La Voz de Aztlan, October 15 1981
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Title
La Voz de Aztlan, October 15 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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10/15/1981
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p.,e 2..()ctobe, 15, 1981-La Vo:z de Aztlan
editorial
A Call For lJnity
It is no news that a new wave of conservatism has
gripped the land. The power of the right is showing 4p
in all levels of government. Radical cutbacks in social
services and increased defense spending have proved this
clearly. Locally, many have endorsed this trend. As
Reagan swept the country in 1980 with his conservative
ideals, so have local politicians secured their positions by
capitalizing on the fears of the constituency.
An example of this conservatism occurred locally in
1980 during the Reich campaign for county supervisor.
His campaign centered on a vehement opposition to the
bilingual ballot. With this strategy, he collected overwhelming support and now serves on the county board.
' Volatile issues such as the bilingual ballot tend to polarize
the electorate during a vigorous campaign into clear cut
groups. Cordon Duffy, who announced last week that he
will seek the Republican nomination for Secretary of
State, has launched his campaign with a serious attack
. on the bilingual ballot, vowing to kill it once and for all.
Reich won, and Duffy hopes to, because he was able to
arouse voter animosity to the bilingual ballot and rode on
the crest of hatred and fear.
It is dangerous to lead people to this total despair.
Wa~ in '64, and Liberty City not so long ago, reminded
us of what happens when the millionaires go on parade
in Washington while the rest of society suffers. What civil
rights were won including the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
must be protected. A popular unit must be formed to
diametrically oppose the war f-action. A uniform struggle
must be undertaken to assure that our civil rights are
not buried by economic expediency. The message to
Washington should be to slam shut the window of vulnerability by instilling national unity, not national fear.
Unfortunately the greatest threats to national and
global stability come not only from Peking or Moscow,
not only from a handful of ·extremists in Tripoli and
Tehran, but also from the offices located on ·Pennsylvania
Avenue, Washington, D.C.
by Mark Ow
Staff Writer
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Senator _Clarifies Circumstances
The PALESTINIANS.
AN HISTORICAL IMPERITIVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
To ~ editor:: · .
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It ,sat this pomt necessary to ~artfy
both the chronoloay and the c,rcumstances regarding past A.S.
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tions
sena ac
T~ senators that voted not to approve President Jeff Watson's appointments of Tom Slocum, Tricia Van
Klaveren and Julius Udoma Obi to
vacant senate seats did so because the
method by which they were selected
was neither fair, objective nor honest.
Though it does not reflect upon the personal integrity of the appointees, Mr.
Watson made the appointments during
the summer-a ~me when the least
number of students are on or around
the university. Mr. Watson became acquainted with the mentioned three
through the social realm and is a very
close personal friend of one of them.
The refusal of the body to affirm Helen
· Chen as president pro tempore was
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s1mp1Ya matter o a I tty. n occasions
when she was called upon to render a
parliamentary or procedural decision,
Speaker-FAW~ ·ruRKI
she quite audibly asked a student assistant how to rule. Miss Chen, though
a competent senator, is simply too timid
for the position of pro teQ1.
It is sad, yet not s'urprising, that
the controversy has degenerated to a
racial issue. There will always be those
who mangle and simplify situations for
the purpose of generating emotional
fervor .
Andrea Hedgley
Senator
FRIDAY, OCT. 23, NOON
- C. U. LOUNGE
Though it is those who voted against
the appointments which are being accused of desiring political "'pawns,"'
the method by which these appointments were made is more than curious .
The objection is not one of a personal
nature, but one of principle.
Since these presidential appointments·
a~e subject to senate app~val, in pre•
v1ous years, senators have been consulted to avoid the proverbial "'spinning
of wheels."' Senate vacancies have also
~n advertised in campus newspapers
m the past. Mr. Watson deviated from
these practices. What was his reasoning?
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Editor: Fernando Quintero
Managing editor! Yolanda Granados
Production Mananger:Sylvia Vidal
Reporters: Lourdes Villareal, Mark Diaz
Virginia SubiaJ Pedro Perez
Production: Maria !:>ervin, Sandra Castro
Photographers: Robert Hernandez,
Richard Rios ·
La Voz de Aztlan is California State
University Fresno's Chicano newspaper.
Though it is unfortunate that valuable
La Voz de Aztlan is located in the
time would have elapsed while fillina
Campus
Building.
the positions properly, a greater prin- Keats
ciple is at stake: that of rising above Editorial : (209) 294-2486. Letters to the
and destroying the "'buddy system"' of · editor are welcomed. The newspaper
government, which invariably deprives reserve~ the right edit letters.
students of innumerable opportunities.
to
Page 3-0ctober 15, 1981-La Voz cl. ~Ian
CSUF Chicanos Faculty
Chicano Faculty
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Proportionately Low
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Business&· Administrative
Amon& the 243 CSUF faculty minorities including women, twenty-six are
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Arts & HL. ,nities
Chicanos, according to a report prepared by the office of Dr. Roberto Seaura. Sixteen of the twenty-six Chicano
faculty members have tenure and the
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Education & Humanities
rest are part-time. "'These people are
on soft money," said Alex Gonzalez,
Associate Professor of Psychology, "so
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be lost."
The representation of Chicana faculty
members on campus are even lower,
Health & Social Work
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with only two of the four having tenure. "We're such a minority that I
don't even think we show up on a computer. Statistically, we ' re not even preNatural Sciences
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sent, as if we don't exist," according
to Or. Theresa Perez of the School of
Education . She said that higher educaSocial Sciences
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tion has been a male-dominated field
since its inception. It has been operated
by and for males, principally white
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males. So Chicanas face a double
bind, that they' re women who have been
historically underrepresented and secondly they' re Chicano.
Chicano faculty are present ·in seven of cano taculty members on campus . One the California State University and Colthe eight schools on campus with the of the major reasons is that there lege system is based on the amount of
School of Engineering having none and _ aren't any positions open for Chicanos PhD's nation-wide . .,That ' s the legal
the School of Business & Administra- to take in the departments. All of them side of it," said Or. Lilly Small, Affirmative Sciences having two part-time have faculty members with tenure. tive Action Officer, "but morally, for
Chicano faculty. Out of the 56 depart- Another reason is that there isn't an the area we live in and for the student
ments on campus, there are several with abundance of Chicanos with PhD' s population, it shoud reflect the make up
no Chicano faculty .
available.
of the community."
There are various factors which conThe percentage of Chicano faculty
In the past, the educational system
tribute to_ the low percentage of Chi- members with PhD's in the schools of has not been that responsive to Chicanos
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who displayed values or behaviors that
were different from the mainstream,
resulting in isolation, high student
drop-out rate, and very low percentage
of Chicanos going into higher education, according to one faculty member.
A major priority of the Chicano Facul- ·
ty Association is the recruitment and
hiring of more Chicano faculty on campus and impacting those departments
which do not have any minorities.
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On Wednesday the Tlst of O~tober at "The Loungeu in ,~
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will freely perform their various musical incantations for ~
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Pqe 6-0gober 15, 1981-La Voz. de Aztlan
voces de aztlan
Chicano Youth Examined
l,r Paul A. Garcia
The California State Attorney General
recently reported that the most likely
victim ot murder was Chicano males
under 24 years of qe. This is not surprising, since the last 4 years have
witnessed an increasing number of Hispanic homicides-the killina of Hispanics. While the homicide rate among
whites increased 6.9 per 100,000 in
1976 to 8 per 100,000 in 1980, among
Hispanics it increased from 13.1 per
100,000 to 21.8 per 100,000 during the
same period-an increase of 66 percent.
It is not a coincidence that this
form of premature death has been attributed to Chicano youth gang activity.
Chicano youth gangs have gained a
notoriety for violence. Yet very little
has been done to understand the Chicano youth experience. A recent study
found that 23 percent of Hispanics
14 to 21 years of age were high school
dropouts. This compares to 15 percent
for blacks and 10 percent for whites.
Among those ages 18 to 21, m9re than
one out of thr~ Hispanics failed to finish
high school.
Perhaps Chicano males are the most
likely victims of murder. They are also
more likely to drop out of school. These.
are not coincidences, they are related.
There are definite ill consequences of
early school withdrawal. Many dropouts
can expect to be permanently illiterate,
delinquent, or welfare dependent. There
is a strong relationship between youth
crime and early school withdrawal.
Dropouts experience lower earnings
than other workers. One report indicated that only one-third of the youths
not attending school as a major activity were employed.
There is evidence that Chicano males
do not merely drop out of school, they
are pulled or pushed out. Nationally,
almost 40 percent of Hispanic males
leave school for economic reasonshome responsibilities, good job offers
or financial difficulties. They also leav~
school because of boredom, disenchantment, and alienation. In many cases they
have felt unable to participate in schoolrelated activities.
It is no accident that Chicano students are disproportionately suspended
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.and expelled from school. Student suspensions and expulsions are frequently
the schools' response to students having
difficulty in the school environment.
As a result, many never return.
During the 1979-1980 school year
Chicano students represented 28 per:
cent of the Fresno Unified School District' s student population in grades 7
through 11. Yet they accounted for 38
percent of the student suspensions in
those grade levels. Among all 7th graders, Chicano students represented 28
percent of the student population, but
42 percent of the suspensions.
A disturbing number of Chicano students are also expelled from the school
district . Chicano secondary students are
three times as likely as whites to be dismissed from the district.
In addition, Chicano students are disproportionately suspended from schoo~
for some reasons more than others.
Proportionately, SO percent more Chicano 7th and 8th graders were suspended for •injury to person" and
"controlled substance" categories in
1979-1980. Almost twice as many Chicano students as would be expected
were suspended under the • dangerous
object• category. Among grades 9
through 11, twice as many Chicano stu,
dents than whites were suspended for
damaging school property.
By far, the most likely reason for
suspension among Chicano high school
students is defiance. This category accounted for 40 percent of Chicago student suspensions in grade levels 9
through 12, compared to 23 percent for
whites and 26 percent for blacks. No
doubt the vagueness of this suspension
,, category contributed to the indiscriminate number of suspensions assigned to
Chicano students.
On Saturday, October 17, a confer.
ence will be held to address this very
important Chicano student problem. The
conference will be held at Roosevelt
High School. The purpose of the confer•
ence is to explore ways to prevent the
disproportionate number of Chicano student suspensions and early school with•
drawals. Parents, teachers, and students are encouraged to attend. There is
a six dollar registration fee which ineludes lunch.
see Youth page I
My Friend
My friend is a talent guy
.
he don't believe in the word try,
When he gets out of hand
he~ '-Aln act like man,
Some times he wakes up on the wrong
side of the bed;
then I've got to turn around and slap
him in the head
Some people think he's a fool.
But, tome he's very cool,
He don't believe in the word shy;
because he thinks he' is a real guy
He goes to OeWolf Hi1h School
that's why people think he's a fool.
The following poems were written by
students from the Alice Worsley School
at Fresno's Juvenile Hall. Most of these
young people have problems which
they've openly expressed through these
poems.
The wards at Juvenile Hall need to
express themselves like everybody else.
Somethina about and of themselves is
expressed through their poems .
The poems have no names in them for
anonimities sake.
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My Prayer
Brothers
Brothers are cool brothers, smooth
if you play their game you might end up
looking like a fool.
Brothers here brothers there.
, You see Black brothers everywhere.
Brothers in the penn, brothers with big
houses even with big dens. . ,
Some young brothers don't make it to
ten.
Some brothers have game,
Some brothers are lame and some
brothers don't even aive a damn
and that's a shame.
Mr. Shan Bone
The Little Ant
An ant will pass
in a forest of grass
on a twig near
a rain puddle sea.
And a rock will be
a hill tip-top and
a bean a monster tree.
Mr. Shan Bone is both old and bold
and strolling and controlling.
Want some, get some, feels free.
Squeal on me, I'll set yours.
But free, that's my name and
my game is pimping young dames
from the Hall of Fame.
Heavenly father up above.
Please protect the guy I love.
Bless his heart that beats so fast.
Make him always last and last.
Bless his parents all day Iona,
because of them he came along.
I love a guy short or tall,
but my Benny is the best of them all.
If I should die before you do·
I'll tell the angels you're co,;,ing to/
And if you're not there by judgement
day,
I 'II know you went the other way.
I'll give them back their aolden wings
their lovely harps and all their things.
Just to prove my love is true,
I'll go to hell just to be with you. Amen.
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The desolate old man sits so alone
memories of faces nannina throuah his
head.
Children of Iona aao can be heard in the
'trees.
Rockina back and forth, the old man
waits.
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Time is running out, death is so near.
The reaper is comina, he shows no
pity.
People pass by, but no one sees .
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Out in the yard the rag weed arows.
Under the porch the mice roam.
A tear runs down a lonely man's cheek.
The reaper has gone, death has come.
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S[y Elf
A little elf
Copyright Cecilio Orozco 1979
sat by himself alone.
Alone in the lap of an
acorn cap at home.
Page 7-0ctober 15, 1981-La Voz de Aztlan
Dr. Martinez's Energy_Impact, Study
ELECTRICITY USE IN CALIFORNIA
1979
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300,000
Miscellaneous
Cooking
~ a t e r Heating
Space Heating
160
Ventilation
120
BIWONS OF
WATT-HOURS
PER DAY
Miscellaneous
(Lights, TV,
other
Appliances)
Air
Conditi6ning
Pool Heatin
80
Condition in
Washing an
BARRELS
OF OIL
PER DAY
Other
Electronics
Metals
,ng
Lighting
40
200,000
Refrigerators
Water Heatin
100,000
Oil Production
<.
Food Productn
Chemicals
Refrigerators
and Freezers
Transportation
Equipment
Oil
Refining
Mostly
Water
Pumping
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RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUST~AL AGRICULTURE
by Lourdes -Villarreal
Expecting to find myself listening to
a lot of facts and figures from 'a spectacled, serious-looking man, I strolled
over to the Criminology Department for
my 2:15 appointment.
"ls Dr. Martinez in?"' I asked.
"No. He' II be back in 10 minutes."
I sat down and waited patiently,
thinking to mvself. "It's going to be ·
another one of those dull interviews."
Fifteen minutes later a man I had seen
in the corridor earlier rushed into the
In his study, Martinez will review
the literature available on the subject, develop and test a survey instrument, and select a random sample of
1,000 households for the collection of
data. He will then analyze the results
and explore the policy implications of the
findings. Dr. Martinez expects to finish
the study within a year.
room.
Dr. Martinez's <.:ducational background is just as notable as is his professional career. Prior to his appointment to
CSUF, he was an associate professor of
Chicano Studies at the University of
Colora_d_~, Boulder. From 1974 to 1976,
he was -executive director of the Institute for Community Relations Research based at the University of San
Francisco. Martinez earned his bachelors degree in sociology from the University of Illinois and his masters in
sociology from the University of California, Davis. In 1972 he earned his
Ph.D. degree in criminology at the University of California, Berkeley.
He has taught sociology and MexicanAmerican Studies at UC Riverside,
Stanford University, San Jose State
University, and The University of Santa
Clara.
And so, the clock struck 3:10, and
the once dreaded interview had turned
out to be interesting as well as profitable. For such had been Dr. Martinez's
enthusiasm over his new project that I
ended up agreeing to take home a questionnaire he wanted translated into
Spanish for his survey.
"Was this Dr. Martinez," I thoug_h t to
myself. If he was, he was quite different from what I had expected.
After another lapse of waiting, (He
had been discussing his work with his
assistant and attending a student who
was doing some research for him) he
gave me a warm smile, and we finally
commenced the interview.
Dr .. Tomas Martinez, the latest Chicano Criminology professor on campus,
was recruited last year by the Criminology Department. Dr. Martine~ has _an
impressive
background
mcludmg
numerous articles and book reviews and
papers presented on drug abuse,_ co~pulsive gambling, and other minority
is~ues to the current research on energy
and minorities.
Working under a grant budgeted over
$60,000.00 from the U.S. Departm~nt of
Energy Office of Minority Economic Impact Martinez is in the process of conductlng a study on the impact of restructured electric utilities rates in the
~entral Valley and of the Department of
Energy regulations upon low income
groups and minorities.
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YOUTH
Continued from page 6
Continued
Hispanic
Edition of Bee
cancelled
Interview With Student
Palestine Leader
It is time that we cease treating
youth gang activity and dropping out of
school as separate and unrelated matters. In the first case, extended prison
sentences and adult trials are encourl,y Gerardo Gonzaiez
aged. In the second, suspensions and
expulsions
are assigned. In neither case
I would like to- emphasize that the
The tollowina is an interview with Omar
media played an important part in portra- are institutional settings addressed
Baddar, president of the General Union
e.g. prison, schools. The tragic result
ying Sadat as a man of peace. That is
ot Palestine Students (G.U.P.S.). The
has been an extreme form of discipline
C.U.P.S. is a two-year-old orpnization ·how the U.S. 1overnment would like to
that distorts the relationship between an
present
him
because
he
allowed
the
U.S.
consistin1 of 70 students who represent
to exploit the country. (Sadat) was called ethnic group's life time expectancy and
the cause of the Palestinian people to
their life experiences.
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'moderate* because he was U.S. orientestablish a self-aoverned homeland in
There have been conferences on paint
ed, but other Arab countries which are
what is presently the state of Israel and
sniffing, barrio violence and juvenile
occupied territories.
not are called radical.
delinquency, but there has not been a
Conzalez: Do you see any shift in the
Gonzalez: Why did the G.U.P.S orconference to address the roots of these
1anize?
American people's attitude toward the
problems. Join us on October 17 and
Baddar: We oraanized so that we can
Palestinian issue?
help us make a concerted effort to inmaintain our struaale apinst Zionism
Baddar: Y~s, and it is encouraging.
crease the educational level of our Chiand imperialism.
cano youth.
for more information call : Trabajadores de La Raza, Inc., MEChA Central/
Gonzalez: What is Zionism?
Gonzalez: Is the shift favorabf;?
Chicano Youth Center, 190 N. Van Ness
Baddar: Yes, we don't find any obstaBaddar: Zionism is a racial and politiAvenue, Suite B, Fresno, CA 93701;
cles
in
convincing
the
people
of
our
point
cal movement whose objectives is to dis(209) 264-1775 or 264-1776, ask for
view
except
for
the
close-minded
and
the
place the Palestinian people from PalesCindy Orona.
prejudiced.
W-e
are
offering
the
opportine, as part of a dream to establish a
tunity fDr the people to hear our side
large Israeli state which would expand
when soeaker Fawaz Turki aives his lecfrom the Euphrates River in Iraq to
tur~ ~bolJ.t the Palestinians friday noon
the Nile River in Egypt
in the College Union Lounge.
Conzalez: What are you trying to
Gonzalez: Is there any cooperation beachieve on and off campus?
tweeQ the G.U.P.S. and other organizaBaddar: We are trying to present the
tions on and off campus?
viewpoint of the side that has not been
heard,because of a biased media, and to
make people aware of what is going on in
Baddar: Of course, we are members of
the Middle East. Americans are paying
the
CSUF Alliance
taxes in military aid to Israel which goes
Off campus, we are members of the
to kill Palestinian and Lebanese people
Central Valley Peace Network (a coalieveryday.
tion of church, labor, community, and
Gonzalez: What are your feelings on
student organization.)
the assasination of Egyptian President
Gonzalez: What specifically would you
Sadat?
like to convey to our readers?
Baddar: He should have resigned a
long time before his "execution*. He got
too involved in the so-called peace proBaddar: Stop Israeli terrorism. By
cess, that he didn't have the courage to
q~stioning your government about
retreat and listen to his people. Sadat
what they do with your tax money and be
was surrending, not offering peace,to
aware of the destructive nature of the
his people. (Sadat) was a di~tor who
Reagan Administration inside the U.S.
used repression. Opposition leaders
and outside .
were either outside Egypt (in exile) or in
prison.
The new strategic alliance between
The Egyptian people felt that Sadat
the U.S. and Israel is an indication of the
was offering"lsraeli peace,"not a comkind of peace the U.S . wants . In the last
prehensive peace. He used the people ' s meeting between them, Reagan acceptpoverty to get them to approve his polied a present from Israeli Prime Minster
cies. Sadat made Egypt economica_lly de Begin, which was a map of Israel which
pendent on the U.S. and Israel; unlike
includes not only presently occupied terhis predecessor Jamal Abdul Nassar,
ritories, but also southern Lebanon
who got his people's support when he
which again is a green light to invade
industrialized the countrv.
with the consent and support of the U.S ..
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by Fernando Quintero
Plans for pilot issues of the Fresno
Bee were cancelled - last w~k, a~nounced George Gruner, managing editor of the Bee.
.
In a telephone interview with La
Voz Gruner said that "hostile reaction
fro~ the Hispanic community~ pro'!'pted the Bee's decision to discontinue
the project indefinitely.
.
According to Gruner, negative reaction from attendants at a Chicano
Media workshop which was held at the
Airport Holiday Inn Sept .. ~O was a
major factor in the ~ ' s dec1s1on.
Participants attending the workshop
which was sponsored by the Central
California Chicano Media Association maintained that the creation of a
separate newspaper was not a sincere
effort by the Bee to pres~nt Hispanicinterest news and perspectives.
Gruner said that about a month of
researching and talking to a crosssection of the local Hispanic population was made to get their feedback on
the Hispanic issues proposal.
Next issue:
Zoot Suit-~The movie.
INCREASE OF VIOLENT FILMS DIRECTED TOWARD WOMEN
from Rape Counseling Service of Fresno County
In the theater seat sat a nicely dressed,
middle-aged man , maybe 50 or so. The
movie is I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and the
man is beginning to talk back to the
screen .
"Boy, is she asking for it now." he
whispers. "There's a rape scene coming
up, this will be a good one."
This deseri-ption of a movie goer is from
Roger Ebert, film crit!.:: of the Chicago Sun
Tirr:,es and co-host of "Sneak Previews,"
a weekly public television program. Ebert,
along with Chicago Tribune film critic,
· Gene Siskel, dlictissed the film exploitation of women in danger during a ''Sneak
Previews·· segment originally aired in
October 1980. The program has since
been repeated several times since this
disturbing new trend continues as the
movie box office.
Some of wha,l Sfskel and Ebert emphasize is the fact that people think women
have parity with men and think that there
are strong women images in films.
''Wrong," says Siskel. "The dominant
image in Ameriwan films today on women
is not Fonda or Clayburgh: It 's women
cowering in the corner, kniyes being bran
dished in the ir faces , being raped , be ing
sliced apart. That's what's going on in
American movies."
The list of "women in danger" films is
long ; according to the two critics : PROM
NIGHT, DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE, THE
HOWLING, TERROR TRAIN. THE
BOOGEYMAN, HE KNOWS YOU'RE
ALONE, MOTEL HELL, PHOBIA, SILENT
SCREAM, MOTHER'S DAY, SCHIZOID,
and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. And why
does this tr~nd have to happen at all?
Siskel has a theory.
"I'm convinced it has something to do
with the growth of the women's movement-,..; America in the last decade." he
says.
"I think that these films are some sort
of primordial response by.some very sick
people saying, 'Get back in your place
women.' The women in these films are typically portrayed as independent, as
sexual, as enjoying lite. And the killer,
typically, is a man who is sexually frustrated with these new aggressive women,
so he strikes back at them. He throws
knives at them. He can't deal with them.
He cuts them up, he kills them . . . " Ebert
agrees with Siskel and conti nues on with
.the theory.
"You begin to ask yourself what did
these female victims do to deserve the
horrible attacks they undergo in these
films? What was their cr ime? . . .They 're
liberated women who choose to act on
their own and the moment that a woman
starts making decisions for herself in
these movies, you can almost bet she's
going to end up paying with h.er life .. .
and horribly."
No longer are today's horror movies
being seen from the victim's point of view.
We now look through the killer's eyes.
''It's almost as if the audience is being
asked to identify with the attackers in
these movies ... says Ebert. "and that really
bothers me.··
Rape Counseling Service of Fresno
agrees with Ebert and Siskel. We do not
have to attend Fresno area movie theaters
where anti-women films are showing. We
can show our disgust for these films and
the backers of them by not supporting
them at the box office~ Call or write the
theater manager and tell him why you are
boycotting. They need to know. Find out
the name of the stu(j :o and film producer
and w~ite them . You r stance can affect
change and Fresno is a good place to
beain .
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p.,e 2..()ctobe, 15, 1981-La Vo:z de Aztlan
editorial
A Call For lJnity
It is no news that a new wave of conservatism has
gripped the land. The power of the right is showing 4p
in all levels of government. Radical cutbacks in social
services and increased defense spending have proved this
clearly. Locally, many have endorsed this trend. As
Reagan swept the country in 1980 with his conservative
ideals, so have local politicians secured their positions by
capitalizing on the fears of the constituency.
An example of this conservatism occurred locally in
1980 during the Reich campaign for county supervisor.
His campaign centered on a vehement opposition to the
bilingual ballot. With this strategy, he collected overwhelming support and now serves on the county board.
' Volatile issues such as the bilingual ballot tend to polarize
the electorate during a vigorous campaign into clear cut
groups. Cordon Duffy, who announced last week that he
will seek the Republican nomination for Secretary of
State, has launched his campaign with a serious attack
. on the bilingual ballot, vowing to kill it once and for all.
Reich won, and Duffy hopes to, because he was able to
arouse voter animosity to the bilingual ballot and rode on
the crest of hatred and fear.
It is dangerous to lead people to this total despair.
Wa~ in '64, and Liberty City not so long ago, reminded
us of what happens when the millionaires go on parade
in Washington while the rest of society suffers. What civil
rights were won including the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
must be protected. A popular unit must be formed to
diametrically oppose the war f-action. A uniform struggle
must be undertaken to assure that our civil rights are
not buried by economic expediency. The message to
Washington should be to slam shut the window of vulnerability by instilling national unity, not national fear.
Unfortunately the greatest threats to national and
global stability come not only from Peking or Moscow,
not only from a handful of ·extremists in Tripoli and
Tehran, but also from the offices located on ·Pennsylvania
Avenue, Washington, D.C.
by Mark Ow
Staff Writer
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Senator _Clarifies Circumstances
The PALESTINIANS.
AN HISTORICAL IMPERITIVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
To ~ editor:: · .
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It ,sat this pomt necessary to ~artfy
both the chronoloay and the c,rcumstances regarding past A.S.
te _
tions
sena ac
T~ senators that voted not to approve President Jeff Watson's appointments of Tom Slocum, Tricia Van
Klaveren and Julius Udoma Obi to
vacant senate seats did so because the
method by which they were selected
was neither fair, objective nor honest.
Though it does not reflect upon the personal integrity of the appointees, Mr.
Watson made the appointments during
the summer-a ~me when the least
number of students are on or around
the university. Mr. Watson became acquainted with the mentioned three
through the social realm and is a very
close personal friend of one of them.
The refusal of the body to affirm Helen
· Chen as president pro tempore was
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s1mp1Ya matter o a I tty. n occasions
when she was called upon to render a
parliamentary or procedural decision,
Speaker-FAW~ ·ruRKI
she quite audibly asked a student assistant how to rule. Miss Chen, though
a competent senator, is simply too timid
for the position of pro teQ1.
It is sad, yet not s'urprising, that
the controversy has degenerated to a
racial issue. There will always be those
who mangle and simplify situations for
the purpose of generating emotional
fervor .
Andrea Hedgley
Senator
FRIDAY, OCT. 23, NOON
- C. U. LOUNGE
Though it is those who voted against
the appointments which are being accused of desiring political "'pawns,"'
the method by which these appointments were made is more than curious .
The objection is not one of a personal
nature, but one of principle.
Since these presidential appointments·
a~e subject to senate app~val, in pre•
v1ous years, senators have been consulted to avoid the proverbial "'spinning
of wheels."' Senate vacancies have also
~n advertised in campus newspapers
m the past. Mr. Watson deviated from
these practices. What was his reasoning?
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Editor: Fernando Quintero
Managing editor! Yolanda Granados
Production Mananger:Sylvia Vidal
Reporters: Lourdes Villareal, Mark Diaz
Virginia SubiaJ Pedro Perez
Production: Maria !:>ervin, Sandra Castro
Photographers: Robert Hernandez,
Richard Rios ·
La Voz de Aztlan is California State
University Fresno's Chicano newspaper.
Though it is unfortunate that valuable
La Voz de Aztlan is located in the
time would have elapsed while fillina
Campus
Building.
the positions properly, a greater prin- Keats
ciple is at stake: that of rising above Editorial : (209) 294-2486. Letters to the
and destroying the "'buddy system"' of · editor are welcomed. The newspaper
government, which invariably deprives reserve~ the right edit letters.
students of innumerable opportunities.
to
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CSUF Chicanos Faculty
Chicano Faculty
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Amon& the 243 CSUF faculty minorities including women, twenty-six are
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Chicanos, according to a report prepared by the office of Dr. Roberto Seaura. Sixteen of the twenty-six Chicano
faculty members have tenure and the
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Education & Humanities
rest are part-time. "'These people are
on soft money," said Alex Gonzalez,
Associate Professor of Psychology, "so
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be lost."
The representation of Chicana faculty
members on campus are even lower,
Health & Social Work
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with only two of the four having tenure. "We're such a minority that I
don't even think we show up on a computer. Statistically, we ' re not even preNatural Sciences
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sent, as if we don't exist," according
to Or. Theresa Perez of the School of
Education . She said that higher educaSocial Sciences
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tion has been a male-dominated field
since its inception. It has been operated
by and for males, principally white
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males. So Chicanas face a double
bind, that they' re women who have been
historically underrepresented and secondly they' re Chicano.
Chicano faculty are present ·in seven of cano taculty members on campus . One the California State University and Colthe eight schools on campus with the of the major reasons is that there lege system is based on the amount of
School of Engineering having none and _ aren't any positions open for Chicanos PhD's nation-wide . .,That ' s the legal
the School of Business & Administra- to take in the departments. All of them side of it," said Or. Lilly Small, Affirmative Sciences having two part-time have faculty members with tenure. tive Action Officer, "but morally, for
Chicano faculty. Out of the 56 depart- Another reason is that there isn't an the area we live in and for the student
ments on campus, there are several with abundance of Chicanos with PhD' s population, it shoud reflect the make up
no Chicano faculty .
available.
of the community."
There are various factors which conThe percentage of Chicano faculty
In the past, the educational system
tribute to_ the low percentage of Chi- members with PhD's in the schools of has not been that responsive to Chicanos
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who displayed values or behaviors that
were different from the mainstream,
resulting in isolation, high student
drop-out rate, and very low percentage
of Chicanos going into higher education, according to one faculty member.
A major priority of the Chicano Facul- ·
ty Association is the recruitment and
hiring of more Chicano faculty on campus and impacting those departments
which do not have any minorities.
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The Fresno chapter of Amigos de
las Americas needs help; in training volunteers for their 1981 project. In the
summers of 1980 and81, los Amigos de
las Americans sent volunteers to Honduras, Mexico, the Dominican Republic
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On Wednesday the Tlst of O~tober at "The Loungeu in ,~
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The Frigidettes
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will freely perform their various musical incantations for ~
the pleasurable listening enjoyment of those who dare :
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voces de aztlan
Chicano Youth Examined
l,r Paul A. Garcia
The California State Attorney General
recently reported that the most likely
victim ot murder was Chicano males
under 24 years of qe. This is not surprising, since the last 4 years have
witnessed an increasing number of Hispanic homicides-the killina of Hispanics. While the homicide rate among
whites increased 6.9 per 100,000 in
1976 to 8 per 100,000 in 1980, among
Hispanics it increased from 13.1 per
100,000 to 21.8 per 100,000 during the
same period-an increase of 66 percent.
It is not a coincidence that this
form of premature death has been attributed to Chicano youth gang activity.
Chicano youth gangs have gained a
notoriety for violence. Yet very little
has been done to understand the Chicano youth experience. A recent study
found that 23 percent of Hispanics
14 to 21 years of age were high school
dropouts. This compares to 15 percent
for blacks and 10 percent for whites.
Among those ages 18 to 21, m9re than
one out of thr~ Hispanics failed to finish
high school.
Perhaps Chicano males are the most
likely victims of murder. They are also
more likely to drop out of school. These.
are not coincidences, they are related.
There are definite ill consequences of
early school withdrawal. Many dropouts
can expect to be permanently illiterate,
delinquent, or welfare dependent. There
is a strong relationship between youth
crime and early school withdrawal.
Dropouts experience lower earnings
than other workers. One report indicated that only one-third of the youths
not attending school as a major activity were employed.
There is evidence that Chicano males
do not merely drop out of school, they
are pulled or pushed out. Nationally,
almost 40 percent of Hispanic males
leave school for economic reasonshome responsibilities, good job offers
or financial difficulties. They also leav~
school because of boredom, disenchantment, and alienation. In many cases they
have felt unable to participate in schoolrelated activities.
It is no accident that Chicano students are disproportionately suspended
--
.and expelled from school. Student suspensions and expulsions are frequently
the schools' response to students having
difficulty in the school environment.
As a result, many never return.
During the 1979-1980 school year
Chicano students represented 28 per:
cent of the Fresno Unified School District' s student population in grades 7
through 11. Yet they accounted for 38
percent of the student suspensions in
those grade levels. Among all 7th graders, Chicano students represented 28
percent of the student population, but
42 percent of the suspensions.
A disturbing number of Chicano students are also expelled from the school
district . Chicano secondary students are
three times as likely as whites to be dismissed from the district.
In addition, Chicano students are disproportionately suspended from schoo~
for some reasons more than others.
Proportionately, SO percent more Chicano 7th and 8th graders were suspended for •injury to person" and
"controlled substance" categories in
1979-1980. Almost twice as many Chicano students as would be expected
were suspended under the • dangerous
object• category. Among grades 9
through 11, twice as many Chicano stu,
dents than whites were suspended for
damaging school property.
By far, the most likely reason for
suspension among Chicano high school
students is defiance. This category accounted for 40 percent of Chicago student suspensions in grade levels 9
through 12, compared to 23 percent for
whites and 26 percent for blacks. No
doubt the vagueness of this suspension
,, category contributed to the indiscriminate number of suspensions assigned to
Chicano students.
On Saturday, October 17, a confer.
ence will be held to address this very
important Chicano student problem. The
conference will be held at Roosevelt
High School. The purpose of the confer•
ence is to explore ways to prevent the
disproportionate number of Chicano student suspensions and early school with•
drawals. Parents, teachers, and students are encouraged to attend. There is
a six dollar registration fee which ineludes lunch.
see Youth page I
My Friend
My friend is a talent guy
.
he don't believe in the word try,
When he gets out of hand
he~ '-Aln act like man,
Some times he wakes up on the wrong
side of the bed;
then I've got to turn around and slap
him in the head
Some people think he's a fool.
But, tome he's very cool,
He don't believe in the word shy;
because he thinks he' is a real guy
He goes to OeWolf Hi1h School
that's why people think he's a fool.
The following poems were written by
students from the Alice Worsley School
at Fresno's Juvenile Hall. Most of these
young people have problems which
they've openly expressed through these
poems.
The wards at Juvenile Hall need to
express themselves like everybody else.
Somethina about and of themselves is
expressed through their poems .
The poems have no names in them for
anonimities sake.
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My Prayer
Brothers
Brothers are cool brothers, smooth
if you play their game you might end up
looking like a fool.
Brothers here brothers there.
, You see Black brothers everywhere.
Brothers in the penn, brothers with big
houses even with big dens. . ,
Some young brothers don't make it to
ten.
Some brothers have game,
Some brothers are lame and some
brothers don't even aive a damn
and that's a shame.
Mr. Shan Bone
The Little Ant
An ant will pass
in a forest of grass
on a twig near
a rain puddle sea.
And a rock will be
a hill tip-top and
a bean a monster tree.
Mr. Shan Bone is both old and bold
and strolling and controlling.
Want some, get some, feels free.
Squeal on me, I'll set yours.
But free, that's my name and
my game is pimping young dames
from the Hall of Fame.
Heavenly father up above.
Please protect the guy I love.
Bless his heart that beats so fast.
Make him always last and last.
Bless his parents all day Iona,
because of them he came along.
I love a guy short or tall,
but my Benny is the best of them all.
If I should die before you do·
I'll tell the angels you're co,;,ing to/
And if you're not there by judgement
day,
I 'II know you went the other way.
I'll give them back their aolden wings
their lovely harps and all their things.
Just to prove my love is true,
I'll go to hell just to be with you. Amen.
- Untitled
The desolate old man sits so alone
memories of faces nannina throuah his
head.
Children of Iona aao can be heard in the
'trees.
Rockina back and forth, the old man
waits.
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Time is running out, death is so near.
The reaper is comina, he shows no
pity.
People pass by, but no one sees .
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Out in the yard the rag weed arows.
Under the porch the mice roam.
A tear runs down a lonely man's cheek.
The reaper has gone, death has come.
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S[y Elf
A little elf
Copyright Cecilio Orozco 1979
sat by himself alone.
Alone in the lap of an
acorn cap at home.
Page 7-0ctober 15, 1981-La Voz de Aztlan
Dr. Martinez's Energy_Impact, Study
ELECTRICITY USE IN CALIFORNIA
1979
2 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - - -.....- - - - - - - - - .
300,000
Miscellaneous
Cooking
~ a t e r Heating
Space Heating
160
Ventilation
120
BIWONS OF
WATT-HOURS
PER DAY
Miscellaneous
(Lights, TV,
other
Appliances)
Air
Conditi6ning
Pool Heatin
80
Condition in
Washing an
BARRELS
OF OIL
PER DAY
Other
Electronics
Metals
,ng
Lighting
40
200,000
Refrigerators
Water Heatin
100,000
Oil Production
<.
Food Productn
Chemicals
Refrigerators
and Freezers
Transportation
Equipment
Oil
Refining
Mostly
Water
Pumping
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RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUST~AL AGRICULTURE
by Lourdes -Villarreal
Expecting to find myself listening to
a lot of facts and figures from 'a spectacled, serious-looking man, I strolled
over to the Criminology Department for
my 2:15 appointment.
"ls Dr. Martinez in?"' I asked.
"No. He' II be back in 10 minutes."
I sat down and waited patiently,
thinking to mvself. "It's going to be ·
another one of those dull interviews."
Fifteen minutes later a man I had seen
in the corridor earlier rushed into the
In his study, Martinez will review
the literature available on the subject, develop and test a survey instrument, and select a random sample of
1,000 households for the collection of
data. He will then analyze the results
and explore the policy implications of the
findings. Dr. Martinez expects to finish
the study within a year.
room.
Dr. Martinez's <.:ducational background is just as notable as is his professional career. Prior to his appointment to
CSUF, he was an associate professor of
Chicano Studies at the University of
Colora_d_~, Boulder. From 1974 to 1976,
he was -executive director of the Institute for Community Relations Research based at the University of San
Francisco. Martinez earned his bachelors degree in sociology from the University of Illinois and his masters in
sociology from the University of California, Davis. In 1972 he earned his
Ph.D. degree in criminology at the University of California, Berkeley.
He has taught sociology and MexicanAmerican Studies at UC Riverside,
Stanford University, San Jose State
University, and The University of Santa
Clara.
And so, the clock struck 3:10, and
the once dreaded interview had turned
out to be interesting as well as profitable. For such had been Dr. Martinez's
enthusiasm over his new project that I
ended up agreeing to take home a questionnaire he wanted translated into
Spanish for his survey.
"Was this Dr. Martinez," I thoug_h t to
myself. If he was, he was quite different from what I had expected.
After another lapse of waiting, (He
had been discussing his work with his
assistant and attending a student who
was doing some research for him) he
gave me a warm smile, and we finally
commenced the interview.
Dr .. Tomas Martinez, the latest Chicano Criminology professor on campus,
was recruited last year by the Criminology Department. Dr. Martine~ has _an
impressive
background
mcludmg
numerous articles and book reviews and
papers presented on drug abuse,_ co~pulsive gambling, and other minority
is~ues to the current research on energy
and minorities.
Working under a grant budgeted over
$60,000.00 from the U.S. Departm~nt of
Energy Office of Minority Economic Impact Martinez is in the process of conductlng a study on the impact of restructured electric utilities rates in the
~entral Valley and of the Department of
Energy regulations upon low income
groups and minorities.
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YOUTH
Continued from page 6
Continued
Hispanic
Edition of Bee
cancelled
Interview With Student
Palestine Leader
It is time that we cease treating
youth gang activity and dropping out of
school as separate and unrelated matters. In the first case, extended prison
sentences and adult trials are encourl,y Gerardo Gonzaiez
aged. In the second, suspensions and
expulsions
are assigned. In neither case
I would like to- emphasize that the
The tollowina is an interview with Omar
media played an important part in portra- are institutional settings addressed
Baddar, president of the General Union
e.g. prison, schools. The tragic result
ying Sadat as a man of peace. That is
ot Palestine Students (G.U.P.S.). The
has been an extreme form of discipline
C.U.P.S. is a two-year-old orpnization ·how the U.S. 1overnment would like to
that distorts the relationship between an
present
him
because
he
allowed
the
U.S.
consistin1 of 70 students who represent
to exploit the country. (Sadat) was called ethnic group's life time expectancy and
the cause of the Palestinian people to
their life experiences.
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'moderate* because he was U.S. orientestablish a self-aoverned homeland in
There have been conferences on paint
ed, but other Arab countries which are
what is presently the state of Israel and
sniffing, barrio violence and juvenile
occupied territories.
not are called radical.
delinquency, but there has not been a
Conzalez: Do you see any shift in the
Gonzalez: Why did the G.U.P.S orconference to address the roots of these
1anize?
American people's attitude toward the
problems. Join us on October 17 and
Baddar: We oraanized so that we can
Palestinian issue?
help us make a concerted effort to inmaintain our struaale apinst Zionism
Baddar: Y~s, and it is encouraging.
crease the educational level of our Chiand imperialism.
cano youth.
for more information call : Trabajadores de La Raza, Inc., MEChA Central/
Gonzalez: What is Zionism?
Gonzalez: Is the shift favorabf;?
Chicano Youth Center, 190 N. Van Ness
Baddar: Yes, we don't find any obstaBaddar: Zionism is a racial and politiAvenue, Suite B, Fresno, CA 93701;
cles
in
convincing
the
people
of
our
point
cal movement whose objectives is to dis(209) 264-1775 or 264-1776, ask for
view
except
for
the
close-minded
and
the
place the Palestinian people from PalesCindy Orona.
prejudiced.
W-e
are
offering
the
opportine, as part of a dream to establish a
tunity fDr the people to hear our side
large Israeli state which would expand
when soeaker Fawaz Turki aives his lecfrom the Euphrates River in Iraq to
tur~ ~bolJ.t the Palestinians friday noon
the Nile River in Egypt
in the College Union Lounge.
Conzalez: What are you trying to
Gonzalez: Is there any cooperation beachieve on and off campus?
tweeQ the G.U.P.S. and other organizaBaddar: We are trying to present the
tions on and off campus?
viewpoint of the side that has not been
heard,because of a biased media, and to
make people aware of what is going on in
Baddar: Of course, we are members of
the Middle East. Americans are paying
the
CSUF Alliance
taxes in military aid to Israel which goes
Off campus, we are members of the
to kill Palestinian and Lebanese people
Central Valley Peace Network (a coalieveryday.
tion of church, labor, community, and
Gonzalez: What are your feelings on
student organization.)
the assasination of Egyptian President
Gonzalez: What specifically would you
Sadat?
like to convey to our readers?
Baddar: He should have resigned a
long time before his "execution*. He got
too involved in the so-called peace proBaddar: Stop Israeli terrorism. By
cess, that he didn't have the courage to
q~stioning your government about
retreat and listen to his people. Sadat
what they do with your tax money and be
was surrending, not offering peace,to
aware of the destructive nature of the
his people. (Sadat) was a di~tor who
Reagan Administration inside the U.S.
used repression. Opposition leaders
and outside .
were either outside Egypt (in exile) or in
prison.
The new strategic alliance between
The Egyptian people felt that Sadat
the U.S. and Israel is an indication of the
was offering"lsraeli peace,"not a comkind of peace the U.S . wants . In the last
prehensive peace. He used the people ' s meeting between them, Reagan acceptpoverty to get them to approve his polied a present from Israeli Prime Minster
cies. Sadat made Egypt economica_lly de Begin, which was a map of Israel which
pendent on the U.S. and Israel; unlike
includes not only presently occupied terhis predecessor Jamal Abdul Nassar,
ritories, but also southern Lebanon
who got his people's support when he
which again is a green light to invade
industrialized the countrv.
with the consent and support of the U.S ..
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by Fernando Quintero
Plans for pilot issues of the Fresno
Bee were cancelled - last w~k, a~nounced George Gruner, managing editor of the Bee.
.
In a telephone interview with La
Voz Gruner said that "hostile reaction
fro~ the Hispanic community~ pro'!'pted the Bee's decision to discontinue
the project indefinitely.
.
According to Gruner, negative reaction from attendants at a Chicano
Media workshop which was held at the
Airport Holiday Inn Sept .. ~O was a
major factor in the ~ ' s dec1s1on.
Participants attending the workshop
which was sponsored by the Central
California Chicano Media Association maintained that the creation of a
separate newspaper was not a sincere
effort by the Bee to pres~nt Hispanicinterest news and perspectives.
Gruner said that about a month of
researching and talking to a crosssection of the local Hispanic population was made to get their feedback on
the Hispanic issues proposal.
Next issue:
Zoot Suit-~The movie.
INCREASE OF VIOLENT FILMS DIRECTED TOWARD WOMEN
from Rape Counseling Service of Fresno County
In the theater seat sat a nicely dressed,
middle-aged man , maybe 50 or so. The
movie is I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and the
man is beginning to talk back to the
screen .
"Boy, is she asking for it now." he
whispers. "There's a rape scene coming
up, this will be a good one."
This deseri-ption of a movie goer is from
Roger Ebert, film crit!.:: of the Chicago Sun
Tirr:,es and co-host of "Sneak Previews,"
a weekly public television program. Ebert,
along with Chicago Tribune film critic,
· Gene Siskel, dlictissed the film exploitation of women in danger during a ''Sneak
Previews·· segment originally aired in
October 1980. The program has since
been repeated several times since this
disturbing new trend continues as the
movie box office.
Some of wha,l Sfskel and Ebert emphasize is the fact that people think women
have parity with men and think that there
are strong women images in films.
''Wrong," says Siskel. "The dominant
image in Ameriwan films today on women
is not Fonda or Clayburgh: It 's women
cowering in the corner, kniyes being bran
dished in the ir faces , being raped , be ing
sliced apart. That's what's going on in
American movies."
The list of "women in danger" films is
long ; according to the two critics : PROM
NIGHT, DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE, THE
HOWLING, TERROR TRAIN. THE
BOOGEYMAN, HE KNOWS YOU'RE
ALONE, MOTEL HELL, PHOBIA, SILENT
SCREAM, MOTHER'S DAY, SCHIZOID,
and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. And why
does this tr~nd have to happen at all?
Siskel has a theory.
"I'm convinced it has something to do
with the growth of the women's movement-,..; America in the last decade." he
says.
"I think that these films are some sort
of primordial response by.some very sick
people saying, 'Get back in your place
women.' The women in these films are typically portrayed as independent, as
sexual, as enjoying lite. And the killer,
typically, is a man who is sexually frustrated with these new aggressive women,
so he strikes back at them. He throws
knives at them. He can't deal with them.
He cuts them up, he kills them . . . " Ebert
agrees with Siskel and conti nues on with
.the theory.
"You begin to ask yourself what did
these female victims do to deserve the
horrible attacks they undergo in these
films? What was their cr ime? . . .They 're
liberated women who choose to act on
their own and the moment that a woman
starts making decisions for herself in
these movies, you can almost bet she's
going to end up paying with h.er life .. .
and horribly."
No longer are today's horror movies
being seen from the victim's point of view.
We now look through the killer's eyes.
''It's almost as if the audience is being
asked to identify with the attackers in
these movies ... says Ebert. "and that really
bothers me.··
Rape Counseling Service of Fresno
agrees with Ebert and Siskel. We do not
have to attend Fresno area movie theaters
where anti-women films are showing. We
can show our disgust for these films and
the backers of them by not supporting
them at the box office~ Call or write the
theater manager and tell him why you are
boycotting. They need to know. Find out
the name of the stu(j :o and film producer
and w~ite them . You r stance can affect
change and Fresno is a good place to
beain .
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p.,e 2..()ctobe, 15, 1981-La Vo:z de Aztlan
editorial
A Call For lJnity
It is no news that a new wave of conservatism has
gripped the land. The power of the right is showing 4p
in all levels of government. Radical cutbacks in social
services and increased defense spending have proved this
clearly. Locally, many have endorsed this trend. As
Reagan swept the country in 1980 with his conservative
ideals, so have local politicians secured their positions by
capitalizing on the fears of the constituency.
An example of this conservatism occurred locally in
1980 during the Reich campaign for county supervisor.
His campaign centered on a vehement opposition to the
bilingual ballot. With this strategy, he collected overwhelming support and now serves on the county board.
' Volatile issues such as the bilingual ballot tend to polarize
the electorate during a vigorous campaign into clear cut
groups. Cordon Duffy, who announced last week that he
will seek the Republican nomination for Secretary of
State, has launched his campaign with a serious attack
. on the bilingual ballot, vowing to kill it once and for all.
Reich won, and Duffy hopes to, because he was able to
arouse voter animosity to the bilingual ballot and rode on
the crest of hatred and fear.
It is dangerous to lead people to this total despair.
Wa~ in '64, and Liberty City not so long ago, reminded
us of what happens when the millionaires go on parade
in Washington while the rest of society suffers. What civil
rights were won including the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
must be protected. A popular unit must be formed to
diametrically oppose the war f-action. A uniform struggle
must be undertaken to assure that our civil rights are
not buried by economic expediency. The message to
Washington should be to slam shut the window of vulnerability by instilling national unity, not national fear.
Unfortunately the greatest threats to national and
global stability come not only from Peking or Moscow,
not only from a handful of ·extremists in Tripoli and
Tehran, but also from the offices located on ·Pennsylvania
Avenue, Washington, D.C.
by Mark Ow
Staff Writer
letters
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Senator _Clarifies Circumstances
The PALESTINIANS.
AN HISTORICAL IMPERITIVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
To ~ editor:: · .
.
It ,sat this pomt necessary to ~artfy
both the chronoloay and the c,rcumstances regarding past A.S.
te _
tions
sena ac
T~ senators that voted not to approve President Jeff Watson's appointments of Tom Slocum, Tricia Van
Klaveren and Julius Udoma Obi to
vacant senate seats did so because the
method by which they were selected
was neither fair, objective nor honest.
Though it does not reflect upon the personal integrity of the appointees, Mr.
Watson made the appointments during
the summer-a ~me when the least
number of students are on or around
the university. Mr. Watson became acquainted with the mentioned three
through the social realm and is a very
close personal friend of one of them.
The refusal of the body to affirm Helen
· Chen as president pro tempore was
•
f b· 1· o
·
s1mp1Ya matter o a I tty. n occasions
when she was called upon to render a
parliamentary or procedural decision,
Speaker-FAW~ ·ruRKI
she quite audibly asked a student assistant how to rule. Miss Chen, though
a competent senator, is simply too timid
for the position of pro teQ1.
It is sad, yet not s'urprising, that
the controversy has degenerated to a
racial issue. There will always be those
who mangle and simplify situations for
the purpose of generating emotional
fervor .
Andrea Hedgley
Senator
FRIDAY, OCT. 23, NOON
- C. U. LOUNGE
Though it is those who voted against
the appointments which are being accused of desiring political "'pawns,"'
the method by which these appointments were made is more than curious .
The objection is not one of a personal
nature, but one of principle.
Since these presidential appointments·
a~e subject to senate app~val, in pre•
v1ous years, senators have been consulted to avoid the proverbial "'spinning
of wheels."' Senate vacancies have also
~n advertised in campus newspapers
m the past. Mr. Watson deviated from
these practices. What was his reasoning?
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Editor: Fernando Quintero
Managing editor! Yolanda Granados
Production Mananger:Sylvia Vidal
Reporters: Lourdes Villareal, Mark Diaz
Virginia SubiaJ Pedro Perez
Production: Maria !:>ervin, Sandra Castro
Photographers: Robert Hernandez,
Richard Rios ·
La Voz de Aztlan is California State
University Fresno's Chicano newspaper.
Though it is unfortunate that valuable
La Voz de Aztlan is located in the
time would have elapsed while fillina
Campus
Building.
the positions properly, a greater prin- Keats
ciple is at stake: that of rising above Editorial : (209) 294-2486. Letters to the
and destroying the "'buddy system"' of · editor are welcomed. The newspaper
government, which invariably deprives reserve~ the right edit letters.
students of innumerable opportunities.
to
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CSUF Chicanos Faculty
Chicano Faculty
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Proportionately Low
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Male
.Part Tim~
Female
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Agriculture &
Home Economics
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1
1
0
by Pedro Peru
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Business&· Administrative
Amon& the 243 CSUF faculty minorities including women, twenty-six are
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Arts & HL. ,nities
Chicanos, according to a report prepared by the office of Dr. Roberto Seaura. Sixteen of the twenty-six Chicano
faculty members have tenure and the
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Education & Humanities
rest are part-time. "'These people are
on soft money," said Alex Gonzalez,
Associate Professor of Psychology, "so
0
Engineering
· if the monies dry up they are going to
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be lost."
The representation of Chicana faculty
members on campus are even lower,
Health & Social Work
3
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with only two of the four having tenure. "We're such a minority that I
don't even think we show up on a computer. Statistically, we ' re not even preNatural Sciences
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sent, as if we don't exist," according
to Or. Theresa Perez of the School of
Education . She said that higher educaSocial Sciences
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tion has been a male-dominated field
since its inception. It has been operated
by and for males, principally white
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Total
males. So Chicanas face a double
bind, that they' re women who have been
historically underrepresented and secondly they' re Chicano.
Chicano faculty are present ·in seven of cano taculty members on campus . One the California State University and Colthe eight schools on campus with the of the major reasons is that there lege system is based on the amount of
School of Engineering having none and _ aren't any positions open for Chicanos PhD's nation-wide . .,That ' s the legal
the School of Business & Administra- to take in the departments. All of them side of it," said Or. Lilly Small, Affirmative Sciences having two part-time have faculty members with tenure. tive Action Officer, "but morally, for
Chicano faculty. Out of the 56 depart- Another reason is that there isn't an the area we live in and for the student
ments on campus, there are several with abundance of Chicanos with PhD' s population, it shoud reflect the make up
no Chicano faculty .
available.
of the community."
There are various factors which conThe percentage of Chicano faculty
In the past, the educational system
tribute to_ the low percentage of Chi- members with PhD's in the schools of has not been that responsive to Chicanos
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who displayed values or behaviors that
were different from the mainstream,
resulting in isolation, high student
drop-out rate, and very low percentage
of Chicanos going into higher education, according to one faculty member.
A major priority of the Chicano Facul- ·
ty Association is the recruitment and
hiring of more Chicano faculty on campus and impacting those departments
which do not have any minorities.
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The Fresno chapter of Amigos de
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On Wednesday the Tlst of O~tober at "The Loungeu in ,~
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The Frigidettes
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will freely perform their various musical incantations for ~
the pleasurable listening enjoyment of those who dare :
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voces de aztlan
Chicano Youth Examined
l,r Paul A. Garcia
The California State Attorney General
recently reported that the most likely
victim ot murder was Chicano males
under 24 years of qe. This is not surprising, since the last 4 years have
witnessed an increasing number of Hispanic homicides-the killina of Hispanics. While the homicide rate among
whites increased 6.9 per 100,000 in
1976 to 8 per 100,000 in 1980, among
Hispanics it increased from 13.1 per
100,000 to 21.8 per 100,000 during the
same period-an increase of 66 percent.
It is not a coincidence that this
form of premature death has been attributed to Chicano youth gang activity.
Chicano youth gangs have gained a
notoriety for violence. Yet very little
has been done to understand the Chicano youth experience. A recent study
found that 23 percent of Hispanics
14 to 21 years of age were high school
dropouts. This compares to 15 percent
for blacks and 10 percent for whites.
Among those ages 18 to 21, m9re than
one out of thr~ Hispanics failed to finish
high school.
Perhaps Chicano males are the most
likely victims of murder. They are also
more likely to drop out of school. These.
are not coincidences, they are related.
There are definite ill consequences of
early school withdrawal. Many dropouts
can expect to be permanently illiterate,
delinquent, or welfare dependent. There
is a strong relationship between youth
crime and early school withdrawal.
Dropouts experience lower earnings
than other workers. One report indicated that only one-third of the youths
not attending school as a major activity were employed.
There is evidence that Chicano males
do not merely drop out of school, they
are pulled or pushed out. Nationally,
almost 40 percent of Hispanic males
leave school for economic reasonshome responsibilities, good job offers
or financial difficulties. They also leav~
school because of boredom, disenchantment, and alienation. In many cases they
have felt unable to participate in schoolrelated activities.
It is no accident that Chicano students are disproportionately suspended
--
.and expelled from school. Student suspensions and expulsions are frequently
the schools' response to students having
difficulty in the school environment.
As a result, many never return.
During the 1979-1980 school year
Chicano students represented 28 per:
cent of the Fresno Unified School District' s student population in grades 7
through 11. Yet they accounted for 38
percent of the student suspensions in
those grade levels. Among all 7th graders, Chicano students represented 28
percent of the student population, but
42 percent of the suspensions.
A disturbing number of Chicano students are also expelled from the school
district . Chicano secondary students are
three times as likely as whites to be dismissed from the district.
In addition, Chicano students are disproportionately suspended from schoo~
for some reasons more than others.
Proportionately, SO percent more Chicano 7th and 8th graders were suspended for •injury to person" and
"controlled substance" categories in
1979-1980. Almost twice as many Chicano students as would be expected
were suspended under the • dangerous
object• category. Among grades 9
through 11, twice as many Chicano stu,
dents than whites were suspended for
damaging school property.
By far, the most likely reason for
suspension among Chicano high school
students is defiance. This category accounted for 40 percent of Chicago student suspensions in grade levels 9
through 12, compared to 23 percent for
whites and 26 percent for blacks. No
doubt the vagueness of this suspension
,, category contributed to the indiscriminate number of suspensions assigned to
Chicano students.
On Saturday, October 17, a confer.
ence will be held to address this very
important Chicano student problem. The
conference will be held at Roosevelt
High School. The purpose of the confer•
ence is to explore ways to prevent the
disproportionate number of Chicano student suspensions and early school with•
drawals. Parents, teachers, and students are encouraged to attend. There is
a six dollar registration fee which ineludes lunch.
see Youth page I
My Friend
My friend is a talent guy
.
he don't believe in the word try,
When he gets out of hand
he~ '-Aln act like man,
Some times he wakes up on the wrong
side of the bed;
then I've got to turn around and slap
him in the head
Some people think he's a fool.
But, tome he's very cool,
He don't believe in the word shy;
because he thinks he' is a real guy
He goes to OeWolf Hi1h School
that's why people think he's a fool.
The following poems were written by
students from the Alice Worsley School
at Fresno's Juvenile Hall. Most of these
young people have problems which
they've openly expressed through these
poems.
The wards at Juvenile Hall need to
express themselves like everybody else.
Somethina about and of themselves is
expressed through their poems .
The poems have no names in them for
anonimities sake.
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My Prayer
Brothers
Brothers are cool brothers, smooth
if you play their game you might end up
looking like a fool.
Brothers here brothers there.
, You see Black brothers everywhere.
Brothers in the penn, brothers with big
houses even with big dens. . ,
Some young brothers don't make it to
ten.
Some brothers have game,
Some brothers are lame and some
brothers don't even aive a damn
and that's a shame.
Mr. Shan Bone
The Little Ant
An ant will pass
in a forest of grass
on a twig near
a rain puddle sea.
And a rock will be
a hill tip-top and
a bean a monster tree.
Mr. Shan Bone is both old and bold
and strolling and controlling.
Want some, get some, feels free.
Squeal on me, I'll set yours.
But free, that's my name and
my game is pimping young dames
from the Hall of Fame.
Heavenly father up above.
Please protect the guy I love.
Bless his heart that beats so fast.
Make him always last and last.
Bless his parents all day Iona,
because of them he came along.
I love a guy short or tall,
but my Benny is the best of them all.
If I should die before you do·
I'll tell the angels you're co,;,ing to/
And if you're not there by judgement
day,
I 'II know you went the other way.
I'll give them back their aolden wings
their lovely harps and all their things.
Just to prove my love is true,
I'll go to hell just to be with you. Amen.
- Untitled
The desolate old man sits so alone
memories of faces nannina throuah his
head.
Children of Iona aao can be heard in the
'trees.
Rockina back and forth, the old man
waits.
·
Time is running out, death is so near.
The reaper is comina, he shows no
pity.
People pass by, but no one sees .
..,,
Out in the yard the rag weed arows.
Under the porch the mice roam.
A tear runs down a lonely man's cheek.
The reaper has gone, death has come.
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S[y Elf
A little elf
Copyright Cecilio Orozco 1979
sat by himself alone.
Alone in the lap of an
acorn cap at home.
Page 7-0ctober 15, 1981-La Voz de Aztlan
Dr. Martinez's Energy_Impact, Study
ELECTRICITY USE IN CALIFORNIA
1979
2 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - - -.....- - - - - - - - - .
300,000
Miscellaneous
Cooking
~ a t e r Heating
Space Heating
160
Ventilation
120
BIWONS OF
WATT-HOURS
PER DAY
Miscellaneous
(Lights, TV,
other
Appliances)
Air
Conditi6ning
Pool Heatin
80
Condition in
Washing an
BARRELS
OF OIL
PER DAY
Other
Electronics
Metals
,ng
Lighting
40
200,000
Refrigerators
Water Heatin
100,000
Oil Production
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Food Productn
Chemicals
Refrigerators
and Freezers
Transportation
Equipment
Oil
Refining
Mostly
Water
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RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUST~AL AGRICULTURE
by Lourdes -Villarreal
Expecting to find myself listening to
a lot of facts and figures from 'a spectacled, serious-looking man, I strolled
over to the Criminology Department for
my 2:15 appointment.
"ls Dr. Martinez in?"' I asked.
"No. He' II be back in 10 minutes."
I sat down and waited patiently,
thinking to mvself. "It's going to be ·
another one of those dull interviews."
Fifteen minutes later a man I had seen
in the corridor earlier rushed into the
In his study, Martinez will review
the literature available on the subject, develop and test a survey instrument, and select a random sample of
1,000 households for the collection of
data. He will then analyze the results
and explore the policy implications of the
findings. Dr. Martinez expects to finish
the study within a year.
room.
Dr. Martinez's <.:ducational background is just as notable as is his professional career. Prior to his appointment to
CSUF, he was an associate professor of
Chicano Studies at the University of
Colora_d_~, Boulder. From 1974 to 1976,
he was -executive director of the Institute for Community Relations Research based at the University of San
Francisco. Martinez earned his bachelors degree in sociology from the University of Illinois and his masters in
sociology from the University of California, Davis. In 1972 he earned his
Ph.D. degree in criminology at the University of California, Berkeley.
He has taught sociology and MexicanAmerican Studies at UC Riverside,
Stanford University, San Jose State
University, and The University of Santa
Clara.
And so, the clock struck 3:10, and
the once dreaded interview had turned
out to be interesting as well as profitable. For such had been Dr. Martinez's
enthusiasm over his new project that I
ended up agreeing to take home a questionnaire he wanted translated into
Spanish for his survey.
"Was this Dr. Martinez," I thoug_h t to
myself. If he was, he was quite different from what I had expected.
After another lapse of waiting, (He
had been discussing his work with his
assistant and attending a student who
was doing some research for him) he
gave me a warm smile, and we finally
commenced the interview.
Dr .. Tomas Martinez, the latest Chicano Criminology professor on campus,
was recruited last year by the Criminology Department. Dr. Martine~ has _an
impressive
background
mcludmg
numerous articles and book reviews and
papers presented on drug abuse,_ co~pulsive gambling, and other minority
is~ues to the current research on energy
and minorities.
Working under a grant budgeted over
$60,000.00 from the U.S. Departm~nt of
Energy Office of Minority Economic Impact Martinez is in the process of conductlng a study on the impact of restructured electric utilities rates in the
~entral Valley and of the Department of
Energy regulations upon low income
groups and minorities.
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Continued from page 6
Continued
Hispanic
Edition of Bee
cancelled
Interview With Student
Palestine Leader
It is time that we cease treating
youth gang activity and dropping out of
school as separate and unrelated matters. In the first case, extended prison
sentences and adult trials are encourl,y Gerardo Gonzaiez
aged. In the second, suspensions and
expulsions
are assigned. In neither case
I would like to- emphasize that the
The tollowina is an interview with Omar
media played an important part in portra- are institutional settings addressed
Baddar, president of the General Union
e.g. prison, schools. The tragic result
ying Sadat as a man of peace. That is
ot Palestine Students (G.U.P.S.). The
has been an extreme form of discipline
C.U.P.S. is a two-year-old orpnization ·how the U.S. 1overnment would like to
that distorts the relationship between an
present
him
because
he
allowed
the
U.S.
consistin1 of 70 students who represent
to exploit the country. (Sadat) was called ethnic group's life time expectancy and
the cause of the Palestinian people to
their life experiences.
·
'moderate* because he was U.S. orientestablish a self-aoverned homeland in
There have been conferences on paint
ed, but other Arab countries which are
what is presently the state of Israel and
sniffing, barrio violence and juvenile
occupied territories.
not are called radical.
delinquency, but there has not been a
Conzalez: Do you see any shift in the
Gonzalez: Why did the G.U.P.S orconference to address the roots of these
1anize?
American people's attitude toward the
problems. Join us on October 17 and
Baddar: We oraanized so that we can
Palestinian issue?
help us make a concerted effort to inmaintain our struaale apinst Zionism
Baddar: Y~s, and it is encouraging.
crease the educational level of our Chiand imperialism.
cano youth.
for more information call : Trabajadores de La Raza, Inc., MEChA Central/
Gonzalez: What is Zionism?
Gonzalez: Is the shift favorabf;?
Chicano Youth Center, 190 N. Van Ness
Baddar: Yes, we don't find any obstaBaddar: Zionism is a racial and politiAvenue, Suite B, Fresno, CA 93701;
cles
in
convincing
the
people
of
our
point
cal movement whose objectives is to dis(209) 264-1775 or 264-1776, ask for
view
except
for
the
close-minded
and
the
place the Palestinian people from PalesCindy Orona.
prejudiced.
W-e
are
offering
the
opportine, as part of a dream to establish a
tunity fDr the people to hear our side
large Israeli state which would expand
when soeaker Fawaz Turki aives his lecfrom the Euphrates River in Iraq to
tur~ ~bolJ.t the Palestinians friday noon
the Nile River in Egypt
in the College Union Lounge.
Conzalez: What are you trying to
Gonzalez: Is there any cooperation beachieve on and off campus?
tweeQ the G.U.P.S. and other organizaBaddar: We are trying to present the
tions on and off campus?
viewpoint of the side that has not been
heard,because of a biased media, and to
make people aware of what is going on in
Baddar: Of course, we are members of
the Middle East. Americans are paying
the
CSUF Alliance
taxes in military aid to Israel which goes
Off campus, we are members of the
to kill Palestinian and Lebanese people
Central Valley Peace Network (a coalieveryday.
tion of church, labor, community, and
Gonzalez: What are your feelings on
student organization.)
the assasination of Egyptian President
Gonzalez: What specifically would you
Sadat?
like to convey to our readers?
Baddar: He should have resigned a
long time before his "execution*. He got
too involved in the so-called peace proBaddar: Stop Israeli terrorism. By
cess, that he didn't have the courage to
q~stioning your government about
retreat and listen to his people. Sadat
what they do with your tax money and be
was surrending, not offering peace,to
aware of the destructive nature of the
his people. (Sadat) was a di~tor who
Reagan Administration inside the U.S.
used repression. Opposition leaders
and outside .
were either outside Egypt (in exile) or in
prison.
The new strategic alliance between
The Egyptian people felt that Sadat
the U.S. and Israel is an indication of the
was offering"lsraeli peace,"not a comkind of peace the U.S . wants . In the last
prehensive peace. He used the people ' s meeting between them, Reagan acceptpoverty to get them to approve his polied a present from Israeli Prime Minster
cies. Sadat made Egypt economica_lly de Begin, which was a map of Israel which
pendent on the U.S. and Israel; unlike
includes not only presently occupied terhis predecessor Jamal Abdul Nassar,
ritories, but also southern Lebanon
who got his people's support when he
which again is a green light to invade
industrialized the countrv.
with the consent and support of the U.S ..
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by Fernando Quintero
Plans for pilot issues of the Fresno
Bee were cancelled - last w~k, a~nounced George Gruner, managing editor of the Bee.
.
In a telephone interview with La
Voz Gruner said that "hostile reaction
fro~ the Hispanic community~ pro'!'pted the Bee's decision to discontinue
the project indefinitely.
.
According to Gruner, negative reaction from attendants at a Chicano
Media workshop which was held at the
Airport Holiday Inn Sept .. ~O was a
major factor in the ~ ' s dec1s1on.
Participants attending the workshop
which was sponsored by the Central
California Chicano Media Association maintained that the creation of a
separate newspaper was not a sincere
effort by the Bee to pres~nt Hispanicinterest news and perspectives.
Gruner said that about a month of
researching and talking to a crosssection of the local Hispanic population was made to get their feedback on
the Hispanic issues proposal.
Next issue:
Zoot Suit-~The movie.
INCREASE OF VIOLENT FILMS DIRECTED TOWARD WOMEN
from Rape Counseling Service of Fresno County
In the theater seat sat a nicely dressed,
middle-aged man , maybe 50 or so. The
movie is I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and the
man is beginning to talk back to the
screen .
"Boy, is she asking for it now." he
whispers. "There's a rape scene coming
up, this will be a good one."
This deseri-ption of a movie goer is from
Roger Ebert, film crit!.:: of the Chicago Sun
Tirr:,es and co-host of "Sneak Previews,"
a weekly public television program. Ebert,
along with Chicago Tribune film critic,
· Gene Siskel, dlictissed the film exploitation of women in danger during a ''Sneak
Previews·· segment originally aired in
October 1980. The program has since
been repeated several times since this
disturbing new trend continues as the
movie box office.
Some of wha,l Sfskel and Ebert emphasize is the fact that people think women
have parity with men and think that there
are strong women images in films.
''Wrong," says Siskel. "The dominant
image in Ameriwan films today on women
is not Fonda or Clayburgh: It 's women
cowering in the corner, kniyes being bran
dished in the ir faces , being raped , be ing
sliced apart. That's what's going on in
American movies."
The list of "women in danger" films is
long ; according to the two critics : PROM
NIGHT, DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE, THE
HOWLING, TERROR TRAIN. THE
BOOGEYMAN, HE KNOWS YOU'RE
ALONE, MOTEL HELL, PHOBIA, SILENT
SCREAM, MOTHER'S DAY, SCHIZOID,
and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. And why
does this tr~nd have to happen at all?
Siskel has a theory.
"I'm convinced it has something to do
with the growth of the women's movement-,..; America in the last decade." he
says.
"I think that these films are some sort
of primordial response by.some very sick
people saying, 'Get back in your place
women.' The women in these films are typically portrayed as independent, as
sexual, as enjoying lite. And the killer,
typically, is a man who is sexually frustrated with these new aggressive women,
so he strikes back at them. He throws
knives at them. He can't deal with them.
He cuts them up, he kills them . . . " Ebert
agrees with Siskel and conti nues on with
.the theory.
"You begin to ask yourself what did
these female victims do to deserve the
horrible attacks they undergo in these
films? What was their cr ime? . . .They 're
liberated women who choose to act on
their own and the moment that a woman
starts making decisions for herself in
these movies, you can almost bet she's
going to end up paying with h.er life .. .
and horribly."
No longer are today's horror movies
being seen from the victim's point of view.
We now look through the killer's eyes.
''It's almost as if the audience is being
asked to identify with the attackers in
these movies ... says Ebert. "and that really
bothers me.··
Rape Counseling Service of Fresno
agrees with Ebert and Siskel. We do not
have to attend Fresno area movie theaters
where anti-women films are showing. We
can show our disgust for these films and
the backers of them by not supporting
them at the box office~ Call or write the
theater manager and tell him why you are
boycotting. They need to know. Find out
the name of the stu(j :o and film producer
and w~ite them . You r stance can affect
change and Fresno is a good place to
beain .
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p.,e 2..()ctobe, 15, 1981-La Vo:z de Aztlan
editorial
A Call For lJnity
It is no news that a new wave of conservatism has
gripped the land. The power of the right is showing 4p
in all levels of government. Radical cutbacks in social
services and increased defense spending have proved this
clearly. Locally, many have endorsed this trend. As
Reagan swept the country in 1980 with his conservative
ideals, so have local politicians secured their positions by
capitalizing on the fears of the constituency.
An example of this conservatism occurred locally in
1980 during the Reich campaign for county supervisor.
His campaign centered on a vehement opposition to the
bilingual ballot. With this strategy, he collected overwhelming support and now serves on the county board.
' Volatile issues such as the bilingual ballot tend to polarize
the electorate during a vigorous campaign into clear cut
groups. Cordon Duffy, who announced last week that he
will seek the Republican nomination for Secretary of
State, has launched his campaign with a serious attack
. on the bilingual ballot, vowing to kill it once and for all.
Reich won, and Duffy hopes to, because he was able to
arouse voter animosity to the bilingual ballot and rode on
the crest of hatred and fear.
It is dangerous to lead people to this total despair.
Wa~ in '64, and Liberty City not so long ago, reminded
us of what happens when the millionaires go on parade
in Washington while the rest of society suffers. What civil
rights were won including the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
must be protected. A popular unit must be formed to
diametrically oppose the war f-action. A uniform struggle
must be undertaken to assure that our civil rights are
not buried by economic expediency. The message to
Washington should be to slam shut the window of vulnerability by instilling national unity, not national fear.
Unfortunately the greatest threats to national and
global stability come not only from Peking or Moscow,
not only from a handful of ·extremists in Tripoli and
Tehran, but also from the offices located on ·Pennsylvania
Avenue, Washington, D.C.
by Mark Ow
Staff Writer
letters
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Senator _Clarifies Circumstances
The PALESTINIANS.
AN HISTORICAL IMPERITIVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
To ~ editor:: · .
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It ,sat this pomt necessary to ~artfy
both the chronoloay and the c,rcumstances regarding past A.S.
te _
tions
sena ac
T~ senators that voted not to approve President Jeff Watson's appointments of Tom Slocum, Tricia Van
Klaveren and Julius Udoma Obi to
vacant senate seats did so because the
method by which they were selected
was neither fair, objective nor honest.
Though it does not reflect upon the personal integrity of the appointees, Mr.
Watson made the appointments during
the summer-a ~me when the least
number of students are on or around
the university. Mr. Watson became acquainted with the mentioned three
through the social realm and is a very
close personal friend of one of them.
The refusal of the body to affirm Helen
· Chen as president pro tempore was
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s1mp1Ya matter o a I tty. n occasions
when she was called upon to render a
parliamentary or procedural decision,
Speaker-FAW~ ·ruRKI
she quite audibly asked a student assistant how to rule. Miss Chen, though
a competent senator, is simply too timid
for the position of pro teQ1.
It is sad, yet not s'urprising, that
the controversy has degenerated to a
racial issue. There will always be those
who mangle and simplify situations for
the purpose of generating emotional
fervor .
Andrea Hedgley
Senator
FRIDAY, OCT. 23, NOON
- C. U. LOUNGE
Though it is those who voted against
the appointments which are being accused of desiring political "'pawns,"'
the method by which these appointments were made is more than curious .
The objection is not one of a personal
nature, but one of principle.
Since these presidential appointments·
a~e subject to senate app~val, in pre•
v1ous years, senators have been consulted to avoid the proverbial "'spinning
of wheels."' Senate vacancies have also
~n advertised in campus newspapers
m the past. Mr. Watson deviated from
these practices. What was his reasoning?
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Editor: Fernando Quintero
Managing editor! Yolanda Granados
Production Mananger:Sylvia Vidal
Reporters: Lourdes Villareal, Mark Diaz
Virginia SubiaJ Pedro Perez
Production: Maria !:>ervin, Sandra Castro
Photographers: Robert Hernandez,
Richard Rios ·
La Voz de Aztlan is California State
University Fresno's Chicano newspaper.
Though it is unfortunate that valuable
La Voz de Aztlan is located in the
time would have elapsed while fillina
Campus
Building.
the positions properly, a greater prin- Keats
ciple is at stake: that of rising above Editorial : (209) 294-2486. Letters to the
and destroying the "'buddy system"' of · editor are welcomed. The newspaper
government, which invariably deprives reserve~ the right edit letters.
students of innumerable opportunities.
to
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CSUF Chicanos Faculty
Chicano Faculty
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Amon& the 243 CSUF faculty minorities including women, twenty-six are
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Chicanos, according to a report prepared by the office of Dr. Roberto Seaura. Sixteen of the twenty-six Chicano
faculty members have tenure and the
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rest are part-time. "'These people are
on soft money," said Alex Gonzalez,
Associate Professor of Psychology, "so
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· if the monies dry up they are going to
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The representation of Chicana faculty
members on campus are even lower,
Health & Social Work
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with only two of the four having tenure. "We're such a minority that I
don't even think we show up on a computer. Statistically, we ' re not even preNatural Sciences
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sent, as if we don't exist," according
to Or. Theresa Perez of the School of
Education . She said that higher educaSocial Sciences
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tion has been a male-dominated field
since its inception. It has been operated
by and for males, principally white
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males. So Chicanas face a double
bind, that they' re women who have been
historically underrepresented and secondly they' re Chicano.
Chicano faculty are present ·in seven of cano taculty members on campus . One the California State University and Colthe eight schools on campus with the of the major reasons is that there lege system is based on the amount of
School of Engineering having none and _ aren't any positions open for Chicanos PhD's nation-wide . .,That ' s the legal
the School of Business & Administra- to take in the departments. All of them side of it," said Or. Lilly Small, Affirmative Sciences having two part-time have faculty members with tenure. tive Action Officer, "but morally, for
Chicano faculty. Out of the 56 depart- Another reason is that there isn't an the area we live in and for the student
ments on campus, there are several with abundance of Chicanos with PhD' s population, it shoud reflect the make up
no Chicano faculty .
available.
of the community."
There are various factors which conThe percentage of Chicano faculty
In the past, the educational system
tribute to_ the low percentage of Chi- members with PhD's in the schools of has not been that responsive to Chicanos
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who displayed values or behaviors that
were different from the mainstream,
resulting in isolation, high student
drop-out rate, and very low percentage
of Chicanos going into higher education, according to one faculty member.
A major priority of the Chicano Facul- ·
ty Association is the recruitment and
hiring of more Chicano faculty on campus and impacting those departments
which do not have any minorities.
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voces de aztlan
Chicano Youth Examined
l,r Paul A. Garcia
The California State Attorney General
recently reported that the most likely
victim ot murder was Chicano males
under 24 years of qe. This is not surprising, since the last 4 years have
witnessed an increasing number of Hispanic homicides-the killina of Hispanics. While the homicide rate among
whites increased 6.9 per 100,000 in
1976 to 8 per 100,000 in 1980, among
Hispanics it increased from 13.1 per
100,000 to 21.8 per 100,000 during the
same period-an increase of 66 percent.
It is not a coincidence that this
form of premature death has been attributed to Chicano youth gang activity.
Chicano youth gangs have gained a
notoriety for violence. Yet very little
has been done to understand the Chicano youth experience. A recent study
found that 23 percent of Hispanics
14 to 21 years of age were high school
dropouts. This compares to 15 percent
for blacks and 10 percent for whites.
Among those ages 18 to 21, m9re than
one out of thr~ Hispanics failed to finish
high school.
Perhaps Chicano males are the most
likely victims of murder. They are also
more likely to drop out of school. These.
are not coincidences, they are related.
There are definite ill consequences of
early school withdrawal. Many dropouts
can expect to be permanently illiterate,
delinquent, or welfare dependent. There
is a strong relationship between youth
crime and early school withdrawal.
Dropouts experience lower earnings
than other workers. One report indicated that only one-third of the youths
not attending school as a major activity were employed.
There is evidence that Chicano males
do not merely drop out of school, they
are pulled or pushed out. Nationally,
almost 40 percent of Hispanic males
leave school for economic reasonshome responsibilities, good job offers
or financial difficulties. They also leav~
school because of boredom, disenchantment, and alienation. In many cases they
have felt unable to participate in schoolrelated activities.
It is no accident that Chicano students are disproportionately suspended
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.and expelled from school. Student suspensions and expulsions are frequently
the schools' response to students having
difficulty in the school environment.
As a result, many never return.
During the 1979-1980 school year
Chicano students represented 28 per:
cent of the Fresno Unified School District' s student population in grades 7
through 11. Yet they accounted for 38
percent of the student suspensions in
those grade levels. Among all 7th graders, Chicano students represented 28
percent of the student population, but
42 percent of the suspensions.
A disturbing number of Chicano students are also expelled from the school
district . Chicano secondary students are
three times as likely as whites to be dismissed from the district.
In addition, Chicano students are disproportionately suspended from schoo~
for some reasons more than others.
Proportionately, SO percent more Chicano 7th and 8th graders were suspended for •injury to person" and
"controlled substance" categories in
1979-1980. Almost twice as many Chicano students as would be expected
were suspended under the • dangerous
object• category. Among grades 9
through 11, twice as many Chicano stu,
dents than whites were suspended for
damaging school property.
By far, the most likely reason for
suspension among Chicano high school
students is defiance. This category accounted for 40 percent of Chicago student suspensions in grade levels 9
through 12, compared to 23 percent for
whites and 26 percent for blacks. No
doubt the vagueness of this suspension
,, category contributed to the indiscriminate number of suspensions assigned to
Chicano students.
On Saturday, October 17, a confer.
ence will be held to address this very
important Chicano student problem. The
conference will be held at Roosevelt
High School. The purpose of the confer•
ence is to explore ways to prevent the
disproportionate number of Chicano student suspensions and early school with•
drawals. Parents, teachers, and students are encouraged to attend. There is
a six dollar registration fee which ineludes lunch.
see Youth page I
My Friend
My friend is a talent guy
.
he don't believe in the word try,
When he gets out of hand
he~ '-Aln act like man,
Some times he wakes up on the wrong
side of the bed;
then I've got to turn around and slap
him in the head
Some people think he's a fool.
But, tome he's very cool,
He don't believe in the word shy;
because he thinks he' is a real guy
He goes to OeWolf Hi1h School
that's why people think he's a fool.
The following poems were written by
students from the Alice Worsley School
at Fresno's Juvenile Hall. Most of these
young people have problems which
they've openly expressed through these
poems.
The wards at Juvenile Hall need to
express themselves like everybody else.
Somethina about and of themselves is
expressed through their poems .
The poems have no names in them for
anonimities sake.
··
a
My Prayer
Brothers
Brothers are cool brothers, smooth
if you play their game you might end up
looking like a fool.
Brothers here brothers there.
, You see Black brothers everywhere.
Brothers in the penn, brothers with big
houses even with big dens. . ,
Some young brothers don't make it to
ten.
Some brothers have game,
Some brothers are lame and some
brothers don't even aive a damn
and that's a shame.
Mr. Shan Bone
The Little Ant
An ant will pass
in a forest of grass
on a twig near
a rain puddle sea.
And a rock will be
a hill tip-top and
a bean a monster tree.
Mr. Shan Bone is both old and bold
and strolling and controlling.
Want some, get some, feels free.
Squeal on me, I'll set yours.
But free, that's my name and
my game is pimping young dames
from the Hall of Fame.
Heavenly father up above.
Please protect the guy I love.
Bless his heart that beats so fast.
Make him always last and last.
Bless his parents all day Iona,
because of them he came along.
I love a guy short or tall,
but my Benny is the best of them all.
If I should die before you do·
I'll tell the angels you're co,;,ing to/
And if you're not there by judgement
day,
I 'II know you went the other way.
I'll give them back their aolden wings
their lovely harps and all their things.
Just to prove my love is true,
I'll go to hell just to be with you. Amen.
- Untitled
The desolate old man sits so alone
memories of faces nannina throuah his
head.
Children of Iona aao can be heard in the
'trees.
Rockina back and forth, the old man
waits.
·
Time is running out, death is so near.
The reaper is comina, he shows no
pity.
People pass by, but no one sees .
..,,
Out in the yard the rag weed arows.
Under the porch the mice roam.
A tear runs down a lonely man's cheek.
The reaper has gone, death has come.
,-,. .
S[y Elf
A little elf
Copyright Cecilio Orozco 1979
sat by himself alone.
Alone in the lap of an
acorn cap at home.
Page 7-0ctober 15, 1981-La Voz de Aztlan
Dr. Martinez's Energy_Impact, Study
ELECTRICITY USE IN CALIFORNIA
1979
2 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - - -.....- - - - - - - - - .
300,000
Miscellaneous
Cooking
~ a t e r Heating
Space Heating
160
Ventilation
120
BIWONS OF
WATT-HOURS
PER DAY
Miscellaneous
(Lights, TV,
other
Appliances)
Air
Conditi6ning
Pool Heatin
80
Condition in
Washing an
BARRELS
OF OIL
PER DAY
Other
Electronics
Metals
,ng
Lighting
40
200,000
Refrigerators
Water Heatin
100,000
Oil Production
<.
Food Productn
Chemicals
Refrigerators
and Freezers
Transportation
Equipment
Oil
Refining
Mostly
Water
Pumping
0
RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUST~AL AGRICULTURE
by Lourdes -Villarreal
Expecting to find myself listening to
a lot of facts and figures from 'a spectacled, serious-looking man, I strolled
over to the Criminology Department for
my 2:15 appointment.
"ls Dr. Martinez in?"' I asked.
"No. He' II be back in 10 minutes."
I sat down and waited patiently,
thinking to mvself. "It's going to be ·
another one of those dull interviews."
Fifteen minutes later a man I had seen
in the corridor earlier rushed into the
In his study, Martinez will review
the literature available on the subject, develop and test a survey instrument, and select a random sample of
1,000 households for the collection of
data. He will then analyze the results
and explore the policy implications of the
findings. Dr. Martinez expects to finish
the study within a year.
room.
Dr. Martinez's <.:ducational background is just as notable as is his professional career. Prior to his appointment to
CSUF, he was an associate professor of
Chicano Studies at the University of
Colora_d_~, Boulder. From 1974 to 1976,
he was -executive director of the Institute for Community Relations Research based at the University of San
Francisco. Martinez earned his bachelors degree in sociology from the University of Illinois and his masters in
sociology from the University of California, Davis. In 1972 he earned his
Ph.D. degree in criminology at the University of California, Berkeley.
He has taught sociology and MexicanAmerican Studies at UC Riverside,
Stanford University, San Jose State
University, and The University of Santa
Clara.
And so, the clock struck 3:10, and
the once dreaded interview had turned
out to be interesting as well as profitable. For such had been Dr. Martinez's
enthusiasm over his new project that I
ended up agreeing to take home a questionnaire he wanted translated into
Spanish for his survey.
"Was this Dr. Martinez," I thoug_h t to
myself. If he was, he was quite different from what I had expected.
After another lapse of waiting, (He
had been discussing his work with his
assistant and attending a student who
was doing some research for him) he
gave me a warm smile, and we finally
commenced the interview.
Dr .. Tomas Martinez, the latest Chicano Criminology professor on campus,
was recruited last year by the Criminology Department. Dr. Martine~ has _an
impressive
background
mcludmg
numerous articles and book reviews and
papers presented on drug abuse,_ co~pulsive gambling, and other minority
is~ues to the current research on energy
and minorities.
Working under a grant budgeted over
$60,000.00 from the U.S. Departm~nt of
Energy Office of Minority Economic Impact Martinez is in the process of conductlng a study on the impact of restructured electric utilities rates in the
~entral Valley and of the Department of
Energy regulations upon low income
groups and minorities.
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J,.;-
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Ivoces/
.
YOUTH
Continued from page 6
Continued
Hispanic
Edition of Bee
cancelled
Interview With Student
Palestine Leader
It is time that we cease treating
youth gang activity and dropping out of
school as separate and unrelated matters. In the first case, extended prison
sentences and adult trials are encourl,y Gerardo Gonzaiez
aged. In the second, suspensions and
expulsions
are assigned. In neither case
I would like to- emphasize that the
The tollowina is an interview with Omar
media played an important part in portra- are institutional settings addressed
Baddar, president of the General Union
e.g. prison, schools. The tragic result
ying Sadat as a man of peace. That is
ot Palestine Students (G.U.P.S.). The
has been an extreme form of discipline
C.U.P.S. is a two-year-old orpnization ·how the U.S. 1overnment would like to
that distorts the relationship between an
present
him
because
he
allowed
the
U.S.
consistin1 of 70 students who represent
to exploit the country. (Sadat) was called ethnic group's life time expectancy and
the cause of the Palestinian people to
their life experiences.
·
'moderate* because he was U.S. orientestablish a self-aoverned homeland in
There have been conferences on paint
ed, but other Arab countries which are
what is presently the state of Israel and
sniffing, barrio violence and juvenile
occupied territories.
not are called radical.
delinquency, but there has not been a
Conzalez: Do you see any shift in the
Gonzalez: Why did the G.U.P.S orconference to address the roots of these
1anize?
American people's attitude toward the
problems. Join us on October 17 and
Baddar: We oraanized so that we can
Palestinian issue?
help us make a concerted effort to inmaintain our struaale apinst Zionism
Baddar: Y~s, and it is encouraging.
crease the educational level of our Chiand imperialism.
cano youth.
for more information call : Trabajadores de La Raza, Inc., MEChA Central/
Gonzalez: What is Zionism?
Gonzalez: Is the shift favorabf;?
Chicano Youth Center, 190 N. Van Ness
Baddar: Yes, we don't find any obstaBaddar: Zionism is a racial and politiAvenue, Suite B, Fresno, CA 93701;
cles
in
convincing
the
people
of
our
point
cal movement whose objectives is to dis(209) 264-1775 or 264-1776, ask for
view
except
for
the
close-minded
and
the
place the Palestinian people from PalesCindy Orona.
prejudiced.
W-e
are
offering
the
opportine, as part of a dream to establish a
tunity fDr the people to hear our side
large Israeli state which would expand
when soeaker Fawaz Turki aives his lecfrom the Euphrates River in Iraq to
tur~ ~bolJ.t the Palestinians friday noon
the Nile River in Egypt
in the College Union Lounge.
Conzalez: What are you trying to
Gonzalez: Is there any cooperation beachieve on and off campus?
tweeQ the G.U.P.S. and other organizaBaddar: We are trying to present the
tions on and off campus?
viewpoint of the side that has not been
heard,because of a biased media, and to
make people aware of what is going on in
Baddar: Of course, we are members of
the Middle East. Americans are paying
the
CSUF Alliance
taxes in military aid to Israel which goes
Off campus, we are members of the
to kill Palestinian and Lebanese people
Central Valley Peace Network (a coalieveryday.
tion of church, labor, community, and
Gonzalez: What are your feelings on
student organization.)
the assasination of Egyptian President
Gonzalez: What specifically would you
Sadat?
like to convey to our readers?
Baddar: He should have resigned a
long time before his "execution*. He got
too involved in the so-called peace proBaddar: Stop Israeli terrorism. By
cess, that he didn't have the courage to
q~stioning your government about
retreat and listen to his people. Sadat
what they do with your tax money and be
was surrending, not offering peace,to
aware of the destructive nature of the
his people. (Sadat) was a di~tor who
Reagan Administration inside the U.S.
used repression. Opposition leaders
and outside .
were either outside Egypt (in exile) or in
prison.
The new strategic alliance between
The Egyptian people felt that Sadat
the U.S. and Israel is an indication of the
was offering"lsraeli peace,"not a comkind of peace the U.S . wants . In the last
prehensive peace. He used the people ' s meeting between them, Reagan acceptpoverty to get them to approve his polied a present from Israeli Prime Minster
cies. Sadat made Egypt economica_lly de Begin, which was a map of Israel which
pendent on the U.S. and Israel; unlike
includes not only presently occupied terhis predecessor Jamal Abdul Nassar,
ritories, but also southern Lebanon
who got his people's support when he
which again is a green light to invade
industrialized the countrv.
with the consent and support of the U.S ..
...........•.•••.
by Fernando Quintero
Plans for pilot issues of the Fresno
Bee were cancelled - last w~k, a~nounced George Gruner, managing editor of the Bee.
.
In a telephone interview with La
Voz Gruner said that "hostile reaction
fro~ the Hispanic community~ pro'!'pted the Bee's decision to discontinue
the project indefinitely.
.
According to Gruner, negative reaction from attendants at a Chicano
Media workshop which was held at the
Airport Holiday Inn Sept .. ~O was a
major factor in the ~ ' s dec1s1on.
Participants attending the workshop
which was sponsored by the Central
California Chicano Media Association maintained that the creation of a
separate newspaper was not a sincere
effort by the Bee to pres~nt Hispanicinterest news and perspectives.
Gruner said that about a month of
researching and talking to a crosssection of the local Hispanic population was made to get their feedback on
the Hispanic issues proposal.
Next issue:
Zoot Suit-~The movie.
INCREASE OF VIOLENT FILMS DIRECTED TOWARD WOMEN
from Rape Counseling Service of Fresno County
In the theater seat sat a nicely dressed,
middle-aged man , maybe 50 or so. The
movie is I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and the
man is beginning to talk back to the
screen .
"Boy, is she asking for it now." he
whispers. "There's a rape scene coming
up, this will be a good one."
This deseri-ption of a movie goer is from
Roger Ebert, film crit!.:: of the Chicago Sun
Tirr:,es and co-host of "Sneak Previews,"
a weekly public television program. Ebert,
along with Chicago Tribune film critic,
· Gene Siskel, dlictissed the film exploitation of women in danger during a ''Sneak
Previews·· segment originally aired in
October 1980. The program has since
been repeated several times since this
disturbing new trend continues as the
movie box office.
Some of wha,l Sfskel and Ebert emphasize is the fact that people think women
have parity with men and think that there
are strong women images in films.
''Wrong," says Siskel. "The dominant
image in Ameriwan films today on women
is not Fonda or Clayburgh: It 's women
cowering in the corner, kniyes being bran
dished in the ir faces , being raped , be ing
sliced apart. That's what's going on in
American movies."
The list of "women in danger" films is
long ; according to the two critics : PROM
NIGHT, DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE, THE
HOWLING, TERROR TRAIN. THE
BOOGEYMAN, HE KNOWS YOU'RE
ALONE, MOTEL HELL, PHOBIA, SILENT
SCREAM, MOTHER'S DAY, SCHIZOID,
and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. And why
does this tr~nd have to happen at all?
Siskel has a theory.
"I'm convinced it has something to do
with the growth of the women's movement-,..; America in the last decade." he
says.
"I think that these films are some sort
of primordial response by.some very sick
people saying, 'Get back in your place
women.' The women in these films are typically portrayed as independent, as
sexual, as enjoying lite. And the killer,
typically, is a man who is sexually frustrated with these new aggressive women,
so he strikes back at them. He throws
knives at them. He can't deal with them.
He cuts them up, he kills them . . . " Ebert
agrees with Siskel and conti nues on with
.the theory.
"You begin to ask yourself what did
these female victims do to deserve the
horrible attacks they undergo in these
films? What was their cr ime? . . .They 're
liberated women who choose to act on
their own and the moment that a woman
starts making decisions for herself in
these movies, you can almost bet she's
going to end up paying with h.er life .. .
and horribly."
No longer are today's horror movies
being seen from the victim's point of view.
We now look through the killer's eyes.
''It's almost as if the audience is being
asked to identify with the attackers in
these movies ... says Ebert. "and that really
bothers me.··
Rape Counseling Service of Fresno
agrees with Ebert and Siskel. We do not
have to attend Fresno area movie theaters
where anti-women films are showing. We
can show our disgust for these films and
the backers of them by not supporting
them at the box office~ Call or write the
theater manager and tell him why you are
boycotting. They need to know. Find out
the name of the stu(j :o and film producer
and w~ite them . You r stance can affect
change and Fresno is a good place to
beain .