La Voz de Aztlan, March 26 1981
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La Voz de Aztlan, March 26 1981
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Associated Students of Fresno State
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La Voz de Aztlan (Daily Collegian, California State University, Fresno)
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Fresno, California
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3/26/1981
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CHICANO WR1r1NG
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IMMIGRATION
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There Was anOld (newspaper) Woman .Who Swallowed a (racist) Fly'
It's been over a month since Insight published its memorable fictional piece over which there has been much
concern, however, the issue of responsibility of the press
still remains.
Freedom of the press is an inaliable right which should
be honored and protected. The responisibility that goes
with that freedom is just as important considering how
powerful and influential the media is.
Writing a story and not considering its effects or sensitivity does not show responsibility. Common sense ·and
good journalistic ethics are the qualities any writer or
editor should have.
If an article or story is printed and uses such derogatory
words as "nigger" or "colored woman", one must assume
the .responsibility to make sure there are no misunderstandings. In this particular case, some kind of explanatory prologue or introduction.
As a matter of writing machanics, the story "There Was
an Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly", is written in a narrative form. So when the author refers to the cleaning
lady as a "nigger" in one of the paragraphs, it was the
author and not the racist Hariet Ruth Character.
I hope than something positive has resulted from all of
this. We should all use the media as a constuctive force,
not destructive.
Fernando Quintero
Editor, La Voz
_ _.LETTERS TO THE EDITOR _ _ _ _ __
WATSON SUPPORTER
INSIGHT ARTICLE DISPUTED
Dear Editor:
Dear Editor:
Is it possible for someone to be racist
and sexist without meaning to? The answer is - of course, especially when one
lacks knowledge, sensitivity, and appreciation for the feelings and values of
the culture and sex.
The story "There Was an Old Woman
/ who Swallowed ~ Fly", demonstrated
such a reality. The story was claimed
to show the ugliness of bigotry and prejudice against Blacks in the 1930's.
However, the story created a strong critical response from many minority
students because of the many stereotypes it presentee. Surely, the most
important theme of social satire is to
· make sure the readers understand
the writer's good intentions. Failure to
do so is a poor example of supposedly
"w~ll-meaning"' social satire.
A sensitive writer dealing with a sensitive issue would make sure her/his
point is made. A sensitive and responsible editor with knowledge of the cultural diversity in the campus community
would detect such writing than clearly
failed to state its meaning.
The author and the editor of the story,
as printed in Insight, failed very successfully to get its HsupposedH message
across to minorities and other social
conscious individuals.
This clearly states a lack of appreciation for cultural values and differness.
The actions taken against the printing
of the story were undeniably justifiable
and any further actions against such insensitivity will also be necessary, because too often such events go "unnoticed.
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Only until individuals, in this ethnocentric and egocentric society, sincerely
commit themselves to the ideals of
equality, democracy, and cultural
pluralism 'it(ill there be little need for
forums, ,panels, and demonstrations
against racism. Otherwise, let's continue taking to the streets!!
Que siga la lucha !
Gerardo Gonzalez
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• Jeff Watson's sincerity, sensitivity,
It's the time of year again when office strength, creativity, experience, and
seeking students present themselves performance as a student senator gives
as dem~ratic, ?~n-minded. culturally all students a valid justification for
dware( and sens,trve to the needs of all giving him their vote for A.S.B . presi·
·students.
dent.
With so many liberal thinking candidates it's a wonder why so much conservative legislation and policy is passed
by . the student senate and student
polrcy making committees .
However, among these individuals,
there is someone who does not portray
the post-election amnesiac, who soon
forgets the needs of many students,
especially those of Chicano, Black an~
other groups.
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VOZSUPPORTER
Dear Editor:
In response to Mr. Guathier's weak
arguement that La Voz de Aztlan and
Uhuru na ~moja are unutilized v~hicl_es
!or educa~mg . students on minority
issues. I cite h,s poor knowledge of La
Voz a nd Uhuru.
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This outstanding person is Jeff
Watson, who seeks the A.S.B. presidency . Jeff Watson has always been
visible to minority students. He has
taken the time to attend meetings to
As far as La Voz and Uhuru doing ef·
inform minority students on student is- fective jobs in educating students on
sues and proposals that may have a minority issues, I can agree that both do
detrimental effect on affirmative ac- . outstanding jobs. When it comes to
tion .
making siJnificant social and political
Jeff Watson has been supportive of commentary, one issue of La Voz ct
minority related programs on campus. Uhuru does more than 2 weeks of the
His record shows consistently that he Daily Collegian. Issues on the campus
advocates cultural programs and cul- and community as they pertain to Chi·
tural awareness. In an ethnocentric c~nos and Blacks are reported and dis·
environment, Jeff Watson has dedicated cussed. Any reporting done by other
himself to earning the needs and values campus papers only do well in distortin1
of the ignored non-traditional student. or briefly reporting minority events,
His stance against racism and sexism in otherwise such issues are not reported
the community, as well as on campus because they are not •newsworthy.•
stands out on his senate record.
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LEnERS(cont.)
Hjstorically, the Daily . Collegian
treats Vintage Days as "'supposedly"'
more worthwhile news for students·
and the community than Semana de la
Raza (one week) and Black History
Month. I am uncertain if the Daily Collegian serves to fairly inform Chicaoos,
Blacks, and other Third World Students
on pertinent Third World issues and
events.
Mr. Gauthier describes la Voz as
an events calendar. I would like to see
the Dai-ly Collegian cover one Chicano
event. Many Chicano students are actively
participating in organizing
student and community events, but one
cannot tell thi.s by reading the Daily
Collegian·. la Voz not only reports
Chicano student community issues,
it stresses student participation and
community involvement.
Educating
Chicano students on social and political
issues is a priority for the staff of la
Voz.
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ASSEMBLYMAN CHACON
CHARGES REAGAN'S
BILINGUAL ED ATTACK
SACRAMENTO--The author of California's bilingual education law lashed
out at President Ronald Reagan for commenting that such programs are "'absolutely wrong and against the American
concept."'
Assemblyman Peter R. Chacon (DSan Diego) accused the Republican President of "hypocrisy" and charged
Reagan's "careless remarks have
stunned Hispanic Americans and other
lansuage minority groups in this countr:-v
who dream of a brighter future for their
sJ)ildren."
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It is very interesting to see how people
justify their beliefs in different situations. Many of the very same people
, who say that Chicanos and Blacks
Answering Mr. Gauthier's query should utilize la Voz and Uhuru more
as to why la Voz and Uhuru are sup- are the same ones who deny the neces
posedly ineffective in· reporting issues. sity for an alternative !"'inority media.
Let's first talk equal staff, equal funding,
and equal opportunity before we talk , Along the same point many ot these
treating La Voz and the Daily Collegian 1 ~ame people would say a,:ticles, ~ditorthe same. The Daily Collegian has about 1als, and letters to,the editor on issues
8 times as many paid staff members ._, such as "'There Was an Old Woman who
as La Voz and 33 times· as much money. Swall~wed a Fly"' would only create
With La Voz printed .only every two a one •~sue paper.
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weeks and the lack of cooperation from
Again these same people would bethe Daily Collegian staff in distributing lieve that the papers were· overreacting
La Voz, the 'perfect opportunity" to because nobody was concerned enough
report the issue quickly is lmited. Also
to get together st'-'dent support and parthe Uhuru staff has been trying to get \!icipat_ion. (~uch as, a panel discussion
an editor only to be inhibited by an un- mvolvmg third world student groups,
cooperative and conservative media the author, and editors of the Daily
council. ~
Collegian and Insight).
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Such a mentality only strengthens
the momentum for the united Third
'World student movement.
ILa
Voz De Aztlan I
Gerardo Gonzalez
Speaking to the National League of
Cities in Washington, Reagan departed
from his prepared text to cite bilingual
education as the kind of government
program that is out of control.
"These words come from the man who
as California Governor in 1972 signed
Assembly Bill 2284, my leaislation
creating the first state bilingual programs for limited-English-proficient
students.
"'This shoe!< •8 statement is uttered
by the man who boasted to Mexico
President Lopez Portillo that he initiated
bilingual education in California -- and
who further spoke favorably of the program during his campaign for President.
'Now safe in office President Reagan
launches a sneak attack on bilingual education. In so doing he crushed the hopes
' for equal educational opportunity held
by thousands of children and their families. There is a word for this type of conduct. It is hypocrisy,"' Assemblyman
Chacon declared .
Chacon . said the purpose of bilingual
education . is to utilize the native tongue
as a tool to quickly bring a child into
mainstream EngHsh usage.
"Yet the President chooses to perpetuate the myth that bilingual education
stresses the native tongue at the expense of English. T.his is not so and the
President. should know better/ Chacon
said.
The California lawmaker a·1so bristled
at Reagan's suggestiQn the program\ is
Hun-American. H
"How dare the President slander a
means by which unique children are
helped to become fully productive members of American society?"' Chacon
questioned.
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The legislator said Reagan is equally
off-base when he states that bilingual
education constitutes an effort to turn
the United States into a multilingual
country . .
"'Where has the President been the
last 70 yearsf This nation already is
a multilingual society. .
"As he · criss-crQss~ the .country
during his campaign, was Reagan so
sheltered that he failed to observe the
phenomenon that thousands upon thousands of the people in our country are
bilingual and use their native lanauage
in a~dition tC? Eng1i_shl"' Chacon asked.
Chacon charged the President has,
in effect, issued an executive order
which says: "Speak English or you cannot enter an American Classroom."
"'This disaraceful notion is what is
un-American to me. There are 320,000
limited-English-proficient children· in
California alone. Are these children,
and the thousands more across the
country, to be denied entry into the
American pub Iic school system because
they lack a command of English at the
age for kindergarten or firs~ gradef
"I call upon the President to recoanize
his public blunder and issue an apology.
If not, I can assure him that Hispanic
Americans and other languaae aroups
· will not forget this insult from a President we. hope was a President of all
people," Chacon concluded.
Editor-in-Chief
Fernando Quintero
La-Voz de los estudiantesl
Managing Editor
Margarita Martinez
Photographers
Robert Hernandez
Richard Rios
Production
Sylvia Vidal
Maria Servin
Reporters
'Yolanda Granad<.'~
Mike Valencia
Lourdes Villareal
Olivia Lucio
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Solidari!): March
sighs uttered by some marchers.
were applauded by some people:
. were already in the amphitheatre.
Father Moriarity speaks against U.S.
interference in El Salvador.
As soon as I arrived I could sense
"solidarity" filling. the small park as
Chicanos, Whites and Blacks waited for
the final word for the two mile march to
begin . The march covered the route
from Dickey Park to Roeding Park;
similar to the march of 1968, in which
Fresno Chicanos, Whites and Blacks
marched demonstrating agaisnt the Vietnam War.
The march in which 500 people participated in was to protest U.S. involvement
in El Salvador and what they feared
could be.c ome another Vietnam type war.
·At noon the marchers started organizing behind banners identifying particufar organizations . I followed my group
and marched behind our banner whid'I
stated "No U.S. intervention in El Salvador, CSUF Las Adelitas ." We were
told by monitors to line up four a bre? .
because the right hand land would vtlly
be used. By 12:15w~ were on Divisidero
Street.
Monitors led us in chants.
The main chant was "No draft, no war,
U.S. out of El Salvador."
As , we marched on, .the bystanders
were curiously watching. I could tell
they were wondering what the "radicals
wanted this time."
Two abuelitas joined our group
and marched wth · us. One abuelita,
Aurora Siniga, 69, told me m Spanish
that she was happy to see so many
people . "Dios quiera que todo que
pedemos en esta junta sera compleda."
She also told me of her grandson, Santos
Carda; a former CSUF student, who is in
Nicaragua helping in the independence
cause there. The other abuelita proudly
told me that all her grandchildren were
marching .
Our chanting was dying down but was
slowly revived as we entered Roeding
Park . "We finally made it!_" were the
After we were situated on
and others on bleachers,
passes out apples, oranges, ha
eggs and peanut-butter sa.ndwlEI
The program consisted Qt av
music ranging from Chilean,
and "Folk. Each speaker spoke on a
tain issue involved in the El
situation.
I had the opportunity to speak
Father Moriarity; a Catholic
· who works for the Social Justice
mission in San Francisco. Father
iarity was in El Salvador last
He said that nearly 15,000 people
killed last year, mostly by bullets
in the United States. Father
said tht conditions now are that
won't reach the age of five.
"The U.S . is pouring money in E
·vador to kill more people. The '--''JUWlliill
bitter about the action the U.S. is
I'm especially bitter because
church people are being killed. A
slogan in El Salvador is 'Be pa
kill a priest' which is actually
pe~ing." said Moriarity. /
According to Father Moriarity, only
40% of the people work. •The people
want jobs. They want to live m peace.
We had our revolution in 1776. Why
can't they have theirs, without us interfering?" he said . .
. Moriarity stressed writing to our congressmen. Pressuring Congress with
our concerns . 1-ie also said that coalitions between Chicanos, the Church,
Anti-draft people-like this march coalition-should abound.
The program ended at 4:30 p.m .
I left the park with a new awareness
and a new insight on the whole situation.
CSUF La Raza profe~sors Ernesto Martinez and Te
_Perez listen attentively during the Sunday rally.
Information booths provided information
concerning the .. El Salvadorean
revolution.
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An estimated crowd of 500 gathered at the March 14th rally.
Photos by Richard Rios
Contributions were collected· for El Salvador relief ..
REAGAN IGNORESIMMIGRATION
PROPOSAL
By Margarita M. Martinez
Recommendations aimed at addressing immigration problems, issued
last month by the Select Commission on
Immigration and Refugee Policy will
be isnored by President Reagan , stated
Dr. Loy Bilderback, history professor
at CSUF and co-author of "'The Golden
Door,"' a book about Mexican immigration .
Bilderback says he does not like the
report, but he thinks the Reagan administration will ignore the repor:t
for a number of reasons. According to
Bilderback, one is that Reagan seems
to be interested in the profitability of
US business enterprise and "'not be in .
favor of anything ."' Another is that he
has agreed not to do anything about this
problem with Mexican President Lopez
Portillo. •
The Commission was created almost
three years ago by Congress, acting on
a bill by Senator Edward Kennedy.
(He had been accused of proposing the
bill to put off dealing with the sensitive immigration issue while he was
preparing to run for President .) The
Commission was given a staff and the
funds to conduct its own research on
immigration and was to have a report
by early in 1981 .
"'My attitude toward Reagan is he
never thinks a damn thing · through.
He kind of goes. through life throwing
out these one liners,"' Bilderback said,
"I have a feeling nobody in the White
House has ever thought about his
problem."
Bilderback said that he never expected much from the Commission
"' It will be another damn government
report. I have never talked to anyone
connected with immigration that looked
upon the Select Commission as anything_
but a hole to stuff the immigration issue
in until after the election,"'· he said.
Some of the recommendations the
Commission hjls come up with are ·
"'legalizing"' th~ - undocumented. Their
method has been criticized as ineffective. The Commission has stressed that
tough enforcement must precede or
go hand in hand with the legalization
program . The Immigration and Naturalization service would be in charge of
this program. A move that has been
ciriticized because the INS is viewed
by the undocumented as the "'enemy"'
preventing him or her from coming
forward .
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The undergoing assumption that
"illegals" cost the US money distresses
Bilderback. "I think that anybody who
is at all honest realizes that illegals
are an economic advantage to the US
certainly to their employers and I would
also say to the rest of us," said Bilderback .
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Bilderback is worried that the US is
moving toward an unwritten special
policy for Mexico. "How about Haiti?
H.ow about the Dominican Republic?
~ow about El Salvador? Do we recognize that these countries have the same
problems that Mexico does or is it
a special relationship with Mexico?'(
said Bilderback . "I favor a special
relationship with Mexico. We have
allowed the situation with Mexico to
become institutionalized, but as I look
around the world I worry about our
ability to accommodate everybody's
problems."
In order to prevent employers from
knowingly hiring undocumented work'"
If this is the case Bilderback stressed
ers, t~e Commision has proposed that is should become a written policy
one of ,ts most controversial recommen- ·because as it stands there is too much
~ations . They have recommended na- room for abuse. He argued it would
ti_o~al identification cards for all US leave the "i Ilegal"' at the mercy of local
c1t1zens, white, brown or black. This police departments ... ,t just gives the
card would, supposedly, be "'forgery opportunity for the Clovis Police Departproof."' The legislation recommended ment or the Fresno County Sheriff's
states that it need never be presented Office to play God with people's lives."'
except when someone is accepting he said, .. then you get what happened
employment.
to that poor man in Clovis ...
This will only be a detriment to
Chicanos and dark skinned people,
said Bilderback. ..,f a Chicano_ kid,
18 years old loses his damn billfold
and· my 17 year old, six foot tall, blond
hair, and blue eyed kid loses his,..
said Bilderback, "'my son will get the
job. For a Chicano they will want to
see the card and for my son they won't.
That is what I think is going to come
out of it. It is going to be just one more
problem for anybody ~ho looks foreign .. ,1
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Bilderback is referring to an incident
in Clovis where · Daniel Cardona a
27 year old mentally retarded man ~nd
a US citizen was deported to Mexico
after he was arrested by a Clovis police
officer. After a three month search
he was found wandering the streets
of Tijuana. The man was born in Fresno
County. · The Clovis Police Department
claims they thought he was an .. illegal
alien, because he had no identification, could not speak English and was
of Mexican descent ...
.. ANGELA DAVIS
SPEAKS ON RACISM
Davis continued that the Civil War
not been a struggle to liberate
slaves from slavery, but rather tt
a struggle for economic power
the-agricultural South and the you111
Angela Davis speaking out against dustrious North. Davis added,• And
Racism and the Ku Klux Klan here at KKK was Jhere to assist."' People
CSUF last Friday while holding the Feb- make 75 cents more than the rest
ruary issue of Insight on the story
persuaded to believe that they
HThere Was an Old Woman who Swal: more in common with the whites
lowed a Fly" could only contain herself make billions than with Blacks,
expressing : "I'm still stunned. I'm still canos, Puerto Ricans, etc. Davis
stunned ... that something of this nature mented that after all, this country
could appear_ in a college newspaper... founded on the exploitation of the
Davis turther commented that the ricans and the violence on the i
story was not only filled with racism nous. Davis returned to the subject
bat also with sexism 1 •
Davis said, the KKK by saying that she could
"I'm shocked! This indicates that there remember the sounds of the bombs
is work that you (the students) have to do her neighborhood which were
in this campus!" DaYts went on to state by the KKK. She added that even
that the article mentioned above is sym- this day the KKK were infilitratin&
bolic of what is happening all across the High Schools, and even the Boy 5CM
coun.try.
Davis then directed her attentioo
the state of the economy and .. Reap
Angela Davis, Co-chairperson for the alledged attempts to solve the erol1IXIII■
National Alliance against Racist and problems." Speaking out against Pffi'
Political Repression is currently teaching ident Reagan's proposed cuts in st
at one of the CSUC campuses in San loans and financial aid, Davis said,•
Francisco, after Reagan had announced lege students will soon be di
that she would never again teach in moving from the commencement line
another state supported institution. the unemployment line." Davis~
Davis, after having received a standing that what the "'priveleged whites• cbl
ovation from the cheering crowd at the realize is .that with Reagan's p ~
College Union, elaborated on the his- "'They are not far behind Blacks.•
torical oppression faced by Blacks in
During the last part of the I
this country, emphasizing the partici- Davis focused her attention on foref
pation of the KKK. Davis cited the film, policies, denouncing U.S. interventicit
"Birth of a Nation,. written by Thomas El Salvador for the sake of .. def
Dickson following the aftermath of the multinational corporations.,,
()a\
Civil War as an example ·of distorted advocated international solidarity
accounts of the radical Reconstruction the Palistinians, the Salvadord
Period (1865-77). Davis further stated and the South Africans. Davis
that as a result of Black alliances with "let us insure that they don't have
poor Southern whites and some North- deal with nuclear bombs.• She add!'
erners during this radical period· the that the military budget ,should be
first public schools were establi~hed
and that that money should be emplo,t'
the first read supportive legislative bill; for Social Services. Davis stated,
having to do with women were passed, you don't have money, it's assumed
and the first tax plan reforms were de- don't have the right tobe healthy!
signed to place the burden on the rich. ' ~avis concluded, -we have to
Speaking on the tax reforms, Davis said, going out on the streets again, not by
"We could sure use some of that today... thousands, but by the hundred tto,Davis said that students are not aware san_ds. We must promise ou_r l,,other5
of minority contributions because they
are taught only about "history as it was ~d sisters in El Salvador ~ written by the victors and the oppres- will be no more victims. They will
sors,"
We will be the victorious ones f ..
By Lourdes Villarreal
POEM.AS
UNTITLED
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CONTR-IBUTIONS FROM
THE STUDENT COMMUNITY.
YO SOY CHICAl':O, fENGO COLOR...
By Ruben Garza
Yo soy Chicano tengo color
Americano pero con honor
o soy chicano tengo color
America no pero con honor
Si, yo soy Chicano . When I was growng up in a rural part of Texas for the
irst si~ year· of my life, I knew no one
ut my cousins and the fifty or so
le in our little town. Then, for
me peculiar reason that not one can
eelly explain to me, I had to go into
he city and attend school .
When I arrived in this stra:ge new
lace, I encountered a new breed of
le. Even though they looked like
y best friend, light skinned and blond
air, they did not speak the same
anguage we did . They uttered words
e could not understand; even the teachr spoke this strange language. I . had
ometimes heard my brother and
isters speak it among themselves,
nd , my parents and I knew it as "inles ."
For four weeks they considered me
problem child for I would not speak
his strange language, I found · no
eason to , I would not drink my milk
I never had to at home); I would not
at their cookies (they looked different
nd contained brown things in them);
nd I would not take a mid-morning
ap (I never had to sleep during the day
t home) . Why should I do what this
trange lady asked me to do, she was
tmy mother .
Cuando me dicen que hay,revolucion
Defiendo a mi raza con mucho valor
After I completed Headstart, we
ot one week off . Then they told me
had to go back . I did not want to,
cried, pleaded, and begged not to
ke me go back. It was all in vain,
had to go back . I could not undertand, did my parents no longer love
? Why would they make me suffer
? I had no choice, I had to go. The
school was stranger than the first,
ven though the teacher looked like
s. For the first few weeks we were
llowed to call her Senorita Garcia,
ut after a while we were told we could
longer speak Spanish, we had to
peak "ingles." Only a few knew how,
most of us sat there quietly and said
thing. After a few weeks, most of
s started to pick up the new language,
out of wanting to, but out of fear.
For those who resisted, resisted for
whatev~r reason, (could it have been
that at the age of six they knew they
were being stripped of something very
dear to them) were spanked. I was no
longer Ruben, but Roo-bin, and my
friend was no longer Eloy, but Eeloy
or Elroy, which ever they preferred.
The older American kids used to come
over and pick on us one at a time. We
took it for a while until we got wise
and united as one, and protected ourselves by fighting back . Again I was
called "problem child ."
By Raymond Martinez
Lee Trevino and Nancy Lopez-Melton
in the last few years have become well
known on the Professional Golf Association and the Ladies Professional
Golf Association, respectively. Combined they · have 43 victories as pros .
These two Chicanos have fought their
way up the ladder of fame and fortune .
They are two of the most recognized
personalities on the golf circuit today.
Nancy Lopez-Melton satrted playing
golf when she was eight year old. By
the time she was 12, she had won
, her first amateur championship. In
1977 Nancy became a pro and entered
the LPCA Open and finished second .
From then on she blazed on to the circuit, winning almost every LPGA
tournament in sight. As a result, she
was named Rookie and Player of the
Year . She was the first woman golfer
·· to win $200,000 in one year. Nancy
was also awarded the Pinch Woman
Athlete of the Year Award : Mrs. LopezMelton was the first woman golfer to
win this coveted award since Kathy
. Whitworth won it in 1966.
After Nancy's first few years on the
LPCA, she got married to a sportscaster from Harrisburg, ·PA. named
Tim Melton. From then on Nancy has
been playing less golf. In an interview
with reporters . Nancy stressed there
were several goals in her mind before
retir.ing to have ·a family: "Keep my
Tengo mi par de caballos
Para la revolucion
low scoring average, be number one
for as long as possible, and win the U.S.
Uno se llama el Canario
El otro se llama el Corrion
Open, LPCA, and Peter Jackson championships in one year." This lady has
This went on for a couple of years and set same pretty tough goals for her1 started to accept it. The Americans self, goals she will probably accomno longer picked on us and we were plish.
now friends . Then my parents beLee Trevino was a poor boy from
trayed me, they brought us West. Texas. He worked at a local golf course
Again I asked myself do they no longer where 'he learned to play golf. When he
love me? Why leave, why go, I was first came on to the golf scene almost
happy; I wanted to stay . Once more I 14 year ago, he was playing in the U.S .
pleaded, begged and cried but to no Open at Baltusrol Coif Club. --He' as
avail · we left-the Valley, left my friends, so poor that he did not have enough
most' of whom I can no longer remember, . money to pay his caddy. As a result
all except Eloy. how can I ever forget of the tournament, he won $6,000
my best friend? We did everything to- which helped pay for his caddy . Now
gether until we got to school. Eloy was at age 40, he has won 24 PCA Chamaccepted because he was farr skinned, pionships and has won over $2 milblond and learned quickly.
lion. Being one of the first golfers to
do so, Lee has also won the Vardon
Trophy, based on stroke average, for
the fifth time. Not all of Lee's golf
T~ngo mi orgullo y machismo
career has been a bed of roses; at one
Mi cultura y corazon
time he suffered from a back problem
Tengo mi fey diferencias
that almost ended his Cc}.~~f..... Because
Y lucho con gran razon
of his strong will, he was a&1e to overcome his back problem and become
I now started to know I was different. what he is today.
Here in California I met new ·· friends,
Nancy Lopez-Melton and Lee Trevino
ones I will never allow myself to forget. are two people who have come a long
Black friends like Alvin, who saved way and with them they have gained
me on my first day of school, when-- a the respect of so many people, esgringo tried to beat me up; Chirs who pecially Chicanos. Because of the
showed me how different we really accomplishment of these two, the rest
were. He tried to make me proud, of the Chicano people have something
Lord knows how he tried.
to be proud of.
Ninos of my ancestors
que nacieron into un mundo ,
seeping with institutional racism,
and drowning in barrio poverty.
Listen, mis ninos de la tierra de Aztlan,
duermense y no lloren
porque manana el sol
will warm your little bodies ...
Yes, tomorrow, vamos a ver
--esperanza in the first
rays of the morning sun,
del Quinto Sol.
Rachel Mendoza
..,
and came the day
unlike
yesterday the unknown is known
reality remains undisturbed
la cultura de mi padre remains
i struggled
not wanting.to fall
and falling i struggled
i leave as i came
un chicano
color de la tierra
enamorado con mi raza
borracho con la vida.
FF. lvarra
Tengo todita mi gente
Para la revolucion
Voy a luchar con los pobres
Pa que se acabe el balon
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'i-..unchained the memories
,
like the dawn they rose
and
walking
between the rows
i wanted to run
falling
the belt tied me to the ground
levantando
mi frente i saw no end
and taking the file
i sharpened my.life.
FF. lvarra
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BIBLB STUDY
Estudiantes, empleados, y profesores .
Quires Ud. crecer en su vida espiritual?
Desea Ud. mejorar su comprension y
su uso de espanol? Si su respuesta es
~~i" a una de estas preguntas, ve~ga
a ·Lab School" 119 los .Jueves a la una
(1:00) y J)9demos lograr estas metas.
Si esta hora no es buena, denos su
nombre y su numero de telefono y
podemos llamarle en el futuro si hay.
~ cambio de hora.
'Nuestro plan es juntar una hora
cada semana para estudiar la palabra
de Dios en espanol.
Si tienen preguntas, llamen a Ransom
Poythress (487-2393) o a Susan Shanks
(487-2393).
Vo.CES (cont.) COLOR...(cont.)
· BILINGUAL ED··.
Tengo mi orgullo tengo mi fe
Soy diferente soy color cafe
Tengo cultura tengo corafon
Y no me lo quita a mini un cabron
SEMANADE
RADIO BILING
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WRONG AMERICAN
When I got to high school, I started to
see the differences, not just the subtle
The bilingual public radio station FM
Listeners will be asked ~
ones, but all of them. At age fifteeh, 91, will hold its first over-the-air fund- and special programs will
I was starting to see what Chris had raising drive during radio bilingue during raaio bilingue week
known by age eleven. Was it too late, week March 22 through March 29. The programs will include "
was I a .. vendido, .. would I never be · purpose of the fundraising drive is to cano," a docu-drama about
able to be proud of myself, of my people? develoo loci\l support that will make aspirations and problems
I tried, I tried real hard. I lost some
Radio Bilingue self-sufficient. The cano~ at the end of World
By Olivia Lucio
so<alled "Anglo" friends and I kept Bilingual public radio station was · history of Radio Bilingue,
some because they did not see me. initiated by a · one time private grant show with the veterans
Is Bilingual Education absolutely as different, but as a friend, the way from the campaign for human develop- Chicano movement.
ment and depends on local listener
Radio Bilingue will al
wrong and against the American · Con- I will always ~ee them.
contributions for its on-going operation. days of live music a
cept? Does it fail to equip youngsters
Listener sponsorship is the primary o·n the Fulton Mall on
with a proficiency in English that Is
needed to compete in the job market? _ I am still considered a "vendido" source of funding for all non-commer- 29. Local bands and
provide live music f
These were some of the points made by by some Chicanos because of the way cial media.
5 p.m. on all three days.
President Reagan in one of his speeches I dress and the company I keep. But
those Chicanos, those Anglos who
early this month.
call me "Mesican," those rednecks
who call me "wetback, .. no one can tak~
THURSDAY, MARCH 26
away the pride I finally achieved after
1 p.m.-3:45 p.m.-Musica del Gran Cantante
Bilingual Education is one of the latest fifteen years. No one will ever strip me
federally funded programs under the edd I
Javier Solis
_
._ u_cational program. JLuse.s the child's of it, I will be like my f.irst gra e c ass-- mates -and resist.
5 p.m.-5:15 p.m.-Evening news
native language as a medium of teachThank you Chri~ for trying to show
7 p.m.-7:30 p.m.-Enfoque Nacional
ing the child English. It not only teaches · me at such an early age and forgive
·Media hora de noticias nacionales e inter
the child to speak English but also to me raza if I do not seem Chicano through .
master his native language. As a re- and through, but I am._
8 p.m.-10 p.m.-Musica de Trios--La Epoca
suit, the child will learn faster and will
·hopefully perform inschool as well as
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
the English speaking child. •
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CONCEPT?
Bilingual Education is not -absolutely
wrong and against the concept. First
·we have to understand, who the American people are. The American people
. are a mixture of many immigrants that
came from Europe in the 19th century.
All these immigrants came from different countries and their natives language
was.not English. They _had to develop a
method in order to learn English. At
that time it was not called Bilingual Education, it had a different name, but the
concept was the same. American immegrant ancestors, usecj Bilingual Education to become Americanized . Then
how can it be against the American
System?
Y no me io quita a mi ni un cab;on ·
Yo soy Chicano tengo color
Americana pero con honor
Cuando me dicen que hay revo/ucion
Defiendo a mi raza con mucho valor.
Song "Yo Soy Chicano, written by Teatro
Campesino.
PROPOSALS
(cont.)
"That man was a U.S. citizen, picked
Bilingual Education doesn't fail to up in the streets of Clovis, a poor simple
equip youngsters with a proficiency minded guy and passed through the
in English. A 1978 reveiw of program hands of the Clovis Police department,
evaluation by the center for Applied and the U.S. border patrol, because a
Linguistics showed that students receiv- Clovis policeman thought he looked
ing Bilingual Education are performing foreign," said Bilderback.
as well or better than the students in
regular classes (those who speak EnIt is problems such as these that need
glish) in math, science, and reading.
· The attendance rate for those students to be seriously addressed. Something
is higher and drop out rates are lower. he does not expect from the Reagan
Other studies showed that these pro- . administration he said . "I think Reagan
grams have been effective in ·improving will continue the existing nQn-policy
reading .and writing skills in English. and leave everything exactly as it is,"
Bilingual Education helps the child in- said Bilderback.
Now that the report is out Reagan
crease his proficiency in English, not
has appointed the Attorney General,
worsen it.
and the Secretaries of Commerce and
Labor as a committee to make more
recommendations from the report.
The .question of wh~ther Bilingual .
Education is dedicated to preserve
Budget reductions recently revealed
native ~anguage is ,incorrect; , Bilingual . that the Immigration and Naturalization
Education helps the child learn English Service accounts for 44 percent of the · along with his native language.
Justice Department's cuts. The Reagan
By encouraging this method of administration wants to slash the INS
learning Chicano children will be in ' proposed $385 million budget by S21.6
better position to make a contribution million and reduce the 10,281 work force ·
to society.
by 750. ·
a
9:30 a.m.-12 noon-Raices de la Musica Popul
cana
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Grabaciones del museo de antropologia:
12 noon-3:45 p.m.--M usica de Vicente
Chente can ta para la gerite.
5 p. m. -6 p. m. -Accento Backstage
Radio Bilingue producers take you backstage t
w1th Latin artists about themselves and their
Interview with "the Superman of Salsa,"
Blades-his roots, his politics and his music
duced by Julie Benitez y Basilio Maciel.
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
6 a.m.-8 a.m ~-Dos Horas de Trios
Musica de ·Los Panchos, Los Dandys, y Herm
J0a.m.-12 noon-Juan Serrano-Uve
El internacional residente de Fresno a
guitarra. Lo mejor de Flamenco.
12 noon-5 p.m. -Live from the Fulton Mall
La Fiesta Continua ...
5.p.m.-8 p.m. -Histo·r y of Latin Rock
Antonio Lopez presenta Santana, Malo,
Petey Sheila Escovedo, Chepito y otros.
11 p.m.-2 a.m.-"Machito"
The seed of Salsa ... How the Mambo and Rum
into the music market and transformed it
miss it!
SUNDAY, MARCH 29
8 a.m.-12 .noon-Mujeres Cantantes de la Mus·
chera_
One hour documentary-Chicanas en el valle (11 •
12:30 p.m.-5 p.ni. -Live from the Fulton Mall
6 p.m.-7 p.m.-Voces del Valle (en Espanol)
Veteranos del rriovimiento Chicano; que hacen Y que
p.iensan.
7 p.m.-8 p.m.-EI Pacf1uco Special (Mosaico continues.
8 p.m.-9 p.m.-Voces del Valle (English)
Veterans of ·chicano movement-what they are do
and thinking.
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6, 1981
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CHICANO WR1r1NG
ANGELA DAVIS ON RACISM - ·-=..
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IMMIGRATION
PROPOSALS
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There Was anOld (newspaper) Woman .Who Swallowed a (racist) Fly'
It's been over a month since Insight published its memorable fictional piece over which there has been much
concern, however, the issue of responsibility of the press
still remains.
Freedom of the press is an inaliable right which should
be honored and protected. The responisibility that goes
with that freedom is just as important considering how
powerful and influential the media is.
Writing a story and not considering its effects or sensitivity does not show responsibility. Common sense ·and
good journalistic ethics are the qualities any writer or
editor should have.
If an article or story is printed and uses such derogatory
words as "nigger" or "colored woman", one must assume
the .responsibility to make sure there are no misunderstandings. In this particular case, some kind of explanatory prologue or introduction.
As a matter of writing machanics, the story "There Was
an Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly", is written in a narrative form. So when the author refers to the cleaning
lady as a "nigger" in one of the paragraphs, it was the
author and not the racist Hariet Ruth Character.
I hope than something positive has resulted from all of
this. We should all use the media as a constuctive force,
not destructive.
Fernando Quintero
Editor, La Voz
_ _.LETTERS TO THE EDITOR _ _ _ _ __
WATSON SUPPORTER
INSIGHT ARTICLE DISPUTED
Dear Editor:
Dear Editor:
Is it possible for someone to be racist
and sexist without meaning to? The answer is - of course, especially when one
lacks knowledge, sensitivity, and appreciation for the feelings and values of
the culture and sex.
The story "There Was an Old Woman
/ who Swallowed ~ Fly", demonstrated
such a reality. The story was claimed
to show the ugliness of bigotry and prejudice against Blacks in the 1930's.
However, the story created a strong critical response from many minority
students because of the many stereotypes it presentee. Surely, the most
important theme of social satire is to
· make sure the readers understand
the writer's good intentions. Failure to
do so is a poor example of supposedly
"w~ll-meaning"' social satire.
A sensitive writer dealing with a sensitive issue would make sure her/his
point is made. A sensitive and responsible editor with knowledge of the cultural diversity in the campus community
would detect such writing than clearly
failed to state its meaning.
The author and the editor of the story,
as printed in Insight, failed very successfully to get its HsupposedH message
across to minorities and other social
conscious individuals.
This clearly states a lack of appreciation for cultural values and differness.
The actions taken against the printing
of the story were undeniably justifiable
and any further actions against such insensitivity will also be necessary, because too often such events go "unnoticed.
H
Only until individuals, in this ethnocentric and egocentric society, sincerely
commit themselves to the ideals of
equality, democracy, and cultural
pluralism 'it(ill there be little need for
forums, ,panels, and demonstrations
against racism. Otherwise, let's continue taking to the streets!!
Que siga la lucha !
Gerardo Gonzalez
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• Jeff Watson's sincerity, sensitivity,
It's the time of year again when office strength, creativity, experience, and
seeking students present themselves performance as a student senator gives
as dem~ratic, ?~n-minded. culturally all students a valid justification for
dware( and sens,trve to the needs of all giving him their vote for A.S.B . presi·
·students.
dent.
With so many liberal thinking candidates it's a wonder why so much conservative legislation and policy is passed
by . the student senate and student
polrcy making committees .
However, among these individuals,
there is someone who does not portray
the post-election amnesiac, who soon
forgets the needs of many students,
especially those of Chicano, Black an~
other groups.
LA
VOZSUPPORTER
Dear Editor:
In response to Mr. Guathier's weak
arguement that La Voz de Aztlan and
Uhuru na ~moja are unutilized v~hicl_es
!or educa~mg . students on minority
issues. I cite h,s poor knowledge of La
Voz a nd Uhuru.
!
This outstanding person is Jeff
Watson, who seeks the A.S.B. presidency . Jeff Watson has always been
visible to minority students. He has
taken the time to attend meetings to
As far as La Voz and Uhuru doing ef·
inform minority students on student is- fective jobs in educating students on
sues and proposals that may have a minority issues, I can agree that both do
detrimental effect on affirmative ac- . outstanding jobs. When it comes to
tion .
making siJnificant social and political
Jeff Watson has been supportive of commentary, one issue of La Voz ct
minority related programs on campus. Uhuru does more than 2 weeks of the
His record shows consistently that he Daily Collegian. Issues on the campus
advocates cultural programs and cul- and community as they pertain to Chi·
tural awareness. In an ethnocentric c~nos and Blacks are reported and dis·
environment, Jeff Watson has dedicated cussed. Any reporting done by other
himself to earning the needs and values campus papers only do well in distortin1
of the ignored non-traditional student. or briefly reporting minority events,
His stance against racism and sexism in otherwise such issues are not reported
the community, as well as on campus because they are not •newsworthy.•
stands out on his senate record.
Continued on paae 3
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Hjstorically, the Daily . Collegian
treats Vintage Days as "'supposedly"'
more worthwhile news for students·
and the community than Semana de la
Raza (one week) and Black History
Month. I am uncertain if the Daily Collegian serves to fairly inform Chicaoos,
Blacks, and other Third World Students
on pertinent Third World issues and
events.
Mr. Gauthier describes la Voz as
an events calendar. I would like to see
the Dai-ly Collegian cover one Chicano
event. Many Chicano students are actively
participating in organizing
student and community events, but one
cannot tell thi.s by reading the Daily
Collegian·. la Voz not only reports
Chicano student community issues,
it stresses student participation and
community involvement.
Educating
Chicano students on social and political
issues is a priority for the staff of la
Voz.
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ASSEMBLYMAN CHACON
CHARGES REAGAN'S
BILINGUAL ED ATTACK
SACRAMENTO--The author of California's bilingual education law lashed
out at President Ronald Reagan for commenting that such programs are "'absolutely wrong and against the American
concept."'
Assemblyman Peter R. Chacon (DSan Diego) accused the Republican President of "hypocrisy" and charged
Reagan's "careless remarks have
stunned Hispanic Americans and other
lansuage minority groups in this countr:-v
who dream of a brighter future for their
sJ)ildren."
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It is very interesting to see how people
justify their beliefs in different situations. Many of the very same people
, who say that Chicanos and Blacks
Answering Mr. Gauthier's query should utilize la Voz and Uhuru more
as to why la Voz and Uhuru are sup- are the same ones who deny the neces
posedly ineffective in· reporting issues. sity for an alternative !"'inority media.
Let's first talk equal staff, equal funding,
and equal opportunity before we talk , Along the same point many ot these
treating La Voz and the Daily Collegian 1 ~ame people would say a,:ticles, ~ditorthe same. The Daily Collegian has about 1als, and letters to,the editor on issues
8 times as many paid staff members ._, such as "'There Was an Old Woman who
as La Voz and 33 times· as much money. Swall~wed a Fly"' would only create
With La Voz printed .only every two a one •~sue paper.
.
weeks and the lack of cooperation from
Again these same people would bethe Daily Collegian staff in distributing lieve that the papers were· overreacting
La Voz, the 'perfect opportunity" to because nobody was concerned enough
report the issue quickly is lmited. Also
to get together st'-'dent support and parthe Uhuru staff has been trying to get \!icipat_ion. (~uch as, a panel discussion
an editor only to be inhibited by an un- mvolvmg third world student groups,
cooperative and conservative media the author, and editors of the Daily
council. ~
Collegian and Insight).
·
Such a mentality only strengthens
the momentum for the united Third
'World student movement.
ILa
Voz De Aztlan I
Gerardo Gonzalez
Speaking to the National League of
Cities in Washington, Reagan departed
from his prepared text to cite bilingual
education as the kind of government
program that is out of control.
"These words come from the man who
as California Governor in 1972 signed
Assembly Bill 2284, my leaislation
creating the first state bilingual programs for limited-English-proficient
students.
"'This shoe!< •8 statement is uttered
by the man who boasted to Mexico
President Lopez Portillo that he initiated
bilingual education in California -- and
who further spoke favorably of the program during his campaign for President.
'Now safe in office President Reagan
launches a sneak attack on bilingual education. In so doing he crushed the hopes
' for equal educational opportunity held
by thousands of children and their families. There is a word for this type of conduct. It is hypocrisy,"' Assemblyman
Chacon declared .
Chacon . said the purpose of bilingual
education . is to utilize the native tongue
as a tool to quickly bring a child into
mainstream EngHsh usage.
"Yet the President chooses to perpetuate the myth that bilingual education
stresses the native tongue at the expense of English. T.his is not so and the
President. should know better/ Chacon
said.
The California lawmaker a·1so bristled
at Reagan's suggestiQn the program\ is
Hun-American. H
"How dare the President slander a
means by which unique children are
helped to become fully productive members of American society?"' Chacon
questioned.
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The legislator said Reagan is equally
off-base when he states that bilingual
education constitutes an effort to turn
the United States into a multilingual
country . .
"'Where has the President been the
last 70 yearsf This nation already is
a multilingual society. .
"As he · criss-crQss~ the .country
during his campaign, was Reagan so
sheltered that he failed to observe the
phenomenon that thousands upon thousands of the people in our country are
bilingual and use their native lanauage
in a~dition tC? Eng1i_shl"' Chacon asked.
Chacon charged the President has,
in effect, issued an executive order
which says: "Speak English or you cannot enter an American Classroom."
"'This disaraceful notion is what is
un-American to me. There are 320,000
limited-English-proficient children· in
California alone. Are these children,
and the thousands more across the
country, to be denied entry into the
American pub Iic school system because
they lack a command of English at the
age for kindergarten or firs~ gradef
"I call upon the President to recoanize
his public blunder and issue an apology.
If not, I can assure him that Hispanic
Americans and other languaae aroups
· will not forget this insult from a President we. hope was a President of all
people," Chacon concluded.
Editor-in-Chief
Fernando Quintero
La-Voz de los estudiantesl
Managing Editor
Margarita Martinez
Photographers
Robert Hernandez
Richard Rios
Production
Sylvia Vidal
Maria Servin
Reporters
'Yolanda Granad<.'~
Mike Valencia
Lourdes Villareal
Olivia Lucio
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Solidari!): March
sighs uttered by some marchers.
were applauded by some people:
. were already in the amphitheatre.
Father Moriarity speaks against U.S.
interference in El Salvador.
As soon as I arrived I could sense
"solidarity" filling. the small park as
Chicanos, Whites and Blacks waited for
the final word for the two mile march to
begin . The march covered the route
from Dickey Park to Roeding Park;
similar to the march of 1968, in which
Fresno Chicanos, Whites and Blacks
marched demonstrating agaisnt the Vietnam War.
The march in which 500 people participated in was to protest U.S. involvement
in El Salvador and what they feared
could be.c ome another Vietnam type war.
·At noon the marchers started organizing behind banners identifying particufar organizations . I followed my group
and marched behind our banner whid'I
stated "No U.S. intervention in El Salvador, CSUF Las Adelitas ." We were
told by monitors to line up four a bre? .
because the right hand land would vtlly
be used. By 12:15w~ were on Divisidero
Street.
Monitors led us in chants.
The main chant was "No draft, no war,
U.S. out of El Salvador."
As , we marched on, .the bystanders
were curiously watching. I could tell
they were wondering what the "radicals
wanted this time."
Two abuelitas joined our group
and marched wth · us. One abuelita,
Aurora Siniga, 69, told me m Spanish
that she was happy to see so many
people . "Dios quiera que todo que
pedemos en esta junta sera compleda."
She also told me of her grandson, Santos
Carda; a former CSUF student, who is in
Nicaragua helping in the independence
cause there. The other abuelita proudly
told me that all her grandchildren were
marching .
Our chanting was dying down but was
slowly revived as we entered Roeding
Park . "We finally made it!_" were the
After we were situated on
and others on bleachers,
passes out apples, oranges, ha
eggs and peanut-butter sa.ndwlEI
The program consisted Qt av
music ranging from Chilean,
and "Folk. Each speaker spoke on a
tain issue involved in the El
situation.
I had the opportunity to speak
Father Moriarity; a Catholic
· who works for the Social Justice
mission in San Francisco. Father
iarity was in El Salvador last
He said that nearly 15,000 people
killed last year, mostly by bullets
in the United States. Father
said tht conditions now are that
won't reach the age of five.
"The U.S . is pouring money in E
·vador to kill more people. The '--''JUWlliill
bitter about the action the U.S. is
I'm especially bitter because
church people are being killed. A
slogan in El Salvador is 'Be pa
kill a priest' which is actually
pe~ing." said Moriarity. /
According to Father Moriarity, only
40% of the people work. •The people
want jobs. They want to live m peace.
We had our revolution in 1776. Why
can't they have theirs, without us interfering?" he said . .
. Moriarity stressed writing to our congressmen. Pressuring Congress with
our concerns . 1-ie also said that coalitions between Chicanos, the Church,
Anti-draft people-like this march coalition-should abound.
The program ended at 4:30 p.m .
I left the park with a new awareness
and a new insight on the whole situation.
CSUF La Raza profe~sors Ernesto Martinez and Te
_Perez listen attentively during the Sunday rally.
Information booths provided information
concerning the .. El Salvadorean
revolution.
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An estimated crowd of 500 gathered at the March 14th rally.
Photos by Richard Rios
Contributions were collected· for El Salvador relief ..
REAGAN IGNORESIMMIGRATION
PROPOSAL
By Margarita M. Martinez
Recommendations aimed at addressing immigration problems, issued
last month by the Select Commission on
Immigration and Refugee Policy will
be isnored by President Reagan , stated
Dr. Loy Bilderback, history professor
at CSUF and co-author of "'The Golden
Door,"' a book about Mexican immigration .
Bilderback says he does not like the
report, but he thinks the Reagan administration will ignore the repor:t
for a number of reasons. According to
Bilderback, one is that Reagan seems
to be interested in the profitability of
US business enterprise and "'not be in .
favor of anything ."' Another is that he
has agreed not to do anything about this
problem with Mexican President Lopez
Portillo. •
The Commission was created almost
three years ago by Congress, acting on
a bill by Senator Edward Kennedy.
(He had been accused of proposing the
bill to put off dealing with the sensitive immigration issue while he was
preparing to run for President .) The
Commission was given a staff and the
funds to conduct its own research on
immigration and was to have a report
by early in 1981 .
"'My attitude toward Reagan is he
never thinks a damn thing · through.
He kind of goes. through life throwing
out these one liners,"' Bilderback said,
"I have a feeling nobody in the White
House has ever thought about his
problem."
Bilderback said that he never expected much from the Commission
"' It will be another damn government
report. I have never talked to anyone
connected with immigration that looked
upon the Select Commission as anything_
but a hole to stuff the immigration issue
in until after the election,"'· he said.
Some of the recommendations the
Commission hjls come up with are ·
"'legalizing"' th~ - undocumented. Their
method has been criticized as ineffective. The Commission has stressed that
tough enforcement must precede or
go hand in hand with the legalization
program . The Immigration and Naturalization service would be in charge of
this program. A move that has been
ciriticized because the INS is viewed
by the undocumented as the "'enemy"'
preventing him or her from coming
forward .
0
The undergoing assumption that
"illegals" cost the US money distresses
Bilderback. "I think that anybody who
is at all honest realizes that illegals
are an economic advantage to the US
certainly to their employers and I would
also say to the rest of us," said Bilderback .
·
Bilderback is worried that the US is
moving toward an unwritten special
policy for Mexico. "How about Haiti?
H.ow about the Dominican Republic?
~ow about El Salvador? Do we recognize that these countries have the same
problems that Mexico does or is it
a special relationship with Mexico?'(
said Bilderback . "I favor a special
relationship with Mexico. We have
allowed the situation with Mexico to
become institutionalized, but as I look
around the world I worry about our
ability to accommodate everybody's
problems."
In order to prevent employers from
knowingly hiring undocumented work'"
If this is the case Bilderback stressed
ers, t~e Commision has proposed that is should become a written policy
one of ,ts most controversial recommen- ·because as it stands there is too much
~ations . They have recommended na- room for abuse. He argued it would
ti_o~al identification cards for all US leave the "i Ilegal"' at the mercy of local
c1t1zens, white, brown or black. This police departments ... ,t just gives the
card would, supposedly, be "'forgery opportunity for the Clovis Police Departproof."' The legislation recommended ment or the Fresno County Sheriff's
states that it need never be presented Office to play God with people's lives."'
except when someone is accepting he said, .. then you get what happened
employment.
to that poor man in Clovis ...
This will only be a detriment to
Chicanos and dark skinned people,
said Bilderback. ..,f a Chicano_ kid,
18 years old loses his damn billfold
and· my 17 year old, six foot tall, blond
hair, and blue eyed kid loses his,..
said Bilderback, "'my son will get the
job. For a Chicano they will want to
see the card and for my son they won't.
That is what I think is going to come
out of it. It is going to be just one more
problem for anybody ~ho looks foreign .. ,1
•
•
•
Bilderback is referring to an incident
in Clovis where · Daniel Cardona a
27 year old mentally retarded man ~nd
a US citizen was deported to Mexico
after he was arrested by a Clovis police
officer. After a three month search
he was found wandering the streets
of Tijuana. The man was born in Fresno
County. · The Clovis Police Department
claims they thought he was an .. illegal
alien, because he had no identification, could not speak English and was
of Mexican descent ...
.. ANGELA DAVIS
SPEAKS ON RACISM
Davis continued that the Civil War
not been a struggle to liberate
slaves from slavery, but rather tt
a struggle for economic power
the-agricultural South and the you111
Angela Davis speaking out against dustrious North. Davis added,• And
Racism and the Ku Klux Klan here at KKK was Jhere to assist."' People
CSUF last Friday while holding the Feb- make 75 cents more than the rest
ruary issue of Insight on the story
persuaded to believe that they
HThere Was an Old Woman who Swal: more in common with the whites
lowed a Fly" could only contain herself make billions than with Blacks,
expressing : "I'm still stunned. I'm still canos, Puerto Ricans, etc. Davis
stunned ... that something of this nature mented that after all, this country
could appear_ in a college newspaper... founded on the exploitation of the
Davis turther commented that the ricans and the violence on the i
story was not only filled with racism nous. Davis returned to the subject
bat also with sexism 1 •
Davis said, the KKK by saying that she could
"I'm shocked! This indicates that there remember the sounds of the bombs
is work that you (the students) have to do her neighborhood which were
in this campus!" DaYts went on to state by the KKK. She added that even
that the article mentioned above is sym- this day the KKK were infilitratin&
bolic of what is happening all across the High Schools, and even the Boy 5CM
coun.try.
Davis then directed her attentioo
the state of the economy and .. Reap
Angela Davis, Co-chairperson for the alledged attempts to solve the erol1IXIII■
National Alliance against Racist and problems." Speaking out against Pffi'
Political Repression is currently teaching ident Reagan's proposed cuts in st
at one of the CSUC campuses in San loans and financial aid, Davis said,•
Francisco, after Reagan had announced lege students will soon be di
that she would never again teach in moving from the commencement line
another state supported institution. the unemployment line." Davis~
Davis, after having received a standing that what the "'priveleged whites• cbl
ovation from the cheering crowd at the realize is .that with Reagan's p ~
College Union, elaborated on the his- "'They are not far behind Blacks.•
torical oppression faced by Blacks in
During the last part of the I
this country, emphasizing the partici- Davis focused her attention on foref
pation of the KKK. Davis cited the film, policies, denouncing U.S. interventicit
"Birth of a Nation,. written by Thomas El Salvador for the sake of .. def
Dickson following the aftermath of the multinational corporations.,,
()a\
Civil War as an example ·of distorted advocated international solidarity
accounts of the radical Reconstruction the Palistinians, the Salvadord
Period (1865-77). Davis further stated and the South Africans. Davis
that as a result of Black alliances with "let us insure that they don't have
poor Southern whites and some North- deal with nuclear bombs.• She add!'
erners during this radical period· the that the military budget ,should be
first public schools were establi~hed
and that that money should be emplo,t'
the first read supportive legislative bill; for Social Services. Davis stated,
having to do with women were passed, you don't have money, it's assumed
and the first tax plan reforms were de- don't have the right tobe healthy!
signed to place the burden on the rich. ' ~avis concluded, -we have to
Speaking on the tax reforms, Davis said, going out on the streets again, not by
"We could sure use some of that today... thousands, but by the hundred tto,Davis said that students are not aware san_ds. We must promise ou_r l,,other5
of minority contributions because they
are taught only about "history as it was ~d sisters in El Salvador ~ written by the victors and the oppres- will be no more victims. They will
sors,"
We will be the victorious ones f ..
By Lourdes Villarreal
POEM.AS
UNTITLED
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GAINING RESPECT·
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CONTR-IBUTIONS FROM
THE STUDENT COMMUNITY.
YO SOY CHICAl':O, fENGO COLOR...
By Ruben Garza
Yo soy Chicano tengo color
Americano pero con honor
o soy chicano tengo color
America no pero con honor
Si, yo soy Chicano . When I was growng up in a rural part of Texas for the
irst si~ year· of my life, I knew no one
ut my cousins and the fifty or so
le in our little town. Then, for
me peculiar reason that not one can
eelly explain to me, I had to go into
he city and attend school .
When I arrived in this stra:ge new
lace, I encountered a new breed of
le. Even though they looked like
y best friend, light skinned and blond
air, they did not speak the same
anguage we did . They uttered words
e could not understand; even the teachr spoke this strange language. I . had
ometimes heard my brother and
isters speak it among themselves,
nd , my parents and I knew it as "inles ."
For four weeks they considered me
problem child for I would not speak
his strange language, I found · no
eason to , I would not drink my milk
I never had to at home); I would not
at their cookies (they looked different
nd contained brown things in them);
nd I would not take a mid-morning
ap (I never had to sleep during the day
t home) . Why should I do what this
trange lady asked me to do, she was
tmy mother .
Cuando me dicen que hay,revolucion
Defiendo a mi raza con mucho valor
After I completed Headstart, we
ot one week off . Then they told me
had to go back . I did not want to,
cried, pleaded, and begged not to
ke me go back. It was all in vain,
had to go back . I could not undertand, did my parents no longer love
? Why would they make me suffer
? I had no choice, I had to go. The
school was stranger than the first,
ven though the teacher looked like
s. For the first few weeks we were
llowed to call her Senorita Garcia,
ut after a while we were told we could
longer speak Spanish, we had to
peak "ingles." Only a few knew how,
most of us sat there quietly and said
thing. After a few weeks, most of
s started to pick up the new language,
out of wanting to, but out of fear.
For those who resisted, resisted for
whatev~r reason, (could it have been
that at the age of six they knew they
were being stripped of something very
dear to them) were spanked. I was no
longer Ruben, but Roo-bin, and my
friend was no longer Eloy, but Eeloy
or Elroy, which ever they preferred.
The older American kids used to come
over and pick on us one at a time. We
took it for a while until we got wise
and united as one, and protected ourselves by fighting back . Again I was
called "problem child ."
By Raymond Martinez
Lee Trevino and Nancy Lopez-Melton
in the last few years have become well
known on the Professional Golf Association and the Ladies Professional
Golf Association, respectively. Combined they · have 43 victories as pros .
These two Chicanos have fought their
way up the ladder of fame and fortune .
They are two of the most recognized
personalities on the golf circuit today.
Nancy Lopez-Melton satrted playing
golf when she was eight year old. By
the time she was 12, she had won
, her first amateur championship. In
1977 Nancy became a pro and entered
the LPCA Open and finished second .
From then on she blazed on to the circuit, winning almost every LPGA
tournament in sight. As a result, she
was named Rookie and Player of the
Year . She was the first woman golfer
·· to win $200,000 in one year. Nancy
was also awarded the Pinch Woman
Athlete of the Year Award : Mrs. LopezMelton was the first woman golfer to
win this coveted award since Kathy
. Whitworth won it in 1966.
After Nancy's first few years on the
LPCA, she got married to a sportscaster from Harrisburg, ·PA. named
Tim Melton. From then on Nancy has
been playing less golf. In an interview
with reporters . Nancy stressed there
were several goals in her mind before
retir.ing to have ·a family: "Keep my
Tengo mi par de caballos
Para la revolucion
low scoring average, be number one
for as long as possible, and win the U.S.
Uno se llama el Canario
El otro se llama el Corrion
Open, LPCA, and Peter Jackson championships in one year." This lady has
This went on for a couple of years and set same pretty tough goals for her1 started to accept it. The Americans self, goals she will probably accomno longer picked on us and we were plish.
now friends . Then my parents beLee Trevino was a poor boy from
trayed me, they brought us West. Texas. He worked at a local golf course
Again I asked myself do they no longer where 'he learned to play golf. When he
love me? Why leave, why go, I was first came on to the golf scene almost
happy; I wanted to stay . Once more I 14 year ago, he was playing in the U.S .
pleaded, begged and cried but to no Open at Baltusrol Coif Club. --He' as
avail · we left-the Valley, left my friends, so poor that he did not have enough
most' of whom I can no longer remember, . money to pay his caddy. As a result
all except Eloy. how can I ever forget of the tournament, he won $6,000
my best friend? We did everything to- which helped pay for his caddy . Now
gether until we got to school. Eloy was at age 40, he has won 24 PCA Chamaccepted because he was farr skinned, pionships and has won over $2 milblond and learned quickly.
lion. Being one of the first golfers to
do so, Lee has also won the Vardon
Trophy, based on stroke average, for
the fifth time. Not all of Lee's golf
T~ngo mi orgullo y machismo
career has been a bed of roses; at one
Mi cultura y corazon
time he suffered from a back problem
Tengo mi fey diferencias
that almost ended his Cc}.~~f..... Because
Y lucho con gran razon
of his strong will, he was a&1e to overcome his back problem and become
I now started to know I was different. what he is today.
Here in California I met new ·· friends,
Nancy Lopez-Melton and Lee Trevino
ones I will never allow myself to forget. are two people who have come a long
Black friends like Alvin, who saved way and with them they have gained
me on my first day of school, when-- a the respect of so many people, esgringo tried to beat me up; Chirs who pecially Chicanos. Because of the
showed me how different we really accomplishment of these two, the rest
were. He tried to make me proud, of the Chicano people have something
Lord knows how he tried.
to be proud of.
Ninos of my ancestors
que nacieron into un mundo ,
seeping with institutional racism,
and drowning in barrio poverty.
Listen, mis ninos de la tierra de Aztlan,
duermense y no lloren
porque manana el sol
will warm your little bodies ...
Yes, tomorrow, vamos a ver
--esperanza in the first
rays of the morning sun,
del Quinto Sol.
Rachel Mendoza
..,
and came the day
unlike
yesterday the unknown is known
reality remains undisturbed
la cultura de mi padre remains
i struggled
not wanting.to fall
and falling i struggled
i leave as i came
un chicano
color de la tierra
enamorado con mi raza
borracho con la vida.
FF. lvarra
Tengo todita mi gente
Para la revolucion
Voy a luchar con los pobres
Pa que se acabe el balon
Continu~ on page 8 l
'i-..unchained the memories
,
like the dawn they rose
and
walking
between the rows
i wanted to run
falling
the belt tied me to the ground
levantando
mi frente i saw no end
and taking the file
i sharpened my.life.
FF. lvarra
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IPIIISB ·
BIBLB STUDY
Estudiantes, empleados, y profesores .
Quires Ud. crecer en su vida espiritual?
Desea Ud. mejorar su comprension y
su uso de espanol? Si su respuesta es
~~i" a una de estas preguntas, ve~ga
a ·Lab School" 119 los .Jueves a la una
(1:00) y J)9demos lograr estas metas.
Si esta hora no es buena, denos su
nombre y su numero de telefono y
podemos llamarle en el futuro si hay.
~ cambio de hora.
'Nuestro plan es juntar una hora
cada semana para estudiar la palabra
de Dios en espanol.
Si tienen preguntas, llamen a Ransom
Poythress (487-2393) o a Susan Shanks
(487-2393).
Vo.CES (cont.) COLOR...(cont.)
· BILINGUAL ED··.
Tengo mi orgullo tengo mi fe
Soy diferente soy color cafe
Tengo cultura tengo corafon
Y no me lo quita a mini un cabron
SEMANADE
RADIO BILING
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WRONG AMERICAN
When I got to high school, I started to
see the differences, not just the subtle
The bilingual public radio station FM
Listeners will be asked ~
ones, but all of them. At age fifteeh, 91, will hold its first over-the-air fund- and special programs will
I was starting to see what Chris had raising drive during radio bilingue during raaio bilingue week
known by age eleven. Was it too late, week March 22 through March 29. The programs will include "
was I a .. vendido, .. would I never be · purpose of the fundraising drive is to cano," a docu-drama about
able to be proud of myself, of my people? develoo loci\l support that will make aspirations and problems
I tried, I tried real hard. I lost some
Radio Bilingue self-sufficient. The cano~ at the end of World
By Olivia Lucio
so<alled "Anglo" friends and I kept Bilingual public radio station was · history of Radio Bilingue,
some because they did not see me. initiated by a · one time private grant show with the veterans
Is Bilingual Education absolutely as different, but as a friend, the way from the campaign for human develop- Chicano movement.
ment and depends on local listener
Radio Bilingue will al
wrong and against the American · Con- I will always ~ee them.
contributions for its on-going operation. days of live music a
cept? Does it fail to equip youngsters
Listener sponsorship is the primary o·n the Fulton Mall on
with a proficiency in English that Is
needed to compete in the job market? _ I am still considered a "vendido" source of funding for all non-commer- 29. Local bands and
provide live music f
These were some of the points made by by some Chicanos because of the way cial media.
5 p.m. on all three days.
President Reagan in one of his speeches I dress and the company I keep. But
those Chicanos, those Anglos who
early this month.
call me "Mesican," those rednecks
who call me "wetback, .. no one can tak~
THURSDAY, MARCH 26
away the pride I finally achieved after
1 p.m.-3:45 p.m.-Musica del Gran Cantante
Bilingual Education is one of the latest fifteen years. No one will ever strip me
federally funded programs under the edd I
Javier Solis
_
._ u_cational program. JLuse.s the child's of it, I will be like my f.irst gra e c ass-- mates -and resist.
5 p.m.-5:15 p.m.-Evening news
native language as a medium of teachThank you Chri~ for trying to show
7 p.m.-7:30 p.m.-Enfoque Nacional
ing the child English. It not only teaches · me at such an early age and forgive
·Media hora de noticias nacionales e inter
the child to speak English but also to me raza if I do not seem Chicano through .
master his native language. As a re- and through, but I am._
8 p.m.-10 p.m.-Musica de Trios--La Epoca
suit, the child will learn faster and will
·hopefully perform inschool as well as
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
the English speaking child. •
\
CONCEPT?
Bilingual Education is not -absolutely
wrong and against the concept. First
·we have to understand, who the American people are. The American people
. are a mixture of many immigrants that
came from Europe in the 19th century.
All these immigrants came from different countries and their natives language
was.not English. They _had to develop a
method in order to learn English. At
that time it was not called Bilingual Education, it had a different name, but the
concept was the same. American immegrant ancestors, usecj Bilingual Education to become Americanized . Then
how can it be against the American
System?
Y no me io quita a mi ni un cab;on ·
Yo soy Chicano tengo color
Americana pero con honor
Cuando me dicen que hay revo/ucion
Defiendo a mi raza con mucho valor.
Song "Yo Soy Chicano, written by Teatro
Campesino.
PROPOSALS
(cont.)
"That man was a U.S. citizen, picked
Bilingual Education doesn't fail to up in the streets of Clovis, a poor simple
equip youngsters with a proficiency minded guy and passed through the
in English. A 1978 reveiw of program hands of the Clovis Police department,
evaluation by the center for Applied and the U.S. border patrol, because a
Linguistics showed that students receiv- Clovis policeman thought he looked
ing Bilingual Education are performing foreign," said Bilderback.
as well or better than the students in
regular classes (those who speak EnIt is problems such as these that need
glish) in math, science, and reading.
· The attendance rate for those students to be seriously addressed. Something
is higher and drop out rates are lower. he does not expect from the Reagan
Other studies showed that these pro- . administration he said . "I think Reagan
grams have been effective in ·improving will continue the existing nQn-policy
reading .and writing skills in English. and leave everything exactly as it is,"
Bilingual Education helps the child in- said Bilderback.
Now that the report is out Reagan
crease his proficiency in English, not
has appointed the Attorney General,
worsen it.
and the Secretaries of Commerce and
Labor as a committee to make more
recommendations from the report.
The .question of wh~ther Bilingual .
Education is dedicated to preserve
Budget reductions recently revealed
native ~anguage is ,incorrect; , Bilingual . that the Immigration and Naturalization
Education helps the child learn English Service accounts for 44 percent of the · along with his native language.
Justice Department's cuts. The Reagan
By encouraging this method of administration wants to slash the INS
learning Chicano children will be in ' proposed $385 million budget by S21.6
better position to make a contribution million and reduce the 10,281 work force ·
to society.
by 750. ·
a
9:30 a.m.-12 noon-Raices de la Musica Popul
cana
_
Grabaciones del museo de antropologia:
12 noon-3:45 p.m.--M usica de Vicente
Chente can ta para la gerite.
5 p. m. -6 p. m. -Accento Backstage
Radio Bilingue producers take you backstage t
w1th Latin artists about themselves and their
Interview with "the Superman of Salsa,"
Blades-his roots, his politics and his music
duced by Julie Benitez y Basilio Maciel.
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
6 a.m.-8 a.m ~-Dos Horas de Trios
Musica de ·Los Panchos, Los Dandys, y Herm
J0a.m.-12 noon-Juan Serrano-Uve
El internacional residente de Fresno a
guitarra. Lo mejor de Flamenco.
12 noon-5 p.m. -Live from the Fulton Mall
La Fiesta Continua ...
5.p.m.-8 p.m. -Histo·r y of Latin Rock
Antonio Lopez presenta Santana, Malo,
Petey Sheila Escovedo, Chepito y otros.
11 p.m.-2 a.m.-"Machito"
The seed of Salsa ... How the Mambo and Rum
into the music market and transformed it
miss it!
SUNDAY, MARCH 29
8 a.m.-12 .noon-Mujeres Cantantes de la Mus·
chera_
One hour documentary-Chicanas en el valle (11 •
12:30 p.m.-5 p.ni. -Live from the Fulton Mall
6 p.m.-7 p.m.-Voces del Valle (en Espanol)
Veteranos del rriovimiento Chicano; que hacen Y que
p.iensan.
7 p.m.-8 p.m.-EI Pacf1uco Special (Mosaico continues.
8 p.m.-9 p.m.-Voces del Valle (English)
Veterans of ·chicano movement-what they are do
and thinking.
Callfomla State Unlv~rslty, Fresno ,.----
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6, 1981
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CHICANO WR1r1NG
ANGELA DAVIS ON RACISM - ·-=..
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REAGAN IGNORE$ :' ·<
IMMIGRATION
PROPOSALS
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There Was anOld (newspaper) Woman .Who Swallowed a (racist) Fly'
It's been over a month since Insight published its memorable fictional piece over which there has been much
concern, however, the issue of responsibility of the press
still remains.
Freedom of the press is an inaliable right which should
be honored and protected. The responisibility that goes
with that freedom is just as important considering how
powerful and influential the media is.
Writing a story and not considering its effects or sensitivity does not show responsibility. Common sense ·and
good journalistic ethics are the qualities any writer or
editor should have.
If an article or story is printed and uses such derogatory
words as "nigger" or "colored woman", one must assume
the .responsibility to make sure there are no misunderstandings. In this particular case, some kind of explanatory prologue or introduction.
As a matter of writing machanics, the story "There Was
an Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly", is written in a narrative form. So when the author refers to the cleaning
lady as a "nigger" in one of the paragraphs, it was the
author and not the racist Hariet Ruth Character.
I hope than something positive has resulted from all of
this. We should all use the media as a constuctive force,
not destructive.
Fernando Quintero
Editor, La Voz
_ _.LETTERS TO THE EDITOR _ _ _ _ __
WATSON SUPPORTER
INSIGHT ARTICLE DISPUTED
Dear Editor:
Dear Editor:
Is it possible for someone to be racist
and sexist without meaning to? The answer is - of course, especially when one
lacks knowledge, sensitivity, and appreciation for the feelings and values of
the culture and sex.
The story "There Was an Old Woman
/ who Swallowed ~ Fly", demonstrated
such a reality. The story was claimed
to show the ugliness of bigotry and prejudice against Blacks in the 1930's.
However, the story created a strong critical response from many minority
students because of the many stereotypes it presentee. Surely, the most
important theme of social satire is to
· make sure the readers understand
the writer's good intentions. Failure to
do so is a poor example of supposedly
"w~ll-meaning"' social satire.
A sensitive writer dealing with a sensitive issue would make sure her/his
point is made. A sensitive and responsible editor with knowledge of the cultural diversity in the campus community
would detect such writing than clearly
failed to state its meaning.
The author and the editor of the story,
as printed in Insight, failed very successfully to get its HsupposedH message
across to minorities and other social
conscious individuals.
This clearly states a lack of appreciation for cultural values and differness.
The actions taken against the printing
of the story were undeniably justifiable
and any further actions against such insensitivity will also be necessary, because too often such events go "unnoticed.
H
Only until individuals, in this ethnocentric and egocentric society, sincerely
commit themselves to the ideals of
equality, democracy, and cultural
pluralism 'it(ill there be little need for
forums, ,panels, and demonstrations
against racism. Otherwise, let's continue taking to the streets!!
Que siga la lucha !
Gerardo Gonzalez
.
• Jeff Watson's sincerity, sensitivity,
It's the time of year again when office strength, creativity, experience, and
seeking students present themselves performance as a student senator gives
as dem~ratic, ?~n-minded. culturally all students a valid justification for
dware( and sens,trve to the needs of all giving him their vote for A.S.B . presi·
·students.
dent.
With so many liberal thinking candidates it's a wonder why so much conservative legislation and policy is passed
by . the student senate and student
polrcy making committees .
However, among these individuals,
there is someone who does not portray
the post-election amnesiac, who soon
forgets the needs of many students,
especially those of Chicano, Black an~
other groups.
LA
VOZSUPPORTER
Dear Editor:
In response to Mr. Guathier's weak
arguement that La Voz de Aztlan and
Uhuru na ~moja are unutilized v~hicl_es
!or educa~mg . students on minority
issues. I cite h,s poor knowledge of La
Voz a nd Uhuru.
!
This outstanding person is Jeff
Watson, who seeks the A.S.B. presidency . Jeff Watson has always been
visible to minority students. He has
taken the time to attend meetings to
As far as La Voz and Uhuru doing ef·
inform minority students on student is- fective jobs in educating students on
sues and proposals that may have a minority issues, I can agree that both do
detrimental effect on affirmative ac- . outstanding jobs. When it comes to
tion .
making siJnificant social and political
Jeff Watson has been supportive of commentary, one issue of La Voz ct
minority related programs on campus. Uhuru does more than 2 weeks of the
His record shows consistently that he Daily Collegian. Issues on the campus
advocates cultural programs and cul- and community as they pertain to Chi·
tural awareness. In an ethnocentric c~nos and Blacks are reported and dis·
environment, Jeff Watson has dedicated cussed. Any reporting done by other
himself to earning the needs and values campus papers only do well in distortin1
of the ignored non-traditional student. or briefly reporting minority events,
His stance against racism and sexism in otherwise such issues are not reported
the community, as well as on campus because they are not •newsworthy.•
stands out on his senate record.
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Hjstorically, the Daily . Collegian
treats Vintage Days as "'supposedly"'
more worthwhile news for students·
and the community than Semana de la
Raza (one week) and Black History
Month. I am uncertain if the Daily Collegian serves to fairly inform Chicaoos,
Blacks, and other Third World Students
on pertinent Third World issues and
events.
Mr. Gauthier describes la Voz as
an events calendar. I would like to see
the Dai-ly Collegian cover one Chicano
event. Many Chicano students are actively
participating in organizing
student and community events, but one
cannot tell thi.s by reading the Daily
Collegian·. la Voz not only reports
Chicano student community issues,
it stresses student participation and
community involvement.
Educating
Chicano students on social and political
issues is a priority for the staff of la
Voz.
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ASSEMBLYMAN CHACON
CHARGES REAGAN'S
BILINGUAL ED ATTACK
SACRAMENTO--The author of California's bilingual education law lashed
out at President Ronald Reagan for commenting that such programs are "'absolutely wrong and against the American
concept."'
Assemblyman Peter R. Chacon (DSan Diego) accused the Republican President of "hypocrisy" and charged
Reagan's "careless remarks have
stunned Hispanic Americans and other
lansuage minority groups in this countr:-v
who dream of a brighter future for their
sJ)ildren."
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It is very interesting to see how people
justify their beliefs in different situations. Many of the very same people
, who say that Chicanos and Blacks
Answering Mr. Gauthier's query should utilize la Voz and Uhuru more
as to why la Voz and Uhuru are sup- are the same ones who deny the neces
posedly ineffective in· reporting issues. sity for an alternative !"'inority media.
Let's first talk equal staff, equal funding,
and equal opportunity before we talk , Along the same point many ot these
treating La Voz and the Daily Collegian 1 ~ame people would say a,:ticles, ~ditorthe same. The Daily Collegian has about 1als, and letters to,the editor on issues
8 times as many paid staff members ._, such as "'There Was an Old Woman who
as La Voz and 33 times· as much money. Swall~wed a Fly"' would only create
With La Voz printed .only every two a one •~sue paper.
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weeks and the lack of cooperation from
Again these same people would bethe Daily Collegian staff in distributing lieve that the papers were· overreacting
La Voz, the 'perfect opportunity" to because nobody was concerned enough
report the issue quickly is lmited. Also
to get together st'-'dent support and parthe Uhuru staff has been trying to get \!icipat_ion. (~uch as, a panel discussion
an editor only to be inhibited by an un- mvolvmg third world student groups,
cooperative and conservative media the author, and editors of the Daily
council. ~
Collegian and Insight).
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Such a mentality only strengthens
the momentum for the united Third
'World student movement.
ILa
Voz De Aztlan I
Gerardo Gonzalez
Speaking to the National League of
Cities in Washington, Reagan departed
from his prepared text to cite bilingual
education as the kind of government
program that is out of control.
"These words come from the man who
as California Governor in 1972 signed
Assembly Bill 2284, my leaislation
creating the first state bilingual programs for limited-English-proficient
students.
"'This shoe!< •8 statement is uttered
by the man who boasted to Mexico
President Lopez Portillo that he initiated
bilingual education in California -- and
who further spoke favorably of the program during his campaign for President.
'Now safe in office President Reagan
launches a sneak attack on bilingual education. In so doing he crushed the hopes
' for equal educational opportunity held
by thousands of children and their families. There is a word for this type of conduct. It is hypocrisy,"' Assemblyman
Chacon declared .
Chacon . said the purpose of bilingual
education . is to utilize the native tongue
as a tool to quickly bring a child into
mainstream EngHsh usage.
"Yet the President chooses to perpetuate the myth that bilingual education
stresses the native tongue at the expense of English. T.his is not so and the
President. should know better/ Chacon
said.
The California lawmaker a·1so bristled
at Reagan's suggestiQn the program\ is
Hun-American. H
"How dare the President slander a
means by which unique children are
helped to become fully productive members of American society?"' Chacon
questioned.
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The legislator said Reagan is equally
off-base when he states that bilingual
education constitutes an effort to turn
the United States into a multilingual
country . .
"'Where has the President been the
last 70 yearsf This nation already is
a multilingual society. .
"As he · criss-crQss~ the .country
during his campaign, was Reagan so
sheltered that he failed to observe the
phenomenon that thousands upon thousands of the people in our country are
bilingual and use their native lanauage
in a~dition tC? Eng1i_shl"' Chacon asked.
Chacon charged the President has,
in effect, issued an executive order
which says: "Speak English or you cannot enter an American Classroom."
"'This disaraceful notion is what is
un-American to me. There are 320,000
limited-English-proficient children· in
California alone. Are these children,
and the thousands more across the
country, to be denied entry into the
American pub Iic school system because
they lack a command of English at the
age for kindergarten or firs~ gradef
"I call upon the President to recoanize
his public blunder and issue an apology.
If not, I can assure him that Hispanic
Americans and other languaae aroups
· will not forget this insult from a President we. hope was a President of all
people," Chacon concluded.
Editor-in-Chief
Fernando Quintero
La-Voz de los estudiantesl
Managing Editor
Margarita Martinez
Photographers
Robert Hernandez
Richard Rios
Production
Sylvia Vidal
Maria Servin
Reporters
'Yolanda Granad<.'~
Mike Valencia
Lourdes Villareal
Olivia Lucio
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Solidari!): March
sighs uttered by some marchers.
were applauded by some people:
. were already in the amphitheatre.
Father Moriarity speaks against U.S.
interference in El Salvador.
As soon as I arrived I could sense
"solidarity" filling. the small park as
Chicanos, Whites and Blacks waited for
the final word for the two mile march to
begin . The march covered the route
from Dickey Park to Roeding Park;
similar to the march of 1968, in which
Fresno Chicanos, Whites and Blacks
marched demonstrating agaisnt the Vietnam War.
The march in which 500 people participated in was to protest U.S. involvement
in El Salvador and what they feared
could be.c ome another Vietnam type war.
·At noon the marchers started organizing behind banners identifying particufar organizations . I followed my group
and marched behind our banner whid'I
stated "No U.S. intervention in El Salvador, CSUF Las Adelitas ." We were
told by monitors to line up four a bre? .
because the right hand land would vtlly
be used. By 12:15w~ were on Divisidero
Street.
Monitors led us in chants.
The main chant was "No draft, no war,
U.S. out of El Salvador."
As , we marched on, .the bystanders
were curiously watching. I could tell
they were wondering what the "radicals
wanted this time."
Two abuelitas joined our group
and marched wth · us. One abuelita,
Aurora Siniga, 69, told me m Spanish
that she was happy to see so many
people . "Dios quiera que todo que
pedemos en esta junta sera compleda."
She also told me of her grandson, Santos
Carda; a former CSUF student, who is in
Nicaragua helping in the independence
cause there. The other abuelita proudly
told me that all her grandchildren were
marching .
Our chanting was dying down but was
slowly revived as we entered Roeding
Park . "We finally made it!_" were the
After we were situated on
and others on bleachers,
passes out apples, oranges, ha
eggs and peanut-butter sa.ndwlEI
The program consisted Qt av
music ranging from Chilean,
and "Folk. Each speaker spoke on a
tain issue involved in the El
situation.
I had the opportunity to speak
Father Moriarity; a Catholic
· who works for the Social Justice
mission in San Francisco. Father
iarity was in El Salvador last
He said that nearly 15,000 people
killed last year, mostly by bullets
in the United States. Father
said tht conditions now are that
won't reach the age of five.
"The U.S . is pouring money in E
·vador to kill more people. The '--''JUWlliill
bitter about the action the U.S. is
I'm especially bitter because
church people are being killed. A
slogan in El Salvador is 'Be pa
kill a priest' which is actually
pe~ing." said Moriarity. /
According to Father Moriarity, only
40% of the people work. •The people
want jobs. They want to live m peace.
We had our revolution in 1776. Why
can't they have theirs, without us interfering?" he said . .
. Moriarity stressed writing to our congressmen. Pressuring Congress with
our concerns . 1-ie also said that coalitions between Chicanos, the Church,
Anti-draft people-like this march coalition-should abound.
The program ended at 4:30 p.m .
I left the park with a new awareness
and a new insight on the whole situation.
CSUF La Raza profe~sors Ernesto Martinez and Te
_Perez listen attentively during the Sunday rally.
Information booths provided information
concerning the .. El Salvadorean
revolution.
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An estimated crowd of 500 gathered at the March 14th rally.
Photos by Richard Rios
Contributions were collected· for El Salvador relief ..
REAGAN IGNORESIMMIGRATION
PROPOSAL
By Margarita M. Martinez
Recommendations aimed at addressing immigration problems, issued
last month by the Select Commission on
Immigration and Refugee Policy will
be isnored by President Reagan , stated
Dr. Loy Bilderback, history professor
at CSUF and co-author of "'The Golden
Door,"' a book about Mexican immigration .
Bilderback says he does not like the
report, but he thinks the Reagan administration will ignore the repor:t
for a number of reasons. According to
Bilderback, one is that Reagan seems
to be interested in the profitability of
US business enterprise and "'not be in .
favor of anything ."' Another is that he
has agreed not to do anything about this
problem with Mexican President Lopez
Portillo. •
The Commission was created almost
three years ago by Congress, acting on
a bill by Senator Edward Kennedy.
(He had been accused of proposing the
bill to put off dealing with the sensitive immigration issue while he was
preparing to run for President .) The
Commission was given a staff and the
funds to conduct its own research on
immigration and was to have a report
by early in 1981 .
"'My attitude toward Reagan is he
never thinks a damn thing · through.
He kind of goes. through life throwing
out these one liners,"' Bilderback said,
"I have a feeling nobody in the White
House has ever thought about his
problem."
Bilderback said that he never expected much from the Commission
"' It will be another damn government
report. I have never talked to anyone
connected with immigration that looked
upon the Select Commission as anything_
but a hole to stuff the immigration issue
in until after the election,"'· he said.
Some of the recommendations the
Commission hjls come up with are ·
"'legalizing"' th~ - undocumented. Their
method has been criticized as ineffective. The Commission has stressed that
tough enforcement must precede or
go hand in hand with the legalization
program . The Immigration and Naturalization service would be in charge of
this program. A move that has been
ciriticized because the INS is viewed
by the undocumented as the "'enemy"'
preventing him or her from coming
forward .
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The undergoing assumption that
"illegals" cost the US money distresses
Bilderback. "I think that anybody who
is at all honest realizes that illegals
are an economic advantage to the US
certainly to their employers and I would
also say to the rest of us," said Bilderback .
·
Bilderback is worried that the US is
moving toward an unwritten special
policy for Mexico. "How about Haiti?
H.ow about the Dominican Republic?
~ow about El Salvador? Do we recognize that these countries have the same
problems that Mexico does or is it
a special relationship with Mexico?'(
said Bilderback . "I favor a special
relationship with Mexico. We have
allowed the situation with Mexico to
become institutionalized, but as I look
around the world I worry about our
ability to accommodate everybody's
problems."
In order to prevent employers from
knowingly hiring undocumented work'"
If this is the case Bilderback stressed
ers, t~e Commision has proposed that is should become a written policy
one of ,ts most controversial recommen- ·because as it stands there is too much
~ations . They have recommended na- room for abuse. He argued it would
ti_o~al identification cards for all US leave the "i Ilegal"' at the mercy of local
c1t1zens, white, brown or black. This police departments ... ,t just gives the
card would, supposedly, be "'forgery opportunity for the Clovis Police Departproof."' The legislation recommended ment or the Fresno County Sheriff's
states that it need never be presented Office to play God with people's lives."'
except when someone is accepting he said, .. then you get what happened
employment.
to that poor man in Clovis ...
This will only be a detriment to
Chicanos and dark skinned people,
said Bilderback. ..,f a Chicano_ kid,
18 years old loses his damn billfold
and· my 17 year old, six foot tall, blond
hair, and blue eyed kid loses his,..
said Bilderback, "'my son will get the
job. For a Chicano they will want to
see the card and for my son they won't.
That is what I think is going to come
out of it. It is going to be just one more
problem for anybody ~ho looks foreign .. ,1
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Bilderback is referring to an incident
in Clovis where · Daniel Cardona a
27 year old mentally retarded man ~nd
a US citizen was deported to Mexico
after he was arrested by a Clovis police
officer. After a three month search
he was found wandering the streets
of Tijuana. The man was born in Fresno
County. · The Clovis Police Department
claims they thought he was an .. illegal
alien, because he had no identification, could not speak English and was
of Mexican descent ...
.. ANGELA DAVIS
SPEAKS ON RACISM
Davis continued that the Civil War
not been a struggle to liberate
slaves from slavery, but rather tt
a struggle for economic power
the-agricultural South and the you111
Angela Davis speaking out against dustrious North. Davis added,• And
Racism and the Ku Klux Klan here at KKK was Jhere to assist."' People
CSUF last Friday while holding the Feb- make 75 cents more than the rest
ruary issue of Insight on the story
persuaded to believe that they
HThere Was an Old Woman who Swal: more in common with the whites
lowed a Fly" could only contain herself make billions than with Blacks,
expressing : "I'm still stunned. I'm still canos, Puerto Ricans, etc. Davis
stunned ... that something of this nature mented that after all, this country
could appear_ in a college newspaper... founded on the exploitation of the
Davis turther commented that the ricans and the violence on the i
story was not only filled with racism nous. Davis returned to the subject
bat also with sexism 1 •
Davis said, the KKK by saying that she could
"I'm shocked! This indicates that there remember the sounds of the bombs
is work that you (the students) have to do her neighborhood which were
in this campus!" DaYts went on to state by the KKK. She added that even
that the article mentioned above is sym- this day the KKK were infilitratin&
bolic of what is happening all across the High Schools, and even the Boy 5CM
coun.try.
Davis then directed her attentioo
the state of the economy and .. Reap
Angela Davis, Co-chairperson for the alledged attempts to solve the erol1IXIII■
National Alliance against Racist and problems." Speaking out against Pffi'
Political Repression is currently teaching ident Reagan's proposed cuts in st
at one of the CSUC campuses in San loans and financial aid, Davis said,•
Francisco, after Reagan had announced lege students will soon be di
that she would never again teach in moving from the commencement line
another state supported institution. the unemployment line." Davis~
Davis, after having received a standing that what the "'priveleged whites• cbl
ovation from the cheering crowd at the realize is .that with Reagan's p ~
College Union, elaborated on the his- "'They are not far behind Blacks.•
torical oppression faced by Blacks in
During the last part of the I
this country, emphasizing the partici- Davis focused her attention on foref
pation of the KKK. Davis cited the film, policies, denouncing U.S. interventicit
"Birth of a Nation,. written by Thomas El Salvador for the sake of .. def
Dickson following the aftermath of the multinational corporations.,,
()a\
Civil War as an example ·of distorted advocated international solidarity
accounts of the radical Reconstruction the Palistinians, the Salvadord
Period (1865-77). Davis further stated and the South Africans. Davis
that as a result of Black alliances with "let us insure that they don't have
poor Southern whites and some North- deal with nuclear bombs.• She add!'
erners during this radical period· the that the military budget ,should be
first public schools were establi~hed
and that that money should be emplo,t'
the first read supportive legislative bill; for Social Services. Davis stated,
having to do with women were passed, you don't have money, it's assumed
and the first tax plan reforms were de- don't have the right tobe healthy!
signed to place the burden on the rich. ' ~avis concluded, -we have to
Speaking on the tax reforms, Davis said, going out on the streets again, not by
"We could sure use some of that today... thousands, but by the hundred tto,Davis said that students are not aware san_ds. We must promise ou_r l,,other5
of minority contributions because they
are taught only about "history as it was ~d sisters in El Salvador ~ written by the victors and the oppres- will be no more victims. They will
sors,"
We will be the victorious ones f ..
By Lourdes Villarreal
POEM.AS
UNTITLED
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GAINING RESPECT·
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CONTR-IBUTIONS FROM
THE STUDENT COMMUNITY.
YO SOY CHICAl':O, fENGO COLOR...
By Ruben Garza
Yo soy Chicano tengo color
Americano pero con honor
o soy chicano tengo color
America no pero con honor
Si, yo soy Chicano . When I was growng up in a rural part of Texas for the
irst si~ year· of my life, I knew no one
ut my cousins and the fifty or so
le in our little town. Then, for
me peculiar reason that not one can
eelly explain to me, I had to go into
he city and attend school .
When I arrived in this stra:ge new
lace, I encountered a new breed of
le. Even though they looked like
y best friend, light skinned and blond
air, they did not speak the same
anguage we did . They uttered words
e could not understand; even the teachr spoke this strange language. I . had
ometimes heard my brother and
isters speak it among themselves,
nd , my parents and I knew it as "inles ."
For four weeks they considered me
problem child for I would not speak
his strange language, I found · no
eason to , I would not drink my milk
I never had to at home); I would not
at their cookies (they looked different
nd contained brown things in them);
nd I would not take a mid-morning
ap (I never had to sleep during the day
t home) . Why should I do what this
trange lady asked me to do, she was
tmy mother .
Cuando me dicen que hay,revolucion
Defiendo a mi raza con mucho valor
After I completed Headstart, we
ot one week off . Then they told me
had to go back . I did not want to,
cried, pleaded, and begged not to
ke me go back. It was all in vain,
had to go back . I could not undertand, did my parents no longer love
? Why would they make me suffer
? I had no choice, I had to go. The
school was stranger than the first,
ven though the teacher looked like
s. For the first few weeks we were
llowed to call her Senorita Garcia,
ut after a while we were told we could
longer speak Spanish, we had to
peak "ingles." Only a few knew how,
most of us sat there quietly and said
thing. After a few weeks, most of
s started to pick up the new language,
out of wanting to, but out of fear.
For those who resisted, resisted for
whatev~r reason, (could it have been
that at the age of six they knew they
were being stripped of something very
dear to them) were spanked. I was no
longer Ruben, but Roo-bin, and my
friend was no longer Eloy, but Eeloy
or Elroy, which ever they preferred.
The older American kids used to come
over and pick on us one at a time. We
took it for a while until we got wise
and united as one, and protected ourselves by fighting back . Again I was
called "problem child ."
By Raymond Martinez
Lee Trevino and Nancy Lopez-Melton
in the last few years have become well
known on the Professional Golf Association and the Ladies Professional
Golf Association, respectively. Combined they · have 43 victories as pros .
These two Chicanos have fought their
way up the ladder of fame and fortune .
They are two of the most recognized
personalities on the golf circuit today.
Nancy Lopez-Melton satrted playing
golf when she was eight year old. By
the time she was 12, she had won
, her first amateur championship. In
1977 Nancy became a pro and entered
the LPCA Open and finished second .
From then on she blazed on to the circuit, winning almost every LPGA
tournament in sight. As a result, she
was named Rookie and Player of the
Year . She was the first woman golfer
·· to win $200,000 in one year. Nancy
was also awarded the Pinch Woman
Athlete of the Year Award : Mrs. LopezMelton was the first woman golfer to
win this coveted award since Kathy
. Whitworth won it in 1966.
After Nancy's first few years on the
LPCA, she got married to a sportscaster from Harrisburg, ·PA. named
Tim Melton. From then on Nancy has
been playing less golf. In an interview
with reporters . Nancy stressed there
were several goals in her mind before
retir.ing to have ·a family: "Keep my
Tengo mi par de caballos
Para la revolucion
low scoring average, be number one
for as long as possible, and win the U.S.
Uno se llama el Canario
El otro se llama el Corrion
Open, LPCA, and Peter Jackson championships in one year." This lady has
This went on for a couple of years and set same pretty tough goals for her1 started to accept it. The Americans self, goals she will probably accomno longer picked on us and we were plish.
now friends . Then my parents beLee Trevino was a poor boy from
trayed me, they brought us West. Texas. He worked at a local golf course
Again I asked myself do they no longer where 'he learned to play golf. When he
love me? Why leave, why go, I was first came on to the golf scene almost
happy; I wanted to stay . Once more I 14 year ago, he was playing in the U.S .
pleaded, begged and cried but to no Open at Baltusrol Coif Club. --He' as
avail · we left-the Valley, left my friends, so poor that he did not have enough
most' of whom I can no longer remember, . money to pay his caddy. As a result
all except Eloy. how can I ever forget of the tournament, he won $6,000
my best friend? We did everything to- which helped pay for his caddy . Now
gether until we got to school. Eloy was at age 40, he has won 24 PCA Chamaccepted because he was farr skinned, pionships and has won over $2 milblond and learned quickly.
lion. Being one of the first golfers to
do so, Lee has also won the Vardon
Trophy, based on stroke average, for
the fifth time. Not all of Lee's golf
T~ngo mi orgullo y machismo
career has been a bed of roses; at one
Mi cultura y corazon
time he suffered from a back problem
Tengo mi fey diferencias
that almost ended his Cc}.~~f..... Because
Y lucho con gran razon
of his strong will, he was a&1e to overcome his back problem and become
I now started to know I was different. what he is today.
Here in California I met new ·· friends,
Nancy Lopez-Melton and Lee Trevino
ones I will never allow myself to forget. are two people who have come a long
Black friends like Alvin, who saved way and with them they have gained
me on my first day of school, when-- a the respect of so many people, esgringo tried to beat me up; Chirs who pecially Chicanos. Because of the
showed me how different we really accomplishment of these two, the rest
were. He tried to make me proud, of the Chicano people have something
Lord knows how he tried.
to be proud of.
Ninos of my ancestors
que nacieron into un mundo ,
seeping with institutional racism,
and drowning in barrio poverty.
Listen, mis ninos de la tierra de Aztlan,
duermense y no lloren
porque manana el sol
will warm your little bodies ...
Yes, tomorrow, vamos a ver
--esperanza in the first
rays of the morning sun,
del Quinto Sol.
Rachel Mendoza
..,
and came the day
unlike
yesterday the unknown is known
reality remains undisturbed
la cultura de mi padre remains
i struggled
not wanting.to fall
and falling i struggled
i leave as i came
un chicano
color de la tierra
enamorado con mi raza
borracho con la vida.
FF. lvarra
Tengo todita mi gente
Para la revolucion
Voy a luchar con los pobres
Pa que se acabe el balon
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'i-..unchained the memories
,
like the dawn they rose
and
walking
between the rows
i wanted to run
falling
the belt tied me to the ground
levantando
mi frente i saw no end
and taking the file
i sharpened my.life.
FF. lvarra
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BIBLB STUDY
Estudiantes, empleados, y profesores .
Quires Ud. crecer en su vida espiritual?
Desea Ud. mejorar su comprension y
su uso de espanol? Si su respuesta es
~~i" a una de estas preguntas, ve~ga
a ·Lab School" 119 los .Jueves a la una
(1:00) y J)9demos lograr estas metas.
Si esta hora no es buena, denos su
nombre y su numero de telefono y
podemos llamarle en el futuro si hay.
~ cambio de hora.
'Nuestro plan es juntar una hora
cada semana para estudiar la palabra
de Dios en espanol.
Si tienen preguntas, llamen a Ransom
Poythress (487-2393) o a Susan Shanks
(487-2393).
Vo.CES (cont.) COLOR...(cont.)
· BILINGUAL ED··.
Tengo mi orgullo tengo mi fe
Soy diferente soy color cafe
Tengo cultura tengo corafon
Y no me lo quita a mini un cabron
SEMANADE
RADIO BILING
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When I got to high school, I started to
see the differences, not just the subtle
The bilingual public radio station FM
Listeners will be asked ~
ones, but all of them. At age fifteeh, 91, will hold its first over-the-air fund- and special programs will
I was starting to see what Chris had raising drive during radio bilingue during raaio bilingue week
known by age eleven. Was it too late, week March 22 through March 29. The programs will include "
was I a .. vendido, .. would I never be · purpose of the fundraising drive is to cano," a docu-drama about
able to be proud of myself, of my people? develoo loci\l support that will make aspirations and problems
I tried, I tried real hard. I lost some
Radio Bilingue self-sufficient. The cano~ at the end of World
By Olivia Lucio
so<alled "Anglo" friends and I kept Bilingual public radio station was · history of Radio Bilingue,
some because they did not see me. initiated by a · one time private grant show with the veterans
Is Bilingual Education absolutely as different, but as a friend, the way from the campaign for human develop- Chicano movement.
ment and depends on local listener
Radio Bilingue will al
wrong and against the American · Con- I will always ~ee them.
contributions for its on-going operation. days of live music a
cept? Does it fail to equip youngsters
Listener sponsorship is the primary o·n the Fulton Mall on
with a proficiency in English that Is
needed to compete in the job market? _ I am still considered a "vendido" source of funding for all non-commer- 29. Local bands and
provide live music f
These were some of the points made by by some Chicanos because of the way cial media.
5 p.m. on all three days.
President Reagan in one of his speeches I dress and the company I keep. But
those Chicanos, those Anglos who
early this month.
call me "Mesican," those rednecks
who call me "wetback, .. no one can tak~
THURSDAY, MARCH 26
away the pride I finally achieved after
1 p.m.-3:45 p.m.-Musica del Gran Cantante
Bilingual Education is one of the latest fifteen years. No one will ever strip me
federally funded programs under the edd I
Javier Solis
_
._ u_cational program. JLuse.s the child's of it, I will be like my f.irst gra e c ass-- mates -and resist.
5 p.m.-5:15 p.m.-Evening news
native language as a medium of teachThank you Chri~ for trying to show
7 p.m.-7:30 p.m.-Enfoque Nacional
ing the child English. It not only teaches · me at such an early age and forgive
·Media hora de noticias nacionales e inter
the child to speak English but also to me raza if I do not seem Chicano through .
master his native language. As a re- and through, but I am._
8 p.m.-10 p.m.-Musica de Trios--La Epoca
suit, the child will learn faster and will
·hopefully perform inschool as well as
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
the English speaking child. •
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CONCEPT?
Bilingual Education is not -absolutely
wrong and against the concept. First
·we have to understand, who the American people are. The American people
. are a mixture of many immigrants that
came from Europe in the 19th century.
All these immigrants came from different countries and their natives language
was.not English. They _had to develop a
method in order to learn English. At
that time it was not called Bilingual Education, it had a different name, but the
concept was the same. American immegrant ancestors, usecj Bilingual Education to become Americanized . Then
how can it be against the American
System?
Y no me io quita a mi ni un cab;on ·
Yo soy Chicano tengo color
Americana pero con honor
Cuando me dicen que hay revo/ucion
Defiendo a mi raza con mucho valor.
Song "Yo Soy Chicano, written by Teatro
Campesino.
PROPOSALS
(cont.)
"That man was a U.S. citizen, picked
Bilingual Education doesn't fail to up in the streets of Clovis, a poor simple
equip youngsters with a proficiency minded guy and passed through the
in English. A 1978 reveiw of program hands of the Clovis Police department,
evaluation by the center for Applied and the U.S. border patrol, because a
Linguistics showed that students receiv- Clovis policeman thought he looked
ing Bilingual Education are performing foreign," said Bilderback.
as well or better than the students in
regular classes (those who speak EnIt is problems such as these that need
glish) in math, science, and reading.
· The attendance rate for those students to be seriously addressed. Something
is higher and drop out rates are lower. he does not expect from the Reagan
Other studies showed that these pro- . administration he said . "I think Reagan
grams have been effective in ·improving will continue the existing nQn-policy
reading .and writing skills in English. and leave everything exactly as it is,"
Bilingual Education helps the child in- said Bilderback.
Now that the report is out Reagan
crease his proficiency in English, not
has appointed the Attorney General,
worsen it.
and the Secretaries of Commerce and
Labor as a committee to make more
recommendations from the report.
The .question of wh~ther Bilingual .
Education is dedicated to preserve
Budget reductions recently revealed
native ~anguage is ,incorrect; , Bilingual . that the Immigration and Naturalization
Education helps the child learn English Service accounts for 44 percent of the · along with his native language.
Justice Department's cuts. The Reagan
By encouraging this method of administration wants to slash the INS
learning Chicano children will be in ' proposed $385 million budget by S21.6
better position to make a contribution million and reduce the 10,281 work force ·
to society.
by 750. ·
a
9:30 a.m.-12 noon-Raices de la Musica Popul
cana
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Grabaciones del museo de antropologia:
12 noon-3:45 p.m.--M usica de Vicente
Chente can ta para la gerite.
5 p. m. -6 p. m. -Accento Backstage
Radio Bilingue producers take you backstage t
w1th Latin artists about themselves and their
Interview with "the Superman of Salsa,"
Blades-his roots, his politics and his music
duced by Julie Benitez y Basilio Maciel.
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
6 a.m.-8 a.m ~-Dos Horas de Trios
Musica de ·Los Panchos, Los Dandys, y Herm
J0a.m.-12 noon-Juan Serrano-Uve
El internacional residente de Fresno a
guitarra. Lo mejor de Flamenco.
12 noon-5 p.m. -Live from the Fulton Mall
La Fiesta Continua ...
5.p.m.-8 p.m. -Histo·r y of Latin Rock
Antonio Lopez presenta Santana, Malo,
Petey Sheila Escovedo, Chepito y otros.
11 p.m.-2 a.m.-"Machito"
The seed of Salsa ... How the Mambo and Rum
into the music market and transformed it
miss it!
SUNDAY, MARCH 29
8 a.m.-12 .noon-Mujeres Cantantes de la Mus·
chera_
One hour documentary-Chicanas en el valle (11 •
12:30 p.m.-5 p.ni. -Live from the Fulton Mall
6 p.m.-7 p.m.-Voces del Valle (en Espanol)
Veteranos del rriovimiento Chicano; que hacen Y que
p.iensan.
7 p.m.-8 p.m.-EI Pacf1uco Special (Mosaico continues.
8 p.m.-9 p.m.-Voces del Valle (English)
Veterans of ·chicano movement-what they are do
and thinking.
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6, 1981
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CHICANO WR1r1NG
ANGELA DAVIS ON RACISM - ·-=..
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IMMIGRATION
PROPOSALS
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There Was anOld (newspaper) Woman .Who Swallowed a (racist) Fly'
It's been over a month since Insight published its memorable fictional piece over which there has been much
concern, however, the issue of responsibility of the press
still remains.
Freedom of the press is an inaliable right which should
be honored and protected. The responisibility that goes
with that freedom is just as important considering how
powerful and influential the media is.
Writing a story and not considering its effects or sensitivity does not show responsibility. Common sense ·and
good journalistic ethics are the qualities any writer or
editor should have.
If an article or story is printed and uses such derogatory
words as "nigger" or "colored woman", one must assume
the .responsibility to make sure there are no misunderstandings. In this particular case, some kind of explanatory prologue or introduction.
As a matter of writing machanics, the story "There Was
an Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly", is written in a narrative form. So when the author refers to the cleaning
lady as a "nigger" in one of the paragraphs, it was the
author and not the racist Hariet Ruth Character.
I hope than something positive has resulted from all of
this. We should all use the media as a constuctive force,
not destructive.
Fernando Quintero
Editor, La Voz
_ _.LETTERS TO THE EDITOR _ _ _ _ __
WATSON SUPPORTER
INSIGHT ARTICLE DISPUTED
Dear Editor:
Dear Editor:
Is it possible for someone to be racist
and sexist without meaning to? The answer is - of course, especially when one
lacks knowledge, sensitivity, and appreciation for the feelings and values of
the culture and sex.
The story "There Was an Old Woman
/ who Swallowed ~ Fly", demonstrated
such a reality. The story was claimed
to show the ugliness of bigotry and prejudice against Blacks in the 1930's.
However, the story created a strong critical response from many minority
students because of the many stereotypes it presentee. Surely, the most
important theme of social satire is to
· make sure the readers understand
the writer's good intentions. Failure to
do so is a poor example of supposedly
"w~ll-meaning"' social satire.
A sensitive writer dealing with a sensitive issue would make sure her/his
point is made. A sensitive and responsible editor with knowledge of the cultural diversity in the campus community
would detect such writing than clearly
failed to state its meaning.
The author and the editor of the story,
as printed in Insight, failed very successfully to get its HsupposedH message
across to minorities and other social
conscious individuals.
This clearly states a lack of appreciation for cultural values and differness.
The actions taken against the printing
of the story were undeniably justifiable
and any further actions against such insensitivity will also be necessary, because too often such events go "unnoticed.
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Only until individuals, in this ethnocentric and egocentric society, sincerely
commit themselves to the ideals of
equality, democracy, and cultural
pluralism 'it(ill there be little need for
forums, ,panels, and demonstrations
against racism. Otherwise, let's continue taking to the streets!!
Que siga la lucha !
Gerardo Gonzalez
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• Jeff Watson's sincerity, sensitivity,
It's the time of year again when office strength, creativity, experience, and
seeking students present themselves performance as a student senator gives
as dem~ratic, ?~n-minded. culturally all students a valid justification for
dware( and sens,trve to the needs of all giving him their vote for A.S.B . presi·
·students.
dent.
With so many liberal thinking candidates it's a wonder why so much conservative legislation and policy is passed
by . the student senate and student
polrcy making committees .
However, among these individuals,
there is someone who does not portray
the post-election amnesiac, who soon
forgets the needs of many students,
especially those of Chicano, Black an~
other groups.
LA
VOZSUPPORTER
Dear Editor:
In response to Mr. Guathier's weak
arguement that La Voz de Aztlan and
Uhuru na ~moja are unutilized v~hicl_es
!or educa~mg . students on minority
issues. I cite h,s poor knowledge of La
Voz a nd Uhuru.
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This outstanding person is Jeff
Watson, who seeks the A.S.B. presidency . Jeff Watson has always been
visible to minority students. He has
taken the time to attend meetings to
As far as La Voz and Uhuru doing ef·
inform minority students on student is- fective jobs in educating students on
sues and proposals that may have a minority issues, I can agree that both do
detrimental effect on affirmative ac- . outstanding jobs. When it comes to
tion .
making siJnificant social and political
Jeff Watson has been supportive of commentary, one issue of La Voz ct
minority related programs on campus. Uhuru does more than 2 weeks of the
His record shows consistently that he Daily Collegian. Issues on the campus
advocates cultural programs and cul- and community as they pertain to Chi·
tural awareness. In an ethnocentric c~nos and Blacks are reported and dis·
environment, Jeff Watson has dedicated cussed. Any reporting done by other
himself to earning the needs and values campus papers only do well in distortin1
of the ignored non-traditional student. or briefly reporting minority events,
His stance against racism and sexism in otherwise such issues are not reported
the community, as well as on campus because they are not •newsworthy.•
stands out on his senate record.
Continued on paae 3
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Hjstorically, the Daily . Collegian
treats Vintage Days as "'supposedly"'
more worthwhile news for students·
and the community than Semana de la
Raza (one week) and Black History
Month. I am uncertain if the Daily Collegian serves to fairly inform Chicaoos,
Blacks, and other Third World Students
on pertinent Third World issues and
events.
Mr. Gauthier describes la Voz as
an events calendar. I would like to see
the Dai-ly Collegian cover one Chicano
event. Many Chicano students are actively
participating in organizing
student and community events, but one
cannot tell thi.s by reading the Daily
Collegian·. la Voz not only reports
Chicano student community issues,
it stresses student participation and
community involvement.
Educating
Chicano students on social and political
issues is a priority for the staff of la
Voz.
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ASSEMBLYMAN CHACON
CHARGES REAGAN'S
BILINGUAL ED ATTACK
SACRAMENTO--The author of California's bilingual education law lashed
out at President Ronald Reagan for commenting that such programs are "'absolutely wrong and against the American
concept."'
Assemblyman Peter R. Chacon (DSan Diego) accused the Republican President of "hypocrisy" and charged
Reagan's "careless remarks have
stunned Hispanic Americans and other
lansuage minority groups in this countr:-v
who dream of a brighter future for their
sJ)ildren."
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It is very interesting to see how people
justify their beliefs in different situations. Many of the very same people
, who say that Chicanos and Blacks
Answering Mr. Gauthier's query should utilize la Voz and Uhuru more
as to why la Voz and Uhuru are sup- are the same ones who deny the neces
posedly ineffective in· reporting issues. sity for an alternative !"'inority media.
Let's first talk equal staff, equal funding,
and equal opportunity before we talk , Along the same point many ot these
treating La Voz and the Daily Collegian 1 ~ame people would say a,:ticles, ~ditorthe same. The Daily Collegian has about 1als, and letters to,the editor on issues
8 times as many paid staff members ._, such as "'There Was an Old Woman who
as La Voz and 33 times· as much money. Swall~wed a Fly"' would only create
With La Voz printed .only every two a one •~sue paper.
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weeks and the lack of cooperation from
Again these same people would bethe Daily Collegian staff in distributing lieve that the papers were· overreacting
La Voz, the 'perfect opportunity" to because nobody was concerned enough
report the issue quickly is lmited. Also
to get together st'-'dent support and parthe Uhuru staff has been trying to get \!icipat_ion. (~uch as, a panel discussion
an editor only to be inhibited by an un- mvolvmg third world student groups,
cooperative and conservative media the author, and editors of the Daily
council. ~
Collegian and Insight).
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Such a mentality only strengthens
the momentum for the united Third
'World student movement.
ILa
Voz De Aztlan I
Gerardo Gonzalez
Speaking to the National League of
Cities in Washington, Reagan departed
from his prepared text to cite bilingual
education as the kind of government
program that is out of control.
"These words come from the man who
as California Governor in 1972 signed
Assembly Bill 2284, my leaislation
creating the first state bilingual programs for limited-English-proficient
students.
"'This shoe!< •8 statement is uttered
by the man who boasted to Mexico
President Lopez Portillo that he initiated
bilingual education in California -- and
who further spoke favorably of the program during his campaign for President.
'Now safe in office President Reagan
launches a sneak attack on bilingual education. In so doing he crushed the hopes
' for equal educational opportunity held
by thousands of children and their families. There is a word for this type of conduct. It is hypocrisy,"' Assemblyman
Chacon declared .
Chacon . said the purpose of bilingual
education . is to utilize the native tongue
as a tool to quickly bring a child into
mainstream EngHsh usage.
"Yet the President chooses to perpetuate the myth that bilingual education
stresses the native tongue at the expense of English. T.his is not so and the
President. should know better/ Chacon
said.
The California lawmaker a·1so bristled
at Reagan's suggestiQn the program\ is
Hun-American. H
"How dare the President slander a
means by which unique children are
helped to become fully productive members of American society?"' Chacon
questioned.
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The legislator said Reagan is equally
off-base when he states that bilingual
education constitutes an effort to turn
the United States into a multilingual
country . .
"'Where has the President been the
last 70 yearsf This nation already is
a multilingual society. .
"As he · criss-crQss~ the .country
during his campaign, was Reagan so
sheltered that he failed to observe the
phenomenon that thousands upon thousands of the people in our country are
bilingual and use their native lanauage
in a~dition tC? Eng1i_shl"' Chacon asked.
Chacon charged the President has,
in effect, issued an executive order
which says: "Speak English or you cannot enter an American Classroom."
"'This disaraceful notion is what is
un-American to me. There are 320,000
limited-English-proficient children· in
California alone. Are these children,
and the thousands more across the
country, to be denied entry into the
American pub Iic school system because
they lack a command of English at the
age for kindergarten or firs~ gradef
"I call upon the President to recoanize
his public blunder and issue an apology.
If not, I can assure him that Hispanic
Americans and other languaae aroups
· will not forget this insult from a President we. hope was a President of all
people," Chacon concluded.
Editor-in-Chief
Fernando Quintero
La-Voz de los estudiantesl
Managing Editor
Margarita Martinez
Photographers
Robert Hernandez
Richard Rios
Production
Sylvia Vidal
Maria Servin
Reporters
'Yolanda Granad<.'~
Mike Valencia
Lourdes Villareal
Olivia Lucio
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Campus building. La Voz reserves th
right to edit letters. Telephone 48?-2486.
for A.S. student elections and
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Solidari!): March
sighs uttered by some marchers.
were applauded by some people:
. were already in the amphitheatre.
Father Moriarity speaks against U.S.
interference in El Salvador.
As soon as I arrived I could sense
"solidarity" filling. the small park as
Chicanos, Whites and Blacks waited for
the final word for the two mile march to
begin . The march covered the route
from Dickey Park to Roeding Park;
similar to the march of 1968, in which
Fresno Chicanos, Whites and Blacks
marched demonstrating agaisnt the Vietnam War.
The march in which 500 people participated in was to protest U.S. involvement
in El Salvador and what they feared
could be.c ome another Vietnam type war.
·At noon the marchers started organizing behind banners identifying particufar organizations . I followed my group
and marched behind our banner whid'I
stated "No U.S. intervention in El Salvador, CSUF Las Adelitas ." We were
told by monitors to line up four a bre? .
because the right hand land would vtlly
be used. By 12:15w~ were on Divisidero
Street.
Monitors led us in chants.
The main chant was "No draft, no war,
U.S. out of El Salvador."
As , we marched on, .the bystanders
were curiously watching. I could tell
they were wondering what the "radicals
wanted this time."
Two abuelitas joined our group
and marched wth · us. One abuelita,
Aurora Siniga, 69, told me m Spanish
that she was happy to see so many
people . "Dios quiera que todo que
pedemos en esta junta sera compleda."
She also told me of her grandson, Santos
Carda; a former CSUF student, who is in
Nicaragua helping in the independence
cause there. The other abuelita proudly
told me that all her grandchildren were
marching .
Our chanting was dying down but was
slowly revived as we entered Roeding
Park . "We finally made it!_" were the
After we were situated on
and others on bleachers,
passes out apples, oranges, ha
eggs and peanut-butter sa.ndwlEI
The program consisted Qt av
music ranging from Chilean,
and "Folk. Each speaker spoke on a
tain issue involved in the El
situation.
I had the opportunity to speak
Father Moriarity; a Catholic
· who works for the Social Justice
mission in San Francisco. Father
iarity was in El Salvador last
He said that nearly 15,000 people
killed last year, mostly by bullets
in the United States. Father
said tht conditions now are that
won't reach the age of five.
"The U.S . is pouring money in E
·vador to kill more people. The '--''JUWlliill
bitter about the action the U.S. is
I'm especially bitter because
church people are being killed. A
slogan in El Salvador is 'Be pa
kill a priest' which is actually
pe~ing." said Moriarity. /
According to Father Moriarity, only
40% of the people work. •The people
want jobs. They want to live m peace.
We had our revolution in 1776. Why
can't they have theirs, without us interfering?" he said . .
. Moriarity stressed writing to our congressmen. Pressuring Congress with
our concerns . 1-ie also said that coalitions between Chicanos, the Church,
Anti-draft people-like this march coalition-should abound.
The program ended at 4:30 p.m .
I left the park with a new awareness
and a new insight on the whole situation.
CSUF La Raza profe~sors Ernesto Martinez and Te
_Perez listen attentively during the Sunday rally.
Information booths provided information
concerning the .. El Salvadorean
revolution.
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An estimated crowd of 500 gathered at the March 14th rally.
Photos by Richard Rios
Contributions were collected· for El Salvador relief ..
REAGAN IGNORESIMMIGRATION
PROPOSAL
By Margarita M. Martinez
Recommendations aimed at addressing immigration problems, issued
last month by the Select Commission on
Immigration and Refugee Policy will
be isnored by President Reagan , stated
Dr. Loy Bilderback, history professor
at CSUF and co-author of "'The Golden
Door,"' a book about Mexican immigration .
Bilderback says he does not like the
report, but he thinks the Reagan administration will ignore the repor:t
for a number of reasons. According to
Bilderback, one is that Reagan seems
to be interested in the profitability of
US business enterprise and "'not be in .
favor of anything ."' Another is that he
has agreed not to do anything about this
problem with Mexican President Lopez
Portillo. •
The Commission was created almost
three years ago by Congress, acting on
a bill by Senator Edward Kennedy.
(He had been accused of proposing the
bill to put off dealing with the sensitive immigration issue while he was
preparing to run for President .) The
Commission was given a staff and the
funds to conduct its own research on
immigration and was to have a report
by early in 1981 .
"'My attitude toward Reagan is he
never thinks a damn thing · through.
He kind of goes. through life throwing
out these one liners,"' Bilderback said,
"I have a feeling nobody in the White
House has ever thought about his
problem."
Bilderback said that he never expected much from the Commission
"' It will be another damn government
report. I have never talked to anyone
connected with immigration that looked
upon the Select Commission as anything_
but a hole to stuff the immigration issue
in until after the election,"'· he said.
Some of the recommendations the
Commission hjls come up with are ·
"'legalizing"' th~ - undocumented. Their
method has been criticized as ineffective. The Commission has stressed that
tough enforcement must precede or
go hand in hand with the legalization
program . The Immigration and Naturalization service would be in charge of
this program. A move that has been
ciriticized because the INS is viewed
by the undocumented as the "'enemy"'
preventing him or her from coming
forward .
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The undergoing assumption that
"illegals" cost the US money distresses
Bilderback. "I think that anybody who
is at all honest realizes that illegals
are an economic advantage to the US
certainly to their employers and I would
also say to the rest of us," said Bilderback .
·
Bilderback is worried that the US is
moving toward an unwritten special
policy for Mexico. "How about Haiti?
H.ow about the Dominican Republic?
~ow about El Salvador? Do we recognize that these countries have the same
problems that Mexico does or is it
a special relationship with Mexico?'(
said Bilderback . "I favor a special
relationship with Mexico. We have
allowed the situation with Mexico to
become institutionalized, but as I look
around the world I worry about our
ability to accommodate everybody's
problems."
In order to prevent employers from
knowingly hiring undocumented work'"
If this is the case Bilderback stressed
ers, t~e Commision has proposed that is should become a written policy
one of ,ts most controversial recommen- ·because as it stands there is too much
~ations . They have recommended na- room for abuse. He argued it would
ti_o~al identification cards for all US leave the "i Ilegal"' at the mercy of local
c1t1zens, white, brown or black. This police departments ... ,t just gives the
card would, supposedly, be "'forgery opportunity for the Clovis Police Departproof."' The legislation recommended ment or the Fresno County Sheriff's
states that it need never be presented Office to play God with people's lives."'
except when someone is accepting he said, .. then you get what happened
employment.
to that poor man in Clovis ...
This will only be a detriment to
Chicanos and dark skinned people,
said Bilderback. ..,f a Chicano_ kid,
18 years old loses his damn billfold
and· my 17 year old, six foot tall, blond
hair, and blue eyed kid loses his,..
said Bilderback, "'my son will get the
job. For a Chicano they will want to
see the card and for my son they won't.
That is what I think is going to come
out of it. It is going to be just one more
problem for anybody ~ho looks foreign .. ,1
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Bilderback is referring to an incident
in Clovis where · Daniel Cardona a
27 year old mentally retarded man ~nd
a US citizen was deported to Mexico
after he was arrested by a Clovis police
officer. After a three month search
he was found wandering the streets
of Tijuana. The man was born in Fresno
County. · The Clovis Police Department
claims they thought he was an .. illegal
alien, because he had no identification, could not speak English and was
of Mexican descent ...
.. ANGELA DAVIS
SPEAKS ON RACISM
Davis continued that the Civil War
not been a struggle to liberate
slaves from slavery, but rather tt
a struggle for economic power
the-agricultural South and the you111
Angela Davis speaking out against dustrious North. Davis added,• And
Racism and the Ku Klux Klan here at KKK was Jhere to assist."' People
CSUF last Friday while holding the Feb- make 75 cents more than the rest
ruary issue of Insight on the story
persuaded to believe that they
HThere Was an Old Woman who Swal: more in common with the whites
lowed a Fly" could only contain herself make billions than with Blacks,
expressing : "I'm still stunned. I'm still canos, Puerto Ricans, etc. Davis
stunned ... that something of this nature mented that after all, this country
could appear_ in a college newspaper... founded on the exploitation of the
Davis turther commented that the ricans and the violence on the i
story was not only filled with racism nous. Davis returned to the subject
bat also with sexism 1 •
Davis said, the KKK by saying that she could
"I'm shocked! This indicates that there remember the sounds of the bombs
is work that you (the students) have to do her neighborhood which were
in this campus!" DaYts went on to state by the KKK. She added that even
that the article mentioned above is sym- this day the KKK were infilitratin&
bolic of what is happening all across the High Schools, and even the Boy 5CM
coun.try.
Davis then directed her attentioo
the state of the economy and .. Reap
Angela Davis, Co-chairperson for the alledged attempts to solve the erol1IXIII■
National Alliance against Racist and problems." Speaking out against Pffi'
Political Repression is currently teaching ident Reagan's proposed cuts in st
at one of the CSUC campuses in San loans and financial aid, Davis said,•
Francisco, after Reagan had announced lege students will soon be di
that she would never again teach in moving from the commencement line
another state supported institution. the unemployment line." Davis~
Davis, after having received a standing that what the "'priveleged whites• cbl
ovation from the cheering crowd at the realize is .that with Reagan's p ~
College Union, elaborated on the his- "'They are not far behind Blacks.•
torical oppression faced by Blacks in
During the last part of the I
this country, emphasizing the partici- Davis focused her attention on foref
pation of the KKK. Davis cited the film, policies, denouncing U.S. interventicit
"Birth of a Nation,. written by Thomas El Salvador for the sake of .. def
Dickson following the aftermath of the multinational corporations.,,
()a\
Civil War as an example ·of distorted advocated international solidarity
accounts of the radical Reconstruction the Palistinians, the Salvadord
Period (1865-77). Davis further stated and the South Africans. Davis
that as a result of Black alliances with "let us insure that they don't have
poor Southern whites and some North- deal with nuclear bombs.• She add!'
erners during this radical period· the that the military budget ,should be
first public schools were establi~hed
and that that money should be emplo,t'
the first read supportive legislative bill; for Social Services. Davis stated,
having to do with women were passed, you don't have money, it's assumed
and the first tax plan reforms were de- don't have the right tobe healthy!
signed to place the burden on the rich. ' ~avis concluded, -we have to
Speaking on the tax reforms, Davis said, going out on the streets again, not by
"We could sure use some of that today... thousands, but by the hundred tto,Davis said that students are not aware san_ds. We must promise ou_r l,,other5
of minority contributions because they
are taught only about "history as it was ~d sisters in El Salvador ~ written by the victors and the oppres- will be no more victims. They will
sors,"
We will be the victorious ones f ..
By Lourdes Villarreal
POEM.AS
UNTITLED
D
I
A.
z
GAINING RESPECT·
)
CONTR-IBUTIONS FROM
THE STUDENT COMMUNITY.
YO SOY CHICAl':O, fENGO COLOR...
By Ruben Garza
Yo soy Chicano tengo color
Americano pero con honor
o soy chicano tengo color
America no pero con honor
Si, yo soy Chicano . When I was growng up in a rural part of Texas for the
irst si~ year· of my life, I knew no one
ut my cousins and the fifty or so
le in our little town. Then, for
me peculiar reason that not one can
eelly explain to me, I had to go into
he city and attend school .
When I arrived in this stra:ge new
lace, I encountered a new breed of
le. Even though they looked like
y best friend, light skinned and blond
air, they did not speak the same
anguage we did . They uttered words
e could not understand; even the teachr spoke this strange language. I . had
ometimes heard my brother and
isters speak it among themselves,
nd , my parents and I knew it as "inles ."
For four weeks they considered me
problem child for I would not speak
his strange language, I found · no
eason to , I would not drink my milk
I never had to at home); I would not
at their cookies (they looked different
nd contained brown things in them);
nd I would not take a mid-morning
ap (I never had to sleep during the day
t home) . Why should I do what this
trange lady asked me to do, she was
tmy mother .
Cuando me dicen que hay,revolucion
Defiendo a mi raza con mucho valor
After I completed Headstart, we
ot one week off . Then they told me
had to go back . I did not want to,
cried, pleaded, and begged not to
ke me go back. It was all in vain,
had to go back . I could not undertand, did my parents no longer love
? Why would they make me suffer
? I had no choice, I had to go. The
school was stranger than the first,
ven though the teacher looked like
s. For the first few weeks we were
llowed to call her Senorita Garcia,
ut after a while we were told we could
longer speak Spanish, we had to
peak "ingles." Only a few knew how,
most of us sat there quietly and said
thing. After a few weeks, most of
s started to pick up the new language,
out of wanting to, but out of fear.
For those who resisted, resisted for
whatev~r reason, (could it have been
that at the age of six they knew they
were being stripped of something very
dear to them) were spanked. I was no
longer Ruben, but Roo-bin, and my
friend was no longer Eloy, but Eeloy
or Elroy, which ever they preferred.
The older American kids used to come
over and pick on us one at a time. We
took it for a while until we got wise
and united as one, and protected ourselves by fighting back . Again I was
called "problem child ."
By Raymond Martinez
Lee Trevino and Nancy Lopez-Melton
in the last few years have become well
known on the Professional Golf Association and the Ladies Professional
Golf Association, respectively. Combined they · have 43 victories as pros .
These two Chicanos have fought their
way up the ladder of fame and fortune .
They are two of the most recognized
personalities on the golf circuit today.
Nancy Lopez-Melton satrted playing
golf when she was eight year old. By
the time she was 12, she had won
, her first amateur championship. In
1977 Nancy became a pro and entered
the LPCA Open and finished second .
From then on she blazed on to the circuit, winning almost every LPGA
tournament in sight. As a result, she
was named Rookie and Player of the
Year . She was the first woman golfer
·· to win $200,000 in one year. Nancy
was also awarded the Pinch Woman
Athlete of the Year Award : Mrs. LopezMelton was the first woman golfer to
win this coveted award since Kathy
. Whitworth won it in 1966.
After Nancy's first few years on the
LPCA, she got married to a sportscaster from Harrisburg, ·PA. named
Tim Melton. From then on Nancy has
been playing less golf. In an interview
with reporters . Nancy stressed there
were several goals in her mind before
retir.ing to have ·a family: "Keep my
Tengo mi par de caballos
Para la revolucion
low scoring average, be number one
for as long as possible, and win the U.S.
Uno se llama el Canario
El otro se llama el Corrion
Open, LPCA, and Peter Jackson championships in one year." This lady has
This went on for a couple of years and set same pretty tough goals for her1 started to accept it. The Americans self, goals she will probably accomno longer picked on us and we were plish.
now friends . Then my parents beLee Trevino was a poor boy from
trayed me, they brought us West. Texas. He worked at a local golf course
Again I asked myself do they no longer where 'he learned to play golf. When he
love me? Why leave, why go, I was first came on to the golf scene almost
happy; I wanted to stay . Once more I 14 year ago, he was playing in the U.S .
pleaded, begged and cried but to no Open at Baltusrol Coif Club. --He' as
avail · we left-the Valley, left my friends, so poor that he did not have enough
most' of whom I can no longer remember, . money to pay his caddy. As a result
all except Eloy. how can I ever forget of the tournament, he won $6,000
my best friend? We did everything to- which helped pay for his caddy . Now
gether until we got to school. Eloy was at age 40, he has won 24 PCA Chamaccepted because he was farr skinned, pionships and has won over $2 milblond and learned quickly.
lion. Being one of the first golfers to
do so, Lee has also won the Vardon
Trophy, based on stroke average, for
the fifth time. Not all of Lee's golf
T~ngo mi orgullo y machismo
career has been a bed of roses; at one
Mi cultura y corazon
time he suffered from a back problem
Tengo mi fey diferencias
that almost ended his Cc}.~~f..... Because
Y lucho con gran razon
of his strong will, he was a&1e to overcome his back problem and become
I now started to know I was different. what he is today.
Here in California I met new ·· friends,
Nancy Lopez-Melton and Lee Trevino
ones I will never allow myself to forget. are two people who have come a long
Black friends like Alvin, who saved way and with them they have gained
me on my first day of school, when-- a the respect of so many people, esgringo tried to beat me up; Chirs who pecially Chicanos. Because of the
showed me how different we really accomplishment of these two, the rest
were. He tried to make me proud, of the Chicano people have something
Lord knows how he tried.
to be proud of.
Ninos of my ancestors
que nacieron into un mundo ,
seeping with institutional racism,
and drowning in barrio poverty.
Listen, mis ninos de la tierra de Aztlan,
duermense y no lloren
porque manana el sol
will warm your little bodies ...
Yes, tomorrow, vamos a ver
--esperanza in the first
rays of the morning sun,
del Quinto Sol.
Rachel Mendoza
..,
and came the day
unlike
yesterday the unknown is known
reality remains undisturbed
la cultura de mi padre remains
i struggled
not wanting.to fall
and falling i struggled
i leave as i came
un chicano
color de la tierra
enamorado con mi raza
borracho con la vida.
FF. lvarra
Tengo todita mi gente
Para la revolucion
Voy a luchar con los pobres
Pa que se acabe el balon
Continu~ on page 8 l
'i-..unchained the memories
,
like the dawn they rose
and
walking
between the rows
i wanted to run
falling
the belt tied me to the ground
levantando
mi frente i saw no end
and taking the file
i sharpened my.life.
FF. lvarra
,
IPIIISB ·
BIBLB STUDY
Estudiantes, empleados, y profesores .
Quires Ud. crecer en su vida espiritual?
Desea Ud. mejorar su comprension y
su uso de espanol? Si su respuesta es
~~i" a una de estas preguntas, ve~ga
a ·Lab School" 119 los .Jueves a la una
(1:00) y J)9demos lograr estas metas.
Si esta hora no es buena, denos su
nombre y su numero de telefono y
podemos llamarle en el futuro si hay.
~ cambio de hora.
'Nuestro plan es juntar una hora
cada semana para estudiar la palabra
de Dios en espanol.
Si tienen preguntas, llamen a Ransom
Poythress (487-2393) o a Susan Shanks
(487-2393).
Vo.CES (cont.) COLOR...(cont.)
· BILINGUAL ED··.
Tengo mi orgullo tengo mi fe
Soy diferente soy color cafe
Tengo cultura tengo corafon
Y no me lo quita a mini un cabron
SEMANADE
RADIO BILING
1
WRONG AMERICAN
When I got to high school, I started to
see the differences, not just the subtle
The bilingual public radio station FM
Listeners will be asked ~
ones, but all of them. At age fifteeh, 91, will hold its first over-the-air fund- and special programs will
I was starting to see what Chris had raising drive during radio bilingue during raaio bilingue week
known by age eleven. Was it too late, week March 22 through March 29. The programs will include "
was I a .. vendido, .. would I never be · purpose of the fundraising drive is to cano," a docu-drama about
able to be proud of myself, of my people? develoo loci\l support that will make aspirations and problems
I tried, I tried real hard. I lost some
Radio Bilingue self-sufficient. The cano~ at the end of World
By Olivia Lucio
so<alled "Anglo" friends and I kept Bilingual public radio station was · history of Radio Bilingue,
some because they did not see me. initiated by a · one time private grant show with the veterans
Is Bilingual Education absolutely as different, but as a friend, the way from the campaign for human develop- Chicano movement.
ment and depends on local listener
Radio Bilingue will al
wrong and against the American · Con- I will always ~ee them.
contributions for its on-going operation. days of live music a
cept? Does it fail to equip youngsters
Listener sponsorship is the primary o·n the Fulton Mall on
with a proficiency in English that Is
needed to compete in the job market? _ I am still considered a "vendido" source of funding for all non-commer- 29. Local bands and
provide live music f
These were some of the points made by by some Chicanos because of the way cial media.
5 p.m. on all three days.
President Reagan in one of his speeches I dress and the company I keep. But
those Chicanos, those Anglos who
early this month.
call me "Mesican," those rednecks
who call me "wetback, .. no one can tak~
THURSDAY, MARCH 26
away the pride I finally achieved after
1 p.m.-3:45 p.m.-Musica del Gran Cantante
Bilingual Education is one of the latest fifteen years. No one will ever strip me
federally funded programs under the edd I
Javier Solis
_
._ u_cational program. JLuse.s the child's of it, I will be like my f.irst gra e c ass-- mates -and resist.
5 p.m.-5:15 p.m.-Evening news
native language as a medium of teachThank you Chri~ for trying to show
7 p.m.-7:30 p.m.-Enfoque Nacional
ing the child English. It not only teaches · me at such an early age and forgive
·Media hora de noticias nacionales e inter
the child to speak English but also to me raza if I do not seem Chicano through .
master his native language. As a re- and through, but I am._
8 p.m.-10 p.m.-Musica de Trios--La Epoca
suit, the child will learn faster and will
·hopefully perform inschool as well as
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
the English speaking child. •
\
CONCEPT?
Bilingual Education is not -absolutely
wrong and against the concept. First
·we have to understand, who the American people are. The American people
. are a mixture of many immigrants that
came from Europe in the 19th century.
All these immigrants came from different countries and their natives language
was.not English. They _had to develop a
method in order to learn English. At
that time it was not called Bilingual Education, it had a different name, but the
concept was the same. American immegrant ancestors, usecj Bilingual Education to become Americanized . Then
how can it be against the American
System?
Y no me io quita a mi ni un cab;on ·
Yo soy Chicano tengo color
Americana pero con honor
Cuando me dicen que hay revo/ucion
Defiendo a mi raza con mucho valor.
Song "Yo Soy Chicano, written by Teatro
Campesino.
PROPOSALS
(cont.)
"That man was a U.S. citizen, picked
Bilingual Education doesn't fail to up in the streets of Clovis, a poor simple
equip youngsters with a proficiency minded guy and passed through the
in English. A 1978 reveiw of program hands of the Clovis Police department,
evaluation by the center for Applied and the U.S. border patrol, because a
Linguistics showed that students receiv- Clovis policeman thought he looked
ing Bilingual Education are performing foreign," said Bilderback.
as well or better than the students in
regular classes (those who speak EnIt is problems such as these that need
glish) in math, science, and reading.
· The attendance rate for those students to be seriously addressed. Something
is higher and drop out rates are lower. he does not expect from the Reagan
Other studies showed that these pro- . administration he said . "I think Reagan
grams have been effective in ·improving will continue the existing nQn-policy
reading .and writing skills in English. and leave everything exactly as it is,"
Bilingual Education helps the child in- said Bilderback.
Now that the report is out Reagan
crease his proficiency in English, not
has appointed the Attorney General,
worsen it.
and the Secretaries of Commerce and
Labor as a committee to make more
recommendations from the report.
The .question of wh~ther Bilingual .
Education is dedicated to preserve
Budget reductions recently revealed
native ~anguage is ,incorrect; , Bilingual . that the Immigration and Naturalization
Education helps the child learn English Service accounts for 44 percent of the · along with his native language.
Justice Department's cuts. The Reagan
By encouraging this method of administration wants to slash the INS
learning Chicano children will be in ' proposed $385 million budget by S21.6
better position to make a contribution million and reduce the 10,281 work force ·
to society.
by 750. ·
a
9:30 a.m.-12 noon-Raices de la Musica Popul
cana
_
Grabaciones del museo de antropologia:
12 noon-3:45 p.m.--M usica de Vicente
Chente can ta para la gerite.
5 p. m. -6 p. m. -Accento Backstage
Radio Bilingue producers take you backstage t
w1th Latin artists about themselves and their
Interview with "the Superman of Salsa,"
Blades-his roots, his politics and his music
duced by Julie Benitez y Basilio Maciel.
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
6 a.m.-8 a.m ~-Dos Horas de Trios
Musica de ·Los Panchos, Los Dandys, y Herm
J0a.m.-12 noon-Juan Serrano-Uve
El internacional residente de Fresno a
guitarra. Lo mejor de Flamenco.
12 noon-5 p.m. -Live from the Fulton Mall
La Fiesta Continua ...
5.p.m.-8 p.m. -Histo·r y of Latin Rock
Antonio Lopez presenta Santana, Malo,
Petey Sheila Escovedo, Chepito y otros.
11 p.m.-2 a.m.-"Machito"
The seed of Salsa ... How the Mambo and Rum
into the music market and transformed it
miss it!
SUNDAY, MARCH 29
8 a.m.-12 .noon-Mujeres Cantantes de la Mus·
chera_
One hour documentary-Chicanas en el valle (11 •
12:30 p.m.-5 p.ni. -Live from the Fulton Mall
6 p.m.-7 p.m.-Voces del Valle (en Espanol)
Veteranos del rriovimiento Chicano; que hacen Y que
p.iensan.
7 p.m.-8 p.m.-EI Pacf1uco Special (Mosaico continues.
8 p.m.-9 p.m.-Voces del Valle (English)
Veterans of ·chicano movement-what they are do
and thinking.