La Voz de Aztlan, February 1 1978
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Title
La Voz de Aztlan, February 1 1978
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Associated Students of Fresno State
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La Voz de Aztlan (Daily Collegian, California State University, Fresno)
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Fresno, California
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2/1/1978
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Chihuahua Tortilleria
Inc.
Mexican Cultural Center Moves Ahead
By Dianne Soiis
Chihuahua Tortilleria's proposed cultural center inoved
closer to reality yesterday with
Fresno City Council's 4-2 decision to reconsider a west Fresno
property sale.
,
Both the Chihuahua Tortilleria
and the State Center Community
College District (SCCCD) want
to buy the prop~rty on the northwest corner of Fresno and 'E'
streets.
The SCCCD plan to
build an adult training center on
the site.
The city council, acting as
the Redevelopment Agency, has
referred the matter to the courts
for a decision.
Plans for the $3 million Mexican cultural center include a
restaurant, curio shops, a delicatessen and a self-tour tor-
tilleria factory. The shops will
encircle a garden -plaza.
Chihuahua Tortllleria co-owner
Prank Villegas said Spanishspeaking TV channel 21 and radio
station KGST have expressed an
interest in building studios in
conjunction with the center.
Villegas and his attorney,
Stanton Levy, informed the council the project would genrate
·$WO 000 in tax revenue, pro- -vide ' job opportunities and enhance the community's image of
west Fresno.
Villegas· said Chihuahua Tortilleria has matched SCCCD's
$195,681 offer for the property
and offered to reimburse SCCCD
for their architectural expenses
should the . college district lose
the ease.
Mayor Dan. Whitehurst and
councilman Elvin Bell recom(Continued on p.2)
Chicano Initiative
..
Mechista priorities • -Vo/pp plan,elecfions, IRA
CSUF'S MEChA enters the
spring semester ~ plans to
take the initiative on issues pertaining to minorities.
President Juan Mendoza said
' Chicano priorities include academic
vice-president Louis
Volpp's re-organization plan, the
upcoming student elections and
recruitment.
Another issue which MEChA
had become involved last semester was the Instructionally Related Activities contra'Ct controversy.
However, the recent
action by the CSUC Board of
Trustees to raise student fees
on behalf of IRA funding dilutes
the issue somewhat.
"We'll wait to see how Ba2Cter and the Senate react now,"
said Mendoza.
Mendoza offered some comments to La Voz on the eve
of MEChA 's first meeting of the
semester last Thursday. The
nine- year- old organization
meets every Thursday at 12: 30
in the upstairs cafeteria.
"We have to keep an eye on
the administration regarding the
reorganization plap," said Mendoza. "MEChA will have to take
• the initiative if La Raza Studies
gets in danger.,,
The term "reorganization"
has been used by the administration recently in efforts to face
budget cuts as a result of declining enrollment.
One suggestion submitted calls for an
"interdisciplinary school" which
would e_!!lbody certain university
academic programs such as La
Raza Studies.
LRS and MEChA feel such a a
move would be contrary to the
intent of the program and would
violate the university's commitment to improving higher education as it regards Chicanos.
MEChistas would like to see LRS1
departmentalized. In the spring
of 1975, minorities occupied Baxter's office for 5 days and 5
nights to demonstrate their concern for the program.
"La Raza Studies' importance
is hard to put into words," saiq
Mendoza. "It's like having a
second job. The administration
can't just do anything it wants
with it."
Mendoza said MEChA will also
·pay
1 " an im~r
.
t an t ~o 1e " m
. the
student elections comrng up. He
-said one of the organization's
heavier concerns has been in student government.
Ihr.hel Mendoza,, an · unsuccessful candidate last year but
an active student this· year, re, no involvement
Presented Chica
1-ast semester.
Native American-Indian Issue
Spurs-Cross-Country March
Native Americans across the
United States are joining together for a march that·will start
Feb.· 11 in Sacramento and end
in the Nation's capitol.
The March, dubbed, The
Longest Walk"- by its organizers is to focus national attention on the American Indian
Movement's opposition to antiIndian legislation in the U.S.
Congress.
California supporters will gather for a morning pipe cere11
mony on Alcatraz Island caravaning to Sacramento where a
2 o'clock p.m. rally will launch
the journey.
Dur{ng the Walk, which will
go through the middle of the
United States, workshops wm
be held at · ·-select Iocation5
dealing with the legislation.
Many people, Indians and nonIndians alike, are expec · to
join the march at many points
along its path.
Dennis Banlcs, AIM leader, _
,:==Historic UFW Boycotts' En
The boycott that made national waves and caused millions ,
of Americans to stop eating
grapes, lettuce and drinking Gallo
wine has come to an end.
At least that is the word from
Cesar Chavez whose United
-Farmworkers Union used the
boycott as a tool that at first
gained the union recognition from
stubborn growers, then began
to win the union some contracts,
and ultimately help establish the
first Agricultural Labor Relations Law in the state.
Chavez announced the end of
the boycott Tuesday morning
after the UFW Executive Board
voted to end the boycotts of
non-UFW table grapes, head or
iceberg lettuce and Gallo wines
'' in the spirit of cautious optimism,"
"She kept us informed on
everything coming down in with
the senate ," said Mendoza.
"With her, we kept on top of
the Senate. We dido 't Intend to
let anything go by."
Overall Mendoza felt MEChA
'
made several
significant accornContinued on Page 2
- But Cesar said the economic
boycott would not be put to rest.
"the farmworker boycott will
now be focused on the labels of
growers who refuse to negotiate
in good faith even after their
workers vote for the UFW in
secret ballot elections," he said.
The boycott became the muscle
of the union in the l960's and
later the inspiration of the Chicano movement as farmworkers
rose up against the powerful ,
agri-business interests that had
successfully, and quite often violently, squashed farmworker
union effarts in the past 100 years.
In addition to joining picket
lines at s_tores throughout the
nation, students brought the boycott to the university campuses.
At CSUF, union supporters were
instrumental in getting the uni-
versity to purchase union label ··
products, particularly lettuce,
and in boycotting the food services when the ' university did
not oblige.
The boycotts were successful
in bringing the likes of the Dlgiorgios (grapes), the Gallos
(wine), the Salinas lettuce growers and their compliant judges
who issued injunctions that broke
some UFW strikes, and the
Teamsters to their knees. From
there, the labor relation Ia.w
developed and grew, guaranteeing
farms the right to union elections.
.
The UFW signed more than
100 contracts with growers since
the ALRA began in the fall of
1975, said Chavez. This attributed .to ·union's decision to call
off the boycotts.
will lead the march only to the
California/Nevada line because
an extradition controversy pending. (GOV. Brown has refused
to extradite him to South Dakota,
which seeks to prosecute Banlcs.)
From there, Vern Bellecourt,
National Director on charge of
. international affairs, will lead
the march.
Supplies -are -urgently needed
to assist those marchingtoreaeh
their Washington, DC. goal by
mid-July. Donations are being
accepted at "Longest Walk" coordinating center, located atD-Q
University, P.O. Box·409, Davis,
CA 95616 (916) 758-0470 ext. 46.
EOP
Forms Due
Applications are now being ac:..
cepted
for the Educatio?al
opportunity Program at Callfornia State University in the Fall
1978 semester.
Students interested in learning
more about the Educational
Opportunity Program are encouraged to contact the EOP
office in the Joyal Administration
Building on North Maple Avenue,
487-1021-
PAGE 2
!Comelltari
Trustees· :
Empty Words?
The La Voz staff must take its turn in commenting on Ia.st
week's action by the California Sta.te University and Colleges
Board of Trustees.
In their regular meeting in Long Beach last week, the trustees
demonstrated their support for student a!firmative action by adopting a resolution to try and increase the enrollment of Chicano
students in the system's colleges.
It hopes to do this by creating recruitment programs for the
bilingual-bicultural teacher programs in the colleges, with the
idea that teachers who relate to Chicanos wm be able to encourage
more of them to enter the college.
The action centers specifically on Chicanos because we are
the most underrepresented ethnic group in the system. CSUC
officials have said, however, that they intend to eventually in
crease the enrollment of all underrepresented minority groups.
Of course, for years . Chicanos and other minorities have
maintained that we were being ignored by the universities, that
the university was doing little more than it bad to help open the
doors of opportunity for us. Any real efforts we've made on '?ur
own through programs such as La Raza Studies t Ethnic studies,
EOP, MEChA, etc.
Even with those programs, we have been caught up in constant
battles to keep them strong •..•every semester we have to justify
to somebody why we should exist.
The trustees are saying, ''yes, ••• we must address this problem and overcome it, instead of fighting each other." They e
saying.• .''you guys are for real.
You are there, we recognize
that problems exist, and that your point is well taken."
The years of "battling'', of demonstrating, of frustrating
meetings have. . • if only for a moment ..• brought some sort
of a victory. ·
We commend the Raza on the chancellor's staff for i.t s achievements in this matter. The Chicano movement rings up welcome
plus in this age of Bakke-ism.
But the victory must be taken cautiously ••• for this is not
the first time . we have been told " good things" only to have the
rhetoric turn out to be cruel, empty words. We must understand
that the university still has a long way to go. For all we know,
the trustee's action is more for its economics than for its social
value. If they can get more of us. •.. they get more enrollment,
more FTE .. • and more dollars.
But that would be defeatist for us to feel that way. Instead,
we welcome the trustee's committment and hope that realities
will henceforth truly be dealt with.
a
La Voz de Aztlan Staff •
Immediate student action is
needed to prevent several La
Raza Studies classes from being
dropped. The classes are lacking a sufficient Full Time_Enrollment (FTE) to keep the
courses alive. La Raza Studies
faculty urges students to enroll
in one -or more of the classes.
The classes are: Chicano
Politics; Chicano Directed Writ•
ing; Pre-Hispanic Civilization;
Folklore of Mexico and the Southwest; Discrimination and Pover-
From SENTIMIENTOS: " ••• through
this conference, MEChA at CSUF strives
to familiarize younger Chicano students
with the college. For five years, N,IEChA
students at CSUF have made efforts to
provide the opportunity to CYC participants ••• "
La Voz de Aztlan would like to congratulate all involved in the organization
of the Chicano Youth Conference.
A reportar for La Voz, i, on assignment
The Third World Coalition
gr oup welcomes you back to
school and wi shes that all you .
brothers and sisters who are.
of high principles and desires
join us~ We are a group formed
towards reality. He added that
many people felt Chicanos c-nuU
not finance a $3 million pr0J9Cf.
''But ' We· made people say 'Si,
Se puede'-•lt can be done.'!
The entrepreneur was quick to
emphasize that the proposed
tourist attraction was a community service. "We' re doing this
without losing mtr haart and our·
head to the community,'' he said.
of minorities and women on campus that see the resources needed
for our growth diminishing. A
group that is against institutional
racism at CSUF and one who
beli ~ves that equal education
shouM be made available to all,
not only to professional disciples
of Skinner psychology,, Cami
have fun, enjoy lengthy and open
discussions on what is happening
to the sur vival .ofhumandecency,
Our meetings are held eve ry
Monday at 5:00 p.m. in the Student Union. Together we will
never be undermined.
Bakke Decision Due In Spring,
Magazine
Ready·
mended a thumbs-down decision
on the reconsideration, echo \ 7
assistant city attorney Jame;
McKelvey's opinion that the cityr
had a legal committment to the
district.
Villegas was optimistic that
community support, particularly
'flmong the Latino population
ould spur the business project
at the CYC, was asking s tudents who
attended, what they thought of the conference. Our conclusion echoes theirs:
"• •• Those kids who came here for
a .,free ride' aren't stoppi ng us from
getting something O!}t of this. From
rapping to other people, I think th at the
people who c~me here to get som ething
out of this are getting is ••• ,,
In our eyes, that is succes s .
Third World .. Not Jusf Skin ners
1st. CSUF
Chicano
Continued from Page l
ty; Mental Health and Chicanos;
and Chicano Theatre.
For more information contact
La Raza Studies located in 8an
Ramon #4, Room 116-118. Phone
487-2848.
Your urgent coope~tion is
needed.
CYC ·c ommittee iA Toda -Madre!
by Stan Santos
Co1111cil reconsiders cultural center
...
Don't -Let La- Raza Down·
·
The Anti . Bakke Decision
Coalition calls on students,
teachers, University workers
and membe rs of the comrnui1 ·•
ity to continue to organize
against the Bakke Decision,
When the Supreme Court ~ands
down 1-~s ruling this Spring,
it may destroy Specia:. Adm i. ss1::>n'3, AfL _rm:Jti,.r;1 Actil)•l a t:i
,,l.'. 1~r :l;~ -~-:;-: a::/ ;)r~gra1n<.> f Jr
bettering the futures of minorities and women.
ABDC members feel everyone
will suffer from the effects of
F_rank Villegas, who has lent much support to
Chicano causes ~ver th_e ye?rs, is f_ighting City
Hall to expand his torttflerio business and ·
build a cultural center on contested fond.
osl
LA VOZ de AZTLAN
this case. Ironically, those who
will suffer the most are those
who are the least aware of it ..
Tjley are the Blacks and Chicanos
families whb live in the crowded
"Tortilla
Flats" or Funston
Housing Projects; th~y 1re thJ ~
women who pass hal( of their
Ii ves standing in line at the
Fresno County Welfare Departmant; they are the campesinos ,
who work the fields · and live
shorter lives so that people can
be fed. Finally, those who will
suffer will be the children of
all these people, who hope to
break the cycle, and become·
doctors, lawy{;l"S or- profession-als in other areas.
·
efforts. The ABDC will meet
on Thursday, Feb. 2 at the
Sunset Comm unity Center,
1345 W. Eden. For information
call 224-5677, or 439-0215.
MEChA Priorilie
-Set Forth
Continued from Page l
pltshments last semester.
MEChA was mainly respon•
sible for the establishment of
the Third World Coalition.
"Chicano students sought out
Black . students, Iranian students
and Native Ame ricans _to get
In coming weeks, the ABDC
together, n he said.
will go before local governing
"All of us wer e having our own
bodies such as the City Counlittle battles. We said instead
. cil, and County Board of Super of having thes e little . battles,
visors to request a resolution
let's get togethe r and move to•
against the Bakke Decision
gether •.,
and in favor or Affirmative~
The unity of minority students
Action programs for minoriwas exercised at a demonstra•
ties and women. On Monday,
tion on campus last December,
Feb. · 27, a forum will be held
Over
100 Native-American,
at the Sunset Community CenYBlacks, Iranians and Chicanos
ter for the purpose of informmarched- in solidarity through the
ing the community of the imThomas Administration Building,
plications of the Bakke deciwhere President Norman Baxter
sion. In addition to the paneland Volpp's offices are located,
ists who will give their pers1 'We
got a lot of good re•
pectives of the effects of the
sponse not only from people joinDecision, ther~ wlll be a culing us in the demonstration but
tural presentation and slUe
from observers who sent word
show. Students and concerned indi- that Baxter and Volpp were caught
off guard and were frightened. "
viduals should join in these
SENTIMIENTOS Del Valle, the
first Chicano creativity magazine
produced by CSUF students, made
jitS debut at the MEC ttA Chicano
Youth Conference last month.
Copies are still a vaila.ble ln
La Raza Studies, EOP, and the
Daily Collegian. Staff members
have begun plans for the next
issue scheduled for May, 1978.
LA VOZ DE AZTLAN STAFF
Any persons interested in jolll• _
ing the staff may attend meetings
Editor
. . • . • . • • • . . • • . . • • • • • Feli~ J. Cgntreras
on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the·· .
Assistant Editor
. • . • • • •.•.•.••••••.••• Elvia Ruiz
Dean's conference room, 1:>an
Reporters. • • • • . . . . . • • • Arturo Ocampo, Pedro Ramirez
Ramon 4, Room 220, above La
Stan santos, Dianne Solis
Raza Studies.
Photographer • . . . • • • . .•.•••••••••••.•.• Stan Santos
The staff is also seeking fiContributors . . . . •.••.•••..•• Rudy Gallardo, Celia Ponce
na.ndil donations for the magaGeorge Verdugo
zine.
For more information,
Spiritual Advisor
. . . . • • • • • • . . . . • . . . . • . . Ometeotl
call 487-?848 or 875-3314.
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LA VOZ de AZTLAN
FEBRUARY 1 , 1978
PAGE 3
MEChA's 5th CYC
May Be The Best Yet
by Elvia Ruiz
The 19"78 Chicano Youth Conference has proved to be one of
the best ever held, according
to some CYC committee members.
Juan Ocampo, general cochairperson of the conference,
stated this year's CYC attracted
an estimated 1,400 students from
throughout Califo!nia.
11
We had sludents com1ng from
said.
as far as East Los Angles, San · MEChA president Juan M,~ndoza
Jose .and Salinas Valley as well
attributed the success of the
as from the entire San Joaquin
conference to the skillful preValley,'' he said.
paration and organization of the
According to Ocampo, the
CYC committee,
number o! participants, along
"The CYC committee did a
with the ~ariety of generalnterest
hell of a job," he said. "They
and career workshops and guest
made our CSUF conference one
speakers, m2dc the conference
of the best around,'' he added.
a success~
Mendoza said the students
"The workshops were very
were very much .interested in
well-received especially since
the workshops and that partisome of them (workshops) were
cipating counselors were impacked with students," Ocampo
pressed with the conference.
Jesus Sepulveda, three-year
CYC veteran, agreed the conference was well-received by all
who attended.
"The students I_ spoke to
said they were very interested
in the conference and were glad
to be given the opportunity to
participate," he said.
According to Sepulveda, the
conference was successful bep
cause as a ·result many students
became interested in continuing
their education.
''We had 100 junior and senior
high school students ask for EOP
CYC Committee · member Priscilla Contreros
application materials. An addihelped make signs a few nights before the contional 30 students asked to be
ference.
put on lists to have this material
sitively towards the CYC,
sent to them. This proves we
workshops was a major improve:
"T,~e students I spoke with
succeeded in doing our job,''
ment. Re~tration was quicker,
said
the:' re3lly enjoyed the conhe said.
also,,, she said.
ference. One person I talked
CYC committee secretary Maria
to said the CYC helped her make
Correa estimated between 42
Correa, a high school participant .
and 45 high schools participated
her decision about continuing her
last year, stated there was much
in the CYC, along with a . few _ education," Correa said. ''This
improvement in the CYC this
junior colleges., She said the
is what makes the conference
year.
conference was successful .in
successful, knowing some of the
"I saw a lot of improvement
reaching a wide area of students
students decide to continue their
ln this year's conferenceo The
and these students responded poeducation," she added.
mandatory attendance for the
The CYC school exhthits gave parti~ipants
a. chance to see the many aspects of cot lege
I,fe.
Nearly 1,400 students watched El Teatro perform at
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LA VOZ de AZTLAN
FEBRUARY 1, 1978
Five Join LRS
,
by Arturo qcampo
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Than Music
by Felix .T, Contreras
important a part clues
music play in the struggles of
people to ove1:comethoiroppression? Let's investig·ate.
Going har·k through U.S. hist~l'Y ~ 1we heard African slaves
srngrnt; songs from •their home.
To them, song · was a way to
ease the paln
the shackles
bolted on_ them by the dreaded
white man. Son·g also was the
escape the American born decencfents of once-nohle Africans used
to take their mind off the heat
of the field, or the fierce cold
of their one room shack on the
plantation. Sunday church singing
was the thing that brought the
people together and united them
in spirit.
Much later, in the days when
Rev. King was leading the fight
for civil rights, music is what
brought the mack man together.
Rev. King was of the church,
and wh::it do you do in church?
You sing, man do we sing.
What ahout music and· contempora l'Y struggh•!-.,.
1I0w
of
Foreign struggles are chronil-1eu
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lJJU..-:,.t\. •
vu~ llldt., '"''--'"""•-- ..;
to mind is in the ghetto streets
of Trenchtown, . Jamaica, where
the mack man is ag::iin fighting
fol' survival on the poverty stricken side of that beautiful island.
While
insensitive lily-whites
soak in the beaches, the real
Jamaicans rot away in Trenchtown, fighting for existence with
t the flerceness of their music's>
A3k anyone who was there, la
musica was at the hillside fires
when Villa's and .Zapata's men
were resting up for another bat'. it ' against the hated federales.
: The campesino has hrought his
music with him to the fields and
campitos that serve this nation's.
agricultural center::.. To them,
el corrido is a way to take his
mind off of el pinche sol that
is burning his stooped back. or
the fierce cold that is piercing
his shack in tne labor camp
(plantation). Through the bolero,
he can tell his woman how much
he appreciates her being by his
side by singing her love songs
that
praise her beauty and
strength.
And what do we have here?
Salsa!!! Where diditcomefrom'?
Where it came from is an
entirely different
srory, ous
where it was at is easy enough.
Salsa has been here for years.
Ask· Tito, he'll tell you, he was
there.
Salsa is in the sonJs of those
who are 'SUFving the gnetto world
of Spanish Harlem, ancf other
ghettos of N:YC. To many, it
is a way to forget that the rent
is due tommorrow, pero, no hay
dinero pa ' manana. It's also
at the -party they threw -for
Rosita when she was the nrst
one in her family to graduate
fr.om high school!
Man, they
almost wore t)lat Gran' Combo
alhum out that night-baila, baila,
mas baila!
Hey, everyhod}' likes to dance,
sing or even hum. Music, to just
about everybody plays some part
of their life. providing an outlet
r
(reggae) p1Usat11,ir lleat. Ht!gg.,e
also illustrates the dread-locked
citizens' love for their chosen
messiah, J:tll', thanks to people
like Boh )larley.
for their joys and sorrows. Now,
Nowadays, Chicanos show up at
I hope you understand that it
,fances with their best threads on,
helps us all in our struggles,
t'eady to pick up (or he picked _ and through it we can share that
up), dance and enjoy, or get
load.
'fuuuC'ked up'.
~lusic is for
''Get up, stand up
1 1ving a good time • .
stand up for your rights.
But i! you think about it,music
Get up stand up
\Va::i l1Clu. , 1U lll'11J .\
~ u~·... ,--don't give up the fight"
the Chicano has gone through.
L Bob Marley
\. I •
.. _ . ..... -
..
L-a Raza Studies started the
Spring 1978 semester wU 1hi:
addition of five new parttime
faculty members.
Andres Segura, who has taught
two, classes here last spring,
is teaching classes on pre-hispanic civilization, folklore of
the southwest, and folk medicine
of medicine (curar;i.r!erismo).
in order to help themselves and
others."
Teaching Baste Writing (LR 10)
is newly arrived Juan Arambula.
Juan received his a.A. in English
and Spanish literature at Harvard
College. In 1977 he received bis
Masters in Administration and
Policy Analyses at Stanford, and
hopes to attend law school in the
near future. Talking about his
basic writing class, Arambula
said, "In general, if people expect
to get ahead, in whatever they are
doing, they should be able to ex-
press thems8lves .•. to be able
to argue their case, in whatever
area or field or work they
choose."
A La Raza Studies course in
Poverty and Discrimination is
being taught by Luis Contreras
a 1975 gradutae of CSUF. Contreras holds a B.A. in Social
Welfare.
Bilingual Education is being
ta.ught by Gloria Watts, another
addition to the La Raza· Studies
faculty. ,
Segura, who has dedicated his
life to ''la danza", speaks well
of the Fresno area, "Siempre
me siento bien en Fresno. Es
una ciudad agricola y la agricola es la base, mi familia,
aunque yo naci en la ciudad, es
del campo.'' (I always feel comfortable in Fresno. Fresno is
an agricultural city, and agriculture is tne t_oundation, its tfie
base. My family, although I was
born in the city, are from the
fields.")
Another parttime instructor
for La Raza Studies is Irene
Lopez-Aparicio. Irene teaches
Chicano health care, La Raza
A reception Tuesday, Feb. 14 last from 6-9 o'clock pm an.:.
117. Aparicio, who has a B.A.
will kick off ''Corazon De will Include music, poetry readIN RECREATION . ADMINISTR
Aztlan", another Chicano art Ing and a performace by Teatro
also works at Fresno Community
Show featuring the works of La Espiritu, the CSUF Chicano
Hospital as a recreation theraBrocha Del Valle artists.
theatre troupe. The poetry read~
pist in the mental health wards.
La Brocha is the only Chicana- ings will be conducted by three
She is also a licensed psych!Chicano artists organization in local writers including Rudy
atr_ic technician~
the central $an Joaquin Valley. Gallardo, a former CSUF literaAparicio feels 11 Chicanosaren't
"Corazon De Aztlan" will be ture professor.Community people
into
recreation · that much.
on exhibit through March 5 at are invited to attend this recepPeople should reconize that recTres cres, La Brocha's store tion and enjoy a cup of chocoreation is very important for
'located at 3639 Ventura st. in late mexicano and pan mexicano,
physical and mental well-being."
Fresno. The show will include (mexican sweet breaq)_.
Commenting on LaRazaStudies
sculpture, paintings, and other · _ Corazon De A·z tlan is the
here at CSUF, Aparicio feels
WQrks · of Brocha members, in- first major show since "Sabor
that ''Through the La Raza Stueluding well-known veteran art- of Fresno", which was publicly
dies program Chi~nos and · ists Ernie Palomino and Francico exhibited in December 1976. AdAnglos can gain a sense of idenBarrios. The two teach in the mission to the upcoming show is
·tidy and appreciate their culCSUF ArfDepartment.
free.
Gallery hours will be
ture. Also learn to work effecThe Feb. 14 reception will announced later.
tively in the dominant culture .,___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___.
La Brocha
Art Show
I
Baby Ku Klux Klanners Get
Help From Bigoted Elders
H_igh school _Ku Klux Klan
members have claimed respm1•• .
sibaity for · baseball bat attacks
on homosexuals, and a weries of
cros burnings, the Oklahoma City
Times reported Wednesday.
The newspap{l_r said klaverns
have been organized in at least
two
metropolitan - area high
schools, with homosexuals and
''special favors" to blacks as
the primary targets.
''The only people we won't
let in are girls, blacks, jews
or dope smokers and e might
consider C~tholics if the time
comes,'' a 16-year-old Putnam
City High School student said.
The newspaper said the Putnam
City group had a roster of 52
and estimates of .l)'lembership
in a Bethany, Okla. Klan ranged
from 60 to 80.
''We are standing up for what
we think is right, even il other
people don't think we are doing
the right thing," a Putnam City
member said. "We are not just
against blacks like the old llan,
but we are against gays and the
clubs that support them, and are
going to ry and shut them down
because this activity is
because this activity is morally
and socially wrong."
Students said formal meetings,
where card-carrying members
wear full robes and hoods, are
held near CouµciJ. Road in northwest Oklahoma Ctiy.
one member said the high
school grops had received information and instruction sheets
from the knights of the Ju Klux
Klan, "even on making the robes
and hats."
· "There is a brief ritual there
and ten it is basically like e:veryoen thinks." a Putnam City member daod. "The leader gets up
and lia.ngs the cross as we circle
it and then stands up on a p.iatform or tbe back ot a pickup
.Que
Another media venture dealing with Latinos but still basically run by non-Latinos has hit
the airwaves with ''Que Pasa,
America?''.
The Public Broadcasting Service PBS) announced in a press
release issued last month, the
premier of a half-hour comedy
program to be aired for 18 weeks,
starting last Jan. 1.
" 'Que Pasa, USA?' explores
the trials and tribulations faced
by the Penas in Miami as they
struggle to cope with anewcountry and a new language, just as
many immigrants did before
and gives a little speech before
talking about what our next project or raid will be.''
Pasa?
them,,,.-states the release.
The situations deal with a
Cuban family in Miami's Little
Havana section.
The series is supposed to be
bilingual with what was termed
''Spanglish'': the combination of
both English and Spanish in the
episodes.
La Voz encourages readers
who tune in to the show to send
. us their opinions of the show.
Send them to La Voz in care
.of tha Collegian here at CSUF
or the La -Raza Studies offices
in San Ramon 4, Room 116-118.
Literature ··Award Offered
BERKELEY-Tonatiuh International, Inc., announces for 1978
the PREMIO TONATIUH-Quinto
SOL awards for literature by
Chicano authors Ii ving in the
United States, and for Mexican
authors living in Mexico.
One winner form each of the
two nations will receive a OneThousand Dollar ($1,000) cash
award, and travel, by air, to
San Francisco, California to participate
in the awards ceremonies.
All entries submitted for 1978
must be typewritten, doublespaced, with a minimum of 150
pages, in English, Spanish, or
both languages combined.
Entries may consist of a novel,
collection of short stories, or
experimental writing. All must
be original, the authors own work,
and previously unpublished.
Deadline for submitting entries
is June 31, 1978. The announcement of the awards will be made
August 31, 1978. Each of the
two winning entries will be pul:>lished and distributed by TONATIUH
INTERNATIONAL
and_
QtJINTO SOL PUBLICATIONS.
!11 auu1uuu ~u u11::i
awaru UI,l)J.,UUU
(US), the winning authors will
receive a minimum of 10% rovalties.
·
For complete information,
contact:
Octavio I. Rornano-V., PhD, Senior Editor
PREMIO TONATIUH-Quinto SOL
2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite #1106
Berkeley, California USA
Inc.
Mexican Cultural Center Moves Ahead
By Dianne Soiis
Chihuahua Tortilleria's proposed cultural center inoved
closer to reality yesterday with
Fresno City Council's 4-2 decision to reconsider a west Fresno
property sale.
,
Both the Chihuahua Tortilleria
and the State Center Community
College District (SCCCD) want
to buy the prop~rty on the northwest corner of Fresno and 'E'
streets.
The SCCCD plan to
build an adult training center on
the site.
The city council, acting as
the Redevelopment Agency, has
referred the matter to the courts
for a decision.
Plans for the $3 million Mexican cultural center include a
restaurant, curio shops, a delicatessen and a self-tour tor-
tilleria factory. The shops will
encircle a garden -plaza.
Chihuahua Tortllleria co-owner
Prank Villegas said Spanishspeaking TV channel 21 and radio
station KGST have expressed an
interest in building studios in
conjunction with the center.
Villegas and his attorney,
Stanton Levy, informed the council the project would genrate
·$WO 000 in tax revenue, pro- -vide ' job opportunities and enhance the community's image of
west Fresno.
Villegas· said Chihuahua Tortilleria has matched SCCCD's
$195,681 offer for the property
and offered to reimburse SCCCD
for their architectural expenses
should the . college district lose
the ease.
Mayor Dan. Whitehurst and
councilman Elvin Bell recom(Continued on p.2)
Chicano Initiative
..
Mechista priorities • -Vo/pp plan,elecfions, IRA
CSUF'S MEChA enters the
spring semester ~ plans to
take the initiative on issues pertaining to minorities.
President Juan Mendoza said
' Chicano priorities include academic
vice-president Louis
Volpp's re-organization plan, the
upcoming student elections and
recruitment.
Another issue which MEChA
had become involved last semester was the Instructionally Related Activities contra'Ct controversy.
However, the recent
action by the CSUC Board of
Trustees to raise student fees
on behalf of IRA funding dilutes
the issue somewhat.
"We'll wait to see how Ba2Cter and the Senate react now,"
said Mendoza.
Mendoza offered some comments to La Voz on the eve
of MEChA 's first meeting of the
semester last Thursday. The
nine- year- old organization
meets every Thursday at 12: 30
in the upstairs cafeteria.
"We have to keep an eye on
the administration regarding the
reorganization plap," said Mendoza. "MEChA will have to take
• the initiative if La Raza Studies
gets in danger.,,
The term "reorganization"
has been used by the administration recently in efforts to face
budget cuts as a result of declining enrollment.
One suggestion submitted calls for an
"interdisciplinary school" which
would e_!!lbody certain university
academic programs such as La
Raza Studies.
LRS and MEChA feel such a a
move would be contrary to the
intent of the program and would
violate the university's commitment to improving higher education as it regards Chicanos.
MEChistas would like to see LRS1
departmentalized. In the spring
of 1975, minorities occupied Baxter's office for 5 days and 5
nights to demonstrate their concern for the program.
"La Raza Studies' importance
is hard to put into words," saiq
Mendoza. "It's like having a
second job. The administration
can't just do anything it wants
with it."
Mendoza said MEChA will also
·pay
1 " an im~r
.
t an t ~o 1e " m
. the
student elections comrng up. He
-said one of the organization's
heavier concerns has been in student government.
Ihr.hel Mendoza,, an · unsuccessful candidate last year but
an active student this· year, re, no involvement
Presented Chica
1-ast semester.
Native American-Indian Issue
Spurs-Cross-Country March
Native Americans across the
United States are joining together for a march that·will start
Feb.· 11 in Sacramento and end
in the Nation's capitol.
The March, dubbed, The
Longest Walk"- by its organizers is to focus national attention on the American Indian
Movement's opposition to antiIndian legislation in the U.S.
Congress.
California supporters will gather for a morning pipe cere11
mony on Alcatraz Island caravaning to Sacramento where a
2 o'clock p.m. rally will launch
the journey.
Dur{ng the Walk, which will
go through the middle of the
United States, workshops wm
be held at · ·-select Iocation5
dealing with the legislation.
Many people, Indians and nonIndians alike, are expec · to
join the march at many points
along its path.
Dennis Banlcs, AIM leader, _
,:==Historic UFW Boycotts' En
The boycott that made national waves and caused millions ,
of Americans to stop eating
grapes, lettuce and drinking Gallo
wine has come to an end.
At least that is the word from
Cesar Chavez whose United
-Farmworkers Union used the
boycott as a tool that at first
gained the union recognition from
stubborn growers, then began
to win the union some contracts,
and ultimately help establish the
first Agricultural Labor Relations Law in the state.
Chavez announced the end of
the boycott Tuesday morning
after the UFW Executive Board
voted to end the boycotts of
non-UFW table grapes, head or
iceberg lettuce and Gallo wines
'' in the spirit of cautious optimism,"
"She kept us informed on
everything coming down in with
the senate ," said Mendoza.
"With her, we kept on top of
the Senate. We dido 't Intend to
let anything go by."
Overall Mendoza felt MEChA
'
made several
significant accornContinued on Page 2
- But Cesar said the economic
boycott would not be put to rest.
"the farmworker boycott will
now be focused on the labels of
growers who refuse to negotiate
in good faith even after their
workers vote for the UFW in
secret ballot elections," he said.
The boycott became the muscle
of the union in the l960's and
later the inspiration of the Chicano movement as farmworkers
rose up against the powerful ,
agri-business interests that had
successfully, and quite often violently, squashed farmworker
union effarts in the past 100 years.
In addition to joining picket
lines at s_tores throughout the
nation, students brought the boycott to the university campuses.
At CSUF, union supporters were
instrumental in getting the uni-
versity to purchase union label ··
products, particularly lettuce,
and in boycotting the food services when the ' university did
not oblige.
The boycotts were successful
in bringing the likes of the Dlgiorgios (grapes), the Gallos
(wine), the Salinas lettuce growers and their compliant judges
who issued injunctions that broke
some UFW strikes, and the
Teamsters to their knees. From
there, the labor relation Ia.w
developed and grew, guaranteeing
farms the right to union elections.
.
The UFW signed more than
100 contracts with growers since
the ALRA began in the fall of
1975, said Chavez. This attributed .to ·union's decision to call
off the boycotts.
will lead the march only to the
California/Nevada line because
an extradition controversy pending. (GOV. Brown has refused
to extradite him to South Dakota,
which seeks to prosecute Banlcs.)
From there, Vern Bellecourt,
National Director on charge of
. international affairs, will lead
the march.
Supplies -are -urgently needed
to assist those marchingtoreaeh
their Washington, DC. goal by
mid-July. Donations are being
accepted at "Longest Walk" coordinating center, located atD-Q
University, P.O. Box·409, Davis,
CA 95616 (916) 758-0470 ext. 46.
EOP
Forms Due
Applications are now being ac:..
cepted
for the Educatio?al
opportunity Program at Callfornia State University in the Fall
1978 semester.
Students interested in learning
more about the Educational
Opportunity Program are encouraged to contact the EOP
office in the Joyal Administration
Building on North Maple Avenue,
487-1021-
PAGE 2
!Comelltari
Trustees· :
Empty Words?
The La Voz staff must take its turn in commenting on Ia.st
week's action by the California Sta.te University and Colleges
Board of Trustees.
In their regular meeting in Long Beach last week, the trustees
demonstrated their support for student a!firmative action by adopting a resolution to try and increase the enrollment of Chicano
students in the system's colleges.
It hopes to do this by creating recruitment programs for the
bilingual-bicultural teacher programs in the colleges, with the
idea that teachers who relate to Chicanos wm be able to encourage
more of them to enter the college.
The action centers specifically on Chicanos because we are
the most underrepresented ethnic group in the system. CSUC
officials have said, however, that they intend to eventually in
crease the enrollment of all underrepresented minority groups.
Of course, for years . Chicanos and other minorities have
maintained that we were being ignored by the universities, that
the university was doing little more than it bad to help open the
doors of opportunity for us. Any real efforts we've made on '?ur
own through programs such as La Raza Studies t Ethnic studies,
EOP, MEChA, etc.
Even with those programs, we have been caught up in constant
battles to keep them strong •..•every semester we have to justify
to somebody why we should exist.
The trustees are saying, ''yes, ••• we must address this problem and overcome it, instead of fighting each other." They e
saying.• .''you guys are for real.
You are there, we recognize
that problems exist, and that your point is well taken."
The years of "battling'', of demonstrating, of frustrating
meetings have. . • if only for a moment ..• brought some sort
of a victory. ·
We commend the Raza on the chancellor's staff for i.t s achievements in this matter. The Chicano movement rings up welcome
plus in this age of Bakke-ism.
But the victory must be taken cautiously ••• for this is not
the first time . we have been told " good things" only to have the
rhetoric turn out to be cruel, empty words. We must understand
that the university still has a long way to go. For all we know,
the trustee's action is more for its economics than for its social
value. If they can get more of us. •.. they get more enrollment,
more FTE .. • and more dollars.
But that would be defeatist for us to feel that way. Instead,
we welcome the trustee's committment and hope that realities
will henceforth truly be dealt with.
a
La Voz de Aztlan Staff •
Immediate student action is
needed to prevent several La
Raza Studies classes from being
dropped. The classes are lacking a sufficient Full Time_Enrollment (FTE) to keep the
courses alive. La Raza Studies
faculty urges students to enroll
in one -or more of the classes.
The classes are: Chicano
Politics; Chicano Directed Writ•
ing; Pre-Hispanic Civilization;
Folklore of Mexico and the Southwest; Discrimination and Pover-
From SENTIMIENTOS: " ••• through
this conference, MEChA at CSUF strives
to familiarize younger Chicano students
with the college. For five years, N,IEChA
students at CSUF have made efforts to
provide the opportunity to CYC participants ••• "
La Voz de Aztlan would like to congratulate all involved in the organization
of the Chicano Youth Conference.
A reportar for La Voz, i, on assignment
The Third World Coalition
gr oup welcomes you back to
school and wi shes that all you .
brothers and sisters who are.
of high principles and desires
join us~ We are a group formed
towards reality. He added that
many people felt Chicanos c-nuU
not finance a $3 million pr0J9Cf.
''But ' We· made people say 'Si,
Se puede'-•lt can be done.'!
The entrepreneur was quick to
emphasize that the proposed
tourist attraction was a community service. "We' re doing this
without losing mtr haart and our·
head to the community,'' he said.
of minorities and women on campus that see the resources needed
for our growth diminishing. A
group that is against institutional
racism at CSUF and one who
beli ~ves that equal education
shouM be made available to all,
not only to professional disciples
of Skinner psychology,, Cami
have fun, enjoy lengthy and open
discussions on what is happening
to the sur vival .ofhumandecency,
Our meetings are held eve ry
Monday at 5:00 p.m. in the Student Union. Together we will
never be undermined.
Bakke Decision Due In Spring,
Magazine
Ready·
mended a thumbs-down decision
on the reconsideration, echo \ 7
assistant city attorney Jame;
McKelvey's opinion that the cityr
had a legal committment to the
district.
Villegas was optimistic that
community support, particularly
'flmong the Latino population
ould spur the business project
at the CYC, was asking s tudents who
attended, what they thought of the conference. Our conclusion echoes theirs:
"• •• Those kids who came here for
a .,free ride' aren't stoppi ng us from
getting something O!}t of this. From
rapping to other people, I think th at the
people who c~me here to get som ething
out of this are getting is ••• ,,
In our eyes, that is succes s .
Third World .. Not Jusf Skin ners
1st. CSUF
Chicano
Continued from Page l
ty; Mental Health and Chicanos;
and Chicano Theatre.
For more information contact
La Raza Studies located in 8an
Ramon #4, Room 116-118. Phone
487-2848.
Your urgent coope~tion is
needed.
CYC ·c ommittee iA Toda -Madre!
by Stan Santos
Co1111cil reconsiders cultural center
...
Don't -Let La- Raza Down·
·
The Anti . Bakke Decision
Coalition calls on students,
teachers, University workers
and membe rs of the comrnui1 ·•
ity to continue to organize
against the Bakke Decision,
When the Supreme Court ~ands
down 1-~s ruling this Spring,
it may destroy Specia:. Adm i. ss1::>n'3, AfL _rm:Jti,.r;1 Actil)•l a t:i
,,l.'. 1~r :l;~ -~-:;-: a::/ ;)r~gra1n<.> f Jr
bettering the futures of minorities and women.
ABDC members feel everyone
will suffer from the effects of
F_rank Villegas, who has lent much support to
Chicano causes ~ver th_e ye?rs, is f_ighting City
Hall to expand his torttflerio business and ·
build a cultural center on contested fond.
osl
LA VOZ de AZTLAN
this case. Ironically, those who
will suffer the most are those
who are the least aware of it ..
Tjley are the Blacks and Chicanos
families whb live in the crowded
"Tortilla
Flats" or Funston
Housing Projects; th~y 1re thJ ~
women who pass hal( of their
Ii ves standing in line at the
Fresno County Welfare Departmant; they are the campesinos ,
who work the fields · and live
shorter lives so that people can
be fed. Finally, those who will
suffer will be the children of
all these people, who hope to
break the cycle, and become·
doctors, lawy{;l"S or- profession-als in other areas.
·
efforts. The ABDC will meet
on Thursday, Feb. 2 at the
Sunset Comm unity Center,
1345 W. Eden. For information
call 224-5677, or 439-0215.
MEChA Priorilie
-Set Forth
Continued from Page l
pltshments last semester.
MEChA was mainly respon•
sible for the establishment of
the Third World Coalition.
"Chicano students sought out
Black . students, Iranian students
and Native Ame ricans _to get
In coming weeks, the ABDC
together, n he said.
will go before local governing
"All of us wer e having our own
bodies such as the City Counlittle battles. We said instead
. cil, and County Board of Super of having thes e little . battles,
visors to request a resolution
let's get togethe r and move to•
against the Bakke Decision
gether •.,
and in favor or Affirmative~
The unity of minority students
Action programs for minoriwas exercised at a demonstra•
ties and women. On Monday,
tion on campus last December,
Feb. · 27, a forum will be held
Over
100 Native-American,
at the Sunset Community CenYBlacks, Iranians and Chicanos
ter for the purpose of informmarched- in solidarity through the
ing the community of the imThomas Administration Building,
plications of the Bakke deciwhere President Norman Baxter
sion. In addition to the paneland Volpp's offices are located,
ists who will give their pers1 'We
got a lot of good re•
pectives of the effects of the
sponse not only from people joinDecision, ther~ wlll be a culing us in the demonstration but
tural presentation and slUe
from observers who sent word
show. Students and concerned indi- that Baxter and Volpp were caught
off guard and were frightened. "
viduals should join in these
SENTIMIENTOS Del Valle, the
first Chicano creativity magazine
produced by CSUF students, made
jitS debut at the MEC ttA Chicano
Youth Conference last month.
Copies are still a vaila.ble ln
La Raza Studies, EOP, and the
Daily Collegian. Staff members
have begun plans for the next
issue scheduled for May, 1978.
LA VOZ DE AZTLAN STAFF
Any persons interested in jolll• _
ing the staff may attend meetings
Editor
. . • . • . • • • . . • • . . • • • • • Feli~ J. Cgntreras
on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the·· .
Assistant Editor
. • . • • • •.•.•.••••••.••• Elvia Ruiz
Dean's conference room, 1:>an
Reporters. • • • • . . . . . • • • Arturo Ocampo, Pedro Ramirez
Ramon 4, Room 220, above La
Stan santos, Dianne Solis
Raza Studies.
Photographer • . . . • • • . .•.•••••••••••.•.• Stan Santos
The staff is also seeking fiContributors . . . . •.••.•••..•• Rudy Gallardo, Celia Ponce
na.ndil donations for the magaGeorge Verdugo
zine.
For more information,
Spiritual Advisor
. . . . • • • • • • . . . . • . . . . • . . Ometeotl
call 487-?848 or 875-3314.
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LA VOZ de AZTLAN
FEBRUARY 1 , 1978
PAGE 3
MEChA's 5th CYC
May Be The Best Yet
by Elvia Ruiz
The 19"78 Chicano Youth Conference has proved to be one of
the best ever held, according
to some CYC committee members.
Juan Ocampo, general cochairperson of the conference,
stated this year's CYC attracted
an estimated 1,400 students from
throughout Califo!nia.
11
We had sludents com1ng from
said.
as far as East Los Angles, San · MEChA president Juan M,~ndoza
Jose .and Salinas Valley as well
attributed the success of the
as from the entire San Joaquin
conference to the skillful preValley,'' he said.
paration and organization of the
According to Ocampo, the
CYC committee,
number o! participants, along
"The CYC committee did a
with the ~ariety of generalnterest
hell of a job," he said. "They
and career workshops and guest
made our CSUF conference one
speakers, m2dc the conference
of the best around,'' he added.
a success~
Mendoza said the students
"The workshops were very
were very much .interested in
well-received especially since
the workshops and that partisome of them (workshops) were
cipating counselors were impacked with students," Ocampo
pressed with the conference.
Jesus Sepulveda, three-year
CYC veteran, agreed the conference was well-received by all
who attended.
"The students I_ spoke to
said they were very interested
in the conference and were glad
to be given the opportunity to
participate," he said.
According to Sepulveda, the
conference was successful bep
cause as a ·result many students
became interested in continuing
their education.
''We had 100 junior and senior
high school students ask for EOP
CYC Committee · member Priscilla Contreros
application materials. An addihelped make signs a few nights before the contional 30 students asked to be
ference.
put on lists to have this material
sitively towards the CYC,
sent to them. This proves we
workshops was a major improve:
"T,~e students I spoke with
succeeded in doing our job,''
ment. Re~tration was quicker,
said
the:' re3lly enjoyed the conhe said.
also,,, she said.
ference. One person I talked
CYC committee secretary Maria
to said the CYC helped her make
Correa estimated between 42
Correa, a high school participant .
and 45 high schools participated
her decision about continuing her
last year, stated there was much
in the CYC, along with a . few _ education," Correa said. ''This
improvement in the CYC this
junior colleges., She said the
is what makes the conference
year.
conference was successful .in
successful, knowing some of the
"I saw a lot of improvement
reaching a wide area of students
students decide to continue their
ln this year's conferenceo The
and these students responded poeducation," she added.
mandatory attendance for the
The CYC school exhthits gave parti~ipants
a. chance to see the many aspects of cot lege
I,fe.
Nearly 1,400 students watched El Teatro perform at
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LA VOZ de AZTLAN
FEBRUARY 1, 1978
Five Join LRS
,
by Arturo qcampo
'\
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-
More
)
\
S . qR.CIA-
. ~~r:-..
Than Music
by Felix .T, Contreras
important a part clues
music play in the struggles of
people to ove1:comethoiroppression? Let's investig·ate.
Going har·k through U.S. hist~l'Y ~ 1we heard African slaves
srngrnt; songs from •their home.
To them, song · was a way to
ease the paln
the shackles
bolted on_ them by the dreaded
white man. Son·g also was the
escape the American born decencfents of once-nohle Africans used
to take their mind off the heat
of the field, or the fierce cold
of their one room shack on the
plantation. Sunday church singing
was the thing that brought the
people together and united them
in spirit.
Much later, in the days when
Rev. King was leading the fight
for civil rights, music is what
brought the mack man together.
Rev. King was of the church,
and wh::it do you do in church?
You sing, man do we sing.
What ahout music and· contempora l'Y struggh•!-.,.
1I0w
of
Foreign struggles are chronil-1eu
111
lJJU..-:,.t\. •
vu~ llldt., '"''--'"""•-- ..;
to mind is in the ghetto streets
of Trenchtown, . Jamaica, where
the mack man is ag::iin fighting
fol' survival on the poverty stricken side of that beautiful island.
While
insensitive lily-whites
soak in the beaches, the real
Jamaicans rot away in Trenchtown, fighting for existence with
t the flerceness of their music's>
A3k anyone who was there, la
musica was at the hillside fires
when Villa's and .Zapata's men
were resting up for another bat'. it ' against the hated federales.
: The campesino has hrought his
music with him to the fields and
campitos that serve this nation's.
agricultural center::.. To them,
el corrido is a way to take his
mind off of el pinche sol that
is burning his stooped back. or
the fierce cold that is piercing
his shack in tne labor camp
(plantation). Through the bolero,
he can tell his woman how much
he appreciates her being by his
side by singing her love songs
that
praise her beauty and
strength.
And what do we have here?
Salsa!!! Where diditcomefrom'?
Where it came from is an
entirely different
srory, ous
where it was at is easy enough.
Salsa has been here for years.
Ask· Tito, he'll tell you, he was
there.
Salsa is in the sonJs of those
who are 'SUFving the gnetto world
of Spanish Harlem, ancf other
ghettos of N:YC. To many, it
is a way to forget that the rent
is due tommorrow, pero, no hay
dinero pa ' manana. It's also
at the -party they threw -for
Rosita when she was the nrst
one in her family to graduate
fr.om high school!
Man, they
almost wore t)lat Gran' Combo
alhum out that night-baila, baila,
mas baila!
Hey, everyhod}' likes to dance,
sing or even hum. Music, to just
about everybody plays some part
of their life. providing an outlet
r
(reggae) p1Usat11,ir lleat. Ht!gg.,e
also illustrates the dread-locked
citizens' love for their chosen
messiah, J:tll', thanks to people
like Boh )larley.
for their joys and sorrows. Now,
Nowadays, Chicanos show up at
I hope you understand that it
,fances with their best threads on,
helps us all in our struggles,
t'eady to pick up (or he picked _ and through it we can share that
up), dance and enjoy, or get
load.
'fuuuC'ked up'.
~lusic is for
''Get up, stand up
1 1ving a good time • .
stand up for your rights.
But i! you think about it,music
Get up stand up
\Va::i l1Clu. , 1U lll'11J .\
~ u~·... ,--don't give up the fight"
the Chicano has gone through.
L Bob Marley
\. I •
.. _ . ..... -
..
L-a Raza Studies started the
Spring 1978 semester wU 1hi:
addition of five new parttime
faculty members.
Andres Segura, who has taught
two, classes here last spring,
is teaching classes on pre-hispanic civilization, folklore of
the southwest, and folk medicine
of medicine (curar;i.r!erismo).
in order to help themselves and
others."
Teaching Baste Writing (LR 10)
is newly arrived Juan Arambula.
Juan received his a.A. in English
and Spanish literature at Harvard
College. In 1977 he received bis
Masters in Administration and
Policy Analyses at Stanford, and
hopes to attend law school in the
near future. Talking about his
basic writing class, Arambula
said, "In general, if people expect
to get ahead, in whatever they are
doing, they should be able to ex-
press thems8lves .•. to be able
to argue their case, in whatever
area or field or work they
choose."
A La Raza Studies course in
Poverty and Discrimination is
being taught by Luis Contreras
a 1975 gradutae of CSUF. Contreras holds a B.A. in Social
Welfare.
Bilingual Education is being
ta.ught by Gloria Watts, another
addition to the La Raza· Studies
faculty. ,
Segura, who has dedicated his
life to ''la danza", speaks well
of the Fresno area, "Siempre
me siento bien en Fresno. Es
una ciudad agricola y la agricola es la base, mi familia,
aunque yo naci en la ciudad, es
del campo.'' (I always feel comfortable in Fresno. Fresno is
an agricultural city, and agriculture is tne t_oundation, its tfie
base. My family, although I was
born in the city, are from the
fields.")
Another parttime instructor
for La Raza Studies is Irene
Lopez-Aparicio. Irene teaches
Chicano health care, La Raza
A reception Tuesday, Feb. 14 last from 6-9 o'clock pm an.:.
117. Aparicio, who has a B.A.
will kick off ''Corazon De will Include music, poetry readIN RECREATION . ADMINISTR
Aztlan", another Chicano art Ing and a performace by Teatro
also works at Fresno Community
Show featuring the works of La Espiritu, the CSUF Chicano
Hospital as a recreation theraBrocha Del Valle artists.
theatre troupe. The poetry read~
pist in the mental health wards.
La Brocha is the only Chicana- ings will be conducted by three
She is also a licensed psych!Chicano artists organization in local writers including Rudy
atr_ic technician~
the central $an Joaquin Valley. Gallardo, a former CSUF literaAparicio feels 11 Chicanosaren't
"Corazon De Aztlan" will be ture professor.Community people
into
recreation · that much.
on exhibit through March 5 at are invited to attend this recepPeople should reconize that recTres cres, La Brocha's store tion and enjoy a cup of chocoreation is very important for
'located at 3639 Ventura st. in late mexicano and pan mexicano,
physical and mental well-being."
Fresno. The show will include (mexican sweet breaq)_.
Commenting on LaRazaStudies
sculpture, paintings, and other · _ Corazon De A·z tlan is the
here at CSUF, Aparicio feels
WQrks · of Brocha members, in- first major show since "Sabor
that ''Through the La Raza Stueluding well-known veteran art- of Fresno", which was publicly
dies program Chi~nos and · ists Ernie Palomino and Francico exhibited in December 1976. AdAnglos can gain a sense of idenBarrios. The two teach in the mission to the upcoming show is
·tidy and appreciate their culCSUF ArfDepartment.
free.
Gallery hours will be
ture. Also learn to work effecThe Feb. 14 reception will announced later.
tively in the dominant culture .,___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___.
La Brocha
Art Show
I
Baby Ku Klux Klanners Get
Help From Bigoted Elders
H_igh school _Ku Klux Klan
members have claimed respm1•• .
sibaity for · baseball bat attacks
on homosexuals, and a weries of
cros burnings, the Oklahoma City
Times reported Wednesday.
The newspap{l_r said klaverns
have been organized in at least
two
metropolitan - area high
schools, with homosexuals and
''special favors" to blacks as
the primary targets.
''The only people we won't
let in are girls, blacks, jews
or dope smokers and e might
consider C~tholics if the time
comes,'' a 16-year-old Putnam
City High School student said.
The newspaper said the Putnam
City group had a roster of 52
and estimates of .l)'lembership
in a Bethany, Okla. Klan ranged
from 60 to 80.
''We are standing up for what
we think is right, even il other
people don't think we are doing
the right thing," a Putnam City
member said. "We are not just
against blacks like the old llan,
but we are against gays and the
clubs that support them, and are
going to ry and shut them down
because this activity is
because this activity is morally
and socially wrong."
Students said formal meetings,
where card-carrying members
wear full robes and hoods, are
held near CouµciJ. Road in northwest Oklahoma Ctiy.
one member said the high
school grops had received information and instruction sheets
from the knights of the Ju Klux
Klan, "even on making the robes
and hats."
· "There is a brief ritual there
and ten it is basically like e:veryoen thinks." a Putnam City member daod. "The leader gets up
and lia.ngs the cross as we circle
it and then stands up on a p.iatform or tbe back ot a pickup
.Que
Another media venture dealing with Latinos but still basically run by non-Latinos has hit
the airwaves with ''Que Pasa,
America?''.
The Public Broadcasting Service PBS) announced in a press
release issued last month, the
premier of a half-hour comedy
program to be aired for 18 weeks,
starting last Jan. 1.
" 'Que Pasa, USA?' explores
the trials and tribulations faced
by the Penas in Miami as they
struggle to cope with anewcountry and a new language, just as
many immigrants did before
and gives a little speech before
talking about what our next project or raid will be.''
Pasa?
them,,,.-states the release.
The situations deal with a
Cuban family in Miami's Little
Havana section.
The series is supposed to be
bilingual with what was termed
''Spanglish'': the combination of
both English and Spanish in the
episodes.
La Voz encourages readers
who tune in to the show to send
. us their opinions of the show.
Send them to La Voz in care
.of tha Collegian here at CSUF
or the La -Raza Studies offices
in San Ramon 4, Room 116-118.
Literature ··Award Offered
BERKELEY-Tonatiuh International, Inc., announces for 1978
the PREMIO TONATIUH-Quinto
SOL awards for literature by
Chicano authors Ii ving in the
United States, and for Mexican
authors living in Mexico.
One winner form each of the
two nations will receive a OneThousand Dollar ($1,000) cash
award, and travel, by air, to
San Francisco, California to participate
in the awards ceremonies.
All entries submitted for 1978
must be typewritten, doublespaced, with a minimum of 150
pages, in English, Spanish, or
both languages combined.
Entries may consist of a novel,
collection of short stories, or
experimental writing. All must
be original, the authors own work,
and previously unpublished.
Deadline for submitting entries
is June 31, 1978. The announcement of the awards will be made
August 31, 1978. Each of the
two winning entries will be pul:>lished and distributed by TONATIUH
INTERNATIONAL
and_
QtJINTO SOL PUBLICATIONS.
!11 auu1uuu ~u u11::i
awaru UI,l)J.,UUU
(US), the winning authors will
receive a minimum of 10% rovalties.
·
For complete information,
contact:
Octavio I. Rornano-V., PhD, Senior Editor
PREMIO TONATIUH-Quinto SOL
2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite #1106
Berkeley, California USA
Chihuahua Tortilleria
Inc.
Mexican Cultural Center Moves Ahead
By Dianne Soiis
Chihuahua Tortilleria's proposed cultural center inoved
closer to reality yesterday with
Fresno City Council's 4-2 decision to reconsider a west Fresno
property sale.
,
Both the Chihuahua Tortilleria
and the State Center Community
College District (SCCCD) want
to buy the prop~rty on the northwest corner of Fresno and 'E'
streets.
The SCCCD plan to
build an adult training center on
the site.
The city council, acting as
the Redevelopment Agency, has
referred the matter to the courts
for a decision.
Plans for the $3 million Mexican cultural center include a
restaurant, curio shops, a delicatessen and a self-tour tor-
tilleria factory. The shops will
encircle a garden -plaza.
Chihuahua Tortllleria co-owner
Prank Villegas said Spanishspeaking TV channel 21 and radio
station KGST have expressed an
interest in building studios in
conjunction with the center.
Villegas and his attorney,
Stanton Levy, informed the council the project would genrate
·$WO 000 in tax revenue, pro- -vide ' job opportunities and enhance the community's image of
west Fresno.
Villegas· said Chihuahua Tortilleria has matched SCCCD's
$195,681 offer for the property
and offered to reimburse SCCCD
for their architectural expenses
should the . college district lose
the ease.
Mayor Dan. Whitehurst and
councilman Elvin Bell recom(Continued on p.2)
Chicano Initiative
..
Mechista priorities • -Vo/pp plan,elecfions, IRA
CSUF'S MEChA enters the
spring semester ~ plans to
take the initiative on issues pertaining to minorities.
President Juan Mendoza said
' Chicano priorities include academic
vice-president Louis
Volpp's re-organization plan, the
upcoming student elections and
recruitment.
Another issue which MEChA
had become involved last semester was the Instructionally Related Activities contra'Ct controversy.
However, the recent
action by the CSUC Board of
Trustees to raise student fees
on behalf of IRA funding dilutes
the issue somewhat.
"We'll wait to see how Ba2Cter and the Senate react now,"
said Mendoza.
Mendoza offered some comments to La Voz on the eve
of MEChA 's first meeting of the
semester last Thursday. The
nine- year- old organization
meets every Thursday at 12: 30
in the upstairs cafeteria.
"We have to keep an eye on
the administration regarding the
reorganization plap," said Mendoza. "MEChA will have to take
• the initiative if La Raza Studies
gets in danger.,,
The term "reorganization"
has been used by the administration recently in efforts to face
budget cuts as a result of declining enrollment.
One suggestion submitted calls for an
"interdisciplinary school" which
would e_!!lbody certain university
academic programs such as La
Raza Studies.
LRS and MEChA feel such a a
move would be contrary to the
intent of the program and would
violate the university's commitment to improving higher education as it regards Chicanos.
MEChistas would like to see LRS1
departmentalized. In the spring
of 1975, minorities occupied Baxter's office for 5 days and 5
nights to demonstrate their concern for the program.
"La Raza Studies' importance
is hard to put into words," saiq
Mendoza. "It's like having a
second job. The administration
can't just do anything it wants
with it."
Mendoza said MEChA will also
·pay
1 " an im~r
.
t an t ~o 1e " m
. the
student elections comrng up. He
-said one of the organization's
heavier concerns has been in student government.
Ihr.hel Mendoza,, an · unsuccessful candidate last year but
an active student this· year, re, no involvement
Presented Chica
1-ast semester.
Native American-Indian Issue
Spurs-Cross-Country March
Native Americans across the
United States are joining together for a march that·will start
Feb.· 11 in Sacramento and end
in the Nation's capitol.
The March, dubbed, The
Longest Walk"- by its organizers is to focus national attention on the American Indian
Movement's opposition to antiIndian legislation in the U.S.
Congress.
California supporters will gather for a morning pipe cere11
mony on Alcatraz Island caravaning to Sacramento where a
2 o'clock p.m. rally will launch
the journey.
Dur{ng the Walk, which will
go through the middle of the
United States, workshops wm
be held at · ·-select Iocation5
dealing with the legislation.
Many people, Indians and nonIndians alike, are expec · to
join the march at many points
along its path.
Dennis Banlcs, AIM leader, _
,:==Historic UFW Boycotts' En
The boycott that made national waves and caused millions ,
of Americans to stop eating
grapes, lettuce and drinking Gallo
wine has come to an end.
At least that is the word from
Cesar Chavez whose United
-Farmworkers Union used the
boycott as a tool that at first
gained the union recognition from
stubborn growers, then began
to win the union some contracts,
and ultimately help establish the
first Agricultural Labor Relations Law in the state.
Chavez announced the end of
the boycott Tuesday morning
after the UFW Executive Board
voted to end the boycotts of
non-UFW table grapes, head or
iceberg lettuce and Gallo wines
'' in the spirit of cautious optimism,"
"She kept us informed on
everything coming down in with
the senate ," said Mendoza.
"With her, we kept on top of
the Senate. We dido 't Intend to
let anything go by."
Overall Mendoza felt MEChA
'
made several
significant accornContinued on Page 2
- But Cesar said the economic
boycott would not be put to rest.
"the farmworker boycott will
now be focused on the labels of
growers who refuse to negotiate
in good faith even after their
workers vote for the UFW in
secret ballot elections," he said.
The boycott became the muscle
of the union in the l960's and
later the inspiration of the Chicano movement as farmworkers
rose up against the powerful ,
agri-business interests that had
successfully, and quite often violently, squashed farmworker
union effarts in the past 100 years.
In addition to joining picket
lines at s_tores throughout the
nation, students brought the boycott to the university campuses.
At CSUF, union supporters were
instrumental in getting the uni-
versity to purchase union label ··
products, particularly lettuce,
and in boycotting the food services when the ' university did
not oblige.
The boycotts were successful
in bringing the likes of the Dlgiorgios (grapes), the Gallos
(wine), the Salinas lettuce growers and their compliant judges
who issued injunctions that broke
some UFW strikes, and the
Teamsters to their knees. From
there, the labor relation Ia.w
developed and grew, guaranteeing
farms the right to union elections.
.
The UFW signed more than
100 contracts with growers since
the ALRA began in the fall of
1975, said Chavez. This attributed .to ·union's decision to call
off the boycotts.
will lead the march only to the
California/Nevada line because
an extradition controversy pending. (GOV. Brown has refused
to extradite him to South Dakota,
which seeks to prosecute Banlcs.)
From there, Vern Bellecourt,
National Director on charge of
. international affairs, will lead
the march.
Supplies -are -urgently needed
to assist those marchingtoreaeh
their Washington, DC. goal by
mid-July. Donations are being
accepted at "Longest Walk" coordinating center, located atD-Q
University, P.O. Box·409, Davis,
CA 95616 (916) 758-0470 ext. 46.
EOP
Forms Due
Applications are now being ac:..
cepted
for the Educatio?al
opportunity Program at Callfornia State University in the Fall
1978 semester.
Students interested in learning
more about the Educational
Opportunity Program are encouraged to contact the EOP
office in the Joyal Administration
Building on North Maple Avenue,
487-1021-
PAGE 2
!Comelltari
Trustees· :
Empty Words?
The La Voz staff must take its turn in commenting on Ia.st
week's action by the California Sta.te University and Colleges
Board of Trustees.
In their regular meeting in Long Beach last week, the trustees
demonstrated their support for student a!firmative action by adopting a resolution to try and increase the enrollment of Chicano
students in the system's colleges.
It hopes to do this by creating recruitment programs for the
bilingual-bicultural teacher programs in the colleges, with the
idea that teachers who relate to Chicanos wm be able to encourage
more of them to enter the college.
The action centers specifically on Chicanos because we are
the most underrepresented ethnic group in the system. CSUC
officials have said, however, that they intend to eventually in
crease the enrollment of all underrepresented minority groups.
Of course, for years . Chicanos and other minorities have
maintained that we were being ignored by the universities, that
the university was doing little more than it bad to help open the
doors of opportunity for us. Any real efforts we've made on '?ur
own through programs such as La Raza Studies t Ethnic studies,
EOP, MEChA, etc.
Even with those programs, we have been caught up in constant
battles to keep them strong •..•every semester we have to justify
to somebody why we should exist.
The trustees are saying, ''yes, ••• we must address this problem and overcome it, instead of fighting each other." They e
saying.• .''you guys are for real.
You are there, we recognize
that problems exist, and that your point is well taken."
The years of "battling'', of demonstrating, of frustrating
meetings have. . • if only for a moment ..• brought some sort
of a victory. ·
We commend the Raza on the chancellor's staff for i.t s achievements in this matter. The Chicano movement rings up welcome
plus in this age of Bakke-ism.
But the victory must be taken cautiously ••• for this is not
the first time . we have been told " good things" only to have the
rhetoric turn out to be cruel, empty words. We must understand
that the university still has a long way to go. For all we know,
the trustee's action is more for its economics than for its social
value. If they can get more of us. •.. they get more enrollment,
more FTE .. • and more dollars.
But that would be defeatist for us to feel that way. Instead,
we welcome the trustee's committment and hope that realities
will henceforth truly be dealt with.
a
La Voz de Aztlan Staff •
Immediate student action is
needed to prevent several La
Raza Studies classes from being
dropped. The classes are lacking a sufficient Full Time_Enrollment (FTE) to keep the
courses alive. La Raza Studies
faculty urges students to enroll
in one -or more of the classes.
The classes are: Chicano
Politics; Chicano Directed Writ•
ing; Pre-Hispanic Civilization;
Folklore of Mexico and the Southwest; Discrimination and Pover-
From SENTIMIENTOS: " ••• through
this conference, MEChA at CSUF strives
to familiarize younger Chicano students
with the college. For five years, N,IEChA
students at CSUF have made efforts to
provide the opportunity to CYC participants ••• "
La Voz de Aztlan would like to congratulate all involved in the organization
of the Chicano Youth Conference.
A reportar for La Voz, i, on assignment
The Third World Coalition
gr oup welcomes you back to
school and wi shes that all you .
brothers and sisters who are.
of high principles and desires
join us~ We are a group formed
towards reality. He added that
many people felt Chicanos c-nuU
not finance a $3 million pr0J9Cf.
''But ' We· made people say 'Si,
Se puede'-•lt can be done.'!
The entrepreneur was quick to
emphasize that the proposed
tourist attraction was a community service. "We' re doing this
without losing mtr haart and our·
head to the community,'' he said.
of minorities and women on campus that see the resources needed
for our growth diminishing. A
group that is against institutional
racism at CSUF and one who
beli ~ves that equal education
shouM be made available to all,
not only to professional disciples
of Skinner psychology,, Cami
have fun, enjoy lengthy and open
discussions on what is happening
to the sur vival .ofhumandecency,
Our meetings are held eve ry
Monday at 5:00 p.m. in the Student Union. Together we will
never be undermined.
Bakke Decision Due In Spring,
Magazine
Ready·
mended a thumbs-down decision
on the reconsideration, echo \ 7
assistant city attorney Jame;
McKelvey's opinion that the cityr
had a legal committment to the
district.
Villegas was optimistic that
community support, particularly
'flmong the Latino population
ould spur the business project
at the CYC, was asking s tudents who
attended, what they thought of the conference. Our conclusion echoes theirs:
"• •• Those kids who came here for
a .,free ride' aren't stoppi ng us from
getting something O!}t of this. From
rapping to other people, I think th at the
people who c~me here to get som ething
out of this are getting is ••• ,,
In our eyes, that is succes s .
Third World .. Not Jusf Skin ners
1st. CSUF
Chicano
Continued from Page l
ty; Mental Health and Chicanos;
and Chicano Theatre.
For more information contact
La Raza Studies located in 8an
Ramon #4, Room 116-118. Phone
487-2848.
Your urgent coope~tion is
needed.
CYC ·c ommittee iA Toda -Madre!
by Stan Santos
Co1111cil reconsiders cultural center
...
Don't -Let La- Raza Down·
·
The Anti . Bakke Decision
Coalition calls on students,
teachers, University workers
and membe rs of the comrnui1 ·•
ity to continue to organize
against the Bakke Decision,
When the Supreme Court ~ands
down 1-~s ruling this Spring,
it may destroy Specia:. Adm i. ss1::>n'3, AfL _rm:Jti,.r;1 Actil)•l a t:i
,,l.'. 1~r :l;~ -~-:;-: a::/ ;)r~gra1n<.> f Jr
bettering the futures of minorities and women.
ABDC members feel everyone
will suffer from the effects of
F_rank Villegas, who has lent much support to
Chicano causes ~ver th_e ye?rs, is f_ighting City
Hall to expand his torttflerio business and ·
build a cultural center on contested fond.
osl
LA VOZ de AZTLAN
this case. Ironically, those who
will suffer the most are those
who are the least aware of it ..
Tjley are the Blacks and Chicanos
families whb live in the crowded
"Tortilla
Flats" or Funston
Housing Projects; th~y 1re thJ ~
women who pass hal( of their
Ii ves standing in line at the
Fresno County Welfare Departmant; they are the campesinos ,
who work the fields · and live
shorter lives so that people can
be fed. Finally, those who will
suffer will be the children of
all these people, who hope to
break the cycle, and become·
doctors, lawy{;l"S or- profession-als in other areas.
·
efforts. The ABDC will meet
on Thursday, Feb. 2 at the
Sunset Comm unity Center,
1345 W. Eden. For information
call 224-5677, or 439-0215.
MEChA Priorilie
-Set Forth
Continued from Page l
pltshments last semester.
MEChA was mainly respon•
sible for the establishment of
the Third World Coalition.
"Chicano students sought out
Black . students, Iranian students
and Native Ame ricans _to get
In coming weeks, the ABDC
together, n he said.
will go before local governing
"All of us wer e having our own
bodies such as the City Counlittle battles. We said instead
. cil, and County Board of Super of having thes e little . battles,
visors to request a resolution
let's get togethe r and move to•
against the Bakke Decision
gether •.,
and in favor or Affirmative~
The unity of minority students
Action programs for minoriwas exercised at a demonstra•
ties and women. On Monday,
tion on campus last December,
Feb. · 27, a forum will be held
Over
100 Native-American,
at the Sunset Community CenYBlacks, Iranians and Chicanos
ter for the purpose of informmarched- in solidarity through the
ing the community of the imThomas Administration Building,
plications of the Bakke deciwhere President Norman Baxter
sion. In addition to the paneland Volpp's offices are located,
ists who will give their pers1 'We
got a lot of good re•
pectives of the effects of the
sponse not only from people joinDecision, ther~ wlll be a culing us in the demonstration but
tural presentation and slUe
from observers who sent word
show. Students and concerned indi- that Baxter and Volpp were caught
off guard and were frightened. "
viduals should join in these
SENTIMIENTOS Del Valle, the
first Chicano creativity magazine
produced by CSUF students, made
jitS debut at the MEC ttA Chicano
Youth Conference last month.
Copies are still a vaila.ble ln
La Raza Studies, EOP, and the
Daily Collegian. Staff members
have begun plans for the next
issue scheduled for May, 1978.
LA VOZ DE AZTLAN STAFF
Any persons interested in jolll• _
ing the staff may attend meetings
Editor
. . • . • . • • • . . • • . . • • • • • Feli~ J. Cgntreras
on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the·· .
Assistant Editor
. • . • • • •.•.•.••••••.••• Elvia Ruiz
Dean's conference room, 1:>an
Reporters. • • • • . . . . . • • • Arturo Ocampo, Pedro Ramirez
Ramon 4, Room 220, above La
Stan santos, Dianne Solis
Raza Studies.
Photographer • . . . • • • . .•.•••••••••••.•.• Stan Santos
The staff is also seeking fiContributors . . . . •.••.•••..•• Rudy Gallardo, Celia Ponce
na.ndil donations for the magaGeorge Verdugo
zine.
For more information,
Spiritual Advisor
. . . . • • • • • • . . . . • . . . . • . . Ometeotl
call 487-?848 or 875-3314.
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LA VOZ de AZTLAN
FEBRUARY 1 , 1978
PAGE 3
MEChA's 5th CYC
May Be The Best Yet
by Elvia Ruiz
The 19"78 Chicano Youth Conference has proved to be one of
the best ever held, according
to some CYC committee members.
Juan Ocampo, general cochairperson of the conference,
stated this year's CYC attracted
an estimated 1,400 students from
throughout Califo!nia.
11
We had sludents com1ng from
said.
as far as East Los Angles, San · MEChA president Juan M,~ndoza
Jose .and Salinas Valley as well
attributed the success of the
as from the entire San Joaquin
conference to the skillful preValley,'' he said.
paration and organization of the
According to Ocampo, the
CYC committee,
number o! participants, along
"The CYC committee did a
with the ~ariety of generalnterest
hell of a job," he said. "They
and career workshops and guest
made our CSUF conference one
speakers, m2dc the conference
of the best around,'' he added.
a success~
Mendoza said the students
"The workshops were very
were very much .interested in
well-received especially since
the workshops and that partisome of them (workshops) were
cipating counselors were impacked with students," Ocampo
pressed with the conference.
Jesus Sepulveda, three-year
CYC veteran, agreed the conference was well-received by all
who attended.
"The students I_ spoke to
said they were very interested
in the conference and were glad
to be given the opportunity to
participate," he said.
According to Sepulveda, the
conference was successful bep
cause as a ·result many students
became interested in continuing
their education.
''We had 100 junior and senior
high school students ask for EOP
CYC Committee · member Priscilla Contreros
application materials. An addihelped make signs a few nights before the contional 30 students asked to be
ference.
put on lists to have this material
sitively towards the CYC,
sent to them. This proves we
workshops was a major improve:
"T,~e students I spoke with
succeeded in doing our job,''
ment. Re~tration was quicker,
said
the:' re3lly enjoyed the conhe said.
also,,, she said.
ference. One person I talked
CYC committee secretary Maria
to said the CYC helped her make
Correa estimated between 42
Correa, a high school participant .
and 45 high schools participated
her decision about continuing her
last year, stated there was much
in the CYC, along with a . few _ education," Correa said. ''This
improvement in the CYC this
junior colleges., She said the
is what makes the conference
year.
conference was successful .in
successful, knowing some of the
"I saw a lot of improvement
reaching a wide area of students
students decide to continue their
ln this year's conferenceo The
and these students responded poeducation," she added.
mandatory attendance for the
The CYC school exhthits gave parti~ipants
a. chance to see the many aspects of cot lege
I,fe.
Nearly 1,400 students watched El Teatro perform at
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LA VOZ de AZTLAN
FEBRUARY 1, 1978
Five Join LRS
,
by Arturo qcampo
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Than Music
by Felix .T, Contreras
important a part clues
music play in the struggles of
people to ove1:comethoiroppression? Let's investig·ate.
Going har·k through U.S. hist~l'Y ~ 1we heard African slaves
srngrnt; songs from •their home.
To them, song · was a way to
ease the paln
the shackles
bolted on_ them by the dreaded
white man. Son·g also was the
escape the American born decencfents of once-nohle Africans used
to take their mind off the heat
of the field, or the fierce cold
of their one room shack on the
plantation. Sunday church singing
was the thing that brought the
people together and united them
in spirit.
Much later, in the days when
Rev. King was leading the fight
for civil rights, music is what
brought the mack man together.
Rev. King was of the church,
and wh::it do you do in church?
You sing, man do we sing.
What ahout music and· contempora l'Y struggh•!-.,.
1I0w
of
Foreign struggles are chronil-1eu
111
lJJU..-:,.t\. •
vu~ llldt., '"''--'"""•-- ..;
to mind is in the ghetto streets
of Trenchtown, . Jamaica, where
the mack man is ag::iin fighting
fol' survival on the poverty stricken side of that beautiful island.
While
insensitive lily-whites
soak in the beaches, the real
Jamaicans rot away in Trenchtown, fighting for existence with
t the flerceness of their music's>
A3k anyone who was there, la
musica was at the hillside fires
when Villa's and .Zapata's men
were resting up for another bat'. it ' against the hated federales.
: The campesino has hrought his
music with him to the fields and
campitos that serve this nation's.
agricultural center::.. To them,
el corrido is a way to take his
mind off of el pinche sol that
is burning his stooped back. or
the fierce cold that is piercing
his shack in tne labor camp
(plantation). Through the bolero,
he can tell his woman how much
he appreciates her being by his
side by singing her love songs
that
praise her beauty and
strength.
And what do we have here?
Salsa!!! Where diditcomefrom'?
Where it came from is an
entirely different
srory, ous
where it was at is easy enough.
Salsa has been here for years.
Ask· Tito, he'll tell you, he was
there.
Salsa is in the sonJs of those
who are 'SUFving the gnetto world
of Spanish Harlem, ancf other
ghettos of N:YC. To many, it
is a way to forget that the rent
is due tommorrow, pero, no hay
dinero pa ' manana. It's also
at the -party they threw -for
Rosita when she was the nrst
one in her family to graduate
fr.om high school!
Man, they
almost wore t)lat Gran' Combo
alhum out that night-baila, baila,
mas baila!
Hey, everyhod}' likes to dance,
sing or even hum. Music, to just
about everybody plays some part
of their life. providing an outlet
r
(reggae) p1Usat11,ir lleat. Ht!gg.,e
also illustrates the dread-locked
citizens' love for their chosen
messiah, J:tll', thanks to people
like Boh )larley.
for their joys and sorrows. Now,
Nowadays, Chicanos show up at
I hope you understand that it
,fances with their best threads on,
helps us all in our struggles,
t'eady to pick up (or he picked _ and through it we can share that
up), dance and enjoy, or get
load.
'fuuuC'ked up'.
~lusic is for
''Get up, stand up
1 1ving a good time • .
stand up for your rights.
But i! you think about it,music
Get up stand up
\Va::i l1Clu. , 1U lll'11J .\
~ u~·... ,--don't give up the fight"
the Chicano has gone through.
L Bob Marley
\. I •
.. _ . ..... -
..
L-a Raza Studies started the
Spring 1978 semester wU 1hi:
addition of five new parttime
faculty members.
Andres Segura, who has taught
two, classes here last spring,
is teaching classes on pre-hispanic civilization, folklore of
the southwest, and folk medicine
of medicine (curar;i.r!erismo).
in order to help themselves and
others."
Teaching Baste Writing (LR 10)
is newly arrived Juan Arambula.
Juan received his a.A. in English
and Spanish literature at Harvard
College. In 1977 he received bis
Masters in Administration and
Policy Analyses at Stanford, and
hopes to attend law school in the
near future. Talking about his
basic writing class, Arambula
said, "In general, if people expect
to get ahead, in whatever they are
doing, they should be able to ex-
press thems8lves .•. to be able
to argue their case, in whatever
area or field or work they
choose."
A La Raza Studies course in
Poverty and Discrimination is
being taught by Luis Contreras
a 1975 gradutae of CSUF. Contreras holds a B.A. in Social
Welfare.
Bilingual Education is being
ta.ught by Gloria Watts, another
addition to the La Raza· Studies
faculty. ,
Segura, who has dedicated his
life to ''la danza", speaks well
of the Fresno area, "Siempre
me siento bien en Fresno. Es
una ciudad agricola y la agricola es la base, mi familia,
aunque yo naci en la ciudad, es
del campo.'' (I always feel comfortable in Fresno. Fresno is
an agricultural city, and agriculture is tne t_oundation, its tfie
base. My family, although I was
born in the city, are from the
fields.")
Another parttime instructor
for La Raza Studies is Irene
Lopez-Aparicio. Irene teaches
Chicano health care, La Raza
A reception Tuesday, Feb. 14 last from 6-9 o'clock pm an.:.
117. Aparicio, who has a B.A.
will kick off ''Corazon De will Include music, poetry readIN RECREATION . ADMINISTR
Aztlan", another Chicano art Ing and a performace by Teatro
also works at Fresno Community
Show featuring the works of La Espiritu, the CSUF Chicano
Hospital as a recreation theraBrocha Del Valle artists.
theatre troupe. The poetry read~
pist in the mental health wards.
La Brocha is the only Chicana- ings will be conducted by three
She is also a licensed psych!Chicano artists organization in local writers including Rudy
atr_ic technician~
the central $an Joaquin Valley. Gallardo, a former CSUF literaAparicio feels 11 Chicanosaren't
"Corazon De Aztlan" will be ture professor.Community people
into
recreation · that much.
on exhibit through March 5 at are invited to attend this recepPeople should reconize that recTres cres, La Brocha's store tion and enjoy a cup of chocoreation is very important for
'located at 3639 Ventura st. in late mexicano and pan mexicano,
physical and mental well-being."
Fresno. The show will include (mexican sweet breaq)_.
Commenting on LaRazaStudies
sculpture, paintings, and other · _ Corazon De A·z tlan is the
here at CSUF, Aparicio feels
WQrks · of Brocha members, in- first major show since "Sabor
that ''Through the La Raza Stueluding well-known veteran art- of Fresno", which was publicly
dies program Chi~nos and · ists Ernie Palomino and Francico exhibited in December 1976. AdAnglos can gain a sense of idenBarrios. The two teach in the mission to the upcoming show is
·tidy and appreciate their culCSUF ArfDepartment.
free.
Gallery hours will be
ture. Also learn to work effecThe Feb. 14 reception will announced later.
tively in the dominant culture .,___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___.
La Brocha
Art Show
I
Baby Ku Klux Klanners Get
Help From Bigoted Elders
H_igh school _Ku Klux Klan
members have claimed respm1•• .
sibaity for · baseball bat attacks
on homosexuals, and a weries of
cros burnings, the Oklahoma City
Times reported Wednesday.
The newspap{l_r said klaverns
have been organized in at least
two
metropolitan - area high
schools, with homosexuals and
''special favors" to blacks as
the primary targets.
''The only people we won't
let in are girls, blacks, jews
or dope smokers and e might
consider C~tholics if the time
comes,'' a 16-year-old Putnam
City High School student said.
The newspaper said the Putnam
City group had a roster of 52
and estimates of .l)'lembership
in a Bethany, Okla. Klan ranged
from 60 to 80.
''We are standing up for what
we think is right, even il other
people don't think we are doing
the right thing," a Putnam City
member said. "We are not just
against blacks like the old llan,
but we are against gays and the
clubs that support them, and are
going to ry and shut them down
because this activity is
because this activity is morally
and socially wrong."
Students said formal meetings,
where card-carrying members
wear full robes and hoods, are
held near CouµciJ. Road in northwest Oklahoma Ctiy.
one member said the high
school grops had received information and instruction sheets
from the knights of the Ju Klux
Klan, "even on making the robes
and hats."
· "There is a brief ritual there
and ten it is basically like e:veryoen thinks." a Putnam City member daod. "The leader gets up
and lia.ngs the cross as we circle
it and then stands up on a p.iatform or tbe back ot a pickup
.Que
Another media venture dealing with Latinos but still basically run by non-Latinos has hit
the airwaves with ''Que Pasa,
America?''.
The Public Broadcasting Service PBS) announced in a press
release issued last month, the
premier of a half-hour comedy
program to be aired for 18 weeks,
starting last Jan. 1.
" 'Que Pasa, USA?' explores
the trials and tribulations faced
by the Penas in Miami as they
struggle to cope with anewcountry and a new language, just as
many immigrants did before
and gives a little speech before
talking about what our next project or raid will be.''
Pasa?
them,,,.-states the release.
The situations deal with a
Cuban family in Miami's Little
Havana section.
The series is supposed to be
bilingual with what was termed
''Spanglish'': the combination of
both English and Spanish in the
episodes.
La Voz encourages readers
who tune in to the show to send
. us their opinions of the show.
Send them to La Voz in care
.of tha Collegian here at CSUF
or the La -Raza Studies offices
in San Ramon 4, Room 116-118.
Literature ··Award Offered
BERKELEY-Tonatiuh International, Inc., announces for 1978
the PREMIO TONATIUH-Quinto
SOL awards for literature by
Chicano authors Ii ving in the
United States, and for Mexican
authors living in Mexico.
One winner form each of the
two nations will receive a OneThousand Dollar ($1,000) cash
award, and travel, by air, to
San Francisco, California to participate
in the awards ceremonies.
All entries submitted for 1978
must be typewritten, doublespaced, with a minimum of 150
pages, in English, Spanish, or
both languages combined.
Entries may consist of a novel,
collection of short stories, or
experimental writing. All must
be original, the authors own work,
and previously unpublished.
Deadline for submitting entries
is June 31, 1978. The announcement of the awards will be made
August 31, 1978. Each of the
two winning entries will be pul:>lished and distributed by TONATIUH
INTERNATIONAL
and_
QtJINTO SOL PUBLICATIONS.
!11 auu1uuu ~u u11::i
awaru UI,l)J.,UUU
(US), the winning authors will
receive a minimum of 10% rovalties.
·
For complete information,
contact:
Octavio I. Rornano-V., PhD, Senior Editor
PREMIO TONATIUH-Quinto SOL
2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite #1106
Berkeley, California USA
Inc.
Mexican Cultural Center Moves Ahead
By Dianne Soiis
Chihuahua Tortilleria's proposed cultural center inoved
closer to reality yesterday with
Fresno City Council's 4-2 decision to reconsider a west Fresno
property sale.
,
Both the Chihuahua Tortilleria
and the State Center Community
College District (SCCCD) want
to buy the prop~rty on the northwest corner of Fresno and 'E'
streets.
The SCCCD plan to
build an adult training center on
the site.
The city council, acting as
the Redevelopment Agency, has
referred the matter to the courts
for a decision.
Plans for the $3 million Mexican cultural center include a
restaurant, curio shops, a delicatessen and a self-tour tor-
tilleria factory. The shops will
encircle a garden -plaza.
Chihuahua Tortllleria co-owner
Prank Villegas said Spanishspeaking TV channel 21 and radio
station KGST have expressed an
interest in building studios in
conjunction with the center.
Villegas and his attorney,
Stanton Levy, informed the council the project would genrate
·$WO 000 in tax revenue, pro- -vide ' job opportunities and enhance the community's image of
west Fresno.
Villegas· said Chihuahua Tortilleria has matched SCCCD's
$195,681 offer for the property
and offered to reimburse SCCCD
for their architectural expenses
should the . college district lose
the ease.
Mayor Dan. Whitehurst and
councilman Elvin Bell recom(Continued on p.2)
Chicano Initiative
..
Mechista priorities • -Vo/pp plan,elecfions, IRA
CSUF'S MEChA enters the
spring semester ~ plans to
take the initiative on issues pertaining to minorities.
President Juan Mendoza said
' Chicano priorities include academic
vice-president Louis
Volpp's re-organization plan, the
upcoming student elections and
recruitment.
Another issue which MEChA
had become involved last semester was the Instructionally Related Activities contra'Ct controversy.
However, the recent
action by the CSUC Board of
Trustees to raise student fees
on behalf of IRA funding dilutes
the issue somewhat.
"We'll wait to see how Ba2Cter and the Senate react now,"
said Mendoza.
Mendoza offered some comments to La Voz on the eve
of MEChA 's first meeting of the
semester last Thursday. The
nine- year- old organization
meets every Thursday at 12: 30
in the upstairs cafeteria.
"We have to keep an eye on
the administration regarding the
reorganization plap," said Mendoza. "MEChA will have to take
• the initiative if La Raza Studies
gets in danger.,,
The term "reorganization"
has been used by the administration recently in efforts to face
budget cuts as a result of declining enrollment.
One suggestion submitted calls for an
"interdisciplinary school" which
would e_!!lbody certain university
academic programs such as La
Raza Studies.
LRS and MEChA feel such a a
move would be contrary to the
intent of the program and would
violate the university's commitment to improving higher education as it regards Chicanos.
MEChistas would like to see LRS1
departmentalized. In the spring
of 1975, minorities occupied Baxter's office for 5 days and 5
nights to demonstrate their concern for the program.
"La Raza Studies' importance
is hard to put into words," saiq
Mendoza. "It's like having a
second job. The administration
can't just do anything it wants
with it."
Mendoza said MEChA will also
·pay
1 " an im~r
.
t an t ~o 1e " m
. the
student elections comrng up. He
-said one of the organization's
heavier concerns has been in student government.
Ihr.hel Mendoza,, an · unsuccessful candidate last year but
an active student this· year, re, no involvement
Presented Chica
1-ast semester.
Native American-Indian Issue
Spurs-Cross-Country March
Native Americans across the
United States are joining together for a march that·will start
Feb.· 11 in Sacramento and end
in the Nation's capitol.
The March, dubbed, The
Longest Walk"- by its organizers is to focus national attention on the American Indian
Movement's opposition to antiIndian legislation in the U.S.
Congress.
California supporters will gather for a morning pipe cere11
mony on Alcatraz Island caravaning to Sacramento where a
2 o'clock p.m. rally will launch
the journey.
Dur{ng the Walk, which will
go through the middle of the
United States, workshops wm
be held at · ·-select Iocation5
dealing with the legislation.
Many people, Indians and nonIndians alike, are expec · to
join the march at many points
along its path.
Dennis Banlcs, AIM leader, _
,:==Historic UFW Boycotts' En
The boycott that made national waves and caused millions ,
of Americans to stop eating
grapes, lettuce and drinking Gallo
wine has come to an end.
At least that is the word from
Cesar Chavez whose United
-Farmworkers Union used the
boycott as a tool that at first
gained the union recognition from
stubborn growers, then began
to win the union some contracts,
and ultimately help establish the
first Agricultural Labor Relations Law in the state.
Chavez announced the end of
the boycott Tuesday morning
after the UFW Executive Board
voted to end the boycotts of
non-UFW table grapes, head or
iceberg lettuce and Gallo wines
'' in the spirit of cautious optimism,"
"She kept us informed on
everything coming down in with
the senate ," said Mendoza.
"With her, we kept on top of
the Senate. We dido 't Intend to
let anything go by."
Overall Mendoza felt MEChA
'
made several
significant accornContinued on Page 2
- But Cesar said the economic
boycott would not be put to rest.
"the farmworker boycott will
now be focused on the labels of
growers who refuse to negotiate
in good faith even after their
workers vote for the UFW in
secret ballot elections," he said.
The boycott became the muscle
of the union in the l960's and
later the inspiration of the Chicano movement as farmworkers
rose up against the powerful ,
agri-business interests that had
successfully, and quite often violently, squashed farmworker
union effarts in the past 100 years.
In addition to joining picket
lines at s_tores throughout the
nation, students brought the boycott to the university campuses.
At CSUF, union supporters were
instrumental in getting the uni-
versity to purchase union label ··
products, particularly lettuce,
and in boycotting the food services when the ' university did
not oblige.
The boycotts were successful
in bringing the likes of the Dlgiorgios (grapes), the Gallos
(wine), the Salinas lettuce growers and their compliant judges
who issued injunctions that broke
some UFW strikes, and the
Teamsters to their knees. From
there, the labor relation Ia.w
developed and grew, guaranteeing
farms the right to union elections.
.
The UFW signed more than
100 contracts with growers since
the ALRA began in the fall of
1975, said Chavez. This attributed .to ·union's decision to call
off the boycotts.
will lead the march only to the
California/Nevada line because
an extradition controversy pending. (GOV. Brown has refused
to extradite him to South Dakota,
which seeks to prosecute Banlcs.)
From there, Vern Bellecourt,
National Director on charge of
. international affairs, will lead
the march.
Supplies -are -urgently needed
to assist those marchingtoreaeh
their Washington, DC. goal by
mid-July. Donations are being
accepted at "Longest Walk" coordinating center, located atD-Q
University, P.O. Box·409, Davis,
CA 95616 (916) 758-0470 ext. 46.
EOP
Forms Due
Applications are now being ac:..
cepted
for the Educatio?al
opportunity Program at Callfornia State University in the Fall
1978 semester.
Students interested in learning
more about the Educational
Opportunity Program are encouraged to contact the EOP
office in the Joyal Administration
Building on North Maple Avenue,
487-1021-
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Trustees· :
Empty Words?
The La Voz staff must take its turn in commenting on Ia.st
week's action by the California Sta.te University and Colleges
Board of Trustees.
In their regular meeting in Long Beach last week, the trustees
demonstrated their support for student a!firmative action by adopting a resolution to try and increase the enrollment of Chicano
students in the system's colleges.
It hopes to do this by creating recruitment programs for the
bilingual-bicultural teacher programs in the colleges, with the
idea that teachers who relate to Chicanos wm be able to encourage
more of them to enter the college.
The action centers specifically on Chicanos because we are
the most underrepresented ethnic group in the system. CSUC
officials have said, however, that they intend to eventually in
crease the enrollment of all underrepresented minority groups.
Of course, for years . Chicanos and other minorities have
maintained that we were being ignored by the universities, that
the university was doing little more than it bad to help open the
doors of opportunity for us. Any real efforts we've made on '?ur
own through programs such as La Raza Studies t Ethnic studies,
EOP, MEChA, etc.
Even with those programs, we have been caught up in constant
battles to keep them strong •..•every semester we have to justify
to somebody why we should exist.
The trustees are saying, ''yes, ••• we must address this problem and overcome it, instead of fighting each other." They e
saying.• .''you guys are for real.
You are there, we recognize
that problems exist, and that your point is well taken."
The years of "battling'', of demonstrating, of frustrating
meetings have. . • if only for a moment ..• brought some sort
of a victory. ·
We commend the Raza on the chancellor's staff for i.t s achievements in this matter. The Chicano movement rings up welcome
plus in this age of Bakke-ism.
But the victory must be taken cautiously ••• for this is not
the first time . we have been told " good things" only to have the
rhetoric turn out to be cruel, empty words. We must understand
that the university still has a long way to go. For all we know,
the trustee's action is more for its economics than for its social
value. If they can get more of us. •.. they get more enrollment,
more FTE .. • and more dollars.
But that would be defeatist for us to feel that way. Instead,
we welcome the trustee's committment and hope that realities
will henceforth truly be dealt with.
a
La Voz de Aztlan Staff •
Immediate student action is
needed to prevent several La
Raza Studies classes from being
dropped. The classes are lacking a sufficient Full Time_Enrollment (FTE) to keep the
courses alive. La Raza Studies
faculty urges students to enroll
in one -or more of the classes.
The classes are: Chicano
Politics; Chicano Directed Writ•
ing; Pre-Hispanic Civilization;
Folklore of Mexico and the Southwest; Discrimination and Pover-
From SENTIMIENTOS: " ••• through
this conference, MEChA at CSUF strives
to familiarize younger Chicano students
with the college. For five years, N,IEChA
students at CSUF have made efforts to
provide the opportunity to CYC participants ••• "
La Voz de Aztlan would like to congratulate all involved in the organization
of the Chicano Youth Conference.
A reportar for La Voz, i, on assignment
The Third World Coalition
gr oup welcomes you back to
school and wi shes that all you .
brothers and sisters who are.
of high principles and desires
join us~ We are a group formed
towards reality. He added that
many people felt Chicanos c-nuU
not finance a $3 million pr0J9Cf.
''But ' We· made people say 'Si,
Se puede'-•lt can be done.'!
The entrepreneur was quick to
emphasize that the proposed
tourist attraction was a community service. "We' re doing this
without losing mtr haart and our·
head to the community,'' he said.
of minorities and women on campus that see the resources needed
for our growth diminishing. A
group that is against institutional
racism at CSUF and one who
beli ~ves that equal education
shouM be made available to all,
not only to professional disciples
of Skinner psychology,, Cami
have fun, enjoy lengthy and open
discussions on what is happening
to the sur vival .ofhumandecency,
Our meetings are held eve ry
Monday at 5:00 p.m. in the Student Union. Together we will
never be undermined.
Bakke Decision Due In Spring,
Magazine
Ready·
mended a thumbs-down decision
on the reconsideration, echo \ 7
assistant city attorney Jame;
McKelvey's opinion that the cityr
had a legal committment to the
district.
Villegas was optimistic that
community support, particularly
'flmong the Latino population
ould spur the business project
at the CYC, was asking s tudents who
attended, what they thought of the conference. Our conclusion echoes theirs:
"• •• Those kids who came here for
a .,free ride' aren't stoppi ng us from
getting something O!}t of this. From
rapping to other people, I think th at the
people who c~me here to get som ething
out of this are getting is ••• ,,
In our eyes, that is succes s .
Third World .. Not Jusf Skin ners
1st. CSUF
Chicano
Continued from Page l
ty; Mental Health and Chicanos;
and Chicano Theatre.
For more information contact
La Raza Studies located in 8an
Ramon #4, Room 116-118. Phone
487-2848.
Your urgent coope~tion is
needed.
CYC ·c ommittee iA Toda -Madre!
by Stan Santos
Co1111cil reconsiders cultural center
...
Don't -Let La- Raza Down·
·
The Anti . Bakke Decision
Coalition calls on students,
teachers, University workers
and membe rs of the comrnui1 ·•
ity to continue to organize
against the Bakke Decision,
When the Supreme Court ~ands
down 1-~s ruling this Spring,
it may destroy Specia:. Adm i. ss1::>n'3, AfL _rm:Jti,.r;1 Actil)•l a t:i
,,l.'. 1~r :l;~ -~-:;-: a::/ ;)r~gra1n<.> f Jr
bettering the futures of minorities and women.
ABDC members feel everyone
will suffer from the effects of
F_rank Villegas, who has lent much support to
Chicano causes ~ver th_e ye?rs, is f_ighting City
Hall to expand his torttflerio business and ·
build a cultural center on contested fond.
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LA VOZ de AZTLAN
this case. Ironically, those who
will suffer the most are those
who are the least aware of it ..
Tjley are the Blacks and Chicanos
families whb live in the crowded
"Tortilla
Flats" or Funston
Housing Projects; th~y 1re thJ ~
women who pass hal( of their
Ii ves standing in line at the
Fresno County Welfare Departmant; they are the campesinos ,
who work the fields · and live
shorter lives so that people can
be fed. Finally, those who will
suffer will be the children of
all these people, who hope to
break the cycle, and become·
doctors, lawy{;l"S or- profession-als in other areas.
·
efforts. The ABDC will meet
on Thursday, Feb. 2 at the
Sunset Comm unity Center,
1345 W. Eden. For information
call 224-5677, or 439-0215.
MEChA Priorilie
-Set Forth
Continued from Page l
pltshments last semester.
MEChA was mainly respon•
sible for the establishment of
the Third World Coalition.
"Chicano students sought out
Black . students, Iranian students
and Native Ame ricans _to get
In coming weeks, the ABDC
together, n he said.
will go before local governing
"All of us wer e having our own
bodies such as the City Counlittle battles. We said instead
. cil, and County Board of Super of having thes e little . battles,
visors to request a resolution
let's get togethe r and move to•
against the Bakke Decision
gether •.,
and in favor or Affirmative~
The unity of minority students
Action programs for minoriwas exercised at a demonstra•
ties and women. On Monday,
tion on campus last December,
Feb. · 27, a forum will be held
Over
100 Native-American,
at the Sunset Community CenYBlacks, Iranians and Chicanos
ter for the purpose of informmarched- in solidarity through the
ing the community of the imThomas Administration Building,
plications of the Bakke deciwhere President Norman Baxter
sion. In addition to the paneland Volpp's offices are located,
ists who will give their pers1 'We
got a lot of good re•
pectives of the effects of the
sponse not only from people joinDecision, ther~ wlll be a culing us in the demonstration but
tural presentation and slUe
from observers who sent word
show. Students and concerned indi- that Baxter and Volpp were caught
off guard and were frightened. "
viduals should join in these
SENTIMIENTOS Del Valle, the
first Chicano creativity magazine
produced by CSUF students, made
jitS debut at the MEC ttA Chicano
Youth Conference last month.
Copies are still a vaila.ble ln
La Raza Studies, EOP, and the
Daily Collegian. Staff members
have begun plans for the next
issue scheduled for May, 1978.
LA VOZ DE AZTLAN STAFF
Any persons interested in jolll• _
ing the staff may attend meetings
Editor
. . • . • . • • • . . • • . . • • • • • Feli~ J. Cgntreras
on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the·· .
Assistant Editor
. • . • • • •.•.•.••••••.••• Elvia Ruiz
Dean's conference room, 1:>an
Reporters. • • • • . . . . . • • • Arturo Ocampo, Pedro Ramirez
Ramon 4, Room 220, above La
Stan santos, Dianne Solis
Raza Studies.
Photographer • . . . • • • . .•.•••••••••••.•.• Stan Santos
The staff is also seeking fiContributors . . . . •.••.•••..•• Rudy Gallardo, Celia Ponce
na.ndil donations for the magaGeorge Verdugo
zine.
For more information,
Spiritual Advisor
. . . . • • • • • • . . . . • . . . . • . . Ometeotl
call 487-?848 or 875-3314.
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LA VOZ de AZTLAN
FEBRUARY 1 , 1978
PAGE 3
MEChA's 5th CYC
May Be The Best Yet
by Elvia Ruiz
The 19"78 Chicano Youth Conference has proved to be one of
the best ever held, according
to some CYC committee members.
Juan Ocampo, general cochairperson of the conference,
stated this year's CYC attracted
an estimated 1,400 students from
throughout Califo!nia.
11
We had sludents com1ng from
said.
as far as East Los Angles, San · MEChA president Juan M,~ndoza
Jose .and Salinas Valley as well
attributed the success of the
as from the entire San Joaquin
conference to the skillful preValley,'' he said.
paration and organization of the
According to Ocampo, the
CYC committee,
number o! participants, along
"The CYC committee did a
with the ~ariety of generalnterest
hell of a job," he said. "They
and career workshops and guest
made our CSUF conference one
speakers, m2dc the conference
of the best around,'' he added.
a success~
Mendoza said the students
"The workshops were very
were very much .interested in
well-received especially since
the workshops and that partisome of them (workshops) were
cipating counselors were impacked with students," Ocampo
pressed with the conference.
Jesus Sepulveda, three-year
CYC veteran, agreed the conference was well-received by all
who attended.
"The students I_ spoke to
said they were very interested
in the conference and were glad
to be given the opportunity to
participate," he said.
According to Sepulveda, the
conference was successful bep
cause as a ·result many students
became interested in continuing
their education.
''We had 100 junior and senior
high school students ask for EOP
CYC Committee · member Priscilla Contreros
application materials. An addihelped make signs a few nights before the contional 30 students asked to be
ference.
put on lists to have this material
sitively towards the CYC,
sent to them. This proves we
workshops was a major improve:
"T,~e students I spoke with
succeeded in doing our job,''
ment. Re~tration was quicker,
said
the:' re3lly enjoyed the conhe said.
also,,, she said.
ference. One person I talked
CYC committee secretary Maria
to said the CYC helped her make
Correa estimated between 42
Correa, a high school participant .
and 45 high schools participated
her decision about continuing her
last year, stated there was much
in the CYC, along with a . few _ education," Correa said. ''This
improvement in the CYC this
junior colleges., She said the
is what makes the conference
year.
conference was successful .in
successful, knowing some of the
"I saw a lot of improvement
reaching a wide area of students
students decide to continue their
ln this year's conferenceo The
and these students responded poeducation," she added.
mandatory attendance for the
The CYC school exhthits gave parti~ipants
a. chance to see the many aspects of cot lege
I,fe.
Nearly 1,400 students watched El Teatro perform at
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LA VOZ de AZTLAN
FEBRUARY 1, 1978
Five Join LRS
,
by Arturo qcampo
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Than Music
by Felix .T, Contreras
important a part clues
music play in the struggles of
people to ove1:comethoiroppression? Let's investig·ate.
Going har·k through U.S. hist~l'Y ~ 1we heard African slaves
srngrnt; songs from •their home.
To them, song · was a way to
ease the paln
the shackles
bolted on_ them by the dreaded
white man. Son·g also was the
escape the American born decencfents of once-nohle Africans used
to take their mind off the heat
of the field, or the fierce cold
of their one room shack on the
plantation. Sunday church singing
was the thing that brought the
people together and united them
in spirit.
Much later, in the days when
Rev. King was leading the fight
for civil rights, music is what
brought the mack man together.
Rev. King was of the church,
and wh::it do you do in church?
You sing, man do we sing.
What ahout music and· contempora l'Y struggh•!-.,.
1I0w
of
Foreign struggles are chronil-1eu
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vu~ llldt., '"''--'"""•-- ..;
to mind is in the ghetto streets
of Trenchtown, . Jamaica, where
the mack man is ag::iin fighting
fol' survival on the poverty stricken side of that beautiful island.
While
insensitive lily-whites
soak in the beaches, the real
Jamaicans rot away in Trenchtown, fighting for existence with
t the flerceness of their music's>
A3k anyone who was there, la
musica was at the hillside fires
when Villa's and .Zapata's men
were resting up for another bat'. it ' against the hated federales.
: The campesino has hrought his
music with him to the fields and
campitos that serve this nation's.
agricultural center::.. To them,
el corrido is a way to take his
mind off of el pinche sol that
is burning his stooped back. or
the fierce cold that is piercing
his shack in tne labor camp
(plantation). Through the bolero,
he can tell his woman how much
he appreciates her being by his
side by singing her love songs
that
praise her beauty and
strength.
And what do we have here?
Salsa!!! Where diditcomefrom'?
Where it came from is an
entirely different
srory, ous
where it was at is easy enough.
Salsa has been here for years.
Ask· Tito, he'll tell you, he was
there.
Salsa is in the sonJs of those
who are 'SUFving the gnetto world
of Spanish Harlem, ancf other
ghettos of N:YC. To many, it
is a way to forget that the rent
is due tommorrow, pero, no hay
dinero pa ' manana. It's also
at the -party they threw -for
Rosita when she was the nrst
one in her family to graduate
fr.om high school!
Man, they
almost wore t)lat Gran' Combo
alhum out that night-baila, baila,
mas baila!
Hey, everyhod}' likes to dance,
sing or even hum. Music, to just
about everybody plays some part
of their life. providing an outlet
r
(reggae) p1Usat11,ir lleat. Ht!gg.,e
also illustrates the dread-locked
citizens' love for their chosen
messiah, J:tll', thanks to people
like Boh )larley.
for their joys and sorrows. Now,
Nowadays, Chicanos show up at
I hope you understand that it
,fances with their best threads on,
helps us all in our struggles,
t'eady to pick up (or he picked _ and through it we can share that
up), dance and enjoy, or get
load.
'fuuuC'ked up'.
~lusic is for
''Get up, stand up
1 1ving a good time • .
stand up for your rights.
But i! you think about it,music
Get up stand up
\Va::i l1Clu. , 1U lll'11J .\
~ u~·... ,--don't give up the fight"
the Chicano has gone through.
L Bob Marley
\. I •
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..
L-a Raza Studies started the
Spring 1978 semester wU 1hi:
addition of five new parttime
faculty members.
Andres Segura, who has taught
two, classes here last spring,
is teaching classes on pre-hispanic civilization, folklore of
the southwest, and folk medicine
of medicine (curar;i.r!erismo).
in order to help themselves and
others."
Teaching Baste Writing (LR 10)
is newly arrived Juan Arambula.
Juan received his a.A. in English
and Spanish literature at Harvard
College. In 1977 he received bis
Masters in Administration and
Policy Analyses at Stanford, and
hopes to attend law school in the
near future. Talking about his
basic writing class, Arambula
said, "In general, if people expect
to get ahead, in whatever they are
doing, they should be able to ex-
press thems8lves .•. to be able
to argue their case, in whatever
area or field or work they
choose."
A La Raza Studies course in
Poverty and Discrimination is
being taught by Luis Contreras
a 1975 gradutae of CSUF. Contreras holds a B.A. in Social
Welfare.
Bilingual Education is being
ta.ught by Gloria Watts, another
addition to the La Raza· Studies
faculty. ,
Segura, who has dedicated his
life to ''la danza", speaks well
of the Fresno area, "Siempre
me siento bien en Fresno. Es
una ciudad agricola y la agricola es la base, mi familia,
aunque yo naci en la ciudad, es
del campo.'' (I always feel comfortable in Fresno. Fresno is
an agricultural city, and agriculture is tne t_oundation, its tfie
base. My family, although I was
born in the city, are from the
fields.")
Another parttime instructor
for La Raza Studies is Irene
Lopez-Aparicio. Irene teaches
Chicano health care, La Raza
A reception Tuesday, Feb. 14 last from 6-9 o'clock pm an.:.
117. Aparicio, who has a B.A.
will kick off ''Corazon De will Include music, poetry readIN RECREATION . ADMINISTR
Aztlan", another Chicano art Ing and a performace by Teatro
also works at Fresno Community
Show featuring the works of La Espiritu, the CSUF Chicano
Hospital as a recreation theraBrocha Del Valle artists.
theatre troupe. The poetry read~
pist in the mental health wards.
La Brocha is the only Chicana- ings will be conducted by three
She is also a licensed psych!Chicano artists organization in local writers including Rudy
atr_ic technician~
the central $an Joaquin Valley. Gallardo, a former CSUF literaAparicio feels 11 Chicanosaren't
"Corazon De Aztlan" will be ture professor.Community people
into
recreation · that much.
on exhibit through March 5 at are invited to attend this recepPeople should reconize that recTres cres, La Brocha's store tion and enjoy a cup of chocoreation is very important for
'located at 3639 Ventura st. in late mexicano and pan mexicano,
physical and mental well-being."
Fresno. The show will include (mexican sweet breaq)_.
Commenting on LaRazaStudies
sculpture, paintings, and other · _ Corazon De A·z tlan is the
here at CSUF, Aparicio feels
WQrks · of Brocha members, in- first major show since "Sabor
that ''Through the La Raza Stueluding well-known veteran art- of Fresno", which was publicly
dies program Chi~nos and · ists Ernie Palomino and Francico exhibited in December 1976. AdAnglos can gain a sense of idenBarrios. The two teach in the mission to the upcoming show is
·tidy and appreciate their culCSUF ArfDepartment.
free.
Gallery hours will be
ture. Also learn to work effecThe Feb. 14 reception will announced later.
tively in the dominant culture .,___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___.
La Brocha
Art Show
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Baby Ku Klux Klanners Get
Help From Bigoted Elders
H_igh school _Ku Klux Klan
members have claimed respm1•• .
sibaity for · baseball bat attacks
on homosexuals, and a weries of
cros burnings, the Oklahoma City
Times reported Wednesday.
The newspap{l_r said klaverns
have been organized in at least
two
metropolitan - area high
schools, with homosexuals and
''special favors" to blacks as
the primary targets.
''The only people we won't
let in are girls, blacks, jews
or dope smokers and e might
consider C~tholics if the time
comes,'' a 16-year-old Putnam
City High School student said.
The newspaper said the Putnam
City group had a roster of 52
and estimates of .l)'lembership
in a Bethany, Okla. Klan ranged
from 60 to 80.
''We are standing up for what
we think is right, even il other
people don't think we are doing
the right thing," a Putnam City
member said. "We are not just
against blacks like the old llan,
but we are against gays and the
clubs that support them, and are
going to ry and shut them down
because this activity is
because this activity is morally
and socially wrong."
Students said formal meetings,
where card-carrying members
wear full robes and hoods, are
held near CouµciJ. Road in northwest Oklahoma Ctiy.
one member said the high
school grops had received information and instruction sheets
from the knights of the Ju Klux
Klan, "even on making the robes
and hats."
· "There is a brief ritual there
and ten it is basically like e:veryoen thinks." a Putnam City member daod. "The leader gets up
and lia.ngs the cross as we circle
it and then stands up on a p.iatform or tbe back ot a pickup
.Que
Another media venture dealing with Latinos but still basically run by non-Latinos has hit
the airwaves with ''Que Pasa,
America?''.
The Public Broadcasting Service PBS) announced in a press
release issued last month, the
premier of a half-hour comedy
program to be aired for 18 weeks,
starting last Jan. 1.
" 'Que Pasa, USA?' explores
the trials and tribulations faced
by the Penas in Miami as they
struggle to cope with anewcountry and a new language, just as
many immigrants did before
and gives a little speech before
talking about what our next project or raid will be.''
Pasa?
them,,,.-states the release.
The situations deal with a
Cuban family in Miami's Little
Havana section.
The series is supposed to be
bilingual with what was termed
''Spanglish'': the combination of
both English and Spanish in the
episodes.
La Voz encourages readers
who tune in to the show to send
. us their opinions of the show.
Send them to La Voz in care
.of tha Collegian here at CSUF
or the La -Raza Studies offices
in San Ramon 4, Room 116-118.
Literature ··Award Offered
BERKELEY-Tonatiuh International, Inc., announces for 1978
the PREMIO TONATIUH-Quinto
SOL awards for literature by
Chicano authors Ii ving in the
United States, and for Mexican
authors living in Mexico.
One winner form each of the
two nations will receive a OneThousand Dollar ($1,000) cash
award, and travel, by air, to
San Francisco, California to participate
in the awards ceremonies.
All entries submitted for 1978
must be typewritten, doublespaced, with a minimum of 150
pages, in English, Spanish, or
both languages combined.
Entries may consist of a novel,
collection of short stories, or
experimental writing. All must
be original, the authors own work,
and previously unpublished.
Deadline for submitting entries
is June 31, 1978. The announcement of the awards will be made
August 31, 1978. Each of the
two winning entries will be pul:>lished and distributed by TONATIUH
INTERNATIONAL
and_
QtJINTO SOL PUBLICATIONS.
!11 auu1uuu ~u u11::i
awaru UI,l)J.,UUU
(US), the winning authors will
receive a minimum of 10% rovalties.
·
For complete information,
contact:
Octavio I. Rornano-V., PhD, Senior Editor
PREMIO TONATIUH-Quinto SOL
2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite #1106
Berkeley, California USA