the western region of
the United States and in the
San Joaquin Valley.
The business has been awarded
the National Economic Developmi.>nt Association award, the·
Small Business Administration
award for the San Joaquin Valley
and
thP
MexicaQ-American
Chamber of Commerce Award, ·
which is statewide.
Ttw business was founded by
Fidencio Victor Villegas and his .
parents. Jose Francisco and
Hilaria Villegas in August, 1948.
The founders of the business
are considered . by many to be
the pioneers in the retailing and
wholesaling of tortillas in the
San Joaquin Valley.
The business sprung from a
small restaurant and tamale factory on the old "GM Street location
into the modern plant and distribution center at 718 "F" St.
In speaking with Fidel Villegas
about ·the business that he says
belongs to his family, which includes his brother Jose Francis~;') Vijlegas, his wife Corina
and nis sister-in-law Elaine, the
years of de ter mination and dedi-
cation were evident as the man
spoke with pride.
Speaking with any member of
the Villegas family, one can sense
the respe t and admiration they
all hold for the man who sacrificed many years of his early life
to · make the business what it is
today. ·
Francisco, or ~iko as he is
better known among his family
aµd friends, recalled when his
older brother first tried to sell
the tortil · a as a product to a grocery store.
The owner of the store, said
Kiko, threw the product in Fidel's
face stating, "I don't want any
Mexican produc.ts or any Mexican
people in my store."
Although Fidel encountered
these harriers and obstacles, he
was determined in making this
business venture a success.
In response to this, Fidel said,
although he has encountered people such as the store owner men tioned above, he also has met
people who were willing to give
him th~ opportunity to sell his
produc~
·
He said, "I appreciate any and
all people for treating me with
respect and for allowing me to
accomplish the goal of making the
tortilla business a success.
"I feel good about the awards
given us as a company, I plan to
continue the business in the same
manner . . . I don't plan to quit.
Hopefully the awards will ·give us
more enthusiasm to continue i m proving our business."
Anyone interested in helping
coor-dinate a fund raising dance
for the Boycott Office may call
266-1391 or 48-7 -2848 and ask for
Grace Solis.
If you are interested in arrang-
ing for a UFW representative to
speak to your group or class,
please let the Boycott Office
know. We have some good speakers available. No fee, but donations are also welcome.
WOULD _YOU Ll'KE TO HE.LP?
_ _ I would like to pledge $ _
all the SCAB GALLO WINE).
$5-, $10--;$20 - for the next six months beginning with the month of
NAME _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
ADDRESS _ _ _ _ _ _ __
__ I would liketohelporganize
fundraisers.
PHONE _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
_ _ I would like to help collect
food and clothing.
Please fiil out and return to:
UFW - Fresno Boycott Office
841 W. Belmont
Fresno, CA 93705
__ I can refer names of organizations who are willing to
help.
Phone: (209) 266-1391
_ _ I canhelpcollectofficesupplies.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS
SUMMER THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HELPING WIN
JUSTICE FOR FARM WORKERS?
_ _ I can help full-time in the
Boycott Office.
__ I can help picket.
__ I can help in this way
The Boycott Office is in desperate need of office supplies,
~specially scotch tape, poster
hoards, tables, Roolidex cards,
a bulletin board,. cardboard for
signs, poster paint, brushes,
staples, file cabinets, felt pens,
thumh tacks, stencils, dittomasters, duplicating fluid, photocopy
paper (for speedo printer), dictionaries, calendars, city maps
and a garbage can with a lid (for
The UFW needs. single people
who don't have heavy financial
obligations to work on the Los
Angeles Boycott..
Full-time staff members are
paid room and board plus five
dollars a week. The key months
will be from June to September.
Our goal is to maintain the
stores we have already cleaned
of SCAB GAL,,LO WINE, as well
as make sure that non-union
grapes aren't sold in Los Angeles.
For more information contact:
Terry Carruthers
L.A. BOYCOTT
1434 West Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 381-1136
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is an important step
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So is becoming an active alum!.
Join the CSUF Alu~ni Ass~ciation tod~y
and receive:
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4-THE· DAILY COLLEGIAN
Friday, May 9, 1975
Grievance
(Continued from Page 1)
portunlty to have a voice in their
education. A faculty position in
Asian American Studies is being
selected by a committeeoffaculty from other disciplines, with
little knowledge of the program.
Only one student is involved in
the selection process. Is this
university interested in student
needs or are they more concerned
with maintaining their puppet-like
bureaucracy? This is not the first
attempt to thwart students' educational process, nor the last.
Let's stop it now.
3. The Department of Education is critical to liberation of all
Third World People. CSUF is no
exception, since it is the only
major university for almost 100
miles north or south. The CSUF
School of Education has only one
minority faculty member. There
is a total of 50 faculty em ployed
by the School. The curriculum is
not sensitive to various ethnic
groups' cultural differences and
historical contributions. CHE
(Chicanos in Higher Education),
a committee of M.E.C.H.A., has
been trying to obtain the following information:
1) Statistical data on the num ber of Chicanos admitted and
credentialed by the School of
Education.
2) Statistical data on the number of Chicano instructors in
the School
3) The availability of curriculum on the Chicano child
There have been repeated efforts to obtain this information
from Dean Evans, President Baxter and Vice-President Swanson.
None of the requests have been
answered.
4. Affirmative Action is a policy developed by the federal government to insure that parity
takes place in employment for
minorities. At CSUF, the only
parity that is reflected with regard to Third World People is
their representation among custodians, landscapers, and other
maintenance employees. Currently of the 1,019 faculty employed at CSU F, only 36 are
Chicano (16 of these are parttime). All but two of the 36 are
at the lowest classification of
faculty employment. This is in the
CSUF service area comprised of
over 30 per cent Chicanos, or
104,000 residents in Fresno
County.
In the 50 departmentsatCSUF,
only two administrators are minority members and .only nine
departments have any Chicano
faculty. At the rate that the CSUF
administration is complying with
affirmative action plans it will he
2050 hefore any Third World im-,
pact can he realized at CSU F.
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Teamsters
(Continued from Page 2)
As an example~ officials with
a Sanger food processing plant
passed out copies of a Fresno Bee
article pointing to the faults of
the Teamster farm worker project to workers before an election. The Teamsters lost the
election.
ousted o r g a n i z e r Macias
charged that Teamster officials
were planning to dilute the power
of the farm worker locals by putting ,them under other Teamster
locals. That happened a few
mo_nths later.
The Teamsters have been
known tQ be a disruptive force
on the side of the growers whenever efforts were made to organize field hands. In a recent
bribery trial of two Salinas grow!'i. ASB elections are another
ers, witnesses told how a Teamexample of discrimination. In
ster organizer brought in Team1974 a minority slate won most - sters from out of town to disrupt
of the Senate posts and the presiUFW organizing efforts. In redency. A series of vague protests
turn, the Teamsters official made
were lodged, including one citing
demands on growers for "exsix ballots that were unaccounted
penses."
for. The protests were declared
Soon after the UFW moved
valid and the election was invaliinto the Salinas Valley, following
dated. [n 197!'i, a minority slate
the signing of the grape contracts,
narrowly lost most of the posts.
growers in Salinas Valley anA series of valid protests, includnounced that they- had signed a
ing 30 ballots unaccounted for
contract with the Teamsters covwere then filed. The protests
ering field hands. A judge later
were clenied and the election reruled that the contracts had been
sults were certified hy Dean Bell.
signed without any consent from
Once again, discrimination is
the workers.
practiced on minority students.
When the Teamsters made
their decision to move into the
These and other discri minafields, Teamster boss Frank
tory practices continue to occur
Fitzsimmons made the announceevery day. Don't think it can't
ment at, of all places, the
happen to you!! Student rights
American Farm Bureau Convenare constantly violated hy this
tion in Los Angeles in 1972.
The Farm Bureau Ls known as
an anti-labor group, and Fitzsimmons became the first labor
official to address the Bureau.
It would take a book to show all
election should he nulli ficd.
Baxter · said several elec-tions
the evidence of the collusion between growers and Teamsters,
would he run again he rausf' it
seem1:1d as though the 30 unhath middle-class t,.nglo conservative groups, known for opaccountect for hallots would make
pressing Chicanos. But more and
a difference in those rac-es.
Bustamante said this was not
more, people are seeing that the
United Farm Workers have been
enough concession, anct said he
the only group that has fought for
felt the university should follow
the interf'St of farm workers on
the same logic this year as he
felt it had last year.
hoth the state and national level.
"Then it is all or nothing?.,
As Cf'sar Chavez put it, "We
asked Baxter.
shook thP. tree and the Teamsters
"Right," said Bustamante.
pickPd up the fruit."
"Are you asking me to overIt is time for all Chicanos and
any person who calls himself a
turn the dean?" Baxter continued.
"Yes," replied Bustamante.
good union- man to denounce the
•My decision is not to overcorrupt Teamster move into the
rule," said Baxter.
fields. Some Teamster officials
Baxter said the machinery was
have admitted that their only
functioning properly, hut the stuhave admitted that they are only
dents said it was not. Baxter arinterested in organizing machine
gued that the interpretations deoperators on farms for the dues
pended on who was interpreting.
money, and in the process sell
Bustamante said one final time
out the field hands.
that the decision to overrule the
The scenes of Teamster goons
results was natural and that it
heating on farm workers, includshould be done on the "logic of
ing women, in the Coachella
last year."
valley and Kern Count~· are vivid
•I'.m not going to do that~ Cruz,"
in many people•s minds. You
said Baxter, "unless Dean Bell
might say it's the Teamst_ers'
recommends that to me . • . "
way of doing things.
Baxter_'s election ruling
(Continued from Page 1)
two centered around the so-called
"Bell Memorandum," which was
the document issued last year to
nullify the entire student body
elections and force them to he
run again.
The controversy both this year
and last year was heightened because during the elections last
year, the forced re-running of
the elections caused the removal
of the winning slate from power.
That slate was topped by Grace
Solis, who received the most
votes for president; Maria Garcia, who was unopposed for administrative vice-president; and
Mario Galvan, who was not challenged in his bid to be legislative vice-president.
The re-running of the election
reversed these victories, and
made Steve Moe president; Janet
Pender administrative vicepresident; and David Price III
legislative vice-president.
Dean Bell defended his decision
of las_t year during the meeting,
and said the main difference between the variances of this year
and those of last year was that
last year the variances involved
actions before the elections be·gan. This year, he said, the actions involved were concerned
mainly with when voting was going
on.
Bustamante argued the logic
used in both cases was the same;
that in some cases students had
to wait 15 or more minutes in
order to_ vote and became discouraged; that because there was
sometimes no indication that voting was going on, many students
did not vote; and that all of the
grievances together indicated the
administration.
Students' rights and ethnic programs are being denied. Third
World students invite you to support us in our struggle.
Court
(Continued from Page 2)
# 1 a charge that wasn't prop-
erly addressed by the administration is the matter of people
in charge of a polling area, when
they had no business being in
there. In the Election Code, it
very clearly indicates that the.
chairperson is responsible for
the recruitment of poll workers.
Yet Mohan Singh, only a poll
worker himself, decided to leave
his area of responsibility and in
doing so left an unauthorized
student to take care of any business.
#2 there were 30 ballots unaccounted for. A Chicano dominated election last year was invalidated because of a discrepancy of six (6) ballots. It was
branded, at the time, as "probable
stuffing" of the ballot box.
This year when Chicanos were
defeated, the administra ton has
pawned off the 30 ballots by saying it's very possible that one of
the sheets with signatures has
been lost. This is exactly the opposite reaction and clearly shows
a biased and double-standard
policy being applied.
#3 and #4 in two instances,
some students were not allowed to
vote.
a. Because the computer print:outs were so screwed up, students' names were not on the
print-out sheets. Even whenID
and activities cards were shown
students still were not allowed
to vote in the school elections.
b. Students wanting to vote we re
pressured into not voting due
to long lines at the polls. Students t 1d to decide between going to class or voting.
#5 and #6 The election committee
amended the election code when
they had no authority to do so.
They decided to write in a prohibiting on leafleting in buildings.
They had no right. Their job was
to interpret what was written,
not to make up things as they
went along.
Also the committee decided
two protests without proper representation by the individuals filing the protests.
The Election Committee, in
order to come to a valid decision on protests should ask participants from all sides concerned, then decide when all
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the facts are in.
Other inconsistencies included
things like #7, misinformation by
the Student Affairs Office (concerning the filing ofprotests)anct
#8, unfair coverage by The Dail
Collegian to write-in candidate;
except for those on the ~Pric;
ticket."
Still other things included #9
voting booths which were not
up at their specified time (an
hour and forty minutes in one specific case) and #10, decisions
made by the Election Committee
were not al ways accessible to all
candidates during the election.
When Dean Bell was confronted
with all the discrepancies he
said, "I only recommend t; the
President." When we confronted
the President he said, "Dean Bell
has the authority."
So it went, rhetoric and the
runaround from both of them.
Students are now, for the first
time, realizing that their institution has a policy based on hypocrisy, prejudice and obvious
double standards.
Discussion is rapidly coming
to an end, even though all communicative levels are being tried.
This article is an attempt to
establish awareness among students and hopefully to let the powers on campus understand we are
still going to pursue this and
other issues that face us on this
campus.
Students need to make sure
that they're informed and then
act on that information.
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A JZTLA N
LXXIX/132
A special
edition of
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California State University, Fresno
Baxter refuses to nullify Semana de ICI Raza'
elections this year
week called successful
CSUF President Norman Baxter Wednesday refused to overrule Dean of Student Affairs David
Bell and nullify student body elections held two weeks ago.
Several members of the Cruz
Bustamante slate, which had lost
most student government positions in that election, had met
with Baxter for several hours
before the decision.
Members of the slate, includ-
Third Worl·d
•
communique
(Editor's Note: Third World
students are distributing this
leaflet to make all students,
faculty, and community people
aware of the discrimination and
oppression that are being practiced on Chicanos, Asians and
other Third World People.)
1. Since the inception of La
Raza Studies in 1969, the CSUF
administration has set a pattern
of constant turnover of faculty
in the program. The university
has never committed itself to a
program that has the capacity for
growth, stability and more important, degree giving status. In
1975, after six years of preparation, La Raza Studies acquired
all the requirements for departmentalization. The administration then inserted an additional
requirement that makes departme~talization for La Raza Studies
virtually impossible for almost
five yeears. Once again, the Chicano community is denied relevant education parity and stability. Therefore, Chicano students,
faculty and community are beginning a campaign to garner departmental status for La Raza
Studies.
2. Asian American students
are also not being given an op(Continued on Page 4, Col. 1)
ing Bustamante, cited eight election irregularities they said were
grounds for nullification.
. Members of the slate who met
with Baxter included Bestamante,
who was defeated for his bid to
gain the presidency; Shane Abbas
Panjvani, who had run for legislarive vice-president; Anna Noriega, who had sought the College
Union Vice-President post; and
Tom Yin, who had run for senator-at- large, Post 3.
Baxter's position in not allowing results to be overturned was
that he would not rule against
Dean Bell and the elections com. mittee sanctioning the results.
"My role in this is to see that
the machinery functions," said
Baxter. "I'm not going to make
their (Dean Bell's and the election
committee's) decisions for them.
My role is to make sure the committee and the Dean were there
and heard the protests." ·
The students argued against
Baxter's decision, and said the
process did not work as it should
have.
The eight grievances listed by
the Bustamante ticket included:
1. That there was unauthorized
personnel at the voting booths.
· 2. That The Daily Collegian
listed write-in candidates from
the Price ticket without listing
those from the Bustamante slate.
3. That there were no indications that the voting booths were
open for an hour and 40 minutes,
even though the booths were open.
4. That requirements to vote
were sometimes different at different voting booths. This included requirements that potential voters be listed on comput~r ,
print-outs at some stations, but
not at others.
5. That there were 30 unaccounted-for ballots, and that last
year one main reason for throwing the election out was that there
were six unaccounted-for ballots.
7. That the election eommittee
made at ·~ast one ruling that
would have been difficult for all
candidates to know about after the
Semana de la Raza '75 ended
Monday with a performqnce appropriately titled• El fin del Mundo" (the end of the world).
After a five day program involving both students and the
community, the original Teatro
Campesino performed their latest production before a capacity
Pl NA TA
election voting had already begun.
This involved, said Bustamante, a
ruling that election campaign literature could not be handed out in
buildings.
8. That the deadline for filing
election protests varied.
Throughout the session between
the students and Baxter, Bustamante attempted to point out to
the university president what he
c row d in the C allege Union
Lounge.
The weekend was completely
devoted to the community with
the CSUF Machistas extending
the festivities Saturday to Kearny
Park for a Tardeada. A pinata
was busted by the children. A
dance and dinner were also held.
Monday began with the loud
TIME
' called inconsistencies between
administrative rulings this year
and those of last year.
While Bustamante said the
rulings were inconsistent, and
that they should be consistent,
Baxter said that it-was not valid
to compare the election of last
year with that of this year.
Much of the debate between the
. (Continued on Page 4, Col. 1) ·
Villareal · speaks on Chicano Literature
By Angie Rios
A lot of what has been considered Chicano Literature is nothing more than political writing,
according to Jose Antonio Villareal, considered by some to be
the father of Chicano Literature.
The silver-haired Villareal
was one of the keynote speakers
during Semana De La Raza. He
is the author of •pocho," the
first novel (written in 1959)dealing with Chicanos, and another
recent publication, •The Fifth
Horseman."
Villareal's topic was •Chicano
Literature, Where It Was and
What It Will Be." He said that
. in the past there has been some
validity in letting the literature
get away from the content because
it was necessary for a form of
expression and for political reasons. Chicano Literature was
anything that was political and
dealt with the socio-economic
aspects of the Chicano, he said.
•This was necessary in order
to te; ··h the young about their
background, Mexico, and to have
pride in it," he said. •we have
though it sometimes led to mediocre publications.
•we find that this is now changing, " said Villareal. •Now we
have students in universities that
are receiving an education in literature. Thus, they will be able
to provide us with that type of
literature which is relevant to
us as Chicanos, and yet has the
universal appeal of true literature."
JOSE ANTONIO VIL LARE AL
to also teach them not to feel inferior."
Villareal felt that in 1968 and
1972 anything with a Spanish surname •could do no wrong." •A
writers point, which was valid
at the time, was to go out to receive the feedback that was seen
by the people," he said. This
often ended up as policital rhetoric at this time. It too was
necessary in presenting brutal
messages from the poets, al-
Villareal, currently a lecturer
at the University of California
at Santa Clara, said he took exception with oneChicanoeducator
who said, "Mana es Hoy." Villareal said, «J believe we are on
the threshold of achieving great
literature. We have made strides
recently towards that, and I know
we are going forward.•
The quick - to - smile author
would occasionally reminisce
with the audience about his own
generation. Near the end of his
talk, he read a poem about his
Mamacity which nearly brought
him to tears, and the audience
with him.
He said the poem was dedicated
to the cookout, which is now considered a leisure-time pursuit
but when he was a boy a cookout
was an everyday occurence, •not
because we wanted to, but because
we had to," he said.
Villareal said he only writes
when he feels like it because that
is the only way to treat an art.
The gentlemanly author optimistically predicted the future
would probably p r o du c e the
•Great American Novel," which
he said he hoped would be him ·
who would write it.
peal of laughter and the sound of
tiny feet stomping out Mexican
fold dances. Mini - Danzantes
from several Fresno area elementary schools performed what
they had learned of their culture
on the dance floor.
Frantic teachers and parent
escorts hurried t.o avert pandemonium, but everything eventually seemed to turn-out alright.
Questioned whether getting a
class of second-graders ready
for a performance was much
trouble, a harried-looking teacher looked up from slipping a costume off a pig-tailed little girl
and surprisingly smiled and said,
*Oh, it's a lot of fun. I wish we
could do it all the time."
Jose Torres, chairman for Semana '75, said the number of
children attending the celebrations for the first days was well
over 1,000.
"It's been a very successful
week," said Torres. "In fact
it's been one of the most successful functions ever."
Torres gave much of the credit
for the success to the committee
which worked with him.
During the afternoon on Monday, Hose Antonio Villareal, the
author of "Pacho," spoke on "Chicano Literature," he was followed
by Elizar Risco, the first chairman of La Raza Studies atCSUF,
currently an editor of a Los Aneles newspaper, "La Raza."
The evening began with CSUF
Comparsa, a group which performs music and songs of Mexico. They performed several popular songs. The group of 17
singers and 8 musicians is directed by Manuel Pena.
Toshta, an Indian from the Rincon Reservation located in Pauma
Valley, Calif., returned on what
Torres said was •popular demand."
At times the colorful Toshta
seemed to be espousing a philosophy somewhere between Tonto
and Euel Gibbons.
"What I eat and what I drink
will affect the future. As we see
the people of the past, the indigenous, their prophecies are
coming true."
He also had a
tom-tom which he beat in the
dark.
The final acto which closed the
Cinco de Mayo week was a play
be Teatro Campesino titled "El
fin Del Mundo."
The play dealt with a surrealistic world near the brink of
doom because of the inability of
the races to communicate effectively.
The performance was enthusiastically received and applauded
as the lively troupe of six actors
were able to get their message
through.
Fund raiser -dance scheduled
A fund-raiser dance for La
Raza Unida Party will be held
Saturday, May 17, featuring music
by Azteca and the Head Hunters, ·
at the J~nior Exhibit Hall of the
Fresno County Fairgrounds.
Al Lopez, coordinator for the
event, said the money raised will
be to benefit various community
service organizations, such as
Operacton Navidad, a toy drive
for needy families during Christ-
mas.
Other org~izations that will
benefit from the dance will include El Colegio de La Tierra
de Aztlan, Telemex, Barrio Art
Studios, and other communltyy,ride organizations.
The funds will also help with.
the campaign costs of the party's
school board candidate in the last
elections, Jess Rodriguez, said
Lopez.
2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
COMMENTARY
Friday, May 9, 1975
Student court
uniustly rules
•
The Teamsters 1n
their 'blackest hour'
on elections
Selected to head Teamster
By Alfredo de la Fe
farm worker efforts in Coachella,
The events that took place in
Delano and Fresno was organizer
the farm labor struggle in 1973
Cono
Macias. During the UFW
will never be forgotten by farm
grape strike in Delano in the early
workers and people who study
'60s, Macias was a member and
1 ab or organizing. In '73, the
one-time director of rig~t-toTeamsters Union moved into the
work group called the Agriculture
fields and conducted a mass raid
Workers Freedom to Work Assoon contracts that the United Farm
ciation. The AWFWA was sponWorkers had gained through ten
sored by Delano area growers
years of hard struggle. By the
and agribusiness-related busiend of '73.)- two United Farm
nesses. It sponsored anti-Chavez
Workers members were dead and
rallies and even used growers'
the Teamsters had taken 90 contracts once held by the UFW in • pickup trucks.
An anti'-union man, considered
one of the greatest examples of
to be a long-time growers' man,
employer-union collusion of all
all of a sudden was the spokestime. It will go down as one of
man for a farm workers union.
the blackest hours in the history
Teamster officials admit that
of labor organizing.
one
reason they moved into the
The Teamsters' move into the
fields was he cause if Chavez ever
field was well-planned. About
led successful strikes of field
50 organizers were hired at$200
workers it would put off work for
a. week. When growers refused to
Teamster members in the sheds,
renew contracts with the UFW,
canneries and trucking. There
these •organizers" gathered peare also indications that the
titions which showed that workers
Teamsters are scared that if
wanted Teamster representation.
Chavez gained a foothold in the
There is no machinery for free
fields, the United Farm Workers
elections for farm workers so
would go after shed and cannery
Teamster organizers were free
· to forge signatures on petitions ·contracts. Many of the workers in
the sheds and canneries are Chi- and authorization cards. Meancanos and in one instarwe in Cryswhile growers, playing their role
tal City, Texas, Chicano workers
in the masquerade, told the press
voted the Teamsters out and the
that their workers rejected the
UFW in. Be c:ause of the TeamUFW and wanted Teamster conster record of discrimination
tracts.
against Chicanos it is likely that
It is indeed absurd that the
other farm workers, not just field ·
Teamsters claim to be some new
hands, would reject the Teamkind of savior of farm workers,
sters and go over to thf! United
most of whom are Chicanos. The
Farm Workers.
Teamsters Union is a white
GrowP.rs and Teamsters. claim
middle class union with a lon~
that the United Farm Workers
history of oppres~ing and selling
didn't do lhf' things it ·promised
out the rights of minority workand that's - why worke rs wanted
ers. Recently the Justice DeTeamsh•r coutra<'ts. Chavez adpartment threatened the Tea m111its the uni on lllade som P rni s sters and trucking companies
take s hut it was only part or the
with a lawsuit charging discri migrowing proc'E':'iS of a youngunion
nation against Cllkanos and
which had the guts to start fightBlacks in trucking johs. There is
ing for fa rm work <> rs.
another suit pending charging the
Soon
aftPr the Tt•a111stt>rs
union with discriminating ag-ain~t
started pointing at tlw mistakt-s
Chicano workers in California's
of th(> UI•'W, theTl'amstPrs themcanneries. During the blue-collar
St>lVl-'S, the ri<"hest, tllost powt-rworkers' strike in 1-·resno in July
fnl union in tht> country, startt>d
1974, Teamster organized waste
havini:; prohle111s. Within a Yt'ar
disposal companies made overafter tlw Tt>a111stt>rs took ovt•r
hires to the City of Fresno to take
c·ontrads, it was brought out that
over garbage collection. Ir the
although tht> union was suppost•d
offers had heen accepted, strikto hP rt>pt'l'Sl'llting !i0,000 working garhagemen would have been
ers, tlH'Y a<"t11ally had I 'i,000
fired and Teamster crt>ws brought
work!:'rs sig1H•d.
out. Chicanos make up half of
HP<·ans(• or poor ad111i11ist rathe garhagem<-m in the City of
tion. farm workt•rs undt>r Tea111Fresno and Rla<"ks 20 per cent.
_stt>r l'ontrads wt>rt> 1 o s i 11 ~
Within the ranks of tlw Tea 111 lwnefits l>t>!'~lltSt' tlwi r workingsters farm workers organiwrs.
n•<"ords wt>n• not kt>pt properly
there was evidence of tlw <·olluas they movt>d around tht• statt'.
si ve agreement between th!:' union
In addition, tht-> Teamstt>r ('(inand growers.
-
,,,_
(Editor's Note: The above cartoon appeared on the April cover of the
Guild Journal, a monthly newsletter of the Sacramento Newspaper
Writers' Guild. It is a rough drawing submitted by a staff cartoonist
to the Sacramento Bee hut not used.)
tracts allowed growers to use
farm labor contractors who traditionally have exploited local
workers and supplied illegal
workers to also he exploited.
Last fall, the situa tion cam e to
a head . Cono Ma c ias and ahout
30 other organize rs we re fir e d in
a major house cleaning. Teamster officials say it wa s an "econ-
Student elections
By Anna Noriega
Asso<"iate d Student Body ele.ctions are an example of discrimination on this campus .
In Hl74, a minority slate won
most ol' the Se nate posts and the
pr1:>sidencr. A series of vague
prot(•sts · wer1:> lodgecl, including
011P which <'it(>d six ballots more
than thPrl:' wPre signatures. As
a r(>sUlt the 1974 e!Pdion was invalidated h~· tlw CSUF administration.
Tlw t>lP<'tion was rerun. at
which timt> th!:' opposing <'Ull<iidah•s pla~·t>d up 011 tht• anti-minority ft•Plirigs hPl<f 1,y a ra<'ist
faction at CSUF and m:rnagt•d to
ganwr 1:>nough support to takP tht-el1:><'tio11 which had het>n rig·ht)y
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omy move,·• however, sources
within tne T e amsters admitted
that Macia s and others hadn't
heen servicing contracts. As a
result the re was worker disenchantment , the loss of dues, ana
bad publicity whi ch apparently
was hurting Tea ms ter organizing
efforts .
(Continued on Page 4 , Col. 3)
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won hy the minoritr sla te in the
original election.
In 197:i. an all-anglo slatP won
most of thP s e natP posts and the
presidenc~·. Ag a i n student s
lodged a serie s of s e emingly valid protests, inclucling onP which
cited thirt~· ballots morti than
tht're werl:' signatures . This time
the CSUF administration rPfUSPd
to invalidatP the t>leC'tion.
Tht>~· tril-'d tu Pxplain thf' thirty ballot~ h~· claiming that out-!
pagt> of signatures C"ould have>
hPell 111ispl:H'Pd.
How eonveni1:>11t .
As a rPSlllt of th!:'SP f-11:'ctions
Third World ,·anclidat~s now ht>ld
thn•t> SPIW.tt-- position~ and onP
colleg-<' union hoard position .
Tlwn• was also thP chanct-> of
ohtai11i11g two nHH'I:' st-nate positions and onP c·olh>gf' union hoard
position in tht> tltr(>P ra<•f-s which
wt>n• going to hi:' rl-'nm in tlH? fall.
,\ddin~!: i 11sult to injury, on!:' of
tlw vi<'tors appPalPd 01w of the
dt>cisiol1s t concerning t>xpem,tst:ltPnwntsl rnadl-' by thi> PlPctiun
C'Olll llli ttPt' to student C'0ll rt.
Student court o\·e1-rult?d tl11-•
t>l!:'c·tion c·o111mittt>e and c1isquali-
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Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
8
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8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
9 a.m. - 1 :30 p.m.
C.U. Coffee Shop
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
7 a,m, - 9 p,m.
7 a.m. - 5 p,m.
9 a.m .• 4 p.m.
(Continu ed on Page 4, Col. 4)
example of discrimination
VINTAGE DAYS' GUESTS,
By Simon Chale
The Student Court had a secret
meeting at 8:30 Thursd-ay morning. The only· people there were
supp9rters of the "Price Ticket,"
At this unannounced meeting, Student Court was reviewing decisions made by the ElectionCommittee. Dave Davenport filed a
protest to thP "Price Stacked"
court hearing concerning a decision in expense statements.
The meeting was held under the
supervision of the Student Affairs
Office for the reason and the result of disqualifying all candidates
opposed to the •Price Ticket."
It seems rather funny that there
was no notice given to members
of the opposing side, to tell them
what the court intended to discuss. Neither were the members
of the Election Committee informed about the meeting, overriding com m itte e decisions.
From wha t is gathered, the chairperson, Penny Doyle, took it upon
herself to act as spokesman for
the Election Committee, even
when she had no vote in anv of
the decisions. (Can you see what·s
happening? )
Student Court ac ted in deceit
because the · administration is
getting pressure from students
to invalidate this year·s election.
Ten in consistencies occurred
this year during the elections.
These we r e more than enough to
invalidate the entire election. Yet
they don·t se em to meet administr ation requireme nts. They aren't being consi s te nt :
E!
fit>d a ll of the T hird World candidates on a 2 - l vote . Which in
effe ct me an t th at the Price ticket
won all e xecntive ,se nate andcollege union boa rel po s itions by detault.
Once 'again Third World people
are without a voic e in student
government. Anoth Pr a lternative
to havP their voic f' S heard must
nov: be found.
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Gra ce Solis ,
Friday, May 9, 1975
THE DAILY COLLF' ,AN-3
News from the UFW's Fresno Boycott Office
BY Grace Solis
The Fresno Boycott Office
would like to take this opportunity
to inform the public that our office is now open and located at
841 W. Belmont ( corner of Pacific
p.Ad Belmont, across from Roed/ing Park). The office is usually
open from 8 a. m. on into the ev!-
ning. To be sure, call 266-1391
before coming over.
We are in the process of stocking the office, but are still short
of many supplies. If you know of
any office supplies that might be
donated to us, please let us know
or bring them down yourself.
Although opened officially only
two and a half weeks ago, the
L~TTER TO T·HE EDITOR
Asian-American Studies'
director search questioned
office has already cleared 44
stores of SCAB , GALLO WINES.
The greater majority of these
stores are located in West Fresno. our thanks to the Black
Brothers and Sisters who support
us in the neighborhood.
Support was also received from
Brother Les Kimber, publisher
of the California Advocate, w_ho
printed a full page endorsement
for the United Farm Workers.
Thanks a million!
Democratic Assemblymen
Richard Alatorre and Art Torres
were at the Fresno Boycott Office April 23 to discuss AB-1,
the farm labor bill endorsed by
the UFW. Over 250 farmworkers .
were there to let the legislators
know how they feel about the bill.
Alatorre and Torres, the first
VFW member to be elected to the
California State Legislature, received loud applause as they detailed their plans to hel°p the
campesino struggle.
A caravan of UFW supporters
was to have traveled to Sacramento on May 5 to attend the
hearings on AB-1, but after the
current negotiations and compromises the trip is questionable.
Anyone wishing further information should contact the Boycott
Office at 266-1391 or La Raza
Studies at 487-2848.
Editor:
"Confidentiality" was the Dean
of the School of Social Science
The deadline for all applications for the position of the new / and the President's response.
Asian-American studies coordi- · CONFIDENTIALITY?? Are the
students that unscrupulous? Why .
natc,r has passed.
then, even allow these "confidenThe selection committee is
tial files" to leave the campus
currently reviewing the applicafor the convenience of the dean
tions submitted. Yet, tnere is only
to browse through at his leisure?
one non-voting student member
Wasn't he also concerned about
on this selection committee. The
the •innocent bystander" losing
remaining me mbers are instruchis "virginity" at the sight of
tors out of the Asian-American
those "confidential files." (My,
studies discipline and one nonthe Nixon tapes should have been
voting community representative.
so protected.)
This is understandable .- considNo, this explanation is dubious'.
ering that there is presently only
How can he permit only one stuone Asian-American studies indent to view these "confidential
structor and he is among the apOur thanks also to the Fresno
files" and yet maintain his poplicants . It would be slightly un. Unitarian Church who recently
sition of confidentiality by perfair to include him as a member
sponsored the showing of "Wny
mitting these files to leave his
of this committee. (He may vote
We Boycot t" and "Si Se Puede,"
office, let alone the campus?
. against himself.~
two VFW made films helping la
All we request is t.hat the stucausa. On Sunday, May 18, "Why
The situation is that there
dents he given an opportunity to
We
Boycott'' will he shown on
aren't any othe r Asian-American
vindicate their "low morals ." The
Channel 24 . The film will be
Studies instructors, whose instudents• a re the ones who are ulbroadcast as part of "La Comusights would be invaluable as to
timately affected by the comnidad del Valle," a weekly show
the intangible aspects required
mittee's decision. Morally. the
sponsored by TACOMA (Teleof the new .coordinator, to fill this
students should have an equal
vision Advisory Committee of
void ,
voice on the course that their
M-exi'"can-Americans).
program will chart. Education is
The question that now arises is
travelled along a two-way street.
"Why can't more student repreThe development of a curriousentation be admitted onto theselum should neither rest solely on
lection committee: ·· In lieu of this
the faculty nor the students, but
missing dimension, shouldn't the
in conjunction with each other's
students be consulted: "Tokenperspective of education.
ism'' does not constitute viable
consultation.
Beurp Junior
C·h ihuahua Tortilleria named
best small . business in area
BY Ernesto ~Ioreno
The Chihuahua Restaurant and
Tamale Factory opened its doors
for husiness on August 4. 1948
at 719 "G" St. in Fresno, California.
·
Twenty-seven years later, the
business now known as the Chihuahua Tortilleria is being recognized for being the hest small
husi111:1ss in the western region of
the United States and in the
San Joaquin Valley.
The business has been awarded
the National Economic Developmi.>nt Association award, the·
Small Business Administration
award for the San Joaquin Valley
and
thP
MexicaQ-American
Chamber of Commerce Award, ·
which is statewide.
Ttw business was founded by
Fidencio Victor Villegas and his .
parents. Jose Francisco and
Hilaria Villegas in August, 1948.
The founders of the business
are considered . by many to be
the pioneers in the retailing and
wholesaling of tortillas in the
San Joaquin Valley.
The business sprung from a
small restaurant and tamale factory on the old "GM Street location
into the modern plant and distribution center at 718 "F" St.
In speaking with Fidel Villegas
about ·the business that he says
belongs to his family, which includes his brother Jose Francis~;') Vijlegas, his wife Corina
and nis sister-in-law Elaine, the
years of de ter mination and dedi-
cation were evident as the man
spoke with pride.
Speaking with any member of
the Villegas family, one can sense
the respe t and admiration they
all hold for the man who sacrificed many years of his early life
to · make the business what it is
today. ·
Francisco, or ~iko as he is
better known among his family
aµd friends, recalled when his
older brother first tried to sell
the tortil · a as a product to a grocery store.
The owner of the store, said
Kiko, threw the product in Fidel's
face stating, "I don't want any
Mexican produc.ts or any Mexican
people in my store."
Although Fidel encountered
these harriers and obstacles, he
was determined in making this
business venture a success.
In response to this, Fidel said,
although he has encountered people such as the store owner men tioned above, he also has met
people who were willing to give
him th~ opportunity to sell his
produc~
·
He said, "I appreciate any and
all people for treating me with
respect and for allowing me to
accomplish the goal of making the
tortilla business a success.
"I feel good about the awards
given us as a company, I plan to
continue the business in the same
manner . . . I don't plan to quit.
Hopefully the awards will ·give us
more enthusiasm to continue i m proving our business."
Anyone interested in helping
coor-dinate a fund raising dance
for the Boycott Office may call
266-1391 or 48-7 -2848 and ask for
Grace Solis.
If you are interested in arrang-
ing for a UFW representative to
speak to your group or class,
please let the Boycott Office
know. We have some good speakers available. No fee, but donations are also welcome.
WOULD _YOU Ll'KE TO HE.LP?
_ _ I would like to pledge $ _
all the SCAB GALLO WINE).
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__ I would liketohelporganize
fundraisers.
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_ _ I would like to help collect
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Please fiil out and return to:
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Fresno, CA 93705
__ I can refer names of organizations who are willing to
help.
Phone: (209) 266-1391
_ _ I canhelpcollectofficesupplies.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS
SUMMER THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HELPING WIN
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_ _ I can help full-time in the
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__ I can help picket.
__ I can help in this way
The Boycott Office is in desperate need of office supplies,
~specially scotch tape, poster
hoards, tables, Roolidex cards,
a bulletin board,. cardboard for
signs, poster paint, brushes,
staples, file cabinets, felt pens,
thumh tacks, stencils, dittomasters, duplicating fluid, photocopy
paper (for speedo printer), dictionaries, calendars, city maps
and a garbage can with a lid (for
The UFW needs. single people
who don't have heavy financial
obligations to work on the Los
Angeles Boycott..
Full-time staff members are
paid room and board plus five
dollars a week. The key months
will be from June to September.
Our goal is to maintain the
stores we have already cleaned
of SCAB GAL,,LO WINE, as well
as make sure that non-union
grapes aren't sold in Los Angeles.
For more information contact:
Terry Carruthers
L.A. BOYCOTT
1434 West Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 381-1136
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4-THE· DAILY COLLEGIAN
Friday, May 9, 1975
Grievance
(Continued from Page 1)
portunlty to have a voice in their
education. A faculty position in
Asian American Studies is being
selected by a committeeoffaculty from other disciplines, with
little knowledge of the program.
Only one student is involved in
the selection process. Is this
university interested in student
needs or are they more concerned
with maintaining their puppet-like
bureaucracy? This is not the first
attempt to thwart students' educational process, nor the last.
Let's stop it now.
3. The Department of Education is critical to liberation of all
Third World People. CSUF is no
exception, since it is the only
major university for almost 100
miles north or south. The CSUF
School of Education has only one
minority faculty member. There
is a total of 50 faculty em ployed
by the School. The curriculum is
not sensitive to various ethnic
groups' cultural differences and
historical contributions. CHE
(Chicanos in Higher Education),
a committee of M.E.C.H.A., has
been trying to obtain the following information:
1) Statistical data on the num ber of Chicanos admitted and
credentialed by the School of
Education.
2) Statistical data on the number of Chicano instructors in
the School
3) The availability of curriculum on the Chicano child
There have been repeated efforts to obtain this information
from Dean Evans, President Baxter and Vice-President Swanson.
None of the requests have been
answered.
4. Affirmative Action is a policy developed by the federal government to insure that parity
takes place in employment for
minorities. At CSUF, the only
parity that is reflected with regard to Third World People is
their representation among custodians, landscapers, and other
maintenance employees. Currently of the 1,019 faculty employed at CSU F, only 36 are
Chicano (16 of these are parttime). All but two of the 36 are
at the lowest classification of
faculty employment. This is in the
CSUF service area comprised of
over 30 per cent Chicanos, or
104,000 residents in Fresno
County.
In the 50 departmentsatCSUF,
only two administrators are minority members and .only nine
departments have any Chicano
faculty. At the rate that the CSUF
administration is complying with
affirmative action plans it will he
2050 hefore any Third World im-,
pact can he realized at CSU F.
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Teamsters
(Continued from Page 2)
As an example~ officials with
a Sanger food processing plant
passed out copies of a Fresno Bee
article pointing to the faults of
the Teamster farm worker project to workers before an election. The Teamsters lost the
election.
ousted o r g a n i z e r Macias
charged that Teamster officials
were planning to dilute the power
of the farm worker locals by putting ,them under other Teamster
locals. That happened a few
mo_nths later.
The Teamsters have been
known tQ be a disruptive force
on the side of the growers whenever efforts were made to organize field hands. In a recent
bribery trial of two Salinas grow!'i. ASB elections are another
ers, witnesses told how a Teamexample of discrimination. In
ster organizer brought in Team1974 a minority slate won most - sters from out of town to disrupt
of the Senate posts and the presiUFW organizing efforts. In redency. A series of vague protests
turn, the Teamsters official made
were lodged, including one citing
demands on growers for "exsix ballots that were unaccounted
penses."
for. The protests were declared
Soon after the UFW moved
valid and the election was invaliinto the Salinas Valley, following
dated. [n 197!'i, a minority slate
the signing of the grape contracts,
narrowly lost most of the posts.
growers in Salinas Valley anA series of valid protests, includnounced that they- had signed a
ing 30 ballots unaccounted for
contract with the Teamsters covwere then filed. The protests
ering field hands. A judge later
were clenied and the election reruled that the contracts had been
sults were certified hy Dean Bell.
signed without any consent from
Once again, discrimination is
the workers.
practiced on minority students.
When the Teamsters made
their decision to move into the
These and other discri minafields, Teamster boss Frank
tory practices continue to occur
Fitzsimmons made the announceevery day. Don't think it can't
ment at, of all places, the
happen to you!! Student rights
American Farm Bureau Convenare constantly violated hy this
tion in Los Angeles in 1972.
The Farm Bureau Ls known as
an anti-labor group, and Fitzsimmons became the first labor
official to address the Bureau.
It would take a book to show all
election should he nulli ficd.
Baxter · said several elec-tions
the evidence of the collusion between growers and Teamsters,
would he run again he rausf' it
seem1:1d as though the 30 unhath middle-class t,.nglo conservative groups, known for opaccountect for hallots would make
pressing Chicanos. But more and
a difference in those rac-es.
Bustamante said this was not
more, people are seeing that the
United Farm Workers have been
enough concession, anct said he
the only group that has fought for
felt the university should follow
the interf'St of farm workers on
the same logic this year as he
felt it had last year.
hoth the state and national level.
"Then it is all or nothing?.,
As Cf'sar Chavez put it, "We
asked Baxter.
shook thP. tree and the Teamsters
"Right," said Bustamante.
pickPd up the fruit."
"Are you asking me to overIt is time for all Chicanos and
any person who calls himself a
turn the dean?" Baxter continued.
"Yes," replied Bustamante.
good union- man to denounce the
•My decision is not to overcorrupt Teamster move into the
rule," said Baxter.
fields. Some Teamster officials
Baxter said the machinery was
have admitted that their only
functioning properly, hut the stuhave admitted that they are only
dents said it was not. Baxter arinterested in organizing machine
gued that the interpretations deoperators on farms for the dues
pended on who was interpreting.
money, and in the process sell
Bustamante said one final time
out the field hands.
that the decision to overrule the
The scenes of Teamster goons
results was natural and that it
heating on farm workers, includshould be done on the "logic of
ing women, in the Coachella
last year."
valley and Kern Count~· are vivid
•I'.m not going to do that~ Cruz,"
in many people•s minds. You
said Baxter, "unless Dean Bell
might say it's the Teamst_ers'
recommends that to me . • . "
way of doing things.
Baxter_'s election ruling
(Continued from Page 1)
two centered around the so-called
"Bell Memorandum," which was
the document issued last year to
nullify the entire student body
elections and force them to he
run again.
The controversy both this year
and last year was heightened because during the elections last
year, the forced re-running of
the elections caused the removal
of the winning slate from power.
That slate was topped by Grace
Solis, who received the most
votes for president; Maria Garcia, who was unopposed for administrative vice-president; and
Mario Galvan, who was not challenged in his bid to be legislative vice-president.
The re-running of the election
reversed these victories, and
made Steve Moe president; Janet
Pender administrative vicepresident; and David Price III
legislative vice-president.
Dean Bell defended his decision
of las_t year during the meeting,
and said the main difference between the variances of this year
and those of last year was that
last year the variances involved
actions before the elections be·gan. This year, he said, the actions involved were concerned
mainly with when voting was going
on.
Bustamante argued the logic
used in both cases was the same;
that in some cases students had
to wait 15 or more minutes in
order to_ vote and became discouraged; that because there was
sometimes no indication that voting was going on, many students
did not vote; and that all of the
grievances together indicated the
administration.
Students' rights and ethnic programs are being denied. Third
World students invite you to support us in our struggle.
Court
(Continued from Page 2)
# 1 a charge that wasn't prop-
erly addressed by the administration is the matter of people
in charge of a polling area, when
they had no business being in
there. In the Election Code, it
very clearly indicates that the.
chairperson is responsible for
the recruitment of poll workers.
Yet Mohan Singh, only a poll
worker himself, decided to leave
his area of responsibility and in
doing so left an unauthorized
student to take care of any business.
#2 there were 30 ballots unaccounted for. A Chicano dominated election last year was invalidated because of a discrepancy of six (6) ballots. It was
branded, at the time, as "probable
stuffing" of the ballot box.
This year when Chicanos were
defeated, the administra ton has
pawned off the 30 ballots by saying it's very possible that one of
the sheets with signatures has
been lost. This is exactly the opposite reaction and clearly shows
a biased and double-standard
policy being applied.
#3 and #4 in two instances,
some students were not allowed to
vote.
a. Because the computer print:outs were so screwed up, students' names were not on the
print-out sheets. Even whenID
and activities cards were shown
students still were not allowed
to vote in the school elections.
b. Students wanting to vote we re
pressured into not voting due
to long lines at the polls. Students t 1d to decide between going to class or voting.
#5 and #6 The election committee
amended the election code when
they had no authority to do so.
They decided to write in a prohibiting on leafleting in buildings.
They had no right. Their job was
to interpret what was written,
not to make up things as they
went along.
Also the committee decided
two protests without proper representation by the individuals filing the protests.
The Election Committee, in
order to come to a valid decision on protests should ask participants from all sides concerned, then decide when all
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the facts are in.
Other inconsistencies included
things like #7, misinformation by
the Student Affairs Office (concerning the filing ofprotests)anct
#8, unfair coverage by The Dail
Collegian to write-in candidate;
except for those on the ~Pric;
ticket."
Still other things included #9
voting booths which were not
up at their specified time (an
hour and forty minutes in one specific case) and #10, decisions
made by the Election Committee
were not al ways accessible to all
candidates during the election.
When Dean Bell was confronted
with all the discrepancies he
said, "I only recommend t; the
President." When we confronted
the President he said, "Dean Bell
has the authority."
So it went, rhetoric and the
runaround from both of them.
Students are now, for the first
time, realizing that their institution has a policy based on hypocrisy, prejudice and obvious
double standards.
Discussion is rapidly coming
to an end, even though all communicative levels are being tried.
This article is an attempt to
establish awareness among students and hopefully to let the powers on campus understand we are
still going to pursue this and
other issues that face us on this
campus.
Students need to make sure
that they're informed and then
act on that information.
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LXXIX/132
A special
edition of
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California State University, Fresno
Baxter refuses to nullify Semana de ICI Raza'
elections this year
week called successful
CSUF President Norman Baxter Wednesday refused to overrule Dean of Student Affairs David
Bell and nullify student body elections held two weeks ago.
Several members of the Cruz
Bustamante slate, which had lost
most student government positions in that election, had met
with Baxter for several hours
before the decision.
Members of the slate, includ-
Third Worl·d
•
communique
(Editor's Note: Third World
students are distributing this
leaflet to make all students,
faculty, and community people
aware of the discrimination and
oppression that are being practiced on Chicanos, Asians and
other Third World People.)
1. Since the inception of La
Raza Studies in 1969, the CSUF
administration has set a pattern
of constant turnover of faculty
in the program. The university
has never committed itself to a
program that has the capacity for
growth, stability and more important, degree giving status. In
1975, after six years of preparation, La Raza Studies acquired
all the requirements for departmentalization. The administration then inserted an additional
requirement that makes departme~talization for La Raza Studies
virtually impossible for almost
five yeears. Once again, the Chicano community is denied relevant education parity and stability. Therefore, Chicano students,
faculty and community are beginning a campaign to garner departmental status for La Raza
Studies.
2. Asian American students
are also not being given an op(Continued on Page 4, Col. 1)
ing Bustamante, cited eight election irregularities they said were
grounds for nullification.
. Members of the slate who met
with Baxter included Bestamante,
who was defeated for his bid to
gain the presidency; Shane Abbas
Panjvani, who had run for legislarive vice-president; Anna Noriega, who had sought the College
Union Vice-President post; and
Tom Yin, who had run for senator-at- large, Post 3.
Baxter's position in not allowing results to be overturned was
that he would not rule against
Dean Bell and the elections com. mittee sanctioning the results.
"My role in this is to see that
the machinery functions," said
Baxter. "I'm not going to make
their (Dean Bell's and the election
committee's) decisions for them.
My role is to make sure the committee and the Dean were there
and heard the protests." ·
The students argued against
Baxter's decision, and said the
process did not work as it should
have.
The eight grievances listed by
the Bustamante ticket included:
1. That there was unauthorized
personnel at the voting booths.
· 2. That The Daily Collegian
listed write-in candidates from
the Price ticket without listing
those from the Bustamante slate.
3. That there were no indications that the voting booths were
open for an hour and 40 minutes,
even though the booths were open.
4. That requirements to vote
were sometimes different at different voting booths. This included requirements that potential voters be listed on comput~r ,
print-outs at some stations, but
not at others.
5. That there were 30 unaccounted-for ballots, and that last
year one main reason for throwing the election out was that there
were six unaccounted-for ballots.
7. That the election eommittee
made at ·~ast one ruling that
would have been difficult for all
candidates to know about after the
Semana de la Raza '75 ended
Monday with a performqnce appropriately titled• El fin del Mundo" (the end of the world).
After a five day program involving both students and the
community, the original Teatro
Campesino performed their latest production before a capacity
Pl NA TA
election voting had already begun.
This involved, said Bustamante, a
ruling that election campaign literature could not be handed out in
buildings.
8. That the deadline for filing
election protests varied.
Throughout the session between
the students and Baxter, Bustamante attempted to point out to
the university president what he
c row d in the C allege Union
Lounge.
The weekend was completely
devoted to the community with
the CSUF Machistas extending
the festivities Saturday to Kearny
Park for a Tardeada. A pinata
was busted by the children. A
dance and dinner were also held.
Monday began with the loud
TIME
' called inconsistencies between
administrative rulings this year
and those of last year.
While Bustamante said the
rulings were inconsistent, and
that they should be consistent,
Baxter said that it-was not valid
to compare the election of last
year with that of this year.
Much of the debate between the
. (Continued on Page 4, Col. 1) ·
Villareal · speaks on Chicano Literature
By Angie Rios
A lot of what has been considered Chicano Literature is nothing more than political writing,
according to Jose Antonio Villareal, considered by some to be
the father of Chicano Literature.
The silver-haired Villareal
was one of the keynote speakers
during Semana De La Raza. He
is the author of •pocho," the
first novel (written in 1959)dealing with Chicanos, and another
recent publication, •The Fifth
Horseman."
Villareal's topic was •Chicano
Literature, Where It Was and
What It Will Be." He said that
. in the past there has been some
validity in letting the literature
get away from the content because
it was necessary for a form of
expression and for political reasons. Chicano Literature was
anything that was political and
dealt with the socio-economic
aspects of the Chicano, he said.
•This was necessary in order
to te; ··h the young about their
background, Mexico, and to have
pride in it," he said. •we have
though it sometimes led to mediocre publications.
•we find that this is now changing, " said Villareal. •Now we
have students in universities that
are receiving an education in literature. Thus, they will be able
to provide us with that type of
literature which is relevant to
us as Chicanos, and yet has the
universal appeal of true literature."
JOSE ANTONIO VIL LARE AL
to also teach them not to feel inferior."
Villareal felt that in 1968 and
1972 anything with a Spanish surname •could do no wrong." •A
writers point, which was valid
at the time, was to go out to receive the feedback that was seen
by the people," he said. This
often ended up as policital rhetoric at this time. It too was
necessary in presenting brutal
messages from the poets, al-
Villareal, currently a lecturer
at the University of California
at Santa Clara, said he took exception with oneChicanoeducator
who said, "Mana es Hoy." Villareal said, «J believe we are on
the threshold of achieving great
literature. We have made strides
recently towards that, and I know
we are going forward.•
The quick - to - smile author
would occasionally reminisce
with the audience about his own
generation. Near the end of his
talk, he read a poem about his
Mamacity which nearly brought
him to tears, and the audience
with him.
He said the poem was dedicated
to the cookout, which is now considered a leisure-time pursuit
but when he was a boy a cookout
was an everyday occurence, •not
because we wanted to, but because
we had to," he said.
Villareal said he only writes
when he feels like it because that
is the only way to treat an art.
The gentlemanly author optimistically predicted the future
would probably p r o du c e the
•Great American Novel," which
he said he hoped would be him ·
who would write it.
peal of laughter and the sound of
tiny feet stomping out Mexican
fold dances. Mini - Danzantes
from several Fresno area elementary schools performed what
they had learned of their culture
on the dance floor.
Frantic teachers and parent
escorts hurried t.o avert pandemonium, but everything eventually seemed to turn-out alright.
Questioned whether getting a
class of second-graders ready
for a performance was much
trouble, a harried-looking teacher looked up from slipping a costume off a pig-tailed little girl
and surprisingly smiled and said,
*Oh, it's a lot of fun. I wish we
could do it all the time."
Jose Torres, chairman for Semana '75, said the number of
children attending the celebrations for the first days was well
over 1,000.
"It's been a very successful
week," said Torres. "In fact
it's been one of the most successful functions ever."
Torres gave much of the credit
for the success to the committee
which worked with him.
During the afternoon on Monday, Hose Antonio Villareal, the
author of "Pacho," spoke on "Chicano Literature," he was followed
by Elizar Risco, the first chairman of La Raza Studies atCSUF,
currently an editor of a Los Aneles newspaper, "La Raza."
The evening began with CSUF
Comparsa, a group which performs music and songs of Mexico. They performed several popular songs. The group of 17
singers and 8 musicians is directed by Manuel Pena.
Toshta, an Indian from the Rincon Reservation located in Pauma
Valley, Calif., returned on what
Torres said was •popular demand."
At times the colorful Toshta
seemed to be espousing a philosophy somewhere between Tonto
and Euel Gibbons.
"What I eat and what I drink
will affect the future. As we see
the people of the past, the indigenous, their prophecies are
coming true."
He also had a
tom-tom which he beat in the
dark.
The final acto which closed the
Cinco de Mayo week was a play
be Teatro Campesino titled "El
fin Del Mundo."
The play dealt with a surrealistic world near the brink of
doom because of the inability of
the races to communicate effectively.
The performance was enthusiastically received and applauded
as the lively troupe of six actors
were able to get their message
through.
Fund raiser -dance scheduled
A fund-raiser dance for La
Raza Unida Party will be held
Saturday, May 17, featuring music
by Azteca and the Head Hunters, ·
at the J~nior Exhibit Hall of the
Fresno County Fairgrounds.
Al Lopez, coordinator for the
event, said the money raised will
be to benefit various community
service organizations, such as
Operacton Navidad, a toy drive
for needy families during Christ-
mas.
Other org~izations that will
benefit from the dance will include El Colegio de La Tierra
de Aztlan, Telemex, Barrio Art
Studios, and other communltyy,ride organizations.
The funds will also help with.
the campaign costs of the party's
school board candidate in the last
elections, Jess Rodriguez, said
Lopez.
2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
COMMENTARY
Friday, May 9, 1975
Student court
uniustly rules
•
The Teamsters 1n
their 'blackest hour'
on elections
Selected to head Teamster
By Alfredo de la Fe
farm worker efforts in Coachella,
The events that took place in
Delano and Fresno was organizer
the farm labor struggle in 1973
Cono
Macias. During the UFW
will never be forgotten by farm
grape strike in Delano in the early
workers and people who study
'60s, Macias was a member and
1 ab or organizing. In '73, the
one-time director of rig~t-toTeamsters Union moved into the
work group called the Agriculture
fields and conducted a mass raid
Workers Freedom to Work Assoon contracts that the United Farm
ciation. The AWFWA was sponWorkers had gained through ten
sored by Delano area growers
years of hard struggle. By the
and agribusiness-related busiend of '73.)- two United Farm
nesses. It sponsored anti-Chavez
Workers members were dead and
rallies and even used growers'
the Teamsters had taken 90 contracts once held by the UFW in • pickup trucks.
An anti'-union man, considered
one of the greatest examples of
to be a long-time growers' man,
employer-union collusion of all
all of a sudden was the spokestime. It will go down as one of
man for a farm workers union.
the blackest hours in the history
Teamster officials admit that
of labor organizing.
one
reason they moved into the
The Teamsters' move into the
fields was he cause if Chavez ever
field was well-planned. About
led successful strikes of field
50 organizers were hired at$200
workers it would put off work for
a. week. When growers refused to
Teamster members in the sheds,
renew contracts with the UFW,
canneries and trucking. There
these •organizers" gathered peare also indications that the
titions which showed that workers
Teamsters are scared that if
wanted Teamster representation.
Chavez gained a foothold in the
There is no machinery for free
fields, the United Farm Workers
elections for farm workers so
would go after shed and cannery
Teamster organizers were free
· to forge signatures on petitions ·contracts. Many of the workers in
the sheds and canneries are Chi- and authorization cards. Meancanos and in one instarwe in Cryswhile growers, playing their role
tal City, Texas, Chicano workers
in the masquerade, told the press
voted the Teamsters out and the
that their workers rejected the
UFW in. Be c:ause of the TeamUFW and wanted Teamster conster record of discrimination
tracts.
against Chicanos it is likely that
It is indeed absurd that the
other farm workers, not just field ·
Teamsters claim to be some new
hands, would reject the Teamkind of savior of farm workers,
sters and go over to thf! United
most of whom are Chicanos. The
Farm Workers.
Teamsters Union is a white
GrowP.rs and Teamsters. claim
middle class union with a lon~
that the United Farm Workers
history of oppres~ing and selling
didn't do lhf' things it ·promised
out the rights of minority workand that's - why worke rs wanted
ers. Recently the Justice DeTeamsh•r coutra<'ts. Chavez adpartment threatened the Tea m111its the uni on lllade som P rni s sters and trucking companies
take s hut it was only part or the
with a lawsuit charging discri migrowing proc'E':'iS of a youngunion
nation against Cllkanos and
which had the guts to start fightBlacks in trucking johs. There is
ing for fa rm work <> rs.
another suit pending charging the
Soon
aftPr the Tt•a111stt>rs
union with discriminating ag-ain~t
started pointing at tlw mistakt-s
Chicano workers in California's
of th(> UI•'W, theTl'amstPrs themcanneries. During the blue-collar
St>lVl-'S, the ri<"hest, tllost powt-rworkers' strike in 1-·resno in July
fnl union in tht> country, startt>d
1974, Teamster organized waste
havini:; prohle111s. Within a Yt'ar
disposal companies made overafter tlw Tt>a111stt>rs took ovt•r
hires to the City of Fresno to take
c·ontrads, it was brought out that
over garbage collection. Ir the
although tht> union was suppost•d
offers had heen accepted, strikto hP rt>pt'l'Sl'llting !i0,000 working garhagemen would have been
ers, tlH'Y a<"t11ally had I 'i,000
fired and Teamster crt>ws brought
work!:'rs sig1H•d.
out. Chicanos make up half of
HP<·ans(• or poor ad111i11ist rathe garhagem<-m in the City of
tion. farm workt•rs undt>r Tea111Fresno and Rla<"ks 20 per cent.
_stt>r l'ontrads wt>rt> 1 o s i 11 ~
Within the ranks of tlw Tea 111 lwnefits l>t>!'~lltSt' tlwi r workingsters farm workers organiwrs.
n•<"ords wt>n• not kt>pt properly
there was evidence of tlw <·olluas they movt>d around tht• statt'.
si ve agreement between th!:' union
In addition, tht-> Teamstt>r ('(inand growers.
-
,,,_
(Editor's Note: The above cartoon appeared on the April cover of the
Guild Journal, a monthly newsletter of the Sacramento Newspaper
Writers' Guild. It is a rough drawing submitted by a staff cartoonist
to the Sacramento Bee hut not used.)
tracts allowed growers to use
farm labor contractors who traditionally have exploited local
workers and supplied illegal
workers to also he exploited.
Last fall, the situa tion cam e to
a head . Cono Ma c ias and ahout
30 other organize rs we re fir e d in
a major house cleaning. Teamster officials say it wa s an "econ-
Student elections
By Anna Noriega
Asso<"iate d Student Body ele.ctions are an example of discrimination on this campus .
In Hl74, a minority slate won
most ol' the Se nate posts and the
pr1:>sidencr. A series of vague
prot(•sts · wer1:> lodgecl, including
011P which <'it(>d six ballots more
than thPrl:' wPre signatures. As
a r(>sUlt the 1974 e!Pdion was invalidated h~· tlw CSUF administration.
Tlw t>lP<'tion was rerun. at
which timt> th!:' opposing <'Ull<iidah•s pla~·t>d up 011 tht• anti-minority ft•Plirigs hPl<f 1,y a ra<'ist
faction at CSUF and m:rnagt•d to
ganwr 1:>nough support to takP tht-el1:><'tio11 which had het>n rig·ht)y
T & M PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
HELEN REDDY
May 26th
~
8:00 PM
SELLAND ARENA
'9.50,
omy move,·• however, sources
within tne T e amsters admitted
that Macia s and others hadn't
heen servicing contracts. As a
result the re was worker disenchantment , the loss of dues, ana
bad publicity whi ch apparently
was hurting Tea ms ter organizing
efforts .
(Continued on Page 4 , Col. 3)
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won hy the minoritr sla te in the
original election.
In 197:i. an all-anglo slatP won
most of thP s e natP posts and the
presidenc~·. Ag a i n student s
lodged a serie s of s e emingly valid protests, inclucling onP which
cited thirt~· ballots morti than
tht're werl:' signatures . This time
the CSUF administration rPfUSPd
to invalidatP the t>leC'tion.
Tht>~· tril-'d tu Pxplain thf' thirty ballot~ h~· claiming that out-!
pagt> of signatures C"ould have>
hPell 111ispl:H'Pd.
How eonveni1:>11t .
As a rPSlllt of th!:'SP f-11:'ctions
Third World ,·anclidat~s now ht>ld
thn•t> SPIW.tt-- position~ and onP
colleg-<' union hoard position .
Tlwn• was also thP chanct-> of
ohtai11i11g two nHH'I:' st-nate positions and onP c·olh>gf' union hoard
position in tht> tltr(>P ra<•f-s which
wt>n• going to hi:' rl-'nm in tlH? fall.
,\ddin~!: i 11sult to injury, on!:' of
tlw vi<'tors appPalPd 01w of the
dt>cisiol1s t concerning t>xpem,tst:ltPnwntsl rnadl-' by thi> PlPctiun
C'Olll llli ttPt' to student C'0ll rt.
Student court o\·e1-rult?d tl11-•
t>l!:'c·tion c·o111mittt>e and c1isquali-
.
ELCO
Kennel Bookstor;
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
8
a.m. - 7 p.m.
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
9 a.m. - 1 :30 p.m.
C.U. Coffee Shop
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
7 a,m, - 9 p,m.
7 a.m. - 5 p,m.
9 a.m .• 4 p.m.
(Continu ed on Page 4, Col. 4)
example of discrimination
VINTAGE DAYS' GUESTS,
By Simon Chale
The Student Court had a secret
meeting at 8:30 Thursd-ay morning. The only· people there were
supp9rters of the "Price Ticket,"
At this unannounced meeting, Student Court was reviewing decisions made by the ElectionCommittee. Dave Davenport filed a
protest to thP "Price Stacked"
court hearing concerning a decision in expense statements.
The meeting was held under the
supervision of the Student Affairs
Office for the reason and the result of disqualifying all candidates
opposed to the •Price Ticket."
It seems rather funny that there
was no notice given to members
of the opposing side, to tell them
what the court intended to discuss. Neither were the members
of the Election Committee informed about the meeting, overriding com m itte e decisions.
From wha t is gathered, the chairperson, Penny Doyle, took it upon
herself to act as spokesman for
the Election Committee, even
when she had no vote in anv of
the decisions. (Can you see what·s
happening? )
Student Court ac ted in deceit
because the · administration is
getting pressure from students
to invalidate this year·s election.
Ten in consistencies occurred
this year during the elections.
These we r e more than enough to
invalidate the entire election. Yet
they don·t se em to meet administr ation requireme nts. They aren't being consi s te nt :
E!
fit>d a ll of the T hird World candidates on a 2 - l vote . Which in
effe ct me an t th at the Price ticket
won all e xecntive ,se nate andcollege union boa rel po s itions by detault.
Once 'again Third World people
are without a voic e in student
government. Anoth Pr a lternative
to havP their voic f' S heard must
nov: be found.
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Friday, May 9, 1975
THE DAILY COLLF' ,AN-3
News from the UFW's Fresno Boycott Office
BY Grace Solis
The Fresno Boycott Office
would like to take this opportunity
to inform the public that our office is now open and located at
841 W. Belmont ( corner of Pacific
p.Ad Belmont, across from Roed/ing Park). The office is usually
open from 8 a. m. on into the ev!-
ning. To be sure, call 266-1391
before coming over.
We are in the process of stocking the office, but are still short
of many supplies. If you know of
any office supplies that might be
donated to us, please let us know
or bring them down yourself.
Although opened officially only
two and a half weeks ago, the
L~TTER TO T·HE EDITOR
Asian-American Studies'
director search questioned
office has already cleared 44
stores of SCAB , GALLO WINES.
The greater majority of these
stores are located in West Fresno. our thanks to the Black
Brothers and Sisters who support
us in the neighborhood.
Support was also received from
Brother Les Kimber, publisher
of the California Advocate, w_ho
printed a full page endorsement
for the United Farm Workers.
Thanks a million!
Democratic Assemblymen
Richard Alatorre and Art Torres
were at the Fresno Boycott Office April 23 to discuss AB-1,
the farm labor bill endorsed by
the UFW. Over 250 farmworkers .
were there to let the legislators
know how they feel about the bill.
Alatorre and Torres, the first
VFW member to be elected to the
California State Legislature, received loud applause as they detailed their plans to hel°p the
campesino struggle.
A caravan of UFW supporters
was to have traveled to Sacramento on May 5 to attend the
hearings on AB-1, but after the
current negotiations and compromises the trip is questionable.
Anyone wishing further information should contact the Boycott
Office at 266-1391 or La Raza
Studies at 487-2848.
Editor:
"Confidentiality" was the Dean
of the School of Social Science
The deadline for all applications for the position of the new / and the President's response.
Asian-American studies coordi- · CONFIDENTIALITY?? Are the
students that unscrupulous? Why .
natc,r has passed.
then, even allow these "confidenThe selection committee is
tial files" to leave the campus
currently reviewing the applicafor the convenience of the dean
tions submitted. Yet, tnere is only
to browse through at his leisure?
one non-voting student member
Wasn't he also concerned about
on this selection committee. The
the •innocent bystander" losing
remaining me mbers are instruchis "virginity" at the sight of
tors out of the Asian-American
those "confidential files." (My,
studies discipline and one nonthe Nixon tapes should have been
voting community representative.
so protected.)
This is understandable .- considNo, this explanation is dubious'.
ering that there is presently only
How can he permit only one stuone Asian-American studies indent to view these "confidential
structor and he is among the apOur thanks also to the Fresno
files" and yet maintain his poplicants . It would be slightly un. Unitarian Church who recently
sition of confidentiality by perfair to include him as a member
sponsored the showing of "Wny
mitting these files to leave his
of this committee. (He may vote
We Boycot t" and "Si Se Puede,"
office, let alone the campus?
. against himself.~
two VFW made films helping la
All we request is t.hat the stucausa. On Sunday, May 18, "Why
The situation is that there
dents he given an opportunity to
We
Boycott'' will he shown on
aren't any othe r Asian-American
vindicate their "low morals ." The
Channel 24 . The film will be
Studies instructors, whose instudents• a re the ones who are ulbroadcast as part of "La Comusights would be invaluable as to
timately affected by the comnidad del Valle," a weekly show
the intangible aspects required
mittee's decision. Morally. the
sponsored by TACOMA (Teleof the new .coordinator, to fill this
students should have an equal
vision Advisory Committee of
void ,
voice on the course that their
M-exi'"can-Americans).
program will chart. Education is
The question that now arises is
travelled along a two-way street.
"Why can't more student repreThe development of a curriousentation be admitted onto theselum should neither rest solely on
lection committee: ·· In lieu of this
the faculty nor the students, but
missing dimension, shouldn't the
in conjunction with each other's
students be consulted: "Tokenperspective of education.
ism'' does not constitute viable
consultation.
Beurp Junior
C·h ihuahua Tortilleria named
best small . business in area
BY Ernesto ~Ioreno
The Chihuahua Restaurant and
Tamale Factory opened its doors
for husiness on August 4. 1948
at 719 "G" St. in Fresno, California.
·
Twenty-seven years later, the
business now known as the Chihuahua Tortilleria is being recognized for being the hest small
husi111:1ss in the western region of
the United States and in the
San Joaquin Valley.
The business has been awarded
the National Economic Developmi.>nt Association award, the·
Small Business Administration
award for the San Joaquin Valley
and
thP
MexicaQ-American
Chamber of Commerce Award, ·
which is statewide.
Ttw business was founded by
Fidencio Victor Villegas and his .
parents. Jose Francisco and
Hilaria Villegas in August, 1948.
The founders of the business
are considered . by many to be
the pioneers in the retailing and
wholesaling of tortillas in the
San Joaquin Valley.
The business sprung from a
small restaurant and tamale factory on the old "GM Street location
into the modern plant and distribution center at 718 "F" St.
In speaking with Fidel Villegas
about ·the business that he says
belongs to his family, which includes his brother Jose Francis~;') Vijlegas, his wife Corina
and nis sister-in-law Elaine, the
years of de ter mination and dedi-
cation were evident as the man
spoke with pride.
Speaking with any member of
the Villegas family, one can sense
the respe t and admiration they
all hold for the man who sacrificed many years of his early life
to · make the business what it is
today. ·
Francisco, or ~iko as he is
better known among his family
aµd friends, recalled when his
older brother first tried to sell
the tortil · a as a product to a grocery store.
The owner of the store, said
Kiko, threw the product in Fidel's
face stating, "I don't want any
Mexican produc.ts or any Mexican
people in my store."
Although Fidel encountered
these harriers and obstacles, he
was determined in making this
business venture a success.
In response to this, Fidel said,
although he has encountered people such as the store owner men tioned above, he also has met
people who were willing to give
him th~ opportunity to sell his
produc~
·
He said, "I appreciate any and
all people for treating me with
respect and for allowing me to
accomplish the goal of making the
tortilla business a success.
"I feel good about the awards
given us as a company, I plan to
continue the business in the same
manner . . . I don't plan to quit.
Hopefully the awards will ·give us
more enthusiasm to continue i m proving our business."
Anyone interested in helping
coor-dinate a fund raising dance
for the Boycott Office may call
266-1391 or 48-7 -2848 and ask for
Grace Solis.
If you are interested in arrang-
ing for a UFW representative to
speak to your group or class,
please let the Boycott Office
know. We have some good speakers available. No fee, but donations are also welcome.
WOULD _YOU Ll'KE TO HE.LP?
_ _ I would like to pledge $ _
all the SCAB GALLO WINE).
$5-, $10--;$20 - for the next six months beginning with the month of
NAME _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
ADDRESS _ _ _ _ _ _ __
__ I would liketohelporganize
fundraisers.
PHONE _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
_ _ I would like to help collect
food and clothing.
Please fiil out and return to:
UFW - Fresno Boycott Office
841 W. Belmont
Fresno, CA 93705
__ I can refer names of organizations who are willing to
help.
Phone: (209) 266-1391
_ _ I canhelpcollectofficesupplies.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS
SUMMER THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HELPING WIN
JUSTICE FOR FARM WORKERS?
_ _ I can help full-time in the
Boycott Office.
__ I can help picket.
__ I can help in this way
The Boycott Office is in desperate need of office supplies,
~specially scotch tape, poster
hoards, tables, Roolidex cards,
a bulletin board,. cardboard for
signs, poster paint, brushes,
staples, file cabinets, felt pens,
thumh tacks, stencils, dittomasters, duplicating fluid, photocopy
paper (for speedo printer), dictionaries, calendars, city maps
and a garbage can with a lid (for
The UFW needs. single people
who don't have heavy financial
obligations to work on the Los
Angeles Boycott..
Full-time staff members are
paid room and board plus five
dollars a week. The key months
will be from June to September.
Our goal is to maintain the
stores we have already cleaned
of SCAB GAL,,LO WINE, as well
as make sure that non-union
grapes aren't sold in Los Angeles.
For more information contact:
Terry Carruthers
L.A. BOYCOTT
1434 West Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 381-1136
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4-THE· DAILY COLLEGIAN
Friday, May 9, 1975
Grievance
(Continued from Page 1)
portunlty to have a voice in their
education. A faculty position in
Asian American Studies is being
selected by a committeeoffaculty from other disciplines, with
little knowledge of the program.
Only one student is involved in
the selection process. Is this
university interested in student
needs or are they more concerned
with maintaining their puppet-like
bureaucracy? This is not the first
attempt to thwart students' educational process, nor the last.
Let's stop it now.
3. The Department of Education is critical to liberation of all
Third World People. CSUF is no
exception, since it is the only
major university for almost 100
miles north or south. The CSUF
School of Education has only one
minority faculty member. There
is a total of 50 faculty em ployed
by the School. The curriculum is
not sensitive to various ethnic
groups' cultural differences and
historical contributions. CHE
(Chicanos in Higher Education),
a committee of M.E.C.H.A., has
been trying to obtain the following information:
1) Statistical data on the num ber of Chicanos admitted and
credentialed by the School of
Education.
2) Statistical data on the number of Chicano instructors in
the School
3) The availability of curriculum on the Chicano child
There have been repeated efforts to obtain this information
from Dean Evans, President Baxter and Vice-President Swanson.
None of the requests have been
answered.
4. Affirmative Action is a policy developed by the federal government to insure that parity
takes place in employment for
minorities. At CSUF, the only
parity that is reflected with regard to Third World People is
their representation among custodians, landscapers, and other
maintenance employees. Currently of the 1,019 faculty employed at CSU F, only 36 are
Chicano (16 of these are parttime). All but two of the 36 are
at the lowest classification of
faculty employment. This is in the
CSUF service area comprised of
over 30 per cent Chicanos, or
104,000 residents in Fresno
County.
In the 50 departmentsatCSUF,
only two administrators are minority members and .only nine
departments have any Chicano
faculty. At the rate that the CSUF
administration is complying with
affirmative action plans it will he
2050 hefore any Third World im-,
pact can he realized at CSU F.
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Teamsters
(Continued from Page 2)
As an example~ officials with
a Sanger food processing plant
passed out copies of a Fresno Bee
article pointing to the faults of
the Teamster farm worker project to workers before an election. The Teamsters lost the
election.
ousted o r g a n i z e r Macias
charged that Teamster officials
were planning to dilute the power
of the farm worker locals by putting ,them under other Teamster
locals. That happened a few
mo_nths later.
The Teamsters have been
known tQ be a disruptive force
on the side of the growers whenever efforts were made to organize field hands. In a recent
bribery trial of two Salinas grow!'i. ASB elections are another
ers, witnesses told how a Teamexample of discrimination. In
ster organizer brought in Team1974 a minority slate won most - sters from out of town to disrupt
of the Senate posts and the presiUFW organizing efforts. In redency. A series of vague protests
turn, the Teamsters official made
were lodged, including one citing
demands on growers for "exsix ballots that were unaccounted
penses."
for. The protests were declared
Soon after the UFW moved
valid and the election was invaliinto the Salinas Valley, following
dated. [n 197!'i, a minority slate
the signing of the grape contracts,
narrowly lost most of the posts.
growers in Salinas Valley anA series of valid protests, includnounced that they- had signed a
ing 30 ballots unaccounted for
contract with the Teamsters covwere then filed. The protests
ering field hands. A judge later
were clenied and the election reruled that the contracts had been
sults were certified hy Dean Bell.
signed without any consent from
Once again, discrimination is
the workers.
practiced on minority students.
When the Teamsters made
their decision to move into the
These and other discri minafields, Teamster boss Frank
tory practices continue to occur
Fitzsimmons made the announceevery day. Don't think it can't
ment at, of all places, the
happen to you!! Student rights
American Farm Bureau Convenare constantly violated hy this
tion in Los Angeles in 1972.
The Farm Bureau Ls known as
an anti-labor group, and Fitzsimmons became the first labor
official to address the Bureau.
It would take a book to show all
election should he nulli ficd.
Baxter · said several elec-tions
the evidence of the collusion between growers and Teamsters,
would he run again he rausf' it
seem1:1d as though the 30 unhath middle-class t,.nglo conservative groups, known for opaccountect for hallots would make
pressing Chicanos. But more and
a difference in those rac-es.
Bustamante said this was not
more, people are seeing that the
United Farm Workers have been
enough concession, anct said he
the only group that has fought for
felt the university should follow
the interf'St of farm workers on
the same logic this year as he
felt it had last year.
hoth the state and national level.
"Then it is all or nothing?.,
As Cf'sar Chavez put it, "We
asked Baxter.
shook thP. tree and the Teamsters
"Right," said Bustamante.
pickPd up the fruit."
"Are you asking me to overIt is time for all Chicanos and
any person who calls himself a
turn the dean?" Baxter continued.
"Yes," replied Bustamante.
good union- man to denounce the
•My decision is not to overcorrupt Teamster move into the
rule," said Baxter.
fields. Some Teamster officials
Baxter said the machinery was
have admitted that their only
functioning properly, hut the stuhave admitted that they are only
dents said it was not. Baxter arinterested in organizing machine
gued that the interpretations deoperators on farms for the dues
pended on who was interpreting.
money, and in the process sell
Bustamante said one final time
out the field hands.
that the decision to overrule the
The scenes of Teamster goons
results was natural and that it
heating on farm workers, includshould be done on the "logic of
ing women, in the Coachella
last year."
valley and Kern Count~· are vivid
•I'.m not going to do that~ Cruz,"
in many people•s minds. You
said Baxter, "unless Dean Bell
might say it's the Teamst_ers'
recommends that to me . • . "
way of doing things.
Baxter_'s election ruling
(Continued from Page 1)
two centered around the so-called
"Bell Memorandum," which was
the document issued last year to
nullify the entire student body
elections and force them to he
run again.
The controversy both this year
and last year was heightened because during the elections last
year, the forced re-running of
the elections caused the removal
of the winning slate from power.
That slate was topped by Grace
Solis, who received the most
votes for president; Maria Garcia, who was unopposed for administrative vice-president; and
Mario Galvan, who was not challenged in his bid to be legislative vice-president.
The re-running of the election
reversed these victories, and
made Steve Moe president; Janet
Pender administrative vicepresident; and David Price III
legislative vice-president.
Dean Bell defended his decision
of las_t year during the meeting,
and said the main difference between the variances of this year
and those of last year was that
last year the variances involved
actions before the elections be·gan. This year, he said, the actions involved were concerned
mainly with when voting was going
on.
Bustamante argued the logic
used in both cases was the same;
that in some cases students had
to wait 15 or more minutes in
order to_ vote and became discouraged; that because there was
sometimes no indication that voting was going on, many students
did not vote; and that all of the
grievances together indicated the
administration.
Students' rights and ethnic programs are being denied. Third
World students invite you to support us in our struggle.
Court
(Continued from Page 2)
# 1 a charge that wasn't prop-
erly addressed by the administration is the matter of people
in charge of a polling area, when
they had no business being in
there. In the Election Code, it
very clearly indicates that the.
chairperson is responsible for
the recruitment of poll workers.
Yet Mohan Singh, only a poll
worker himself, decided to leave
his area of responsibility and in
doing so left an unauthorized
student to take care of any business.
#2 there were 30 ballots unaccounted for. A Chicano dominated election last year was invalidated because of a discrepancy of six (6) ballots. It was
branded, at the time, as "probable
stuffing" of the ballot box.
This year when Chicanos were
defeated, the administra ton has
pawned off the 30 ballots by saying it's very possible that one of
the sheets with signatures has
been lost. This is exactly the opposite reaction and clearly shows
a biased and double-standard
policy being applied.
#3 and #4 in two instances,
some students were not allowed to
vote.
a. Because the computer print:outs were so screwed up, students' names were not on the
print-out sheets. Even whenID
and activities cards were shown
students still were not allowed
to vote in the school elections.
b. Students wanting to vote we re
pressured into not voting due
to long lines at the polls. Students t 1d to decide between going to class or voting.
#5 and #6 The election committee
amended the election code when
they had no authority to do so.
They decided to write in a prohibiting on leafleting in buildings.
They had no right. Their job was
to interpret what was written,
not to make up things as they
went along.
Also the committee decided
two protests without proper representation by the individuals filing the protests.
The Election Committee, in
order to come to a valid decision on protests should ask participants from all sides concerned, then decide when all
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the facts are in.
Other inconsistencies included
things like #7, misinformation by
the Student Affairs Office (concerning the filing ofprotests)anct
#8, unfair coverage by The Dail
Collegian to write-in candidate;
except for those on the ~Pric;
ticket."
Still other things included #9
voting booths which were not
up at their specified time (an
hour and forty minutes in one specific case) and #10, decisions
made by the Election Committee
were not al ways accessible to all
candidates during the election.
When Dean Bell was confronted
with all the discrepancies he
said, "I only recommend t; the
President." When we confronted
the President he said, "Dean Bell
has the authority."
So it went, rhetoric and the
runaround from both of them.
Students are now, for the first
time, realizing that their institution has a policy based on hypocrisy, prejudice and obvious
double standards.
Discussion is rapidly coming
to an end, even though all communicative levels are being tried.
This article is an attempt to
establish awareness among students and hopefully to let the powers on campus understand we are
still going to pursue this and
other issues that face us on this
campus.
Students need to make sure
that they're informed and then
act on that information.
They will!
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