La Voz de Aztlan, March 10 1976

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La Voz de Aztlan, March 10 1976

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La Voz de Aztlan, March 10 1976

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Associated Students of Fresno State

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La Voz de Aztlan (Daily Collegian, California State University, Fresno)

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Fresno, California

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3/10/1976

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LA VOZ
>

DE AZTLAN

Wednesday, March 10, 1976
LXXX/92 .

A special

edition of

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California State University, Fresno

Chica n itos lose
if Escuelita goes
Th e fut ure of Es cu e lita will be d ec ided next week at the Fresno
County Boa rd of Supe rvi s ors m ee ting. The 'Supervisors will d e cide
whether th e pre - school w ill be re funded - wheth e r it live s or di e s.

It has had to meet requirements
by Angie Rios
What once was a pre-school · concerning building codes not
found in the usual labor camps,
center for the campesino combut common practice among the
munity in Fresno, has opened its
city boundaries wherein the predoors to children of urban parents
school campus finds itself.Instiin an effort to avoid being closed
tutionalized prerequisites, nicedown.
ties in the labor camp, became
Escuelita, in existence for allaw within those boundaries.
most two years, found the conEscuelita, a component of the
ventional hours . of 8 to 5 are not
Universidad de Campesino Libthe farmworker's hours.
res, Inc., offers a bilingual-biBecause farmworkers almost
cultural program to children enalways start work earlier than
rolled ranging in age from two to
eight o'clock, Escuelita had probfive years.
lems with enrollment from the
The 28 children attend the
start.
school located across from RoedThis was only one of the many
ing Park 9n the corner of Belproblems alien to the regular
mont and Teilman Avenues in
pre-school curriculum, but often
what once was Fresno Union
too common to the normal atmoAcademy, a Seventh Day Advensphere of a farmworking family.
tist School.
La Escuelita, faced with the
UCLI pays for the rent, and
coming together of two worlds the building is leased by the
the regular anglicized, profesGreater California Education
sional white collar environment
Project, Inc. (GC EP):
of most pre-schooler's parents
Amelia Castro andDelmaGarversus the Chicano farmworki.ng
cia, botl} CSUF graduates, are
campeEino lifestyle of most of
full-time teachers at Escuelita.
Escuelita's pupils -- faced a new
Garcia is the head teacher in
quandry.
charge of administrative duties
It (the administra ion) had to
and the four aides on the Escuemeet the requirements of the
lita staff.
funding bodies and yet function to
The school day begins at 8 a.m.
meet the needs of its people (Continued on Page 4, Col. I)
the campesinos.

LA ESCUE LI TA, IF RE FUS.ED money by the Board of Supervisors, may have to close. It is located on
Belmont and Teilman near Roeding Park. (Photo by Ramon Perez)

Trabaiadores set
rally to air iss·ues
A rally will be held next Wednesday, March 17, on cam pus by
the Chic:mo social workers organizdtion to initiate support and
awareness of issues they are
challenging in the School of Social
Wor.k.

Unida, Corazon

Mobilizing begins for
two-mile Fr:esno march
Demonstration .of solidarity toward La Causa and to other Chicanos will be the theme behind
"La Marcha de Unidad," said
Gloria Hernandez, president of
Las Adelitas.
The march, tobeheldonSaturday, April 17, will be a means
for various segments of the Spanish-speaking to focus attention on
problems encountered by the
Spanish-speaking within the San
Joaquin Valley.
These problems include such
things as unemployment, discrimination, the lack of educational opportunities for the Span-

ish-speaking, and the problem
of union busting.
There has been a com it e
formed to organize this comunal
event that will begin with a march
of more than two mile-s..to Fresno's Roeding .Park, beginning at
Dickey Playground which is located on the corner of Di vi&,idero
and Blackstone avenues, said the
fiery Chicana leader.
At present, the "Marcha" is
still in the planning stages.
Hernandez said it is expected
that representatives of La,Raza
Unida, the United Farm Workers
of America, MEChA, Trabaja-

Chicana Conf ere nee
lo be in Pinedale
by Anna Noriega
L a Primera Conferencia Ff'\menil will take place Saturday,
March 27 at the Pinedale ·Community Center from 9 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
T he conference, which is being co-sponsored by the League
of Mexican American Women and
the ··)ntinuing Education Program of the School of Social
Work, is part of a masters

thesis for Josie Mena, Luis Contreras and Paul Chacon.
The workshop will cover four
major topics: Legal Rights of
Women, Assertive Training, Career Opportunities for Wom en,
,rnd Women in Politics.
Gloria Molina, state president
of Comision Femenil Mexicana,
parent organization for the
League of Mexican American
(Continued on Page 4, Col. 3)

dores de La Raza, and other
interested community organizations will participate in the event.
The Marcha, she continued, is
being sponsored by La Raza Unida
Party.
Security will be provided by
legal observers, with monitors
being provided by La Raza Unida,
"Los Dorados" (a local Chicano
motorcycle club), and Chicano
Vietnam veteranos.
Once at the park there will be
speakers addressing various issues relevant to the Chicano
community.
There will be no drinking of
alcoholic beverages allowed in
accordance with a city ordinance
that prohibits consumption of alcoholic beverages in all city
parks.
The Marcha, which will begin
at 11 a.m. (the 2-mile walk taking
approximately 45 minutes), will
end at 7 p.m .; with most of the
time being spent at the park.
Although the initial steps have
been taken to o r g an i z e the
Marcha, there is need for more
•ayuda .. " Meetings will be held
every Thursday until the Marcha
at t,he UCLI campus, which is located a cross from Roeding Park
on the corner of Bel mont and
Teilman avenues.
For more information concerning "La Marcha de Corazon,"
contact Gloria Hernandez at this
number ••• 237-6967.

If the rally gains support of
students, it will mark the first
Chicano demonstration since last
spring's controversy over the de:..
partmentalization of La Raza
Studies.

The CSUF chapter of T rabajadores de la Raza, a national Chicano social workers organization, is sponsoring the rally which
will take place in the Free Speech
Area and at the S<:hool of Social
Work from 12-2 p.m.
TR President Jesse Solis said
last week a formal complaint was
made to Dean Richard Ford asking why action has not been taken
<;>n concerns which Solis says TR
has expressed through an organization newsletter begun this year.
"We have a wide range of concerns that have been expressed,"
said Solis, "but we've never got
any feedback from the (SW) administration to rectify those
complaints."
In a circular drafted by TR,
the organization touches on five
concerns dealing basically with
affirmative action, the hiring
procedure within the school, the
selection process of Chicanos into the school, the recruitment of
Chicanos, and a lack of minority
curricula.
Solis said their newsletter,
which is pritited bi-weekly, has
been the only form of communication of the concerns to Ford,
who is sent every copy. Ford
acknowledged this yesterday in an
interview.
According to Solis, the rally,
in addition to instigating public
awareness, would be a public support for SW lecturer Luis Sosa,
whose lectureship is terminating
this year. Sosa's regular twoyear lectureship ended last year
but the school was able to obtain
a one-year exte_nsion with hopes
of a tenure-tract position opening
up, said Ford.
However, although two tracts
became available, they were taken away from the school by the
university because of a decrease
in full-time equivalency (FTE).
"We want ·to show Sosa the Chicano is behind' him and what he's
done for Chicanos," said Solis,

acknowledging that hls position
c:an no longer be saved for him.
In other areas, however, Solis
said TR is dissatisfied with the
School of Social Work, particularly in the hiring of an Anglo to
run the Rural Child Welfare Project.
Encompassing the Chicano regional areas of Mendota, Firebaugh and Kerman, the RCWP is
a CSUF field placement offered
by the school. The field instruc(C~ntinued on Page 4, Col. 1)

Team seeks
'
Ryan input
tonight ·
The Extern a 1 Assessment
Team, which evaluates the School
of Education, will conduct a hearing tonight to receive student
opinions on the School's performance under the Ryan Act.
The team meets at 7 p.m. in
Ed-Psyche room 102.
Alfredo Alvarado, representative to the tea~ from Chicanos
in Higher Education (CHE), said
it is the first time that students
will be involved in evaluation of
their program.
He said students may discuss
the different aspects of the School
of Education, of~ering pros and
cons to its present status.
The evaluations are then reviewed by the Commission of
Teacher Preparation and Licensing which passes them on to be
considered for attention by the
School, and ultimately to be considered when the School renews
its credentials, according to Alvarado.
He str-:ssed the importance _of
minority Ryan candidate input at
tonight ' s meeting.
"This will give us a way to
participate in determining the
types of teachers this institution
will be sending out to teach our
Chicanitos," said Alvarado.

2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

La Union

Wednesday, March 10, 1976

,

Comentarios
Cesar memo

Amerasian
panel tonight

Republicans' opposition
shoo Id be· remembered

on Wendy

Two hundreds years ago Americans fought and died for selfdetermination. In this Bicentennial year, Republican members
of the California legislature are betraying that sacred legacy
by sabotaging the first law in U.S. history, guaranteeing American farm workers the right to vote in free elections. In this
post-Watergate era; Republican legislators -are excluding the
poorest of the poor from the democratic process. The men and
women who work the land - descendants of embattled farm
workers who fought tyranny two hundred years ago - are being
denied the most basic American freedom by representatives
of your party. Republican opposition to funding forCalifornia's
Agricultural Labor Relations Act is opposition to the right to
vote and opposition to the revolutionary heritage we celebrate
in 1976. The people will remember how Republicans acted
in this historic year.

Education for the Chicano
not limited to. classroom
(The following editorial appeared on Monday, September 29,
1969 in the first Chicano newspaper on CSUF (then FS(') campus following official sanction of the paper. It was 'th<' beginning of what was to come for Chicano studtmts engaged in th<'
pioneering of el movimiento here. In comin~ issues La Vo:r. will
attemp~ to highlight the movement's histor.v at CSUF.)

!Para la raza unida, nada es imposible! With a new academic
year ahead of us, we Raza must remember that much of our
learning will not be done in the classrooms. Life will challenge us every day in ways and means that are not taught in
our classrooms with the cold, austere white walls.
We are the youth, the voice of the present and the conscience
of society. The will to strive for needed changes will come
from us. That need must be fulfilled in the community, schools,
the fields, and wherever Nuestra Raza is.

We Chicano students of Fresno State College vow that we
will never separate ourselves from the Chicano population in
this couhtry; we are brothers through the ties of consanguinity,
of suffering and injustices; and we feel there is more virtue
in suffering with our people ·for a just cause than there would
be in giving in to anything less.
-Jesus Rodriguez, 1969

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The Wendy Yoshimura Fair
Trial Committee was formed in
November, 1975, by the Central
California District Council and
the Fresno Buddhist Church. The
Central · California committee
consists of members of the Jap- .
anese American Citizens League,
FI esno Buddhist Church memhers, and other community mem- .
hers. The committee was originally developed to raise bail for
Ms. Wendy Yoshimura and is not
a defense fund. The fund and the
committee do not presum·e the
innocence or guilt of Wendy Yoshimura, nor do they support her
political beliefs. They are merely instruments to aid in her legal
fees and to assure her a fair trial. Committee chapters have now
been raised in both northern and
sourthern California; to date,
$20,000 has been raised. In Fresno, members of the Fair Trial
Committee include Mike Iwatsubo
and Judge Mikio Uchiyama.

by Manuel "Munchie" Olgin
Mirror, mirror on the wall,
what M EChA year was best of
ull? Huh? Pues que es esta chingadeda? Bueno Raza, la r.:osa es
que se necesiL.l una movida en
esta escuela que se cuenta en
la historia de MEChA. Now, what
the hell does that mean? OK! OK!
I'll say it in English! What we,
(MEChA) need on this c-ampus
is a move to document what we,
they, us, and them have done as
a Chicano student organization,
110w and in the past, for and about
this campus.
Who cares? I do! I care because I feel that there is a significant contribution in my educational experience that I must
attribute to the C liieano organization known as M EChA.
M EChA is a statewide Chicano
student organization ih high
school, junior college and at the
university level. It is not a new
thin~, it's roots are past the

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prenatal st-age. Beyond infancy,
has struggled through adolescence and is the proud parent/
guardian of many Chicanos who
are currently contributing not
only to the betterment of everyday life for Chicanos, but to all
peoples, in · all colors and at all
levels. I know this is trne. I am
one of those peoples.
As one of those peoples, I
will attest to the ·fact that once
students have grown up and graduated, their contribution to society is 11ot just beginning. Rather, I dare say that there contribution to society will be expanding. It expands from the fields
that they have furrowed and nurtured through their college years.
Those mechistas who preceded
us did many things. We who now
occupy this campus have probably
heard bits and pieces of the· past
through hearsay and rumor.
Friends, siblings, teachers and
flirts inform us about the "Did
you knows" of the past. We as a
Raza "know" what happened about
isolated events of the Brown
history of CSUF. That's cool
esse/ essa., but. like there is no
single reference that we can point
to that can verify our existence
on this campus. We have left no
tracks. We have not documented
it

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The following information was
prepared by the Information/Research Dept., La Paz, Keene,
California·.
There have been 382 elections
involving the United Farm Workers, the Teamsters and No Union,
representing 59,856 workers.
45,915 workers have- voted.
There are 329 decided elections representing 44,761 workers.
Of these elections, UFW was
won 205, representing 30,804
workers, which is 68,8 per cent
of the total.
The Teamsters have wqn 102
elections, representing 11, 1 79
workers, which is 25 per cent of
the total. No Union has won 22
elections,
representing 2,778
workers, which is 6.2 per cent
of the total.,
Forty-three elections are undecided,
representing 12,413
workers.
Ten elections have been overturned, representing 2,682 workers. Of these elections, two had
been tallied as UFW victories,
with 427 workers. Six had been
tallied as Teamster victories,
with 1,605 workers. One election
had been tallied as a No Union
victory, with 350 workers; while
another had been tallied as Undecided, representing 300 workers~
Of the 382 elections, 163 were
between the Teamsters and UFW,
encompassing 30,729 workers.
The Teamsters claimed 70
elections,
representing 9,550
workers.
The United Farm Workers
claimed 69 elections, representing 12,501 workers.
No Union won 17 elections with
1,955 workers; while those elections tallied Undecided totaled 22,
representing 4,517 workers.
174 elections were between the
United Farm Workers and No
Union,
encompassing 24,655
workers.
The UFW claimed 135 elec-

tions, with la4, 183 workers. No
Union won 17 elections, with
1,955 workers. Twenty-two elections were Undecided, representing 5,417 workers.
35 elections were betweeri the
Teamsters and No Union, encompassing 1,790 workers. Of these
elections, the Teamsters claimed
33, representing 1,740 workers.
No Union won two elections, representing 50 workers; while no
elections were tallied Undecided.
10 elections have been overturned, representing 2,682 workers.
Elections have been · held at
194 ranches with Teamster contracts. These ranches have a
total of 32,340 workers.
Of the ranches with Teamster
contracts, 93 ranches with 10,593
workers, remained Teamster affiliated.
69 ranches with 11,649 workers switched to UFW.
Six ranches switches to No
Union, representing 938 workers.
Nineteen ranches with 7,198
workers had elections tallied Undecided.
Elections were overturned at
seven ranches, encompassing
1,862 workers.

Know your
union

labels

The following is a list of the
labels used by companies UFW
has signed contracts with as of
February, 1976.
InterHarvest, Inc.,
Lettuce:
Blue Chip
Queen T
Pasco
Eagle Eye
Cypress Point
Salinas Marketing
Admiral



Salinas Pebble Beach
King Pia
Nunes Bros.
Eagle
Show-off
Top Billing
Stately

La historia de la Raza es necesaria

A non-violent struggle has led us to various initial triumphs.
By means of the example set for us lJy Cesar Chavez we shall
overcome the injustices against our people, so institutionalized .
they.are not even recognized by fhe rest of society.

INSTANT

Y.

Tonight in the College Union
Lounge, CSUF will be holding a
panel discussion on "Wendy Yoshimura and the Fair Trial Fund"
as part of the Amerasia Week a~tivities. The issue is one that is
of profound interest and concern
among the Japanese American
and Asian American communities
in the United States. , The panelists will be Mike Iwatsubo of the
Fresno Buddhist Church, Judge
Mikio Uchiyama of the municipal
court, and Professor Edison Uno
of California -State University,
San Francisco.

March 10, 1976
(The following is a telegram sent from UFW President Cesar
Chavez to Mary Louise Smith, chairperson of the Republican
National Committee in February.)

telephone confirmations

UFW.election results

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our hearts and minds on this
campus. Yet we are the biggest
university in the central ·portion
of the biggest state in the United
States of Amerika!
How can you help? There are
several ways. If you have brothers or sisters who attended CSUF
in years past, check out what they
have not thrown away from the
old days at Fresno State. Old
papers, agendas, noticias, pictures or other chismes may be
gathered and brought to us. We
will sort and either return or use
what is av a i1 ab 1 e for "The
MEChA Files." If you are new
on cam pus and can contribute
nothing but time, your help is
sorely needed. In all circumstances materials will be respected and properly treated.
Copies can be made of sentimental mementos and returned.
Whatever the situation, all help
is appreciated. For further de'tails. you may contact me (Manuel
Olgin) at 486.-6458 or 487-2924,

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Opiniones de la gente

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN -3
· Wednesday, March 10, 1976

COPA sets

Las ·voces speak out for a Chicano press
Jn an effort to obtain various Chicano student viewpoints on the
status of minority editions should the Daily Collegian merge with the
Journalism Department, La Voz de Aztlan past editor Ernesto Moreno
sampled some students on the matter. Herewith are some responses
he received to the query, "What do you think of the possible merger
of La Voz within the Journalism Department?"
· ·

is something I can relate to, and I feel it's really good that there is
a La Voz with Chicanos behind it. If we lose La Voz, we're going to
start losing a lot more of what we have struggled to achieve for the
Chicano on this campus."
REUBEN DE SANTIAGO, SOCIAL WELFARE MAJOR:

JUAN GARZA, HEALTH SCIENCE MAJOR:
People are viewing the possibility of a merger as a loss of community contact; in reality it may lead to more in the long run. If
Chicano students allow La Voz to merge, they'd be throwing down
the drain all that has been put into making the paper what it is. The
mere f~ct that there is a La Voz promotes a positive attitude within
the Chicano students on this campus, because it is their newspaper.
If there is a ·merger it may be Lie first step in doing away with
a nything that is Chicano oriented •.• in that if this can be done to
La Voz, which is a tool of the Chicano students, what will be next in
line .•• "La Raza Stt1dies?"
ALEJANDRO CONTRERAS, ENGLISH MAJOR, (&X-EDITOR LA
VOZ, FALL AND SPRING 1972):

/

I'm against it because I feel that it would impose censorship and
restraints on the policy of Chicano journalism that is now contained
within the structure of LA VOZ.
I will continue to oppose such a move until the Journalism Department can provide guidelines that would enable La Voz to continue
reporting news stories that are much needed and very relevant to
the Chicano on this campus. A merger without these guideli11es would
limit La Voz to rep,ortiug what t~e Journalism Department feels is
important, without any input and decision making from the Chicano
faction on this campus.
DARLENE JUAREZ, NURSING MAJOR:
If it's going to hur_t La Voz, I don't think it should happen. La Voz

I'd be against a merger because the Journalism Department would
censor news stories and issues that are important to the Chicanos
on this campus. In other words, I don't feel the Journalism Department has become sensitive to the needsofthe Chicano in general.

MARTHA GOMEZ, UNDECLARED MAJOR:
No, I don't feel La Voz should merge with the Journalism Department because I believe La Voz belongs to the Chicanos on this
campus; it's an essential tool that helps the Chicano student become
aware of what's happening on campus and within the community. La
Voz promotes the unity between college students and the community
••• helping each of them overcome ,social injustices.

DAVID GOMEZ, UNDECLARED MAJOR:
I feel that if a merger did happen it would eliminate input from
many Chicano students. La Voz· is for the Chicano students, enabling
them to express their needs and opinions. If merged, the original
concept of La Voz would be done away with ••• in essence, it would
no longer be La Voz of La Raza!
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LINDA PEREZ, SOCIAL WELFARE MAJOR:
"No, because having a separate or your own paper, you 're working
for yourself. Working under someone else would defeat the purpose
of La Voz ••• in that we would he limiting ourselves.

Mural art contest
slated Mar. 10-14

Mar. 19 dance, raffle
to fund scholarships
For the first time in its "five.year history, the CSUF C.hicano
Faculty, Staff and Student Organization will raise enough money to
offer scholarships to students.
CFSSO President Tommie Cruz
said this Monday in announcing
that tickets are! now available for
the club's fundraising dance next
. Friday, March 19 at the Fairgrounds.
The dance will culminate a
corre sponding fundraiser presently under way in the form ·of a
raffle for a trip for two to Mexico City during Easter vacation.
Tickets for the dance, which
will fe ature Beto Garcia, and
Motambo, are priced at $2.50 per
person and are available through

any organization member.
tion primarily concerned with
The Mexico trip tickets are . Affirmative Action issues but
$1 each, which may be deducted
open to matters concerning stufrom a meal worth $5 or more
dents and presently employed
at Plaza Mexican Restaurant in
faculty and support staff emFresno. Tickets for either fundployees, conducts successful
raiser may also be obtained by
fundraisers, according to the
calling 487-1021.
president.
The most notable of these are
-Ms. Cruz said the organization
hopes to raise approximately
the occasional food sales on cam$1,000 with their efforts to add
pus in which burritos and tamalto their present treasury of$700.
es are homemade ·and sold. Ms.
. Cruz said these sales usually
"We _hop~ to be able to award
two to tnree scholarships," said
bring in anywhere from $75 to
Ms. Cruz. "The amount will de$200.
pend on how well we do· on the
Other persons that may be
raffle and dance. Hopefully, each
contacted for tickets are fundscholarship will be between $200
raiser committee chairpersons
and $500."
Robert Hernandez and Manuel
CFSSO, which is an organizaNunez at 487-1021.

A Mexican mural art contest
will be held March 10-14 at the
Cherry Auction Swap Meet in
Fresno. Prizes of $i5 and $25
are being offered.
Competition will be limited to
only 10 artists. A preliminary
sketchi11g of a Mexican or Aztec
mural is necessary. For more
information contact CSUF Art
Professor Ernie Palomino at
266-1311 (home .phone).

law school recruiters
La Raza Law Students of McGeorge School of Law will recruit interested Latino applicants
· at the school in Sacrameryto
March 13.
The recruitment day will begin
at 2 p.m. in Auditorium J, McGeorge Law School, 3200 Fifth
A venue, Sacramento, CA. Phone
numbers to call are (916) 457_2197, (916) 441- 7095.

Student interns tor~educational
WICHE summer project needed
Students interested in working
on an intern project related to
their field of interest this summer may now apply for a position.

Sponsored by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher
Education (WICHE), the int_ernships run 12 weeks with each
intern receiving a tax-exempt
edu cational stipend of $100 per
week.
Applicants must be juniors,
seniors or graduate students.
WICHE has operated the Res ource s Development Internshi.p
Program for the past seven years
seeking students from all aca demic disciplines to work with
profe s sionals in western agencies, said RDIP spokesperson
Angela Chavez.
They work together on projects
rela,. l to environmental protection, humanities, economic
development, planning, health,
science policy, law, engineering

and education, among others.
Ms. Chavez said over 1,000
internship projects have been
developed with intern placements
occurring in fields such as these.
In benefiting communities, students and colleges, the RDIP has
shown a "consistent growth," said
Ms. Chavez.

Applications and more information may be obtained by contacting La Raza Studies Coordinator Alex Saragoza, San Ramon
Building 4, room 132, phone 4&72848.

A seminar on photography will
be conducted next Monday night
as the first project of the recently formed _Chicano Organization of Photographers_and Artists (COPA).
Spokesperson Robert Hernandez said the seminar will include
topics ranging from basics discussions to various advanced
techniques.
"It will be pretty much an informational type thing to help
get the · club going," said Hernandez.
"COPA was created to bring
together those individuals who
have the desire to promote Chicano culture through the creative mediums of art and photography," he said.
He said COPA is intended to
give Chicanos who are unfamiliar
with the various forms of art
a chance to break into this world
and give those experienced a
chance to further their abilities.
Hernandez said that at present
other objectives are to conduct
art shows and photo exhibits
relative to the Chicano.
"We would assist in the development of ·artistic and photographic skills within the Chicano
community through workshops
and lectures," said Hernandez.
The seminar Monday will begin
at 7:30 p.m. in College Union
room 312.

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"This is primarily because of
increasing local support," she
said, adding an increase is expected over last year's 280 field
interns.
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expanded because the Intern
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LRS statf meets

Wednesday, March 10, 1976

National Chicano conference
set next month in El Paso
A National Conference of Chicano Social Scientists is scheduled for April 23-25 in El Paso,
Texas.
According to La Raza Studies
Director Alex Saragoza, several
members of the LRS faculty intend to go to the conference.
"It will be an excellent opportunity for students to learn about
the current trends in the Movement," said Saragoza.
Several workshops are planned
in the areas of the mass medi~,

oral history I methodology in the
. social sciences and Chicanos, and
on race and labor in the Southwest.
It is hoped that students may
be able to attend the conference.
The faculty has discussed the
possibility of a car pool lor those
interested in going to the El Paso
meeting.
"There have been some funda·mental changes in the tone of' the
Movimiento," said Sa ragoza,
"that will be the un·d ercurrent of

ShoUld Escuelita be fundedt
(Continued from Page 1)
with the signing-in of the children
and a free-play period.
•The children are divided into
four age groups," said Castro,
who is in charge of morning activities, including a period of
academic work. "These groups
include the three- to five-yearolds. Here they learn how to write
the ~!phabet and begin spelling."
The afternoon period consists
of varied activities, including art,
music, story-reading and playtime. They are also provided with
a snack.
Most of the equipment in the
building was donated by different
organizations or companies. For
instance, the tables in the room

were originally large w i re
"spools" used by PG&E which the
company donated and cut in half
for the school's purpose. Also,
much of the supplies, such as
paper, are provided by UCLI.
Officials say the goal of Escuelita is to provide a bicultural
learning environment. It is aimed
at strengthening the child c ,11turally and to develop a positive
self image and identity, so he or
she may perform -to his/her own
abilities upon entering the regular elementary school system.
Escuelita will terminate functioning in April if no further
funds are provided.
"But, worst of all," says Castro, "it will be a loss for the
kids."

TR: arouses awareness
(Continued from Page 1)
tor, Polly Victor, was also hired
by the school.
Trabajadores attacked this decision claiming the non-Chicano
instructor "does not understand
the c11lture, customs, traditions
or language of the Chicano community."
"The school was unprofessional because it did not consult the
Chicano community of Trabajadores de Ia Raza as to who it was
going to hire," said the TR circular.
Ford said the School of Social
Work wrote the grant for this
project "rather hastily" and that
they were operating · "way past
the normal hiring period of the
university.•
He said of twelve applicants,
four were Sp an is h surname.
Three were "considered seriously," he said, before one of those
three, Jose Garcia, was selected
for the Community Mental Health
grant in Parlier.
The remaining two lacked the
necessary experience for the job,
according to Ford. From there,
he said, it was Polly Victor or
no one.
Ford said Andrew Alvarado,
former Affirmative Action officer now at Stanford University,
was consulted throughout the procedure.
The dean labeled as "ridiculous" the Chicano charges that
non-Chicanos were insensit(ve to
Chicano community concerns.
"I think that obvious social
work practical methodology is
culture and lifestyle," said Ford.
"What we do have is practice modalities which are applicable to a
variety of individual concerns.
"To say it is impossible for
non-Chicanos to work with Chicanos just is not true."
Solis said the Chicano graduate
students all want to be involved in
selecting future Chicano grad
students, as was the practice until Ford lltopped it last year.
"We feel we can make better
selections because we know and
understand the Chicano's cultural
background more than non-Chi-

canos," said Solis.
Ford said the Aclmis~ions
Committee, whose five members
consist of three no11-m inority
graduate students, one from the
Black caucus, and one frorn TH,
reviews all candidates l>ut no
lo11ger allows Chicanos to exclusively interview Chicanos because of the possibility of reverse discrimination.
He said the school would l>e
open to lawsuits lrom non-minority students who felt they were
being denied admission.
Solis said the relevancy of
Chkanos selecting Chicanos is
that through involvement in an interview they can tell "quite a bit"
about the individual.
· "We have to select the best
Chicanos who will be the best social workers," he said.
TR is also dissatisfied in the
area of recruiting minorities into
the school, charging that many of
the responsibilities are placed on
TR.
"It's the school's responsibility to have an effective recruitment program," said Solis. "It's
the students' responsibility to assist as much _as possible. They
haven't tak~n the initiative to do
recruiting or to ailocate monies."
Ford commented, "The effectiveness of the Admissions Committee to recruit minorities certainly is not as active as in the
past."
He said this is affected by the
difficulty of students to obtain financial assistance to stay in
school. He said that financial
packages and training g r a n t s
available for graduate students
are dwindling. He said of the
present financial assistance Chicanos receive 65 per cent.
He also said the school is not
receiving funds to effectively recruit, although they apply for
monies from the universities.
"I'll be the first to admit recruiting is inadeauate overall "
said Ford, "but ,;e have to co~sider these factors."
Solis said he hopes students
will respond to the issues through
the rally.



on issues, retreat
At its faculty meeting yesterday I the La Raza Studies staff
discussed several important
problems facing the program.

the conference."
The meeting promises to be
controversial and stimulating to
any student interested in the
Movement, said Saragoza. Many
of the Chicano "heavies" in history, sociology, anthropology,
and other disciplines will present
papers and comments on the
above issues.
Students interested in further
information should contact Alex
S.aragoza in La Raza Studies
( 487-2848) as soon as possible.

Apparently the administration
has decided to cut back the faculty allocation of the program.
Presently the program has an
allocation of 7.05 positions. For
the academic year 1976-77, the
program has been slated for -a
6.50 allocation. According to La
Raza Studies director Alex Saragoza, the cutback is in fact one
whole position from previous administration commitments.

Chicanas

Saragoza stated that the program was to receive an allocation
of 7.55 positions for 1975-76.
Later this was reduced to 7 .o 5.
Therefore, since last year, the
program has in effect taken a cut
of one position; one instructor
usually offers four classes.
"A vicious cycle occurs," said
Saragoza, "since our enrollment
will decline further because we
will offer fewer classes due to the
cutback.
"Since
the administration
bases its attack on low enrollments in La Raza Studies, this
is setting us up for another cut
next year."
On the other hand, Saragoza
admitted that enrollment in La

(Continued from Page 1)
Women, will be the keynote
speaker.
Some of the panelists include
Margaret Cruz, past state president of the Mexican American
Political Association (MAPA),
Teresa Perez, La Raza Studies
professor, Celia Gomez, CSUF
Affirmative Action coordinator
and Alex Saragoza, La Raza
Studies coordinator.
A $3 registration f:e, which
includes lunch, will be charged.
J:t'or further information, please
call the School of Social Work at
487-1192, Mercy Bencomo at
226-3071, or Luis Contreras at
251-0701.

Raza Studies ha~ leveled off from
previous years.
"Perhaps we are seeing a
change," s.aid Saragoza, "in what
students expect from the program."
Consequently, he said, the faculty will review the curriculum
of the program. Saragoza stated
that the review committee will
consist of students and faculty.
RETREAT DISCUSSED
The most important issue,
however, was the discussion of
a proposed retreat for La Raza
Studies faculty, staff and students. It was decided that the retreat would take place on March
26 and 26. With the approval of
the School of Social Sciences, the
program would cancel all classes
on those dates.
"The purpose of the retreat is
to allow the faculty to air in depth
their views, concerns, and possible solutions to the problems
of La Raza Studies," said Saragoza.
He stressed the importance of
·Student input in the retreat.
Further details on these matters are available at the La Raza
Studies office. The next faculty
meeting will be largely devoted
to the planning of the proposed
retreat.

Medi-Corps taking applications
services to migrant families.
The different areas that the
students will be workin in are:
physical screening, translating
medical problems, preventive
dentisty, preventive health care,
nutrition, infant health care, etc.
Although they will be hitting
the ·areas mentioned, the teams,
consisting of one graduate health
professional student and two undergraduate students, will basically be involved in teaching preventive medicine and disseminating health care information.
There are several qualifications for admittance into MediCorps. As well as being sensitive to the needs of migrant children, the student must be en-

Medi-Corps is taking applications for their 1976 summer program for students interested in a
health profession.
The program, for bilingualbicultural students, provides for
health education and service to
migrant children and their families. The program objectives
.ire:
1. To provide direct categorical services to migrant children
which match or exceed performance standards prescribed in
the California Master Plan.
2. To increase the number of
l>ilingual professionals who are
specifically trained, experienced
and committed to provide health

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rolled full-time in an institution
of higher learning and must demonstrate a financial need in continuing his education.
Other qualifications for MediCorps are that the student have
satisfactory academic status and
have a career in rural health as
a goal. The applicant must also
be able to co·mmunicate in both
English and Spanish.
Deadline for the applications
is March 20. They may be obtained by writing to Bay Area
Raza C o a 1 it ion for Health
(BARCH), 1477 Fruitvale Avenue,
Oakland, California 94601, or by
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A special

edition of

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California State University, Fresno

Chica n itos lose
if Escuelita goes
Th e fut ure of Es cu e lita will be d ec ided next week at the Fresno
County Boa rd of Supe rvi s ors m ee ting. The 'Supervisors will d e cide
whether th e pre - school w ill be re funded - wheth e r it live s or di e s.

It has had to meet requirements
by Angie Rios
What once was a pre-school · concerning building codes not
found in the usual labor camps,
center for the campesino combut common practice among the
munity in Fresno, has opened its
city boundaries wherein the predoors to children of urban parents
school campus finds itself.Instiin an effort to avoid being closed
tutionalized prerequisites, nicedown.
ties in the labor camp, became
Escuelita, in existence for allaw within those boundaries.
most two years, found the conEscuelita, a component of the
ventional hours . of 8 to 5 are not
Universidad de Campesino Libthe farmworker's hours.
res, Inc., offers a bilingual-biBecause farmworkers almost
cultural program to children enalways start work earlier than
rolled ranging in age from two to
eight o'clock, Escuelita had probfive years.
lems with enrollment from the
The 28 children attend the
start.
school located across from RoedThis was only one of the many
ing Park 9n the corner of Belproblems alien to the regular
mont and Teilman Avenues in
pre-school curriculum, but often
what once was Fresno Union
too common to the normal atmoAcademy, a Seventh Day Advensphere of a farmworking family.
tist School.
La Escuelita, faced with the
UCLI pays for the rent, and
coming together of two worlds the building is leased by the
the regular anglicized, profesGreater California Education
sional white collar environment
Project, Inc. (GC EP):
of most pre-schooler's parents
Amelia Castro andDelmaGarversus the Chicano farmworki.ng
cia, botl} CSUF graduates, are
campeEino lifestyle of most of
full-time teachers at Escuelita.
Escuelita's pupils -- faced a new
Garcia is the head teacher in
quandry.
charge of administrative duties
It (the administra ion) had to
and the four aides on the Escuemeet the requirements of the
lita staff.
funding bodies and yet function to
The school day begins at 8 a.m.
meet the needs of its people (Continued on Page 4, Col. I)
the campesinos.

LA ESCUE LI TA, IF RE FUS.ED money by the Board of Supervisors, may have to close. It is located on
Belmont and Teilman near Roeding Park. (Photo by Ramon Perez)

Trabaiadores set
rally to air iss·ues
A rally will be held next Wednesday, March 17, on cam pus by
the Chic:mo social workers organizdtion to initiate support and
awareness of issues they are
challenging in the School of Social
Wor.k.

Unida, Corazon

Mobilizing begins for
two-mile Fr:esno march
Demonstration .of solidarity toward La Causa and to other Chicanos will be the theme behind
"La Marcha de Unidad," said
Gloria Hernandez, president of
Las Adelitas.
The march, tobeheldonSaturday, April 17, will be a means
for various segments of the Spanish-speaking to focus attention on
problems encountered by the
Spanish-speaking within the San
Joaquin Valley.
These problems include such
things as unemployment, discrimination, the lack of educational opportunities for the Span-

ish-speaking, and the problem
of union busting.
There has been a com it e
formed to organize this comunal
event that will begin with a march
of more than two mile-s..to Fresno's Roeding .Park, beginning at
Dickey Playground which is located on the corner of Di vi&,idero
and Blackstone avenues, said the
fiery Chicana leader.
At present, the "Marcha" is
still in the planning stages.
Hernandez said it is expected
that representatives of La,Raza
Unida, the United Farm Workers
of America, MEChA, Trabaja-

Chicana Conf ere nee
lo be in Pinedale
by Anna Noriega
L a Primera Conferencia Ff'\menil will take place Saturday,
March 27 at the Pinedale ·Community Center from 9 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
T he conference, which is being co-sponsored by the League
of Mexican American Women and
the ··)ntinuing Education Program of the School of Social
Work, is part of a masters

thesis for Josie Mena, Luis Contreras and Paul Chacon.
The workshop will cover four
major topics: Legal Rights of
Women, Assertive Training, Career Opportunities for Wom en,
,rnd Women in Politics.
Gloria Molina, state president
of Comision Femenil Mexicana,
parent organization for the
League of Mexican American
(Continued on Page 4, Col. 3)

dores de La Raza, and other
interested community organizations will participate in the event.
The Marcha, she continued, is
being sponsored by La Raza Unida
Party.
Security will be provided by
legal observers, with monitors
being provided by La Raza Unida,
"Los Dorados" (a local Chicano
motorcycle club), and Chicano
Vietnam veteranos.
Once at the park there will be
speakers addressing various issues relevant to the Chicano
community.
There will be no drinking of
alcoholic beverages allowed in
accordance with a city ordinance
that prohibits consumption of alcoholic beverages in all city
parks.
The Marcha, which will begin
at 11 a.m. (the 2-mile walk taking
approximately 45 minutes), will
end at 7 p.m .; with most of the
time being spent at the park.
Although the initial steps have
been taken to o r g an i z e the
Marcha, there is need for more
•ayuda .. " Meetings will be held
every Thursday until the Marcha
at t,he UCLI campus, which is located a cross from Roeding Park
on the corner of Bel mont and
Teilman avenues.
For more information concerning "La Marcha de Corazon,"
contact Gloria Hernandez at this
number ••• 237-6967.

If the rally gains support of
students, it will mark the first
Chicano demonstration since last
spring's controversy over the de:..
partmentalization of La Raza
Studies.

The CSUF chapter of T rabajadores de la Raza, a national Chicano social workers organization, is sponsoring the rally which
will take place in the Free Speech
Area and at the S<:hool of Social
Work from 12-2 p.m.
TR President Jesse Solis said
last week a formal complaint was
made to Dean Richard Ford asking why action has not been taken
<;>n concerns which Solis says TR
has expressed through an organization newsletter begun this year.
"We have a wide range of concerns that have been expressed,"
said Solis, "but we've never got
any feedback from the (SW) administration to rectify those
complaints."
In a circular drafted by TR,
the organization touches on five
concerns dealing basically with
affirmative action, the hiring
procedure within the school, the
selection process of Chicanos into the school, the recruitment of
Chicanos, and a lack of minority
curricula.
Solis said their newsletter,
which is pritited bi-weekly, has
been the only form of communication of the concerns to Ford,
who is sent every copy. Ford
acknowledged this yesterday in an
interview.
According to Solis, the rally,
in addition to instigating public
awareness, would be a public support for SW lecturer Luis Sosa,
whose lectureship is terminating
this year. Sosa's regular twoyear lectureship ended last year
but the school was able to obtain
a one-year exte_nsion with hopes
of a tenure-tract position opening
up, said Ford.
However, although two tracts
became available, they were taken away from the school by the
university because of a decrease
in full-time equivalency (FTE).
"We want ·to show Sosa the Chicano is behind' him and what he's
done for Chicanos," said Solis,

acknowledging that hls position
c:an no longer be saved for him.
In other areas, however, Solis
said TR is dissatisfied with the
School of Social Work, particularly in the hiring of an Anglo to
run the Rural Child Welfare Project.
Encompassing the Chicano regional areas of Mendota, Firebaugh and Kerman, the RCWP is
a CSUF field placement offered
by the school. The field instruc(C~ntinued on Page 4, Col. 1)

Team seeks
'
Ryan input
tonight ·
The Extern a 1 Assessment
Team, which evaluates the School
of Education, will conduct a hearing tonight to receive student
opinions on the School's performance under the Ryan Act.
The team meets at 7 p.m. in
Ed-Psyche room 102.
Alfredo Alvarado, representative to the tea~ from Chicanos
in Higher Education (CHE), said
it is the first time that students
will be involved in evaluation of
their program.
He said students may discuss
the different aspects of the School
of Education, of~ering pros and
cons to its present status.
The evaluations are then reviewed by the Commission of
Teacher Preparation and Licensing which passes them on to be
considered for attention by the
School, and ultimately to be considered when the School renews
its credentials, according to Alvarado.
He str-:ssed the importance _of
minority Ryan candidate input at
tonight ' s meeting.
"This will give us a way to
participate in determining the
types of teachers this institution
will be sending out to teach our
Chicanitos," said Alvarado.

2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

La Union

Wednesday, March 10, 1976

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Republicans' opposition
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Two hundreds years ago Americans fought and died for selfdetermination. In this Bicentennial year, Republican members
of the California legislature are betraying that sacred legacy
by sabotaging the first law in U.S. history, guaranteeing American farm workers the right to vote in free elections. In this
post-Watergate era; Republican legislators -are excluding the
poorest of the poor from the democratic process. The men and
women who work the land - descendants of embattled farm
workers who fought tyranny two hundred years ago - are being
denied the most basic American freedom by representatives
of your party. Republican opposition to funding forCalifornia's
Agricultural Labor Relations Act is opposition to the right to
vote and opposition to the revolutionary heritage we celebrate
in 1976. The people will remember how Republicans acted
in this historic year.

Education for the Chicano
not limited to. classroom
(The following editorial appeared on Monday, September 29,
1969 in the first Chicano newspaper on CSUF (then FS(') campus following official sanction of the paper. It was 'th<' beginning of what was to come for Chicano studtmts engaged in th<'
pioneering of el movimiento here. In comin~ issues La Vo:r. will
attemp~ to highlight the movement's histor.v at CSUF.)

!Para la raza unida, nada es imposible! With a new academic
year ahead of us, we Raza must remember that much of our
learning will not be done in the classrooms. Life will challenge us every day in ways and means that are not taught in
our classrooms with the cold, austere white walls.
We are the youth, the voice of the present and the conscience
of society. The will to strive for needed changes will come
from us. That need must be fulfilled in the community, schools,
the fields, and wherever Nuestra Raza is.

We Chicano students of Fresno State College vow that we
will never separate ourselves from the Chicano population in
this couhtry; we are brothers through the ties of consanguinity,
of suffering and injustices; and we feel there is more virtue
in suffering with our people ·for a just cause than there would
be in giving in to anything less.
-Jesus Rodriguez, 1969

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The Wendy Yoshimura Fair
Trial Committee was formed in
November, 1975, by the Central
California District Council and
the Fresno Buddhist Church. The
Central · California committee
consists of members of the Jap- .
anese American Citizens League,
FI esno Buddhist Church memhers, and other community mem- .
hers. The committee was originally developed to raise bail for
Ms. Wendy Yoshimura and is not
a defense fund. The fund and the
committee do not presum·e the
innocence or guilt of Wendy Yoshimura, nor do they support her
political beliefs. They are merely instruments to aid in her legal
fees and to assure her a fair trial. Committee chapters have now
been raised in both northern and
sourthern California; to date,
$20,000 has been raised. In Fresno, members of the Fair Trial
Committee include Mike Iwatsubo
and Judge Mikio Uchiyama.

by Manuel "Munchie" Olgin
Mirror, mirror on the wall,
what M EChA year was best of
ull? Huh? Pues que es esta chingadeda? Bueno Raza, la r.:osa es
que se necesiL.l una movida en
esta escuela que se cuenta en
la historia de MEChA. Now, what
the hell does that mean? OK! OK!
I'll say it in English! What we,
(MEChA) need on this c-ampus
is a move to document what we,
they, us, and them have done as
a Chicano student organization,
110w and in the past, for and about
this campus.
Who cares? I do! I care because I feel that there is a significant contribution in my educational experience that I must
attribute to the C liieano organization known as M EChA.
M EChA is a statewide Chicano
student organization ih high
school, junior college and at the
university level. It is not a new
thin~, it's roots are past the

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or the CSUF Associate-d Students .

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prenatal st-age. Beyond infancy,
has struggled through adolescence and is the proud parent/
guardian of many Chicanos who
are currently contributing not
only to the betterment of everyday life for Chicanos, but to all
peoples, in · all colors and at all
levels. I know this is trne. I am
one of those peoples.
As one of those peoples, I
will attest to the ·fact that once
students have grown up and graduated, their contribution to society is 11ot just beginning. Rather, I dare say that there contribution to society will be expanding. It expands from the fields
that they have furrowed and nurtured through their college years.
Those mechistas who preceded
us did many things. We who now
occupy this campus have probably
heard bits and pieces of the· past
through hearsay and rumor.
Friends, siblings, teachers and
flirts inform us about the "Did
you knows" of the past. We as a
Raza "know" what happened about
isolated events of the Brown
history of CSUF. That's cool
esse/ essa., but. like there is no
single reference that we can point
to that can verify our existence
on this campus. We have left no
tracks. We have not documented
it

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The following information was
prepared by the Information/Research Dept., La Paz, Keene,
California·.
There have been 382 elections
involving the United Farm Workers, the Teamsters and No Union,
representing 59,856 workers.
45,915 workers have- voted.
There are 329 decided elections representing 44,761 workers.
Of these elections, UFW was
won 205, representing 30,804
workers, which is 68,8 per cent
of the total.
The Teamsters have wqn 102
elections, representing 11, 1 79
workers, which is 25 per cent of
the total. No Union has won 22
elections,
representing 2,778
workers, which is 6.2 per cent
of the total.,
Forty-three elections are undecided,
representing 12,413
workers.
Ten elections have been overturned, representing 2,682 workers. Of these elections, two had
been tallied as UFW victories,
with 427 workers. Six had been
tallied as Teamster victories,
with 1,605 workers. One election
had been tallied as a No Union
victory, with 350 workers; while
another had been tallied as Undecided, representing 300 workers~
Of the 382 elections, 163 were
between the Teamsters and UFW,
encompassing 30,729 workers.
The Teamsters claimed 70
elections,
representing 9,550
workers.
The United Farm Workers
claimed 69 elections, representing 12,501 workers.
No Union won 17 elections with
1,955 workers; while those elections tallied Undecided totaled 22,
representing 4,517 workers.
174 elections were between the
United Farm Workers and No
Union,
encompassing 24,655
workers.
The UFW claimed 135 elec-

tions, with la4, 183 workers. No
Union won 17 elections, with
1,955 workers. Twenty-two elections were Undecided, representing 5,417 workers.
35 elections were betweeri the
Teamsters and No Union, encompassing 1,790 workers. Of these
elections, the Teamsters claimed
33, representing 1,740 workers.
No Union won two elections, representing 50 workers; while no
elections were tallied Undecided.
10 elections have been overturned, representing 2,682 workers.
Elections have been · held at
194 ranches with Teamster contracts. These ranches have a
total of 32,340 workers.
Of the ranches with Teamster
contracts, 93 ranches with 10,593
workers, remained Teamster affiliated.
69 ranches with 11,649 workers switched to UFW.
Six ranches switches to No
Union, representing 938 workers.
Nineteen ranches with 7,198
workers had elections tallied Undecided.
Elections were overturned at
seven ranches, encompassing
1,862 workers.

Know your
union

labels

The following is a list of the
labels used by companies UFW
has signed contracts with as of
February, 1976.
InterHarvest, Inc.,
Lettuce:
Blue Chip
Queen T
Pasco
Eagle Eye
Cypress Point
Salinas Marketing
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Salinas Pebble Beach
King Pia
Nunes Bros.
Eagle
Show-off
Top Billing
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La historia de la Raza es necesaria

A non-violent struggle has led us to various initial triumphs.
By means of the example set for us lJy Cesar Chavez we shall
overcome the injustices against our people, so institutionalized .
they.are not even recognized by fhe rest of society.

INSTANT

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Tonight in the College Union
Lounge, CSUF will be holding a
panel discussion on "Wendy Yoshimura and the Fair Trial Fund"
as part of the Amerasia Week a~tivities. The issue is one that is
of profound interest and concern
among the Japanese American
and Asian American communities
in the United States. , The panelists will be Mike Iwatsubo of the
Fresno Buddhist Church, Judge
Mikio Uchiyama of the municipal
court, and Professor Edison Uno
of California -State University,
San Francisco.

March 10, 1976
(The following is a telegram sent from UFW President Cesar
Chavez to Mary Louise Smith, chairperson of the Republican
National Committee in February.)

telephone confirmations

UFW.election results

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our hearts and minds on this
campus. Yet we are the biggest
university in the central ·portion
of the biggest state in the United
States of Amerika!
How can you help? There are
several ways. If you have brothers or sisters who attended CSUF
in years past, check out what they
have not thrown away from the
old days at Fresno State. Old
papers, agendas, noticias, pictures or other chismes may be
gathered and brought to us. We
will sort and either return or use
what is av a i1 ab 1 e for "The
MEChA Files." If you are new
on cam pus and can contribute
nothing but time, your help is
sorely needed. In all circumstances materials will be respected and properly treated.
Copies can be made of sentimental mementos and returned.
Whatever the situation, all help
is appreciated. For further de'tails. you may contact me (Manuel
Olgin) at 486.-6458 or 487-2924,

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Opiniones de la gente

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN -3
· Wednesday, March 10, 1976

COPA sets

Las ·voces speak out for a Chicano press
Jn an effort to obtain various Chicano student viewpoints on the
status of minority editions should the Daily Collegian merge with the
Journalism Department, La Voz de Aztlan past editor Ernesto Moreno
sampled some students on the matter. Herewith are some responses
he received to the query, "What do you think of the possible merger
of La Voz within the Journalism Department?"
· ·

is something I can relate to, and I feel it's really good that there is
a La Voz with Chicanos behind it. If we lose La Voz, we're going to
start losing a lot more of what we have struggled to achieve for the
Chicano on this campus."
REUBEN DE SANTIAGO, SOCIAL WELFARE MAJOR:

JUAN GARZA, HEALTH SCIENCE MAJOR:
People are viewing the possibility of a merger as a loss of community contact; in reality it may lead to more in the long run. If
Chicano students allow La Voz to merge, they'd be throwing down
the drain all that has been put into making the paper what it is. The
mere f~ct that there is a La Voz promotes a positive attitude within
the Chicano students on this campus, because it is their newspaper.
If there is a ·merger it may be Lie first step in doing away with
a nything that is Chicano oriented •.• in that if this can be done to
La Voz, which is a tool of the Chicano students, what will be next in
line .•• "La Raza Stt1dies?"
ALEJANDRO CONTRERAS, ENGLISH MAJOR, (&X-EDITOR LA
VOZ, FALL AND SPRING 1972):

/

I'm against it because I feel that it would impose censorship and
restraints on the policy of Chicano journalism that is now contained
within the structure of LA VOZ.
I will continue to oppose such a move until the Journalism Department can provide guidelines that would enable La Voz to continue
reporting news stories that are much needed and very relevant to
the Chicano on this campus. A merger without these guideli11es would
limit La Voz to rep,ortiug what t~e Journalism Department feels is
important, without any input and decision making from the Chicano
faction on this campus.
DARLENE JUAREZ, NURSING MAJOR:
If it's going to hur_t La Voz, I don't think it should happen. La Voz

I'd be against a merger because the Journalism Department would
censor news stories and issues that are important to the Chicanos
on this campus. In other words, I don't feel the Journalism Department has become sensitive to the needsofthe Chicano in general.

MARTHA GOMEZ, UNDECLARED MAJOR:
No, I don't feel La Voz should merge with the Journalism Department because I believe La Voz belongs to the Chicanos on this
campus; it's an essential tool that helps the Chicano student become
aware of what's happening on campus and within the community. La
Voz promotes the unity between college students and the community
••• helping each of them overcome ,social injustices.

DAVID GOMEZ, UNDECLARED MAJOR:
I feel that if a merger did happen it would eliminate input from
many Chicano students. La Voz· is for the Chicano students, enabling
them to express their needs and opinions. If merged, the original
concept of La Voz would be done away with ••• in essence, it would
no longer be La Voz of La Raza!
~

,

LINDA PEREZ, SOCIAL WELFARE MAJOR:
"No, because having a separate or your own paper, you 're working
for yourself. Working under someone else would defeat the purpose
of La Voz ••• in that we would he limiting ourselves.

Mural art contest
slated Mar. 10-14

Mar. 19 dance, raffle
to fund scholarships
For the first time in its "five.year history, the CSUF C.hicano
Faculty, Staff and Student Organization will raise enough money to
offer scholarships to students.
CFSSO President Tommie Cruz
said this Monday in announcing
that tickets are! now available for
the club's fundraising dance next
. Friday, March 19 at the Fairgrounds.
The dance will culminate a
corre sponding fundraiser presently under way in the form ·of a
raffle for a trip for two to Mexico City during Easter vacation.
Tickets for the dance, which
will fe ature Beto Garcia, and
Motambo, are priced at $2.50 per
person and are available through

any organization member.
tion primarily concerned with
The Mexico trip tickets are . Affirmative Action issues but
$1 each, which may be deducted
open to matters concerning stufrom a meal worth $5 or more
dents and presently employed
at Plaza Mexican Restaurant in
faculty and support staff emFresno. Tickets for either fundployees, conducts successful
raiser may also be obtained by
fundraisers, according to the
calling 487-1021.
president.
The most notable of these are
-Ms. Cruz said the organization
hopes to raise approximately
the occasional food sales on cam$1,000 with their efforts to add
pus in which burritos and tamalto their present treasury of$700.
es are homemade ·and sold. Ms.
. Cruz said these sales usually
"We _hop~ to be able to award
two to tnree scholarships," said
bring in anywhere from $75 to
Ms. Cruz. "The amount will de$200.
pend on how well we do· on the
Other persons that may be
raffle and dance. Hopefully, each
contacted for tickets are fundscholarship will be between $200
raiser committee chairpersons
and $500."
Robert Hernandez and Manuel
CFSSO, which is an organizaNunez at 487-1021.

A Mexican mural art contest
will be held March 10-14 at the
Cherry Auction Swap Meet in
Fresno. Prizes of $i5 and $25
are being offered.
Competition will be limited to
only 10 artists. A preliminary
sketchi11g of a Mexican or Aztec
mural is necessary. For more
information contact CSUF Art
Professor Ernie Palomino at
266-1311 (home .phone).

law school recruiters
La Raza Law Students of McGeorge School of Law will recruit interested Latino applicants
· at the school in Sacrameryto
March 13.
The recruitment day will begin
at 2 p.m. in Auditorium J, McGeorge Law School, 3200 Fifth
A venue, Sacramento, CA. Phone
numbers to call are (916) 457_2197, (916) 441- 7095.

Student interns tor~educational
WICHE summer project needed
Students interested in working
on an intern project related to
their field of interest this summer may now apply for a position.

Sponsored by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher
Education (WICHE), the int_ernships run 12 weeks with each
intern receiving a tax-exempt
edu cational stipend of $100 per
week.
Applicants must be juniors,
seniors or graduate students.
WICHE has operated the Res ource s Development Internshi.p
Program for the past seven years
seeking students from all aca demic disciplines to work with
profe s sionals in western agencies, said RDIP spokesperson
Angela Chavez.
They work together on projects
rela,. l to environmental protection, humanities, economic
development, planning, health,
science policy, law, engineering

and education, among others.
Ms. Chavez said over 1,000
internship projects have been
developed with intern placements
occurring in fields such as these.
In benefiting communities, students and colleges, the RDIP has
shown a "consistent growth," said
Ms. Chavez.

Applications and more information may be obtained by contacting La Raza Studies Coordinator Alex Saragoza, San Ramon
Building 4, room 132, phone 4&72848.

A seminar on photography will
be conducted next Monday night
as the first project of the recently formed _Chicano Organization of Photographers_and Artists (COPA).
Spokesperson Robert Hernandez said the seminar will include
topics ranging from basics discussions to various advanced
techniques.
"It will be pretty much an informational type thing to help
get the · club going," said Hernandez.
"COPA was created to bring
together those individuals who
have the desire to promote Chicano culture through the creative mediums of art and photography," he said.
He said COPA is intended to
give Chicanos who are unfamiliar
with the various forms of art
a chance to break into this world
and give those experienced a
chance to further their abilities.
Hernandez said that at present
other objectives are to conduct
art shows and photo exhibits
relative to the Chicano.
"We would assist in the development of ·artistic and photographic skills within the Chicano
community through workshops
and lectures," said Hernandez.
The seminar Monday will begin
at 7:30 p.m. in College Union
room 312.

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"This is primarily because of
increasing local support," she
said, adding an increase is expected over last year's 280 field
interns.
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expanded because the Intern
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many unmet community needs
which lend themselves to the efforts of interns," · Ms. Chavez
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"With a 95 per cent project
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LRS statf meets

Wednesday, March 10, 1976

National Chicano conference
set next month in El Paso
A National Conference of Chicano Social Scientists is scheduled for April 23-25 in El Paso,
Texas.
According to La Raza Studies
Director Alex Saragoza, several
members of the LRS faculty intend to go to the conference.
"It will be an excellent opportunity for students to learn about
the current trends in the Movement," said Saragoza.
Several workshops are planned
in the areas of the mass medi~,

oral history I methodology in the
. social sciences and Chicanos, and
on race and labor in the Southwest.
It is hoped that students may
be able to attend the conference.
The faculty has discussed the
possibility of a car pool lor those
interested in going to the El Paso
meeting.
"There have been some funda·mental changes in the tone of' the
Movimiento," said Sa ragoza,
"that will be the un·d ercurrent of

ShoUld Escuelita be fundedt
(Continued from Page 1)
with the signing-in of the children
and a free-play period.
•The children are divided into
four age groups," said Castro,
who is in charge of morning activities, including a period of
academic work. "These groups
include the three- to five-yearolds. Here they learn how to write
the ~!phabet and begin spelling."
The afternoon period consists
of varied activities, including art,
music, story-reading and playtime. They are also provided with
a snack.
Most of the equipment in the
building was donated by different
organizations or companies. For
instance, the tables in the room

were originally large w i re
"spools" used by PG&E which the
company donated and cut in half
for the school's purpose. Also,
much of the supplies, such as
paper, are provided by UCLI.
Officials say the goal of Escuelita is to provide a bicultural
learning environment. It is aimed
at strengthening the child c ,11turally and to develop a positive
self image and identity, so he or
she may perform -to his/her own
abilities upon entering the regular elementary school system.
Escuelita will terminate functioning in April if no further
funds are provided.
"But, worst of all," says Castro, "it will be a loss for the
kids."

TR: arouses awareness
(Continued from Page 1)
tor, Polly Victor, was also hired
by the school.
Trabajadores attacked this decision claiming the non-Chicano
instructor "does not understand
the c11lture, customs, traditions
or language of the Chicano community."
"The school was unprofessional because it did not consult the
Chicano community of Trabajadores de Ia Raza as to who it was
going to hire," said the TR circular.
Ford said the School of Social
Work wrote the grant for this
project "rather hastily" and that
they were operating · "way past
the normal hiring period of the
university.•
He said of twelve applicants,
four were Sp an is h surname.
Three were "considered seriously," he said, before one of those
three, Jose Garcia, was selected
for the Community Mental Health
grant in Parlier.
The remaining two lacked the
necessary experience for the job,
according to Ford. From there,
he said, it was Polly Victor or
no one.
Ford said Andrew Alvarado,
former Affirmative Action officer now at Stanford University,
was consulted throughout the procedure.
The dean labeled as "ridiculous" the Chicano charges that
non-Chicanos were insensit(ve to
Chicano community concerns.
"I think that obvious social
work practical methodology is
culture and lifestyle," said Ford.
"What we do have is practice modalities which are applicable to a
variety of individual concerns.
"To say it is impossible for
non-Chicanos to work with Chicanos just is not true."
Solis said the Chicano graduate
students all want to be involved in
selecting future Chicano grad
students, as was the practice until Ford lltopped it last year.
"We feel we can make better
selections because we know and
understand the Chicano's cultural
background more than non-Chi-

canos," said Solis.
Ford said the Aclmis~ions
Committee, whose five members
consist of three no11-m inority
graduate students, one from the
Black caucus, and one frorn TH,
reviews all candidates l>ut no
lo11ger allows Chicanos to exclusively interview Chicanos because of the possibility of reverse discrimination.
He said the school would l>e
open to lawsuits lrom non-minority students who felt they were
being denied admission.
Solis said the relevancy of
Chkanos selecting Chicanos is
that through involvement in an interview they can tell "quite a bit"
about the individual.
· "We have to select the best
Chicanos who will be the best social workers," he said.
TR is also dissatisfied in the
area of recruiting minorities into
the school, charging that many of
the responsibilities are placed on
TR.
"It's the school's responsibility to have an effective recruitment program," said Solis. "It's
the students' responsibility to assist as much _as possible. They
haven't tak~n the initiative to do
recruiting or to ailocate monies."
Ford commented, "The effectiveness of the Admissions Committee to recruit minorities certainly is not as active as in the
past."
He said this is affected by the
difficulty of students to obtain financial assistance to stay in
school. He said that financial
packages and training g r a n t s
available for graduate students
are dwindling. He said of the
present financial assistance Chicanos receive 65 per cent.
He also said the school is not
receiving funds to effectively recruit, although they apply for
monies from the universities.
"I'll be the first to admit recruiting is inadeauate overall "
said Ford, "but ,;e have to co~sider these factors."
Solis said he hopes students
will respond to the issues through
the rally.



on issues, retreat
At its faculty meeting yesterday I the La Raza Studies staff
discussed several important
problems facing the program.

the conference."
The meeting promises to be
controversial and stimulating to
any student interested in the
Movement, said Saragoza. Many
of the Chicano "heavies" in history, sociology, anthropology,
and other disciplines will present
papers and comments on the
above issues.
Students interested in further
information should contact Alex
S.aragoza in La Raza Studies
( 487-2848) as soon as possible.

Apparently the administration
has decided to cut back the faculty allocation of the program.
Presently the program has an
allocation of 7.05 positions. For
the academic year 1976-77, the
program has been slated for -a
6.50 allocation. According to La
Raza Studies director Alex Saragoza, the cutback is in fact one
whole position from previous administration commitments.

Chicanas

Saragoza stated that the program was to receive an allocation
of 7.55 positions for 1975-76.
Later this was reduced to 7 .o 5.
Therefore, since last year, the
program has in effect taken a cut
of one position; one instructor
usually offers four classes.
"A vicious cycle occurs," said
Saragoza, "since our enrollment
will decline further because we
will offer fewer classes due to the
cutback.
"Since
the administration
bases its attack on low enrollments in La Raza Studies, this
is setting us up for another cut
next year."
On the other hand, Saragoza
admitted that enrollment in La

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Women, will be the keynote
speaker.
Some of the panelists include
Margaret Cruz, past state president of the Mexican American
Political Association (MAPA),
Teresa Perez, La Raza Studies
professor, Celia Gomez, CSUF
Affirmative Action coordinator
and Alex Saragoza, La Raza
Studies coordinator.
A $3 registration f:e, which
includes lunch, will be charged.
J:t'or further information, please
call the School of Social Work at
487-1192, Mercy Bencomo at
226-3071, or Luis Contreras at
251-0701.

Raza Studies ha~ leveled off from
previous years.
"Perhaps we are seeing a
change," s.aid Saragoza, "in what
students expect from the program."
Consequently, he said, the faculty will review the curriculum
of the program. Saragoza stated
that the review committee will
consist of students and faculty.
RETREAT DISCUSSED
The most important issue,
however, was the discussion of
a proposed retreat for La Raza
Studies faculty, staff and students. It was decided that the retreat would take place on March
26 and 26. With the approval of
the School of Social Sciences, the
program would cancel all classes
on those dates.
"The purpose of the retreat is
to allow the faculty to air in depth
their views, concerns, and possible solutions to the problems
of La Raza Studies," said Saragoza.
He stressed the importance of
·Student input in the retreat.
Further details on these matters are available at the La Raza
Studies office. The next faculty
meeting will be largely devoted
to the planning of the proposed
retreat.

Medi-Corps taking applications
services to migrant families.
The different areas that the
students will be workin in are:
physical screening, translating
medical problems, preventive
dentisty, preventive health care,
nutrition, infant health care, etc.
Although they will be hitting
the ·areas mentioned, the teams,
consisting of one graduate health
professional student and two undergraduate students, will basically be involved in teaching preventive medicine and disseminating health care information.
There are several qualifications for admittance into MediCorps. As well as being sensitive to the needs of migrant children, the student must be en-

Medi-Corps is taking applications for their 1976 summer program for students interested in a
health profession.
The program, for bilingualbicultural students, provides for
health education and service to
migrant children and their families. The program objectives
.ire:
1. To provide direct categorical services to migrant children
which match or exceed performance standards prescribed in
the California Master Plan.
2. To increase the number of
l>ilingual professionals who are
specifically trained, experienced
and committed to provide health

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rolled full-time in an institution
of higher learning and must demonstrate a financial need in continuing his education.
Other qualifications for MediCorps are that the student have
satisfactory academic status and
have a career in rural health as
a goal. The applicant must also
be able to co·mmunicate in both
English and Spanish.
Deadline for the applications
is March 20. They may be obtained by writing to Bay Area
Raza C o a 1 it ion for Health
(BARCH), 1477 Fruitvale Avenue,
Oakland, California 94601, or by
calling Esther M. Picazo (Garcia) as (415) 261-9502. ,

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