La Voz de Aztlan, August 7 1979
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La Voz de Aztlan, August 7 1979
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LA VOZ de AZ·T LAN
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Aug. 7, 1979
Friday
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HuelgiSta turnou~
nets UFW victory
by Margarita Martinez
and Ricardo Pimentel
Farmworker persistence in the eightmonth-long
United
Farmworkers
Union lettuce strike has finally paid off
with agreements reached by some
growers and the UFW. Sun Harvest, the
largest lettuce grower · in the nation, is
among the growers who have come to
terms.
The four contract agreements follow a
massive August 11 march and rally in
Salinas by Huelgistas and supporters.
The strikers and their supporters
marched 25,000 strong, according to
usually conservative police estimates,
in the streets of the "lettuce capitol of
the world" to demonstrate unity,
strength and an intention to win the
struggle for better wages and benefits.
Cesar Chavez, apparently unweakened by water-only fast. for "'love and
patience," marched at the head of a
blocks-long column entering the city
from the south. A smaller group
marched in from the north to meet the
Chavez-led group at the city's center.
Salinas was the last leg of a long
journey which began in San Franc;isco
for one group and the southern tip of the
lettuce rich Salinas Valley for the other
group. At first it seemed that grower
claims that the strike was impotent
would be proven correct by the small
number of people who
began the
march. However, by the time Salinas
was in sight, the marcher's ranks had
swelled into the thousands, leaving no
doubt of public and farmworker support.
The overcast Saturday morning·
began early for the weary marchers.
Sleeping children had to be roused and
preparations made for the final miles
into the city. Marchers at both ends of
Salinas solemnly attended mass before
beginning.
Marching alongside Chavez was 73
year old Amparo Vasquez, a veteran of
past farmworker struggles. The march
brought together a variety of supporters
with clergy, ttte elderly, mariachis,
Anglos and city dwellers marching
alongside striking farmworker families.
With shouts of "Huelga! Huelga!"
the strikers began the orderly march.
"Chavez Si, Chiquita · No!" thousands
chanted as they snaked along Salinas
boulevard~ with local police acting as
escorts.
Union spokesman Marc Crossman at
first estimated 7,<XX) marchers began
from the southerly route. This figure was
revised hourly as supporters lined the
streets and emptied the houses along the
three mile route to join the Huelgistas.
Police estimated 25,000 marchers by the
time the northern and southern groups
met.
Governor Jerry Brown joined Chavez
to march the last mile to journey's end,
a local junior high school. There the
marchers rested, while mariachis entertained and speakers exhorted the farmworkers on to victory.
The governor and Chavez answered
reporters questions behind a stage.
Chavez accused some growers of mislabeling their products to avoid consumer boycotts and of illegally importing
aliens as strikebreakers in violation of
federal law.
Governor Brown said he attended the
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About 25,000 people, by polic:';;ifma~;;: ~~~;:;ged on the ,Salad Bowl of the
World" last month to express support for the United Farmworker Union's fight
for better wages and living conditions from lettuce growers. More photos on
page 4.
Affirmative action discovers CSUC
by Ricardo Pimentel
passed," comes about for two reasons,
La Voz Editor
according to the new state coordinator.
Affirmative action: The scourge of instiThe first reason is that the legislature
tutional racism and boon to oppressed
has mandated that CSUC immediately
minorities has officially found its place · develop programs that respond to· the
in academia.
~•severe underrepresentation of certain
Spearheading the drive in the CSUC minority groups in the system," Soriano
system is Dr. Esteban Soriano who said. The other, he added, was that "in
leaves as coordinator of the Recruiting a mercenary sense, in the age of decliStudents Via Parents Program at Fresno . ning enrollment, they have to look at
State to work in the Chancellor's office different enrollment pools."
as Student Affirmative Action State CoSoriano will draw on his experience as
ordinator.
RSVP director to help in his new job.
It's a brand new position and Soriano That experience has largely taught him
will be the first to occupy the post. that "the procedures and requirements
He was chosen from over 500 applicants for regular admissions are incredibly
following a nationwide search.
biased and only manage to bring in a
The CSUC' s interest in student affir- certain kind of student -- middle class
mative action, which Soriano defines as and from upward mobile families with
"an official position to open up the long histories of college attendance,"
universities to individuals typically by- Soriano said.
Soriano advocates that "we take a long
hard look" at changing admissions
requirements . "There is very little correlation between high school transcripts
and how well a student does in college,
Soriano noted. "SAT and ACT have
been shown to be culturally biased
tests in examinations conducted by the
Enrollment problems
plague CSUF, page 2
makers of the tests. Studies also show
that rural residents with low GPAs are
no less intelligent than urban dwellers
with high GPAs," Soriano added.
Yet because officials persist in playing
what Soriano calls the numbers game, it
is the student not traditionally recruited
who loses . Soriano said he values high
scores and GPAs much less than he
does "face to face personal contact in
evaluating a person's potential in meeting the challenges of college ."
Statistics bear out Soriano' s claim that
the admissions system works against
some. Chicanos, for instance, are about
30 percent of California's population
yet constitute only about 6.6 percent of
the state's univ~rsity popuJation .
While Chicanos are the most extreme
case of underrepresentation, the state ,. s
afffrmative action program will not deal
exdusively with their problems, Soriano
said.
Vietnam yeteran.s, displaced
housewives, people reentering college
after long absences and other minority
groups will also be targets of the state's
efforts.
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CoD1D1entario
Editorial
They said it couldn't be done. Actually, they said it shouldn't be done, but
we 're back anyway.
·
La Voz de Aztlan is on the newstands for another semester ready to inform,
entertain, inspire and anger. Hopefully, we will be doing✓ those things to and
for you on a weekly basis.
.
We' II be tackling much of the same issues as in the past. It's not that we' re
unimaginative. It's just that the old problems don't seem to go away.
..
In the mid-60s, Cesar Chavez led the campesinos from las ubas (grapes) m
a dramatic protest against inhuman treatment by the growers. More than a
decade later, the United Fam Farmworkers Union is still fighting for a living
wage.
Chicanos have traditionally gone unrepresented on and off campus. Things
haven 't changed much. Fresno is saddled with ;J district system that enables
a candidate who is admittedly anti-affirmative action to be elected to the city
council to represent a largely minority constituency. We've yet to see any
substantial numbers of Chicanos elected to office on-campus either.
Bilingual education, off to a shakey start about 10 years ago, is still under
perpetual attack.
Middle Class America complains of inflation and eroded baying power
while Chicanos have always been barred from earning enough money to have
any buying power.
We will attempt to keep you up to date on all these issues and others
throughout the semester. We 've mananged to form a pretty effective staff
with which to do it. We do, however, require some help. If you have any story
ideas or poetry you'd like to see in print, let us know. La Voz is your newspaper. Use it.
Bilingual airwave~
for Valley listeners
Hugo Morales, President and Director
of the Board of Radio Bilingue Inc.,
announced at a recent press conference
that his ncm-profit organization has received a construction permit from the
Federal Communications Commission to
build a bilingual radio station . He predicts that the station will be completed
and ready to air in the summer of 1980.
Not ne~ly enough
First in a series
Look, we 're back
Don't be surprised if, while hunting
for something ear-pleasing on your FM
dial next summer, you come across a radio announcer unashamedly mixing his
Spanish adjectives with his Enlish
nouns.
Bilingual radio is an idea whose time
has come ·-- the first in the vaJley and
only the second in the country.
Chicano enrollees
·Aua. 7, 1979
La Voz de Aztlan
,
don't have wide community access," he
said. Morales added that when a station
is commercial there is more interest in
making money rather than rendering
community service.
Morale~ noted there is also a negative
aspect to a community radio station. The
drawback is that the station will always
be dependent on, often fickle, public
supR()rt. The drawback, however, is optimistically viewed as a plus by Morales.
"It's good because you have to be accountable to the people." KSJV will rely
heavily on volunteers for much of its
staffing.
It is imperative that bilingual radio
build a large following and wi.de public
support because the grant money will .
"dry up· the first year," according to
Morales. He estimates that operating
costs for the first year, which includes
the cost of an eight person staff, will be
$160,000.
Morales envisions a community _training program at KSJV and direct public
input into station programming. Remote
broadcasts from rural areas, informative
public affairs programming, and local
news shows are also in the works,
Morales said.
According to Morales, nothing could
be more natural than a bilingual radio
announcer inasmuch as 80 percent of the
Spanish-surnamed households in the
new statiqn 's area are bilingual. The
station will reach Valley residents between Bakersfield and Merced.
KSJV Radio, the proposed call letters
of the new station, wi 11 be located at 91
on the FM dial. The construction is made
possible by a $166,000 grant by the
Campaign for Human Development to .
Radio Bilingue Inc.
The 16,000 watt transmitter at Eshom
This just won't be your run-of-the-mill
Point is yet to be built but Morales is alpublic radio station, Morales said.
ready looking ahead to new challenges.
"There is a real difference between
"The real challenge," Morales said, "is
public radio and community radio." The producing quality programming that will
difference is community input and ser- serve the community."
vice, the 30-year old Harvard Law School
He apparently wouldn't have it any
graduate said. "Community radio is other way. "This is supposed to be a
geared towards people's needs." KS JV community project. The other way is to
will be a community radio effort accor- run a very quiet, elitist organization ...
ding to Morales.
'
but we want to trust people."
. Morales cited an advantage in conducAnyone interested in donating time or
ting a non-profit venture. "The price you money to Radio Bilingue can call
pay for - being C(2mmercial is that you 486-5174.
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by Steve Le Vine
La Voz Staff Writer
A large disparity in numbers still exists
between the local Chicano population
and CSUF 's Chicano enrollment,
although recent administration efforts
have reduced the gap.
Chicanos constitute approximately 30
per'cent of the total population in
CSUF's five county service a,rea, in contrast to the relatively small nine percent
of CSUF's total enrollment.
Some headway h~s been made over the
past .few- years in slackening the disparity, apparently a result of the success
of special recruiting programs, specifically the Educational Opportunity Program (which offers financial aid) and the
Recruiting Students Via Parents Program (RSVP) -- which combined have
brought several hundred Chicano students to CSUF. As of Fall 1978, the latest figures available, Chicano enrollment stood at 1,281.
Reasons for the disparity are not clear
but Dr. Lea Ybarra-Soriano, La Raza
Studies Director, betieves that at least
, part of the problem lies in the high
school counselor's offices in CSUF's
drawing area.
"There are racist attitudes in the
schools," Ybarra-Soriano said.
"The
RSVP people many times ran into counselors who were very reluctant to send
them to talk to Chicanos."
Andrew Alvarado, professor in the social works department agreed. "Chicanos at State repeatedly tell us that
high school counselors are not making
them aware of their choices. There is
a lack of proper career<hoice counseling."
Both, though, agree that the situation is improving. Alvarado went to
CSUF in the early 1960s and YbarraSoriano attended in the mid-1960s.
"If you go back 15 years," noted
Alvarado, "There was less than a one
percent Chicano enrollment at State.
The increase has been in dre last few
years, since the inception of EOP
and other financial aid programs ..
Ybarra-Soriano, who graduated from
Sanger High School, said that "I had
very high grades but was not told to 2o
to State. "I was told to go to junior col.
lege." She believes she was counseled
in that way, "Because I was a Chicana.•
She said that now, though, "We get
a larger number of instances where
coun~elors· are coc::,perating -- pulling
kids out o.f classes to talk to us."
Still another problem, according to the
pair, is that Chicano students at the high
school level seem to be directed toward
or at least as a rule are enrolling in, on~
a handful of majors.
Those majors ,are the humanities,
criminology, social sciences and social
work, of which Chicanos comprise approximately 10 percent, 20 percent, 14
percent, and 34 ~rcent respectively.
Chicanos comprise a sizable amount of
the education department also, Alvarado
said.
.
Reasons for this, according to Alvarado
and Ybarra-Soriano include the lack of
role models -- the dearth of visible repre•
sentatives in, say law and medicine; and
the lack of proper -career counseling in
high schools.
"When I was in high school, I wanted
to be a doctor, but I wasn 't encouraged
so I went into social . science," Ybarra•
Soriano recalled. "They are not told in
high school that there are Chicanos in
areas like biology and chemistry."
Alvarado related career choice with
childhood experience. "Choices are related to experience while growing up, who we relate to and identify with; role
modeling," he said. "They enter into
fields where they know people directly
employed."
And the problem of properly directing
students comes down to "teachers not
telling Chicanos about their options,•
Ybarra-Soriano said.
· "But I see it changing. When I went
to State almost every Chicano was in
history or social science. Now you see
many more in pre-law and pre-med."
Both brought the problem down to
the level of lack of communication.
"One high school counselor told an
RSVP representative that 'all we turn
out are street sweepers anyway.'
If we have counselors like that," Ybarra·
Soriano said, "Of course we' re going to
have problems."
Notitias de la Raza
Hiraoka opposed
State Center Community College District trustee Harry Hiraoka will be opposed by Alexander Rendon of Fowler in
the Nov. 6 election for the post.
Hiraoka angered the Valley's minority
community by statements published
in the Fresno Bee which revealed his
opposition to bilingual education and ·
serving the needs of the "bottom of the
barrel."
Union setback
In what is viewed as a severe blow to
the United Farmworkers Union, the
state assembly last week approved a bill
making a substantial change in the
Agricultural Labor Relations Act.
Senate Bill 504 would impose .limits
on how the union defines a "member
in good standing." The legislators are
attacking union provisions that a member in good standing must donate a
day's pay to a political campaign or a
charity chosen from a list provided by
the UFW The bill would make state law
conform to national labor law which re·
quires only that members pay their dues
and fees.
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Staff Box
Editor .................. ;. Ricardo Pimentel
Photo Editor ............ George Aguirre
Staff.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dora Lara
Margarita Martinez
Arturo Ocampo
Steve Le Vine
La Voz de Atzlan Is published by
the Associated Students at California State University, Fresno and
the newspaper staff. Unsigned
editorials are the opinions of the La
Voz staff and not necessarily the
·views of the Associated Students,
• CSUF If the State of California.
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End to.ChicanO w~fare ai1n of gr_
o up
by Arturo Ocampo
La Voz Staff Writer
About a year ago an "'End Barrio
Warfare Conference" was held in San
Fernando where an estimated 2,000
Chicanos attended. As a result of that
conference, a grass roots group cal led ··
Barrios Unidos was formed.
The idea driving Barrios Unidos is to
stop barrio warfare; Chicanos killing
' Chicanos, and to unite t9 fight oppres- .·
sion by others.
Barrios Unidos is reportedley cutting· .·
down on the number of gang fights in . _
San Jose. Local organizers hope the
effort will have the same effect in ·
Fresno. ·
The idea was first introduced to
· . Fresno Chicanos last month at Roeding
·l Park. The park meeting featured speak·.· . ers from San Jose and a presentation
·:: by Fresno's Teatro def Valle. About
dil 150 people from Fresno's barrios atih; tended.
Daniel "Nane" Alejandrez, of La Brocha def Valle, is leading the local effor_t
to cut down on gang warfare.
.,.,,,,"""'"'"°''i,}i,t?i!i@c'ii:ccii,
"Califas is one big barrio," he told a
Sentimientos Magazine reporter for
an-article in the upcoming issue. He told
the magazine that he wants to organize
Barrios Unidos to have it working before the start of the Fresno Fair.
"There is always a stabbing or shooting of a Chicano" at the Fair, Alejandrez
said. Maybe this year there won't be a
kiUing if Barrios Unidos is successful.
El Teatro del Valle performed a play entitled "Stopwatch"
for the estimated 150 Chicanos in attendance at the
Barr~os Unidos gathering at Roedi'11 Park last month.
Barrios Unidos is an effort to halt Chicano gang warfare.
Affirmative a(?tion firlds way to CSUC
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not employ a double standard." "Absolutely no negative thinking
Strong efforts to recruit more members
of disenfranchised groups is sure to should be placed on anyone admitted
raise charges that the affirmative action on a special program," Soriano said.
program is scraping the bottom of the "For years we've had special admissions
barrel to bring up full time enrollment for athletes and sons and daughters
figures. Soriano is ready for the charge. of prominent men ... not just EOP."
Soriano contends, however, that there is
"I'd suggest to them that we' II be identifying regular.Iv admissable candidates a vast number of people who are eligible
who traditionally just don't get the infor- for regular admission but who the unimation about college opportunities," versities have made rio effort to contact.
Soriano said. "If they insist on using the · There are also those improperly counbottom of the barrel term, we would seled at the high school level. Soriano
point to the intense recruitment of super cited a case of a Chicano in his last year
football players or super trombone of high school, interested in architecture
players," he added. "Which is not to with a_3.7 GPA. His high school counsay we shouldn't do that, but we should selor got him a job as an apprentice ·
. ... •:·::.;::VT?\'.\t .
framer with a construction firm. RSVP
recruited him and now he's studying at
CSUF.
And still another case. A Chicana with
a 3.86 GPA was interested in ·a medical
career in dermatology. Her counselor
translated that into getting her into
beauty college, Soriano said. She was
later recruited into the university by
RSVP.
These are not isolated cases, Soriano
said. "Some students have broken down
'and cried when telling us that no one had
ever talked to them about college.
Counselors and other people say join the
Navy or the Army or get pregnant early
so your husband won't leave you,"
Soriano said.
Esteban Soriano
.
Before Soriano and his RSVP crew went
to Parlier High School in March, only
one student had applied to CSUF. When
they finished fifteen more had applied
and twelve were accepted. "We didn't
tell them anything fancy," Soriano said,
"We just found them."
Over 80 percent of the 150 people recruited to CSUF for Fall 78 by RSVP,
.
.
indicated that they had never been contacted by a four year college before.
This · points to one of the major challenges facing Soriano in his new post.
"We have to change our existing recruiting methods s.o that they are truly equi-table," he said, "not only ·in how they
disseminate information buttowhom."
Chihuahua Road Run scholarships grant~d
Chicano business majors are eligible
for the first annual·Chihuahua Road Run
Scholarships.
·The deadline for applying for the two
$280 scholarships is September 17.
Application forms are available in the
School of Business office.
To qualify, Chicano business majors
must have completed at least 90 units,
-have a minimum 2.5 grade point average, be currently enrolled with at least
six units, and demonstrate financial
need.
.
Chihuahua Tortilleria is sponsoring
the scholarships. The funds were raised
by the Fresno Chicano business during
an event in June billed as the Chihuahua
Road Run. The event featured a six mile
run by jogging enthusiasts and community leaders.
For more information call Rafael
Villegas at 237-1775 or CQntact the
Chicano Business Students Association.
-.C hicanos 1ninding own business
Anyone interested in the growth of the
Chicano business community may tma
some direction through the Chicano Business Students Association (CBSA) on
campus.
The primary objective of the CBSA is
to promote an interest in business
among students at CSUF.
Members are planning a number of
events for ·the semester, including
visits to local businesses and business
schools at San Jose State, Stanford.
and UCLA. Tutorial help will also be
available through the organization.
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Aug. 7, 1979
La Voz de Aztlan
HUELGA
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March spurs victory
(continued .from page 1)
rally at the invitation - of the union. ·
Chavez, however, told reporters that
Brown had called and asked if it would
be okay to join the march. Brown cautioned that "I am not going to inject
myself into negotiations prematurely,"
but offered to serve as a mediator in the
labor dispute. ·
The governor cited his traditional
alignment with the farmworkers as his
reason for attending the rally. When
asked by reporters if his appearance at
the march signified his support for farmworkers in their fight against lettuce ·
growers, he answered in his usual
quizzical way, "You figure it out. Farmworkers are making less than the general
population and working harder." In a
surprise visit, actress Jane Fonda and
her husband, activist Tom Hayden,
attended the UFW convention the following day to show their support.
Bill Allison of the Fresno Farm
Bureau told la Voz that Chavez has not
negotiated in good faith. However,
Allison was particularly critical · of
Governor Brown's participation in the
Salinas march. Allison said, "A governor
is supposed to represent all the people
in California. Walking the last mile with
Chavez was not representing all the
people." He added that he hoped for
good faith bargaining by the UFW.
"Agriculture is just too big and too
important an industry to leave one area
factionalized," Allison said.·
UFW officials contend the march was
a major factor in the Sun Harvest ·
agreement last week. As a result of that
settlement, Chavez has called off the
boycott of United Brands products,
which include Chiquita bananas, A&W
Rootbeer and John Morrel Meats. Sun
Harvest is a subsidiary of United
Brands.
Other lettuce growers, however, have
failed to come to terms with the UFW so
the· boycott of non-union iceberg ·lettuce
continues for the time being.
· The Sun Harvest agreement was the
second with a Salinas Valley .lettuce
grower. Three weeks ago two tomato
growers also signed. The three year
Sun Harvest contract guarantees a S5
hourly minimum wage for farmworkers
the first year.
LA VOZ de AZ·T LAN
C5¥Jf':,
lo.. .
Aug. 7, 1979
Friday
•
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HuelgiSta turnou~
nets UFW victory
by Margarita Martinez
and Ricardo Pimentel
Farmworker persistence in the eightmonth-long
United
Farmworkers
Union lettuce strike has finally paid off
with agreements reached by some
growers and the UFW. Sun Harvest, the
largest lettuce grower · in the nation, is
among the growers who have come to
terms.
The four contract agreements follow a
massive August 11 march and rally in
Salinas by Huelgistas and supporters.
The strikers and their supporters
marched 25,000 strong, according to
usually conservative police estimates,
in the streets of the "lettuce capitol of
the world" to demonstrate unity,
strength and an intention to win the
struggle for better wages and benefits.
Cesar Chavez, apparently unweakened by water-only fast. for "'love and
patience," marched at the head of a
blocks-long column entering the city
from the south. A smaller group
marched in from the north to meet the
Chavez-led group at the city's center.
Salinas was the last leg of a long
journey which began in San Franc;isco
for one group and the southern tip of the
lettuce rich Salinas Valley for the other
group. At first it seemed that grower
claims that the strike was impotent
would be proven correct by the small
number of people who
began the
march. However, by the time Salinas
was in sight, the marcher's ranks had
swelled into the thousands, leaving no
doubt of public and farmworker support.
The overcast Saturday morning·
began early for the weary marchers.
Sleeping children had to be roused and
preparations made for the final miles
into the city. Marchers at both ends of
Salinas solemnly attended mass before
beginning.
Marching alongside Chavez was 73
year old Amparo Vasquez, a veteran of
past farmworker struggles. The march
brought together a variety of supporters
with clergy, ttte elderly, mariachis,
Anglos and city dwellers marching
alongside striking farmworker families.
With shouts of "Huelga! Huelga!"
the strikers began the orderly march.
"Chavez Si, Chiquita · No!" thousands
chanted as they snaked along Salinas
boulevard~ with local police acting as
escorts.
Union spokesman Marc Crossman at
first estimated 7,<XX) marchers began
from the southerly route. This figure was
revised hourly as supporters lined the
streets and emptied the houses along the
three mile route to join the Huelgistas.
Police estimated 25,000 marchers by the
time the northern and southern groups
met.
Governor Jerry Brown joined Chavez
to march the last mile to journey's end,
a local junior high school. There the
marchers rested, while mariachis entertained and speakers exhorted the farmworkers on to victory.
The governor and Chavez answered
reporters questions behind a stage.
Chavez accused some growers of mislabeling their products to avoid consumer boycotts and of illegally importing
aliens as strikebreakers in violation of
federal law.
Governor Brown said he attended the
(continued on page 4)
About 25,000 people, by polic:';;ifma~;;: ~~~;:;ged on the ,Salad Bowl of the
World" last month to express support for the United Farmworker Union's fight
for better wages and living conditions from lettuce growers. More photos on
page 4.
Affirmative action discovers CSUC
by Ricardo Pimentel
passed," comes about for two reasons,
La Voz Editor
according to the new state coordinator.
Affirmative action: The scourge of instiThe first reason is that the legislature
tutional racism and boon to oppressed
has mandated that CSUC immediately
minorities has officially found its place · develop programs that respond to· the
in academia.
~•severe underrepresentation of certain
Spearheading the drive in the CSUC minority groups in the system," Soriano
system is Dr. Esteban Soriano who said. The other, he added, was that "in
leaves as coordinator of the Recruiting a mercenary sense, in the age of decliStudents Via Parents Program at Fresno . ning enrollment, they have to look at
State to work in the Chancellor's office different enrollment pools."
as Student Affirmative Action State CoSoriano will draw on his experience as
ordinator.
RSVP director to help in his new job.
It's a brand new position and Soriano That experience has largely taught him
will be the first to occupy the post. that "the procedures and requirements
He was chosen from over 500 applicants for regular admissions are incredibly
following a nationwide search.
biased and only manage to bring in a
The CSUC' s interest in student affir- certain kind of student -- middle class
mative action, which Soriano defines as and from upward mobile families with
"an official position to open up the long histories of college attendance,"
universities to individuals typically by- Soriano said.
Soriano advocates that "we take a long
hard look" at changing admissions
requirements . "There is very little correlation between high school transcripts
and how well a student does in college,
Soriano noted. "SAT and ACT have
been shown to be culturally biased
tests in examinations conducted by the
Enrollment problems
plague CSUF, page 2
makers of the tests. Studies also show
that rural residents with low GPAs are
no less intelligent than urban dwellers
with high GPAs," Soriano added.
Yet because officials persist in playing
what Soriano calls the numbers game, it
is the student not traditionally recruited
who loses . Soriano said he values high
scores and GPAs much less than he
does "face to face personal contact in
evaluating a person's potential in meeting the challenges of college ."
Statistics bear out Soriano' s claim that
the admissions system works against
some. Chicanos, for instance, are about
30 percent of California's population
yet constitute only about 6.6 percent of
the state's univ~rsity popuJation .
While Chicanos are the most extreme
case of underrepresentation, the state ,. s
afffrmative action program will not deal
exdusively with their problems, Soriano
said.
Vietnam yeteran.s, displaced
housewives, people reentering college
after long absences and other minority
groups will also be targets of the state's
efforts.
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Editorial
They said it couldn't be done. Actually, they said it shouldn't be done, but
we 're back anyway.
·
La Voz de Aztlan is on the newstands for another semester ready to inform,
entertain, inspire and anger. Hopefully, we will be doing✓ those things to and
for you on a weekly basis.
.
We' II be tackling much of the same issues as in the past. It's not that we' re
unimaginative. It's just that the old problems don't seem to go away.
..
In the mid-60s, Cesar Chavez led the campesinos from las ubas (grapes) m
a dramatic protest against inhuman treatment by the growers. More than a
decade later, the United Fam Farmworkers Union is still fighting for a living
wage.
Chicanos have traditionally gone unrepresented on and off campus. Things
haven 't changed much. Fresno is saddled with ;J district system that enables
a candidate who is admittedly anti-affirmative action to be elected to the city
council to represent a largely minority constituency. We've yet to see any
substantial numbers of Chicanos elected to office on-campus either.
Bilingual education, off to a shakey start about 10 years ago, is still under
perpetual attack.
Middle Class America complains of inflation and eroded baying power
while Chicanos have always been barred from earning enough money to have
any buying power.
We will attempt to keep you up to date on all these issues and others
throughout the semester. We 've mananged to form a pretty effective staff
with which to do it. We do, however, require some help. If you have any story
ideas or poetry you'd like to see in print, let us know. La Voz is your newspaper. Use it.
Bilingual airwave~
for Valley listeners
Hugo Morales, President and Director
of the Board of Radio Bilingue Inc.,
announced at a recent press conference
that his ncm-profit organization has received a construction permit from the
Federal Communications Commission to
build a bilingual radio station . He predicts that the station will be completed
and ready to air in the summer of 1980.
Not ne~ly enough
First in a series
Look, we 're back
Don't be surprised if, while hunting
for something ear-pleasing on your FM
dial next summer, you come across a radio announcer unashamedly mixing his
Spanish adjectives with his Enlish
nouns.
Bilingual radio is an idea whose time
has come ·-- the first in the vaJley and
only the second in the country.
Chicano enrollees
·Aua. 7, 1979
La Voz de Aztlan
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don't have wide community access," he
said. Morales added that when a station
is commercial there is more interest in
making money rather than rendering
community service.
Morale~ noted there is also a negative
aspect to a community radio station. The
drawback is that the station will always
be dependent on, often fickle, public
supR()rt. The drawback, however, is optimistically viewed as a plus by Morales.
"It's good because you have to be accountable to the people." KSJV will rely
heavily on volunteers for much of its
staffing.
It is imperative that bilingual radio
build a large following and wi.de public
support because the grant money will .
"dry up· the first year," according to
Morales. He estimates that operating
costs for the first year, which includes
the cost of an eight person staff, will be
$160,000.
Morales envisions a community _training program at KSJV and direct public
input into station programming. Remote
broadcasts from rural areas, informative
public affairs programming, and local
news shows are also in the works,
Morales said.
According to Morales, nothing could
be more natural than a bilingual radio
announcer inasmuch as 80 percent of the
Spanish-surnamed households in the
new statiqn 's area are bilingual. The
station will reach Valley residents between Bakersfield and Merced.
KSJV Radio, the proposed call letters
of the new station, wi 11 be located at 91
on the FM dial. The construction is made
possible by a $166,000 grant by the
Campaign for Human Development to .
Radio Bilingue Inc.
The 16,000 watt transmitter at Eshom
This just won't be your run-of-the-mill
Point is yet to be built but Morales is alpublic radio station, Morales said.
ready looking ahead to new challenges.
"There is a real difference between
"The real challenge," Morales said, "is
public radio and community radio." The producing quality programming that will
difference is community input and ser- serve the community."
vice, the 30-year old Harvard Law School
He apparently wouldn't have it any
graduate said. "Community radio is other way. "This is supposed to be a
geared towards people's needs." KS JV community project. The other way is to
will be a community radio effort accor- run a very quiet, elitist organization ...
ding to Morales.
'
but we want to trust people."
. Morales cited an advantage in conducAnyone interested in donating time or
ting a non-profit venture. "The price you money to Radio Bilingue can call
pay for - being C(2mmercial is that you 486-5174.
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by Steve Le Vine
La Voz Staff Writer
A large disparity in numbers still exists
between the local Chicano population
and CSUF 's Chicano enrollment,
although recent administration efforts
have reduced the gap.
Chicanos constitute approximately 30
per'cent of the total population in
CSUF's five county service a,rea, in contrast to the relatively small nine percent
of CSUF's total enrollment.
Some headway h~s been made over the
past .few- years in slackening the disparity, apparently a result of the success
of special recruiting programs, specifically the Educational Opportunity Program (which offers financial aid) and the
Recruiting Students Via Parents Program (RSVP) -- which combined have
brought several hundred Chicano students to CSUF. As of Fall 1978, the latest figures available, Chicano enrollment stood at 1,281.
Reasons for the disparity are not clear
but Dr. Lea Ybarra-Soriano, La Raza
Studies Director, betieves that at least
, part of the problem lies in the high
school counselor's offices in CSUF's
drawing area.
"There are racist attitudes in the
schools," Ybarra-Soriano said.
"The
RSVP people many times ran into counselors who were very reluctant to send
them to talk to Chicanos."
Andrew Alvarado, professor in the social works department agreed. "Chicanos at State repeatedly tell us that
high school counselors are not making
them aware of their choices. There is
a lack of proper career<hoice counseling."
Both, though, agree that the situation is improving. Alvarado went to
CSUF in the early 1960s and YbarraSoriano attended in the mid-1960s.
"If you go back 15 years," noted
Alvarado, "There was less than a one
percent Chicano enrollment at State.
The increase has been in dre last few
years, since the inception of EOP
and other financial aid programs ..
Ybarra-Soriano, who graduated from
Sanger High School, said that "I had
very high grades but was not told to 2o
to State. "I was told to go to junior col.
lege." She believes she was counseled
in that way, "Because I was a Chicana.•
She said that now, though, "We get
a larger number of instances where
coun~elors· are coc::,perating -- pulling
kids out o.f classes to talk to us."
Still another problem, according to the
pair, is that Chicano students at the high
school level seem to be directed toward
or at least as a rule are enrolling in, on~
a handful of majors.
Those majors ,are the humanities,
criminology, social sciences and social
work, of which Chicanos comprise approximately 10 percent, 20 percent, 14
percent, and 34 ~rcent respectively.
Chicanos comprise a sizable amount of
the education department also, Alvarado
said.
.
Reasons for this, according to Alvarado
and Ybarra-Soriano include the lack of
role models -- the dearth of visible repre•
sentatives in, say law and medicine; and
the lack of proper -career counseling in
high schools.
"When I was in high school, I wanted
to be a doctor, but I wasn 't encouraged
so I went into social . science," Ybarra•
Soriano recalled. "They are not told in
high school that there are Chicanos in
areas like biology and chemistry."
Alvarado related career choice with
childhood experience. "Choices are related to experience while growing up, who we relate to and identify with; role
modeling," he said. "They enter into
fields where they know people directly
employed."
And the problem of properly directing
students comes down to "teachers not
telling Chicanos about their options,•
Ybarra-Soriano said.
· "But I see it changing. When I went
to State almost every Chicano was in
history or social science. Now you see
many more in pre-law and pre-med."
Both brought the problem down to
the level of lack of communication.
"One high school counselor told an
RSVP representative that 'all we turn
out are street sweepers anyway.'
If we have counselors like that," Ybarra·
Soriano said, "Of course we' re going to
have problems."
Notitias de la Raza
Hiraoka opposed
State Center Community College District trustee Harry Hiraoka will be opposed by Alexander Rendon of Fowler in
the Nov. 6 election for the post.
Hiraoka angered the Valley's minority
community by statements published
in the Fresno Bee which revealed his
opposition to bilingual education and ·
serving the needs of the "bottom of the
barrel."
Union setback
In what is viewed as a severe blow to
the United Farmworkers Union, the
state assembly last week approved a bill
making a substantial change in the
Agricultural Labor Relations Act.
Senate Bill 504 would impose .limits
on how the union defines a "member
in good standing." The legislators are
attacking union provisions that a member in good standing must donate a
day's pay to a political campaign or a
charity chosen from a list provided by
the UFW The bill would make state law
conform to national labor law which re·
quires only that members pay their dues
and fees.
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Editor .................. ;. Ricardo Pimentel
Photo Editor ............ George Aguirre
Staff.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dora Lara
Margarita Martinez
Arturo Ocampo
Steve Le Vine
La Voz de Atzlan Is published by
the Associated Students at California State University, Fresno and
the newspaper staff. Unsigned
editorials are the opinions of the La
Voz staff and not necessarily the
·views of the Associated Students,
• CSUF If the State of California.
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End to.ChicanO w~fare ai1n of gr_
o up
by Arturo Ocampo
La Voz Staff Writer
About a year ago an "'End Barrio
Warfare Conference" was held in San
Fernando where an estimated 2,000
Chicanos attended. As a result of that
conference, a grass roots group cal led ··
Barrios Unidos was formed.
The idea driving Barrios Unidos is to
stop barrio warfare; Chicanos killing
' Chicanos, and to unite t9 fight oppres- .·
sion by others.
Barrios Unidos is reportedley cutting· .·
down on the number of gang fights in . _
San Jose. Local organizers hope the
effort will have the same effect in ·
Fresno. ·
The idea was first introduced to
· . Fresno Chicanos last month at Roeding
·l Park. The park meeting featured speak·.· . ers from San Jose and a presentation
·:: by Fresno's Teatro def Valle. About
dil 150 people from Fresno's barrios atih; tended.
Daniel "Nane" Alejandrez, of La Brocha def Valle, is leading the local effor_t
to cut down on gang warfare.
.,.,,,,"""'"'"°''i,}i,t?i!i@c'ii:ccii,
"Califas is one big barrio," he told a
Sentimientos Magazine reporter for
an-article in the upcoming issue. He told
the magazine that he wants to organize
Barrios Unidos to have it working before the start of the Fresno Fair.
"There is always a stabbing or shooting of a Chicano" at the Fair, Alejandrez
said. Maybe this year there won't be a
kiUing if Barrios Unidos is successful.
El Teatro del Valle performed a play entitled "Stopwatch"
for the estimated 150 Chicanos in attendance at the
Barr~os Unidos gathering at Roedi'11 Park last month.
Barrios Unidos is an effort to halt Chicano gang warfare.
Affirmative a(?tion firlds way to CSUC
.
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not employ a double standard." "Absolutely no negative thinking
Strong efforts to recruit more members
of disenfranchised groups is sure to should be placed on anyone admitted
raise charges that the affirmative action on a special program," Soriano said.
program is scraping the bottom of the "For years we've had special admissions
barrel to bring up full time enrollment for athletes and sons and daughters
figures. Soriano is ready for the charge. of prominent men ... not just EOP."
Soriano contends, however, that there is
"I'd suggest to them that we' II be identifying regular.Iv admissable candidates a vast number of people who are eligible
who traditionally just don't get the infor- for regular admission but who the unimation about college opportunities," versities have made rio effort to contact.
Soriano said. "If they insist on using the · There are also those improperly counbottom of the barrel term, we would seled at the high school level. Soriano
point to the intense recruitment of super cited a case of a Chicano in his last year
football players or super trombone of high school, interested in architecture
players," he added. "Which is not to with a_3.7 GPA. His high school counsay we shouldn't do that, but we should selor got him a job as an apprentice ·
. ... •:·::.;::VT?\'.\t .
framer with a construction firm. RSVP
recruited him and now he's studying at
CSUF.
And still another case. A Chicana with
a 3.86 GPA was interested in ·a medical
career in dermatology. Her counselor
translated that into getting her into
beauty college, Soriano said. She was
later recruited into the university by
RSVP.
These are not isolated cases, Soriano
said. "Some students have broken down
'and cried when telling us that no one had
ever talked to them about college.
Counselors and other people say join the
Navy or the Army or get pregnant early
so your husband won't leave you,"
Soriano said.
Esteban Soriano
.
Before Soriano and his RSVP crew went
to Parlier High School in March, only
one student had applied to CSUF. When
they finished fifteen more had applied
and twelve were accepted. "We didn't
tell them anything fancy," Soriano said,
"We just found them."
Over 80 percent of the 150 people recruited to CSUF for Fall 78 by RSVP,
.
.
indicated that they had never been contacted by a four year college before.
This · points to one of the major challenges facing Soriano in his new post.
"We have to change our existing recruiting methods s.o that they are truly equi-table," he said, "not only ·in how they
disseminate information buttowhom."
Chihuahua Road Run scholarships grant~d
Chicano business majors are eligible
for the first annual·Chihuahua Road Run
Scholarships.
·The deadline for applying for the two
$280 scholarships is September 17.
Application forms are available in the
School of Business office.
To qualify, Chicano business majors
must have completed at least 90 units,
-have a minimum 2.5 grade point average, be currently enrolled with at least
six units, and demonstrate financial
need.
.
Chihuahua Tortilleria is sponsoring
the scholarships. The funds were raised
by the Fresno Chicano business during
an event in June billed as the Chihuahua
Road Run. The event featured a six mile
run by jogging enthusiasts and community leaders.
For more information call Rafael
Villegas at 237-1775 or CQntact the
Chicano Business Students Association.
-.C hicanos 1ninding own business
Anyone interested in the growth of the
Chicano business community may tma
some direction through the Chicano Business Students Association (CBSA) on
campus.
The primary objective of the CBSA is
to promote an interest in business
among students at CSUF.
Members are planning a number of
events for ·the semester, including
visits to local businesses and business
schools at San Jose State, Stanford.
and UCLA. Tutorial help will also be
available through the organization.
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HUELGA
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March spurs victory
(continued .from page 1)
rally at the invitation - of the union. ·
Chavez, however, told reporters that
Brown had called and asked if it would
be okay to join the march. Brown cautioned that "I am not going to inject
myself into negotiations prematurely,"
but offered to serve as a mediator in the
labor dispute. ·
The governor cited his traditional
alignment with the farmworkers as his
reason for attending the rally. When
asked by reporters if his appearance at
the march signified his support for farmworkers in their fight against lettuce ·
growers, he answered in his usual
quizzical way, "You figure it out. Farmworkers are making less than the general
population and working harder." In a
surprise visit, actress Jane Fonda and
her husband, activist Tom Hayden,
attended the UFW convention the following day to show their support.
Bill Allison of the Fresno Farm
Bureau told la Voz that Chavez has not
negotiated in good faith. However,
Allison was particularly critical · of
Governor Brown's participation in the
Salinas march. Allison said, "A governor
is supposed to represent all the people
in California. Walking the last mile with
Chavez was not representing all the
people." He added that he hoped for
good faith bargaining by the UFW.
"Agriculture is just too big and too
important an industry to leave one area
factionalized," Allison said.·
UFW officials contend the march was
a major factor in the Sun Harvest ·
agreement last week. As a result of that
settlement, Chavez has called off the
boycott of United Brands products,
which include Chiquita bananas, A&W
Rootbeer and John Morrel Meats. Sun
Harvest is a subsidiary of United
Brands.
Other lettuce growers, however, have
failed to come to terms with the UFW so
the· boycott of non-union iceberg ·lettuce
continues for the time being.
· The Sun Harvest agreement was the
second with a Salinas Valley .lettuce
grower. Three weeks ago two tomato
growers also signed. The three year
Sun Harvest contract guarantees a S5
hourly minimum wage for farmworkers
the first year.
Special Publication ·of The Daily Collegian
LA VOZ de AZ·T LAN
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Friday
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HuelgiSta turnou~
nets UFW victory
by Margarita Martinez
and Ricardo Pimentel
Farmworker persistence in the eightmonth-long
United
Farmworkers
Union lettuce strike has finally paid off
with agreements reached by some
growers and the UFW. Sun Harvest, the
largest lettuce grower · in the nation, is
among the growers who have come to
terms.
The four contract agreements follow a
massive August 11 march and rally in
Salinas by Huelgistas and supporters.
The strikers and their supporters
marched 25,000 strong, according to
usually conservative police estimates,
in the streets of the "lettuce capitol of
the world" to demonstrate unity,
strength and an intention to win the
struggle for better wages and benefits.
Cesar Chavez, apparently unweakened by water-only fast. for "'love and
patience," marched at the head of a
blocks-long column entering the city
from the south. A smaller group
marched in from the north to meet the
Chavez-led group at the city's center.
Salinas was the last leg of a long
journey which began in San Franc;isco
for one group and the southern tip of the
lettuce rich Salinas Valley for the other
group. At first it seemed that grower
claims that the strike was impotent
would be proven correct by the small
number of people who
began the
march. However, by the time Salinas
was in sight, the marcher's ranks had
swelled into the thousands, leaving no
doubt of public and farmworker support.
The overcast Saturday morning·
began early for the weary marchers.
Sleeping children had to be roused and
preparations made for the final miles
into the city. Marchers at both ends of
Salinas solemnly attended mass before
beginning.
Marching alongside Chavez was 73
year old Amparo Vasquez, a veteran of
past farmworker struggles. The march
brought together a variety of supporters
with clergy, ttte elderly, mariachis,
Anglos and city dwellers marching
alongside striking farmworker families.
With shouts of "Huelga! Huelga!"
the strikers began the orderly march.
"Chavez Si, Chiquita · No!" thousands
chanted as they snaked along Salinas
boulevard~ with local police acting as
escorts.
Union spokesman Marc Crossman at
first estimated 7,<XX) marchers began
from the southerly route. This figure was
revised hourly as supporters lined the
streets and emptied the houses along the
three mile route to join the Huelgistas.
Police estimated 25,000 marchers by the
time the northern and southern groups
met.
Governor Jerry Brown joined Chavez
to march the last mile to journey's end,
a local junior high school. There the
marchers rested, while mariachis entertained and speakers exhorted the farmworkers on to victory.
The governor and Chavez answered
reporters questions behind a stage.
Chavez accused some growers of mislabeling their products to avoid consumer boycotts and of illegally importing
aliens as strikebreakers in violation of
federal law.
Governor Brown said he attended the
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About 25,000 people, by polic:';;ifma~;;: ~~~;:;ged on the ,Salad Bowl of the
World" last month to express support for the United Farmworker Union's fight
for better wages and living conditions from lettuce growers. More photos on
page 4.
Affirmative action discovers CSUC
by Ricardo Pimentel
passed," comes about for two reasons,
La Voz Editor
according to the new state coordinator.
Affirmative action: The scourge of instiThe first reason is that the legislature
tutional racism and boon to oppressed
has mandated that CSUC immediately
minorities has officially found its place · develop programs that respond to· the
in academia.
~•severe underrepresentation of certain
Spearheading the drive in the CSUC minority groups in the system," Soriano
system is Dr. Esteban Soriano who said. The other, he added, was that "in
leaves as coordinator of the Recruiting a mercenary sense, in the age of decliStudents Via Parents Program at Fresno . ning enrollment, they have to look at
State to work in the Chancellor's office different enrollment pools."
as Student Affirmative Action State CoSoriano will draw on his experience as
ordinator.
RSVP director to help in his new job.
It's a brand new position and Soriano That experience has largely taught him
will be the first to occupy the post. that "the procedures and requirements
He was chosen from over 500 applicants for regular admissions are incredibly
following a nationwide search.
biased and only manage to bring in a
The CSUC' s interest in student affir- certain kind of student -- middle class
mative action, which Soriano defines as and from upward mobile families with
"an official position to open up the long histories of college attendance,"
universities to individuals typically by- Soriano said.
Soriano advocates that "we take a long
hard look" at changing admissions
requirements . "There is very little correlation between high school transcripts
and how well a student does in college,
Soriano noted. "SAT and ACT have
been shown to be culturally biased
tests in examinations conducted by the
Enrollment problems
plague CSUF, page 2
makers of the tests. Studies also show
that rural residents with low GPAs are
no less intelligent than urban dwellers
with high GPAs," Soriano added.
Yet because officials persist in playing
what Soriano calls the numbers game, it
is the student not traditionally recruited
who loses . Soriano said he values high
scores and GPAs much less than he
does "face to face personal contact in
evaluating a person's potential in meeting the challenges of college ."
Statistics bear out Soriano' s claim that
the admissions system works against
some. Chicanos, for instance, are about
30 percent of California's population
yet constitute only about 6.6 percent of
the state's univ~rsity popuJation .
While Chicanos are the most extreme
case of underrepresentation, the state ,. s
afffrmative action program will not deal
exdusively with their problems, Soriano
said.
Vietnam yeteran.s, displaced
housewives, people reentering college
after long absences and other minority
groups will also be targets of the state's
efforts.
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Editorial
They said it couldn't be done. Actually, they said it shouldn't be done, but
we 're back anyway.
·
La Voz de Aztlan is on the newstands for another semester ready to inform,
entertain, inspire and anger. Hopefully, we will be doing✓ those things to and
for you on a weekly basis.
.
We' II be tackling much of the same issues as in the past. It's not that we' re
unimaginative. It's just that the old problems don't seem to go away.
..
In the mid-60s, Cesar Chavez led the campesinos from las ubas (grapes) m
a dramatic protest against inhuman treatment by the growers. More than a
decade later, the United Fam Farmworkers Union is still fighting for a living
wage.
Chicanos have traditionally gone unrepresented on and off campus. Things
haven 't changed much. Fresno is saddled with ;J district system that enables
a candidate who is admittedly anti-affirmative action to be elected to the city
council to represent a largely minority constituency. We've yet to see any
substantial numbers of Chicanos elected to office on-campus either.
Bilingual education, off to a shakey start about 10 years ago, is still under
perpetual attack.
Middle Class America complains of inflation and eroded baying power
while Chicanos have always been barred from earning enough money to have
any buying power.
We will attempt to keep you up to date on all these issues and others
throughout the semester. We 've mananged to form a pretty effective staff
with which to do it. We do, however, require some help. If you have any story
ideas or poetry you'd like to see in print, let us know. La Voz is your newspaper. Use it.
Bilingual airwave~
for Valley listeners
Hugo Morales, President and Director
of the Board of Radio Bilingue Inc.,
announced at a recent press conference
that his ncm-profit organization has received a construction permit from the
Federal Communications Commission to
build a bilingual radio station . He predicts that the station will be completed
and ready to air in the summer of 1980.
Not ne~ly enough
First in a series
Look, we 're back
Don't be surprised if, while hunting
for something ear-pleasing on your FM
dial next summer, you come across a radio announcer unashamedly mixing his
Spanish adjectives with his Enlish
nouns.
Bilingual radio is an idea whose time
has come ·-- the first in the vaJley and
only the second in the country.
Chicano enrollees
·Aua. 7, 1979
La Voz de Aztlan
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don't have wide community access," he
said. Morales added that when a station
is commercial there is more interest in
making money rather than rendering
community service.
Morale~ noted there is also a negative
aspect to a community radio station. The
drawback is that the station will always
be dependent on, often fickle, public
supR()rt. The drawback, however, is optimistically viewed as a plus by Morales.
"It's good because you have to be accountable to the people." KSJV will rely
heavily on volunteers for much of its
staffing.
It is imperative that bilingual radio
build a large following and wi.de public
support because the grant money will .
"dry up· the first year," according to
Morales. He estimates that operating
costs for the first year, which includes
the cost of an eight person staff, will be
$160,000.
Morales envisions a community _training program at KSJV and direct public
input into station programming. Remote
broadcasts from rural areas, informative
public affairs programming, and local
news shows are also in the works,
Morales said.
According to Morales, nothing could
be more natural than a bilingual radio
announcer inasmuch as 80 percent of the
Spanish-surnamed households in the
new statiqn 's area are bilingual. The
station will reach Valley residents between Bakersfield and Merced.
KSJV Radio, the proposed call letters
of the new station, wi 11 be located at 91
on the FM dial. The construction is made
possible by a $166,000 grant by the
Campaign for Human Development to .
Radio Bilingue Inc.
The 16,000 watt transmitter at Eshom
This just won't be your run-of-the-mill
Point is yet to be built but Morales is alpublic radio station, Morales said.
ready looking ahead to new challenges.
"There is a real difference between
"The real challenge," Morales said, "is
public radio and community radio." The producing quality programming that will
difference is community input and ser- serve the community."
vice, the 30-year old Harvard Law School
He apparently wouldn't have it any
graduate said. "Community radio is other way. "This is supposed to be a
geared towards people's needs." KS JV community project. The other way is to
will be a community radio effort accor- run a very quiet, elitist organization ...
ding to Morales.
'
but we want to trust people."
. Morales cited an advantage in conducAnyone interested in donating time or
ting a non-profit venture. "The price you money to Radio Bilingue can call
pay for - being C(2mmercial is that you 486-5174.
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by Steve Le Vine
La Voz Staff Writer
A large disparity in numbers still exists
between the local Chicano population
and CSUF 's Chicano enrollment,
although recent administration efforts
have reduced the gap.
Chicanos constitute approximately 30
per'cent of the total population in
CSUF's five county service a,rea, in contrast to the relatively small nine percent
of CSUF's total enrollment.
Some headway h~s been made over the
past .few- years in slackening the disparity, apparently a result of the success
of special recruiting programs, specifically the Educational Opportunity Program (which offers financial aid) and the
Recruiting Students Via Parents Program (RSVP) -- which combined have
brought several hundred Chicano students to CSUF. As of Fall 1978, the latest figures available, Chicano enrollment stood at 1,281.
Reasons for the disparity are not clear
but Dr. Lea Ybarra-Soriano, La Raza
Studies Director, betieves that at least
, part of the problem lies in the high
school counselor's offices in CSUF's
drawing area.
"There are racist attitudes in the
schools," Ybarra-Soriano said.
"The
RSVP people many times ran into counselors who were very reluctant to send
them to talk to Chicanos."
Andrew Alvarado, professor in the social works department agreed. "Chicanos at State repeatedly tell us that
high school counselors are not making
them aware of their choices. There is
a lack of proper career<hoice counseling."
Both, though, agree that the situation is improving. Alvarado went to
CSUF in the early 1960s and YbarraSoriano attended in the mid-1960s.
"If you go back 15 years," noted
Alvarado, "There was less than a one
percent Chicano enrollment at State.
The increase has been in dre last few
years, since the inception of EOP
and other financial aid programs ..
Ybarra-Soriano, who graduated from
Sanger High School, said that "I had
very high grades but was not told to 2o
to State. "I was told to go to junior col.
lege." She believes she was counseled
in that way, "Because I was a Chicana.•
She said that now, though, "We get
a larger number of instances where
coun~elors· are coc::,perating -- pulling
kids out o.f classes to talk to us."
Still another problem, according to the
pair, is that Chicano students at the high
school level seem to be directed toward
or at least as a rule are enrolling in, on~
a handful of majors.
Those majors ,are the humanities,
criminology, social sciences and social
work, of which Chicanos comprise approximately 10 percent, 20 percent, 14
percent, and 34 ~rcent respectively.
Chicanos comprise a sizable amount of
the education department also, Alvarado
said.
.
Reasons for this, according to Alvarado
and Ybarra-Soriano include the lack of
role models -- the dearth of visible repre•
sentatives in, say law and medicine; and
the lack of proper -career counseling in
high schools.
"When I was in high school, I wanted
to be a doctor, but I wasn 't encouraged
so I went into social . science," Ybarra•
Soriano recalled. "They are not told in
high school that there are Chicanos in
areas like biology and chemistry."
Alvarado related career choice with
childhood experience. "Choices are related to experience while growing up, who we relate to and identify with; role
modeling," he said. "They enter into
fields where they know people directly
employed."
And the problem of properly directing
students comes down to "teachers not
telling Chicanos about their options,•
Ybarra-Soriano said.
· "But I see it changing. When I went
to State almost every Chicano was in
history or social science. Now you see
many more in pre-law and pre-med."
Both brought the problem down to
the level of lack of communication.
"One high school counselor told an
RSVP representative that 'all we turn
out are street sweepers anyway.'
If we have counselors like that," Ybarra·
Soriano said, "Of course we' re going to
have problems."
Notitias de la Raza
Hiraoka opposed
State Center Community College District trustee Harry Hiraoka will be opposed by Alexander Rendon of Fowler in
the Nov. 6 election for the post.
Hiraoka angered the Valley's minority
community by statements published
in the Fresno Bee which revealed his
opposition to bilingual education and ·
serving the needs of the "bottom of the
barrel."
Union setback
In what is viewed as a severe blow to
the United Farmworkers Union, the
state assembly last week approved a bill
making a substantial change in the
Agricultural Labor Relations Act.
Senate Bill 504 would impose .limits
on how the union defines a "member
in good standing." The legislators are
attacking union provisions that a member in good standing must donate a
day's pay to a political campaign or a
charity chosen from a list provided by
the UFW The bill would make state law
conform to national labor law which re·
quires only that members pay their dues
and fees.
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Staff Box
Editor .................. ;. Ricardo Pimentel
Photo Editor ............ George Aguirre
Staff.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dora Lara
Margarita Martinez
Arturo Ocampo
Steve Le Vine
La Voz de Atzlan Is published by
the Associated Students at California State University, Fresno and
the newspaper staff. Unsigned
editorials are the opinions of the La
Voz staff and not necessarily the
·views of the Associated Students,
• CSUF If the State of California.
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J.aVOEdeAdlaft
End to.ChicanO w~fare ai1n of gr_
o up
by Arturo Ocampo
La Voz Staff Writer
About a year ago an "'End Barrio
Warfare Conference" was held in San
Fernando where an estimated 2,000
Chicanos attended. As a result of that
conference, a grass roots group cal led ··
Barrios Unidos was formed.
The idea driving Barrios Unidos is to
stop barrio warfare; Chicanos killing
' Chicanos, and to unite t9 fight oppres- .·
sion by others.
Barrios Unidos is reportedley cutting· .·
down on the number of gang fights in . _
San Jose. Local organizers hope the
effort will have the same effect in ·
Fresno. ·
The idea was first introduced to
· . Fresno Chicanos last month at Roeding
·l Park. The park meeting featured speak·.· . ers from San Jose and a presentation
·:: by Fresno's Teatro def Valle. About
dil 150 people from Fresno's barrios atih; tended.
Daniel "Nane" Alejandrez, of La Brocha def Valle, is leading the local effor_t
to cut down on gang warfare.
.,.,,,,"""'"'"°''i,}i,t?i!i@c'ii:ccii,
"Califas is one big barrio," he told a
Sentimientos Magazine reporter for
an-article in the upcoming issue. He told
the magazine that he wants to organize
Barrios Unidos to have it working before the start of the Fresno Fair.
"There is always a stabbing or shooting of a Chicano" at the Fair, Alejandrez
said. Maybe this year there won't be a
kiUing if Barrios Unidos is successful.
El Teatro del Valle performed a play entitled "Stopwatch"
for the estimated 150 Chicanos in attendance at the
Barr~os Unidos gathering at Roedi'11 Park last month.
Barrios Unidos is an effort to halt Chicano gang warfare.
Affirmative a(?tion firlds way to CSUC
.
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(continued from page 1)
not employ a double standard." "Absolutely no negative thinking
Strong efforts to recruit more members
of disenfranchised groups is sure to should be placed on anyone admitted
raise charges that the affirmative action on a special program," Soriano said.
program is scraping the bottom of the "For years we've had special admissions
barrel to bring up full time enrollment for athletes and sons and daughters
figures. Soriano is ready for the charge. of prominent men ... not just EOP."
Soriano contends, however, that there is
"I'd suggest to them that we' II be identifying regular.Iv admissable candidates a vast number of people who are eligible
who traditionally just don't get the infor- for regular admission but who the unimation about college opportunities," versities have made rio effort to contact.
Soriano said. "If they insist on using the · There are also those improperly counbottom of the barrel term, we would seled at the high school level. Soriano
point to the intense recruitment of super cited a case of a Chicano in his last year
football players or super trombone of high school, interested in architecture
players," he added. "Which is not to with a_3.7 GPA. His high school counsay we shouldn't do that, but we should selor got him a job as an apprentice ·
. ... •:·::.;::VT?\'.\t .
framer with a construction firm. RSVP
recruited him and now he's studying at
CSUF.
And still another case. A Chicana with
a 3.86 GPA was interested in ·a medical
career in dermatology. Her counselor
translated that into getting her into
beauty college, Soriano said. She was
later recruited into the university by
RSVP.
These are not isolated cases, Soriano
said. "Some students have broken down
'and cried when telling us that no one had
ever talked to them about college.
Counselors and other people say join the
Navy or the Army or get pregnant early
so your husband won't leave you,"
Soriano said.
Esteban Soriano
.
Before Soriano and his RSVP crew went
to Parlier High School in March, only
one student had applied to CSUF. When
they finished fifteen more had applied
and twelve were accepted. "We didn't
tell them anything fancy," Soriano said,
"We just found them."
Over 80 percent of the 150 people recruited to CSUF for Fall 78 by RSVP,
.
.
indicated that they had never been contacted by a four year college before.
This · points to one of the major challenges facing Soriano in his new post.
"We have to change our existing recruiting methods s.o that they are truly equi-table," he said, "not only ·in how they
disseminate information buttowhom."
Chihuahua Road Run scholarships grant~d
Chicano business majors are eligible
for the first annual·Chihuahua Road Run
Scholarships.
·The deadline for applying for the two
$280 scholarships is September 17.
Application forms are available in the
School of Business office.
To qualify, Chicano business majors
must have completed at least 90 units,
-have a minimum 2.5 grade point average, be currently enrolled with at least
six units, and demonstrate financial
need.
.
Chihuahua Tortilleria is sponsoring
the scholarships. The funds were raised
by the Fresno Chicano business during
an event in June billed as the Chihuahua
Road Run. The event featured a six mile
run by jogging enthusiasts and community leaders.
For more information call Rafael
Villegas at 237-1775 or CQntact the
Chicano Business Students Association.
-.C hicanos 1ninding own business
Anyone interested in the growth of the
Chicano business community may tma
some direction through the Chicano Business Students Association (CBSA) on
campus.
The primary objective of the CBSA is
to promote an interest in business
among students at CSUF.
Members are planning a number of
events for ·the semester, including
visits to local businesses and business
schools at San Jose State, Stanford.
and UCLA. Tutorial help will also be
available through the organization.
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Aug. 7, 1979
La Voz de Aztlan
HUELGA
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March spurs victory
(continued .from page 1)
rally at the invitation - of the union. ·
Chavez, however, told reporters that
Brown had called and asked if it would
be okay to join the march. Brown cautioned that "I am not going to inject
myself into negotiations prematurely,"
but offered to serve as a mediator in the
labor dispute. ·
The governor cited his traditional
alignment with the farmworkers as his
reason for attending the rally. When
asked by reporters if his appearance at
the march signified his support for farmworkers in their fight against lettuce ·
growers, he answered in his usual
quizzical way, "You figure it out. Farmworkers are making less than the general
population and working harder." In a
surprise visit, actress Jane Fonda and
her husband, activist Tom Hayden,
attended the UFW convention the following day to show their support.
Bill Allison of the Fresno Farm
Bureau told la Voz that Chavez has not
negotiated in good faith. However,
Allison was particularly critical · of
Governor Brown's participation in the
Salinas march. Allison said, "A governor
is supposed to represent all the people
in California. Walking the last mile with
Chavez was not representing all the
people." He added that he hoped for
good faith bargaining by the UFW.
"Agriculture is just too big and too
important an industry to leave one area
factionalized," Allison said.·
UFW officials contend the march was
a major factor in the Sun Harvest ·
agreement last week. As a result of that
settlement, Chavez has called off the
boycott of United Brands products,
which include Chiquita bananas, A&W
Rootbeer and John Morrel Meats. Sun
Harvest is a subsidiary of United
Brands.
Other lettuce growers, however, have
failed to come to terms with the UFW so
the· boycott of non-union iceberg ·lettuce
continues for the time being.
· The Sun Harvest agreement was the
second with a Salinas Valley .lettuce
grower. Three weeks ago two tomato
growers also signed. The three year
Sun Harvest contract guarantees a S5
hourly minimum wage for farmworkers
the first year.
LA VOZ de AZ·T LAN
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Aug. 7, 1979
Friday
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HuelgiSta turnou~
nets UFW victory
by Margarita Martinez
and Ricardo Pimentel
Farmworker persistence in the eightmonth-long
United
Farmworkers
Union lettuce strike has finally paid off
with agreements reached by some
growers and the UFW. Sun Harvest, the
largest lettuce grower · in the nation, is
among the growers who have come to
terms.
The four contract agreements follow a
massive August 11 march and rally in
Salinas by Huelgistas and supporters.
The strikers and their supporters
marched 25,000 strong, according to
usually conservative police estimates,
in the streets of the "lettuce capitol of
the world" to demonstrate unity,
strength and an intention to win the
struggle for better wages and benefits.
Cesar Chavez, apparently unweakened by water-only fast. for "'love and
patience," marched at the head of a
blocks-long column entering the city
from the south. A smaller group
marched in from the north to meet the
Chavez-led group at the city's center.
Salinas was the last leg of a long
journey which began in San Franc;isco
for one group and the southern tip of the
lettuce rich Salinas Valley for the other
group. At first it seemed that grower
claims that the strike was impotent
would be proven correct by the small
number of people who
began the
march. However, by the time Salinas
was in sight, the marcher's ranks had
swelled into the thousands, leaving no
doubt of public and farmworker support.
The overcast Saturday morning·
began early for the weary marchers.
Sleeping children had to be roused and
preparations made for the final miles
into the city. Marchers at both ends of
Salinas solemnly attended mass before
beginning.
Marching alongside Chavez was 73
year old Amparo Vasquez, a veteran of
past farmworker struggles. The march
brought together a variety of supporters
with clergy, ttte elderly, mariachis,
Anglos and city dwellers marching
alongside striking farmworker families.
With shouts of "Huelga! Huelga!"
the strikers began the orderly march.
"Chavez Si, Chiquita · No!" thousands
chanted as they snaked along Salinas
boulevard~ with local police acting as
escorts.
Union spokesman Marc Crossman at
first estimated 7,<XX) marchers began
from the southerly route. This figure was
revised hourly as supporters lined the
streets and emptied the houses along the
three mile route to join the Huelgistas.
Police estimated 25,000 marchers by the
time the northern and southern groups
met.
Governor Jerry Brown joined Chavez
to march the last mile to journey's end,
a local junior high school. There the
marchers rested, while mariachis entertained and speakers exhorted the farmworkers on to victory.
The governor and Chavez answered
reporters questions behind a stage.
Chavez accused some growers of mislabeling their products to avoid consumer boycotts and of illegally importing
aliens as strikebreakers in violation of
federal law.
Governor Brown said he attended the
(continued on page 4)
About 25,000 people, by polic:';;ifma~;;: ~~~;:;ged on the ,Salad Bowl of the
World" last month to express support for the United Farmworker Union's fight
for better wages and living conditions from lettuce growers. More photos on
page 4.
Affirmative action discovers CSUC
by Ricardo Pimentel
passed," comes about for two reasons,
La Voz Editor
according to the new state coordinator.
Affirmative action: The scourge of instiThe first reason is that the legislature
tutional racism and boon to oppressed
has mandated that CSUC immediately
minorities has officially found its place · develop programs that respond to· the
in academia.
~•severe underrepresentation of certain
Spearheading the drive in the CSUC minority groups in the system," Soriano
system is Dr. Esteban Soriano who said. The other, he added, was that "in
leaves as coordinator of the Recruiting a mercenary sense, in the age of decliStudents Via Parents Program at Fresno . ning enrollment, they have to look at
State to work in the Chancellor's office different enrollment pools."
as Student Affirmative Action State CoSoriano will draw on his experience as
ordinator.
RSVP director to help in his new job.
It's a brand new position and Soriano That experience has largely taught him
will be the first to occupy the post. that "the procedures and requirements
He was chosen from over 500 applicants for regular admissions are incredibly
following a nationwide search.
biased and only manage to bring in a
The CSUC' s interest in student affir- certain kind of student -- middle class
mative action, which Soriano defines as and from upward mobile families with
"an official position to open up the long histories of college attendance,"
universities to individuals typically by- Soriano said.
Soriano advocates that "we take a long
hard look" at changing admissions
requirements . "There is very little correlation between high school transcripts
and how well a student does in college,
Soriano noted. "SAT and ACT have
been shown to be culturally biased
tests in examinations conducted by the
Enrollment problems
plague CSUF, page 2
makers of the tests. Studies also show
that rural residents with low GPAs are
no less intelligent than urban dwellers
with high GPAs," Soriano added.
Yet because officials persist in playing
what Soriano calls the numbers game, it
is the student not traditionally recruited
who loses . Soriano said he values high
scores and GPAs much less than he
does "face to face personal contact in
evaluating a person's potential in meeting the challenges of college ."
Statistics bear out Soriano' s claim that
the admissions system works against
some. Chicanos, for instance, are about
30 percent of California's population
yet constitute only about 6.6 percent of
the state's univ~rsity popuJation .
While Chicanos are the most extreme
case of underrepresentation, the state ,. s
afffrmative action program will not deal
exdusively with their problems, Soriano
said.
Vietnam yeteran.s, displaced
housewives, people reentering college
after long absences and other minority
groups will also be targets of the state's
efforts.
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CoD1D1entario
Editorial
They said it couldn't be done. Actually, they said it shouldn't be done, but
we 're back anyway.
·
La Voz de Aztlan is on the newstands for another semester ready to inform,
entertain, inspire and anger. Hopefully, we will be doing✓ those things to and
for you on a weekly basis.
.
We' II be tackling much of the same issues as in the past. It's not that we' re
unimaginative. It's just that the old problems don't seem to go away.
..
In the mid-60s, Cesar Chavez led the campesinos from las ubas (grapes) m
a dramatic protest against inhuman treatment by the growers. More than a
decade later, the United Fam Farmworkers Union is still fighting for a living
wage.
Chicanos have traditionally gone unrepresented on and off campus. Things
haven 't changed much. Fresno is saddled with ;J district system that enables
a candidate who is admittedly anti-affirmative action to be elected to the city
council to represent a largely minority constituency. We've yet to see any
substantial numbers of Chicanos elected to office on-campus either.
Bilingual education, off to a shakey start about 10 years ago, is still under
perpetual attack.
Middle Class America complains of inflation and eroded baying power
while Chicanos have always been barred from earning enough money to have
any buying power.
We will attempt to keep you up to date on all these issues and others
throughout the semester. We 've mananged to form a pretty effective staff
with which to do it. We do, however, require some help. If you have any story
ideas or poetry you'd like to see in print, let us know. La Voz is your newspaper. Use it.
Bilingual airwave~
for Valley listeners
Hugo Morales, President and Director
of the Board of Radio Bilingue Inc.,
announced at a recent press conference
that his ncm-profit organization has received a construction permit from the
Federal Communications Commission to
build a bilingual radio station . He predicts that the station will be completed
and ready to air in the summer of 1980.
Not ne~ly enough
First in a series
Look, we 're back
Don't be surprised if, while hunting
for something ear-pleasing on your FM
dial next summer, you come across a radio announcer unashamedly mixing his
Spanish adjectives with his Enlish
nouns.
Bilingual radio is an idea whose time
has come ·-- the first in the vaJley and
only the second in the country.
Chicano enrollees
·Aua. 7, 1979
La Voz de Aztlan
,
don't have wide community access," he
said. Morales added that when a station
is commercial there is more interest in
making money rather than rendering
community service.
Morale~ noted there is also a negative
aspect to a community radio station. The
drawback is that the station will always
be dependent on, often fickle, public
supR()rt. The drawback, however, is optimistically viewed as a plus by Morales.
"It's good because you have to be accountable to the people." KSJV will rely
heavily on volunteers for much of its
staffing.
It is imperative that bilingual radio
build a large following and wi.de public
support because the grant money will .
"dry up· the first year," according to
Morales. He estimates that operating
costs for the first year, which includes
the cost of an eight person staff, will be
$160,000.
Morales envisions a community _training program at KSJV and direct public
input into station programming. Remote
broadcasts from rural areas, informative
public affairs programming, and local
news shows are also in the works,
Morales said.
According to Morales, nothing could
be more natural than a bilingual radio
announcer inasmuch as 80 percent of the
Spanish-surnamed households in the
new statiqn 's area are bilingual. The
station will reach Valley residents between Bakersfield and Merced.
KSJV Radio, the proposed call letters
of the new station, wi 11 be located at 91
on the FM dial. The construction is made
possible by a $166,000 grant by the
Campaign for Human Development to .
Radio Bilingue Inc.
The 16,000 watt transmitter at Eshom
This just won't be your run-of-the-mill
Point is yet to be built but Morales is alpublic radio station, Morales said.
ready looking ahead to new challenges.
"There is a real difference between
"The real challenge," Morales said, "is
public radio and community radio." The producing quality programming that will
difference is community input and ser- serve the community."
vice, the 30-year old Harvard Law School
He apparently wouldn't have it any
graduate said. "Community radio is other way. "This is supposed to be a
geared towards people's needs." KS JV community project. The other way is to
will be a community radio effort accor- run a very quiet, elitist organization ...
ding to Morales.
'
but we want to trust people."
. Morales cited an advantage in conducAnyone interested in donating time or
ting a non-profit venture. "The price you money to Radio Bilingue can call
pay for - being C(2mmercial is that you 486-5174.
~
by Steve Le Vine
La Voz Staff Writer
A large disparity in numbers still exists
between the local Chicano population
and CSUF 's Chicano enrollment,
although recent administration efforts
have reduced the gap.
Chicanos constitute approximately 30
per'cent of the total population in
CSUF's five county service a,rea, in contrast to the relatively small nine percent
of CSUF's total enrollment.
Some headway h~s been made over the
past .few- years in slackening the disparity, apparently a result of the success
of special recruiting programs, specifically the Educational Opportunity Program (which offers financial aid) and the
Recruiting Students Via Parents Program (RSVP) -- which combined have
brought several hundred Chicano students to CSUF. As of Fall 1978, the latest figures available, Chicano enrollment stood at 1,281.
Reasons for the disparity are not clear
but Dr. Lea Ybarra-Soriano, La Raza
Studies Director, betieves that at least
, part of the problem lies in the high
school counselor's offices in CSUF's
drawing area.
"There are racist attitudes in the
schools," Ybarra-Soriano said.
"The
RSVP people many times ran into counselors who were very reluctant to send
them to talk to Chicanos."
Andrew Alvarado, professor in the social works department agreed. "Chicanos at State repeatedly tell us that
high school counselors are not making
them aware of their choices. There is
a lack of proper career<hoice counseling."
Both, though, agree that the situation is improving. Alvarado went to
CSUF in the early 1960s and YbarraSoriano attended in the mid-1960s.
"If you go back 15 years," noted
Alvarado, "There was less than a one
percent Chicano enrollment at State.
The increase has been in dre last few
years, since the inception of EOP
and other financial aid programs ..
Ybarra-Soriano, who graduated from
Sanger High School, said that "I had
very high grades but was not told to 2o
to State. "I was told to go to junior col.
lege." She believes she was counseled
in that way, "Because I was a Chicana.•
She said that now, though, "We get
a larger number of instances where
coun~elors· are coc::,perating -- pulling
kids out o.f classes to talk to us."
Still another problem, according to the
pair, is that Chicano students at the high
school level seem to be directed toward
or at least as a rule are enrolling in, on~
a handful of majors.
Those majors ,are the humanities,
criminology, social sciences and social
work, of which Chicanos comprise approximately 10 percent, 20 percent, 14
percent, and 34 ~rcent respectively.
Chicanos comprise a sizable amount of
the education department also, Alvarado
said.
.
Reasons for this, according to Alvarado
and Ybarra-Soriano include the lack of
role models -- the dearth of visible repre•
sentatives in, say law and medicine; and
the lack of proper -career counseling in
high schools.
"When I was in high school, I wanted
to be a doctor, but I wasn 't encouraged
so I went into social . science," Ybarra•
Soriano recalled. "They are not told in
high school that there are Chicanos in
areas like biology and chemistry."
Alvarado related career choice with
childhood experience. "Choices are related to experience while growing up, who we relate to and identify with; role
modeling," he said. "They enter into
fields where they know people directly
employed."
And the problem of properly directing
students comes down to "teachers not
telling Chicanos about their options,•
Ybarra-Soriano said.
· "But I see it changing. When I went
to State almost every Chicano was in
history or social science. Now you see
many more in pre-law and pre-med."
Both brought the problem down to
the level of lack of communication.
"One high school counselor told an
RSVP representative that 'all we turn
out are street sweepers anyway.'
If we have counselors like that," Ybarra·
Soriano said, "Of course we' re going to
have problems."
Notitias de la Raza
Hiraoka opposed
State Center Community College District trustee Harry Hiraoka will be opposed by Alexander Rendon of Fowler in
the Nov. 6 election for the post.
Hiraoka angered the Valley's minority
community by statements published
in the Fresno Bee which revealed his
opposition to bilingual education and ·
serving the needs of the "bottom of the
barrel."
Union setback
In what is viewed as a severe blow to
the United Farmworkers Union, the
state assembly last week approved a bill
making a substantial change in the
Agricultural Labor Relations Act.
Senate Bill 504 would impose .limits
on how the union defines a "member
in good standing." The legislators are
attacking union provisions that a member in good standing must donate a
day's pay to a political campaign or a
charity chosen from a list provided by
the UFW The bill would make state law
conform to national labor law which re·
quires only that members pay their dues
and fees.
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Arturo Ocampo
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Voz staff and not necessarily the
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End to.ChicanO w~fare ai1n of gr_
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by Arturo Ocampo
La Voz Staff Writer
About a year ago an "'End Barrio
Warfare Conference" was held in San
Fernando where an estimated 2,000
Chicanos attended. As a result of that
conference, a grass roots group cal led ··
Barrios Unidos was formed.
The idea driving Barrios Unidos is to
stop barrio warfare; Chicanos killing
' Chicanos, and to unite t9 fight oppres- .·
sion by others.
Barrios Unidos is reportedley cutting· .·
down on the number of gang fights in . _
San Jose. Local organizers hope the
effort will have the same effect in ·
Fresno. ·
The idea was first introduced to
· . Fresno Chicanos last month at Roeding
·l Park. The park meeting featured speak·.· . ers from San Jose and a presentation
·:: by Fresno's Teatro def Valle. About
dil 150 people from Fresno's barrios atih; tended.
Daniel "Nane" Alejandrez, of La Brocha def Valle, is leading the local effor_t
to cut down on gang warfare.
.,.,,,,"""'"'"°''i,}i,t?i!i@c'ii:ccii,
"Califas is one big barrio," he told a
Sentimientos Magazine reporter for
an-article in the upcoming issue. He told
the magazine that he wants to organize
Barrios Unidos to have it working before the start of the Fresno Fair.
"There is always a stabbing or shooting of a Chicano" at the Fair, Alejandrez
said. Maybe this year there won't be a
kiUing if Barrios Unidos is successful.
El Teatro del Valle performed a play entitled "Stopwatch"
for the estimated 150 Chicanos in attendance at the
Barr~os Unidos gathering at Roedi'11 Park last month.
Barrios Unidos is an effort to halt Chicano gang warfare.
Affirmative a(?tion firlds way to CSUC
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not employ a double standard." "Absolutely no negative thinking
Strong efforts to recruit more members
of disenfranchised groups is sure to should be placed on anyone admitted
raise charges that the affirmative action on a special program," Soriano said.
program is scraping the bottom of the "For years we've had special admissions
barrel to bring up full time enrollment for athletes and sons and daughters
figures. Soriano is ready for the charge. of prominent men ... not just EOP."
Soriano contends, however, that there is
"I'd suggest to them that we' II be identifying regular.Iv admissable candidates a vast number of people who are eligible
who traditionally just don't get the infor- for regular admission but who the unimation about college opportunities," versities have made rio effort to contact.
Soriano said. "If they insist on using the · There are also those improperly counbottom of the barrel term, we would seled at the high school level. Soriano
point to the intense recruitment of super cited a case of a Chicano in his last year
football players or super trombone of high school, interested in architecture
players," he added. "Which is not to with a_3.7 GPA. His high school counsay we shouldn't do that, but we should selor got him a job as an apprentice ·
. ... •:·::.;::VT?\'.\t .
framer with a construction firm. RSVP
recruited him and now he's studying at
CSUF.
And still another case. A Chicana with
a 3.86 GPA was interested in ·a medical
career in dermatology. Her counselor
translated that into getting her into
beauty college, Soriano said. She was
later recruited into the university by
RSVP.
These are not isolated cases, Soriano
said. "Some students have broken down
'and cried when telling us that no one had
ever talked to them about college.
Counselors and other people say join the
Navy or the Army or get pregnant early
so your husband won't leave you,"
Soriano said.
Esteban Soriano
.
Before Soriano and his RSVP crew went
to Parlier High School in March, only
one student had applied to CSUF. When
they finished fifteen more had applied
and twelve were accepted. "We didn't
tell them anything fancy," Soriano said,
"We just found them."
Over 80 percent of the 150 people recruited to CSUF for Fall 78 by RSVP,
.
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indicated that they had never been contacted by a four year college before.
This · points to one of the major challenges facing Soriano in his new post.
"We have to change our existing recruiting methods s.o that they are truly equi-table," he said, "not only ·in how they
disseminate information buttowhom."
Chihuahua Road Run scholarships grant~d
Chicano business majors are eligible
for the first annual·Chihuahua Road Run
Scholarships.
·The deadline for applying for the two
$280 scholarships is September 17.
Application forms are available in the
School of Business office.
To qualify, Chicano business majors
must have completed at least 90 units,
-have a minimum 2.5 grade point average, be currently enrolled with at least
six units, and demonstrate financial
need.
.
Chihuahua Tortilleria is sponsoring
the scholarships. The funds were raised
by the Fresno Chicano business during
an event in June billed as the Chihuahua
Road Run. The event featured a six mile
run by jogging enthusiasts and community leaders.
For more information call Rafael
Villegas at 237-1775 or CQntact the
Chicano Business Students Association.
-.C hicanos 1ninding own business
Anyone interested in the growth of the
Chicano business community may tma
some direction through the Chicano Business Students Association (CBSA) on
campus.
The primary objective of the CBSA is
to promote an interest in business
among students at CSUF.
Members are planning a number of
events for ·the semester, including
visits to local businesses and business
schools at San Jose State, Stanford.
and UCLA. Tutorial help will also be
available through the organization.
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rally at the invitation - of the union. ·
Chavez, however, told reporters that
Brown had called and asked if it would
be okay to join the march. Brown cautioned that "I am not going to inject
myself into negotiations prematurely,"
but offered to serve as a mediator in the
labor dispute. ·
The governor cited his traditional
alignment with the farmworkers as his
reason for attending the rally. When
asked by reporters if his appearance at
the march signified his support for farmworkers in their fight against lettuce ·
growers, he answered in his usual
quizzical way, "You figure it out. Farmworkers are making less than the general
population and working harder." In a
surprise visit, actress Jane Fonda and
her husband, activist Tom Hayden,
attended the UFW convention the following day to show their support.
Bill Allison of the Fresno Farm
Bureau told la Voz that Chavez has not
negotiated in good faith. However,
Allison was particularly critical · of
Governor Brown's participation in the
Salinas march. Allison said, "A governor
is supposed to represent all the people
in California. Walking the last mile with
Chavez was not representing all the
people." He added that he hoped for
good faith bargaining by the UFW.
"Agriculture is just too big and too
important an industry to leave one area
factionalized," Allison said.·
UFW officials contend the march was
a major factor in the Sun Harvest ·
agreement last week. As a result of that
settlement, Chavez has called off the
boycott of United Brands products,
which include Chiquita bananas, A&W
Rootbeer and John Morrel Meats. Sun
Harvest is a subsidiary of United
Brands.
Other lettuce growers, however, have
failed to come to terms with the UFW so
the· boycott of non-union iceberg ·lettuce
continues for the time being.
· The Sun Harvest agreement was the
second with a Salinas Valley .lettuce
grower. Three weeks ago two tomato
growers also signed. The three year
Sun Harvest contract guarantees a S5
hourly minimum wage for farmworkers
the first year.