La Voz de Aztlan, March 24 1976
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La Voz de Aztlan, March 24 1976
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Associated Students of Fresno State
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3/24/1976
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Senate verdict due today
Meeting to decide
fate of student press
The Student Senate will decide tod.ay whether or not to allocate
$6,000 for the continuation o! The Daily Collegian this semester.
They will meet in College Union room 312, upstairs, at 3 p.m.
Thursday at noon the Media Council meets in College Union room
308 to hear alternatives for a long range approach to the Collegian's
financial situation.
Both meetings are open to the public.
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DE A-ZTLAN
LXXX/102
WEDNESDAY, MARCH . 24, 1976
A special edition of THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, California State University, Fresno
Mechistas move .to
protest .Bicentennial
School of Social Work Dean Richard Ford tells TR President Solis
(foreground) Chicanos may have more screening participation. At
Ford's left is field placement coordinator Clifford Bonham.
TR protest
leads to talks
•seeds of discontent were
planted in March of this year,•
said Trabajadores de la Raza
President Jesse Solis yesterday.
"Hopefully they will bear fruit
and we can begin to harvest within the end of the year.•
Solis' comments summed up
last week's activities when 75100 Chicanos joined Trabajadores
de la Raza Wednesday in protesting the School of Social Work.
The rally preceeded a meeting
between TR and Dean Richard
Ford Thursday in which both
parties addressed themselves to
TR's concerns for two hours.
"While it's difficult to say
~hat compromises are going to
be met, we as students can no
longer accept rhetoric and becomplacent because of that rhetoric,• Solis said.
Some understandings were
achieved, as both - parties acknowledge, but Solis says the key
element is time.
•we must never lose sight of
fair play," he said. •we can't
totally c.ondemn an indi victual until he is given the chance to meet
those compromises."
The basic agreement that came
out of last week's actions cen-'
tered around Chicano involvement in screening job applicants
and hiring faculty especially as
it pertains to the Rural Child
Welfare Project when an Anglo
~Continued on Page 2, Col., 3)
by Tom Uribes
Chicanos from California college MEChAs took their first joint
action in Fresno last Saturday to
protest the Bicentennial celebration in the United States.
Convening statewide for the
first time in two years, theCalifornia Mechistas attending adopted a 232-word statement claiming
that "to celebrate the .Fo1,1rth of
July would be to defend the murder of our people and the rape of
our culture."
CSU Fresno's MEChA hosted
the convention, which recorded
a registration of 110 Mechistas
from 32 California MEChAs.
In addition to the statement,
regional areas were established
with specific anti-Bicentennial
action to be decided upon at regional meetings in two weeks.
Specific proposals are to be
presented for consideration and
action as a statewide approach
toward national action at another
state convention set for next
month, also in Fresno.
Saturday the Mechistas established fundraising, communications, documentation, and publicity procedures as foundations
to support the anti-Bicentennial
effort.
The Chicanos also recognized
similar protest efforts of other
oppressed peoples of the United
States, asserting that although
MEChA emphasis would be on the
Chicano's role, support would be
lent to an overall na~ionwide antiBicentennial perspective.
The c9nvention idea this year
was initiated by MEChA Ce~tral,
a union of eight San Diego Area
community colleges and universities.
Two workshops were conducted, consisting of regional area
meetings and functional committee meetings.
REUIONS TO MEET
The state 's colleges were
structured into four regions:
Area I, Los Angeles MEChAs;
Area II, San Dieglt (MEChA Central); Area III, BJy Area; Area
IV, Central Valley (San Joaquin
Valley, etc.).
A fifth area of Sacramento
schools will be established at the
~oxt convention. Presently, they
are in the Bay Area.
In the regional meetings Saturday, much of the topic dealt with
the relating of situations each
MEChA faces in its respective
community.
However, the most significant
result was the establishing of
dates in the next two weeks for
each area to hold regional meetings.
Later in the general voting ses. sion, it was established that !!!
the next regional meetings, proposals on what specific actions
inay be taken to counter the Bicentennial celebrations could be
devised.
Each region elected a chairperson and a documenting secretary. Elected as chairpersonlo-
cally was· Fresno City College
Mechista Pablo Ramirez, who
was instructed to select his own
secretary.
The Central Valley region will
meet April 3 at Reedley College.
The committee meetings consisted of four areas: documentation, communications, fundraising, and publicity.
Comprised of delegates from
each attending MEChA, the committees drafted policies in their
respective areas to be adopted
in the final general session.
'OUTLINE' STRUCTURED
The Documentation Committee sent to the floor the proposal
to ac·cept San Diego's statement
as the "outline basis" for a statewide Chicano statement toward
the overall anti-Bicentennial effort.
This was later accepted in the
general session where a San Diego spokesperson who parti~ipated in the original draft ·1g told
the general body, •Take it, revise it, add to it, subtract from
it. Do it. Let's write the full
document at the next convention."
It was also the Documentation
Committee that sent forth a provision to recognize other national
anti-Bicentennial efforts.
Another significant outcome of
Conferencia femenil
the convention was the establishment of a communications pro-'
slated for Saturday
cess.
The Communications CommitLa Primera Conferencia Femtee sent to the floor a proposal
enil will be held Saturday in the
that wtn · have all schools send
Pinedale Community Center from
any information and announce9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The conferments to one central location.
ence, cosponsored by the League
That center (CSU San Diego
of Mexican American Women and
was selected to be the first centhe Continuing Education Proter) will ·compile the information
.g ram of the _ School of Social
Work, will highlight the Chicana's · in the form of a newsletter and
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 1)
role in today's society.
Retreat planned
by LRS staff
A La Raza Studies faculty retreat will be held Thursday and
Friday for Chicanos on and off
the campus.
All La Raza classes for those
two days have been cancelled to
allow students and faculty to
attend.
The regular Thursday MEChA
meeting has also been scheduled
to be held during the retreat at
the Newman Center just northwest of the campus. The MEChA
meeting will start at 12:30 p.m.
Basically billed as a faculty
retreat, the two-day session will
cover •new and · old" -problems
· LRS is contending with on a university-wide level, faculty issues, LRS and the Chicano community, and the LRS Program
itself.
It will )nclude Friday afternoon With resolutions and recommendations.
Coordinator Alex saragoza
presented the retreat's outline
to MEChA at last Thursday's
meeting inviting students to have
full participation.
He offered the tentative schedule but was to meet this week
with some students as to its
Thursday-Friday feasibility.
Under Faculty Issues, the retreat will touch on faculty-student relations from the faculty
viewpoint.
This will be reversed on Friday when it will be from the
student viewpoint.
La Raza Studies and the Chicano community will cover the
campus community, community
organizations, El Pueblo(campesinos, trabajadores, la gente sin
representacion)
and
o the r
schools.
Tentatively, both days will begin at 8 a.m. with breakfast.
Lunch will be provided both days
by faculty members.
Meeting in ~ollege Unioro room 308 Saturday, the Documentations Committee (above) was made up of
delegates from each of the 32 MEChAs attending. The statement they sent to floor is· on page 4.
2-THE DAILY COLLEQIAN
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
TR:- 'Seeds of discontent planted' • • • matter of time
Left top: Juan Noriega, Diane
Rivera, Alfonso Hernandez and
Tomai Reyes led the TR march
through the campus.
Left and right middle: Upon
returr.rng to his office, School of
Social Work Dean Richard Ford
held a verbal exchange with the
protes-ting Chicanos for half an
hour.
Bottom left, right top and bottom: TR president Jesse Solis
addresses rally.
.
Below: Gloria Hernandez (sign)
told Ford Chicanos are needed
to go out to the barrio.
(Photos by Ramon Perez
and Tomas Uribes)
BECAUSE YOU'VE
ACHIEVED
Trabaiadores protest: Ford ansYlers
(Continued from Page 1)
was hired for a predominantly
Spanish-speaking service area.
Ford agreed to allow TR to be
involved in these processes but
emphasized the Rural Child Welfare Project comes into consideration on a yearly basis and
new personnel could not he dealt
with until next year.
Solis expressed hope a Chicano
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Welfare Project next year.
_However. yesterday, Ford indicated the project may not even
be funded again. He based this on
a recent report by the Council of
Social Work Education which
alerted the School that the Health,
Education and Welfare Department may not request any federal
funds for the 1976 fiscal year.
But, he told La Voz if it does
get funded again, he still will not
have the choice in hiring the field
instructor.
"I can ·t say that if we have the
position, it · will go to a Chicano.
I can only make recommendations," he said, «The hiring is
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Solis said it will take time to
see if the School will respond to
TR's concern, including a more
active minority recruitment and
incorporation of minority curriculum.
As far as the talks last week,
Ford described them as "very
productive."
"It indicated that part of the
problem we have is one of communication," he said, adding "it
cleared the air" and created an
"atmosphere of cooperation.•
"I think we understand each
_o ther at this point," he said. ·
Solis said, "We feel that a new
breed of student, throogh proper
training, will carry out the continuity required to make rhetoric
become reality."
The effectiveness of TR ·s role
in the hiring procedures will not
be tested until hiring procedures
begin in June; said Solis.
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Staff . . . . . . . . . Margaret Esparza,
Ernesto Moreno, Anna Noriega,
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Uribes
Photographer . . . . . . . Ramon Perez
Contributors • . . . . . Cindy Cabrera ,
Miguel Contreras, !11unchie Olgin ,
Eric Strom
Editor . . . . . . . . . .. Tomas Uribes
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN -3
MEChA ioins San Jose 'March for Justice'
Fresno M echistas are planning
. to participate in .the Danny Trevino March for Justice this Saturday in San Jose, Califas.
Danny Tre.vino, a young San
Jose Chicano, was shot and killed
by two San Jose City policemen
on Jan. 22, 1976.
He is the eighth Chicano to die
a police death in that Bay Area
city since 1969, according to a
Committee on Public Safe'ty which
is sponsoring the march. Seven
blacks and one white have also
been killed by San Jose police.
At least thr.ee CSUF students,
Santos Garcia, Juan Perez and
Richard Carrillo, have indicated
an interest to form a car pool
to go to San Jose and march.
They may be contacted at tomorrow's MEChA meeting at Newman Center, 1572 E. Barstow,
at 12:30 p.m.
The march starts at noon
Saturday, but participants are
asked to meet at 10 a.m. at the
Guadalupe Church, 2020 E. San
Antonio in San Jose. A rally will.
follow ·at 1:30 p.m.
The Committee has secured
at least 17 speakers, including
Corky Gonzalez of the Denver
Crusade for Justice; Dennis
Barnes, American Indian Movement; Tom Hayden, candidate for
the U.S. Senate, ~nd Jane Fonda.
"The authorities deny there
Chicano voter ·sign-up drive set .
Various Chicano organizations
throughout Fresno Cpunty are
sponsoring a ·1ocal voter registration drive of Spanish - surnamed persons beginning irf April
for a two month period.
Funds have been allocated by
the Southwesf Voter Registration
Educational Project headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, for
the project.
Heavily involved in the effort
locally are El Concilio, MexicanAm-e rican Political Association,
and the Associacion Educativade
Padres Mexicanos.
According to Luis Ambriz, interim coordinator of the project,
the obiectives of this drive are
to register 10,000 Spanish surnamed r,ersons and to initiate
contact in 17 communities surrounding Fresno as well as Fresno itself.
"Mexican-Americans constitute the largest majority in the
Southwest and California,• said
Ambriz.
"But problems arise
from the fact that many MexicanAmericans do not vote or regis. ter to vote."
This stands true with the San
Joaquin Valley as well, he a,dded.
"It is hoped," said Ambriz,
"that this registration drive can
establish ·cont;tct in the rural
areas and stimulate political interest within that community."
Ambriz said if 500 Spanishsurnamed persons from the surrounding 17 communities affected
could be register~d, this wo~ld
be a beginning.
Some of the communities involved include Sanger, Parli~r,
Firebaugh and Riverdale, among
others.
On Saturday, April 3, 1976, a
grand opening is scheduled at
the project's office at 430 Tellman, across from Roeding 'park.
The activities will begin at 2 p. m.
. and the public is invited to attend. Refreshment and entertainment will be provided.
Persons interested in working
State MEChA conference
(Continued from Page 1)
send it out to each regional headquarters.
It will then be the responsibility of each headquarters to disseminate the information to each
MEChA within its region.
Also passed as a friendly
amendment was the provision the
central communications center
would be rotated frequently.
It was also clarified that the
. mode of dissemination would be
determined br the urgency of any
given situation: if a !v!EChA needs
to send word out immediately on
a matter, telephones could be
used to speed up the process.
This proposal received enthusiastic unanimous approval.
One of the few motions which
did not receive approval per se
was the Publicity Committee's
move to create a special antiBicentennial logo ,•
This motion was tabled until
the next convention because of
confusion as to the logo's symbolism. ,
Instead. it was decided to use
the MEChA insignia until a decision is reached.
The Fundraising Committee
devised a policy accepted by the
convention which requests
MEChAs to contribute "ideally
$100" each or a minimum ·of $50
to a statewide general fund. One ·
of the primary purposes would be
to fund publicity.
A spokesperson for the Los
Angeles region began the general
session statfng, "We're going to
have to try to get down to answers or we're just going to get
screwed up using Anglo 'philosophy for Chicano problems."
The San Diego spokesperson
phrased the . general direction of
the entire effort saying, "Tonight 's decision comes down to
what we'll do on a statewide level
toward national action."
Nearly all matters which went
before the general session for a
vote met unanimous approval.
In one of its final acts, the
convention passed a motion by
CSUF to host another statewide
meeting April 16 to finalize plans
initiated Saturday.
This date . corresponds with la
Marcha de Unidad scheduled in
Fresno April 17 to allow for
statewide MEChA participation
in the march of solidarity.
on the drive as a registrar or
who wish further information
should contact Ambriz at 2925312.
FCC conf ere nee
termed 'effective'
Last Saturday's Chicano Youth
Conference at Fresno Ci.ty College was termed "very effective"
by coordinator Kathy Silva.
450 young Chicanos from 25
high schools attended the daylong educational affair which was
billed as "Get Smart: Be Bilingual."
Ms._Silva said through evaluations, the student overall thought
the . conference was interesting
to them.
"It helped them to understand
more about their culture and
their advantage of being bilingual
and bi cultural," she said.
'
She added that in opening doors
to a different environment to
some of the students, the conference communicated the fact that
education is a necessity.
"They should be proud of their
bilingualism as a valuable tool,''
Ms. Silva said.
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4-THE DAILY. COLLEGIAN
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
Ed.itorial .
Sopport your local press
The three Collegian staffs have agreed to work together to fight
for the survival of The Daily Collegian in its present form as the
only independent student voice on campus - including the •minority"
editions.
Monday, The Daily Collegian, UHURU, and La Voz de Aztlan
staffs met and decided to en~tse a petition drive to show student
support for the paper at today's senate meeting, where studentelected representatives will decide the fate of your paper.
The issue is more than the economic feasibility of the newspape.-.
It is an issue of whether an independent student voice will remain
_on campus.
Previous attempts to stop the printing of i:he Collegian - and
especially La Voz and UHURU, have been defeated - but only after
student support was demonstrated.
Even Norman Baxter's attempt to have the student paper kicked
off campus in the '72-'73 school year was thwarted by concerned
students.
Perhaps the students' political and social awareness of the late
sixties and early seventies is now dead, and if so, the Collegian as a
symbol of that awareness and stand against the administration is
also dead.
We think not.
As long as students see a need for a real voice to help shout down
any outside and often arbitrary put-down of students; as long as
there remains a need to steer cle.~ r of faculty interference of what
should and should not be of concern in student lives, there will be a
need for a newspaper controlled by and for students.
La Voz, working with the other editions, urges all students to
demand a right to be heard without any outside restrictions being
applied to muffle their voice.
La Voz de Aztlan Staff
Califas Mechistas declare
anti-Bicentennial intentions
The following statement was read to the Chicano Community at
.'.:: hicano Park in San Diego on January 22, U)76. Drafted hy three
members of M.E.Ch.A. Central, a union of nine San Diego area
'Ollege MEChAs, it was presented to Mechistas from throughout
' alifornia convening in Fresno last weekend. As a result, the Chi;anos voted in the general session to adopt this letter as an outline
·or a protest against the Bicentennial celebrations. The Mechistas
will meet again in Fresno next month with the proposals to implement specific anti-bicentennial actionon a national level.
Sin1.e the seizure of the Southwest from Mexico in 1848, Mexicans
in that area were mislead to believe they were eligihle to hecome
,J nited States citizens und'er the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
As members of La Raza and as indig~nous people, we have been
treated as non-citizens: our rights were specifically safeguarded
lJy treaty provision and since then have heen continuously and directly violated.
Our history in the United States has heen a struggle against injustice and inequality. We have suffered all forms of violence, mockery,
prejudice, and economic abuse.
As a conquered people, we have felt the burdens that this country
,as imposed :upon us. We are a nation of people who have been oppressed hy the colonization of our own land.
_
Two hundred years ago the people who founded this country got
together to protest against an unjust government. Those who have
hene~ited from that protest are getting together to celebrate. On the
other hand, those who are still living under_an unjust government,
like those who protested two hundred years ago, have the right, as
.,,en as the responsibility to protest on the Fourth of July.
It has therefore become necessary for us as t.,a Raza to separate
urselves from the Bicentennial Celebration or this nation. To
~lebrate the Fourth of July would be to d~fend the murder of our
':!Ople and the rape of our culture.
J
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.
by Melvin Ricks
Uhuru editor
Why is it that as soon as The Daily Collegian
got into financ'iaJ trouble sone pcoplP. began to talk
about the validity and the necessity of the minority
editions?
People must realize ·that eliminating the minority editions will not solve the Collegian's problems.
The necessity of Uhuru and La Voz is not the
issue, the issue is the Collegian's financialdeficit.
The minority papers were started for the purpose of communicating and serving the interests
of Black and Brown students on campus. Since then
other ethnic minorities have voiced their opinions
and viewpoints through these papers. The papers
have served their purpose and they will continue
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Not only does this famous course reduce your time in the classroom to just
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to do so.
The problem that many people have in trying to
understand the purpose of the minority papers is
that they cannot see the world through our eyes
and experiences. They cannot understand it when
we say that we don't just want minority news but
minority newspapers.
,
The Uhuru is more than just a ' newspaper. It
is a symbol of Black progress and achievement on
this campus. Many students fought and demonstrated for the paper, but for us to give it up now
would ,be like saying that their struggle has no
meaning for us.
We would be giving up everything that they
fought for.
We must not hesitate to do everything now to
keep the papers that was done to get them seven
years ago.
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For those wl\o would like additional
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The Student Senate will decide tod.ay whether or not to allocate
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They will meet in College Union room 312, upstairs, at 3 p.m.
Thursday at noon the Media Council meets in College Union room
308 to hear alternatives for a long range approach to the Collegian's
financial situation.
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LXXX/102
WEDNESDAY, MARCH . 24, 1976
A special edition of THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, California State University, Fresno
Mechistas move .to
protest .Bicentennial
School of Social Work Dean Richard Ford tells TR President Solis
(foreground) Chicanos may have more screening participation. At
Ford's left is field placement coordinator Clifford Bonham.
TR protest
leads to talks
•seeds of discontent were
planted in March of this year,•
said Trabajadores de la Raza
President Jesse Solis yesterday.
"Hopefully they will bear fruit
and we can begin to harvest within the end of the year.•
Solis' comments summed up
last week's activities when 75100 Chicanos joined Trabajadores
de la Raza Wednesday in protesting the School of Social Work.
The rally preceeded a meeting
between TR and Dean Richard
Ford Thursday in which both
parties addressed themselves to
TR's concerns for two hours.
"While it's difficult to say
~hat compromises are going to
be met, we as students can no
longer accept rhetoric and becomplacent because of that rhetoric,• Solis said.
Some understandings were
achieved, as both - parties acknowledge, but Solis says the key
element is time.
•we must never lose sight of
fair play," he said. •we can't
totally c.ondemn an indi victual until he is given the chance to meet
those compromises."
The basic agreement that came
out of last week's actions cen-'
tered around Chicano involvement in screening job applicants
and hiring faculty especially as
it pertains to the Rural Child
Welfare Project when an Anglo
~Continued on Page 2, Col., 3)
by Tom Uribes
Chicanos from California college MEChAs took their first joint
action in Fresno last Saturday to
protest the Bicentennial celebration in the United States.
Convening statewide for the
first time in two years, theCalifornia Mechistas attending adopted a 232-word statement claiming
that "to celebrate the .Fo1,1rth of
July would be to defend the murder of our people and the rape of
our culture."
CSU Fresno's MEChA hosted
the convention, which recorded
a registration of 110 Mechistas
from 32 California MEChAs.
In addition to the statement,
regional areas were established
with specific anti-Bicentennial
action to be decided upon at regional meetings in two weeks.
Specific proposals are to be
presented for consideration and
action as a statewide approach
toward national action at another
state convention set for next
month, also in Fresno.
Saturday the Mechistas established fundraising, communications, documentation, and publicity procedures as foundations
to support the anti-Bicentennial
effort.
The Chicanos also recognized
similar protest efforts of other
oppressed peoples of the United
States, asserting that although
MEChA emphasis would be on the
Chicano's role, support would be
lent to an overall na~ionwide antiBicentennial perspective.
The c9nvention idea this year
was initiated by MEChA Ce~tral,
a union of eight San Diego Area
community colleges and universities.
Two workshops were conducted, consisting of regional area
meetings and functional committee meetings.
REUIONS TO MEET
The state 's colleges were
structured into four regions:
Area I, Los Angeles MEChAs;
Area II, San Dieglt (MEChA Central); Area III, BJy Area; Area
IV, Central Valley (San Joaquin
Valley, etc.).
A fifth area of Sacramento
schools will be established at the
~oxt convention. Presently, they
are in the Bay Area.
In the regional meetings Saturday, much of the topic dealt with
the relating of situations each
MEChA faces in its respective
community.
However, the most significant
result was the establishing of
dates in the next two weeks for
each area to hold regional meetings.
Later in the general voting ses. sion, it was established that !!!
the next regional meetings, proposals on what specific actions
inay be taken to counter the Bicentennial celebrations could be
devised.
Each region elected a chairperson and a documenting secretary. Elected as chairpersonlo-
cally was· Fresno City College
Mechista Pablo Ramirez, who
was instructed to select his own
secretary.
The Central Valley region will
meet April 3 at Reedley College.
The committee meetings consisted of four areas: documentation, communications, fundraising, and publicity.
Comprised of delegates from
each attending MEChA, the committees drafted policies in their
respective areas to be adopted
in the final general session.
'OUTLINE' STRUCTURED
The Documentation Committee sent to the floor the proposal
to ac·cept San Diego's statement
as the "outline basis" for a statewide Chicano statement toward
the overall anti-Bicentennial effort.
This was later accepted in the
general session where a San Diego spokesperson who parti~ipated in the original draft ·1g told
the general body, •Take it, revise it, add to it, subtract from
it. Do it. Let's write the full
document at the next convention."
It was also the Documentation
Committee that sent forth a provision to recognize other national
anti-Bicentennial efforts.
Another significant outcome of
Conferencia femenil
the convention was the establishment of a communications pro-'
slated for Saturday
cess.
The Communications CommitLa Primera Conferencia Femtee sent to the floor a proposal
enil will be held Saturday in the
that wtn · have all schools send
Pinedale Community Center from
any information and announce9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The conferments to one central location.
ence, cosponsored by the League
That center (CSU San Diego
of Mexican American Women and
was selected to be the first centhe Continuing Education Proter) will ·compile the information
.g ram of the _ School of Social
Work, will highlight the Chicana's · in the form of a newsletter and
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 1)
role in today's society.
Retreat planned
by LRS staff
A La Raza Studies faculty retreat will be held Thursday and
Friday for Chicanos on and off
the campus.
All La Raza classes for those
two days have been cancelled to
allow students and faculty to
attend.
The regular Thursday MEChA
meeting has also been scheduled
to be held during the retreat at
the Newman Center just northwest of the campus. The MEChA
meeting will start at 12:30 p.m.
Basically billed as a faculty
retreat, the two-day session will
cover •new and · old" -problems
· LRS is contending with on a university-wide level, faculty issues, LRS and the Chicano community, and the LRS Program
itself.
It will )nclude Friday afternoon With resolutions and recommendations.
Coordinator Alex saragoza
presented the retreat's outline
to MEChA at last Thursday's
meeting inviting students to have
full participation.
He offered the tentative schedule but was to meet this week
with some students as to its
Thursday-Friday feasibility.
Under Faculty Issues, the retreat will touch on faculty-student relations from the faculty
viewpoint.
This will be reversed on Friday when it will be from the
student viewpoint.
La Raza Studies and the Chicano community will cover the
campus community, community
organizations, El Pueblo(campesinos, trabajadores, la gente sin
representacion)
and
o the r
schools.
Tentatively, both days will begin at 8 a.m. with breakfast.
Lunch will be provided both days
by faculty members.
Meeting in ~ollege Unioro room 308 Saturday, the Documentations Committee (above) was made up of
delegates from each of the 32 MEChAs attending. The statement they sent to floor is· on page 4.
2-THE DAILY COLLEQIAN
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
TR:- 'Seeds of discontent planted' • • • matter of time
Left top: Juan Noriega, Diane
Rivera, Alfonso Hernandez and
Tomai Reyes led the TR march
through the campus.
Left and right middle: Upon
returr.rng to his office, School of
Social Work Dean Richard Ford
held a verbal exchange with the
protes-ting Chicanos for half an
hour.
Bottom left, right top and bottom: TR president Jesse Solis
addresses rally.
.
Below: Gloria Hernandez (sign)
told Ford Chicanos are needed
to go out to the barrio.
(Photos by Ramon Perez
and Tomas Uribes)
BECAUSE YOU'VE
ACHIEVED
Trabaiadores protest: Ford ansYlers
(Continued from Page 1)
was hired for a predominantly
Spanish-speaking service area.
Ford agreed to allow TR to be
involved in these processes but
emphasized the Rural Child Welfare Project comes into consideration on a yearly basis and
new personnel could not he dealt
with until next year.
Solis expressed hope a Chicano
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Welfare Project next year.
_However. yesterday, Ford indicated the project may not even
be funded again. He based this on
a recent report by the Council of
Social Work Education which
alerted the School that the Health,
Education and Welfare Department may not request any federal
funds for the 1976 fiscal year.
But, he told La Voz if it does
get funded again, he still will not
have the choice in hiring the field
instructor.
"I can ·t say that if we have the
position, it · will go to a Chicano.
I can only make recommendations," he said, «The hiring is
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done by the university."
Solis said it will take time to
see if the School will respond to
TR's concern, including a more
active minority recruitment and
incorporation of minority curriculum.
As far as the talks last week,
Ford described them as "very
productive."
"It indicated that part of the
problem we have is one of communication," he said, adding "it
cleared the air" and created an
"atmosphere of cooperation.•
"I think we understand each
_o ther at this point," he said. ·
Solis said, "We feel that a new
breed of student, throogh proper
training, will carry out the continuity required to make rhetoric
become reality."
The effectiveness of TR ·s role
in the hiring procedures will not
be tested until hiring procedures
begin in June; said Solis.
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Staff . . . . . . . . . Margaret Esparza,
Ernesto Moreno, Anna Noriega,
Cindy Orona, Angie Rios, Martha
Uribes
Photographer . . . . . . . Ramon Perez
Contributors • . . . . . Cindy Cabrera ,
Miguel Contreras, !11unchie Olgin ,
Eric Strom
Editor . . . . . . . . . .. Tomas Uribes
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN -3
MEChA ioins San Jose 'March for Justice'
Fresno M echistas are planning
. to participate in .the Danny Trevino March for Justice this Saturday in San Jose, Califas.
Danny Tre.vino, a young San
Jose Chicano, was shot and killed
by two San Jose City policemen
on Jan. 22, 1976.
He is the eighth Chicano to die
a police death in that Bay Area
city since 1969, according to a
Committee on Public Safe'ty which
is sponsoring the march. Seven
blacks and one white have also
been killed by San Jose police.
At least thr.ee CSUF students,
Santos Garcia, Juan Perez and
Richard Carrillo, have indicated
an interest to form a car pool
to go to San Jose and march.
They may be contacted at tomorrow's MEChA meeting at Newman Center, 1572 E. Barstow,
at 12:30 p.m.
The march starts at noon
Saturday, but participants are
asked to meet at 10 a.m. at the
Guadalupe Church, 2020 E. San
Antonio in San Jose. A rally will.
follow ·at 1:30 p.m.
The Committee has secured
at least 17 speakers, including
Corky Gonzalez of the Denver
Crusade for Justice; Dennis
Barnes, American Indian Movement; Tom Hayden, candidate for
the U.S. Senate, ~nd Jane Fonda.
"The authorities deny there
Chicano voter ·sign-up drive set .
Various Chicano organizations
throughout Fresno Cpunty are
sponsoring a ·1ocal voter registration drive of Spanish - surnamed persons beginning irf April
for a two month period.
Funds have been allocated by
the Southwesf Voter Registration
Educational Project headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, for
the project.
Heavily involved in the effort
locally are El Concilio, MexicanAm-e rican Political Association,
and the Associacion Educativade
Padres Mexicanos.
According to Luis Ambriz, interim coordinator of the project,
the obiectives of this drive are
to register 10,000 Spanish surnamed r,ersons and to initiate
contact in 17 communities surrounding Fresno as well as Fresno itself.
"Mexican-Americans constitute the largest majority in the
Southwest and California,• said
Ambriz.
"But problems arise
from the fact that many MexicanAmericans do not vote or regis. ter to vote."
This stands true with the San
Joaquin Valley as well, he a,dded.
"It is hoped," said Ambriz,
"that this registration drive can
establish ·cont;tct in the rural
areas and stimulate political interest within that community."
Ambriz said if 500 Spanishsurnamed persons from the surrounding 17 communities affected
could be register~d, this wo~ld
be a beginning.
Some of the communities involved include Sanger, Parli~r,
Firebaugh and Riverdale, among
others.
On Saturday, April 3, 1976, a
grand opening is scheduled at
the project's office at 430 Tellman, across from Roeding 'park.
The activities will begin at 2 p. m.
. and the public is invited to attend. Refreshment and entertainment will be provided.
Persons interested in working
State MEChA conference
(Continued from Page 1)
send it out to each regional headquarters.
It will then be the responsibility of each headquarters to disseminate the information to each
MEChA within its region.
Also passed as a friendly
amendment was the provision the
central communications center
would be rotated frequently.
It was also clarified that the
. mode of dissemination would be
determined br the urgency of any
given situation: if a !v!EChA needs
to send word out immediately on
a matter, telephones could be
used to speed up the process.
This proposal received enthusiastic unanimous approval.
One of the few motions which
did not receive approval per se
was the Publicity Committee's
move to create a special antiBicentennial logo ,•
This motion was tabled until
the next convention because of
confusion as to the logo's symbolism. ,
Instead. it was decided to use
the MEChA insignia until a decision is reached.
The Fundraising Committee
devised a policy accepted by the
convention which requests
MEChAs to contribute "ideally
$100" each or a minimum ·of $50
to a statewide general fund. One ·
of the primary purposes would be
to fund publicity.
A spokesperson for the Los
Angeles region began the general
session statfng, "We're going to
have to try to get down to answers or we're just going to get
screwed up using Anglo 'philosophy for Chicano problems."
The San Diego spokesperson
phrased the . general direction of
the entire effort saying, "Tonight 's decision comes down to
what we'll do on a statewide level
toward national action."
Nearly all matters which went
before the general session for a
vote met unanimous approval.
In one of its final acts, the
convention passed a motion by
CSUF to host another statewide
meeting April 16 to finalize plans
initiated Saturday.
This date . corresponds with la
Marcha de Unidad scheduled in
Fresno April 17 to allow for
statewide MEChA participation
in the march of solidarity.
on the drive as a registrar or
who wish further information
should contact Ambriz at 2925312.
FCC conf ere nee
termed 'effective'
Last Saturday's Chicano Youth
Conference at Fresno Ci.ty College was termed "very effective"
by coordinator Kathy Silva.
450 young Chicanos from 25
high schools attended the daylong educational affair which was
billed as "Get Smart: Be Bilingual."
Ms._Silva said through evaluations, the student overall thought
the . conference was interesting
to them.
"It helped them to understand
more about their culture and
their advantage of being bilingual
and bi cultural," she said.
'
She added that in opening doors
to a different environment to
some of the students, the conference communicated the fact that
education is a necessity.
"They should be proud of their
bilingualism as a valuable tool,''
Ms. Silva said.
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4-THE DAILY. COLLEGIAN
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
Ed.itorial .
Sopport your local press
The three Collegian staffs have agreed to work together to fight
for the survival of The Daily Collegian in its present form as the
only independent student voice on campus - including the •minority"
editions.
Monday, The Daily Collegian, UHURU, and La Voz de Aztlan
staffs met and decided to en~tse a petition drive to show student
support for the paper at today's senate meeting, where studentelected representatives will decide the fate of your paper.
The issue is more than the economic feasibility of the newspape.-.
It is an issue of whether an independent student voice will remain
_on campus.
Previous attempts to stop the printing of i:he Collegian - and
especially La Voz and UHURU, have been defeated - but only after
student support was demonstrated.
Even Norman Baxter's attempt to have the student paper kicked
off campus in the '72-'73 school year was thwarted by concerned
students.
Perhaps the students' political and social awareness of the late
sixties and early seventies is now dead, and if so, the Collegian as a
symbol of that awareness and stand against the administration is
also dead.
We think not.
As long as students see a need for a real voice to help shout down
any outside and often arbitrary put-down of students; as long as
there remains a need to steer cle.~ r of faculty interference of what
should and should not be of concern in student lives, there will be a
need for a newspaper controlled by and for students.
La Voz, working with the other editions, urges all students to
demand a right to be heard without any outside restrictions being
applied to muffle their voice.
La Voz de Aztlan Staff
Califas Mechistas declare
anti-Bicentennial intentions
The following statement was read to the Chicano Community at
.'.:: hicano Park in San Diego on January 22, U)76. Drafted hy three
members of M.E.Ch.A. Central, a union of nine San Diego area
'Ollege MEChAs, it was presented to Mechistas from throughout
' alifornia convening in Fresno last weekend. As a result, the Chi;anos voted in the general session to adopt this letter as an outline
·or a protest against the Bicentennial celebrations. The Mechistas
will meet again in Fresno next month with the proposals to implement specific anti-bicentennial actionon a national level.
Sin1.e the seizure of the Southwest from Mexico in 1848, Mexicans
in that area were mislead to believe they were eligihle to hecome
,J nited States citizens und'er the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
As members of La Raza and as indig~nous people, we have been
treated as non-citizens: our rights were specifically safeguarded
lJy treaty provision and since then have heen continuously and directly violated.
Our history in the United States has heen a struggle against injustice and inequality. We have suffered all forms of violence, mockery,
prejudice, and economic abuse.
As a conquered people, we have felt the burdens that this country
,as imposed :upon us. We are a nation of people who have been oppressed hy the colonization of our own land.
_
Two hundred years ago the people who founded this country got
together to protest against an unjust government. Those who have
hene~ited from that protest are getting together to celebrate. On the
other hand, those who are still living under_an unjust government,
like those who protested two hundred years ago, have the right, as
.,,en as the responsibility to protest on the Fourth of July.
It has therefore become necessary for us as t.,a Raza to separate
urselves from the Bicentennial Celebration or this nation. To
~lebrate the Fourth of July would be to d~fend the murder of our
':!Ople and the rape of our culture.
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Why is it that as soon as The Daily Collegian
got into financ'iaJ trouble sone pcoplP. began to talk
about the validity and the necessity of the minority
editions?
People must realize ·that eliminating the minority editions will not solve the Collegian's problems.
The necessity of Uhuru and La Voz is not the
issue, the issue is the Collegian's financialdeficit.
The minority papers were started for the purpose of communicating and serving the interests
of Black and Brown students on campus. Since then
other ethnic minorities have voiced their opinions
and viewpoints through these papers. The papers
have served their purpose and they will continue
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The problem that many people have in trying to
understand the purpose of the minority papers is
that they cannot see the world through our eyes
and experiences. They cannot understand it when
we say that we don't just want minority news but
minority newspapers.
,
The Uhuru is more than just a ' newspaper. It
is a symbol of Black progress and achievement on
this campus. Many students fought and demonstrated for the paper, but for us to give it up now
would ,be like saying that their struggle has no
meaning for us.
We would be giving up everything that they
fought for.
We must not hesitate to do everything now to
keep the papers that was done to get them seven
years ago.
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They will meet in College Union room 312, upstairs, at 3 p.m.
Thursday at noon the Media Council meets in College Union room
308 to hear alternatives for a long range approach to the Collegian's
financial situation.
Both meetings are open to the public.
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LXXX/102
WEDNESDAY, MARCH . 24, 1976
A special edition of THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, California State University, Fresno
Mechistas move .to
protest .Bicentennial
School of Social Work Dean Richard Ford tells TR President Solis
(foreground) Chicanos may have more screening participation. At
Ford's left is field placement coordinator Clifford Bonham.
TR protest
leads to talks
•seeds of discontent were
planted in March of this year,•
said Trabajadores de la Raza
President Jesse Solis yesterday.
"Hopefully they will bear fruit
and we can begin to harvest within the end of the year.•
Solis' comments summed up
last week's activities when 75100 Chicanos joined Trabajadores
de la Raza Wednesday in protesting the School of Social Work.
The rally preceeded a meeting
between TR and Dean Richard
Ford Thursday in which both
parties addressed themselves to
TR's concerns for two hours.
"While it's difficult to say
~hat compromises are going to
be met, we as students can no
longer accept rhetoric and becomplacent because of that rhetoric,• Solis said.
Some understandings were
achieved, as both - parties acknowledge, but Solis says the key
element is time.
•we must never lose sight of
fair play," he said. •we can't
totally c.ondemn an indi victual until he is given the chance to meet
those compromises."
The basic agreement that came
out of last week's actions cen-'
tered around Chicano involvement in screening job applicants
and hiring faculty especially as
it pertains to the Rural Child
Welfare Project when an Anglo
~Continued on Page 2, Col., 3)
by Tom Uribes
Chicanos from California college MEChAs took their first joint
action in Fresno last Saturday to
protest the Bicentennial celebration in the United States.
Convening statewide for the
first time in two years, theCalifornia Mechistas attending adopted a 232-word statement claiming
that "to celebrate the .Fo1,1rth of
July would be to defend the murder of our people and the rape of
our culture."
CSU Fresno's MEChA hosted
the convention, which recorded
a registration of 110 Mechistas
from 32 California MEChAs.
In addition to the statement,
regional areas were established
with specific anti-Bicentennial
action to be decided upon at regional meetings in two weeks.
Specific proposals are to be
presented for consideration and
action as a statewide approach
toward national action at another
state convention set for next
month, also in Fresno.
Saturday the Mechistas established fundraising, communications, documentation, and publicity procedures as foundations
to support the anti-Bicentennial
effort.
The Chicanos also recognized
similar protest efforts of other
oppressed peoples of the United
States, asserting that although
MEChA emphasis would be on the
Chicano's role, support would be
lent to an overall na~ionwide antiBicentennial perspective.
The c9nvention idea this year
was initiated by MEChA Ce~tral,
a union of eight San Diego Area
community colleges and universities.
Two workshops were conducted, consisting of regional area
meetings and functional committee meetings.
REUIONS TO MEET
The state 's colleges were
structured into four regions:
Area I, Los Angeles MEChAs;
Area II, San Dieglt (MEChA Central); Area III, BJy Area; Area
IV, Central Valley (San Joaquin
Valley, etc.).
A fifth area of Sacramento
schools will be established at the
~oxt convention. Presently, they
are in the Bay Area.
In the regional meetings Saturday, much of the topic dealt with
the relating of situations each
MEChA faces in its respective
community.
However, the most significant
result was the establishing of
dates in the next two weeks for
each area to hold regional meetings.
Later in the general voting ses. sion, it was established that !!!
the next regional meetings, proposals on what specific actions
inay be taken to counter the Bicentennial celebrations could be
devised.
Each region elected a chairperson and a documenting secretary. Elected as chairpersonlo-
cally was· Fresno City College
Mechista Pablo Ramirez, who
was instructed to select his own
secretary.
The Central Valley region will
meet April 3 at Reedley College.
The committee meetings consisted of four areas: documentation, communications, fundraising, and publicity.
Comprised of delegates from
each attending MEChA, the committees drafted policies in their
respective areas to be adopted
in the final general session.
'OUTLINE' STRUCTURED
The Documentation Committee sent to the floor the proposal
to ac·cept San Diego's statement
as the "outline basis" for a statewide Chicano statement toward
the overall anti-Bicentennial effort.
This was later accepted in the
general session where a San Diego spokesperson who parti~ipated in the original draft ·1g told
the general body, •Take it, revise it, add to it, subtract from
it. Do it. Let's write the full
document at the next convention."
It was also the Documentation
Committee that sent forth a provision to recognize other national
anti-Bicentennial efforts.
Another significant outcome of
Conferencia femenil
the convention was the establishment of a communications pro-'
slated for Saturday
cess.
The Communications CommitLa Primera Conferencia Femtee sent to the floor a proposal
enil will be held Saturday in the
that wtn · have all schools send
Pinedale Community Center from
any information and announce9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The conferments to one central location.
ence, cosponsored by the League
That center (CSU San Diego
of Mexican American Women and
was selected to be the first centhe Continuing Education Proter) will ·compile the information
.g ram of the _ School of Social
Work, will highlight the Chicana's · in the form of a newsletter and
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 1)
role in today's society.
Retreat planned
by LRS staff
A La Raza Studies faculty retreat will be held Thursday and
Friday for Chicanos on and off
the campus.
All La Raza classes for those
two days have been cancelled to
allow students and faculty to
attend.
The regular Thursday MEChA
meeting has also been scheduled
to be held during the retreat at
the Newman Center just northwest of the campus. The MEChA
meeting will start at 12:30 p.m.
Basically billed as a faculty
retreat, the two-day session will
cover •new and · old" -problems
· LRS is contending with on a university-wide level, faculty issues, LRS and the Chicano community, and the LRS Program
itself.
It will )nclude Friday afternoon With resolutions and recommendations.
Coordinator Alex saragoza
presented the retreat's outline
to MEChA at last Thursday's
meeting inviting students to have
full participation.
He offered the tentative schedule but was to meet this week
with some students as to its
Thursday-Friday feasibility.
Under Faculty Issues, the retreat will touch on faculty-student relations from the faculty
viewpoint.
This will be reversed on Friday when it will be from the
student viewpoint.
La Raza Studies and the Chicano community will cover the
campus community, community
organizations, El Pueblo(campesinos, trabajadores, la gente sin
representacion)
and
o the r
schools.
Tentatively, both days will begin at 8 a.m. with breakfast.
Lunch will be provided both days
by faculty members.
Meeting in ~ollege Unioro room 308 Saturday, the Documentations Committee (above) was made up of
delegates from each of the 32 MEChAs attending. The statement they sent to floor is· on page 4.
2-THE DAILY COLLEQIAN
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
TR:- 'Seeds of discontent planted' • • • matter of time
Left top: Juan Noriega, Diane
Rivera, Alfonso Hernandez and
Tomai Reyes led the TR march
through the campus.
Left and right middle: Upon
returr.rng to his office, School of
Social Work Dean Richard Ford
held a verbal exchange with the
protes-ting Chicanos for half an
hour.
Bottom left, right top and bottom: TR president Jesse Solis
addresses rally.
.
Below: Gloria Hernandez (sign)
told Ford Chicanos are needed
to go out to the barrio.
(Photos by Ramon Perez
and Tomas Uribes)
BECAUSE YOU'VE
ACHIEVED
Trabaiadores protest: Ford ansYlers
(Continued from Page 1)
was hired for a predominantly
Spanish-speaking service area.
Ford agreed to allow TR to be
involved in these processes but
emphasized the Rural Child Welfare Project comes into consideration on a yearly basis and
new personnel could not he dealt
with until next year.
Solis expressed hope a Chicano
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Welfare Project next year.
_However. yesterday, Ford indicated the project may not even
be funded again. He based this on
a recent report by the Council of
Social Work Education which
alerted the School that the Health,
Education and Welfare Department may not request any federal
funds for the 1976 fiscal year.
But, he told La Voz if it does
get funded again, he still will not
have the choice in hiring the field
instructor.
"I can ·t say that if we have the
position, it · will go to a Chicano.
I can only make recommendations," he said, «The hiring is
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done by the university."
Solis said it will take time to
see if the School will respond to
TR's concern, including a more
active minority recruitment and
incorporation of minority curriculum.
As far as the talks last week,
Ford described them as "very
productive."
"It indicated that part of the
problem we have is one of communication," he said, adding "it
cleared the air" and created an
"atmosphere of cooperation.•
"I think we understand each
_o ther at this point," he said. ·
Solis said, "We feel that a new
breed of student, throogh proper
training, will carry out the continuity required to make rhetoric
become reality."
The effectiveness of TR ·s role
in the hiring procedures will not
be tested until hiring procedures
begin in June; said Solis.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Published five days a week except holidars
and examination periods uy the Associated
Students of California State University,
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Staff . . . . . . . . . Margaret Esparza,
Ernesto Moreno, Anna Noriega,
Cindy Orona, Angie Rios, Martha
Uribes
Photographer . . . . . . . Ramon Perez
Contributors • . . . . . Cindy Cabrera ,
Miguel Contreras, !11unchie Olgin ,
Eric Strom
Editor . . . . . . . . . .. Tomas Uribes
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN -3
MEChA ioins San Jose 'March for Justice'
Fresno M echistas are planning
. to participate in .the Danny Trevino March for Justice this Saturday in San Jose, Califas.
Danny Tre.vino, a young San
Jose Chicano, was shot and killed
by two San Jose City policemen
on Jan. 22, 1976.
He is the eighth Chicano to die
a police death in that Bay Area
city since 1969, according to a
Committee on Public Safe'ty which
is sponsoring the march. Seven
blacks and one white have also
been killed by San Jose police.
At least thr.ee CSUF students,
Santos Garcia, Juan Perez and
Richard Carrillo, have indicated
an interest to form a car pool
to go to San Jose and march.
They may be contacted at tomorrow's MEChA meeting at Newman Center, 1572 E. Barstow,
at 12:30 p.m.
The march starts at noon
Saturday, but participants are
asked to meet at 10 a.m. at the
Guadalupe Church, 2020 E. San
Antonio in San Jose. A rally will.
follow ·at 1:30 p.m.
The Committee has secured
at least 17 speakers, including
Corky Gonzalez of the Denver
Crusade for Justice; Dennis
Barnes, American Indian Movement; Tom Hayden, candidate for
the U.S. Senate, ~nd Jane Fonda.
"The authorities deny there
Chicano voter ·sign-up drive set .
Various Chicano organizations
throughout Fresno Cpunty are
sponsoring a ·1ocal voter registration drive of Spanish - surnamed persons beginning irf April
for a two month period.
Funds have been allocated by
the Southwesf Voter Registration
Educational Project headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, for
the project.
Heavily involved in the effort
locally are El Concilio, MexicanAm-e rican Political Association,
and the Associacion Educativade
Padres Mexicanos.
According to Luis Ambriz, interim coordinator of the project,
the obiectives of this drive are
to register 10,000 Spanish surnamed r,ersons and to initiate
contact in 17 communities surrounding Fresno as well as Fresno itself.
"Mexican-Americans constitute the largest majority in the
Southwest and California,• said
Ambriz.
"But problems arise
from the fact that many MexicanAmericans do not vote or regis. ter to vote."
This stands true with the San
Joaquin Valley as well, he a,dded.
"It is hoped," said Ambriz,
"that this registration drive can
establish ·cont;tct in the rural
areas and stimulate political interest within that community."
Ambriz said if 500 Spanishsurnamed persons from the surrounding 17 communities affected
could be register~d, this wo~ld
be a beginning.
Some of the communities involved include Sanger, Parli~r,
Firebaugh and Riverdale, among
others.
On Saturday, April 3, 1976, a
grand opening is scheduled at
the project's office at 430 Tellman, across from Roeding 'park.
The activities will begin at 2 p. m.
. and the public is invited to attend. Refreshment and entertainment will be provided.
Persons interested in working
State MEChA conference
(Continued from Page 1)
send it out to each regional headquarters.
It will then be the responsibility of each headquarters to disseminate the information to each
MEChA within its region.
Also passed as a friendly
amendment was the provision the
central communications center
would be rotated frequently.
It was also clarified that the
. mode of dissemination would be
determined br the urgency of any
given situation: if a !v!EChA needs
to send word out immediately on
a matter, telephones could be
used to speed up the process.
This proposal received enthusiastic unanimous approval.
One of the few motions which
did not receive approval per se
was the Publicity Committee's
move to create a special antiBicentennial logo ,•
This motion was tabled until
the next convention because of
confusion as to the logo's symbolism. ,
Instead. it was decided to use
the MEChA insignia until a decision is reached.
The Fundraising Committee
devised a policy accepted by the
convention which requests
MEChAs to contribute "ideally
$100" each or a minimum ·of $50
to a statewide general fund. One ·
of the primary purposes would be
to fund publicity.
A spokesperson for the Los
Angeles region began the general
session statfng, "We're going to
have to try to get down to answers or we're just going to get
screwed up using Anglo 'philosophy for Chicano problems."
The San Diego spokesperson
phrased the . general direction of
the entire effort saying, "Tonight 's decision comes down to
what we'll do on a statewide level
toward national action."
Nearly all matters which went
before the general session for a
vote met unanimous approval.
In one of its final acts, the
convention passed a motion by
CSUF to host another statewide
meeting April 16 to finalize plans
initiated Saturday.
This date . corresponds with la
Marcha de Unidad scheduled in
Fresno April 17 to allow for
statewide MEChA participation
in the march of solidarity.
on the drive as a registrar or
who wish further information
should contact Ambriz at 2925312.
FCC conf ere nee
termed 'effective'
Last Saturday's Chicano Youth
Conference at Fresno Ci.ty College was termed "very effective"
by coordinator Kathy Silva.
450 young Chicanos from 25
high schools attended the daylong educational affair which was
billed as "Get Smart: Be Bilingual."
Ms._Silva said through evaluations, the student overall thought
the . conference was interesting
to them.
"It helped them to understand
more about their culture and
their advantage of being bilingual
and bi cultural," she said.
'
She added that in opening doors
to a different environment to
some of the students, the conference communicated the fact that
education is a necessity.
"They should be proud of their
bilingualism as a valuable tool,''
Ms. Silva said.
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Gene Rigler, an ex-Peace Corps Volunteer himself, heads
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4-THE DAILY. COLLEGIAN
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
Ed.itorial .
Sopport your local press
The three Collegian staffs have agreed to work together to fight
for the survival of The Daily Collegian in its present form as the
only independent student voice on campus - including the •minority"
editions.
Monday, The Daily Collegian, UHURU, and La Voz de Aztlan
staffs met and decided to en~tse a petition drive to show student
support for the paper at today's senate meeting, where studentelected representatives will decide the fate of your paper.
The issue is more than the economic feasibility of the newspape.-.
It is an issue of whether an independent student voice will remain
_on campus.
Previous attempts to stop the printing of i:he Collegian - and
especially La Voz and UHURU, have been defeated - but only after
student support was demonstrated.
Even Norman Baxter's attempt to have the student paper kicked
off campus in the '72-'73 school year was thwarted by concerned
students.
Perhaps the students' political and social awareness of the late
sixties and early seventies is now dead, and if so, the Collegian as a
symbol of that awareness and stand against the administration is
also dead.
We think not.
As long as students see a need for a real voice to help shout down
any outside and often arbitrary put-down of students; as long as
there remains a need to steer cle.~ r of faculty interference of what
should and should not be of concern in student lives, there will be a
need for a newspaper controlled by and for students.
La Voz, working with the other editions, urges all students to
demand a right to be heard without any outside restrictions being
applied to muffle their voice.
La Voz de Aztlan Staff
Califas Mechistas declare
anti-Bicentennial intentions
The following statement was read to the Chicano Community at
.'.:: hicano Park in San Diego on January 22, U)76. Drafted hy three
members of M.E.Ch.A. Central, a union of nine San Diego area
'Ollege MEChAs, it was presented to Mechistas from throughout
' alifornia convening in Fresno last weekend. As a result, the Chi;anos voted in the general session to adopt this letter as an outline
·or a protest against the Bicentennial celebrations. The Mechistas
will meet again in Fresno next month with the proposals to implement specific anti-bicentennial actionon a national level.
Sin1.e the seizure of the Southwest from Mexico in 1848, Mexicans
in that area were mislead to believe they were eligihle to hecome
,J nited States citizens und'er the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
As members of La Raza and as indig~nous people, we have been
treated as non-citizens: our rights were specifically safeguarded
lJy treaty provision and since then have heen continuously and directly violated.
Our history in the United States has heen a struggle against injustice and inequality. We have suffered all forms of violence, mockery,
prejudice, and economic abuse.
As a conquered people, we have felt the burdens that this country
,as imposed :upon us. We are a nation of people who have been oppressed hy the colonization of our own land.
_
Two hundred years ago the people who founded this country got
together to protest against an unjust government. Those who have
hene~ited from that protest are getting together to celebrate. On the
other hand, those who are still living under_an unjust government,
like those who protested two hundred years ago, have the right, as
.,,en as the responsibility to protest on the Fourth of July.
It has therefore become necessary for us as t.,a Raza to separate
urselves from the Bicentennial Celebration or this nation. To
~lebrate the Fourth of July would be to d~fend the murder of our
':!Ople and the rape of our culture.
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til April 3, 1976. If you have
;t yet done so and are interested
applying you can contact
iguel Contreras Jr. (487-2848),
- write to Bay AreaRazaCoaliJn for Health (BARCH), 1477
t"Uitvale Avenue, Oakland, Calirnia 94601.
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.
by Melvin Ricks
Uhuru editor
Why is it that as soon as The Daily Collegian
got into financ'iaJ trouble sone pcoplP. began to talk
about the validity and the necessity of the minority
editions?
People must realize ·that eliminating the minority editions will not solve the Collegian's problems.
The necessity of Uhuru and La Voz is not the
issue, the issue is the Collegian's financialdeficit.
The minority papers were started for the purpose of communicating and serving the interests
of Black and Brown students on campus. Since then
other ethnic minorities have voiced their opinions
and viewpoints through these papers. The papers
have served their purpose and they will continue
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Not only does this famous course reduce your time in the classroom to just
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but it also includes ari advanced speed
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to do so.
The problem that many people have in trying to
understand the purpose of the minority papers is
that they cannot see the world through our eyes
and experiences. They cannot understand it when
we say that we don't just want minority news but
minority newspapers.
,
The Uhuru is more than just a ' newspaper. It
is a symbol of Black progress and achievement on
this campus. Many students fought and demonstrated for the paper, but for us to give it up now
would ,be like saying that their struggle has no
meaning for us.
We would be giving up everything that they
fought for.
We must not hesitate to do everything now to
keep the papers that was done to get them seven
years ago.
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For those wl\o would like additional
information, a series of free, one hour,
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including classroom procedures, instruction methqds, class sche9ule and a
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similar courses. You must attend any
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These orientations are open .Jo the
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These special one-hour lectures will
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~nd 1:30 p.m.; Tuesday, March 30, 6:30
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6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
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Meeting to decide
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The Student Senate will decide tod.ay whether or not to allocate
$6,000 for the continuation o! The Daily Collegian this semester.
They will meet in College Union room 312, upstairs, at 3 p.m.
Thursday at noon the Media Council meets in College Union room
308 to hear alternatives for a long range approach to the Collegian's
financial situation.
Both meetings are open to the public.
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DE A-ZTLAN
LXXX/102
WEDNESDAY, MARCH . 24, 1976
A special edition of THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, California State University, Fresno
Mechistas move .to
protest .Bicentennial
School of Social Work Dean Richard Ford tells TR President Solis
(foreground) Chicanos may have more screening participation. At
Ford's left is field placement coordinator Clifford Bonham.
TR protest
leads to talks
•seeds of discontent were
planted in March of this year,•
said Trabajadores de la Raza
President Jesse Solis yesterday.
"Hopefully they will bear fruit
and we can begin to harvest within the end of the year.•
Solis' comments summed up
last week's activities when 75100 Chicanos joined Trabajadores
de la Raza Wednesday in protesting the School of Social Work.
The rally preceeded a meeting
between TR and Dean Richard
Ford Thursday in which both
parties addressed themselves to
TR's concerns for two hours.
"While it's difficult to say
~hat compromises are going to
be met, we as students can no
longer accept rhetoric and becomplacent because of that rhetoric,• Solis said.
Some understandings were
achieved, as both - parties acknowledge, but Solis says the key
element is time.
•we must never lose sight of
fair play," he said. •we can't
totally c.ondemn an indi victual until he is given the chance to meet
those compromises."
The basic agreement that came
out of last week's actions cen-'
tered around Chicano involvement in screening job applicants
and hiring faculty especially as
it pertains to the Rural Child
Welfare Project when an Anglo
~Continued on Page 2, Col., 3)
by Tom Uribes
Chicanos from California college MEChAs took their first joint
action in Fresno last Saturday to
protest the Bicentennial celebration in the United States.
Convening statewide for the
first time in two years, theCalifornia Mechistas attending adopted a 232-word statement claiming
that "to celebrate the .Fo1,1rth of
July would be to defend the murder of our people and the rape of
our culture."
CSU Fresno's MEChA hosted
the convention, which recorded
a registration of 110 Mechistas
from 32 California MEChAs.
In addition to the statement,
regional areas were established
with specific anti-Bicentennial
action to be decided upon at regional meetings in two weeks.
Specific proposals are to be
presented for consideration and
action as a statewide approach
toward national action at another
state convention set for next
month, also in Fresno.
Saturday the Mechistas established fundraising, communications, documentation, and publicity procedures as foundations
to support the anti-Bicentennial
effort.
The Chicanos also recognized
similar protest efforts of other
oppressed peoples of the United
States, asserting that although
MEChA emphasis would be on the
Chicano's role, support would be
lent to an overall na~ionwide antiBicentennial perspective.
The c9nvention idea this year
was initiated by MEChA Ce~tral,
a union of eight San Diego Area
community colleges and universities.
Two workshops were conducted, consisting of regional area
meetings and functional committee meetings.
REUIONS TO MEET
The state 's colleges were
structured into four regions:
Area I, Los Angeles MEChAs;
Area II, San Dieglt (MEChA Central); Area III, BJy Area; Area
IV, Central Valley (San Joaquin
Valley, etc.).
A fifth area of Sacramento
schools will be established at the
~oxt convention. Presently, they
are in the Bay Area.
In the regional meetings Saturday, much of the topic dealt with
the relating of situations each
MEChA faces in its respective
community.
However, the most significant
result was the establishing of
dates in the next two weeks for
each area to hold regional meetings.
Later in the general voting ses. sion, it was established that !!!
the next regional meetings, proposals on what specific actions
inay be taken to counter the Bicentennial celebrations could be
devised.
Each region elected a chairperson and a documenting secretary. Elected as chairpersonlo-
cally was· Fresno City College
Mechista Pablo Ramirez, who
was instructed to select his own
secretary.
The Central Valley region will
meet April 3 at Reedley College.
The committee meetings consisted of four areas: documentation, communications, fundraising, and publicity.
Comprised of delegates from
each attending MEChA, the committees drafted policies in their
respective areas to be adopted
in the final general session.
'OUTLINE' STRUCTURED
The Documentation Committee sent to the floor the proposal
to ac·cept San Diego's statement
as the "outline basis" for a statewide Chicano statement toward
the overall anti-Bicentennial effort.
This was later accepted in the
general session where a San Diego spokesperson who parti~ipated in the original draft ·1g told
the general body, •Take it, revise it, add to it, subtract from
it. Do it. Let's write the full
document at the next convention."
It was also the Documentation
Committee that sent forth a provision to recognize other national
anti-Bicentennial efforts.
Another significant outcome of
Conferencia femenil
the convention was the establishment of a communications pro-'
slated for Saturday
cess.
The Communications CommitLa Primera Conferencia Femtee sent to the floor a proposal
enil will be held Saturday in the
that wtn · have all schools send
Pinedale Community Center from
any information and announce9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The conferments to one central location.
ence, cosponsored by the League
That center (CSU San Diego
of Mexican American Women and
was selected to be the first centhe Continuing Education Proter) will ·compile the information
.g ram of the _ School of Social
Work, will highlight the Chicana's · in the form of a newsletter and
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 1)
role in today's society.
Retreat planned
by LRS staff
A La Raza Studies faculty retreat will be held Thursday and
Friday for Chicanos on and off
the campus.
All La Raza classes for those
two days have been cancelled to
allow students and faculty to
attend.
The regular Thursday MEChA
meeting has also been scheduled
to be held during the retreat at
the Newman Center just northwest of the campus. The MEChA
meeting will start at 12:30 p.m.
Basically billed as a faculty
retreat, the two-day session will
cover •new and · old" -problems
· LRS is contending with on a university-wide level, faculty issues, LRS and the Chicano community, and the LRS Program
itself.
It will )nclude Friday afternoon With resolutions and recommendations.
Coordinator Alex saragoza
presented the retreat's outline
to MEChA at last Thursday's
meeting inviting students to have
full participation.
He offered the tentative schedule but was to meet this week
with some students as to its
Thursday-Friday feasibility.
Under Faculty Issues, the retreat will touch on faculty-student relations from the faculty
viewpoint.
This will be reversed on Friday when it will be from the
student viewpoint.
La Raza Studies and the Chicano community will cover the
campus community, community
organizations, El Pueblo(campesinos, trabajadores, la gente sin
representacion)
and
o the r
schools.
Tentatively, both days will begin at 8 a.m. with breakfast.
Lunch will be provided both days
by faculty members.
Meeting in ~ollege Unioro room 308 Saturday, the Documentations Committee (above) was made up of
delegates from each of the 32 MEChAs attending. The statement they sent to floor is· on page 4.
2-THE DAILY COLLEQIAN
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
TR:- 'Seeds of discontent planted' • • • matter of time
Left top: Juan Noriega, Diane
Rivera, Alfonso Hernandez and
Tomai Reyes led the TR march
through the campus.
Left and right middle: Upon
returr.rng to his office, School of
Social Work Dean Richard Ford
held a verbal exchange with the
protes-ting Chicanos for half an
hour.
Bottom left, right top and bottom: TR president Jesse Solis
addresses rally.
.
Below: Gloria Hernandez (sign)
told Ford Chicanos are needed
to go out to the barrio.
(Photos by Ramon Perez
and Tomas Uribes)
BECAUSE YOU'VE
ACHIEVED
Trabaiadores protest: Ford ansYlers
(Continued from Page 1)
was hired for a predominantly
Spanish-speaking service area.
Ford agreed to allow TR to be
involved in these processes but
emphasized the Rural Child Welfare Project comes into consideration on a yearly basis and
new personnel could not he dealt
with until next year.
Solis expressed hope a Chicano
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Welfare Project next year.
_However. yesterday, Ford indicated the project may not even
be funded again. He based this on
a recent report by the Council of
Social Work Education which
alerted the School that the Health,
Education and Welfare Department may not request any federal
funds for the 1976 fiscal year.
But, he told La Voz if it does
get funded again, he still will not
have the choice in hiring the field
instructor.
"I can ·t say that if we have the
position, it · will go to a Chicano.
I can only make recommendations," he said, «The hiring is
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done by the university."
Solis said it will take time to
see if the School will respond to
TR's concern, including a more
active minority recruitment and
incorporation of minority curriculum.
As far as the talks last week,
Ford described them as "very
productive."
"It indicated that part of the
problem we have is one of communication," he said, adding "it
cleared the air" and created an
"atmosphere of cooperation.•
"I think we understand each
_o ther at this point," he said. ·
Solis said, "We feel that a new
breed of student, throogh proper
training, will carry out the continuity required to make rhetoric
become reality."
The effectiveness of TR ·s role
in the hiring procedures will not
be tested until hiring procedures
begin in June; said Solis.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Published five days a week except holidars
and examination periods uy the Associated
Students of California State University,
Fresno. Mail subscriptions$12 a semester,
$20 a year. Editorial office: Keats-Campus
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Opinions expressed in Collegian editorials
and commentaries are not necessarily those
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Staff . . . . . . . . . Margaret Esparza,
Ernesto Moreno, Anna Noriega,
Cindy Orona, Angie Rios, Martha
Uribes
Photographer . . . . . . . Ramon Perez
Contributors • . . . . . Cindy Cabrera ,
Miguel Contreras, !11unchie Olgin ,
Eric Strom
Editor . . . . . . . . . .. Tomas Uribes
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN -3
MEChA ioins San Jose 'March for Justice'
Fresno M echistas are planning
. to participate in .the Danny Trevino March for Justice this Saturday in San Jose, Califas.
Danny Tre.vino, a young San
Jose Chicano, was shot and killed
by two San Jose City policemen
on Jan. 22, 1976.
He is the eighth Chicano to die
a police death in that Bay Area
city since 1969, according to a
Committee on Public Safe'ty which
is sponsoring the march. Seven
blacks and one white have also
been killed by San Jose police.
At least thr.ee CSUF students,
Santos Garcia, Juan Perez and
Richard Carrillo, have indicated
an interest to form a car pool
to go to San Jose and march.
They may be contacted at tomorrow's MEChA meeting at Newman Center, 1572 E. Barstow,
at 12:30 p.m.
The march starts at noon
Saturday, but participants are
asked to meet at 10 a.m. at the
Guadalupe Church, 2020 E. San
Antonio in San Jose. A rally will.
follow ·at 1:30 p.m.
The Committee has secured
at least 17 speakers, including
Corky Gonzalez of the Denver
Crusade for Justice; Dennis
Barnes, American Indian Movement; Tom Hayden, candidate for
the U.S. Senate, ~nd Jane Fonda.
"The authorities deny there
Chicano voter ·sign-up drive set .
Various Chicano organizations
throughout Fresno Cpunty are
sponsoring a ·1ocal voter registration drive of Spanish - surnamed persons beginning irf April
for a two month period.
Funds have been allocated by
the Southwesf Voter Registration
Educational Project headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, for
the project.
Heavily involved in the effort
locally are El Concilio, MexicanAm-e rican Political Association,
and the Associacion Educativade
Padres Mexicanos.
According to Luis Ambriz, interim coordinator of the project,
the obiectives of this drive are
to register 10,000 Spanish surnamed r,ersons and to initiate
contact in 17 communities surrounding Fresno as well as Fresno itself.
"Mexican-Americans constitute the largest majority in the
Southwest and California,• said
Ambriz.
"But problems arise
from the fact that many MexicanAmericans do not vote or regis. ter to vote."
This stands true with the San
Joaquin Valley as well, he a,dded.
"It is hoped," said Ambriz,
"that this registration drive can
establish ·cont;tct in the rural
areas and stimulate political interest within that community."
Ambriz said if 500 Spanishsurnamed persons from the surrounding 17 communities affected
could be register~d, this wo~ld
be a beginning.
Some of the communities involved include Sanger, Parli~r,
Firebaugh and Riverdale, among
others.
On Saturday, April 3, 1976, a
grand opening is scheduled at
the project's office at 430 Tellman, across from Roeding 'park.
The activities will begin at 2 p. m.
. and the public is invited to attend. Refreshment and entertainment will be provided.
Persons interested in working
State MEChA conference
(Continued from Page 1)
send it out to each regional headquarters.
It will then be the responsibility of each headquarters to disseminate the information to each
MEChA within its region.
Also passed as a friendly
amendment was the provision the
central communications center
would be rotated frequently.
It was also clarified that the
. mode of dissemination would be
determined br the urgency of any
given situation: if a !v!EChA needs
to send word out immediately on
a matter, telephones could be
used to speed up the process.
This proposal received enthusiastic unanimous approval.
One of the few motions which
did not receive approval per se
was the Publicity Committee's
move to create a special antiBicentennial logo ,•
This motion was tabled until
the next convention because of
confusion as to the logo's symbolism. ,
Instead. it was decided to use
the MEChA insignia until a decision is reached.
The Fundraising Committee
devised a policy accepted by the
convention which requests
MEChAs to contribute "ideally
$100" each or a minimum ·of $50
to a statewide general fund. One ·
of the primary purposes would be
to fund publicity.
A spokesperson for the Los
Angeles region began the general
session statfng, "We're going to
have to try to get down to answers or we're just going to get
screwed up using Anglo 'philosophy for Chicano problems."
The San Diego spokesperson
phrased the . general direction of
the entire effort saying, "Tonight 's decision comes down to
what we'll do on a statewide level
toward national action."
Nearly all matters which went
before the general session for a
vote met unanimous approval.
In one of its final acts, the
convention passed a motion by
CSUF to host another statewide
meeting April 16 to finalize plans
initiated Saturday.
This date . corresponds with la
Marcha de Unidad scheduled in
Fresno April 17 to allow for
statewide MEChA participation
in the march of solidarity.
on the drive as a registrar or
who wish further information
should contact Ambriz at 2925312.
FCC conf ere nee
termed 'effective'
Last Saturday's Chicano Youth
Conference at Fresno Ci.ty College was termed "very effective"
by coordinator Kathy Silva.
450 young Chicanos from 25
high schools attended the daylong educational affair which was
billed as "Get Smart: Be Bilingual."
Ms._Silva said through evaluations, the student overall thought
the . conference was interesting
to them.
"It helped them to understand
more about their culture and
their advantage of being bilingual
and bi cultural," she said.
'
She added that in opening doors
to a different environment to
some of the students, the conference communicated the fact that
education is a necessity.
"They should be proud of their
bilingualism as a valuable tool,''
Ms. Silva said.
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·LOTS OF SATISFACTION
That pretty much tells the Peace Corps story. That's why
it takes a pretty special person to qualify for pretty unusual
jobs. But since 1961, over 65,000 Americans have served
as Peace Corps Volunteers. There must be some rewards.
Gene Rigler, an ex-Peace Corps Volunteer himself, heads
up a recruiting team that will be on the Fresno State
campus Monday through Thursday, March 22-25, to give
Fresno grads - and those about to receive their degrees some straight answers. The Peace Corps recruiting team
will be located at the Free Expr('ssion Area, across from
the cafeteria, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.
If you can be available in May or June, and have one of the
skills below, it might be ,worth your time to drop by the
Free Expression Area whil,e the Peace Corps ison campus.
Or, if you prefer to make an interview appointment for
sometime during March 22-25, you can arninge for it by
asking at the Placement Center, Room 267, New Adrpinistration Bldg., right now.
TEACHERS
Opportunities for English teachers in Tunisia, Niger
& Chad. Must have B.A. in English or French, or
B.A. in any discipline plus a French background.P.E.
teaching openings in Togo, Nicaragua, Honduras, East.
Caribbean. Bachelor's or master's in P .E. req.
Music teachers in great demand in Jamaica,- East.
Caribbean, El Salvador & Nicaragua. Bachelor's, plus
exp in conducting or playing in orchestra, req. Opportunities for art teachers in Jamaica, East. Carribbcan, Morocco & Costa Rica. Bachelor's in fine arts,
or five years exp in ceramics, weaving or jewelry req.
CIVIL ENGINEERS
Openings in Upper Volta, Seychelles Islands, Honduras, Morocco & Ethiopia. Bachelor's or master's
in C.E. req. Single males preferred.
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ous than the two policeofficers.",
The spokesperson said, "Danny
Trevino was not armed. His
death, like the death of many
others, was unnecessary.
"To remain silent is to accept
these acts of repression. We can
no longer remain silent.•
-FRESHMEN
JUNIORS
Train this summer for
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from $ 678 to $1800 with
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Tuition assistance and
civilian pilot training
available. Training is
rough; but opportun i ties are excellerit. For
Pl LOT OR GROUND
PROGRAMS, contact Lt.
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- tempor.,ry or permanent Europe , t",ustralia , S. Am(-'rica,
Africa, etc . All fields, $500$1200 monthly. Lxpcnses paid ,
sightseein v,. Frei? info. -Write:
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are acts of police repression
against minorities," said a Committee spokesperson.
They reported assistant District Attorney William Hoffman
denied the •racist violence of
police in San Jose,• and claimed
Trevino "was far more danger-
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Sat. 9:00-1 :00
XEROX COPIES
In Ecuador & Chile. Seeking Ph.D's, master's &
bachelor's with specialized exp in power.
Opportunities in El Salvador, Afghanistan, Colombia,
Jamaica. Bachelor's or master's in I.E. req. Married couples accepted.
SURVEYORS
In El Salvador & Morocco. B.S. in surveying, or A.A.
with 2 yrs' exp., or no degree with 3 yrs' exp., req.
HYDROGEOLOGISTS
Openings in Ethiopia. Bachelor's in hydrology or
geology, plus 3 months' exp in mapping, geophysical
surveys & water site investigations req.
PLANNERS
In Morocco & Honduras. Bachelor's oc master's in
city / regional planning, with '6 hrs of arch de5ign
courses, req.
BUSINESS
Opportunities in El Salvador, East. Caribbean, Upper
Volta, Morocco, Colombia & Botswana for those with
B.B.A., M.B.A. or M.A. in bus admin, marketing,
advertising, finance, banking or computer science.
HO·M E EC/NUTRITIONISTS
For Colombia,. East. Caribbean, Chi le, Costa Rica, &
Ecuador. Bachelor's with emphasis in nutrition, req.
SOCIAL WORKERS
Jamaica. Bachelor's or master's in sociology, with
exp in psychiatric rehabilitation req.
AGRICULTURALISTS
Opportunities in East. Caribbean, Zaire, Colombia,
Ethiopia, Morocco, Jamaica, Belize & Korea. Most ag
disciplines in demand. Requirements range from A.A.
in agronomy or horticulture to bachelor's or master's
degree in soil science. Ph.D's welcome, too.
U.S. citizens only. For most positions, singles, couples
without dependents preferred. Small tiving allowance, med
& dental care, vacations, $1,800 stipend at end of 2 years'
volunteer service.
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Monday through Thursday , \\larch 22-25 .. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
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4-THE DAILY. COLLEGIAN
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
Ed.itorial .
Sopport your local press
The three Collegian staffs have agreed to work together to fight
for the survival of The Daily Collegian in its present form as the
only independent student voice on campus - including the •minority"
editions.
Monday, The Daily Collegian, UHURU, and La Voz de Aztlan
staffs met and decided to en~tse a petition drive to show student
support for the paper at today's senate meeting, where studentelected representatives will decide the fate of your paper.
The issue is more than the economic feasibility of the newspape.-.
It is an issue of whether an independent student voice will remain
_on campus.
Previous attempts to stop the printing of i:he Collegian - and
especially La Voz and UHURU, have been defeated - but only after
student support was demonstrated.
Even Norman Baxter's attempt to have the student paper kicked
off campus in the '72-'73 school year was thwarted by concerned
students.
Perhaps the students' political and social awareness of the late
sixties and early seventies is now dead, and if so, the Collegian as a
symbol of that awareness and stand against the administration is
also dead.
We think not.
As long as students see a need for a real voice to help shout down
any outside and often arbitrary put-down of students; as long as
there remains a need to steer cle.~ r of faculty interference of what
should and should not be of concern in student lives, there will be a
need for a newspaper controlled by and for students.
La Voz, working with the other editions, urges all students to
demand a right to be heard without any outside restrictions being
applied to muffle their voice.
La Voz de Aztlan Staff
Califas Mechistas declare
anti-Bicentennial intentions
The following statement was read to the Chicano Community at
.'.:: hicano Park in San Diego on January 22, U)76. Drafted hy three
members of M.E.Ch.A. Central, a union of nine San Diego area
'Ollege MEChAs, it was presented to Mechistas from throughout
' alifornia convening in Fresno last weekend. As a result, the Chi;anos voted in the general session to adopt this letter as an outline
·or a protest against the Bicentennial celebrations. The Mechistas
will meet again in Fresno next month with the proposals to implement specific anti-bicentennial actionon a national level.
Sin1.e the seizure of the Southwest from Mexico in 1848, Mexicans
in that area were mislead to believe they were eligihle to hecome
,J nited States citizens und'er the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
As members of La Raza and as indig~nous people, we have been
treated as non-citizens: our rights were specifically safeguarded
lJy treaty provision and since then have heen continuously and directly violated.
Our history in the United States has heen a struggle against injustice and inequality. We have suffered all forms of violence, mockery,
prejudice, and economic abuse.
As a conquered people, we have felt the burdens that this country
,as imposed :upon us. We are a nation of people who have been oppressed hy the colonization of our own land.
_
Two hundred years ago the people who founded this country got
together to protest against an unjust government. Those who have
hene~ited from that protest are getting together to celebrate. On the
other hand, those who are still living under_an unjust government,
like those who protested two hundred years ago, have the right, as
.,,en as the responsibility to protest on the Fourth of July.
It has therefore become necessary for us as t.,a Raza to separate
urselves from the Bicentennial Celebration or this nation. To
~lebrate the Fourth of July would be to d~fend the murder of our
':!Ople and the rape of our culture.
J
\ edi-corps deadline
xtended to April ~
The application deadline for
e California Medi-corps sumer program has been extended
til April 3, 1976. If you have
;t yet done so and are interested
applying you can contact
iguel Contreras Jr. (487-2848),
- write to Bay AreaRazaCoaliJn for Health (BARCH), 1477
t"Uitvale Avenue, Oakland, Calirnia 94601.
areer Day Apr. 7
A Career Awareness Day Prog -am will be held on the CSUF
c mpus April 7.
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'More
than just a newspaper '
.
by Melvin Ricks
Uhuru editor
Why is it that as soon as The Daily Collegian
got into financ'iaJ trouble sone pcoplP. began to talk
about the validity and the necessity of the minority
editions?
People must realize ·that eliminating the minority editions will not solve the Collegian's problems.
The necessity of Uhuru and La Voz is not the
issue, the issue is the Collegian's financialdeficit.
The minority papers were started for the purpose of communicating and serving the interests
of Black and Brown students on campus. Since then
other ethnic minorities have voiced their opinions
and viewpoints through these papers. The papers
have served their purpose and they will continue
NATIONALLY KNOWN
SPEED READING COURSE
.TO BE TAUGHT
HERE IN FRESNO
FRESNO-Golden State Reading Lab
will offer a 4 week course in speed
reading to a limited number of qualified
people in the Fresno area.
This recently developed method of
instruction is the most innovative and
effective program available in the United States.
Not only does this famous course reduce your time in the classroom to just
one class per week for 4 short weeks
but it also includes ari advanced speed
reading course on cassette tape so that
you can· continue to improve for the rest
of your life. In just 4 weeks the average
student should be reading 4-5 times ·
faster. In a few months some students
are reading 20-30 times faster attaining speeds that approach 6000 words
per minute. In rare instances speeds
of up to 13,000 wpm have been documented.
Our· &. verage graduate should read
7-10 times faster upon completion of
the course with marked improvement
RESIDENCE LIFE
COORDINATOR
(Stud.-nt Affairs Traint>e)
S862
Tasks: Serv.-s as program advisor to four hall governments ;
assists in the c-ounseling of
dorm residents; develops training and educational programs ;
and participates in the planning and organization of summer conference housing activities.
Rec:uirements: Bachelor's Degree and experience in advising student groups. Submit
application to: Staff Personnel
Office,
Joyal
Administration
Building, Room 170, CSUF.
Filing Deadline: March 26,
1976.
to do so.
The problem that many people have in trying to
understand the purpose of the minority papers is
that they cannot see the world through our eyes
and experiences. They cannot understand it when
we say that we don't just want minority news but
minority newspapers.
,
The Uhuru is more than just a ' newspaper. It
is a symbol of Black progress and achievement on
this campus. Many students fought and demonstrated for the paper, but for us to give it up now
would ,be like saying that their struggle has no
meaning for us.
We would be giving up everything that they
fought for.
We must not hesitate to do everything now to
keep the papers that was done to get them seven
years ago.
in comprehension and concentration.
For those wl\o would like additional
information, a series of free, one hour,
orier,tation lectures have been scheduled,. At these free lectures the course
will be explained in complete detail,
including classroom procedures, instruction methqds, class sche9ule and a
special 1 time only introductory tuition
that is less than one-half the cost of
similar courses. You must attend any
meetings for information about the
Fresno classes.
These orientations are open .Jo the
public, above age 14, (persons under
18 should be accompanieq by a parent
if possible).
If y01J . have al ways wanted to b~ a
speed reader but found the cost pro~.
hibitive or the course too time consuming ••• now you can l Just by attend~
ing 1 evening per week . for .4 short
weeks you can r~ad 7 to 10 times faster, concentrate better· and comprehend
more.
If you are a student who would like
to make A's instead of B's or C's or if
you are a business person who wants
to stay abreast of today's eyerchanging
accelerating world then this course is
an absolute necessity.
These special one-hour lectures will
be held at the following times and
places.
FRESNO MEETINGS
Thursday, March 25, 6:30 and 8:30
p.m.~Friday, March 26, 6:30 and 8:30
p.m.; Saturday, March 27, 10:30 a.m.
~nd 1:30 p.m.; Tuesday, March 30, 6:30
and 8:30 p.,n.; Wednesday, March 31,
6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
All . meetings to be held in Fresno
Fashion Fair, 645 E. Shaw at First in
the Community Hall (downstairs).
If you are a businessman, student,
housewife or executive this course,
which took 5 years of intensive research to develop, is a must. You can
read 7-10 times faster, comprehend
more, concentrate better, and remember longer. Students are offered an
additional discount. This course can
be taught to industry or civic groups
at "group rates" upon request. Be
sure to attend whichever free orientation that fits best in your schedule.
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