La Voz de Aztlan, December 5 1977
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Title
La Voz de Aztlan, December 5 1977
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Associated Students of Fresno State
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La Voz de Aztlan (Daily Collegian, California State University, Fresno)
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Fresno, California
Date
12/5/1977
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La Voz - Monday, Dec.
Walkout
Mediations
5. Pa2e 1
Get Mixed·
Reactions
By Tomas U ribes
A federal .mediator who has
already conducted three negotiation sessions in the Coalinga
schools walkout controversy, said
an agreement may be reached'
with one more meeting~ ,
Although representatives of the
protesting students and of the
Coalinga Unified School Board
of Trustees are not as optimistic,
I
they ~aid a third session held
last Friday would determine the
immediate status of the situation.·
On Oct. 25, nearly 200 Chicano ·
students walked O\lt of classes
at Coalinga Jr. High and High
School over alleged racial discrimination in the school district.
Several heated Board meetings
produced little if no immediate
solutions to the issues. After
fights broke out at the junior high
and high schools, the Community
Relations Service (CRS) division
of the U.S. Justice Department
intervened.
CRS representatives WilliaJD
Briggs and Ed Howden arranged
to hold mediation sessions to deal
with the problems. The mediation
committee consisted offive representait ves of the district and board
and five representatives of the
protesting students and their parents. The parents are members
of Los Padres Unidos de Hurdn.
Huron is 20 miles from Coalinga
and part of the school district.
Most of the students who walked
out were Chicanos from Huron.
They commute to Coalinga to attend
grades 7-12.
Friday morning, Howden said the
progress of the mediation sessions
was difficult to assess.
"We•re hopeful a major ag,reement can be worked out,,, he said
prior to Friday afternoon's session. "At the end of this (Friday) afternoon, we•u know better
about the future. It might well
take just one more session after
today.u
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..ea ~ .'kJIJl.4, ,4/1, q.Js,.,,
"le/v; NcwidrJ ...'I/ . . . . . . V~ .f'4,
(FRIDAY'S MEETING WAS TOO
LATE FOR TlilS LA VOZ ISSUE)
He said he could not comment
on any ''substantial issues" discussed during the sessions. All
parties involved, he said, agreed
not to discuss the contents of the
sessions.
Sarahi Escandon, a Coalinga
For you macho vatos who think
High senior who · has acted as
The newly formed Third World be set up all around the Free you're bad. -• .Las Adelitas is
spokesperson for the protesting Coalition is sponsoring a Third Speech area and each ethnic groui:;
ready and willin g to give you a
students, said she is not satisfied World Fair to be held at CSUF will be selllng their foods, It is chance to show us how sweet
with the progress and had planned on Dec. 7.
also reported that there might
you really are. •
to droo out of the mediation com~The purpose for -the fair is to be special speakers. It will be
Las Adelitas
is presenting
their
ittee until Howden, in a two-hour gather
all oppressed people. a day of solidarity and all people
·
.
.
Sdecond AnDnual lc6 onl~e77nt1fdo d18s·cooo
pnone call, persuaded her to con- Black, Chicanos. Indians, Ori- are encouraged to attend.
ance on ec. , "
rom ,
tinue her involvement.
entals and Iranians. Booths will
It's very important for the unity
She said one of 'her biggest
of students on campus.
disappointments was the deciston•-- - - - - - -,- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...- - - - - - -- - - ~ - --
Coalition Sets Day bf 'Solidarity'
on where to hold the meetings.
"We had originally agreed to
meet on neutral grounds but now
the committee is going back on
its word. IPs a matter of principle," she said _· Thursday night.
The first mediation meeting was
held ln the Coalinga Library which
Escandon felt was acceptable. But
she said the· second session was
held at Board member Ronald
Allen•s ranch. Allen is one of
Sigue
••••
••••
~menlilios pg. 2·
Adelitas Plan Disco
Dance
p.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the upstair~
cafeteria.
Donation at the door will be
$2.00 or $1.00 with two canned
food items. All proceeds collected will be used for food baskets ·
h" h
.
t o nee dy fam1·
W1,1c
w1. 11 be given
lies and to purchase toys for children.
,
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Native Americans Threatened pg. · 3
7 yeil la RaZa Ides Secretary is Gone pg·. 3
-'Ires Crez pg. 4
~
·Pinto .Program pg. 4
l
Protect linoriti8SE
DECEMBER 5,1977
EDITORIAL
'Administration- Must Stop
Institutional RClcism At CSUF
In the · 1960's and early 1970's,
the social climate was conducive
to
social change, particularly
issues concerning minorities. The
resultant reforms were largely
due, however, to the persistant
pressure of minorities themselves
and their supporters. But times
also change. Inflation, unemployment and apathy hive produced an
atmosphere where racism once
again returns, where reactionary
forces thrive and prosper • .
Racism has many faces. It
expresses itself in several forms:·
the scapegoating of Mexican undocumented .worker~, the Bakke
case, the criticism of affirmative
action policies. And of course,
its companions also arise such
as sexism and political conservatism.
Racism, sexism, and
reactionary politics also appear
in institutions. The depersonalization of prejudice does not make
racism
less potent, indeed it
strengthens the ability of institutions to use their power against
minorities, women and in the case
x_of CSUF, students.
Institutional racism has clearly
returned to CSUF, indee_d it maynever have left, Several items
suggest an obvious patt~rn of in-
... Or Is ll Time
For Baxter To Go?
•••
stitutional ·harassm~nt and attacks
on the interests of minorities.
women and unsubmissive students.
Ap}llrently the approach of this
institutions higher administration
is to weakenandeventuallydestroy ·
many of the gains made in the
pist. The recent cutbacks in the
Ethnic Studies and LRS programs
and the controversy over the IRA
reveal the latest examples of this
institutional racism.
The strategy of the administration is to use technicalities,
legalism, rules and formulas to
thwart the success of pograms
relevant to minorities and others .
The attempt will be to avoid outright confrontations; the administration will cut here and there
without notice - or so it hopes.
The cumulative effect of the Administration's
remains obldoos
nonetheless. We deplore the growing evidence of this institutional
racism. Furthermore, we deplore
what seems to be the /inevitable
result:
demonstration, campus
tension, polarization and Administration-student alienation. We
can only make observations, it is
up to the administration to prove
our conclusions wrong-- or up to
students to do something about it.
The
La
Voz staff
Anti Ku-Klux-Kl.a n
March Saturday
The Anti-Bakke Decision Coalition and various community and
student O!:Pnizations will march
against the Klu Klux Klan, the
NAzi Party, and U.S. ties with
South Africa and Iran. The March
will begin forming at 10:00 a.m.,
Saturday, December 10, at Sunset
Community Center. It will move
through
the various Housing
Authority Projects in West Fresno,
through Chinatown and the Fulton
Mall, and will end with a rally at
the County Courthouse.
This march is meant to bring
the community together around
these issues which represent the ..
rising tide of conservatism, and
racism within the United States.
It is also meant to exl)Ose the U.S.
presence inter.nationally.
The Ku Klux Klan, after having
led the brutal oppression of Black
people in the.United State~ for many
years has turned against the undocumented Mexican worker with
a vigilante-style "border watch".
The Nazi Party has staged public
activities
in recent months in
supl)Ort of racism, attempting to
disrupt the actions of the growing
· Anti-Bakke Decision movement.
In South Africa, the racist regime,
with the SUPPort of the United
States, closes down the oppostiion
press, openly murders the leaders
of the people, and violently suppresses their movement for justice. Meanwhil.e, Jimmy Carter,
shakes hands with the biggest
fascist since Adolf Hitler, the Shah
of
Iran, and
declares their
2
interests to be the same.
In response to these developments, the Anti-Bakke De.cision
Coalition has decided to organize
actions throughout the state on
December 10. The Fresno ABDC
has planned this March with the
supl)Ort of ME ChA, the CSUF Third
WorldCoalition, Trabajadores de la
Raza, and other community and
student organizations. We urge
all Raza, Black, Indian, ~nd progressive Anglo organizations to
join in UNITY AGAINST RACISM
AND TO DEFEAT THE BAKKE
DECISION.
For • more information contact
MEChA, tbe ABDC, or Trabajadores at 224-9134, or Stan Santos,
at 224-5677.
·
Staq Santos
IF THE REPORTS made by some student leaders about
recent · meetings held between CSUF President Norman
Baxter and AS Senators are any indication, this campus
is in worse shape than we thought.
Through his hitman, Vice-President Volpp, Baxter
has already been asking for more "trouble" on campus ••.
But now he apparently wants more like the kind that
brought people to their feet in the early seventies and
awakened them to the need to seriously attend to problems in our society.
Some student leaders reported recently that an arrogant and authoritarian Baxter told them that the only
purpose of student government is so students "can learn
to behave."
When · one of the students asked him why he signed
the controversial IRA contr~ct, which appears to slight
minority oriented programs, he reportedly said, "to
protect future senators from minorities."
He was further pressed by another student who asked,
"How could you accept such an immoral, racist contract?"
I
.
"Look, it doesn't matter what you say,'' he reportedly retorted back. "I have complete authority to spend'
that money (student funds) how I want. In the end, I have
the final say and you can't spend that money without
my approval."
·
Then Baxter must have got to AS President Bill
Brewer who blew up at the student leaders for revealing
these comments.
He "yelled, screamed and cussed' ·
at two of them in the presence of one student's six-yearold daughter. . This apparently came at the beginning
of an attempted interview by a Collegian reporter about·
the reports.
"He said we shouldn't say anything because it would
qnly make the university and Baxter look bad and the
university did not need that right now," said one of tfie
students, Rachel Mendoza, a Chicana and only minority
involved in the Baxter and Brewer meetings.
It's too bad if Brewer has already fallen into .the
same trap as his predecessors •••• we had hoped those
days were gone with Nikkisarian. But apparently, Baxter stiff has full control of the student presidenPs strings ..
And Baxter confirmed his lack of regard for students
who are._ trying to work within the system to afect positive change.
Even more so, Baxter seems to have a
vicious contempt for efforts which would try to deal
with some of society's historical and current injustices.
We refer of course to minority oreiented projects such
as Semana de · la Raza, Black History Week and Tewaaquichi (student funded cultural observances which are not
benefactors of the IRA contract.) to Ethnic Studies and
La Raza studies which Baxter's hatchman, Volpp, has
said he would like to see phased out. Baxter, it becomes
increasingly . clearer, would rather see minoitles keep
a spot in the lower end of society and away from positions which would for once truly implement the true
intention of the U.S. Const~tution.
,Baxter may have complete authority but he's off
base on the ·other part: he doesn't nave tne 11na1 say.
The people have the final say. And the constitution suggests that if the system fails us, we have the right to
start over again.
Well, it's time to start again ••• Baxter as got to go,
and Volpp with him. Baxter has been
this university's
head the past six years ••• it's time for a person with real
sensitivity to student's needs ••.• not someone who ·will
twist things around so he can justify his hatchet jobs.
We call for Baxter's resignation before he provokes
us into behavior which only disrupts sincere efforts and
intensifies emotions ••• but makes people act. Baxter probably wants us to resort to such action so he can shoot
us down a la Kent State. (four student demonstrators
shot dead on campus by National Guard in 1970)
Chancellor Dumke and Governor Brown ••.• help put
a stop to this conservative backlash before things get
out of hand.
Pe~ro Ramirez
Editor
Funston Gfoup ·Demands ·Belter .Housing Conditions
Cindy Orona
housing to live in.
The following is the list of
On :,.;ov. 29. a group of people grfevances that was presented to
went before the Fresno City Coun- the City Council by the Funston
cil. rhese people dia .not appear Tenant Council:(they are not nebefore the City Council regarding cessarily in order).
their children's e<lucation, nor did
1. Many homes have waterthey go de1:i•>-nding equal iustice, heaters in dangerous state of dishut · they went demanding better repair, located inside the homes
living conditions.
near the oven. Repeated entreatfhe name of the group is Funston ies to repair these dangerously
Tenants Council and all the mem- malfunction water-heaters have
bers,
including Chairperson
led to nothing. The Housing
Frances Gross, live in the public Authority has expressed disinhousing complexes called Funston, terest in the matter.
located at Fresno and Clinton Sts.
2. Electrical wiring in many
The Funston Tenant Council of the homes is dangerous and
is not complaining about loose is in · need of repair and replacehinges or leaky faucets, but are ment. Serious fire dangers excomplaining about faulty wiring, ist for the families in these homes.
decent recreational facilities for
. 3.
In many of the houses
their children; basically decent there is only one fire exit, con-
stituting a grave danger to the supplying tenants with basic equip- tenants know how money is spent
adults and children who live in ment, althougb it spent several on these public housing services,
these homes.
Again, repeated thousand dollars recently on unJust exactly how serious is
entreaties to the Housing Author- needed typewriter equipment for all this? Here in Fresno one man
tty have resulted in no correction its own use and a computer that 1s responsible fo·r the safety of
of these conditions.
no one knows how to operate. human lives and the places where
4. Security is lacking in the
6.
Communication with the they live, yet he does little if
housing project and police are . Director of the Housing Authority at all anything.
often two and three hours late is almost impossible and tne reThere are old and ym.ing
in responding to request for he-lp. quests of the tenants are dis- people, children and handicapped
Police aften avoid the housing
missed out of hands. Recently people Uvfng in Funston.
All
project, , especially in the evening a petition submitted by many of problems that any small communbecause tt is considered too danthe tenants on issues of lmpor- ity may have, exist at Funston.
gerous to enter. 1f it is too dan- tance were dismissed out of hand
The Funston Tenant Council
gerous for the police, what about and no action was takent to study has a meeting with the Ctiy county
the elderly and physically weak the matters outlined in the peti- Board of Commissionerson
who must live there?
tlon.- Housing Authority employ- December 8. At this meeting~their
5. The community center of ees who show interest in the ten- grievances will be discussed. Keep
residents ts far too small for use ants point-of-view have been sum- that date in mind if you would
and ts inadequately supplied with
marily dismissed. Other em- like to give .a group a helping hand,
the basic equipment necessary for ployees who are indifferent to the Contact Frances Gross at Funston
meetings of the tenants.
The tenants requests have been ~e- center for more information at,
Housing Authority claims that warded with salary increases. The 224.9134.
there is not enough money for Director's office refuses to let
H.R. 9054, Final
Blow to Indians
LRS Looses Seven year Secretcry
Felix J. Contr~ras
H.R. 9054. A bill introduced Coalition, a group staunchly op- the tribe shall not be entitled
In our continuing struggle against they played a major roll in susinto the U.S. Congress that ac- posing the legislation, bring up to any of the services performed the CSUF Administration, Chic- taining La Raza Studies. "More
cording to American Indian lea- the point. that the bill also calls . by the United States for Indians anos appear to have lost an imp- students signed up for classes and
ders, "would strike the final, ter- for" ••• the abrogation of all rights because of their status as Indians: ortant symbol and an other ext- they themselves were doing a lot
guaranteed to I all statused of the United States remely valuable person to the of recruiting. There was a lot
minating
blow
to Indians as and protect!o~s
people under those treaties, such which affect Indians because of life of La Raza Studies.
people."
more student involvement then I
on Nov, 18, the program lost have seen the last few yerars,
According to th~ text of the bill, as -tire right to hunt and fish." their status as Indians shall no
From the text of the bill,
·. longer be applicable to the mem- its fulltime secretary of eight up until now."
which is titled the"Native Ameryears, Ms. Angie Cisneros.
ican Equal Opportunity Act," the ''provides tl'lat huntin_g and fish-· bers of the tribe ••• "
Angie believes that the adminiThe Coa1ition points out that
The secretarial position was stration is going to do away with
bill would direct the President ing rights derived by the Indian 1·
"United States Govern- ·reduced to ha}ftime due to the La Raza Studies. "If not, it will
to abrogate all treaties entered . tribe from a treaty shall be ab- . the
into by the United States with rogated; and the members of the I ment agreed to provide for and , cutback of allocated fulltime sec- only be a token thing," she says.
tribe be subject to Federal, State, protect the rights of Indian people retarial positions in the School of
·1ndian tribes ••. "
She also added that the new
Meinb~.rs of the .National Indian and -local laws governing hunting in return for the Indian's agree- Social Science in which LRS exists. general education policy impleand fishing ••• "
ment to cede large portions of
Consequently, Angie was forced mented last year is an indirect
"If Representative.s Cunningham, our land to the United States. H.R. to transfer to another department way by the administration to cut
(Wash.), and Abnor- (South Dakota), 9054 would permit the Federal that culd provide her with full- out La Raza Studies.
the authors of the bill, were really · Government to terminate its part time work. She is currently work"We got hit harder than anybody
interested in equal opportunities of the agreement but would leave tng as a secretary in the Inter- else due to the fact that La Raza
for Indian people/' claim the Co- Indian people in the unfair position national Studies office located in Studies is weak with respect to
alition," -they would begin by em- of having ceded our land fnr nott'n!?. the Joyal Building.
its . lack of tenured teachers snd
bracing the treaties and seeking
"For us to put any kind of faith,
'Angie Cisneros was_ first hired the fact that it is not a departtheir vigorous enforcement_..rather or hope, or prayer, in this bill, in La Raza Studies -in November
ment,'' she commented.
• than proceeding on an opposite or any type of termination -bill," of 1969. She worked there until
Angie feels that a lot of ·former
course of action. It is crystal stressed Banks, "would be as the end of the academic year students who have not lent their
clear, however, that the motivating dangerous as putting our lives when the program was cut from support to the movimiento in recpurpose behind H.R. 9054 has no- and our future, in the hands of five full-time instructors, to one, ent years wouldn't have made 1t
thing to do with equal rights for-- General Armstrong Custer..... in a purge on- minorities charac- without LRS and EOP.
Native Americans, but instead is It is the final act corning down teristic of the administration in
designed to deprive us of our fun- upon us.'
the late sixties and early seven"I wish .t here was some way
damental and inalienable rights."
"But, we will never accept th_is ties.
could instill a need to be inDennis Banks, · leader . of the kind · of termination-we will never
Cisneros was also ,·•swept out volved in more in the students,"
American Indian Movement, also surrender our heritage.
the door" before the the entire she says. ''Nothing can really
is very opposed to the bill.
''If they want to abrogate the program was ter-minated the end happen if we don't push for it
. "'Because of my opposition to treaties of 1868, 1851, -i8i2, anc:1 of the summer of 1970.
to happen. People have to get
involved. Everything in this wo.rld
the bill," state_s Banks, "I've been 1970, then I will be the first one· - The program was reinstated
asked if I'm against equal oppor- to speak up and say "let's abro- in the fa11 of 1970~ but it was is political and that means gettunity-this kind of opportunity I'm gate the treaties, Mr. Whiteman, not until November, -1972 that ting involved.
Angie admits that when sh~
against,"
until I see you backed up to the Angie was rehired in La Raza
From the bill: "After the com- shores of Plymouth Rock. Then Studies. By this time, the pro- first came to CSUF, like many
pletion of this abrogation of the there will be equal opportunity." gram had been built up to 6-7 Chicanos then and now, she was
treaties with an Indian tribe under
teachers which meant that a full- very- unaware of what was happthis act, .• individual members of
time secretary was needed.
ening with Chicanos.
But her first-hand exposure
Las Adelitas, CSUF's then newlyformed
Chicana organization, over tne years to this university's
played a key role in the initial attitudes towards minorities have
apparently had some im~act. This
hiring of Angie.
Las Adelitas frequently helped is evidence l>y her current involvout in the LRS office, but the ements.
She is the vice-president for
ne-wly-insUtuted program needed
a secretary badly. Las Adelitas both the Fresno League of Mexmembers also helped interview ican American Women and the
Mexican-American Political Ass
her for the position.
In additiion
Ethnic Studies, (of which La ociation (MAPA).
to her fulltime job at the InterRaza
Studies
was.
a
part
of
at
KFSN Channel 30 has been management continues to be domi- vide that input in the future.'' _
national Students office, she is
Station manager Walt Liss was the time), had its office in Baker •a fulltime student who plans to
operating without a license since nated by male caucasion."
Hall during 1969-70 academic year.
In the area of programming, not available for comment but
last Thursday because minorities
Angie recalls, ''It was like our graduate this spring with a hachasked the F.ederal Communications the petition said, "Repeatedly, programming manager Lee Jason
own little house.
Blacks and elor's degree in puhlic adminis- ~
Commission (FCC) to deny the members of the MAC have attempt- said the station feels it has a good
Chicanos 1i ved in Baker Hall. tration.
_
.Fresno station's license- renewal ed to introduce cultural and racial record in the area of affirmative
Of her departure from of the
Everything was there.n
.
sensitivity in the program deci- action and minority program ming.
application.
Those first years of mino·rtty Chicano program, Angie said she
The Fresno Media Minority sions made by the station without He said a comment would not be
programs were hot with demon- misses the type of community conAdvisory Committee (MAC) con- , success."
forthcoming.
strations to gain minority's rights. tact she had in La Raza Studies.
The Indian sub-committee cites He said attorneys advised Channel
sisting of blacks, American In"It's like being away from
"I can remember back then, "she
30
not
to
com·meut
on
the
specific
dians, and Chicanos, filed a peti- a failure by station management
says, "one time my grandmother home " she said. "I was · amongst
tion for denial and has staged two to ''follow up on commitments charges made by MAC. Bttt he
called to check up on me, to make what 'you consider family. You
demonstrations in front of _the to have staff cover important meet- said a response to· the charges,
sure I was okay." Angie said don't mind working if its for your
ings or ev~nts."
' will be available to the public
station's offices.
exagerrated radio reports of hap- family and thats what 1 felt.
In general, the committee accus'ed · "in about a month," '
MAC was formed in 1971 when
"I don't know if I'll ever
penings on campus had scared
Capital Cities Broadcasting, Inc. Channel 30 of using the commit- . Jason said the stati9n's records
her grandmother. ••Those were feel that again with any other
bought ' Channel 30. Since then, tees 's· work to provide minority are open to the public.
"We feel the community is well exciting_ times," exclaimed Angie. job.''
MAC has worked to provide mi- input as evidence that the station
Angie believes that community
. nority input · to the station and is suiting the needs of the minor- aware of our programming. It's
involvement
in the Fall of 1970
out in the open.'' he said. "We're
helped develop minority programs. ity community.
was one of the key factors which
At the same time. the petition proud of our record. The Federal
Every three years, companies
saved La Raza Studies. She also ·
which utilize the public airwaves· reads, "the application does not Communications Commission will
added that students were more
must re-apply for a license from include a positive statement as to make a ruling based on that reinvolved back then. She felt that
the government through the FCC~ how the MAC will continue to pro- cord.''
to use the airwaves.
MEChA will sponsor the next
Since the airwaves are "public
·tatewide conference of the Antiproperty'', radio and television
akke Decision on Saturday
stations must shqw it is responding to the needs of the community.
ec. 17, at CSUF. The conference
The Chicano Commencement
The FCC investigates any comLast year, a- logo drawn by Sal- be on the last day of finals, Friday ill begin with registration at
Committee,
of
the
CSUF
Chier.no
vador G'arcia of La Brocha del • May 19th.
plaints.
9:00 a.m., and the assembly at
Faculty, Staff and student organi- 1vane, is featured in today's La
For more information, contact 0:00 a.m. The purpose of the
Dec. l was lhe new licensing
zation
is
sponsoring
its
second
period but Channel 30 must now
Voz. Chicano Commencemet will Tony Garduque at 487_-1021.
conference is to review the preoperate without a license while annual logo contest. The winning
..
ent status of Special Admission,
logo
will
be
printed
on
all
Chicano
the FCC reviews the matter.
ffirmative Action Programs, and
~
·s;.
.
.
MAC particularly attacks the Commencement cards, diplomas,
:t~.
he Bakke case; and plan future
etc
•••
and
will
represent
this
year's
station's affirmative action efforts
strategies of the ABDC, specific~
commencement 0 theme", which is
and its programming. In its petially the February 25th Los Angele
Chicanos in Education.
tion, the committee accused the
tatewide Mobilization. All conTony
Garduque,
a
committee
Ch:,.nnel 30 of requiring high qualierned
groups and individuals arc
member, expressed the corhmitfications of minority job applicants
rged to attend.
·
t~ess'
wished
that
the
logo
sumwhile hiring anglos -who "have no
The
Fresno
ABDC
meets every
prior experience'' in broadcasting bolize the above theme. There
Wednesday at 7:00p.m. at MECh
will
be
a
$25.00
cash
prize
for
but in the words of the manageENTRAL, in the Funston Housment, "they have potential as good the winning logo. The contest .
ng Projects, at 2172 Drexel.
is
open
to
anyone,
with
a
deadcommunicators, or have high
People are needed to assist in
line set for Feb.28, 1978. SubI.Q.'s."
the
organizing of the December 17th
mit your entry to Tony Garduque
Minorities further question em,_
..
onference and other activities
in
the
E.O.P.
office
or
Ernie
ployment practices by the station
of the focal' committee. For more
.....,...,
Martinez in La Raza Studies or
saying a double standard exists
information-, please call 22 4- 9134
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Manuel
Olguin
in
Tutorial
Serfor minority employees and anglo
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or Robert Jaramillo, 225· 4125-vices.
employees. They also said, "top
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Minorities Challenge
TV Station License
MEChA Sponsors
·ABOC Conference
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Pirito Program Helps
~x- Cons · Enter College
Garduque is the co-chai-rman
The Pinto in a criminology course
of the Northern California Pinto has a lot to give, he can be very
College Program. He is an E.O.I-'- effective in helping develop new
Of the diverse Chi~no slang counselor and coordinator of .the correctional facilities,· as well te,·ff,S that have come into exis- Pinto program at CSUF. He took as tell of his own personal extence there is one that is very the job in 1975 when he was a perience.
familiar in prisons and in ex- secon-year graduate student in
The Pinto Program is planning
offender programs. Thal..,term the School of Social Work here a series of activities the first
is "Pinto", a Pinto by deiinition · at CSUF. CET A was offering a of which, is to sponsor a Prison
is someone who has done hard
position for administrative train- Poetry Symposium at CSUF before
time in a prison or penitenciary. ee. The different programs lob- the end of the year. ''There
"Pinto in Spanish means spotted bied for the position and E.O.-P. are many good Pinto poets." says
i.e., pinto beans; once you've been won it," recalls Garduque. .
Garduque, "there wili be Anglo,
convicted of a feloney and senManuel Perez,
director . of Chicanos and Blacks who want
tenced to do hard time you're
E.O.P., decided to make the. ad- to recite their poetry or have ,
spotted !or llfe," says Tony Gar- ministrative trainee position, a someone recite it for them if they
duque, who ts an EOP counselor
Pinto coordinator, According to cannot possibly attend. The condirecting the Pinto program here Garduque 1 "There were a lot of tent of the poetry tells the probat CSUF.
people who were well qualified, lems and struggles of prison life.''
· The Pinto Collej;e Program at but a B.A. degree was needed
The second activity the program
CSUF came into existence in the which disqualified many of them. is plannl~g a ''Pen Pal project.
Spring of 1972. It is a statewide SomeQrie put in an application
"There are many guys wl)o are
program and belongs to the Asso- for me, Without my knowledge, locked up for several years, many
ciatlon of·Ex-offender Educational and I was offered the job. I of whom don•t have a family and
Programs. At its, inception, the weighed the factors and decided are lonely, most of them are
program dealt oµly with parolees, to take the job because it would dying to communicate with somebut has now qpened its doors to be good experience. ·
one
the · outside,'' says Gardupeople on probation. Garduque .
At present, there are 15 full- que.
states,"The Pinto program, just . time students in the, Pinto proThe third activity is increasing
Pedro Ramirez
like many other e~-offender pro- gram and five applicants being community · outreach. The Pinto ·
In Fresno and San Joaquin
The organization has received
grams, was started by Chicanos.
considered for admission.
program will go out to ·the com mun
·
- Valley, there is nothing like Trez a National Endowement Grant to
To make the name Pinto look offi"The purpose o( the Pinto ity organlzations and agencies .
.
.
•
cial, they made the letters stand
College Program is twofold,''
to tell them about the Pinto College Crez. Trez Crez 1~ a. Chicano expose the Chicano community to
for Parolees In New Training
continues Garduque. "The first Program. "We don't recruit art center where Chicanos from art.
occupation."
· of which is to offer a higher people, we just inform them about - Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley
Future plans consist of a calenThe Pinto program is a part of educational opportunlty for ex- the opportunities for a 9ollege ca~ J?eet and express the ma~y dar depicting the lifes of Chicanos
E.O,P. The rational for this ts offenders. Hopefully, this will be ·education,,, .explains Garduque.
artistic ideas they have. Also 1t living in the San . Joaquin Valley.
that Pintos are considered disviewd as a positive alternative
In past years Pinto's never serves as an art gallery where For
each month, many of La
advantaged students and since the to crime, as well as being an had the opportunity to prove them- Chicanos from all over the country Brocha's artists have drawn up
function of E.O.P. is to ald dis- educationally enriching experi- selves in society beca~se too many can exhibit their works.
.
beautiful symbolic figures. The
advantaged students get into col- ence."
times people would ' shun them
Art Cruz , representative of calendars will go on sale after
lege, it would only make sense
. "The second,'' -according to and not trust them. In employ- Trez Crez says, "this center · is .December "!5th and will sell for
to incorporate the Pinto program Garduque, "is changing the atti- ment and college institutions, they for. all Chicanos, artist or. not.- $4.00 each.
with KO.P. The Pinto student -tude of students on this campus, were turned down because of their We do our work for the ChicallQ
"Right now," says Cruz, 'twe·
has ,to go through the same paperprimarily criminology students. criminal record: which hindered community, so .it belongs to the cannot reallyworkwithelementary
work as the E.O.P. student. The Most criminology classes are their development in society and people as well as the artists." junior high and high school stuStudent Advisor for the Pinto stuone-sided, very little, if anything, ' made them feel unwanted. · Pin-'".,
Trez Crez is also like a store dents because we don't have a
dent, however, is not the same
is taught about the experience tos are showing that downfalls
explains Cruz, "artists can come staff to teach them. Ho'Wever,
as for .the E.o.P. student. Gar- • and point-of-view of the Pinto. sh9uld not stop anyone from . and e~~bit their work and if they Frank Rojas and Sapo of -teatro
duque explains, "The Pinto student · Ma,;iy speakers, and professors who an educatiqn or anything they want, sell their art. We ask for sometimes bring in F-14s to teach
is generally from a different back- ' .speak· on prtsons or prison re- aspire and that people can ac- . a small fee so that we can pay them fundamentals in art; most' of
ground and age bracket in com- . form · are ex-wardens, attorney complish anything if they have our rent. Artist are always invited these kids are from the juvenile
partson to the E.O.P. student and • generals, etc. A Pinto can give · the will.
to show and sell."
·
hall." Right now what is needed
therefore needs specialized coun- an accurate and concise speech
The small center which is located is money, so that we can begin
~ling."
on the Pinto experience .''
on Ventura and Sixth St., lies working with students. He also
between other shops and can be re- invites art beginners to visit the
cognized
by the window that center and learn some new tec-Jk
announges the center:s na.m. En- niques.
tering, you recognize many qf the . Many students from Fresno
familiar posters of Pancho Villa, State including art instructors,
Che Guevara and many other Latino .Ernie Palomino and Francisco
pers~nalities.
The further you Barrfq, helped Cruz get started.
enter the shop, you begin to smell Some students from CSUF include
the scent of terpentine, perhaps Juan Turner, SalvadorGarcia, Lee
used for the silkscreens that are Orona, Tommy Cruz, Cecilia
worked
on by the people who vol- Areinado, Sylvia Figueroa and
the di~trict's representatl ves.
She said that overcoming the
He also said other groups in
Escandon said the third session problems is a "long-term" deal the community have met with him, · unteer for a days work. All you can Teresa Vasquez. ~rom FCC, are
was
also scheduled at Allen'$ and not something that can be at the · groups' requests, to hold see around you is -art, such as Gilbert Lujano or "Magoo" and
ranch.
solved overnight. She feels some ''thorough discussions, explain the posters, ,drawings on canvasses, Sapo.
Trez Crez is an important factor
· Her concern, she sald, ls that of the demands, such as for a mediation process, hear their con- etc.
The center opened·in late June, for Chicano art development. It
if the district's attltude can be bet~er affirmative action plan, are cerns, and discuss the problems
with a boost from three Chicano lets the gente know that there are
measured by this lesser impor- unneccesary because the district in general.-"
tant · issue• then she is doubtful already has them.
He has met with officers and businessmen. Now h is sponsored artists ~epresenting them and in
gives
of trusting them to good faith
"They {protesters) hav~n•t members of the executive board by La Brocha Del Valle and is the best way -possible.
dealings on the more important stopped long enough to realize that of the Coalinga Unified Teacher's completely run by the artist. Cruz the gente a sense of pride because
issues.
we are already in compliance with Association and with the leader- reported to La Voz · tliat . it was the artists • are working for the
However, she had decided to .the law on affirmative action," ship and key members of a_group hard for the shop to stay open gente; the artists main concern
stay on th~ mediation corn mittee she said. Asked to corn ment on calling itself ''Concerned Citi- because the staff is not receiving is representing, •through art, the
so the students back on campus the protestors charges that CUSD
any salary. Cruzalsoadds,6'every gente in whatever mood they may
zens."
will be informed arid feelinvolved. plan is ineffective, she said, ''We
Both groups have · previously .time we ask for money they turn be.
"It's · been quiet lately on . cannot force anyone to eome to expresse<;l their dissatisfaction us down because they feel we are
The center is open from 9:00
campus," she said.
"I! they Coalinga."
with the protesting student's ac: too socialistic or radical; all we a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Bob Cruz
(students) don't feel they're getShe said discrimination does tions..
do is represent the gente, and we invites the public to attend the
ting anything out of the meetings, exi~t, but"there's no way to wipe
beleive in the gente's needs. For meetings
that are held every
the students will feel let down.,,. it out."
this they refuse." However, Cruz second Wednesday of the month.
She said tha-t walking out again
'•'If somebody could figure out
also goes on to say that La Brocha· Also, if anyone would like to donate
would not satisfy the students. a way to stop discrimination, that
is a very young organization and chairs, wood or anything that is
"They would probably do some- person would be a milliona;re,"
could be another reason why they usable, your contribution would be
thing more serious unless I can she said. "I wan! it to stop but
are refused money.
appreciated.
help them understand what we're · discrimination will never go away.
trying to do with the meetings.,, Even anglos face it among themBoard of Trustees president selves."
A "Parent's Night" to acquaint
Mrs. Gay Armstrong is also unShe said the mediation sessions minority students and their parents
certain of the progress.
are going slow because both parties with college lnformatton wm be
'1 think right now we're spinning are first "trying to feel each other held Dec. 13 in Sanger.
To add a new flavor to their
our wheels," she told a reporter out."
Stella Moya, a former C~UF
·
Los Dan~antes de Aztian under performance~ the tlance group is
Friday morning. "I don't think
· How~en said, based on his student presently with the Fresno the instruction of Ernest~ Mar- planning on dancing their Jallsco
we've gotten to anything yet. We've previous experience in mediations, Educational Opportunity Center ttnez, will be giving a major pre- numbers to·the music of Mariachi
listened to more 'I wants' than .'moods of individuals are bound . (FEOC), said the bilingual func- sentation Dec. 17, at 8:00 p.m. de la Tierra. The dance group
anything else.,,
to go up and down• 1 during the tion will offer students the chance in the Roosevelt High School Audi- .wm also be adding new dances to
She thinks the mediations will period that meetings are being to meet personally with college torium.
their repetoire.
need another two or three meet- 1eld.
o!!icials.
•The presentation is very imporAdmission is $1.50 and free
ings, depending on how quickly we
"Parent's Night'' is sponsored tant to Martinez because he wm for anyone under 12. The pre"One moment . you're on the
get to the issues.,,
be partially graded 1n the perform-sentatton is co-sponsored by
town stde and the next vou're on by the Mexican American Youth
Organization (MA YO), of Sanger ance in his effort to obtain his CSUF •'• La Raza Stud1N and the
the bright side~ n he sald;
High School in cooperation' witt second Masters degree. .
Kooaevelt Marimba Band.
· the school and FEOC.
By Arturo. CJcampo .
on
Trez Crez:
El Centro -de.A rte
·Student~; h~pes_rest on talks
It
MAYO Plans
'Parent's Night'
Danzantes To
Perform
Walkout
Mediations
5. Pa2e 1
Get Mixed·
Reactions
By Tomas U ribes
A federal .mediator who has
already conducted three negotiation sessions in the Coalinga
schools walkout controversy, said
an agreement may be reached'
with one more meeting~ ,
Although representatives of the
protesting students and of the
Coalinga Unified School Board
of Trustees are not as optimistic,
I
they ~aid a third session held
last Friday would determine the
immediate status of the situation.·
On Oct. 25, nearly 200 Chicano ·
students walked O\lt of classes
at Coalinga Jr. High and High
School over alleged racial discrimination in the school district.
Several heated Board meetings
produced little if no immediate
solutions to the issues. After
fights broke out at the junior high
and high schools, the Community
Relations Service (CRS) division
of the U.S. Justice Department
intervened.
CRS representatives WilliaJD
Briggs and Ed Howden arranged
to hold mediation sessions to deal
with the problems. The mediation
committee consisted offive representait ves of the district and board
and five representatives of the
protesting students and their parents. The parents are members
of Los Padres Unidos de Hurdn.
Huron is 20 miles from Coalinga
and part of the school district.
Most of the students who walked
out were Chicanos from Huron.
They commute to Coalinga to attend
grades 7-12.
Friday morning, Howden said the
progress of the mediation sessions
was difficult to assess.
"We•re hopeful a major ag,reement can be worked out,,, he said
prior to Friday afternoon's session. "At the end of this (Friday) afternoon, we•u know better
about the future. It might well
take just one more session after
today.u
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..ea ~ .'kJIJl.4, ,4/1, q.Js,.,,
"le/v; NcwidrJ ...'I/ . . . . . . V~ .f'4,
(FRIDAY'S MEETING WAS TOO
LATE FOR TlilS LA VOZ ISSUE)
He said he could not comment
on any ''substantial issues" discussed during the sessions. All
parties involved, he said, agreed
not to discuss the contents of the
sessions.
Sarahi Escandon, a Coalinga
For you macho vatos who think
High senior who · has acted as
The newly formed Third World be set up all around the Free you're bad. -• .Las Adelitas is
spokesperson for the protesting Coalition is sponsoring a Third Speech area and each ethnic groui:;
ready and willin g to give you a
students, said she is not satisfied World Fair to be held at CSUF will be selllng their foods, It is chance to show us how sweet
with the progress and had planned on Dec. 7.
also reported that there might
you really are. •
to droo out of the mediation com~The purpose for -the fair is to be special speakers. It will be
Las Adelitas
is presenting
their
ittee until Howden, in a two-hour gather
all oppressed people. a day of solidarity and all people
·
.
.
Sdecond AnDnual lc6 onl~e77nt1fdo d18s·cooo
pnone call, persuaded her to con- Black, Chicanos. Indians, Ori- are encouraged to attend.
ance on ec. , "
rom ,
tinue her involvement.
entals and Iranians. Booths will
It's very important for the unity
She said one of 'her biggest
of students on campus.
disappointments was the deciston•-- - - - - - -,- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...- - - - - - -- - - ~ - --
Coalition Sets Day bf 'Solidarity'
on where to hold the meetings.
"We had originally agreed to
meet on neutral grounds but now
the committee is going back on
its word. IPs a matter of principle," she said _· Thursday night.
The first mediation meeting was
held ln the Coalinga Library which
Escandon felt was acceptable. But
she said the· second session was
held at Board member Ronald
Allen•s ranch. Allen is one of
Sigue
••••
••••
~menlilios pg. 2·
Adelitas Plan Disco
Dance
p.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the upstair~
cafeteria.
Donation at the door will be
$2.00 or $1.00 with two canned
food items. All proceeds collected will be used for food baskets ·
h" h
.
t o nee dy fam1·
W1,1c
w1. 11 be given
lies and to purchase toys for children.
,
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Native Americans Threatened pg. · 3
7 yeil la RaZa Ides Secretary is Gone pg·. 3
-'Ires Crez pg. 4
~
·Pinto .Program pg. 4
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Protect linoriti8SE
DECEMBER 5,1977
EDITORIAL
'Administration- Must Stop
Institutional RClcism At CSUF
In the · 1960's and early 1970's,
the social climate was conducive
to
social change, particularly
issues concerning minorities. The
resultant reforms were largely
due, however, to the persistant
pressure of minorities themselves
and their supporters. But times
also change. Inflation, unemployment and apathy hive produced an
atmosphere where racism once
again returns, where reactionary
forces thrive and prosper • .
Racism has many faces. It
expresses itself in several forms:·
the scapegoating of Mexican undocumented .worker~, the Bakke
case, the criticism of affirmative
action policies. And of course,
its companions also arise such
as sexism and political conservatism.
Racism, sexism, and
reactionary politics also appear
in institutions. The depersonalization of prejudice does not make
racism
less potent, indeed it
strengthens the ability of institutions to use their power against
minorities, women and in the case
x_of CSUF, students.
Institutional racism has clearly
returned to CSUF, indee_d it maynever have left, Several items
suggest an obvious patt~rn of in-
... Or Is ll Time
For Baxter To Go?
•••
stitutional ·harassm~nt and attacks
on the interests of minorities.
women and unsubmissive students.
Ap}llrently the approach of this
institutions higher administration
is to weakenandeventuallydestroy ·
many of the gains made in the
pist. The recent cutbacks in the
Ethnic Studies and LRS programs
and the controversy over the IRA
reveal the latest examples of this
institutional racism.
The strategy of the administration is to use technicalities,
legalism, rules and formulas to
thwart the success of pograms
relevant to minorities and others .
The attempt will be to avoid outright confrontations; the administration will cut here and there
without notice - or so it hopes.
The cumulative effect of the Administration's
remains obldoos
nonetheless. We deplore the growing evidence of this institutional
racism. Furthermore, we deplore
what seems to be the /inevitable
result:
demonstration, campus
tension, polarization and Administration-student alienation. We
can only make observations, it is
up to the administration to prove
our conclusions wrong-- or up to
students to do something about it.
The
La
Voz staff
Anti Ku-Klux-Kl.a n
March Saturday
The Anti-Bakke Decision Coalition and various community and
student O!:Pnizations will march
against the Klu Klux Klan, the
NAzi Party, and U.S. ties with
South Africa and Iran. The March
will begin forming at 10:00 a.m.,
Saturday, December 10, at Sunset
Community Center. It will move
through
the various Housing
Authority Projects in West Fresno,
through Chinatown and the Fulton
Mall, and will end with a rally at
the County Courthouse.
This march is meant to bring
the community together around
these issues which represent the ..
rising tide of conservatism, and
racism within the United States.
It is also meant to exl)Ose the U.S.
presence inter.nationally.
The Ku Klux Klan, after having
led the brutal oppression of Black
people in the.United State~ for many
years has turned against the undocumented Mexican worker with
a vigilante-style "border watch".
The Nazi Party has staged public
activities
in recent months in
supl)Ort of racism, attempting to
disrupt the actions of the growing
· Anti-Bakke Decision movement.
In South Africa, the racist regime,
with the SUPPort of the United
States, closes down the oppostiion
press, openly murders the leaders
of the people, and violently suppresses their movement for justice. Meanwhil.e, Jimmy Carter,
shakes hands with the biggest
fascist since Adolf Hitler, the Shah
of
Iran, and
declares their
2
interests to be the same.
In response to these developments, the Anti-Bakke De.cision
Coalition has decided to organize
actions throughout the state on
December 10. The Fresno ABDC
has planned this March with the
supl)Ort of ME ChA, the CSUF Third
WorldCoalition, Trabajadores de la
Raza, and other community and
student organizations. We urge
all Raza, Black, Indian, ~nd progressive Anglo organizations to
join in UNITY AGAINST RACISM
AND TO DEFEAT THE BAKKE
DECISION.
For • more information contact
MEChA, tbe ABDC, or Trabajadores at 224-9134, or Stan Santos,
at 224-5677.
·
Staq Santos
IF THE REPORTS made by some student leaders about
recent · meetings held between CSUF President Norman
Baxter and AS Senators are any indication, this campus
is in worse shape than we thought.
Through his hitman, Vice-President Volpp, Baxter
has already been asking for more "trouble" on campus ••.
But now he apparently wants more like the kind that
brought people to their feet in the early seventies and
awakened them to the need to seriously attend to problems in our society.
Some student leaders reported recently that an arrogant and authoritarian Baxter told them that the only
purpose of student government is so students "can learn
to behave."
When · one of the students asked him why he signed
the controversial IRA contr~ct, which appears to slight
minority oriented programs, he reportedly said, "to
protect future senators from minorities."
He was further pressed by another student who asked,
"How could you accept such an immoral, racist contract?"
I
.
"Look, it doesn't matter what you say,'' he reportedly retorted back. "I have complete authority to spend'
that money (student funds) how I want. In the end, I have
the final say and you can't spend that money without
my approval."
·
Then Baxter must have got to AS President Bill
Brewer who blew up at the student leaders for revealing
these comments.
He "yelled, screamed and cussed' ·
at two of them in the presence of one student's six-yearold daughter. . This apparently came at the beginning
of an attempted interview by a Collegian reporter about·
the reports.
"He said we shouldn't say anything because it would
qnly make the university and Baxter look bad and the
university did not need that right now," said one of tfie
students, Rachel Mendoza, a Chicana and only minority
involved in the Baxter and Brewer meetings.
It's too bad if Brewer has already fallen into .the
same trap as his predecessors •••• we had hoped those
days were gone with Nikkisarian. But apparently, Baxter stiff has full control of the student presidenPs strings ..
And Baxter confirmed his lack of regard for students
who are._ trying to work within the system to afect positive change.
Even more so, Baxter seems to have a
vicious contempt for efforts which would try to deal
with some of society's historical and current injustices.
We refer of course to minority oreiented projects such
as Semana de · la Raza, Black History Week and Tewaaquichi (student funded cultural observances which are not
benefactors of the IRA contract.) to Ethnic Studies and
La Raza studies which Baxter's hatchman, Volpp, has
said he would like to see phased out. Baxter, it becomes
increasingly . clearer, would rather see minoitles keep
a spot in the lower end of society and away from positions which would for once truly implement the true
intention of the U.S. Const~tution.
,Baxter may have complete authority but he's off
base on the ·other part: he doesn't nave tne 11na1 say.
The people have the final say. And the constitution suggests that if the system fails us, we have the right to
start over again.
Well, it's time to start again ••• Baxter as got to go,
and Volpp with him. Baxter has been
this university's
head the past six years ••• it's time for a person with real
sensitivity to student's needs ••.• not someone who ·will
twist things around so he can justify his hatchet jobs.
We call for Baxter's resignation before he provokes
us into behavior which only disrupts sincere efforts and
intensifies emotions ••• but makes people act. Baxter probably wants us to resort to such action so he can shoot
us down a la Kent State. (four student demonstrators
shot dead on campus by National Guard in 1970)
Chancellor Dumke and Governor Brown ••.• help put
a stop to this conservative backlash before things get
out of hand.
Pe~ro Ramirez
Editor
Funston Gfoup ·Demands ·Belter .Housing Conditions
Cindy Orona
housing to live in.
The following is the list of
On :,.;ov. 29. a group of people grfevances that was presented to
went before the Fresno City Coun- the City Council by the Funston
cil. rhese people dia .not appear Tenant Council:(they are not nebefore the City Council regarding cessarily in order).
their children's e<lucation, nor did
1. Many homes have waterthey go de1:i•>-nding equal iustice, heaters in dangerous state of dishut · they went demanding better repair, located inside the homes
living conditions.
near the oven. Repeated entreatfhe name of the group is Funston ies to repair these dangerously
Tenants Council and all the mem- malfunction water-heaters have
bers,
including Chairperson
led to nothing. The Housing
Frances Gross, live in the public Authority has expressed disinhousing complexes called Funston, terest in the matter.
located at Fresno and Clinton Sts.
2. Electrical wiring in many
The Funston Tenant Council of the homes is dangerous and
is not complaining about loose is in · need of repair and replacehinges or leaky faucets, but are ment. Serious fire dangers excomplaining about faulty wiring, ist for the families in these homes.
decent recreational facilities for
. 3.
In many of the houses
their children; basically decent there is only one fire exit, con-
stituting a grave danger to the supplying tenants with basic equip- tenants know how money is spent
adults and children who live in ment, althougb it spent several on these public housing services,
these homes.
Again, repeated thousand dollars recently on unJust exactly how serious is
entreaties to the Housing Author- needed typewriter equipment for all this? Here in Fresno one man
tty have resulted in no correction its own use and a computer that 1s responsible fo·r the safety of
of these conditions.
no one knows how to operate. human lives and the places where
4. Security is lacking in the
6.
Communication with the they live, yet he does little if
housing project and police are . Director of the Housing Authority at all anything.
often two and three hours late is almost impossible and tne reThere are old and ym.ing
in responding to request for he-lp. quests of the tenants are dis- people, children and handicapped
Police aften avoid the housing
missed out of hands. Recently people Uvfng in Funston.
All
project, , especially in the evening a petition submitted by many of problems that any small communbecause tt is considered too danthe tenants on issues of lmpor- ity may have, exist at Funston.
gerous to enter. 1f it is too dan- tance were dismissed out of hand
The Funston Tenant Council
gerous for the police, what about and no action was takent to study has a meeting with the Ctiy county
the elderly and physically weak the matters outlined in the peti- Board of Commissionerson
who must live there?
tlon.- Housing Authority employ- December 8. At this meeting~their
5. The community center of ees who show interest in the ten- grievances will be discussed. Keep
residents ts far too small for use ants point-of-view have been sum- that date in mind if you would
and ts inadequately supplied with
marily dismissed. Other em- like to give .a group a helping hand,
the basic equipment necessary for ployees who are indifferent to the Contact Frances Gross at Funston
meetings of the tenants.
The tenants requests have been ~e- center for more information at,
Housing Authority claims that warded with salary increases. The 224.9134.
there is not enough money for Director's office refuses to let
H.R. 9054, Final
Blow to Indians
LRS Looses Seven year Secretcry
Felix J. Contr~ras
H.R. 9054. A bill introduced Coalition, a group staunchly op- the tribe shall not be entitled
In our continuing struggle against they played a major roll in susinto the U.S. Congress that ac- posing the legislation, bring up to any of the services performed the CSUF Administration, Chic- taining La Raza Studies. "More
cording to American Indian lea- the point. that the bill also calls . by the United States for Indians anos appear to have lost an imp- students signed up for classes and
ders, "would strike the final, ter- for" ••• the abrogation of all rights because of their status as Indians: ortant symbol and an other ext- they themselves were doing a lot
guaranteed to I all statused of the United States remely valuable person to the of recruiting. There was a lot
minating
blow
to Indians as and protect!o~s
people under those treaties, such which affect Indians because of life of La Raza Studies.
people."
more student involvement then I
on Nov, 18, the program lost have seen the last few yerars,
According to th~ text of the bill, as -tire right to hunt and fish." their status as Indians shall no
From the text of the bill,
·. longer be applicable to the mem- its fulltime secretary of eight up until now."
which is titled the"Native Ameryears, Ms. Angie Cisneros.
ican Equal Opportunity Act," the ''provides tl'lat huntin_g and fish-· bers of the tribe ••• "
Angie believes that the adminiThe Coa1ition points out that
The secretarial position was stration is going to do away with
bill would direct the President ing rights derived by the Indian 1·
"United States Govern- ·reduced to ha}ftime due to the La Raza Studies. "If not, it will
to abrogate all treaties entered . tribe from a treaty shall be ab- . the
into by the United States with rogated; and the members of the I ment agreed to provide for and , cutback of allocated fulltime sec- only be a token thing," she says.
tribe be subject to Federal, State, protect the rights of Indian people retarial positions in the School of
·1ndian tribes ••. "
She also added that the new
Meinb~.rs of the .National Indian and -local laws governing hunting in return for the Indian's agree- Social Science in which LRS exists. general education policy impleand fishing ••• "
ment to cede large portions of
Consequently, Angie was forced mented last year is an indirect
"If Representative.s Cunningham, our land to the United States. H.R. to transfer to another department way by the administration to cut
(Wash.), and Abnor- (South Dakota), 9054 would permit the Federal that culd provide her with full- out La Raza Studies.
the authors of the bill, were really · Government to terminate its part time work. She is currently work"We got hit harder than anybody
interested in equal opportunities of the agreement but would leave tng as a secretary in the Inter- else due to the fact that La Raza
for Indian people/' claim the Co- Indian people in the unfair position national Studies office located in Studies is weak with respect to
alition," -they would begin by em- of having ceded our land fnr nott'n!?. the Joyal Building.
its . lack of tenured teachers snd
bracing the treaties and seeking
"For us to put any kind of faith,
'Angie Cisneros was_ first hired the fact that it is not a departtheir vigorous enforcement_..rather or hope, or prayer, in this bill, in La Raza Studies -in November
ment,'' she commented.
• than proceeding on an opposite or any type of termination -bill," of 1969. She worked there until
Angie feels that a lot of ·former
course of action. It is crystal stressed Banks, "would be as the end of the academic year students who have not lent their
clear, however, that the motivating dangerous as putting our lives when the program was cut from support to the movimiento in recpurpose behind H.R. 9054 has no- and our future, in the hands of five full-time instructors, to one, ent years wouldn't have made 1t
thing to do with equal rights for-- General Armstrong Custer..... in a purge on- minorities charac- without LRS and EOP.
Native Americans, but instead is It is the final act corning down teristic of the administration in
designed to deprive us of our fun- upon us.'
the late sixties and early seven"I wish .t here was some way
damental and inalienable rights."
"But, we will never accept th_is ties.
could instill a need to be inDennis Banks, · leader . of the kind · of termination-we will never
Cisneros was also ,·•swept out volved in more in the students,"
American Indian Movement, also surrender our heritage.
the door" before the the entire she says. ''Nothing can really
is very opposed to the bill.
''If they want to abrogate the program was ter-minated the end happen if we don't push for it
. "'Because of my opposition to treaties of 1868, 1851, -i8i2, anc:1 of the summer of 1970.
to happen. People have to get
involved. Everything in this wo.rld
the bill," state_s Banks, "I've been 1970, then I will be the first one· - The program was reinstated
asked if I'm against equal oppor- to speak up and say "let's abro- in the fa11 of 1970~ but it was is political and that means gettunity-this kind of opportunity I'm gate the treaties, Mr. Whiteman, not until November, -1972 that ting involved.
Angie admits that when sh~
against,"
until I see you backed up to the Angie was rehired in La Raza
From the bill: "After the com- shores of Plymouth Rock. Then Studies. By this time, the pro- first came to CSUF, like many
pletion of this abrogation of the there will be equal opportunity." gram had been built up to 6-7 Chicanos then and now, she was
treaties with an Indian tribe under
teachers which meant that a full- very- unaware of what was happthis act, .• individual members of
time secretary was needed.
ening with Chicanos.
But her first-hand exposure
Las Adelitas, CSUF's then newlyformed
Chicana organization, over tne years to this university's
played a key role in the initial attitudes towards minorities have
apparently had some im~act. This
hiring of Angie.
Las Adelitas frequently helped is evidence l>y her current involvout in the LRS office, but the ements.
She is the vice-president for
ne-wly-insUtuted program needed
a secretary badly. Las Adelitas both the Fresno League of Mexmembers also helped interview ican American Women and the
Mexican-American Political Ass
her for the position.
In additiion
Ethnic Studies, (of which La ociation (MAPA).
to her fulltime job at the InterRaza
Studies
was.
a
part
of
at
KFSN Channel 30 has been management continues to be domi- vide that input in the future.'' _
national Students office, she is
Station manager Walt Liss was the time), had its office in Baker •a fulltime student who plans to
operating without a license since nated by male caucasion."
Hall during 1969-70 academic year.
In the area of programming, not available for comment but
last Thursday because minorities
Angie recalls, ''It was like our graduate this spring with a hachasked the F.ederal Communications the petition said, "Repeatedly, programming manager Lee Jason
own little house.
Blacks and elor's degree in puhlic adminis- ~
Commission (FCC) to deny the members of the MAC have attempt- said the station feels it has a good
Chicanos 1i ved in Baker Hall. tration.
_
.Fresno station's license- renewal ed to introduce cultural and racial record in the area of affirmative
Of her departure from of the
Everything was there.n
.
sensitivity in the program deci- action and minority program ming.
application.
Those first years of mino·rtty Chicano program, Angie said she
The Fresno Media Minority sions made by the station without He said a comment would not be
programs were hot with demon- misses the type of community conAdvisory Committee (MAC) con- , success."
forthcoming.
strations to gain minority's rights. tact she had in La Raza Studies.
The Indian sub-committee cites He said attorneys advised Channel
sisting of blacks, American In"It's like being away from
"I can remember back then, "she
30
not
to
com·meut
on
the
specific
dians, and Chicanos, filed a peti- a failure by station management
says, "one time my grandmother home " she said. "I was · amongst
tion for denial and has staged two to ''follow up on commitments charges made by MAC. Bttt he
called to check up on me, to make what 'you consider family. You
demonstrations in front of _the to have staff cover important meet- said a response to· the charges,
sure I was okay." Angie said don't mind working if its for your
ings or ev~nts."
' will be available to the public
station's offices.
exagerrated radio reports of hap- family and thats what 1 felt.
In general, the committee accus'ed · "in about a month," '
MAC was formed in 1971 when
"I don't know if I'll ever
penings on campus had scared
Capital Cities Broadcasting, Inc. Channel 30 of using the commit- . Jason said the stati9n's records
her grandmother. ••Those were feel that again with any other
bought ' Channel 30. Since then, tees 's· work to provide minority are open to the public.
"We feel the community is well exciting_ times," exclaimed Angie. job.''
MAC has worked to provide mi- input as evidence that the station
Angie believes that community
. nority input · to the station and is suiting the needs of the minor- aware of our programming. It's
involvement
in the Fall of 1970
out in the open.'' he said. "We're
helped develop minority programs. ity community.
was one of the key factors which
At the same time. the petition proud of our record. The Federal
Every three years, companies
saved La Raza Studies. She also ·
which utilize the public airwaves· reads, "the application does not Communications Commission will
added that students were more
must re-apply for a license from include a positive statement as to make a ruling based on that reinvolved back then. She felt that
the government through the FCC~ how the MAC will continue to pro- cord.''
to use the airwaves.
MEChA will sponsor the next
Since the airwaves are "public
·tatewide conference of the Antiproperty'', radio and television
akke Decision on Saturday
stations must shqw it is responding to the needs of the community.
ec. 17, at CSUF. The conference
The Chicano Commencement
The FCC investigates any comLast year, a- logo drawn by Sal- be on the last day of finals, Friday ill begin with registration at
Committee,
of
the
CSUF
Chier.no
vador G'arcia of La Brocha del • May 19th.
plaints.
9:00 a.m., and the assembly at
Faculty, Staff and student organi- 1vane, is featured in today's La
For more information, contact 0:00 a.m. The purpose of the
Dec. l was lhe new licensing
zation
is
sponsoring
its
second
period but Channel 30 must now
Voz. Chicano Commencemet will Tony Garduque at 487_-1021.
conference is to review the preoperate without a license while annual logo contest. The winning
..
ent status of Special Admission,
logo
will
be
printed
on
all
Chicano
the FCC reviews the matter.
ffirmative Action Programs, and
~
·s;.
.
.
MAC particularly attacks the Commencement cards, diplomas,
:t~.
he Bakke case; and plan future
etc
•••
and
will
represent
this
year's
station's affirmative action efforts
strategies of the ABDC, specific~
commencement 0 theme", which is
and its programming. In its petially the February 25th Los Angele
Chicanos in Education.
tion, the committee accused the
tatewide Mobilization. All conTony
Garduque,
a
committee
Ch:,.nnel 30 of requiring high qualierned
groups and individuals arc
member, expressed the corhmitfications of minority job applicants
rged to attend.
·
t~ess'
wished
that
the
logo
sumwhile hiring anglos -who "have no
The
Fresno
ABDC
meets every
prior experience'' in broadcasting bolize the above theme. There
Wednesday at 7:00p.m. at MECh
will
be
a
$25.00
cash
prize
for
but in the words of the manageENTRAL, in the Funston Housment, "they have potential as good the winning logo. The contest .
ng Projects, at 2172 Drexel.
is
open
to
anyone,
with
a
deadcommunicators, or have high
People are needed to assist in
line set for Feb.28, 1978. SubI.Q.'s."
the
organizing of the December 17th
mit your entry to Tony Garduque
Minorities further question em,_
..
onference and other activities
in
the
E.O.P.
office
or
Ernie
ployment practices by the station
of the focal' committee. For more
.....,...,
Martinez in La Raza Studies or
saying a double standard exists
information-, please call 22 4- 9134
·~1·
Manuel
Olguin
in
Tutorial
Serfor minority employees and anglo
.,.~~,•:~~·
or Robert Jaramillo, 225· 4125-vices.
employees. They also said, "top
Dennis Banks
Minorities Challenge
TV Station License
MEChA Sponsors
·ABOC Conference
Graduation Logo ConteSt COmmen_ces
t.~-
~
~.✓.,. -. .
1
Pirito Program Helps
~x- Cons · Enter College
Garduque is the co-chai-rman
The Pinto in a criminology course
of the Northern California Pinto has a lot to give, he can be very
College Program. He is an E.O.I-'- effective in helping develop new
Of the diverse Chi~no slang counselor and coordinator of .the correctional facilities,· as well te,·ff,S that have come into exis- Pinto program at CSUF. He took as tell of his own personal extence there is one that is very the job in 1975 when he was a perience.
familiar in prisons and in ex- secon-year graduate student in
The Pinto Program is planning
offender programs. Thal..,term the School of Social Work here a series of activities the first
is "Pinto", a Pinto by deiinition · at CSUF. CET A was offering a of which, is to sponsor a Prison
is someone who has done hard
position for administrative train- Poetry Symposium at CSUF before
time in a prison or penitenciary. ee. The different programs lob- the end of the year. ''There
"Pinto in Spanish means spotted bied for the position and E.O.-P. are many good Pinto poets." says
i.e., pinto beans; once you've been won it," recalls Garduque. .
Garduque, "there wili be Anglo,
convicted of a feloney and senManuel Perez,
director . of Chicanos and Blacks who want
tenced to do hard time you're
E.O.P., decided to make the. ad- to recite their poetry or have ,
spotted !or llfe," says Tony Gar- ministrative trainee position, a someone recite it for them if they
duque, who ts an EOP counselor
Pinto coordinator, According to cannot possibly attend. The condirecting the Pinto program here Garduque 1 "There were a lot of tent of the poetry tells the probat CSUF.
people who were well qualified, lems and struggles of prison life.''
· The Pinto Collej;e Program at but a B.A. degree was needed
The second activity the program
CSUF came into existence in the which disqualified many of them. is plannl~g a ''Pen Pal project.
Spring of 1972. It is a statewide SomeQrie put in an application
"There are many guys wl)o are
program and belongs to the Asso- for me, Without my knowledge, locked up for several years, many
ciatlon of·Ex-offender Educational and I was offered the job. I of whom don•t have a family and
Programs. At its, inception, the weighed the factors and decided are lonely, most of them are
program dealt oµly with parolees, to take the job because it would dying to communicate with somebut has now qpened its doors to be good experience. ·
one
the · outside,'' says Gardupeople on probation. Garduque .
At present, there are 15 full- que.
states,"The Pinto program, just . time students in the, Pinto proThe third activity is increasing
Pedro Ramirez
like many other e~-offender pro- gram and five applicants being community · outreach. The Pinto ·
In Fresno and San Joaquin
The organization has received
grams, was started by Chicanos.
considered for admission.
program will go out to ·the com mun
·
- Valley, there is nothing like Trez a National Endowement Grant to
To make the name Pinto look offi"The purpose o( the Pinto ity organlzations and agencies .
.
.
•
cial, they made the letters stand
College Program is twofold,''
to tell them about the Pinto College Crez. Trez Crez 1~ a. Chicano expose the Chicano community to
for Parolees In New Training
continues Garduque. "The first Program. "We don't recruit art center where Chicanos from art.
occupation."
· of which is to offer a higher people, we just inform them about - Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley
Future plans consist of a calenThe Pinto program is a part of educational opportunlty for ex- the opportunities for a 9ollege ca~ J?eet and express the ma~y dar depicting the lifes of Chicanos
E.O,P. The rational for this ts offenders. Hopefully, this will be ·education,,, .explains Garduque.
artistic ideas they have. Also 1t living in the San . Joaquin Valley.
that Pintos are considered disviewd as a positive alternative
In past years Pinto's never serves as an art gallery where For
each month, many of La
advantaged students and since the to crime, as well as being an had the opportunity to prove them- Chicanos from all over the country Brocha's artists have drawn up
function of E.O.P. is to ald dis- educationally enriching experi- selves in society beca~se too many can exhibit their works.
.
beautiful symbolic figures. The
advantaged students get into col- ence."
times people would ' shun them
Art Cruz , representative of calendars will go on sale after
lege, it would only make sense
. "The second,'' -according to and not trust them. In employ- Trez Crez says, "this center · is .December "!5th and will sell for
to incorporate the Pinto program Garduque, "is changing the atti- ment and college institutions, they for. all Chicanos, artist or. not.- $4.00 each.
with KO.P. The Pinto student -tude of students on this campus, were turned down because of their We do our work for the ChicallQ
"Right now," says Cruz, 'twe·
has ,to go through the same paperprimarily criminology students. criminal record: which hindered community, so .it belongs to the cannot reallyworkwithelementary
work as the E.O.P. student. The Most criminology classes are their development in society and people as well as the artists." junior high and high school stuStudent Advisor for the Pinto stuone-sided, very little, if anything, ' made them feel unwanted. · Pin-'".,
Trez Crez is also like a store dents because we don't have a
dent, however, is not the same
is taught about the experience tos are showing that downfalls
explains Cruz, "artists can come staff to teach them. Ho'Wever,
as for .the E.o.P. student. Gar- • and point-of-view of the Pinto. sh9uld not stop anyone from . and e~~bit their work and if they Frank Rojas and Sapo of -teatro
duque explains, "The Pinto student · Ma,;iy speakers, and professors who an educatiqn or anything they want, sell their art. We ask for sometimes bring in F-14s to teach
is generally from a different back- ' .speak· on prtsons or prison re- aspire and that people can ac- . a small fee so that we can pay them fundamentals in art; most' of
ground and age bracket in com- . form · are ex-wardens, attorney complish anything if they have our rent. Artist are always invited these kids are from the juvenile
partson to the E.O.P. student and • generals, etc. A Pinto can give · the will.
to show and sell."
·
hall." Right now what is needed
therefore needs specialized coun- an accurate and concise speech
The small center which is located is money, so that we can begin
~ling."
on the Pinto experience .''
on Ventura and Sixth St., lies working with students. He also
between other shops and can be re- invites art beginners to visit the
cognized
by the window that center and learn some new tec-Jk
announges the center:s na.m. En- niques.
tering, you recognize many qf the . Many students from Fresno
familiar posters of Pancho Villa, State including art instructors,
Che Guevara and many other Latino .Ernie Palomino and Francisco
pers~nalities.
The further you Barrfq, helped Cruz get started.
enter the shop, you begin to smell Some students from CSUF include
the scent of terpentine, perhaps Juan Turner, SalvadorGarcia, Lee
used for the silkscreens that are Orona, Tommy Cruz, Cecilia
worked
on by the people who vol- Areinado, Sylvia Figueroa and
the di~trict's representatl ves.
She said that overcoming the
He also said other groups in
Escandon said the third session problems is a "long-term" deal the community have met with him, · unteer for a days work. All you can Teresa Vasquez. ~rom FCC, are
was
also scheduled at Allen'$ and not something that can be at the · groups' requests, to hold see around you is -art, such as Gilbert Lujano or "Magoo" and
ranch.
solved overnight. She feels some ''thorough discussions, explain the posters, ,drawings on canvasses, Sapo.
Trez Crez is an important factor
· Her concern, she sald, ls that of the demands, such as for a mediation process, hear their con- etc.
The center opened·in late June, for Chicano art development. It
if the district's attltude can be bet~er affirmative action plan, are cerns, and discuss the problems
with a boost from three Chicano lets the gente know that there are
measured by this lesser impor- unneccesary because the district in general.-"
tant · issue• then she is doubtful already has them.
He has met with officers and businessmen. Now h is sponsored artists ~epresenting them and in
gives
of trusting them to good faith
"They {protesters) hav~n•t members of the executive board by La Brocha Del Valle and is the best way -possible.
dealings on the more important stopped long enough to realize that of the Coalinga Unified Teacher's completely run by the artist. Cruz the gente a sense of pride because
issues.
we are already in compliance with Association and with the leader- reported to La Voz · tliat . it was the artists • are working for the
However, she had decided to .the law on affirmative action," ship and key members of a_group hard for the shop to stay open gente; the artists main concern
stay on th~ mediation corn mittee she said. Asked to corn ment on calling itself ''Concerned Citi- because the staff is not receiving is representing, •through art, the
so the students back on campus the protestors charges that CUSD
any salary. Cruzalsoadds,6'every gente in whatever mood they may
zens."
will be informed arid feelinvolved. plan is ineffective, she said, ''We
Both groups have · previously .time we ask for money they turn be.
"It's · been quiet lately on . cannot force anyone to eome to expresse<;l their dissatisfaction us down because they feel we are
The center is open from 9:00
campus," she said.
"I! they Coalinga."
with the protesting student's ac: too socialistic or radical; all we a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Bob Cruz
(students) don't feel they're getShe said discrimination does tions..
do is represent the gente, and we invites the public to attend the
ting anything out of the meetings, exi~t, but"there's no way to wipe
beleive in the gente's needs. For meetings
that are held every
the students will feel let down.,,. it out."
this they refuse." However, Cruz second Wednesday of the month.
She said tha-t walking out again
'•'If somebody could figure out
also goes on to say that La Brocha· Also, if anyone would like to donate
would not satisfy the students. a way to stop discrimination, that
is a very young organization and chairs, wood or anything that is
"They would probably do some- person would be a milliona;re,"
could be another reason why they usable, your contribution would be
thing more serious unless I can she said. "I wan! it to stop but
are refused money.
appreciated.
help them understand what we're · discrimination will never go away.
trying to do with the meetings.,, Even anglos face it among themBoard of Trustees president selves."
A "Parent's Night" to acquaint
Mrs. Gay Armstrong is also unShe said the mediation sessions minority students and their parents
certain of the progress.
are going slow because both parties with college lnformatton wm be
'1 think right now we're spinning are first "trying to feel each other held Dec. 13 in Sanger.
To add a new flavor to their
our wheels," she told a reporter out."
Stella Moya, a former C~UF
·
Los Dan~antes de Aztian under performance~ the tlance group is
Friday morning. "I don't think
· How~en said, based on his student presently with the Fresno the instruction of Ernest~ Mar- planning on dancing their Jallsco
we've gotten to anything yet. We've previous experience in mediations, Educational Opportunity Center ttnez, will be giving a major pre- numbers to·the music of Mariachi
listened to more 'I wants' than .'moods of individuals are bound . (FEOC), said the bilingual func- sentation Dec. 17, at 8:00 p.m. de la Tierra. The dance group
anything else.,,
to go up and down• 1 during the tion will offer students the chance in the Roosevelt High School Audi- .wm also be adding new dances to
She thinks the mediations will period that meetings are being to meet personally with college torium.
their repetoire.
need another two or three meet- 1eld.
o!!icials.
•The presentation is very imporAdmission is $1.50 and free
ings, depending on how quickly we
"Parent's Night'' is sponsored tant to Martinez because he wm for anyone under 12. The pre"One moment . you're on the
get to the issues.,,
be partially graded 1n the perform-sentatton is co-sponsored by
town stde and the next vou're on by the Mexican American Youth
Organization (MA YO), of Sanger ance in his effort to obtain his CSUF •'• La Raza Stud1N and the
the bright side~ n he sald;
High School in cooperation' witt second Masters degree. .
Kooaevelt Marimba Band.
· the school and FEOC.
By Arturo. CJcampo .
on
Trez Crez:
El Centro -de.A rte
·Student~; h~pes_rest on talks
It
MAYO Plans
'Parent's Night'
Danzantes To
Perform
La Voz - Monday, Dec.
Walkout
Mediations
5. Pa2e 1
Get Mixed·
Reactions
By Tomas U ribes
A federal .mediator who has
already conducted three negotiation sessions in the Coalinga
schools walkout controversy, said
an agreement may be reached'
with one more meeting~ ,
Although representatives of the
protesting students and of the
Coalinga Unified School Board
of Trustees are not as optimistic,
I
they ~aid a third session held
last Friday would determine the
immediate status of the situation.·
On Oct. 25, nearly 200 Chicano ·
students walked O\lt of classes
at Coalinga Jr. High and High
School over alleged racial discrimination in the school district.
Several heated Board meetings
produced little if no immediate
solutions to the issues. After
fights broke out at the junior high
and high schools, the Community
Relations Service (CRS) division
of the U.S. Justice Department
intervened.
CRS representatives WilliaJD
Briggs and Ed Howden arranged
to hold mediation sessions to deal
with the problems. The mediation
committee consisted offive representait ves of the district and board
and five representatives of the
protesting students and their parents. The parents are members
of Los Padres Unidos de Hurdn.
Huron is 20 miles from Coalinga
and part of the school district.
Most of the students who walked
out were Chicanos from Huron.
They commute to Coalinga to attend
grades 7-12.
Friday morning, Howden said the
progress of the mediation sessions
was difficult to assess.
"We•re hopeful a major ag,reement can be worked out,,, he said
prior to Friday afternoon's session. "At the end of this (Friday) afternoon, we•u know better
about the future. It might well
take just one more session after
today.u
----"'Z"
..ea ~ .'kJIJl.4, ,4/1, q.Js,.,,
"le/v; NcwidrJ ...'I/ . . . . . . V~ .f'4,
(FRIDAY'S MEETING WAS TOO
LATE FOR TlilS LA VOZ ISSUE)
He said he could not comment
on any ''substantial issues" discussed during the sessions. All
parties involved, he said, agreed
not to discuss the contents of the
sessions.
Sarahi Escandon, a Coalinga
For you macho vatos who think
High senior who · has acted as
The newly formed Third World be set up all around the Free you're bad. -• .Las Adelitas is
spokesperson for the protesting Coalition is sponsoring a Third Speech area and each ethnic groui:;
ready and willin g to give you a
students, said she is not satisfied World Fair to be held at CSUF will be selllng their foods, It is chance to show us how sweet
with the progress and had planned on Dec. 7.
also reported that there might
you really are. •
to droo out of the mediation com~The purpose for -the fair is to be special speakers. It will be
Las Adelitas
is presenting
their
ittee until Howden, in a two-hour gather
all oppressed people. a day of solidarity and all people
·
.
.
Sdecond AnDnual lc6 onl~e77nt1fdo d18s·cooo
pnone call, persuaded her to con- Black, Chicanos. Indians, Ori- are encouraged to attend.
ance on ec. , "
rom ,
tinue her involvement.
entals and Iranians. Booths will
It's very important for the unity
She said one of 'her biggest
of students on campus.
disappointments was the deciston•-- - - - - - -,- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...- - - - - - -- - - ~ - --
Coalition Sets Day bf 'Solidarity'
on where to hold the meetings.
"We had originally agreed to
meet on neutral grounds but now
the committee is going back on
its word. IPs a matter of principle," she said _· Thursday night.
The first mediation meeting was
held ln the Coalinga Library which
Escandon felt was acceptable. But
she said the· second session was
held at Board member Ronald
Allen•s ranch. Allen is one of
Sigue
••••
••••
~menlilios pg. 2·
Adelitas Plan Disco
Dance
p.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the upstair~
cafeteria.
Donation at the door will be
$2.00 or $1.00 with two canned
food items. All proceeds collected will be used for food baskets ·
h" h
.
t o nee dy fam1·
W1,1c
w1. 11 be given
lies and to purchase toys for children.
,
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Native Americans Threatened pg. · 3
7 yeil la RaZa Ides Secretary is Gone pg·. 3
-'Ires Crez pg. 4
~
·Pinto .Program pg. 4
l
Protect linoriti8SE
DECEMBER 5,1977
EDITORIAL
'Administration- Must Stop
Institutional RClcism At CSUF
In the · 1960's and early 1970's,
the social climate was conducive
to
social change, particularly
issues concerning minorities. The
resultant reforms were largely
due, however, to the persistant
pressure of minorities themselves
and their supporters. But times
also change. Inflation, unemployment and apathy hive produced an
atmosphere where racism once
again returns, where reactionary
forces thrive and prosper • .
Racism has many faces. It
expresses itself in several forms:·
the scapegoating of Mexican undocumented .worker~, the Bakke
case, the criticism of affirmative
action policies. And of course,
its companions also arise such
as sexism and political conservatism.
Racism, sexism, and
reactionary politics also appear
in institutions. The depersonalization of prejudice does not make
racism
less potent, indeed it
strengthens the ability of institutions to use their power against
minorities, women and in the case
x_of CSUF, students.
Institutional racism has clearly
returned to CSUF, indee_d it maynever have left, Several items
suggest an obvious patt~rn of in-
... Or Is ll Time
For Baxter To Go?
•••
stitutional ·harassm~nt and attacks
on the interests of minorities.
women and unsubmissive students.
Ap}llrently the approach of this
institutions higher administration
is to weakenandeventuallydestroy ·
many of the gains made in the
pist. The recent cutbacks in the
Ethnic Studies and LRS programs
and the controversy over the IRA
reveal the latest examples of this
institutional racism.
The strategy of the administration is to use technicalities,
legalism, rules and formulas to
thwart the success of pograms
relevant to minorities and others .
The attempt will be to avoid outright confrontations; the administration will cut here and there
without notice - or so it hopes.
The cumulative effect of the Administration's
remains obldoos
nonetheless. We deplore the growing evidence of this institutional
racism. Furthermore, we deplore
what seems to be the /inevitable
result:
demonstration, campus
tension, polarization and Administration-student alienation. We
can only make observations, it is
up to the administration to prove
our conclusions wrong-- or up to
students to do something about it.
The
La
Voz staff
Anti Ku-Klux-Kl.a n
March Saturday
The Anti-Bakke Decision Coalition and various community and
student O!:Pnizations will march
against the Klu Klux Klan, the
NAzi Party, and U.S. ties with
South Africa and Iran. The March
will begin forming at 10:00 a.m.,
Saturday, December 10, at Sunset
Community Center. It will move
through
the various Housing
Authority Projects in West Fresno,
through Chinatown and the Fulton
Mall, and will end with a rally at
the County Courthouse.
This march is meant to bring
the community together around
these issues which represent the ..
rising tide of conservatism, and
racism within the United States.
It is also meant to exl)Ose the U.S.
presence inter.nationally.
The Ku Klux Klan, after having
led the brutal oppression of Black
people in the.United State~ for many
years has turned against the undocumented Mexican worker with
a vigilante-style "border watch".
The Nazi Party has staged public
activities
in recent months in
supl)Ort of racism, attempting to
disrupt the actions of the growing
· Anti-Bakke Decision movement.
In South Africa, the racist regime,
with the SUPPort of the United
States, closes down the oppostiion
press, openly murders the leaders
of the people, and violently suppresses their movement for justice. Meanwhil.e, Jimmy Carter,
shakes hands with the biggest
fascist since Adolf Hitler, the Shah
of
Iran, and
declares their
2
interests to be the same.
In response to these developments, the Anti-Bakke De.cision
Coalition has decided to organize
actions throughout the state on
December 10. The Fresno ABDC
has planned this March with the
supl)Ort of ME ChA, the CSUF Third
WorldCoalition, Trabajadores de la
Raza, and other community and
student organizations. We urge
all Raza, Black, Indian, ~nd progressive Anglo organizations to
join in UNITY AGAINST RACISM
AND TO DEFEAT THE BAKKE
DECISION.
For • more information contact
MEChA, tbe ABDC, or Trabajadores at 224-9134, or Stan Santos,
at 224-5677.
·
Staq Santos
IF THE REPORTS made by some student leaders about
recent · meetings held between CSUF President Norman
Baxter and AS Senators are any indication, this campus
is in worse shape than we thought.
Through his hitman, Vice-President Volpp, Baxter
has already been asking for more "trouble" on campus ••.
But now he apparently wants more like the kind that
brought people to their feet in the early seventies and
awakened them to the need to seriously attend to problems in our society.
Some student leaders reported recently that an arrogant and authoritarian Baxter told them that the only
purpose of student government is so students "can learn
to behave."
When · one of the students asked him why he signed
the controversial IRA contr~ct, which appears to slight
minority oriented programs, he reportedly said, "to
protect future senators from minorities."
He was further pressed by another student who asked,
"How could you accept such an immoral, racist contract?"
I
.
"Look, it doesn't matter what you say,'' he reportedly retorted back. "I have complete authority to spend'
that money (student funds) how I want. In the end, I have
the final say and you can't spend that money without
my approval."
·
Then Baxter must have got to AS President Bill
Brewer who blew up at the student leaders for revealing
these comments.
He "yelled, screamed and cussed' ·
at two of them in the presence of one student's six-yearold daughter. . This apparently came at the beginning
of an attempted interview by a Collegian reporter about·
the reports.
"He said we shouldn't say anything because it would
qnly make the university and Baxter look bad and the
university did not need that right now," said one of tfie
students, Rachel Mendoza, a Chicana and only minority
involved in the Baxter and Brewer meetings.
It's too bad if Brewer has already fallen into .the
same trap as his predecessors •••• we had hoped those
days were gone with Nikkisarian. But apparently, Baxter stiff has full control of the student presidenPs strings ..
And Baxter confirmed his lack of regard for students
who are._ trying to work within the system to afect positive change.
Even more so, Baxter seems to have a
vicious contempt for efforts which would try to deal
with some of society's historical and current injustices.
We refer of course to minority oreiented projects such
as Semana de · la Raza, Black History Week and Tewaaquichi (student funded cultural observances which are not
benefactors of the IRA contract.) to Ethnic Studies and
La Raza studies which Baxter's hatchman, Volpp, has
said he would like to see phased out. Baxter, it becomes
increasingly . clearer, would rather see minoitles keep
a spot in the lower end of society and away from positions which would for once truly implement the true
intention of the U.S. Const~tution.
,Baxter may have complete authority but he's off
base on the ·other part: he doesn't nave tne 11na1 say.
The people have the final say. And the constitution suggests that if the system fails us, we have the right to
start over again.
Well, it's time to start again ••• Baxter as got to go,
and Volpp with him. Baxter has been
this university's
head the past six years ••• it's time for a person with real
sensitivity to student's needs ••.• not someone who ·will
twist things around so he can justify his hatchet jobs.
We call for Baxter's resignation before he provokes
us into behavior which only disrupts sincere efforts and
intensifies emotions ••• but makes people act. Baxter probably wants us to resort to such action so he can shoot
us down a la Kent State. (four student demonstrators
shot dead on campus by National Guard in 1970)
Chancellor Dumke and Governor Brown ••.• help put
a stop to this conservative backlash before things get
out of hand.
Pe~ro Ramirez
Editor
Funston Gfoup ·Demands ·Belter .Housing Conditions
Cindy Orona
housing to live in.
The following is the list of
On :,.;ov. 29. a group of people grfevances that was presented to
went before the Fresno City Coun- the City Council by the Funston
cil. rhese people dia .not appear Tenant Council:(they are not nebefore the City Council regarding cessarily in order).
their children's e<lucation, nor did
1. Many homes have waterthey go de1:i•>-nding equal iustice, heaters in dangerous state of dishut · they went demanding better repair, located inside the homes
living conditions.
near the oven. Repeated entreatfhe name of the group is Funston ies to repair these dangerously
Tenants Council and all the mem- malfunction water-heaters have
bers,
including Chairperson
led to nothing. The Housing
Frances Gross, live in the public Authority has expressed disinhousing complexes called Funston, terest in the matter.
located at Fresno and Clinton Sts.
2. Electrical wiring in many
The Funston Tenant Council of the homes is dangerous and
is not complaining about loose is in · need of repair and replacehinges or leaky faucets, but are ment. Serious fire dangers excomplaining about faulty wiring, ist for the families in these homes.
decent recreational facilities for
. 3.
In many of the houses
their children; basically decent there is only one fire exit, con-
stituting a grave danger to the supplying tenants with basic equip- tenants know how money is spent
adults and children who live in ment, althougb it spent several on these public housing services,
these homes.
Again, repeated thousand dollars recently on unJust exactly how serious is
entreaties to the Housing Author- needed typewriter equipment for all this? Here in Fresno one man
tty have resulted in no correction its own use and a computer that 1s responsible fo·r the safety of
of these conditions.
no one knows how to operate. human lives and the places where
4. Security is lacking in the
6.
Communication with the they live, yet he does little if
housing project and police are . Director of the Housing Authority at all anything.
often two and three hours late is almost impossible and tne reThere are old and ym.ing
in responding to request for he-lp. quests of the tenants are dis- people, children and handicapped
Police aften avoid the housing
missed out of hands. Recently people Uvfng in Funston.
All
project, , especially in the evening a petition submitted by many of problems that any small communbecause tt is considered too danthe tenants on issues of lmpor- ity may have, exist at Funston.
gerous to enter. 1f it is too dan- tance were dismissed out of hand
The Funston Tenant Council
gerous for the police, what about and no action was takent to study has a meeting with the Ctiy county
the elderly and physically weak the matters outlined in the peti- Board of Commissionerson
who must live there?
tlon.- Housing Authority employ- December 8. At this meeting~their
5. The community center of ees who show interest in the ten- grievances will be discussed. Keep
residents ts far too small for use ants point-of-view have been sum- that date in mind if you would
and ts inadequately supplied with
marily dismissed. Other em- like to give .a group a helping hand,
the basic equipment necessary for ployees who are indifferent to the Contact Frances Gross at Funston
meetings of the tenants.
The tenants requests have been ~e- center for more information at,
Housing Authority claims that warded with salary increases. The 224.9134.
there is not enough money for Director's office refuses to let
H.R. 9054, Final
Blow to Indians
LRS Looses Seven year Secretcry
Felix J. Contr~ras
H.R. 9054. A bill introduced Coalition, a group staunchly op- the tribe shall not be entitled
In our continuing struggle against they played a major roll in susinto the U.S. Congress that ac- posing the legislation, bring up to any of the services performed the CSUF Administration, Chic- taining La Raza Studies. "More
cording to American Indian lea- the point. that the bill also calls . by the United States for Indians anos appear to have lost an imp- students signed up for classes and
ders, "would strike the final, ter- for" ••• the abrogation of all rights because of their status as Indians: ortant symbol and an other ext- they themselves were doing a lot
guaranteed to I all statused of the United States remely valuable person to the of recruiting. There was a lot
minating
blow
to Indians as and protect!o~s
people under those treaties, such which affect Indians because of life of La Raza Studies.
people."
more student involvement then I
on Nov, 18, the program lost have seen the last few yerars,
According to th~ text of the bill, as -tire right to hunt and fish." their status as Indians shall no
From the text of the bill,
·. longer be applicable to the mem- its fulltime secretary of eight up until now."
which is titled the"Native Ameryears, Ms. Angie Cisneros.
ican Equal Opportunity Act," the ''provides tl'lat huntin_g and fish-· bers of the tribe ••• "
Angie believes that the adminiThe Coa1ition points out that
The secretarial position was stration is going to do away with
bill would direct the President ing rights derived by the Indian 1·
"United States Govern- ·reduced to ha}ftime due to the La Raza Studies. "If not, it will
to abrogate all treaties entered . tribe from a treaty shall be ab- . the
into by the United States with rogated; and the members of the I ment agreed to provide for and , cutback of allocated fulltime sec- only be a token thing," she says.
tribe be subject to Federal, State, protect the rights of Indian people retarial positions in the School of
·1ndian tribes ••. "
She also added that the new
Meinb~.rs of the .National Indian and -local laws governing hunting in return for the Indian's agree- Social Science in which LRS exists. general education policy impleand fishing ••• "
ment to cede large portions of
Consequently, Angie was forced mented last year is an indirect
"If Representative.s Cunningham, our land to the United States. H.R. to transfer to another department way by the administration to cut
(Wash.), and Abnor- (South Dakota), 9054 would permit the Federal that culd provide her with full- out La Raza Studies.
the authors of the bill, were really · Government to terminate its part time work. She is currently work"We got hit harder than anybody
interested in equal opportunities of the agreement but would leave tng as a secretary in the Inter- else due to the fact that La Raza
for Indian people/' claim the Co- Indian people in the unfair position national Studies office located in Studies is weak with respect to
alition," -they would begin by em- of having ceded our land fnr nott'n!?. the Joyal Building.
its . lack of tenured teachers snd
bracing the treaties and seeking
"For us to put any kind of faith,
'Angie Cisneros was_ first hired the fact that it is not a departtheir vigorous enforcement_..rather or hope, or prayer, in this bill, in La Raza Studies -in November
ment,'' she commented.
• than proceeding on an opposite or any type of termination -bill," of 1969. She worked there until
Angie feels that a lot of ·former
course of action. It is crystal stressed Banks, "would be as the end of the academic year students who have not lent their
clear, however, that the motivating dangerous as putting our lives when the program was cut from support to the movimiento in recpurpose behind H.R. 9054 has no- and our future, in the hands of five full-time instructors, to one, ent years wouldn't have made 1t
thing to do with equal rights for-- General Armstrong Custer..... in a purge on- minorities charac- without LRS and EOP.
Native Americans, but instead is It is the final act corning down teristic of the administration in
designed to deprive us of our fun- upon us.'
the late sixties and early seven"I wish .t here was some way
damental and inalienable rights."
"But, we will never accept th_is ties.
could instill a need to be inDennis Banks, · leader . of the kind · of termination-we will never
Cisneros was also ,·•swept out volved in more in the students,"
American Indian Movement, also surrender our heritage.
the door" before the the entire she says. ''Nothing can really
is very opposed to the bill.
''If they want to abrogate the program was ter-minated the end happen if we don't push for it
. "'Because of my opposition to treaties of 1868, 1851, -i8i2, anc:1 of the summer of 1970.
to happen. People have to get
involved. Everything in this wo.rld
the bill," state_s Banks, "I've been 1970, then I will be the first one· - The program was reinstated
asked if I'm against equal oppor- to speak up and say "let's abro- in the fa11 of 1970~ but it was is political and that means gettunity-this kind of opportunity I'm gate the treaties, Mr. Whiteman, not until November, -1972 that ting involved.
Angie admits that when sh~
against,"
until I see you backed up to the Angie was rehired in La Raza
From the bill: "After the com- shores of Plymouth Rock. Then Studies. By this time, the pro- first came to CSUF, like many
pletion of this abrogation of the there will be equal opportunity." gram had been built up to 6-7 Chicanos then and now, she was
treaties with an Indian tribe under
teachers which meant that a full- very- unaware of what was happthis act, .• individual members of
time secretary was needed.
ening with Chicanos.
But her first-hand exposure
Las Adelitas, CSUF's then newlyformed
Chicana organization, over tne years to this university's
played a key role in the initial attitudes towards minorities have
apparently had some im~act. This
hiring of Angie.
Las Adelitas frequently helped is evidence l>y her current involvout in the LRS office, but the ements.
She is the vice-president for
ne-wly-insUtuted program needed
a secretary badly. Las Adelitas both the Fresno League of Mexmembers also helped interview ican American Women and the
Mexican-American Political Ass
her for the position.
In additiion
Ethnic Studies, (of which La ociation (MAPA).
to her fulltime job at the InterRaza
Studies
was.
a
part
of
at
KFSN Channel 30 has been management continues to be domi- vide that input in the future.'' _
national Students office, she is
Station manager Walt Liss was the time), had its office in Baker •a fulltime student who plans to
operating without a license since nated by male caucasion."
Hall during 1969-70 academic year.
In the area of programming, not available for comment but
last Thursday because minorities
Angie recalls, ''It was like our graduate this spring with a hachasked the F.ederal Communications the petition said, "Repeatedly, programming manager Lee Jason
own little house.
Blacks and elor's degree in puhlic adminis- ~
Commission (FCC) to deny the members of the MAC have attempt- said the station feels it has a good
Chicanos 1i ved in Baker Hall. tration.
_
.Fresno station's license- renewal ed to introduce cultural and racial record in the area of affirmative
Of her departure from of the
Everything was there.n
.
sensitivity in the program deci- action and minority program ming.
application.
Those first years of mino·rtty Chicano program, Angie said she
The Fresno Media Minority sions made by the station without He said a comment would not be
programs were hot with demon- misses the type of community conAdvisory Committee (MAC) con- , success."
forthcoming.
strations to gain minority's rights. tact she had in La Raza Studies.
The Indian sub-committee cites He said attorneys advised Channel
sisting of blacks, American In"It's like being away from
"I can remember back then, "she
30
not
to
com·meut
on
the
specific
dians, and Chicanos, filed a peti- a failure by station management
says, "one time my grandmother home " she said. "I was · amongst
tion for denial and has staged two to ''follow up on commitments charges made by MAC. Bttt he
called to check up on me, to make what 'you consider family. You
demonstrations in front of _the to have staff cover important meet- said a response to· the charges,
sure I was okay." Angie said don't mind working if its for your
ings or ev~nts."
' will be available to the public
station's offices.
exagerrated radio reports of hap- family and thats what 1 felt.
In general, the committee accus'ed · "in about a month," '
MAC was formed in 1971 when
"I don't know if I'll ever
penings on campus had scared
Capital Cities Broadcasting, Inc. Channel 30 of using the commit- . Jason said the stati9n's records
her grandmother. ••Those were feel that again with any other
bought ' Channel 30. Since then, tees 's· work to provide minority are open to the public.
"We feel the community is well exciting_ times," exclaimed Angie. job.''
MAC has worked to provide mi- input as evidence that the station
Angie believes that community
. nority input · to the station and is suiting the needs of the minor- aware of our programming. It's
involvement
in the Fall of 1970
out in the open.'' he said. "We're
helped develop minority programs. ity community.
was one of the key factors which
At the same time. the petition proud of our record. The Federal
Every three years, companies
saved La Raza Studies. She also ·
which utilize the public airwaves· reads, "the application does not Communications Commission will
added that students were more
must re-apply for a license from include a positive statement as to make a ruling based on that reinvolved back then. She felt that
the government through the FCC~ how the MAC will continue to pro- cord.''
to use the airwaves.
MEChA will sponsor the next
Since the airwaves are "public
·tatewide conference of the Antiproperty'', radio and television
akke Decision on Saturday
stations must shqw it is responding to the needs of the community.
ec. 17, at CSUF. The conference
The Chicano Commencement
The FCC investigates any comLast year, a- logo drawn by Sal- be on the last day of finals, Friday ill begin with registration at
Committee,
of
the
CSUF
Chier.no
vador G'arcia of La Brocha del • May 19th.
plaints.
9:00 a.m., and the assembly at
Faculty, Staff and student organi- 1vane, is featured in today's La
For more information, contact 0:00 a.m. The purpose of the
Dec. l was lhe new licensing
zation
is
sponsoring
its
second
period but Channel 30 must now
Voz. Chicano Commencemet will Tony Garduque at 487_-1021.
conference is to review the preoperate without a license while annual logo contest. The winning
..
ent status of Special Admission,
logo
will
be
printed
on
all
Chicano
the FCC reviews the matter.
ffirmative Action Programs, and
~
·s;.
.
.
MAC particularly attacks the Commencement cards, diplomas,
:t~.
he Bakke case; and plan future
etc
•••
and
will
represent
this
year's
station's affirmative action efforts
strategies of the ABDC, specific~
commencement 0 theme", which is
and its programming. In its petially the February 25th Los Angele
Chicanos in Education.
tion, the committee accused the
tatewide Mobilization. All conTony
Garduque,
a
committee
Ch:,.nnel 30 of requiring high qualierned
groups and individuals arc
member, expressed the corhmitfications of minority job applicants
rged to attend.
·
t~ess'
wished
that
the
logo
sumwhile hiring anglos -who "have no
The
Fresno
ABDC
meets every
prior experience'' in broadcasting bolize the above theme. There
Wednesday at 7:00p.m. at MECh
will
be
a
$25.00
cash
prize
for
but in the words of the manageENTRAL, in the Funston Housment, "they have potential as good the winning logo. The contest .
ng Projects, at 2172 Drexel.
is
open
to
anyone,
with
a
deadcommunicators, or have high
People are needed to assist in
line set for Feb.28, 1978. SubI.Q.'s."
the
organizing of the December 17th
mit your entry to Tony Garduque
Minorities further question em,_
..
onference and other activities
in
the
E.O.P.
office
or
Ernie
ployment practices by the station
of the focal' committee. For more
.....,...,
Martinez in La Raza Studies or
saying a double standard exists
information-, please call 22 4- 9134
·~1·
Manuel
Olguin
in
Tutorial
Serfor minority employees and anglo
.,.~~,•:~~·
or Robert Jaramillo, 225· 4125-vices.
employees. They also said, "top
Dennis Banks
Minorities Challenge
TV Station License
MEChA Sponsors
·ABOC Conference
Graduation Logo ConteSt COmmen_ces
t.~-
~
~.✓.,. -. .
1
Pirito Program Helps
~x- Cons · Enter College
Garduque is the co-chai-rman
The Pinto in a criminology course
of the Northern California Pinto has a lot to give, he can be very
College Program. He is an E.O.I-'- effective in helping develop new
Of the diverse Chi~no slang counselor and coordinator of .the correctional facilities,· as well te,·ff,S that have come into exis- Pinto program at CSUF. He took as tell of his own personal extence there is one that is very the job in 1975 when he was a perience.
familiar in prisons and in ex- secon-year graduate student in
The Pinto Program is planning
offender programs. Thal..,term the School of Social Work here a series of activities the first
is "Pinto", a Pinto by deiinition · at CSUF. CET A was offering a of which, is to sponsor a Prison
is someone who has done hard
position for administrative train- Poetry Symposium at CSUF before
time in a prison or penitenciary. ee. The different programs lob- the end of the year. ''There
"Pinto in Spanish means spotted bied for the position and E.O.-P. are many good Pinto poets." says
i.e., pinto beans; once you've been won it," recalls Garduque. .
Garduque, "there wili be Anglo,
convicted of a feloney and senManuel Perez,
director . of Chicanos and Blacks who want
tenced to do hard time you're
E.O.P., decided to make the. ad- to recite their poetry or have ,
spotted !or llfe," says Tony Gar- ministrative trainee position, a someone recite it for them if they
duque, who ts an EOP counselor
Pinto coordinator, According to cannot possibly attend. The condirecting the Pinto program here Garduque 1 "There were a lot of tent of the poetry tells the probat CSUF.
people who were well qualified, lems and struggles of prison life.''
· The Pinto Collej;e Program at but a B.A. degree was needed
The second activity the program
CSUF came into existence in the which disqualified many of them. is plannl~g a ''Pen Pal project.
Spring of 1972. It is a statewide SomeQrie put in an application
"There are many guys wl)o are
program and belongs to the Asso- for me, Without my knowledge, locked up for several years, many
ciatlon of·Ex-offender Educational and I was offered the job. I of whom don•t have a family and
Programs. At its, inception, the weighed the factors and decided are lonely, most of them are
program dealt oµly with parolees, to take the job because it would dying to communicate with somebut has now qpened its doors to be good experience. ·
one
the · outside,'' says Gardupeople on probation. Garduque .
At present, there are 15 full- que.
states,"The Pinto program, just . time students in the, Pinto proThe third activity is increasing
Pedro Ramirez
like many other e~-offender pro- gram and five applicants being community · outreach. The Pinto ·
In Fresno and San Joaquin
The organization has received
grams, was started by Chicanos.
considered for admission.
program will go out to ·the com mun
·
- Valley, there is nothing like Trez a National Endowement Grant to
To make the name Pinto look offi"The purpose o( the Pinto ity organlzations and agencies .
.
.
•
cial, they made the letters stand
College Program is twofold,''
to tell them about the Pinto College Crez. Trez Crez 1~ a. Chicano expose the Chicano community to
for Parolees In New Training
continues Garduque. "The first Program. "We don't recruit art center where Chicanos from art.
occupation."
· of which is to offer a higher people, we just inform them about - Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley
Future plans consist of a calenThe Pinto program is a part of educational opportunlty for ex- the opportunities for a 9ollege ca~ J?eet and express the ma~y dar depicting the lifes of Chicanos
E.O,P. The rational for this ts offenders. Hopefully, this will be ·education,,, .explains Garduque.
artistic ideas they have. Also 1t living in the San . Joaquin Valley.
that Pintos are considered disviewd as a positive alternative
In past years Pinto's never serves as an art gallery where For
each month, many of La
advantaged students and since the to crime, as well as being an had the opportunity to prove them- Chicanos from all over the country Brocha's artists have drawn up
function of E.O.P. is to ald dis- educationally enriching experi- selves in society beca~se too many can exhibit their works.
.
beautiful symbolic figures. The
advantaged students get into col- ence."
times people would ' shun them
Art Cruz , representative of calendars will go on sale after
lege, it would only make sense
. "The second,'' -according to and not trust them. In employ- Trez Crez says, "this center · is .December "!5th and will sell for
to incorporate the Pinto program Garduque, "is changing the atti- ment and college institutions, they for. all Chicanos, artist or. not.- $4.00 each.
with KO.P. The Pinto student -tude of students on this campus, were turned down because of their We do our work for the ChicallQ
"Right now," says Cruz, 'twe·
has ,to go through the same paperprimarily criminology students. criminal record: which hindered community, so .it belongs to the cannot reallyworkwithelementary
work as the E.O.P. student. The Most criminology classes are their development in society and people as well as the artists." junior high and high school stuStudent Advisor for the Pinto stuone-sided, very little, if anything, ' made them feel unwanted. · Pin-'".,
Trez Crez is also like a store dents because we don't have a
dent, however, is not the same
is taught about the experience tos are showing that downfalls
explains Cruz, "artists can come staff to teach them. Ho'Wever,
as for .the E.o.P. student. Gar- • and point-of-view of the Pinto. sh9uld not stop anyone from . and e~~bit their work and if they Frank Rojas and Sapo of -teatro
duque explains, "The Pinto student · Ma,;iy speakers, and professors who an educatiqn or anything they want, sell their art. We ask for sometimes bring in F-14s to teach
is generally from a different back- ' .speak· on prtsons or prison re- aspire and that people can ac- . a small fee so that we can pay them fundamentals in art; most' of
ground and age bracket in com- . form · are ex-wardens, attorney complish anything if they have our rent. Artist are always invited these kids are from the juvenile
partson to the E.O.P. student and • generals, etc. A Pinto can give · the will.
to show and sell."
·
hall." Right now what is needed
therefore needs specialized coun- an accurate and concise speech
The small center which is located is money, so that we can begin
~ling."
on the Pinto experience .''
on Ventura and Sixth St., lies working with students. He also
between other shops and can be re- invites art beginners to visit the
cognized
by the window that center and learn some new tec-Jk
announges the center:s na.m. En- niques.
tering, you recognize many qf the . Many students from Fresno
familiar posters of Pancho Villa, State including art instructors,
Che Guevara and many other Latino .Ernie Palomino and Francisco
pers~nalities.
The further you Barrfq, helped Cruz get started.
enter the shop, you begin to smell Some students from CSUF include
the scent of terpentine, perhaps Juan Turner, SalvadorGarcia, Lee
used for the silkscreens that are Orona, Tommy Cruz, Cecilia
worked
on by the people who vol- Areinado, Sylvia Figueroa and
the di~trict's representatl ves.
She said that overcoming the
He also said other groups in
Escandon said the third session problems is a "long-term" deal the community have met with him, · unteer for a days work. All you can Teresa Vasquez. ~rom FCC, are
was
also scheduled at Allen'$ and not something that can be at the · groups' requests, to hold see around you is -art, such as Gilbert Lujano or "Magoo" and
ranch.
solved overnight. She feels some ''thorough discussions, explain the posters, ,drawings on canvasses, Sapo.
Trez Crez is an important factor
· Her concern, she sald, ls that of the demands, such as for a mediation process, hear their con- etc.
The center opened·in late June, for Chicano art development. It
if the district's attltude can be bet~er affirmative action plan, are cerns, and discuss the problems
with a boost from three Chicano lets the gente know that there are
measured by this lesser impor- unneccesary because the district in general.-"
tant · issue• then she is doubtful already has them.
He has met with officers and businessmen. Now h is sponsored artists ~epresenting them and in
gives
of trusting them to good faith
"They {protesters) hav~n•t members of the executive board by La Brocha Del Valle and is the best way -possible.
dealings on the more important stopped long enough to realize that of the Coalinga Unified Teacher's completely run by the artist. Cruz the gente a sense of pride because
issues.
we are already in compliance with Association and with the leader- reported to La Voz · tliat . it was the artists • are working for the
However, she had decided to .the law on affirmative action," ship and key members of a_group hard for the shop to stay open gente; the artists main concern
stay on th~ mediation corn mittee she said. Asked to corn ment on calling itself ''Concerned Citi- because the staff is not receiving is representing, •through art, the
so the students back on campus the protestors charges that CUSD
any salary. Cruzalsoadds,6'every gente in whatever mood they may
zens."
will be informed arid feelinvolved. plan is ineffective, she said, ''We
Both groups have · previously .time we ask for money they turn be.
"It's · been quiet lately on . cannot force anyone to eome to expresse<;l their dissatisfaction us down because they feel we are
The center is open from 9:00
campus," she said.
"I! they Coalinga."
with the protesting student's ac: too socialistic or radical; all we a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Bob Cruz
(students) don't feel they're getShe said discrimination does tions..
do is represent the gente, and we invites the public to attend the
ting anything out of the meetings, exi~t, but"there's no way to wipe
beleive in the gente's needs. For meetings
that are held every
the students will feel let down.,,. it out."
this they refuse." However, Cruz second Wednesday of the month.
She said tha-t walking out again
'•'If somebody could figure out
also goes on to say that La Brocha· Also, if anyone would like to donate
would not satisfy the students. a way to stop discrimination, that
is a very young organization and chairs, wood or anything that is
"They would probably do some- person would be a milliona;re,"
could be another reason why they usable, your contribution would be
thing more serious unless I can she said. "I wan! it to stop but
are refused money.
appreciated.
help them understand what we're · discrimination will never go away.
trying to do with the meetings.,, Even anglos face it among themBoard of Trustees president selves."
A "Parent's Night" to acquaint
Mrs. Gay Armstrong is also unShe said the mediation sessions minority students and their parents
certain of the progress.
are going slow because both parties with college lnformatton wm be
'1 think right now we're spinning are first "trying to feel each other held Dec. 13 in Sanger.
To add a new flavor to their
our wheels," she told a reporter out."
Stella Moya, a former C~UF
·
Los Dan~antes de Aztian under performance~ the tlance group is
Friday morning. "I don't think
· How~en said, based on his student presently with the Fresno the instruction of Ernest~ Mar- planning on dancing their Jallsco
we've gotten to anything yet. We've previous experience in mediations, Educational Opportunity Center ttnez, will be giving a major pre- numbers to·the music of Mariachi
listened to more 'I wants' than .'moods of individuals are bound . (FEOC), said the bilingual func- sentation Dec. 17, at 8:00 p.m. de la Tierra. The dance group
anything else.,,
to go up and down• 1 during the tion will offer students the chance in the Roosevelt High School Audi- .wm also be adding new dances to
She thinks the mediations will period that meetings are being to meet personally with college torium.
their repetoire.
need another two or three meet- 1eld.
o!!icials.
•The presentation is very imporAdmission is $1.50 and free
ings, depending on how quickly we
"Parent's Night'' is sponsored tant to Martinez because he wm for anyone under 12. The pre"One moment . you're on the
get to the issues.,,
be partially graded 1n the perform-sentatton is co-sponsored by
town stde and the next vou're on by the Mexican American Youth
Organization (MA YO), of Sanger ance in his effort to obtain his CSUF •'• La Raza Stud1N and the
the bright side~ n he sald;
High School in cooperation' witt second Masters degree. .
Kooaevelt Marimba Band.
· the school and FEOC.
By Arturo. CJcampo .
on
Trez Crez:
El Centro -de.A rte
·Student~; h~pes_rest on talks
It
MAYO Plans
'Parent's Night'
Danzantes To
Perform
Walkout
Mediations
5. Pa2e 1
Get Mixed·
Reactions
By Tomas U ribes
A federal .mediator who has
already conducted three negotiation sessions in the Coalinga
schools walkout controversy, said
an agreement may be reached'
with one more meeting~ ,
Although representatives of the
protesting students and of the
Coalinga Unified School Board
of Trustees are not as optimistic,
I
they ~aid a third session held
last Friday would determine the
immediate status of the situation.·
On Oct. 25, nearly 200 Chicano ·
students walked O\lt of classes
at Coalinga Jr. High and High
School over alleged racial discrimination in the school district.
Several heated Board meetings
produced little if no immediate
solutions to the issues. After
fights broke out at the junior high
and high schools, the Community
Relations Service (CRS) division
of the U.S. Justice Department
intervened.
CRS representatives WilliaJD
Briggs and Ed Howden arranged
to hold mediation sessions to deal
with the problems. The mediation
committee consisted offive representait ves of the district and board
and five representatives of the
protesting students and their parents. The parents are members
of Los Padres Unidos de Hurdn.
Huron is 20 miles from Coalinga
and part of the school district.
Most of the students who walked
out were Chicanos from Huron.
They commute to Coalinga to attend
grades 7-12.
Friday morning, Howden said the
progress of the mediation sessions
was difficult to assess.
"We•re hopeful a major ag,reement can be worked out,,, he said
prior to Friday afternoon's session. "At the end of this (Friday) afternoon, we•u know better
about the future. It might well
take just one more session after
today.u
----"'Z"
..ea ~ .'kJIJl.4, ,4/1, q.Js,.,,
"le/v; NcwidrJ ...'I/ . . . . . . V~ .f'4,
(FRIDAY'S MEETING WAS TOO
LATE FOR TlilS LA VOZ ISSUE)
He said he could not comment
on any ''substantial issues" discussed during the sessions. All
parties involved, he said, agreed
not to discuss the contents of the
sessions.
Sarahi Escandon, a Coalinga
For you macho vatos who think
High senior who · has acted as
The newly formed Third World be set up all around the Free you're bad. -• .Las Adelitas is
spokesperson for the protesting Coalition is sponsoring a Third Speech area and each ethnic groui:;
ready and willin g to give you a
students, said she is not satisfied World Fair to be held at CSUF will be selllng their foods, It is chance to show us how sweet
with the progress and had planned on Dec. 7.
also reported that there might
you really are. •
to droo out of the mediation com~The purpose for -the fair is to be special speakers. It will be
Las Adelitas
is presenting
their
ittee until Howden, in a two-hour gather
all oppressed people. a day of solidarity and all people
·
.
.
Sdecond AnDnual lc6 onl~e77nt1fdo d18s·cooo
pnone call, persuaded her to con- Black, Chicanos. Indians, Ori- are encouraged to attend.
ance on ec. , "
rom ,
tinue her involvement.
entals and Iranians. Booths will
It's very important for the unity
She said one of 'her biggest
of students on campus.
disappointments was the deciston•-- - - - - - -,- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...- - - - - - -- - - ~ - --
Coalition Sets Day bf 'Solidarity'
on where to hold the meetings.
"We had originally agreed to
meet on neutral grounds but now
the committee is going back on
its word. IPs a matter of principle," she said _· Thursday night.
The first mediation meeting was
held ln the Coalinga Library which
Escandon felt was acceptable. But
she said the· second session was
held at Board member Ronald
Allen•s ranch. Allen is one of
Sigue
••••
••••
~menlilios pg. 2·
Adelitas Plan Disco
Dance
p.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the upstair~
cafeteria.
Donation at the door will be
$2.00 or $1.00 with two canned
food items. All proceeds collected will be used for food baskets ·
h" h
.
t o nee dy fam1·
W1,1c
w1. 11 be given
lies and to purchase toys for children.
,
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Native Americans Threatened pg. · 3
7 yeil la RaZa Ides Secretary is Gone pg·. 3
-'Ires Crez pg. 4
~
·Pinto .Program pg. 4
l
Protect linoriti8SE
DECEMBER 5,1977
EDITORIAL
'Administration- Must Stop
Institutional RClcism At CSUF
In the · 1960's and early 1970's,
the social climate was conducive
to
social change, particularly
issues concerning minorities. The
resultant reforms were largely
due, however, to the persistant
pressure of minorities themselves
and their supporters. But times
also change. Inflation, unemployment and apathy hive produced an
atmosphere where racism once
again returns, where reactionary
forces thrive and prosper • .
Racism has many faces. It
expresses itself in several forms:·
the scapegoating of Mexican undocumented .worker~, the Bakke
case, the criticism of affirmative
action policies. And of course,
its companions also arise such
as sexism and political conservatism.
Racism, sexism, and
reactionary politics also appear
in institutions. The depersonalization of prejudice does not make
racism
less potent, indeed it
strengthens the ability of institutions to use their power against
minorities, women and in the case
x_of CSUF, students.
Institutional racism has clearly
returned to CSUF, indee_d it maynever have left, Several items
suggest an obvious patt~rn of in-
... Or Is ll Time
For Baxter To Go?
•••
stitutional ·harassm~nt and attacks
on the interests of minorities.
women and unsubmissive students.
Ap}llrently the approach of this
institutions higher administration
is to weakenandeventuallydestroy ·
many of the gains made in the
pist. The recent cutbacks in the
Ethnic Studies and LRS programs
and the controversy over the IRA
reveal the latest examples of this
institutional racism.
The strategy of the administration is to use technicalities,
legalism, rules and formulas to
thwart the success of pograms
relevant to minorities and others .
The attempt will be to avoid outright confrontations; the administration will cut here and there
without notice - or so it hopes.
The cumulative effect of the Administration's
remains obldoos
nonetheless. We deplore the growing evidence of this institutional
racism. Furthermore, we deplore
what seems to be the /inevitable
result:
demonstration, campus
tension, polarization and Administration-student alienation. We
can only make observations, it is
up to the administration to prove
our conclusions wrong-- or up to
students to do something about it.
The
La
Voz staff
Anti Ku-Klux-Kl.a n
March Saturday
The Anti-Bakke Decision Coalition and various community and
student O!:Pnizations will march
against the Klu Klux Klan, the
NAzi Party, and U.S. ties with
South Africa and Iran. The March
will begin forming at 10:00 a.m.,
Saturday, December 10, at Sunset
Community Center. It will move
through
the various Housing
Authority Projects in West Fresno,
through Chinatown and the Fulton
Mall, and will end with a rally at
the County Courthouse.
This march is meant to bring
the community together around
these issues which represent the ..
rising tide of conservatism, and
racism within the United States.
It is also meant to exl)Ose the U.S.
presence inter.nationally.
The Ku Klux Klan, after having
led the brutal oppression of Black
people in the.United State~ for many
years has turned against the undocumented Mexican worker with
a vigilante-style "border watch".
The Nazi Party has staged public
activities
in recent months in
supl)Ort of racism, attempting to
disrupt the actions of the growing
· Anti-Bakke Decision movement.
In South Africa, the racist regime,
with the SUPPort of the United
States, closes down the oppostiion
press, openly murders the leaders
of the people, and violently suppresses their movement for justice. Meanwhil.e, Jimmy Carter,
shakes hands with the biggest
fascist since Adolf Hitler, the Shah
of
Iran, and
declares their
2
interests to be the same.
In response to these developments, the Anti-Bakke De.cision
Coalition has decided to organize
actions throughout the state on
December 10. The Fresno ABDC
has planned this March with the
supl)Ort of ME ChA, the CSUF Third
WorldCoalition, Trabajadores de la
Raza, and other community and
student organizations. We urge
all Raza, Black, Indian, ~nd progressive Anglo organizations to
join in UNITY AGAINST RACISM
AND TO DEFEAT THE BAKKE
DECISION.
For • more information contact
MEChA, tbe ABDC, or Trabajadores at 224-9134, or Stan Santos,
at 224-5677.
·
Staq Santos
IF THE REPORTS made by some student leaders about
recent · meetings held between CSUF President Norman
Baxter and AS Senators are any indication, this campus
is in worse shape than we thought.
Through his hitman, Vice-President Volpp, Baxter
has already been asking for more "trouble" on campus ••.
But now he apparently wants more like the kind that
brought people to their feet in the early seventies and
awakened them to the need to seriously attend to problems in our society.
Some student leaders reported recently that an arrogant and authoritarian Baxter told them that the only
purpose of student government is so students "can learn
to behave."
When · one of the students asked him why he signed
the controversial IRA contr~ct, which appears to slight
minority oriented programs, he reportedly said, "to
protect future senators from minorities."
He was further pressed by another student who asked,
"How could you accept such an immoral, racist contract?"
I
.
"Look, it doesn't matter what you say,'' he reportedly retorted back. "I have complete authority to spend'
that money (student funds) how I want. In the end, I have
the final say and you can't spend that money without
my approval."
·
Then Baxter must have got to AS President Bill
Brewer who blew up at the student leaders for revealing
these comments.
He "yelled, screamed and cussed' ·
at two of them in the presence of one student's six-yearold daughter. . This apparently came at the beginning
of an attempted interview by a Collegian reporter about·
the reports.
"He said we shouldn't say anything because it would
qnly make the university and Baxter look bad and the
university did not need that right now," said one of tfie
students, Rachel Mendoza, a Chicana and only minority
involved in the Baxter and Brewer meetings.
It's too bad if Brewer has already fallen into .the
same trap as his predecessors •••• we had hoped those
days were gone with Nikkisarian. But apparently, Baxter stiff has full control of the student presidenPs strings ..
And Baxter confirmed his lack of regard for students
who are._ trying to work within the system to afect positive change.
Even more so, Baxter seems to have a
vicious contempt for efforts which would try to deal
with some of society's historical and current injustices.
We refer of course to minority oreiented projects such
as Semana de · la Raza, Black History Week and Tewaaquichi (student funded cultural observances which are not
benefactors of the IRA contract.) to Ethnic Studies and
La Raza studies which Baxter's hatchman, Volpp, has
said he would like to see phased out. Baxter, it becomes
increasingly . clearer, would rather see minoitles keep
a spot in the lower end of society and away from positions which would for once truly implement the true
intention of the U.S. Const~tution.
,Baxter may have complete authority but he's off
base on the ·other part: he doesn't nave tne 11na1 say.
The people have the final say. And the constitution suggests that if the system fails us, we have the right to
start over again.
Well, it's time to start again ••• Baxter as got to go,
and Volpp with him. Baxter has been
this university's
head the past six years ••• it's time for a person with real
sensitivity to student's needs ••.• not someone who ·will
twist things around so he can justify his hatchet jobs.
We call for Baxter's resignation before he provokes
us into behavior which only disrupts sincere efforts and
intensifies emotions ••• but makes people act. Baxter probably wants us to resort to such action so he can shoot
us down a la Kent State. (four student demonstrators
shot dead on campus by National Guard in 1970)
Chancellor Dumke and Governor Brown ••.• help put
a stop to this conservative backlash before things get
out of hand.
Pe~ro Ramirez
Editor
Funston Gfoup ·Demands ·Belter .Housing Conditions
Cindy Orona
housing to live in.
The following is the list of
On :,.;ov. 29. a group of people grfevances that was presented to
went before the Fresno City Coun- the City Council by the Funston
cil. rhese people dia .not appear Tenant Council:(they are not nebefore the City Council regarding cessarily in order).
their children's e<lucation, nor did
1. Many homes have waterthey go de1:i•>-nding equal iustice, heaters in dangerous state of dishut · they went demanding better repair, located inside the homes
living conditions.
near the oven. Repeated entreatfhe name of the group is Funston ies to repair these dangerously
Tenants Council and all the mem- malfunction water-heaters have
bers,
including Chairperson
led to nothing. The Housing
Frances Gross, live in the public Authority has expressed disinhousing complexes called Funston, terest in the matter.
located at Fresno and Clinton Sts.
2. Electrical wiring in many
The Funston Tenant Council of the homes is dangerous and
is not complaining about loose is in · need of repair and replacehinges or leaky faucets, but are ment. Serious fire dangers excomplaining about faulty wiring, ist for the families in these homes.
decent recreational facilities for
. 3.
In many of the houses
their children; basically decent there is only one fire exit, con-
stituting a grave danger to the supplying tenants with basic equip- tenants know how money is spent
adults and children who live in ment, althougb it spent several on these public housing services,
these homes.
Again, repeated thousand dollars recently on unJust exactly how serious is
entreaties to the Housing Author- needed typewriter equipment for all this? Here in Fresno one man
tty have resulted in no correction its own use and a computer that 1s responsible fo·r the safety of
of these conditions.
no one knows how to operate. human lives and the places where
4. Security is lacking in the
6.
Communication with the they live, yet he does little if
housing project and police are . Director of the Housing Authority at all anything.
often two and three hours late is almost impossible and tne reThere are old and ym.ing
in responding to request for he-lp. quests of the tenants are dis- people, children and handicapped
Police aften avoid the housing
missed out of hands. Recently people Uvfng in Funston.
All
project, , especially in the evening a petition submitted by many of problems that any small communbecause tt is considered too danthe tenants on issues of lmpor- ity may have, exist at Funston.
gerous to enter. 1f it is too dan- tance were dismissed out of hand
The Funston Tenant Council
gerous for the police, what about and no action was takent to study has a meeting with the Ctiy county
the elderly and physically weak the matters outlined in the peti- Board of Commissionerson
who must live there?
tlon.- Housing Authority employ- December 8. At this meeting~their
5. The community center of ees who show interest in the ten- grievances will be discussed. Keep
residents ts far too small for use ants point-of-view have been sum- that date in mind if you would
and ts inadequately supplied with
marily dismissed. Other em- like to give .a group a helping hand,
the basic equipment necessary for ployees who are indifferent to the Contact Frances Gross at Funston
meetings of the tenants.
The tenants requests have been ~e- center for more information at,
Housing Authority claims that warded with salary increases. The 224.9134.
there is not enough money for Director's office refuses to let
H.R. 9054, Final
Blow to Indians
LRS Looses Seven year Secretcry
Felix J. Contr~ras
H.R. 9054. A bill introduced Coalition, a group staunchly op- the tribe shall not be entitled
In our continuing struggle against they played a major roll in susinto the U.S. Congress that ac- posing the legislation, bring up to any of the services performed the CSUF Administration, Chic- taining La Raza Studies. "More
cording to American Indian lea- the point. that the bill also calls . by the United States for Indians anos appear to have lost an imp- students signed up for classes and
ders, "would strike the final, ter- for" ••• the abrogation of all rights because of their status as Indians: ortant symbol and an other ext- they themselves were doing a lot
guaranteed to I all statused of the United States remely valuable person to the of recruiting. There was a lot
minating
blow
to Indians as and protect!o~s
people under those treaties, such which affect Indians because of life of La Raza Studies.
people."
more student involvement then I
on Nov, 18, the program lost have seen the last few yerars,
According to th~ text of the bill, as -tire right to hunt and fish." their status as Indians shall no
From the text of the bill,
·. longer be applicable to the mem- its fulltime secretary of eight up until now."
which is titled the"Native Ameryears, Ms. Angie Cisneros.
ican Equal Opportunity Act," the ''provides tl'lat huntin_g and fish-· bers of the tribe ••• "
Angie believes that the adminiThe Coa1ition points out that
The secretarial position was stration is going to do away with
bill would direct the President ing rights derived by the Indian 1·
"United States Govern- ·reduced to ha}ftime due to the La Raza Studies. "If not, it will
to abrogate all treaties entered . tribe from a treaty shall be ab- . the
into by the United States with rogated; and the members of the I ment agreed to provide for and , cutback of allocated fulltime sec- only be a token thing," she says.
tribe be subject to Federal, State, protect the rights of Indian people retarial positions in the School of
·1ndian tribes ••. "
She also added that the new
Meinb~.rs of the .National Indian and -local laws governing hunting in return for the Indian's agree- Social Science in which LRS exists. general education policy impleand fishing ••• "
ment to cede large portions of
Consequently, Angie was forced mented last year is an indirect
"If Representative.s Cunningham, our land to the United States. H.R. to transfer to another department way by the administration to cut
(Wash.), and Abnor- (South Dakota), 9054 would permit the Federal that culd provide her with full- out La Raza Studies.
the authors of the bill, were really · Government to terminate its part time work. She is currently work"We got hit harder than anybody
interested in equal opportunities of the agreement but would leave tng as a secretary in the Inter- else due to the fact that La Raza
for Indian people/' claim the Co- Indian people in the unfair position national Studies office located in Studies is weak with respect to
alition," -they would begin by em- of having ceded our land fnr nott'n!?. the Joyal Building.
its . lack of tenured teachers snd
bracing the treaties and seeking
"For us to put any kind of faith,
'Angie Cisneros was_ first hired the fact that it is not a departtheir vigorous enforcement_..rather or hope, or prayer, in this bill, in La Raza Studies -in November
ment,'' she commented.
• than proceeding on an opposite or any type of termination -bill," of 1969. She worked there until
Angie feels that a lot of ·former
course of action. It is crystal stressed Banks, "would be as the end of the academic year students who have not lent their
clear, however, that the motivating dangerous as putting our lives when the program was cut from support to the movimiento in recpurpose behind H.R. 9054 has no- and our future, in the hands of five full-time instructors, to one, ent years wouldn't have made 1t
thing to do with equal rights for-- General Armstrong Custer..... in a purge on- minorities charac- without LRS and EOP.
Native Americans, but instead is It is the final act corning down teristic of the administration in
designed to deprive us of our fun- upon us.'
the late sixties and early seven"I wish .t here was some way
damental and inalienable rights."
"But, we will never accept th_is ties.
could instill a need to be inDennis Banks, · leader . of the kind · of termination-we will never
Cisneros was also ,·•swept out volved in more in the students,"
American Indian Movement, also surrender our heritage.
the door" before the the entire she says. ''Nothing can really
is very opposed to the bill.
''If they want to abrogate the program was ter-minated the end happen if we don't push for it
. "'Because of my opposition to treaties of 1868, 1851, -i8i2, anc:1 of the summer of 1970.
to happen. People have to get
involved. Everything in this wo.rld
the bill," state_s Banks, "I've been 1970, then I will be the first one· - The program was reinstated
asked if I'm against equal oppor- to speak up and say "let's abro- in the fa11 of 1970~ but it was is political and that means gettunity-this kind of opportunity I'm gate the treaties, Mr. Whiteman, not until November, -1972 that ting involved.
Angie admits that when sh~
against,"
until I see you backed up to the Angie was rehired in La Raza
From the bill: "After the com- shores of Plymouth Rock. Then Studies. By this time, the pro- first came to CSUF, like many
pletion of this abrogation of the there will be equal opportunity." gram had been built up to 6-7 Chicanos then and now, she was
treaties with an Indian tribe under
teachers which meant that a full- very- unaware of what was happthis act, .• individual members of
time secretary was needed.
ening with Chicanos.
But her first-hand exposure
Las Adelitas, CSUF's then newlyformed
Chicana organization, over tne years to this university's
played a key role in the initial attitudes towards minorities have
apparently had some im~act. This
hiring of Angie.
Las Adelitas frequently helped is evidence l>y her current involvout in the LRS office, but the ements.
She is the vice-president for
ne-wly-insUtuted program needed
a secretary badly. Las Adelitas both the Fresno League of Mexmembers also helped interview ican American Women and the
Mexican-American Political Ass
her for the position.
In additiion
Ethnic Studies, (of which La ociation (MAPA).
to her fulltime job at the InterRaza
Studies
was.
a
part
of
at
KFSN Channel 30 has been management continues to be domi- vide that input in the future.'' _
national Students office, she is
Station manager Walt Liss was the time), had its office in Baker •a fulltime student who plans to
operating without a license since nated by male caucasion."
Hall during 1969-70 academic year.
In the area of programming, not available for comment but
last Thursday because minorities
Angie recalls, ''It was like our graduate this spring with a hachasked the F.ederal Communications the petition said, "Repeatedly, programming manager Lee Jason
own little house.
Blacks and elor's degree in puhlic adminis- ~
Commission (FCC) to deny the members of the MAC have attempt- said the station feels it has a good
Chicanos 1i ved in Baker Hall. tration.
_
.Fresno station's license- renewal ed to introduce cultural and racial record in the area of affirmative
Of her departure from of the
Everything was there.n
.
sensitivity in the program deci- action and minority program ming.
application.
Those first years of mino·rtty Chicano program, Angie said she
The Fresno Media Minority sions made by the station without He said a comment would not be
programs were hot with demon- misses the type of community conAdvisory Committee (MAC) con- , success."
forthcoming.
strations to gain minority's rights. tact she had in La Raza Studies.
The Indian sub-committee cites He said attorneys advised Channel
sisting of blacks, American In"It's like being away from
"I can remember back then, "she
30
not
to
com·meut
on
the
specific
dians, and Chicanos, filed a peti- a failure by station management
says, "one time my grandmother home " she said. "I was · amongst
tion for denial and has staged two to ''follow up on commitments charges made by MAC. Bttt he
called to check up on me, to make what 'you consider family. You
demonstrations in front of _the to have staff cover important meet- said a response to· the charges,
sure I was okay." Angie said don't mind working if its for your
ings or ev~nts."
' will be available to the public
station's offices.
exagerrated radio reports of hap- family and thats what 1 felt.
In general, the committee accus'ed · "in about a month," '
MAC was formed in 1971 when
"I don't know if I'll ever
penings on campus had scared
Capital Cities Broadcasting, Inc. Channel 30 of using the commit- . Jason said the stati9n's records
her grandmother. ••Those were feel that again with any other
bought ' Channel 30. Since then, tees 's· work to provide minority are open to the public.
"We feel the community is well exciting_ times," exclaimed Angie. job.''
MAC has worked to provide mi- input as evidence that the station
Angie believes that community
. nority input · to the station and is suiting the needs of the minor- aware of our programming. It's
involvement
in the Fall of 1970
out in the open.'' he said. "We're
helped develop minority programs. ity community.
was one of the key factors which
At the same time. the petition proud of our record. The Federal
Every three years, companies
saved La Raza Studies. She also ·
which utilize the public airwaves· reads, "the application does not Communications Commission will
added that students were more
must re-apply for a license from include a positive statement as to make a ruling based on that reinvolved back then. She felt that
the government through the FCC~ how the MAC will continue to pro- cord.''
to use the airwaves.
MEChA will sponsor the next
Since the airwaves are "public
·tatewide conference of the Antiproperty'', radio and television
akke Decision on Saturday
stations must shqw it is responding to the needs of the community.
ec. 17, at CSUF. The conference
The Chicano Commencement
The FCC investigates any comLast year, a- logo drawn by Sal- be on the last day of finals, Friday ill begin with registration at
Committee,
of
the
CSUF
Chier.no
vador G'arcia of La Brocha del • May 19th.
plaints.
9:00 a.m., and the assembly at
Faculty, Staff and student organi- 1vane, is featured in today's La
For more information, contact 0:00 a.m. The purpose of the
Dec. l was lhe new licensing
zation
is
sponsoring
its
second
period but Channel 30 must now
Voz. Chicano Commencemet will Tony Garduque at 487_-1021.
conference is to review the preoperate without a license while annual logo contest. The winning
..
ent status of Special Admission,
logo
will
be
printed
on
all
Chicano
the FCC reviews the matter.
ffirmative Action Programs, and
~
·s;.
.
.
MAC particularly attacks the Commencement cards, diplomas,
:t~.
he Bakke case; and plan future
etc
•••
and
will
represent
this
year's
station's affirmative action efforts
strategies of the ABDC, specific~
commencement 0 theme", which is
and its programming. In its petially the February 25th Los Angele
Chicanos in Education.
tion, the committee accused the
tatewide Mobilization. All conTony
Garduque,
a
committee
Ch:,.nnel 30 of requiring high qualierned
groups and individuals arc
member, expressed the corhmitfications of minority job applicants
rged to attend.
·
t~ess'
wished
that
the
logo
sumwhile hiring anglos -who "have no
The
Fresno
ABDC
meets every
prior experience'' in broadcasting bolize the above theme. There
Wednesday at 7:00p.m. at MECh
will
be
a
$25.00
cash
prize
for
but in the words of the manageENTRAL, in the Funston Housment, "they have potential as good the winning logo. The contest .
ng Projects, at 2172 Drexel.
is
open
to
anyone,
with
a
deadcommunicators, or have high
People are needed to assist in
line set for Feb.28, 1978. SubI.Q.'s."
the
organizing of the December 17th
mit your entry to Tony Garduque
Minorities further question em,_
..
onference and other activities
in
the
E.O.P.
office
or
Ernie
ployment practices by the station
of the focal' committee. For more
.....,...,
Martinez in La Raza Studies or
saying a double standard exists
information-, please call 22 4- 9134
·~1·
Manuel
Olguin
in
Tutorial
Serfor minority employees and anglo
.,.~~,•:~~·
or Robert Jaramillo, 225· 4125-vices.
employees. They also said, "top
Dennis Banks
Minorities Challenge
TV Station License
MEChA Sponsors
·ABOC Conference
Graduation Logo ConteSt COmmen_ces
t.~-
~
~.✓.,. -. .
1
Pirito Program Helps
~x- Cons · Enter College
Garduque is the co-chai-rman
The Pinto in a criminology course
of the Northern California Pinto has a lot to give, he can be very
College Program. He is an E.O.I-'- effective in helping develop new
Of the diverse Chi~no slang counselor and coordinator of .the correctional facilities,· as well te,·ff,S that have come into exis- Pinto program at CSUF. He took as tell of his own personal extence there is one that is very the job in 1975 when he was a perience.
familiar in prisons and in ex- secon-year graduate student in
The Pinto Program is planning
offender programs. Thal..,term the School of Social Work here a series of activities the first
is "Pinto", a Pinto by deiinition · at CSUF. CET A was offering a of which, is to sponsor a Prison
is someone who has done hard
position for administrative train- Poetry Symposium at CSUF before
time in a prison or penitenciary. ee. The different programs lob- the end of the year. ''There
"Pinto in Spanish means spotted bied for the position and E.O.-P. are many good Pinto poets." says
i.e., pinto beans; once you've been won it," recalls Garduque. .
Garduque, "there wili be Anglo,
convicted of a feloney and senManuel Perez,
director . of Chicanos and Blacks who want
tenced to do hard time you're
E.O.P., decided to make the. ad- to recite their poetry or have ,
spotted !or llfe," says Tony Gar- ministrative trainee position, a someone recite it for them if they
duque, who ts an EOP counselor
Pinto coordinator, According to cannot possibly attend. The condirecting the Pinto program here Garduque 1 "There were a lot of tent of the poetry tells the probat CSUF.
people who were well qualified, lems and struggles of prison life.''
· The Pinto Collej;e Program at but a B.A. degree was needed
The second activity the program
CSUF came into existence in the which disqualified many of them. is plannl~g a ''Pen Pal project.
Spring of 1972. It is a statewide SomeQrie put in an application
"There are many guys wl)o are
program and belongs to the Asso- for me, Without my knowledge, locked up for several years, many
ciatlon of·Ex-offender Educational and I was offered the job. I of whom don•t have a family and
Programs. At its, inception, the weighed the factors and decided are lonely, most of them are
program dealt oµly with parolees, to take the job because it would dying to communicate with somebut has now qpened its doors to be good experience. ·
one
the · outside,'' says Gardupeople on probation. Garduque .
At present, there are 15 full- que.
states,"The Pinto program, just . time students in the, Pinto proThe third activity is increasing
Pedro Ramirez
like many other e~-offender pro- gram and five applicants being community · outreach. The Pinto ·
In Fresno and San Joaquin
The organization has received
grams, was started by Chicanos.
considered for admission.
program will go out to ·the com mun
·
- Valley, there is nothing like Trez a National Endowement Grant to
To make the name Pinto look offi"The purpose o( the Pinto ity organlzations and agencies .
.
.
•
cial, they made the letters stand
College Program is twofold,''
to tell them about the Pinto College Crez. Trez Crez 1~ a. Chicano expose the Chicano community to
for Parolees In New Training
continues Garduque. "The first Program. "We don't recruit art center where Chicanos from art.
occupation."
· of which is to offer a higher people, we just inform them about - Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley
Future plans consist of a calenThe Pinto program is a part of educational opportunlty for ex- the opportunities for a 9ollege ca~ J?eet and express the ma~y dar depicting the lifes of Chicanos
E.O,P. The rational for this ts offenders. Hopefully, this will be ·education,,, .explains Garduque.
artistic ideas they have. Also 1t living in the San . Joaquin Valley.
that Pintos are considered disviewd as a positive alternative
In past years Pinto's never serves as an art gallery where For
each month, many of La
advantaged students and since the to crime, as well as being an had the opportunity to prove them- Chicanos from all over the country Brocha's artists have drawn up
function of E.O.P. is to ald dis- educationally enriching experi- selves in society beca~se too many can exhibit their works.
.
beautiful symbolic figures. The
advantaged students get into col- ence."
times people would ' shun them
Art Cruz , representative of calendars will go on sale after
lege, it would only make sense
. "The second,'' -according to and not trust them. In employ- Trez Crez says, "this center · is .December "!5th and will sell for
to incorporate the Pinto program Garduque, "is changing the atti- ment and college institutions, they for. all Chicanos, artist or. not.- $4.00 each.
with KO.P. The Pinto student -tude of students on this campus, were turned down because of their We do our work for the ChicallQ
"Right now," says Cruz, 'twe·
has ,to go through the same paperprimarily criminology students. criminal record: which hindered community, so .it belongs to the cannot reallyworkwithelementary
work as the E.O.P. student. The Most criminology classes are their development in society and people as well as the artists." junior high and high school stuStudent Advisor for the Pinto stuone-sided, very little, if anything, ' made them feel unwanted. · Pin-'".,
Trez Crez is also like a store dents because we don't have a
dent, however, is not the same
is taught about the experience tos are showing that downfalls
explains Cruz, "artists can come staff to teach them. Ho'Wever,
as for .the E.o.P. student. Gar- • and point-of-view of the Pinto. sh9uld not stop anyone from . and e~~bit their work and if they Frank Rojas and Sapo of -teatro
duque explains, "The Pinto student · Ma,;iy speakers, and professors who an educatiqn or anything they want, sell their art. We ask for sometimes bring in F-14s to teach
is generally from a different back- ' .speak· on prtsons or prison re- aspire and that people can ac- . a small fee so that we can pay them fundamentals in art; most' of
ground and age bracket in com- . form · are ex-wardens, attorney complish anything if they have our rent. Artist are always invited these kids are from the juvenile
partson to the E.O.P. student and • generals, etc. A Pinto can give · the will.
to show and sell."
·
hall." Right now what is needed
therefore needs specialized coun- an accurate and concise speech
The small center which is located is money, so that we can begin
~ling."
on the Pinto experience .''
on Ventura and Sixth St., lies working with students. He also
between other shops and can be re- invites art beginners to visit the
cognized
by the window that center and learn some new tec-Jk
announges the center:s na.m. En- niques.
tering, you recognize many qf the . Many students from Fresno
familiar posters of Pancho Villa, State including art instructors,
Che Guevara and many other Latino .Ernie Palomino and Francisco
pers~nalities.
The further you Barrfq, helped Cruz get started.
enter the shop, you begin to smell Some students from CSUF include
the scent of terpentine, perhaps Juan Turner, SalvadorGarcia, Lee
used for the silkscreens that are Orona, Tommy Cruz, Cecilia
worked
on by the people who vol- Areinado, Sylvia Figueroa and
the di~trict's representatl ves.
She said that overcoming the
He also said other groups in
Escandon said the third session problems is a "long-term" deal the community have met with him, · unteer for a days work. All you can Teresa Vasquez. ~rom FCC, are
was
also scheduled at Allen'$ and not something that can be at the · groups' requests, to hold see around you is -art, such as Gilbert Lujano or "Magoo" and
ranch.
solved overnight. She feels some ''thorough discussions, explain the posters, ,drawings on canvasses, Sapo.
Trez Crez is an important factor
· Her concern, she sald, ls that of the demands, such as for a mediation process, hear their con- etc.
The center opened·in late June, for Chicano art development. It
if the district's attltude can be bet~er affirmative action plan, are cerns, and discuss the problems
with a boost from three Chicano lets the gente know that there are
measured by this lesser impor- unneccesary because the district in general.-"
tant · issue• then she is doubtful already has them.
He has met with officers and businessmen. Now h is sponsored artists ~epresenting them and in
gives
of trusting them to good faith
"They {protesters) hav~n•t members of the executive board by La Brocha Del Valle and is the best way -possible.
dealings on the more important stopped long enough to realize that of the Coalinga Unified Teacher's completely run by the artist. Cruz the gente a sense of pride because
issues.
we are already in compliance with Association and with the leader- reported to La Voz · tliat . it was the artists • are working for the
However, she had decided to .the law on affirmative action," ship and key members of a_group hard for the shop to stay open gente; the artists main concern
stay on th~ mediation corn mittee she said. Asked to corn ment on calling itself ''Concerned Citi- because the staff is not receiving is representing, •through art, the
so the students back on campus the protestors charges that CUSD
any salary. Cruzalsoadds,6'every gente in whatever mood they may
zens."
will be informed arid feelinvolved. plan is ineffective, she said, ''We
Both groups have · previously .time we ask for money they turn be.
"It's · been quiet lately on . cannot force anyone to eome to expresse<;l their dissatisfaction us down because they feel we are
The center is open from 9:00
campus," she said.
"I! they Coalinga."
with the protesting student's ac: too socialistic or radical; all we a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Bob Cruz
(students) don't feel they're getShe said discrimination does tions..
do is represent the gente, and we invites the public to attend the
ting anything out of the meetings, exi~t, but"there's no way to wipe
beleive in the gente's needs. For meetings
that are held every
the students will feel let down.,,. it out."
this they refuse." However, Cruz second Wednesday of the month.
She said tha-t walking out again
'•'If somebody could figure out
also goes on to say that La Brocha· Also, if anyone would like to donate
would not satisfy the students. a way to stop discrimination, that
is a very young organization and chairs, wood or anything that is
"They would probably do some- person would be a milliona;re,"
could be another reason why they usable, your contribution would be
thing more serious unless I can she said. "I wan! it to stop but
are refused money.
appreciated.
help them understand what we're · discrimination will never go away.
trying to do with the meetings.,, Even anglos face it among themBoard of Trustees president selves."
A "Parent's Night" to acquaint
Mrs. Gay Armstrong is also unShe said the mediation sessions minority students and their parents
certain of the progress.
are going slow because both parties with college lnformatton wm be
'1 think right now we're spinning are first "trying to feel each other held Dec. 13 in Sanger.
To add a new flavor to their
our wheels," she told a reporter out."
Stella Moya, a former C~UF
·
Los Dan~antes de Aztian under performance~ the tlance group is
Friday morning. "I don't think
· How~en said, based on his student presently with the Fresno the instruction of Ernest~ Mar- planning on dancing their Jallsco
we've gotten to anything yet. We've previous experience in mediations, Educational Opportunity Center ttnez, will be giving a major pre- numbers to·the music of Mariachi
listened to more 'I wants' than .'moods of individuals are bound . (FEOC), said the bilingual func- sentation Dec. 17, at 8:00 p.m. de la Tierra. The dance group
anything else.,,
to go up and down• 1 during the tion will offer students the chance in the Roosevelt High School Audi- .wm also be adding new dances to
She thinks the mediations will period that meetings are being to meet personally with college torium.
their repetoire.
need another two or three meet- 1eld.
o!!icials.
•The presentation is very imporAdmission is $1.50 and free
ings, depending on how quickly we
"Parent's Night'' is sponsored tant to Martinez because he wm for anyone under 12. The pre"One moment . you're on the
get to the issues.,,
be partially graded 1n the perform-sentatton is co-sponsored by
town stde and the next vou're on by the Mexican American Youth
Organization (MA YO), of Sanger ance in his effort to obtain his CSUF •'• La Raza Stud1N and the
the bright side~ n he sald;
High School in cooperation' witt second Masters degree. .
Kooaevelt Marimba Band.
· the school and FEOC.
By Arturo. CJcampo .
on
Trez Crez:
El Centro -de.A rte
·Student~; h~pes_rest on talks
It
MAYO Plans
'Parent's Night'
Danzantes To
Perform