La Voz de Aztlan, September 19 1989
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La Voz de Aztlan, September 19 1989
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La Voz de Aztlan (Daily Collegian, California State University, Fresno)
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Volume XX Number IV
Twenty years of La Raza pride continues
California State University, Fresno
Tuesday,Sept. 19, 1989
Protest update
Student attorney questions Task Force goal
By Hector Am~zcua
Staff Writer
Five CSUF students will be tried
Nov. 2 in the Fresno Municipal Court
for charges stemming from last
semester's protest in the Associated
Students offices in which twentyfour students were arrested.
President Haak responded to the
protesters by appointing a task force
made up of students, faculty, staff,
and administrators.
President Haak admitted in a
memorandum that "events on campus
have served to remind us that we at
the University are not immune from
~ues surrounding racial and gender
intolerance that have surfaced
~oss the country." This statemenJ,
~ s.ud, .~!tomey Jo~ Moore who IS
~efending the students, 'has been
mterp~~ed by. some to ~ a
recogrution of raasm on campus.
'"The S ~ Report. of ~e !ask
Force on Raosm and Sexism wntten
by members Lea Ybarra and Alex
~~es, recommended that the
cnmmal charges on students who
participated in the sit-in be droped.
The report also agreed that the
proposed changes in the student
government bylaws were indeed
aimed at limiting access to women
and minorities. .
.
The task force came back with a
written finding based on their
corroborated decision making process."
Green said '1t's just as hard in the
clasm>om not feeling apart of the
problem on campus.
social environment We want to come
Haak, however, ~ppointed Dave to the University· and feel like it's
investigation
Hecu AJ'DR'l013/u, Vcs a Azd6r
Norma Franco of CSUFs Danzantes de Aztlan performs the
dance "Colas" of Veracruz, Mexico at the Olicano and Latin
American Studies 20th anniversary banquet Saturday night
view on the issue of racism on
campus. According to Moore, ''Mr.
Cuadro denies that the task force
was correct in their findings."
Jose Lopez, administrative aid to
ASI
President
Karen
Cogley,
questions the objectivity of the
appointment.
"What is their criteria for
objectivity? Who decided that this
man was objective?" Lopez said.
Attempts were made by La Voz to
contact the current task force
Chairperson, but because of confusion
as to who the Chairperson is, no
comments were available about the
current position of the task force.
Nineteen of the students who were
arrested entered a plea of no contest.
". The other five students will
litigate the legality of the arrest
and prosecution.
'None of the people felt that
- they . were guilty of - any wrong
doing," said Moore. He said that
the reason why only five students
are being tried is that they wanted
to have a representative group of
volunteers to determine in court the
legalityofwhattheydid.
"By stopping the demonstration,"
said Moore "the administration
exen:ised a 1prior restraint of first
amendment rights.
Student Stacy Green one of the
students who is being tried said, "A
lot of the reasons that we have been
going through this process is because
we feel isolated. Decisions are made
and we are often left out of the
that
what the students said and infact
that their was a major racism
Cuardo
then hired employed
Dave Cuadro to conduct what he
said would be an "objective" point of
our University. We dont want to be
viewed as a special interest in the
University."
350 celebrate 20 years of growth
La Raza Studies becomes Chicano and_Latin .American Studie~
By Lisa Y. Flores
Co-Editor
The Chicano and Labn American Studies
PrC'gram of CSUF, formerly La Raza Studies:
ce.ebrated their twentieth anniversary Staurday
night at the Satelite College Union.
Over 350 supporters of the program attended
the formal event where dinner and entertainment
were provided.
·
'We are very pleased with the ~ o~t," ~d
Dr. Bill Flores. Because of space limitation, said
Flores, many who wanted to attend could not be
acommadated.
Many of the supporters in attendance we~
fonner CSUF Chicano students who were around m
the late 1960s and 1970s while the program's
existence }Vas constantly being threatened by the
CSUF administrators with abolition.
Said CLAS professor Dr. Jesus Luna, "Initally
when many of the these programs were set up,
hey were set up • to fatl. But the tremendous
support of the community aided in the further
evelopment of the program" •
"The event provides an opportunity to see
friends from the past and to showcase how far we
have come from the initial demostration days to
today," former CSUF student Manuel Olgin told
LaVoz.
Curent student Leader and ASI senator Andres
Montoya said it is also "a time for us to renew our
commitment to the struggle, and to remember that
we still need to fight for further gains."
Former student and Chicano activist Guadalupe
Acosta said that the event sends a message to the
general public that the Chicano movement is not
dead, but IS alive and well.
''The Chicano Movement is gaining momentum
once again, and it is occassions like this that we
see the great gains which we have made," Acosta
said.
The ·early struggle of La Raza studies was
echoed in several d isplays of publications and art
from the past twenty years. The display ~h~
the struggle Chicano students faced when fighh~g
for the establishment of the La Raza Studies
Program, as well as for a Chicano press, Currently
La Voz de Aztlan.
The evening included a slide show which
tracked the progress of the CLAS Program and the
Chicano movement over the last twenty years.
The slides showed the Chicano students who led
the struggle from the 1960s, to current student body
president Karen Cogley.
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Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1989
La VozdeAztL&s
LETTERS • EDITORIAIS • OPINIONS • LETIERS • EDITORIAIS • OPINIONS • LETTERS • EDITORIAIS
CSUF's formula for political success
Harold Haak knows racism. Last
semester after then student body
president Scott Vick introduced
legislation and bylaw changes to
student government taking power
away from the president- and
legislative
vice
president-elect
which for the first time in CSUF
history were won by Chitanas, and
after hundreds of students protested
the changes and after 24 were
arrested by campus police, President
Haak admitted on television that
racism exists on campus and is an
ugly thing, and must be stopped. We
agree.
That same day, meeting with a
rainbow of administrators, faculty,
staff and students, Haak set up a
task force to investigate charges of
racism and to make recommendations
on what should be done.
It appeared at that time that
Haak and the entire CSUF
administration were sincere in their
concerns,
however,
on closer
examination, it appears that they
now have little or no concern with
what occurred and perhaps never
did. Not only have the task force
recommendations been, in essence,
WtOred but the administration has
hlso demonstrated little enthusiasm
Do you have the blood?
~ D~el Chacon
Contributing Editor
As I was shaving one morning last
week with my used Bic razor, the
blade so dull that it felt as if the
hairs on my face were being pulled
out individually as the razor
dragged across my face, I had an
unexplainable urge to nick myself
and see blood spread throughout the
white shaving cream (much like a
baby white seal being killed in the
snow).
I don't think I really wanted to
feel the pain, I'm not a masochist or
anything like that, I just, for some
odd reason, wanted to see the blood. I
wanted to make sure I was still
alive.
It's usually around September,
when I'm getting reaquainted with a
school schedule, and begin to
regulate my time, that I start feeling
like a zombie or a robot. Every
activity has its appointed time:
sleep, eat, read. I begin to feel like
I'm not a human with the freedom of
choice at all, but rather I'm just a
program, doing certain things at
certain times.
I go to classrooms, where what I
acquire, further stimulates me to
structure my life after a pattern, a
learned pattern, which has many
roads but the most oft travelled
leads to assimilation and political
impotence.
I become like everyone else. I
think like everyone else. Or else I
cease thinking at all. My cultural
uniqueness becomes clouded to me-more nostalgic than real, and I start
remembering a grandmother who
cooked the best tamales in the
world.
I become a robot who lives, thinks,
and even dies for the things I've been
taught, even though those who
taught me may not have had
altruistic motives and who may
indeed be motivated by greed or
hatred or something ugly like that. I
become, as Diedrot wrote, one who,
in addressing the fault of those
involved in terms of racism.
It is, at very least, ironic that the
main actor in the the attempt to take
away the power of Karen Cogley and
Kathleen ~lano, the student elected
president and vice president of the
ASI, and transfer it • to the only
white conservative male who won an
executive P.?sition, should be
rewarded with a teaching position
atCSUF.
Scott Vick, last year's student
body president, is teaching public
speaking here, at CSUF. Twenty four
people were arrested by CSUF police
for standing up against the de facto
racism in Vick's actions, while Vick
is given a job, and a pretty good one
atthat.
It was a poor decision for the
governor of California not to let
Vick's actions as ASI president
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Chicano Students,
affect his decision in appointing him
to the CSU board of trustees, and it is
an obvious show of indifference on
his part, concerning the minority and
non-minority students who fight
racism. Even if Vick's actions were
not intended to be racist, but were
See FORMULA page 4
organizations. Please feel free to
come to the Associated Students
Office (University Student Union
Room 316) and get to know those who
represent you and want to work with
you. H there is anythin~ we can help
you or your organization with please
let us know.
We would like to welcome all new
without knowing what is written and returning Chicano and Chicana
above, that is, one who has no
students to CSUF. This coming school
purpose, makes choices based on year is a historical one for all
whim which we call reason, and
which soµ1etimes turns out bad and students of color. For the first time
Finally we want to thank MEChA
Chicano students will be represented
sometimes turns out good.
for the role it has played in building
When I, as a Chicano, cease to look in the Associated Student Senate. a strong coalition of students and
back at my past (where I came from} This represents a beginning for the providing
leadership
for
the
and feel deep-seeded connection and empowerment of Chicano students Chicano Movement on this campus.
responsibility to it, and instead feel and all others who have been We wish much success to La Voz de
a warm sentimental connection with traditionally locked out.
Aztldn and MEChA in celebration of
We would like to thank all the their twentieth year.
it (i.e. Grandma cooked such good
tamales}, and feel responsibilty only Chicano students who supported
to myself, then I serve no purpose UNITY-Students for Responsible
LAUNIONHACE LA FUERZA!
Government during the student
here at the university.
election
and
have
continued
to
It is at these times that I don't
really know if I'm alive. Last year, support us in our struggle for justice
Karen Cogley, ASI President
Dolores Huerta was beaten by San and equality. It was the combined
Katleen 'Solano, ASI Legislative
Francisco police at a "George Bush efforts of students of color that sent a Vice President
clear
message
to
the
campus
and
for President" rally (picture your
Diahann Hernandez, Senator-Atthat
racial
little Mexican abuela being viciously community
.
Large
Post #4
beaten with night sticks by several discrimination will not be tolerated
Andres
Montoya, Senator School of
helmeted policemen. That's exactly in our student government or in the Social Sciences
what it looked like. I saw it on adminstration.
Stacy Green, Senator Undeclared
As elected student representatives,
television}. I bet Huerta had no
Majors
question of whether or not she was we encourage you to get involved
Frank Aviles, Senator School ofalive, or whether or not she had a with student government and the Natural Sciences
progressive
campus
purpose at that time. She didn't need many
to cut herself shaving. She has the
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blood to prove mortality-blood that
not only spilled on the San Francisco
street that day, in front of our , ,.,.,. La Voz de Aztltin Staff-- Fall Se-mester 1989
president, but also blood that
organizes and helps run the United
Farm Workers Union.
Siding with the UFW is not a
Hernandez, Af Robles and
popular thing to do these days. The
propaganda efforts on the part of ;.i:;~ Photographer - Hector Amezcua
those against the farm workers is
such that very few want to identify t r Staff Artist- Jim Marquez
Production Assistant- Yolanda Murillo
themselves with it. Yet here is
Huerta, working for it, speaking orr
behalf of it, living for it, and willing
The staff of La Voz de Aztlan would like to extend a special thanks
to die for it. Why would she do such
to: Devin Swisher, Thor Swift, Alita Loe, Debbie Lorenzen and
a thing? She has purpose. As an
Michael S. Green, all of The Daily Collegian. La Voz de Aztlan
educated Chicana, she uses the
welcomes reader response. Please send letters of no more than 250
resources she has been equipped with
words to: La Voz de Aztldn, Keats Campus Building, California State
in the classrooms and out in the
University, Fresno, Fresno, Calif. 93740-0042. Letters must have
world, to benefit her community, not
author's name, address, phone number, and signature.
just herself. If she were self-seeking,
she would be working in a safe office
job, where San Francisco police would :.~.•.::_;_,._:~_:_;_; Sta~ ~::~:,;r~~~~e:e:;~!>'ffi~::::~~:'e!~~omia
not beat her, right in front of Presient . _;,;,;_ Building: Fresno, Calif., 93740. The opinions published on this page are not necessarily
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those of the Associated Students, Inc., The C>aily Colkgian or ui Voz de Aztliin and its
staff. Unsigned editorials are the majority opinion of the paper's editiorial board.
La Voz
u Az:tl4n
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1989
Page3
From Fresno to Telpaneca, Nicaragua
CSUFMEChA and LASC members help build school in sister city
destroy schools, health clinics, entire villages,
ByGeolKe Martinez
Ccmtribuling Writer .
and torture and kill innocent civilians. Due to the
atrocities committed by the Contras, Nicaragua
Editor's note: The following is the first part in a
three part series. In this edition, journey with five
CSUF students to Fresno's Nicaraguan sister city
where on the first leg of their jo,,mey they meet
"1' with local political letulns an4 settle in for
the tak at hMul: building o school in the nmrl
Telp,u,eam ,nm,ntoins.
On June 28, 1989 a group of five CSU Fresno
students, including MEChA and Campus Latin
American Support Committee members, set out for
a journey that would take them to Nicaragua,
Central America. ·
I was a member of this student delegation,
along with Karen Cogley, Lawrence Guemt,
Kathleen Solano, and Scott Stark. Our
destination was Telpaneca, Nicaragua, a rural
community not more than ten miles from the
Honduran border, and our purpose was to assist in
the construction of an eleirentary school,
something much needed since the children in the
district had been struggling to learn in a o~room,
dirt-floored scoool.
· Our voluntary work brigade was part of the
Fresno/Telpaneca Sister City Project, an
educational/community bridge building effort.
The Nicaraguan government, directed by the
Sandinista Front of National Liberation (FSLN),
has initiated a revolutionary program producing
great strides in the areas of agriculture, education,
and health care. These efforts are blunted,
however, by the Contra-waged war.
The Honduran-based Contras bum crops,
has had to divert a great amount of its national
budget towards protection of the border. The
Contras are losing the war. If the United States
cut funding to them (US. funds are their main
source of survival), the counter-revolutionary
forces would cease to exist. .
Since July 19, 1979, the triumph of the
Sandinista revolution over the Somoz.an
dictatorship, Nicaragua is a non-aligned,
sovereign country, with a democratically elected
government The struggle there has prompted
many activists throughout the globe to protest
U.S. intervention in Central America and express
solidarity with the people of Nicaragua by
providing material and financial aid to as&st in
the birth of a free nation, Nicaragua libre.
The five of us were determined to be part of this
process to exchange ideas and human resources
instead of bombs and bullets.
We arrived in Managua, Nicaragua on July 9,
1989. At the airport we met Juanita Gomez, the
contact person who made the arrangements for our
brigade. We stayed the night and were told that
we would take the 5:00 a.m. bus to Telpaneca.
After seven long hours on a sometimes
motionless bus, as it had to struggle to steep
winding slopes, we reached Telpaneca. Shortly
after getting off the bus, we met Ramon, Mayor of
Telpaneca, and were driven through the
mountainous road to the health clinic where we
would spend the next seven days. We unpacked
our belongings and were taken to the school site,
about 200 yards from the clini~. After examining
the site we explored the lush, green, countryside
surounding the few houses that were visibfe
behind the many trees and plant that inhabited
the rain-forest abnosphere.
We were informed that our daily routine would
be, breakfast at 6:30 a.m., working on the school
until noon, breaking for lunch, and working the
remaining hours until it rained (apProximately
3:00 p.m. every day). After the ram stopped we
would sometimes explore the countryside and read
before dinner. By the time we finished eating it
was dark, since there was no electricity we would
sleep soon afterwards. For the most part, the
schedule remained the same, but we did, on
several occasions, meet with members of the
community to discuss how the community had
changed since the revolution and the role they
played in the dynamic process.
The next day we began work on the elementary
school which was promised to the parents'
committee by the Sister City Project.
Work on the school had already begun before
we arrived. People in the communityhad already
cut up the side of the mountain in order to level
the ground. The cement foundation had already
been laid and the frame was near completion.
Still, there was much more work that needed to be
done and we spent the next six days sawing,
hammering, digging, and transporting the r-eeded
lumber and other materials to the work site,
stopping only for food and sleep.
Withnard effort, help from community
members, and inspiration drawn from the
See TELPANECA,Page 4
CLAS Program gets two new profs
By James L Carrasco
Staff Writer
The faculty and students in the
Chicano and Latin American Studies
Department had an addition to their
family this semester.
Luz Gonzalez and Hisauro Garza
joined CLAS this semester and have
begun teaching classes.
Both had beginnings picking fruit
in the southwestern United States.
Gonzalez said that when she was
18, she had the English and Spanish
reading ability of a third-grader.
''I was determined that I was going
to make something of myself. I
wanted to become educated," she
said with pride shown in her hazel
eyes. ''I was tired of having to move
around so much. But I knew I was
going to make it"
Despite the fact that Hisauro
Garza's parents had five mouths to
feed as he was growing up, he
managed to do. well in school, made
it into college, and graduated at the
top of his class from the U.C. Santa
Cruz.
''It all began when I was 10 or 11
years old picking grapes in the
field," said Garza. ''I would look up
at the Anglo in the truck and wonder
'why are we down here and they up
there?'
"It was a real honor to earn such
high grades, but I owe it to my older
brothers who could afford to send me
to school. Since I was one of the
BLOOD
Continued from page 2
Bush.
That's why I wanted to see blood
that morning I shaved. I lost track of
my purpose. As it turned out, I didn't
have to purposely cut myself after
all. The Bic shaver was so old, it
ripped my face apart anyway, and
there was blood everywhere, more
Y.Oun~, the family: was less
Gonzalez is teaching three classes Latinos in the United States."
aependant on me and I was able to this fall: CLAS 3, which she
Her 143 class, she said, attempts
leave the fields and attend school."
describes as an introduction to the
Luz Gonzalez has earned two
Chi
See NEW PROFS, page,
bachelor's degrees and is working on .,.."d_i_ver...,se_an_d_rich
__
hi_·s_to-'-_o_f_·_cano______________
.,
the dissertion for her doctorate in
de Septiembre
education through Arizona State Dieciseis
•
University.
After attending West Coast Bible
School for four years, she went to Los
Angeles to teach first grade for a
year and a half. She then came to
CSUF and earned a multiple subject
teaching credential.
Garza attended Hartnell Junior
College after graduating from high
school in Salinas.
Garza remembered keeping busy in
high school. He helped organize a
program "geared toward higher
education" for Chicano students and
their parents.
"I had a desire to help the
disadvantaged Hispanics and was
willing to do anything," said Garza.
'We would meet in homes and
discuss ways that would improve the
Olicano lifestyle. It was rough, but
it worked."
In 1987, Gonzalez went to Tucson,
Ariz. where she studied under her
mentor, Walter Doyle. Shortly after
returning to Fresno, she began
bilingual teaching at Aynesworth
Elementary.
Gonzalez said about being selcted
as one of the new CLAS instructors,
"I was really shocked. I put my
application in and was hired after
the interview."
than I had originally wanted.
It occurred to me that day, that
none of us ever have to be without a
purpose.
No matter what you're majoring
in, or where you go to study, even
what you do after college, the
Chicano movement and community
could use your help, and your
leadership. As long as you got the
blood, you got the purpose.
Hector Amezcua/IA Vaz tit Aztlbl
The downtown Dieciseis de Septiembre parade in Fresno last
Saturday attracted many people, but perhaps those who
enjoyed the most were the children. In a time when cultural
awareness is so valuable to our society it is good to see that
children like Sergio Valenzuela and hlS sister are anxious to
learn about the traaitions of their culture.
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CALENDARIO
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CALENDARIO
Tuesday, Sept. 19 MEChA's
Chicano Youth Conference
Committee meets every Tuesday at 5
p.m. in Room 203 of the Joyal
Administration building.
The committee needs your ideas as
they plan the annual conference
which brings over 1,500 Central
i Valley high school students to CSUF
~ for a day of career and general
information workshops.
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La VozdeAztla
Tuesday, Sept.19, 1989
Thursday, Sept. 21 Chicanos In
Law will feature the director of
admissions from San Joaquin Law
School at their meeting from 5 to 6:30
p.m. in
314.
General meetings for OL are held
every Thursday at 3:36 p.m. except
Oct. 5 which will be held at 5 pm.
On Friday, SepL 29, OL has
scheduled a field trip to U.C. Davis
and the McGeorge School of Law. ,
Call 224~933 or 294-3021 for more
information.
usu
Thursday, Sept. 21 will be the next
meeting of the Women's Alliance.
The meeting will be held in USU 320
at3p.m.
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CALENDARlO
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CALENDARIO
Saturday, Sept. 23 CSUFMEChA
will hold its annual Bienvenida
Dance Saturday, Sept 23 in the
CSUF Residence Dining Hall.
The dance is from 9 p.m. to
midnight Admission is free and
everyone is welcome!
MEChA meetings are held every
Thursday at 4 p.m. except the last
week of the month.
Meetings will generally take
place in the Univerisity Student
Union. For specific room numbers or
other information, please drop by
the MEChA booth in the free speech
area.
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Monday, Sept 25 The Re-entry
Students Association meets today
and every Monday this semester
from noon to 1 p.m. in the Re-entry
lounge, Main Cafeteria West. For
more information call (209) 294-3046.
Monday, Sept. 25 Jon V. Conriquez,
president and chief executive officer
(CEO) of Trader's Financial Corp.,
will speak at the Hispanic Business
Student Association meeting.
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CALENDARIO ° CALENDARIO
Everyone is invited to attend the
meeting which begins at 6 p.m. in the
Leon S. Peters Building, Room 192.
HBSA meetings take place every
other Monday this fall at 6 p.m. in
Room 192 of the Peters Building. The
next meeting is scheduled for
Oct.9.
lii !Dl.l!l l l l i!i:I
Saturday, Sept. 30The Ftfth
Annual Ernesto Moreno Memorial
Scholarship Banquet will be held at
the Golden State Plaza.
Donations for the event are $25 per
person or $250 per table of 10 and are
available by advance sales only. For
information call: (209) 294-2048 or
291-3938.
Staff Writer
On August 15, Fresno experienced a
first. Centro Bellas Artes, a cultural
center downtown, hosted the first all
Chicana art show in the Central
Valley.
Mary Vega, a trustee of Centro
Bellas Artes came up with the the
idea . for the art show titled,
"Imagenes de Mujers," Images seen
through the eyes of women.
Vega said there was a definite
need for women oi. color to· exhibit
their art work. '1 saw that there
had not been any repre9ffltation of
Hispanic women artists ancl ·1 knew
there were many out there.
'1magenes de Mujers" included
Chicana artists as young as five
years old. Centro Bellas Aries tries
to reach youth in every area. In
Vega's words, "Including children in
(209) 264-AIDS.
Sunday, Oct. 15 Bay Area P~
Choice Coalition and the National
Organization of Women will host
the largest pro-choice rally ever
held in San Francisco.
The pro-choice marchers will
assemble at 11 a.m. at Justine
Herman Plaza (Market and The
Embarcadero). They will begin
marching at noon ending up at the
Civic Center for a 1:30 p.m. rally.
For further information write: S.F.
NOW, P.O. Box 1267, San Francisco,
CA 94101 or phone (415) 861-8880.
Saturday, Oct. 7 is the third
annual Walk-A-Thon for the
Central Valley AIDS Team, one of
the their largest sources of
contributions.
·
The walk starts at 9:30 a.m. at
Cary Park, on Fresno St. just behind
the Fashion Fair mall.
. To register for the walk, write The
Central Valley AIDS Team, P.O.
Centro Bellas Artes sponsor Latina Art
By Laura Hernandez
Box 4640, Fresno, Calif. 93744, or call
A buspool is leaving Fresno for San
Francisco Sunday morning. Call
Fresno National Organization of
Women for details: 233-5150.
A portion of the proceeds from this
event will be used to send activists to
WashingtonD.C. onNov.15thfora
national pro-clloice rally.
TELPANECA
Continued &om page 3
determination that the local
Nicaraguans expressed for their
revolution, we were able to fully
The featured artists were Pamela
complete the modern, four-room
f1ores-Escobar,
CSUF
student,
school in Fresno's Nicaraguan sister
Sylvia Figueroa-Garcia, who works
city.
in the commu,ni.ty on Ple Dfa de Los
Our seci>nd day in Teipaneca was
Nu\os Festival, and CSUF instructor
spent visiting with Edgar, a
Cecilia Aranaydo.
representative of the fSLN and one
Figueroa-Garcia says she was not Artes.
of the ''politicos," as the people
sure at first that she wanted to
Much of Hernandez' art work
there commonly referred to
participate in the show because she deals with current issues facing
community and political leaders. He
had not done any recent work.
Chicanas. "Central America is
challenged us to learn all that we
"I was persuaded to show my prior another Vietnam being fought by . could about the politics of the
work and I am very glad that I did. I Latinas agams·t their own l>lood,"
community, toengageinconversation
feel it is a new beginning for me. I a<>id'l.J-.c....1ez.
withthecimens ofTelpanecain
now feel inspired to clraw again."
CK:'nlllliu
order to become aware of their
Figueroa-Garcia underlined one of
Hernandez' advke to young artists struggle. He said that the project
Vegas points when she said that is to get as much education as had thepotential ofcreatinga
most art sho~ exclude minority ~ible. "It is not enough to have specialbond, a brotherhoocl between
women.
talent, you must also know how to · two "l,ueblos," or communities.
The special guest artist of readr write, and express yot~rself on
Edgar exp.CS91.'1d what another
"lmagenes de Mujeres" was San paperdearly"
Nicaraguanmentioned tousearliel',
Franmco artist Esther Hernandez, a
Centro
Altes hopes to·make
that"Whereveryouaredoing
former valley resident.
'1magene de Mujeres" an annual solidarity work in Nicaragua, in
Hemmdez said that she has event.
Managua,Esteli,orTeJepaneca,you
areintheheartsof allNicaraguanS
advise- the- chair on parliamentary
whowishforpeace."
procedures.
He continued, "Ronald Reagan,
This year however, the senate has Continued from page 3
your president, always had us on his
decided that they do not want the to initiate an "understanding of the
mind. He was determined to desb'Qy
chair to make the appointment. multiple dimensions included in
us. But we Nicaraguans have much
Kathleen Solano chose Lawrence - bilingual, bicultural education." In
valor, we are a brave and
teaches problemdetermined people. Yes, Reagan had
Tovar, w h o has much senate her .145 class, she
.
us on his mind but never m· his heart!
·
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A
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so1vmg strategies
and provid es
expenence, 1s a
a ve mencan,
d t
.th
-d
h
Onbehalfof theNi'caraguan people
and who she feels comfortable stu en s wt up-to ate researc on
ki
·th
teaching.
who struggle on a daily basis to
wor ng WI •
Before graduating from UCSC,
advance the revolution, I give you a
The .Reality controlled senate has Garza attended the University of
hearty welcome, for you are in our
decided to ignore precedent this year Notre Dame in Indiana where he
hearts."
and have the senate make the studied under ulian Samora. From
On Wednesdavrughtwewere
appointment.
the mentorsrup, ne said he gamed a
visited by some soldiers who w~re
perspective a.bout
ne Chicano
stationed some 100 yards away trom
chose l{On Wells, who commum·ty tn· a t h e never thought
the d;n,c.
. The senate
n1
...... They had observed us
1s al
not o y an active
member of the ex1s
. ted . "My eyes were rea11y
working on the school and wanted to
R
b
e ity party ut who also ran opened."
extend their appreciation for the
against Solano in the elections. The
Garza also earned a bachelor's
ject
senate is either blatantly racist, degree in social work at U.C.
pro ·
Berkleley and worked in the
Editor's note: See next issue of La
bl
atan~
myopic,
blatantlv
Voz (Oct.16, 1989) 1orthe second
· or perhaps they
, department of sociology. In 1984,
,,
politic Y u nfarr,
the
part of Martinez's essay
where he
are just using the example of the after eaning his Ph.D., he won
will sh,..·e what the student
Go vemor and o thers w h o seemingly U.C. President's Post Doctoral delegation
... , learned from a meeting
reward such behavior. Just ask Vick.
F~T~ching CLAS 3- and CLAS with a Sandinista soldier and one of
5 Oucano culture this semester. _ __ Telpaneca's teachers.
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the show inspires them to go on with
their art."
·
encountered obstacles in the art
world related to her gender and
ethnicity. ''Not enough respect is
given to women artists and to women
ingeneral."
Hernandez feels that doors are
opening up to Chicana artists thanks
to cultural centers like Centro Bellas
<>IA&
Bellas
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FORMULA
Continued from page 2
political in nature, to appoint
someone who would ignore the will
of the students and try to hang on to
power for his conservative buddies
who weren't elected, is an affront to
our sense of fair political play.
But what really has Ia Vaz de
Aztldn concerned is the decision by
authorities at CSUF to reward Viele
with a teaching position.. It is
evidence of the administrations lack
of concern.
How do vou succeed at CSUF? Ask
Vick. Should students be afraid to be
blatantly
racist
or
politically
unfair? Ask Vick. The current
Reality controlled ASI senate has
clearly got the message and have
little concern for the ramifications of
their actions.
It has been the ASrs consistent
practice of having the legislative
vice president, the chair of the
senate, appoint a parliamentarian to
help facilitate the meetings and to
Twenty years of La Raza pride continues
California State University, Fresno
Tuesday,Sept. 19, 1989
Protest update
Student attorney questions Task Force goal
By Hector Am~zcua
Staff Writer
Five CSUF students will be tried
Nov. 2 in the Fresno Municipal Court
for charges stemming from last
semester's protest in the Associated
Students offices in which twentyfour students were arrested.
President Haak responded to the
protesters by appointing a task force
made up of students, faculty, staff,
and administrators.
President Haak admitted in a
memorandum that "events on campus
have served to remind us that we at
the University are not immune from
~ues surrounding racial and gender
intolerance that have surfaced
~oss the country." This statemenJ,
~ s.ud, .~!tomey Jo~ Moore who IS
~efending the students, 'has been
mterp~~ed by. some to ~ a
recogrution of raasm on campus.
'"The S ~ Report. of ~e !ask
Force on Raosm and Sexism wntten
by members Lea Ybarra and Alex
~~es, recommended that the
cnmmal charges on students who
participated in the sit-in be droped.
The report also agreed that the
proposed changes in the student
government bylaws were indeed
aimed at limiting access to women
and minorities. .
.
The task force came back with a
written finding based on their
corroborated decision making process."
Green said '1t's just as hard in the
clasm>om not feeling apart of the
problem on campus.
social environment We want to come
Haak, however, ~ppointed Dave to the University· and feel like it's
investigation
Hecu AJ'DR'l013/u, Vcs a Azd6r
Norma Franco of CSUFs Danzantes de Aztlan performs the
dance "Colas" of Veracruz, Mexico at the Olicano and Latin
American Studies 20th anniversary banquet Saturday night
view on the issue of racism on
campus. According to Moore, ''Mr.
Cuadro denies that the task force
was correct in their findings."
Jose Lopez, administrative aid to
ASI
President
Karen
Cogley,
questions the objectivity of the
appointment.
"What is their criteria for
objectivity? Who decided that this
man was objective?" Lopez said.
Attempts were made by La Voz to
contact the current task force
Chairperson, but because of confusion
as to who the Chairperson is, no
comments were available about the
current position of the task force.
Nineteen of the students who were
arrested entered a plea of no contest.
". The other five students will
litigate the legality of the arrest
and prosecution.
'None of the people felt that
- they . were guilty of - any wrong
doing," said Moore. He said that
the reason why only five students
are being tried is that they wanted
to have a representative group of
volunteers to determine in court the
legalityofwhattheydid.
"By stopping the demonstration,"
said Moore "the administration
exen:ised a 1prior restraint of first
amendment rights.
Student Stacy Green one of the
students who is being tried said, "A
lot of the reasons that we have been
going through this process is because
we feel isolated. Decisions are made
and we are often left out of the
that
what the students said and infact
that their was a major racism
Cuardo
then hired employed
Dave Cuadro to conduct what he
said would be an "objective" point of
our University. We dont want to be
viewed as a special interest in the
University."
350 celebrate 20 years of growth
La Raza Studies becomes Chicano and_Latin .American Studie~
By Lisa Y. Flores
Co-Editor
The Chicano and Labn American Studies
PrC'gram of CSUF, formerly La Raza Studies:
ce.ebrated their twentieth anniversary Staurday
night at the Satelite College Union.
Over 350 supporters of the program attended
the formal event where dinner and entertainment
were provided.
·
'We are very pleased with the ~ o~t," ~d
Dr. Bill Flores. Because of space limitation, said
Flores, many who wanted to attend could not be
acommadated.
Many of the supporters in attendance we~
fonner CSUF Chicano students who were around m
the late 1960s and 1970s while the program's
existence }Vas constantly being threatened by the
CSUF administrators with abolition.
Said CLAS professor Dr. Jesus Luna, "Initally
when many of the these programs were set up,
hey were set up • to fatl. But the tremendous
support of the community aided in the further
evelopment of the program" •
"The event provides an opportunity to see
friends from the past and to showcase how far we
have come from the initial demostration days to
today," former CSUF student Manuel Olgin told
LaVoz.
Curent student Leader and ASI senator Andres
Montoya said it is also "a time for us to renew our
commitment to the struggle, and to remember that
we still need to fight for further gains."
Former student and Chicano activist Guadalupe
Acosta said that the event sends a message to the
general public that the Chicano movement is not
dead, but IS alive and well.
''The Chicano Movement is gaining momentum
once again, and it is occassions like this that we
see the great gains which we have made," Acosta
said.
The ·early struggle of La Raza studies was
echoed in several d isplays of publications and art
from the past twenty years. The display ~h~
the struggle Chicano students faced when fighh~g
for the establishment of the La Raza Studies
Program, as well as for a Chicano press, Currently
La Voz de Aztlan.
The evening included a slide show which
tracked the progress of the CLAS Program and the
Chicano movement over the last twenty years.
The slides showed the Chicano students who led
the struggle from the 1960s, to current student body
president Karen Cogley.
Page2
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1989
La VozdeAztL&s
LETTERS • EDITORIAIS • OPINIONS • LETIERS • EDITORIAIS • OPINIONS • LETTERS • EDITORIAIS
CSUF's formula for political success
Harold Haak knows racism. Last
semester after then student body
president Scott Vick introduced
legislation and bylaw changes to
student government taking power
away from the president- and
legislative
vice
president-elect
which for the first time in CSUF
history were won by Chitanas, and
after hundreds of students protested
the changes and after 24 were
arrested by campus police, President
Haak admitted on television that
racism exists on campus and is an
ugly thing, and must be stopped. We
agree.
That same day, meeting with a
rainbow of administrators, faculty,
staff and students, Haak set up a
task force to investigate charges of
racism and to make recommendations
on what should be done.
It appeared at that time that
Haak and the entire CSUF
administration were sincere in their
concerns,
however,
on closer
examination, it appears that they
now have little or no concern with
what occurred and perhaps never
did. Not only have the task force
recommendations been, in essence,
WtOred but the administration has
hlso demonstrated little enthusiasm
Do you have the blood?
~ D~el Chacon
Contributing Editor
As I was shaving one morning last
week with my used Bic razor, the
blade so dull that it felt as if the
hairs on my face were being pulled
out individually as the razor
dragged across my face, I had an
unexplainable urge to nick myself
and see blood spread throughout the
white shaving cream (much like a
baby white seal being killed in the
snow).
I don't think I really wanted to
feel the pain, I'm not a masochist or
anything like that, I just, for some
odd reason, wanted to see the blood. I
wanted to make sure I was still
alive.
It's usually around September,
when I'm getting reaquainted with a
school schedule, and begin to
regulate my time, that I start feeling
like a zombie or a robot. Every
activity has its appointed time:
sleep, eat, read. I begin to feel like
I'm not a human with the freedom of
choice at all, but rather I'm just a
program, doing certain things at
certain times.
I go to classrooms, where what I
acquire, further stimulates me to
structure my life after a pattern, a
learned pattern, which has many
roads but the most oft travelled
leads to assimilation and political
impotence.
I become like everyone else. I
think like everyone else. Or else I
cease thinking at all. My cultural
uniqueness becomes clouded to me-more nostalgic than real, and I start
remembering a grandmother who
cooked the best tamales in the
world.
I become a robot who lives, thinks,
and even dies for the things I've been
taught, even though those who
taught me may not have had
altruistic motives and who may
indeed be motivated by greed or
hatred or something ugly like that. I
become, as Diedrot wrote, one who,
in addressing the fault of those
involved in terms of racism.
It is, at very least, ironic that the
main actor in the the attempt to take
away the power of Karen Cogley and
Kathleen ~lano, the student elected
president and vice president of the
ASI, and transfer it • to the only
white conservative male who won an
executive P.?sition, should be
rewarded with a teaching position
atCSUF.
Scott Vick, last year's student
body president, is teaching public
speaking here, at CSUF. Twenty four
people were arrested by CSUF police
for standing up against the de facto
racism in Vick's actions, while Vick
is given a job, and a pretty good one
atthat.
It was a poor decision for the
governor of California not to let
Vick's actions as ASI president
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Chicano Students,
affect his decision in appointing him
to the CSU board of trustees, and it is
an obvious show of indifference on
his part, concerning the minority and
non-minority students who fight
racism. Even if Vick's actions were
not intended to be racist, but were
See FORMULA page 4
organizations. Please feel free to
come to the Associated Students
Office (University Student Union
Room 316) and get to know those who
represent you and want to work with
you. H there is anythin~ we can help
you or your organization with please
let us know.
We would like to welcome all new
without knowing what is written and returning Chicano and Chicana
above, that is, one who has no
students to CSUF. This coming school
purpose, makes choices based on year is a historical one for all
whim which we call reason, and
which soµ1etimes turns out bad and students of color. For the first time
Finally we want to thank MEChA
Chicano students will be represented
sometimes turns out good.
for the role it has played in building
When I, as a Chicano, cease to look in the Associated Student Senate. a strong coalition of students and
back at my past (where I came from} This represents a beginning for the providing
leadership
for
the
and feel deep-seeded connection and empowerment of Chicano students Chicano Movement on this campus.
responsibility to it, and instead feel and all others who have been We wish much success to La Voz de
a warm sentimental connection with traditionally locked out.
Aztldn and MEChA in celebration of
We would like to thank all the their twentieth year.
it (i.e. Grandma cooked such good
tamales}, and feel responsibilty only Chicano students who supported
to myself, then I serve no purpose UNITY-Students for Responsible
LAUNIONHACE LA FUERZA!
Government during the student
here at the university.
election
and
have
continued
to
It is at these times that I don't
really know if I'm alive. Last year, support us in our struggle for justice
Karen Cogley, ASI President
Dolores Huerta was beaten by San and equality. It was the combined
Katleen 'Solano, ASI Legislative
Francisco police at a "George Bush efforts of students of color that sent a Vice President
clear
message
to
the
campus
and
for President" rally (picture your
Diahann Hernandez, Senator-Atthat
racial
little Mexican abuela being viciously community
.
Large
Post #4
beaten with night sticks by several discrimination will not be tolerated
Andres
Montoya, Senator School of
helmeted policemen. That's exactly in our student government or in the Social Sciences
what it looked like. I saw it on adminstration.
Stacy Green, Senator Undeclared
As elected student representatives,
television}. I bet Huerta had no
Majors
question of whether or not she was we encourage you to get involved
Frank Aviles, Senator School ofalive, or whether or not she had a with student government and the Natural Sciences
progressive
campus
purpose at that time. She didn't need many
to cut herself shaving. She has the
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blood to prove mortality-blood that
not only spilled on the San Francisco
street that day, in front of our , ,.,.,. La Voz de Aztltin Staff-- Fall Se-mester 1989
president, but also blood that
organizes and helps run the United
Farm Workers Union.
Siding with the UFW is not a
Hernandez, Af Robles and
popular thing to do these days. The
propaganda efforts on the part of ;.i:;~ Photographer - Hector Amezcua
those against the farm workers is
such that very few want to identify t r Staff Artist- Jim Marquez
Production Assistant- Yolanda Murillo
themselves with it. Yet here is
Huerta, working for it, speaking orr
behalf of it, living for it, and willing
The staff of La Voz de Aztlan would like to extend a special thanks
to die for it. Why would she do such
to: Devin Swisher, Thor Swift, Alita Loe, Debbie Lorenzen and
a thing? She has purpose. As an
Michael S. Green, all of The Daily Collegian. La Voz de Aztlan
educated Chicana, she uses the
welcomes reader response. Please send letters of no more than 250
resources she has been equipped with
words to: La Voz de Aztldn, Keats Campus Building, California State
in the classrooms and out in the
University, Fresno, Fresno, Calif. 93740-0042. Letters must have
world, to benefit her community, not
author's name, address, phone number, and signature.
just herself. If she were self-seeking,
she would be working in a safe office
job, where San Francisco police would :.~.•.::_;_,._:~_:_;_; Sta~ ~::~:,;r~~~~e:e:;~!>'ffi~::::~~:'e!~~omia
not beat her, right in front of Presient . _;,;,;_ Building: Fresno, Calif., 93740. The opinions published on this page are not necessarily
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those of the Associated Students, Inc., The C>aily Colkgian or ui Voz de Aztliin and its
staff. Unsigned editorials are the majority opinion of the paper's editiorial board.
La Voz
u Az:tl4n
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1989
Page3
From Fresno to Telpaneca, Nicaragua
CSUFMEChA and LASC members help build school in sister city
destroy schools, health clinics, entire villages,
ByGeolKe Martinez
Ccmtribuling Writer .
and torture and kill innocent civilians. Due to the
atrocities committed by the Contras, Nicaragua
Editor's note: The following is the first part in a
three part series. In this edition, journey with five
CSUF students to Fresno's Nicaraguan sister city
where on the first leg of their jo,,mey they meet
"1' with local political letulns an4 settle in for
the tak at hMul: building o school in the nmrl
Telp,u,eam ,nm,ntoins.
On June 28, 1989 a group of five CSU Fresno
students, including MEChA and Campus Latin
American Support Committee members, set out for
a journey that would take them to Nicaragua,
Central America. ·
I was a member of this student delegation,
along with Karen Cogley, Lawrence Guemt,
Kathleen Solano, and Scott Stark. Our
destination was Telpaneca, Nicaragua, a rural
community not more than ten miles from the
Honduran border, and our purpose was to assist in
the construction of an eleirentary school,
something much needed since the children in the
district had been struggling to learn in a o~room,
dirt-floored scoool.
· Our voluntary work brigade was part of the
Fresno/Telpaneca Sister City Project, an
educational/community bridge building effort.
The Nicaraguan government, directed by the
Sandinista Front of National Liberation (FSLN),
has initiated a revolutionary program producing
great strides in the areas of agriculture, education,
and health care. These efforts are blunted,
however, by the Contra-waged war.
The Honduran-based Contras bum crops,
has had to divert a great amount of its national
budget towards protection of the border. The
Contras are losing the war. If the United States
cut funding to them (US. funds are their main
source of survival), the counter-revolutionary
forces would cease to exist. .
Since July 19, 1979, the triumph of the
Sandinista revolution over the Somoz.an
dictatorship, Nicaragua is a non-aligned,
sovereign country, with a democratically elected
government The struggle there has prompted
many activists throughout the globe to protest
U.S. intervention in Central America and express
solidarity with the people of Nicaragua by
providing material and financial aid to as&st in
the birth of a free nation, Nicaragua libre.
The five of us were determined to be part of this
process to exchange ideas and human resources
instead of bombs and bullets.
We arrived in Managua, Nicaragua on July 9,
1989. At the airport we met Juanita Gomez, the
contact person who made the arrangements for our
brigade. We stayed the night and were told that
we would take the 5:00 a.m. bus to Telpaneca.
After seven long hours on a sometimes
motionless bus, as it had to struggle to steep
winding slopes, we reached Telpaneca. Shortly
after getting off the bus, we met Ramon, Mayor of
Telpaneca, and were driven through the
mountainous road to the health clinic where we
would spend the next seven days. We unpacked
our belongings and were taken to the school site,
about 200 yards from the clini~. After examining
the site we explored the lush, green, countryside
surounding the few houses that were visibfe
behind the many trees and plant that inhabited
the rain-forest abnosphere.
We were informed that our daily routine would
be, breakfast at 6:30 a.m., working on the school
until noon, breaking for lunch, and working the
remaining hours until it rained (apProximately
3:00 p.m. every day). After the ram stopped we
would sometimes explore the countryside and read
before dinner. By the time we finished eating it
was dark, since there was no electricity we would
sleep soon afterwards. For the most part, the
schedule remained the same, but we did, on
several occasions, meet with members of the
community to discuss how the community had
changed since the revolution and the role they
played in the dynamic process.
The next day we began work on the elementary
school which was promised to the parents'
committee by the Sister City Project.
Work on the school had already begun before
we arrived. People in the communityhad already
cut up the side of the mountain in order to level
the ground. The cement foundation had already
been laid and the frame was near completion.
Still, there was much more work that needed to be
done and we spent the next six days sawing,
hammering, digging, and transporting the r-eeded
lumber and other materials to the work site,
stopping only for food and sleep.
Withnard effort, help from community
members, and inspiration drawn from the
See TELPANECA,Page 4
CLAS Program gets two new profs
By James L Carrasco
Staff Writer
The faculty and students in the
Chicano and Latin American Studies
Department had an addition to their
family this semester.
Luz Gonzalez and Hisauro Garza
joined CLAS this semester and have
begun teaching classes.
Both had beginnings picking fruit
in the southwestern United States.
Gonzalez said that when she was
18, she had the English and Spanish
reading ability of a third-grader.
''I was determined that I was going
to make something of myself. I
wanted to become educated," she
said with pride shown in her hazel
eyes. ''I was tired of having to move
around so much. But I knew I was
going to make it"
Despite the fact that Hisauro
Garza's parents had five mouths to
feed as he was growing up, he
managed to do. well in school, made
it into college, and graduated at the
top of his class from the U.C. Santa
Cruz.
''It all began when I was 10 or 11
years old picking grapes in the
field," said Garza. ''I would look up
at the Anglo in the truck and wonder
'why are we down here and they up
there?'
"It was a real honor to earn such
high grades, but I owe it to my older
brothers who could afford to send me
to school. Since I was one of the
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Continued from page 2
Bush.
That's why I wanted to see blood
that morning I shaved. I lost track of
my purpose. As it turned out, I didn't
have to purposely cut myself after
all. The Bic shaver was so old, it
ripped my face apart anyway, and
there was blood everywhere, more
Y.Oun~, the family: was less
Gonzalez is teaching three classes Latinos in the United States."
aependant on me and I was able to this fall: CLAS 3, which she
Her 143 class, she said, attempts
leave the fields and attend school."
describes as an introduction to the
Luz Gonzalez has earned two
Chi
See NEW PROFS, page,
bachelor's degrees and is working on .,.."d_i_ver...,se_an_d_rich
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hi_·s_to-'-_o_f_·_cano______________
.,
the dissertion for her doctorate in
de Septiembre
education through Arizona State Dieciseis
•
University.
After attending West Coast Bible
School for four years, she went to Los
Angeles to teach first grade for a
year and a half. She then came to
CSUF and earned a multiple subject
teaching credential.
Garza attended Hartnell Junior
College after graduating from high
school in Salinas.
Garza remembered keeping busy in
high school. He helped organize a
program "geared toward higher
education" for Chicano students and
their parents.
"I had a desire to help the
disadvantaged Hispanics and was
willing to do anything," said Garza.
'We would meet in homes and
discuss ways that would improve the
Olicano lifestyle. It was rough, but
it worked."
In 1987, Gonzalez went to Tucson,
Ariz. where she studied under her
mentor, Walter Doyle. Shortly after
returning to Fresno, she began
bilingual teaching at Aynesworth
Elementary.
Gonzalez said about being selcted
as one of the new CLAS instructors,
"I was really shocked. I put my
application in and was hired after
the interview."
than I had originally wanted.
It occurred to me that day, that
none of us ever have to be without a
purpose.
No matter what you're majoring
in, or where you go to study, even
what you do after college, the
Chicano movement and community
could use your help, and your
leadership. As long as you got the
blood, you got the purpose.
Hector Amezcua/IA Vaz tit Aztlbl
The downtown Dieciseis de Septiembre parade in Fresno last
Saturday attracted many people, but perhaps those who
enjoyed the most were the children. In a time when cultural
awareness is so valuable to our society it is good to see that
children like Sergio Valenzuela and hlS sister are anxious to
learn about the traaitions of their culture.
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CALENDARIO
o
CALENDARIO
Tuesday, Sept. 19 MEChA's
Chicano Youth Conference
Committee meets every Tuesday at 5
p.m. in Room 203 of the Joyal
Administration building.
The committee needs your ideas as
they plan the annual conference
which brings over 1,500 Central
i Valley high school students to CSUF
~ for a day of career and general
information workshops.
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Tuesday, Sept.19, 1989
Thursday, Sept. 21 Chicanos In
Law will feature the director of
admissions from San Joaquin Law
School at their meeting from 5 to 6:30
p.m. in
314.
General meetings for OL are held
every Thursday at 3:36 p.m. except
Oct. 5 which will be held at 5 pm.
On Friday, SepL 29, OL has
scheduled a field trip to U.C. Davis
and the McGeorge School of Law. ,
Call 224~933 or 294-3021 for more
information.
usu
Thursday, Sept. 21 will be the next
meeting of the Women's Alliance.
The meeting will be held in USU 320
at3p.m.
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CALENDARIO
Saturday, Sept. 23 CSUFMEChA
will hold its annual Bienvenida
Dance Saturday, Sept 23 in the
CSUF Residence Dining Hall.
The dance is from 9 p.m. to
midnight Admission is free and
everyone is welcome!
MEChA meetings are held every
Thursday at 4 p.m. except the last
week of the month.
Meetings will generally take
place in the Univerisity Student
Union. For specific room numbers or
other information, please drop by
the MEChA booth in the free speech
area.
l.:! ~1!sl: : : !: 1
Monday, Sept 25 The Re-entry
Students Association meets today
and every Monday this semester
from noon to 1 p.m. in the Re-entry
lounge, Main Cafeteria West. For
more information call (209) 294-3046.
Monday, Sept. 25 Jon V. Conriquez,
president and chief executive officer
(CEO) of Trader's Financial Corp.,
will speak at the Hispanic Business
Student Association meeting.
O
CALENDARIO ° CALENDARIO
Everyone is invited to attend the
meeting which begins at 6 p.m. in the
Leon S. Peters Building, Room 192.
HBSA meetings take place every
other Monday this fall at 6 p.m. in
Room 192 of the Peters Building. The
next meeting is scheduled for
Oct.9.
lii !Dl.l!l l l l i!i:I
Saturday, Sept. 30The Ftfth
Annual Ernesto Moreno Memorial
Scholarship Banquet will be held at
the Golden State Plaza.
Donations for the event are $25 per
person or $250 per table of 10 and are
available by advance sales only. For
information call: (209) 294-2048 or
291-3938.
Staff Writer
On August 15, Fresno experienced a
first. Centro Bellas Artes, a cultural
center downtown, hosted the first all
Chicana art show in the Central
Valley.
Mary Vega, a trustee of Centro
Bellas Artes came up with the the
idea . for the art show titled,
"Imagenes de Mujers," Images seen
through the eyes of women.
Vega said there was a definite
need for women oi. color to· exhibit
their art work. '1 saw that there
had not been any repre9ffltation of
Hispanic women artists ancl ·1 knew
there were many out there.
'1magenes de Mujers" included
Chicana artists as young as five
years old. Centro Bellas Aries tries
to reach youth in every area. In
Vega's words, "Including children in
(209) 264-AIDS.
Sunday, Oct. 15 Bay Area P~
Choice Coalition and the National
Organization of Women will host
the largest pro-choice rally ever
held in San Francisco.
The pro-choice marchers will
assemble at 11 a.m. at Justine
Herman Plaza (Market and The
Embarcadero). They will begin
marching at noon ending up at the
Civic Center for a 1:30 p.m. rally.
For further information write: S.F.
NOW, P.O. Box 1267, San Francisco,
CA 94101 or phone (415) 861-8880.
Saturday, Oct. 7 is the third
annual Walk-A-Thon for the
Central Valley AIDS Team, one of
the their largest sources of
contributions.
·
The walk starts at 9:30 a.m. at
Cary Park, on Fresno St. just behind
the Fashion Fair mall.
. To register for the walk, write The
Central Valley AIDS Team, P.O.
Centro Bellas Artes sponsor Latina Art
By Laura Hernandez
Box 4640, Fresno, Calif. 93744, or call
A buspool is leaving Fresno for San
Francisco Sunday morning. Call
Fresno National Organization of
Women for details: 233-5150.
A portion of the proceeds from this
event will be used to send activists to
WashingtonD.C. onNov.15thfora
national pro-clloice rally.
TELPANECA
Continued &om page 3
determination that the local
Nicaraguans expressed for their
revolution, we were able to fully
The featured artists were Pamela
complete the modern, four-room
f1ores-Escobar,
CSUF
student,
school in Fresno's Nicaraguan sister
Sylvia Figueroa-Garcia, who works
city.
in the commu,ni.ty on Ple Dfa de Los
Our seci>nd day in Teipaneca was
Nu\os Festival, and CSUF instructor
spent visiting with Edgar, a
Cecilia Aranaydo.
representative of the fSLN and one
Figueroa-Garcia says she was not Artes.
of the ''politicos," as the people
sure at first that she wanted to
Much of Hernandez' art work
there commonly referred to
participate in the show because she deals with current issues facing
community and political leaders. He
had not done any recent work.
Chicanas. "Central America is
challenged us to learn all that we
"I was persuaded to show my prior another Vietnam being fought by . could about the politics of the
work and I am very glad that I did. I Latinas agams·t their own l>lood,"
community, toengageinconversation
feel it is a new beginning for me. I a<>id'l.J-.c....1ez.
withthecimens ofTelpanecain
now feel inspired to clraw again."
CK:'nlllliu
order to become aware of their
Figueroa-Garcia underlined one of
Hernandez' advke to young artists struggle. He said that the project
Vegas points when she said that is to get as much education as had thepotential ofcreatinga
most art sho~ exclude minority ~ible. "It is not enough to have specialbond, a brotherhoocl between
women.
talent, you must also know how to · two "l,ueblos," or communities.
The special guest artist of readr write, and express yot~rself on
Edgar exp.CS91.'1d what another
"lmagenes de Mujeres" was San paperdearly"
Nicaraguanmentioned tousearliel',
Franmco artist Esther Hernandez, a
Centro
Altes hopes to·make
that"Whereveryouaredoing
former valley resident.
'1magene de Mujeres" an annual solidarity work in Nicaragua, in
Hemmdez said that she has event.
Managua,Esteli,orTeJepaneca,you
areintheheartsof allNicaraguanS
advise- the- chair on parliamentary
whowishforpeace."
procedures.
He continued, "Ronald Reagan,
This year however, the senate has Continued from page 3
your president, always had us on his
decided that they do not want the to initiate an "understanding of the
mind. He was determined to desb'Qy
chair to make the appointment. multiple dimensions included in
us. But we Nicaraguans have much
Kathleen Solano chose Lawrence - bilingual, bicultural education." In
valor, we are a brave and
teaches problemdetermined people. Yes, Reagan had
Tovar, w h o has much senate her .145 class, she
.
us on his mind but never m· his heart!
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so1vmg strategies
and provid es
expenence, 1s a
a ve mencan,
d t
.th
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h
Onbehalfof theNi'caraguan people
and who she feels comfortable stu en s wt up-to ate researc on
ki
·th
teaching.
who struggle on a daily basis to
wor ng WI •
Before graduating from UCSC,
advance the revolution, I give you a
The .Reality controlled senate has Garza attended the University of
hearty welcome, for you are in our
decided to ignore precedent this year Notre Dame in Indiana where he
hearts."
and have the senate make the studied under ulian Samora. From
On Wednesdavrughtwewere
appointment.
the mentorsrup, ne said he gamed a
visited by some soldiers who w~re
perspective a.bout
ne Chicano
stationed some 100 yards away trom
chose l{On Wells, who commum·ty tn· a t h e never thought
the d;n,c.
. The senate
n1
...... They had observed us
1s al
not o y an active
member of the ex1s
. ted . "My eyes were rea11y
working on the school and wanted to
R
b
e ity party ut who also ran opened."
extend their appreciation for the
against Solano in the elections. The
Garza also earned a bachelor's
ject
senate is either blatantly racist, degree in social work at U.C.
pro ·
Berkleley and worked in the
Editor's note: See next issue of La
bl
atan~
myopic,
blatantlv
Voz (Oct.16, 1989) 1orthe second
· or perhaps they
, department of sociology. In 1984,
,,
politic Y u nfarr,
the
part of Martinez's essay
where he
are just using the example of the after eaning his Ph.D., he won
will sh,..·e what the student
Go vemor and o thers w h o seemingly U.C. President's Post Doctoral delegation
... , learned from a meeting
reward such behavior. Just ask Vick.
F~T~ching CLAS 3- and CLAS with a Sandinista soldier and one of
5 Oucano culture this semester. _ __ Telpaneca's teachers.
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the show inspires them to go on with
their art."
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encountered obstacles in the art
world related to her gender and
ethnicity. ''Not enough respect is
given to women artists and to women
ingeneral."
Hernandez feels that doors are
opening up to Chicana artists thanks
to cultural centers like Centro Bellas
<>IA&
Bellas
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FORMULA
Continued from page 2
political in nature, to appoint
someone who would ignore the will
of the students and try to hang on to
power for his conservative buddies
who weren't elected, is an affront to
our sense of fair political play.
But what really has Ia Vaz de
Aztldn concerned is the decision by
authorities at CSUF to reward Viele
with a teaching position.. It is
evidence of the administrations lack
of concern.
How do vou succeed at CSUF? Ask
Vick. Should students be afraid to be
blatantly
racist
or
politically
unfair? Ask Vick. The current
Reality controlled ASI senate has
clearly got the message and have
little concern for the ramifications of
their actions.
It has been the ASrs consistent
practice of having the legislative
vice president, the chair of the
senate, appoint a parliamentarian to
help facilitate the meetings and to
Volume XX Number IV
Twenty years of La Raza pride continues
California State University, Fresno
Tuesday,Sept. 19, 1989
Protest update
Student attorney questions Task Force goal
By Hector Am~zcua
Staff Writer
Five CSUF students will be tried
Nov. 2 in the Fresno Municipal Court
for charges stemming from last
semester's protest in the Associated
Students offices in which twentyfour students were arrested.
President Haak responded to the
protesters by appointing a task force
made up of students, faculty, staff,
and administrators.
President Haak admitted in a
memorandum that "events on campus
have served to remind us that we at
the University are not immune from
~ues surrounding racial and gender
intolerance that have surfaced
~oss the country." This statemenJ,
~ s.ud, .~!tomey Jo~ Moore who IS
~efending the students, 'has been
mterp~~ed by. some to ~ a
recogrution of raasm on campus.
'"The S ~ Report. of ~e !ask
Force on Raosm and Sexism wntten
by members Lea Ybarra and Alex
~~es, recommended that the
cnmmal charges on students who
participated in the sit-in be droped.
The report also agreed that the
proposed changes in the student
government bylaws were indeed
aimed at limiting access to women
and minorities. .
.
The task force came back with a
written finding based on their
corroborated decision making process."
Green said '1t's just as hard in the
clasm>om not feeling apart of the
problem on campus.
social environment We want to come
Haak, however, ~ppointed Dave to the University· and feel like it's
investigation
Hecu AJ'DR'l013/u, Vcs a Azd6r
Norma Franco of CSUFs Danzantes de Aztlan performs the
dance "Colas" of Veracruz, Mexico at the Olicano and Latin
American Studies 20th anniversary banquet Saturday night
view on the issue of racism on
campus. According to Moore, ''Mr.
Cuadro denies that the task force
was correct in their findings."
Jose Lopez, administrative aid to
ASI
President
Karen
Cogley,
questions the objectivity of the
appointment.
"What is their criteria for
objectivity? Who decided that this
man was objective?" Lopez said.
Attempts were made by La Voz to
contact the current task force
Chairperson, but because of confusion
as to who the Chairperson is, no
comments were available about the
current position of the task force.
Nineteen of the students who were
arrested entered a plea of no contest.
". The other five students will
litigate the legality of the arrest
and prosecution.
'None of the people felt that
- they . were guilty of - any wrong
doing," said Moore. He said that
the reason why only five students
are being tried is that they wanted
to have a representative group of
volunteers to determine in court the
legalityofwhattheydid.
"By stopping the demonstration,"
said Moore "the administration
exen:ised a 1prior restraint of first
amendment rights.
Student Stacy Green one of the
students who is being tried said, "A
lot of the reasons that we have been
going through this process is because
we feel isolated. Decisions are made
and we are often left out of the
that
what the students said and infact
that their was a major racism
Cuardo
then hired employed
Dave Cuadro to conduct what he
said would be an "objective" point of
our University. We dont want to be
viewed as a special interest in the
University."
350 celebrate 20 years of growth
La Raza Studies becomes Chicano and_Latin .American Studie~
By Lisa Y. Flores
Co-Editor
The Chicano and Labn American Studies
PrC'gram of CSUF, formerly La Raza Studies:
ce.ebrated their twentieth anniversary Staurday
night at the Satelite College Union.
Over 350 supporters of the program attended
the formal event where dinner and entertainment
were provided.
·
'We are very pleased with the ~ o~t," ~d
Dr. Bill Flores. Because of space limitation, said
Flores, many who wanted to attend could not be
acommadated.
Many of the supporters in attendance we~
fonner CSUF Chicano students who were around m
the late 1960s and 1970s while the program's
existence }Vas constantly being threatened by the
CSUF administrators with abolition.
Said CLAS professor Dr. Jesus Luna, "Initally
when many of the these programs were set up,
hey were set up • to fatl. But the tremendous
support of the community aided in the further
evelopment of the program" •
"The event provides an opportunity to see
friends from the past and to showcase how far we
have come from the initial demostration days to
today," former CSUF student Manuel Olgin told
LaVoz.
Curent student Leader and ASI senator Andres
Montoya said it is also "a time for us to renew our
commitment to the struggle, and to remember that
we still need to fight for further gains."
Former student and Chicano activist Guadalupe
Acosta said that the event sends a message to the
general public that the Chicano movement is not
dead, but IS alive and well.
''The Chicano Movement is gaining momentum
once again, and it is occassions like this that we
see the great gains which we have made," Acosta
said.
The ·early struggle of La Raza studies was
echoed in several d isplays of publications and art
from the past twenty years. The display ~h~
the struggle Chicano students faced when fighh~g
for the establishment of the La Raza Studies
Program, as well as for a Chicano press, Currently
La Voz de Aztlan.
The evening included a slide show which
tracked the progress of the CLAS Program and the
Chicano movement over the last twenty years.
The slides showed the Chicano students who led
the struggle from the 1960s, to current student body
president Karen Cogley.
Page2
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1989
La VozdeAztL&s
LETTERS • EDITORIAIS • OPINIONS • LETIERS • EDITORIAIS • OPINIONS • LETTERS • EDITORIAIS
CSUF's formula for political success
Harold Haak knows racism. Last
semester after then student body
president Scott Vick introduced
legislation and bylaw changes to
student government taking power
away from the president- and
legislative
vice
president-elect
which for the first time in CSUF
history were won by Chitanas, and
after hundreds of students protested
the changes and after 24 were
arrested by campus police, President
Haak admitted on television that
racism exists on campus and is an
ugly thing, and must be stopped. We
agree.
That same day, meeting with a
rainbow of administrators, faculty,
staff and students, Haak set up a
task force to investigate charges of
racism and to make recommendations
on what should be done.
It appeared at that time that
Haak and the entire CSUF
administration were sincere in their
concerns,
however,
on closer
examination, it appears that they
now have little or no concern with
what occurred and perhaps never
did. Not only have the task force
recommendations been, in essence,
WtOred but the administration has
hlso demonstrated little enthusiasm
Do you have the blood?
~ D~el Chacon
Contributing Editor
As I was shaving one morning last
week with my used Bic razor, the
blade so dull that it felt as if the
hairs on my face were being pulled
out individually as the razor
dragged across my face, I had an
unexplainable urge to nick myself
and see blood spread throughout the
white shaving cream (much like a
baby white seal being killed in the
snow).
I don't think I really wanted to
feel the pain, I'm not a masochist or
anything like that, I just, for some
odd reason, wanted to see the blood. I
wanted to make sure I was still
alive.
It's usually around September,
when I'm getting reaquainted with a
school schedule, and begin to
regulate my time, that I start feeling
like a zombie or a robot. Every
activity has its appointed time:
sleep, eat, read. I begin to feel like
I'm not a human with the freedom of
choice at all, but rather I'm just a
program, doing certain things at
certain times.
I go to classrooms, where what I
acquire, further stimulates me to
structure my life after a pattern, a
learned pattern, which has many
roads but the most oft travelled
leads to assimilation and political
impotence.
I become like everyone else. I
think like everyone else. Or else I
cease thinking at all. My cultural
uniqueness becomes clouded to me-more nostalgic than real, and I start
remembering a grandmother who
cooked the best tamales in the
world.
I become a robot who lives, thinks,
and even dies for the things I've been
taught, even though those who
taught me may not have had
altruistic motives and who may
indeed be motivated by greed or
hatred or something ugly like that. I
become, as Diedrot wrote, one who,
in addressing the fault of those
involved in terms of racism.
It is, at very least, ironic that the
main actor in the the attempt to take
away the power of Karen Cogley and
Kathleen ~lano, the student elected
president and vice president of the
ASI, and transfer it • to the only
white conservative male who won an
executive P.?sition, should be
rewarded with a teaching position
atCSUF.
Scott Vick, last year's student
body president, is teaching public
speaking here, at CSUF. Twenty four
people were arrested by CSUF police
for standing up against the de facto
racism in Vick's actions, while Vick
is given a job, and a pretty good one
atthat.
It was a poor decision for the
governor of California not to let
Vick's actions as ASI president
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Chicano Students,
affect his decision in appointing him
to the CSU board of trustees, and it is
an obvious show of indifference on
his part, concerning the minority and
non-minority students who fight
racism. Even if Vick's actions were
not intended to be racist, but were
See FORMULA page 4
organizations. Please feel free to
come to the Associated Students
Office (University Student Union
Room 316) and get to know those who
represent you and want to work with
you. H there is anythin~ we can help
you or your organization with please
let us know.
We would like to welcome all new
without knowing what is written and returning Chicano and Chicana
above, that is, one who has no
students to CSUF. This coming school
purpose, makes choices based on year is a historical one for all
whim which we call reason, and
which soµ1etimes turns out bad and students of color. For the first time
Finally we want to thank MEChA
Chicano students will be represented
sometimes turns out good.
for the role it has played in building
When I, as a Chicano, cease to look in the Associated Student Senate. a strong coalition of students and
back at my past (where I came from} This represents a beginning for the providing
leadership
for
the
and feel deep-seeded connection and empowerment of Chicano students Chicano Movement on this campus.
responsibility to it, and instead feel and all others who have been We wish much success to La Voz de
a warm sentimental connection with traditionally locked out.
Aztldn and MEChA in celebration of
We would like to thank all the their twentieth year.
it (i.e. Grandma cooked such good
tamales}, and feel responsibilty only Chicano students who supported
to myself, then I serve no purpose UNITY-Students for Responsible
LAUNIONHACE LA FUERZA!
Government during the student
here at the university.
election
and
have
continued
to
It is at these times that I don't
really know if I'm alive. Last year, support us in our struggle for justice
Karen Cogley, ASI President
Dolores Huerta was beaten by San and equality. It was the combined
Katleen 'Solano, ASI Legislative
Francisco police at a "George Bush efforts of students of color that sent a Vice President
clear
message
to
the
campus
and
for President" rally (picture your
Diahann Hernandez, Senator-Atthat
racial
little Mexican abuela being viciously community
.
Large
Post #4
beaten with night sticks by several discrimination will not be tolerated
Andres
Montoya, Senator School of
helmeted policemen. That's exactly in our student government or in the Social Sciences
what it looked like. I saw it on adminstration.
Stacy Green, Senator Undeclared
As elected student representatives,
television}. I bet Huerta had no
Majors
question of whether or not she was we encourage you to get involved
Frank Aviles, Senator School ofalive, or whether or not she had a with student government and the Natural Sciences
progressive
campus
purpose at that time. She didn't need many
to cut herself shaving. She has the
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blood to prove mortality-blood that
not only spilled on the San Francisco
street that day, in front of our , ,.,.,. La Voz de Aztltin Staff-- Fall Se-mester 1989
president, but also blood that
organizes and helps run the United
Farm Workers Union.
Siding with the UFW is not a
Hernandez, Af Robles and
popular thing to do these days. The
propaganda efforts on the part of ;.i:;~ Photographer - Hector Amezcua
those against the farm workers is
such that very few want to identify t r Staff Artist- Jim Marquez
Production Assistant- Yolanda Murillo
themselves with it. Yet here is
Huerta, working for it, speaking orr
behalf of it, living for it, and willing
The staff of La Voz de Aztlan would like to extend a special thanks
to die for it. Why would she do such
to: Devin Swisher, Thor Swift, Alita Loe, Debbie Lorenzen and
a thing? She has purpose. As an
Michael S. Green, all of The Daily Collegian. La Voz de Aztlan
educated Chicana, she uses the
welcomes reader response. Please send letters of no more than 250
resources she has been equipped with
words to: La Voz de Aztldn, Keats Campus Building, California State
in the classrooms and out in the
University, Fresno, Fresno, Calif. 93740-0042. Letters must have
world, to benefit her community, not
author's name, address, phone number, and signature.
just herself. If she were self-seeking,
she would be working in a safe office
job, where San Francisco police would :.~.•.::_;_,._:~_:_;_; Sta~ ~::~:,;r~~~~e:e:;~!>'ffi~::::~~:'e!~~omia
not beat her, right in front of Presient . _;,;,;_ Building: Fresno, Calif., 93740. The opinions published on this page are not necessarily
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those of the Associated Students, Inc., The C>aily Colkgian or ui Voz de Aztliin and its
staff. Unsigned editorials are the majority opinion of the paper's editiorial board.
La Voz
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Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1989
Page3
From Fresno to Telpaneca, Nicaragua
CSUFMEChA and LASC members help build school in sister city
destroy schools, health clinics, entire villages,
ByGeolKe Martinez
Ccmtribuling Writer .
and torture and kill innocent civilians. Due to the
atrocities committed by the Contras, Nicaragua
Editor's note: The following is the first part in a
three part series. In this edition, journey with five
CSUF students to Fresno's Nicaraguan sister city
where on the first leg of their jo,,mey they meet
"1' with local political letulns an4 settle in for
the tak at hMul: building o school in the nmrl
Telp,u,eam ,nm,ntoins.
On June 28, 1989 a group of five CSU Fresno
students, including MEChA and Campus Latin
American Support Committee members, set out for
a journey that would take them to Nicaragua,
Central America. ·
I was a member of this student delegation,
along with Karen Cogley, Lawrence Guemt,
Kathleen Solano, and Scott Stark. Our
destination was Telpaneca, Nicaragua, a rural
community not more than ten miles from the
Honduran border, and our purpose was to assist in
the construction of an eleirentary school,
something much needed since the children in the
district had been struggling to learn in a o~room,
dirt-floored scoool.
· Our voluntary work brigade was part of the
Fresno/Telpaneca Sister City Project, an
educational/community bridge building effort.
The Nicaraguan government, directed by the
Sandinista Front of National Liberation (FSLN),
has initiated a revolutionary program producing
great strides in the areas of agriculture, education,
and health care. These efforts are blunted,
however, by the Contra-waged war.
The Honduran-based Contras bum crops,
has had to divert a great amount of its national
budget towards protection of the border. The
Contras are losing the war. If the United States
cut funding to them (US. funds are their main
source of survival), the counter-revolutionary
forces would cease to exist. .
Since July 19, 1979, the triumph of the
Sandinista revolution over the Somoz.an
dictatorship, Nicaragua is a non-aligned,
sovereign country, with a democratically elected
government The struggle there has prompted
many activists throughout the globe to protest
U.S. intervention in Central America and express
solidarity with the people of Nicaragua by
providing material and financial aid to as&st in
the birth of a free nation, Nicaragua libre.
The five of us were determined to be part of this
process to exchange ideas and human resources
instead of bombs and bullets.
We arrived in Managua, Nicaragua on July 9,
1989. At the airport we met Juanita Gomez, the
contact person who made the arrangements for our
brigade. We stayed the night and were told that
we would take the 5:00 a.m. bus to Telpaneca.
After seven long hours on a sometimes
motionless bus, as it had to struggle to steep
winding slopes, we reached Telpaneca. Shortly
after getting off the bus, we met Ramon, Mayor of
Telpaneca, and were driven through the
mountainous road to the health clinic where we
would spend the next seven days. We unpacked
our belongings and were taken to the school site,
about 200 yards from the clini~. After examining
the site we explored the lush, green, countryside
surounding the few houses that were visibfe
behind the many trees and plant that inhabited
the rain-forest abnosphere.
We were informed that our daily routine would
be, breakfast at 6:30 a.m., working on the school
until noon, breaking for lunch, and working the
remaining hours until it rained (apProximately
3:00 p.m. every day). After the ram stopped we
would sometimes explore the countryside and read
before dinner. By the time we finished eating it
was dark, since there was no electricity we would
sleep soon afterwards. For the most part, the
schedule remained the same, but we did, on
several occasions, meet with members of the
community to discuss how the community had
changed since the revolution and the role they
played in the dynamic process.
The next day we began work on the elementary
school which was promised to the parents'
committee by the Sister City Project.
Work on the school had already begun before
we arrived. People in the communityhad already
cut up the side of the mountain in order to level
the ground. The cement foundation had already
been laid and the frame was near completion.
Still, there was much more work that needed to be
done and we spent the next six days sawing,
hammering, digging, and transporting the r-eeded
lumber and other materials to the work site,
stopping only for food and sleep.
Withnard effort, help from community
members, and inspiration drawn from the
See TELPANECA,Page 4
CLAS Program gets two new profs
By James L Carrasco
Staff Writer
The faculty and students in the
Chicano and Latin American Studies
Department had an addition to their
family this semester.
Luz Gonzalez and Hisauro Garza
joined CLAS this semester and have
begun teaching classes.
Both had beginnings picking fruit
in the southwestern United States.
Gonzalez said that when she was
18, she had the English and Spanish
reading ability of a third-grader.
''I was determined that I was going
to make something of myself. I
wanted to become educated," she
said with pride shown in her hazel
eyes. ''I was tired of having to move
around so much. But I knew I was
going to make it"
Despite the fact that Hisauro
Garza's parents had five mouths to
feed as he was growing up, he
managed to do. well in school, made
it into college, and graduated at the
top of his class from the U.C. Santa
Cruz.
''It all began when I was 10 or 11
years old picking grapes in the
field," said Garza. ''I would look up
at the Anglo in the truck and wonder
'why are we down here and they up
there?'
"It was a real honor to earn such
high grades, but I owe it to my older
brothers who could afford to send me
to school. Since I was one of the
BLOOD
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Bush.
That's why I wanted to see blood
that morning I shaved. I lost track of
my purpose. As it turned out, I didn't
have to purposely cut myself after
all. The Bic shaver was so old, it
ripped my face apart anyway, and
there was blood everywhere, more
Y.Oun~, the family: was less
Gonzalez is teaching three classes Latinos in the United States."
aependant on me and I was able to this fall: CLAS 3, which she
Her 143 class, she said, attempts
leave the fields and attend school."
describes as an introduction to the
Luz Gonzalez has earned two
Chi
See NEW PROFS, page,
bachelor's degrees and is working on .,.."d_i_ver...,se_an_d_rich
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the dissertion for her doctorate in
de Septiembre
education through Arizona State Dieciseis
•
University.
After attending West Coast Bible
School for four years, she went to Los
Angeles to teach first grade for a
year and a half. She then came to
CSUF and earned a multiple subject
teaching credential.
Garza attended Hartnell Junior
College after graduating from high
school in Salinas.
Garza remembered keeping busy in
high school. He helped organize a
program "geared toward higher
education" for Chicano students and
their parents.
"I had a desire to help the
disadvantaged Hispanics and was
willing to do anything," said Garza.
'We would meet in homes and
discuss ways that would improve the
Olicano lifestyle. It was rough, but
it worked."
In 1987, Gonzalez went to Tucson,
Ariz. where she studied under her
mentor, Walter Doyle. Shortly after
returning to Fresno, she began
bilingual teaching at Aynesworth
Elementary.
Gonzalez said about being selcted
as one of the new CLAS instructors,
"I was really shocked. I put my
application in and was hired after
the interview."
than I had originally wanted.
It occurred to me that day, that
none of us ever have to be without a
purpose.
No matter what you're majoring
in, or where you go to study, even
what you do after college, the
Chicano movement and community
could use your help, and your
leadership. As long as you got the
blood, you got the purpose.
Hector Amezcua/IA Vaz tit Aztlbl
The downtown Dieciseis de Septiembre parade in Fresno last
Saturday attracted many people, but perhaps those who
enjoyed the most were the children. In a time when cultural
awareness is so valuable to our society it is good to see that
children like Sergio Valenzuela and hlS sister are anxious to
learn about the traaitions of their culture.
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CALENDARIO
o
CALENDARIO
Tuesday, Sept. 19 MEChA's
Chicano Youth Conference
Committee meets every Tuesday at 5
p.m. in Room 203 of the Joyal
Administration building.
The committee needs your ideas as
they plan the annual conference
which brings over 1,500 Central
i Valley high school students to CSUF
~ for a day of career and general
information workshops.
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Tuesday, Sept.19, 1989
Thursday, Sept. 21 Chicanos In
Law will feature the director of
admissions from San Joaquin Law
School at their meeting from 5 to 6:30
p.m. in
314.
General meetings for OL are held
every Thursday at 3:36 p.m. except
Oct. 5 which will be held at 5 pm.
On Friday, SepL 29, OL has
scheduled a field trip to U.C. Davis
and the McGeorge School of Law. ,
Call 224~933 or 294-3021 for more
information.
usu
Thursday, Sept. 21 will be the next
meeting of the Women's Alliance.
The meeting will be held in USU 320
at3p.m.
o
CALENDARlO
O
CALENDARIO
Saturday, Sept. 23 CSUFMEChA
will hold its annual Bienvenida
Dance Saturday, Sept 23 in the
CSUF Residence Dining Hall.
The dance is from 9 p.m. to
midnight Admission is free and
everyone is welcome!
MEChA meetings are held every
Thursday at 4 p.m. except the last
week of the month.
Meetings will generally take
place in the Univerisity Student
Union. For specific room numbers or
other information, please drop by
the MEChA booth in the free speech
area.
l.:! ~1!sl: : : !: 1
Monday, Sept 25 The Re-entry
Students Association meets today
and every Monday this semester
from noon to 1 p.m. in the Re-entry
lounge, Main Cafeteria West. For
more information call (209) 294-3046.
Monday, Sept. 25 Jon V. Conriquez,
president and chief executive officer
(CEO) of Trader's Financial Corp.,
will speak at the Hispanic Business
Student Association meeting.
O
CALENDARIO ° CALENDARIO
Everyone is invited to attend the
meeting which begins at 6 p.m. in the
Leon S. Peters Building, Room 192.
HBSA meetings take place every
other Monday this fall at 6 p.m. in
Room 192 of the Peters Building. The
next meeting is scheduled for
Oct.9.
lii !Dl.l!l l l l i!i:I
Saturday, Sept. 30The Ftfth
Annual Ernesto Moreno Memorial
Scholarship Banquet will be held at
the Golden State Plaza.
Donations for the event are $25 per
person or $250 per table of 10 and are
available by advance sales only. For
information call: (209) 294-2048 or
291-3938.
Staff Writer
On August 15, Fresno experienced a
first. Centro Bellas Artes, a cultural
center downtown, hosted the first all
Chicana art show in the Central
Valley.
Mary Vega, a trustee of Centro
Bellas Artes came up with the the
idea . for the art show titled,
"Imagenes de Mujers," Images seen
through the eyes of women.
Vega said there was a definite
need for women oi. color to· exhibit
their art work. '1 saw that there
had not been any repre9ffltation of
Hispanic women artists ancl ·1 knew
there were many out there.
'1magenes de Mujers" included
Chicana artists as young as five
years old. Centro Bellas Aries tries
to reach youth in every area. In
Vega's words, "Including children in
(209) 264-AIDS.
Sunday, Oct. 15 Bay Area P~
Choice Coalition and the National
Organization of Women will host
the largest pro-choice rally ever
held in San Francisco.
The pro-choice marchers will
assemble at 11 a.m. at Justine
Herman Plaza (Market and The
Embarcadero). They will begin
marching at noon ending up at the
Civic Center for a 1:30 p.m. rally.
For further information write: S.F.
NOW, P.O. Box 1267, San Francisco,
CA 94101 or phone (415) 861-8880.
Saturday, Oct. 7 is the third
annual Walk-A-Thon for the
Central Valley AIDS Team, one of
the their largest sources of
contributions.
·
The walk starts at 9:30 a.m. at
Cary Park, on Fresno St. just behind
the Fashion Fair mall.
. To register for the walk, write The
Central Valley AIDS Team, P.O.
Centro Bellas Artes sponsor Latina Art
By Laura Hernandez
Box 4640, Fresno, Calif. 93744, or call
A buspool is leaving Fresno for San
Francisco Sunday morning. Call
Fresno National Organization of
Women for details: 233-5150.
A portion of the proceeds from this
event will be used to send activists to
WashingtonD.C. onNov.15thfora
national pro-clloice rally.
TELPANECA
Continued &om page 3
determination that the local
Nicaraguans expressed for their
revolution, we were able to fully
The featured artists were Pamela
complete the modern, four-room
f1ores-Escobar,
CSUF
student,
school in Fresno's Nicaraguan sister
Sylvia Figueroa-Garcia, who works
city.
in the commu,ni.ty on Ple Dfa de Los
Our seci>nd day in Teipaneca was
Nu\os Festival, and CSUF instructor
spent visiting with Edgar, a
Cecilia Aranaydo.
representative of the fSLN and one
Figueroa-Garcia says she was not Artes.
of the ''politicos," as the people
sure at first that she wanted to
Much of Hernandez' art work
there commonly referred to
participate in the show because she deals with current issues facing
community and political leaders. He
had not done any recent work.
Chicanas. "Central America is
challenged us to learn all that we
"I was persuaded to show my prior another Vietnam being fought by . could about the politics of the
work and I am very glad that I did. I Latinas agams·t their own l>lood,"
community, toengageinconversation
feel it is a new beginning for me. I a<>id'l.J-.c....1ez.
withthecimens ofTelpanecain
now feel inspired to clraw again."
CK:'nlllliu
order to become aware of their
Figueroa-Garcia underlined one of
Hernandez' advke to young artists struggle. He said that the project
Vegas points when she said that is to get as much education as had thepotential ofcreatinga
most art sho~ exclude minority ~ible. "It is not enough to have specialbond, a brotherhoocl between
women.
talent, you must also know how to · two "l,ueblos," or communities.
The special guest artist of readr write, and express yot~rself on
Edgar exp.CS91.'1d what another
"lmagenes de Mujeres" was San paperdearly"
Nicaraguanmentioned tousearliel',
Franmco artist Esther Hernandez, a
Centro
Altes hopes to·make
that"Whereveryouaredoing
former valley resident.
'1magene de Mujeres" an annual solidarity work in Nicaragua, in
Hemmdez said that she has event.
Managua,Esteli,orTeJepaneca,you
areintheheartsof allNicaraguanS
advise- the- chair on parliamentary
whowishforpeace."
procedures.
He continued, "Ronald Reagan,
This year however, the senate has Continued from page 3
your president, always had us on his
decided that they do not want the to initiate an "understanding of the
mind. He was determined to desb'Qy
chair to make the appointment. multiple dimensions included in
us. But we Nicaraguans have much
Kathleen Solano chose Lawrence - bilingual, bicultural education." In
valor, we are a brave and
teaches problemdetermined people. Yes, Reagan had
Tovar, w h o has much senate her .145 class, she
.
us on his mind but never m· his heart!
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and provid es
expenence, 1s a
a ve mencan,
d t
.th
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Onbehalfof theNi'caraguan people
and who she feels comfortable stu en s wt up-to ate researc on
ki
·th
teaching.
who struggle on a daily basis to
wor ng WI •
Before graduating from UCSC,
advance the revolution, I give you a
The .Reality controlled senate has Garza attended the University of
hearty welcome, for you are in our
decided to ignore precedent this year Notre Dame in Indiana where he
hearts."
and have the senate make the studied under ulian Samora. From
On Wednesdavrughtwewere
appointment.
the mentorsrup, ne said he gamed a
visited by some soldiers who w~re
perspective a.bout
ne Chicano
stationed some 100 yards away trom
chose l{On Wells, who commum·ty tn· a t h e never thought
the d;n,c.
. The senate
n1
...... They had observed us
1s al
not o y an active
member of the ex1s
. ted . "My eyes were rea11y
working on the school and wanted to
R
b
e ity party ut who also ran opened."
extend their appreciation for the
against Solano in the elections. The
Garza also earned a bachelor's
ject
senate is either blatantly racist, degree in social work at U.C.
pro ·
Berkleley and worked in the
Editor's note: See next issue of La
bl
atan~
myopic,
blatantlv
Voz (Oct.16, 1989) 1orthe second
· or perhaps they
, department of sociology. In 1984,
,,
politic Y u nfarr,
the
part of Martinez's essay
where he
are just using the example of the after eaning his Ph.D., he won
will sh,..·e what the student
Go vemor and o thers w h o seemingly U.C. President's Post Doctoral delegation
... , learned from a meeting
reward such behavior. Just ask Vick.
F~T~ching CLAS 3- and CLAS with a Sandinista soldier and one of
5 Oucano culture this semester. _ __ Telpaneca's teachers.
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the show inspires them to go on with
their art."
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encountered obstacles in the art
world related to her gender and
ethnicity. ''Not enough respect is
given to women artists and to women
ingeneral."
Hernandez feels that doors are
opening up to Chicana artists thanks
to cultural centers like Centro Bellas
<>IA&
Bellas
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FORMULA
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political in nature, to appoint
someone who would ignore the will
of the students and try to hang on to
power for his conservative buddies
who weren't elected, is an affront to
our sense of fair political play.
But what really has Ia Vaz de
Aztldn concerned is the decision by
authorities at CSUF to reward Viele
with a teaching position.. It is
evidence of the administrations lack
of concern.
How do vou succeed at CSUF? Ask
Vick. Should students be afraid to be
blatantly
racist
or
politically
unfair? Ask Vick. The current
Reality controlled ASI senate has
clearly got the message and have
little concern for the ramifications of
their actions.
It has been the ASrs consistent
practice of having the legislative
vice president, the chair of the
senate, appoint a parliamentarian to
help facilitate the meetings and to
Twenty years of La Raza pride continues
California State University, Fresno
Tuesday,Sept. 19, 1989
Protest update
Student attorney questions Task Force goal
By Hector Am~zcua
Staff Writer
Five CSUF students will be tried
Nov. 2 in the Fresno Municipal Court
for charges stemming from last
semester's protest in the Associated
Students offices in which twentyfour students were arrested.
President Haak responded to the
protesters by appointing a task force
made up of students, faculty, staff,
and administrators.
President Haak admitted in a
memorandum that "events on campus
have served to remind us that we at
the University are not immune from
~ues surrounding racial and gender
intolerance that have surfaced
~oss the country." This statemenJ,
~ s.ud, .~!tomey Jo~ Moore who IS
~efending the students, 'has been
mterp~~ed by. some to ~ a
recogrution of raasm on campus.
'"The S ~ Report. of ~e !ask
Force on Raosm and Sexism wntten
by members Lea Ybarra and Alex
~~es, recommended that the
cnmmal charges on students who
participated in the sit-in be droped.
The report also agreed that the
proposed changes in the student
government bylaws were indeed
aimed at limiting access to women
and minorities. .
.
The task force came back with a
written finding based on their
corroborated decision making process."
Green said '1t's just as hard in the
clasm>om not feeling apart of the
problem on campus.
social environment We want to come
Haak, however, ~ppointed Dave to the University· and feel like it's
investigation
Hecu AJ'DR'l013/u, Vcs a Azd6r
Norma Franco of CSUFs Danzantes de Aztlan performs the
dance "Colas" of Veracruz, Mexico at the Olicano and Latin
American Studies 20th anniversary banquet Saturday night
view on the issue of racism on
campus. According to Moore, ''Mr.
Cuadro denies that the task force
was correct in their findings."
Jose Lopez, administrative aid to
ASI
President
Karen
Cogley,
questions the objectivity of the
appointment.
"What is their criteria for
objectivity? Who decided that this
man was objective?" Lopez said.
Attempts were made by La Voz to
contact the current task force
Chairperson, but because of confusion
as to who the Chairperson is, no
comments were available about the
current position of the task force.
Nineteen of the students who were
arrested entered a plea of no contest.
". The other five students will
litigate the legality of the arrest
and prosecution.
'None of the people felt that
- they . were guilty of - any wrong
doing," said Moore. He said that
the reason why only five students
are being tried is that they wanted
to have a representative group of
volunteers to determine in court the
legalityofwhattheydid.
"By stopping the demonstration,"
said Moore "the administration
exen:ised a 1prior restraint of first
amendment rights.
Student Stacy Green one of the
students who is being tried said, "A
lot of the reasons that we have been
going through this process is because
we feel isolated. Decisions are made
and we are often left out of the
that
what the students said and infact
that their was a major racism
Cuardo
then hired employed
Dave Cuadro to conduct what he
said would be an "objective" point of
our University. We dont want to be
viewed as a special interest in the
University."
350 celebrate 20 years of growth
La Raza Studies becomes Chicano and_Latin .American Studie~
By Lisa Y. Flores
Co-Editor
The Chicano and Labn American Studies
PrC'gram of CSUF, formerly La Raza Studies:
ce.ebrated their twentieth anniversary Staurday
night at the Satelite College Union.
Over 350 supporters of the program attended
the formal event where dinner and entertainment
were provided.
·
'We are very pleased with the ~ o~t," ~d
Dr. Bill Flores. Because of space limitation, said
Flores, many who wanted to attend could not be
acommadated.
Many of the supporters in attendance we~
fonner CSUF Chicano students who were around m
the late 1960s and 1970s while the program's
existence }Vas constantly being threatened by the
CSUF administrators with abolition.
Said CLAS professor Dr. Jesus Luna, "Initally
when many of the these programs were set up,
hey were set up • to fatl. But the tremendous
support of the community aided in the further
evelopment of the program" •
"The event provides an opportunity to see
friends from the past and to showcase how far we
have come from the initial demostration days to
today," former CSUF student Manuel Olgin told
LaVoz.
Curent student Leader and ASI senator Andres
Montoya said it is also "a time for us to renew our
commitment to the struggle, and to remember that
we still need to fight for further gains."
Former student and Chicano activist Guadalupe
Acosta said that the event sends a message to the
general public that the Chicano movement is not
dead, but IS alive and well.
''The Chicano Movement is gaining momentum
once again, and it is occassions like this that we
see the great gains which we have made," Acosta
said.
The ·early struggle of La Raza studies was
echoed in several d isplays of publications and art
from the past twenty years. The display ~h~
the struggle Chicano students faced when fighh~g
for the establishment of the La Raza Studies
Program, as well as for a Chicano press, Currently
La Voz de Aztlan.
The evening included a slide show which
tracked the progress of the CLAS Program and the
Chicano movement over the last twenty years.
The slides showed the Chicano students who led
the struggle from the 1960s, to current student body
president Karen Cogley.
Page2
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1989
La VozdeAztL&s
LETTERS • EDITORIAIS • OPINIONS • LETIERS • EDITORIAIS • OPINIONS • LETTERS • EDITORIAIS
CSUF's formula for political success
Harold Haak knows racism. Last
semester after then student body
president Scott Vick introduced
legislation and bylaw changes to
student government taking power
away from the president- and
legislative
vice
president-elect
which for the first time in CSUF
history were won by Chitanas, and
after hundreds of students protested
the changes and after 24 were
arrested by campus police, President
Haak admitted on television that
racism exists on campus and is an
ugly thing, and must be stopped. We
agree.
That same day, meeting with a
rainbow of administrators, faculty,
staff and students, Haak set up a
task force to investigate charges of
racism and to make recommendations
on what should be done.
It appeared at that time that
Haak and the entire CSUF
administration were sincere in their
concerns,
however,
on closer
examination, it appears that they
now have little or no concern with
what occurred and perhaps never
did. Not only have the task force
recommendations been, in essence,
WtOred but the administration has
hlso demonstrated little enthusiasm
Do you have the blood?
~ D~el Chacon
Contributing Editor
As I was shaving one morning last
week with my used Bic razor, the
blade so dull that it felt as if the
hairs on my face were being pulled
out individually as the razor
dragged across my face, I had an
unexplainable urge to nick myself
and see blood spread throughout the
white shaving cream (much like a
baby white seal being killed in the
snow).
I don't think I really wanted to
feel the pain, I'm not a masochist or
anything like that, I just, for some
odd reason, wanted to see the blood. I
wanted to make sure I was still
alive.
It's usually around September,
when I'm getting reaquainted with a
school schedule, and begin to
regulate my time, that I start feeling
like a zombie or a robot. Every
activity has its appointed time:
sleep, eat, read. I begin to feel like
I'm not a human with the freedom of
choice at all, but rather I'm just a
program, doing certain things at
certain times.
I go to classrooms, where what I
acquire, further stimulates me to
structure my life after a pattern, a
learned pattern, which has many
roads but the most oft travelled
leads to assimilation and political
impotence.
I become like everyone else. I
think like everyone else. Or else I
cease thinking at all. My cultural
uniqueness becomes clouded to me-more nostalgic than real, and I start
remembering a grandmother who
cooked the best tamales in the
world.
I become a robot who lives, thinks,
and even dies for the things I've been
taught, even though those who
taught me may not have had
altruistic motives and who may
indeed be motivated by greed or
hatred or something ugly like that. I
become, as Diedrot wrote, one who,
in addressing the fault of those
involved in terms of racism.
It is, at very least, ironic that the
main actor in the the attempt to take
away the power of Karen Cogley and
Kathleen ~lano, the student elected
president and vice president of the
ASI, and transfer it • to the only
white conservative male who won an
executive P.?sition, should be
rewarded with a teaching position
atCSUF.
Scott Vick, last year's student
body president, is teaching public
speaking here, at CSUF. Twenty four
people were arrested by CSUF police
for standing up against the de facto
racism in Vick's actions, while Vick
is given a job, and a pretty good one
atthat.
It was a poor decision for the
governor of California not to let
Vick's actions as ASI president
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Chicano Students,
affect his decision in appointing him
to the CSU board of trustees, and it is
an obvious show of indifference on
his part, concerning the minority and
non-minority students who fight
racism. Even if Vick's actions were
not intended to be racist, but were
See FORMULA page 4
organizations. Please feel free to
come to the Associated Students
Office (University Student Union
Room 316) and get to know those who
represent you and want to work with
you. H there is anythin~ we can help
you or your organization with please
let us know.
We would like to welcome all new
without knowing what is written and returning Chicano and Chicana
above, that is, one who has no
students to CSUF. This coming school
purpose, makes choices based on year is a historical one for all
whim which we call reason, and
which soµ1etimes turns out bad and students of color. For the first time
Finally we want to thank MEChA
Chicano students will be represented
sometimes turns out good.
for the role it has played in building
When I, as a Chicano, cease to look in the Associated Student Senate. a strong coalition of students and
back at my past (where I came from} This represents a beginning for the providing
leadership
for
the
and feel deep-seeded connection and empowerment of Chicano students Chicano Movement on this campus.
responsibility to it, and instead feel and all others who have been We wish much success to La Voz de
a warm sentimental connection with traditionally locked out.
Aztldn and MEChA in celebration of
We would like to thank all the their twentieth year.
it (i.e. Grandma cooked such good
tamales}, and feel responsibilty only Chicano students who supported
to myself, then I serve no purpose UNITY-Students for Responsible
LAUNIONHACE LA FUERZA!
Government during the student
here at the university.
election
and
have
continued
to
It is at these times that I don't
really know if I'm alive. Last year, support us in our struggle for justice
Karen Cogley, ASI President
Dolores Huerta was beaten by San and equality. It was the combined
Katleen 'Solano, ASI Legislative
Francisco police at a "George Bush efforts of students of color that sent a Vice President
clear
message
to
the
campus
and
for President" rally (picture your
Diahann Hernandez, Senator-Atthat
racial
little Mexican abuela being viciously community
.
Large
Post #4
beaten with night sticks by several discrimination will not be tolerated
Andres
Montoya, Senator School of
helmeted policemen. That's exactly in our student government or in the Social Sciences
what it looked like. I saw it on adminstration.
Stacy Green, Senator Undeclared
As elected student representatives,
television}. I bet Huerta had no
Majors
question of whether or not she was we encourage you to get involved
Frank Aviles, Senator School ofalive, or whether or not she had a with student government and the Natural Sciences
progressive
campus
purpose at that time. She didn't need many
to cut herself shaving. She has the
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blood to prove mortality-blood that
not only spilled on the San Francisco
street that day, in front of our , ,.,.,. La Voz de Aztltin Staff-- Fall Se-mester 1989
president, but also blood that
organizes and helps run the United
Farm Workers Union.
Siding with the UFW is not a
Hernandez, Af Robles and
popular thing to do these days. The
propaganda efforts on the part of ;.i:;~ Photographer - Hector Amezcua
those against the farm workers is
such that very few want to identify t r Staff Artist- Jim Marquez
Production Assistant- Yolanda Murillo
themselves with it. Yet here is
Huerta, working for it, speaking orr
behalf of it, living for it, and willing
The staff of La Voz de Aztlan would like to extend a special thanks
to die for it. Why would she do such
to: Devin Swisher, Thor Swift, Alita Loe, Debbie Lorenzen and
a thing? She has purpose. As an
Michael S. Green, all of The Daily Collegian. La Voz de Aztlan
educated Chicana, she uses the
welcomes reader response. Please send letters of no more than 250
resources she has been equipped with
words to: La Voz de Aztldn, Keats Campus Building, California State
in the classrooms and out in the
University, Fresno, Fresno, Calif. 93740-0042. Letters must have
world, to benefit her community, not
author's name, address, phone number, and signature.
just herself. If she were self-seeking,
she would be working in a safe office
job, where San Francisco police would :.~.•.::_;_,._:~_:_;_; Sta~ ~::~:,;r~~~~e:e:;~!>'ffi~::::~~:'e!~~omia
not beat her, right in front of Presient . _;,;,;_ Building: Fresno, Calif., 93740. The opinions published on this page are not necessarily
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those of the Associated Students, Inc., The C>aily Colkgian or ui Voz de Aztliin and its
staff. Unsigned editorials are the majority opinion of the paper's editiorial board.
La Voz
u Az:tl4n
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1989
Page3
From Fresno to Telpaneca, Nicaragua
CSUFMEChA and LASC members help build school in sister city
destroy schools, health clinics, entire villages,
ByGeolKe Martinez
Ccmtribuling Writer .
and torture and kill innocent civilians. Due to the
atrocities committed by the Contras, Nicaragua
Editor's note: The following is the first part in a
three part series. In this edition, journey with five
CSUF students to Fresno's Nicaraguan sister city
where on the first leg of their jo,,mey they meet
"1' with local political letulns an4 settle in for
the tak at hMul: building o school in the nmrl
Telp,u,eam ,nm,ntoins.
On June 28, 1989 a group of five CSU Fresno
students, including MEChA and Campus Latin
American Support Committee members, set out for
a journey that would take them to Nicaragua,
Central America. ·
I was a member of this student delegation,
along with Karen Cogley, Lawrence Guemt,
Kathleen Solano, and Scott Stark. Our
destination was Telpaneca, Nicaragua, a rural
community not more than ten miles from the
Honduran border, and our purpose was to assist in
the construction of an eleirentary school,
something much needed since the children in the
district had been struggling to learn in a o~room,
dirt-floored scoool.
· Our voluntary work brigade was part of the
Fresno/Telpaneca Sister City Project, an
educational/community bridge building effort.
The Nicaraguan government, directed by the
Sandinista Front of National Liberation (FSLN),
has initiated a revolutionary program producing
great strides in the areas of agriculture, education,
and health care. These efforts are blunted,
however, by the Contra-waged war.
The Honduran-based Contras bum crops,
has had to divert a great amount of its national
budget towards protection of the border. The
Contras are losing the war. If the United States
cut funding to them (US. funds are their main
source of survival), the counter-revolutionary
forces would cease to exist. .
Since July 19, 1979, the triumph of the
Sandinista revolution over the Somoz.an
dictatorship, Nicaragua is a non-aligned,
sovereign country, with a democratically elected
government The struggle there has prompted
many activists throughout the globe to protest
U.S. intervention in Central America and express
solidarity with the people of Nicaragua by
providing material and financial aid to as&st in
the birth of a free nation, Nicaragua libre.
The five of us were determined to be part of this
process to exchange ideas and human resources
instead of bombs and bullets.
We arrived in Managua, Nicaragua on July 9,
1989. At the airport we met Juanita Gomez, the
contact person who made the arrangements for our
brigade. We stayed the night and were told that
we would take the 5:00 a.m. bus to Telpaneca.
After seven long hours on a sometimes
motionless bus, as it had to struggle to steep
winding slopes, we reached Telpaneca. Shortly
after getting off the bus, we met Ramon, Mayor of
Telpaneca, and were driven through the
mountainous road to the health clinic where we
would spend the next seven days. We unpacked
our belongings and were taken to the school site,
about 200 yards from the clini~. After examining
the site we explored the lush, green, countryside
surounding the few houses that were visibfe
behind the many trees and plant that inhabited
the rain-forest abnosphere.
We were informed that our daily routine would
be, breakfast at 6:30 a.m., working on the school
until noon, breaking for lunch, and working the
remaining hours until it rained (apProximately
3:00 p.m. every day). After the ram stopped we
would sometimes explore the countryside and read
before dinner. By the time we finished eating it
was dark, since there was no electricity we would
sleep soon afterwards. For the most part, the
schedule remained the same, but we did, on
several occasions, meet with members of the
community to discuss how the community had
changed since the revolution and the role they
played in the dynamic process.
The next day we began work on the elementary
school which was promised to the parents'
committee by the Sister City Project.
Work on the school had already begun before
we arrived. People in the communityhad already
cut up the side of the mountain in order to level
the ground. The cement foundation had already
been laid and the frame was near completion.
Still, there was much more work that needed to be
done and we spent the next six days sawing,
hammering, digging, and transporting the r-eeded
lumber and other materials to the work site,
stopping only for food and sleep.
Withnard effort, help from community
members, and inspiration drawn from the
See TELPANECA,Page 4
CLAS Program gets two new profs
By James L Carrasco
Staff Writer
The faculty and students in the
Chicano and Latin American Studies
Department had an addition to their
family this semester.
Luz Gonzalez and Hisauro Garza
joined CLAS this semester and have
begun teaching classes.
Both had beginnings picking fruit
in the southwestern United States.
Gonzalez said that when she was
18, she had the English and Spanish
reading ability of a third-grader.
''I was determined that I was going
to make something of myself. I
wanted to become educated," she
said with pride shown in her hazel
eyes. ''I was tired of having to move
around so much. But I knew I was
going to make it"
Despite the fact that Hisauro
Garza's parents had five mouths to
feed as he was growing up, he
managed to do. well in school, made
it into college, and graduated at the
top of his class from the U.C. Santa
Cruz.
''It all began when I was 10 or 11
years old picking grapes in the
field," said Garza. ''I would look up
at the Anglo in the truck and wonder
'why are we down here and they up
there?'
"It was a real honor to earn such
high grades, but I owe it to my older
brothers who could afford to send me
to school. Since I was one of the
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Continued from page 2
Bush.
That's why I wanted to see blood
that morning I shaved. I lost track of
my purpose. As it turned out, I didn't
have to purposely cut myself after
all. The Bic shaver was so old, it
ripped my face apart anyway, and
there was blood everywhere, more
Y.Oun~, the family: was less
Gonzalez is teaching three classes Latinos in the United States."
aependant on me and I was able to this fall: CLAS 3, which she
Her 143 class, she said, attempts
leave the fields and attend school."
describes as an introduction to the
Luz Gonzalez has earned two
Chi
See NEW PROFS, page,
bachelor's degrees and is working on .,.."d_i_ver...,se_an_d_rich
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the dissertion for her doctorate in
de Septiembre
education through Arizona State Dieciseis
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University.
After attending West Coast Bible
School for four years, she went to Los
Angeles to teach first grade for a
year and a half. She then came to
CSUF and earned a multiple subject
teaching credential.
Garza attended Hartnell Junior
College after graduating from high
school in Salinas.
Garza remembered keeping busy in
high school. He helped organize a
program "geared toward higher
education" for Chicano students and
their parents.
"I had a desire to help the
disadvantaged Hispanics and was
willing to do anything," said Garza.
'We would meet in homes and
discuss ways that would improve the
Olicano lifestyle. It was rough, but
it worked."
In 1987, Gonzalez went to Tucson,
Ariz. where she studied under her
mentor, Walter Doyle. Shortly after
returning to Fresno, she began
bilingual teaching at Aynesworth
Elementary.
Gonzalez said about being selcted
as one of the new CLAS instructors,
"I was really shocked. I put my
application in and was hired after
the interview."
than I had originally wanted.
It occurred to me that day, that
none of us ever have to be without a
purpose.
No matter what you're majoring
in, or where you go to study, even
what you do after college, the
Chicano movement and community
could use your help, and your
leadership. As long as you got the
blood, you got the purpose.
Hector Amezcua/IA Vaz tit Aztlbl
The downtown Dieciseis de Septiembre parade in Fresno last
Saturday attracted many people, but perhaps those who
enjoyed the most were the children. In a time when cultural
awareness is so valuable to our society it is good to see that
children like Sergio Valenzuela and hlS sister are anxious to
learn about the traaitions of their culture.
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CALENDARIO
o
CALENDARIO
Tuesday, Sept. 19 MEChA's
Chicano Youth Conference
Committee meets every Tuesday at 5
p.m. in Room 203 of the Joyal
Administration building.
The committee needs your ideas as
they plan the annual conference
which brings over 1,500 Central
i Valley high school students to CSUF
~ for a day of career and general
information workshops.
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Tuesday, Sept.19, 1989
Thursday, Sept. 21 Chicanos In
Law will feature the director of
admissions from San Joaquin Law
School at their meeting from 5 to 6:30
p.m. in
314.
General meetings for OL are held
every Thursday at 3:36 p.m. except
Oct. 5 which will be held at 5 pm.
On Friday, SepL 29, OL has
scheduled a field trip to U.C. Davis
and the McGeorge School of Law. ,
Call 224~933 or 294-3021 for more
information.
usu
Thursday, Sept. 21 will be the next
meeting of the Women's Alliance.
The meeting will be held in USU 320
at3p.m.
o
CALENDARlO
O
CALENDARIO
Saturday, Sept. 23 CSUFMEChA
will hold its annual Bienvenida
Dance Saturday, Sept 23 in the
CSUF Residence Dining Hall.
The dance is from 9 p.m. to
midnight Admission is free and
everyone is welcome!
MEChA meetings are held every
Thursday at 4 p.m. except the last
week of the month.
Meetings will generally take
place in the Univerisity Student
Union. For specific room numbers or
other information, please drop by
the MEChA booth in the free speech
area.
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Monday, Sept 25 The Re-entry
Students Association meets today
and every Monday this semester
from noon to 1 p.m. in the Re-entry
lounge, Main Cafeteria West. For
more information call (209) 294-3046.
Monday, Sept. 25 Jon V. Conriquez,
president and chief executive officer
(CEO) of Trader's Financial Corp.,
will speak at the Hispanic Business
Student Association meeting.
O
CALENDARIO ° CALENDARIO
Everyone is invited to attend the
meeting which begins at 6 p.m. in the
Leon S. Peters Building, Room 192.
HBSA meetings take place every
other Monday this fall at 6 p.m. in
Room 192 of the Peters Building. The
next meeting is scheduled for
Oct.9.
lii !Dl.l!l l l l i!i:I
Saturday, Sept. 30The Ftfth
Annual Ernesto Moreno Memorial
Scholarship Banquet will be held at
the Golden State Plaza.
Donations for the event are $25 per
person or $250 per table of 10 and are
available by advance sales only. For
information call: (209) 294-2048 or
291-3938.
Staff Writer
On August 15, Fresno experienced a
first. Centro Bellas Artes, a cultural
center downtown, hosted the first all
Chicana art show in the Central
Valley.
Mary Vega, a trustee of Centro
Bellas Artes came up with the the
idea . for the art show titled,
"Imagenes de Mujers," Images seen
through the eyes of women.
Vega said there was a definite
need for women oi. color to· exhibit
their art work. '1 saw that there
had not been any repre9ffltation of
Hispanic women artists ancl ·1 knew
there were many out there.
'1magenes de Mujers" included
Chicana artists as young as five
years old. Centro Bellas Aries tries
to reach youth in every area. In
Vega's words, "Including children in
(209) 264-AIDS.
Sunday, Oct. 15 Bay Area P~
Choice Coalition and the National
Organization of Women will host
the largest pro-choice rally ever
held in San Francisco.
The pro-choice marchers will
assemble at 11 a.m. at Justine
Herman Plaza (Market and The
Embarcadero). They will begin
marching at noon ending up at the
Civic Center for a 1:30 p.m. rally.
For further information write: S.F.
NOW, P.O. Box 1267, San Francisco,
CA 94101 or phone (415) 861-8880.
Saturday, Oct. 7 is the third
annual Walk-A-Thon for the
Central Valley AIDS Team, one of
the their largest sources of
contributions.
·
The walk starts at 9:30 a.m. at
Cary Park, on Fresno St. just behind
the Fashion Fair mall.
. To register for the walk, write The
Central Valley AIDS Team, P.O.
Centro Bellas Artes sponsor Latina Art
By Laura Hernandez
Box 4640, Fresno, Calif. 93744, or call
A buspool is leaving Fresno for San
Francisco Sunday morning. Call
Fresno National Organization of
Women for details: 233-5150.
A portion of the proceeds from this
event will be used to send activists to
WashingtonD.C. onNov.15thfora
national pro-clloice rally.
TELPANECA
Continued &om page 3
determination that the local
Nicaraguans expressed for their
revolution, we were able to fully
The featured artists were Pamela
complete the modern, four-room
f1ores-Escobar,
CSUF
student,
school in Fresno's Nicaraguan sister
Sylvia Figueroa-Garcia, who works
city.
in the commu,ni.ty on Ple Dfa de Los
Our seci>nd day in Teipaneca was
Nu\os Festival, and CSUF instructor
spent visiting with Edgar, a
Cecilia Aranaydo.
representative of the fSLN and one
Figueroa-Garcia says she was not Artes.
of the ''politicos," as the people
sure at first that she wanted to
Much of Hernandez' art work
there commonly referred to
participate in the show because she deals with current issues facing
community and political leaders. He
had not done any recent work.
Chicanas. "Central America is
challenged us to learn all that we
"I was persuaded to show my prior another Vietnam being fought by . could about the politics of the
work and I am very glad that I did. I Latinas agams·t their own l>lood,"
community, toengageinconversation
feel it is a new beginning for me. I a<>id'l.J-.c....1ez.
withthecimens ofTelpanecain
now feel inspired to clraw again."
CK:'nlllliu
order to become aware of their
Figueroa-Garcia underlined one of
Hernandez' advke to young artists struggle. He said that the project
Vegas points when she said that is to get as much education as had thepotential ofcreatinga
most art sho~ exclude minority ~ible. "It is not enough to have specialbond, a brotherhoocl between
women.
talent, you must also know how to · two "l,ueblos," or communities.
The special guest artist of readr write, and express yot~rself on
Edgar exp.CS91.'1d what another
"lmagenes de Mujeres" was San paperdearly"
Nicaraguanmentioned tousearliel',
Franmco artist Esther Hernandez, a
Centro
Altes hopes to·make
that"Whereveryouaredoing
former valley resident.
'1magene de Mujeres" an annual solidarity work in Nicaragua, in
Hemmdez said that she has event.
Managua,Esteli,orTeJepaneca,you
areintheheartsof allNicaraguanS
advise- the- chair on parliamentary
whowishforpeace."
procedures.
He continued, "Ronald Reagan,
This year however, the senate has Continued from page 3
your president, always had us on his
decided that they do not want the to initiate an "understanding of the
mind. He was determined to desb'Qy
chair to make the appointment. multiple dimensions included in
us. But we Nicaraguans have much
Kathleen Solano chose Lawrence - bilingual, bicultural education." In
valor, we are a brave and
teaches problemdetermined people. Yes, Reagan had
Tovar, w h o has much senate her .145 class, she
.
us on his mind but never m· his heart!
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and provid es
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Onbehalfof theNi'caraguan people
and who she feels comfortable stu en s wt up-to ate researc on
ki
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teaching.
who struggle on a daily basis to
wor ng WI •
Before graduating from UCSC,
advance the revolution, I give you a
The .Reality controlled senate has Garza attended the University of
hearty welcome, for you are in our
decided to ignore precedent this year Notre Dame in Indiana where he
hearts."
and have the senate make the studied under ulian Samora. From
On Wednesdavrughtwewere
appointment.
the mentorsrup, ne said he gamed a
visited by some soldiers who w~re
perspective a.bout
ne Chicano
stationed some 100 yards away trom
chose l{On Wells, who commum·ty tn· a t h e never thought
the d;n,c.
. The senate
n1
...... They had observed us
1s al
not o y an active
member of the ex1s
. ted . "My eyes were rea11y
working on the school and wanted to
R
b
e ity party ut who also ran opened."
extend their appreciation for the
against Solano in the elections. The
Garza also earned a bachelor's
ject
senate is either blatantly racist, degree in social work at U.C.
pro ·
Berkleley and worked in the
Editor's note: See next issue of La
bl
atan~
myopic,
blatantlv
Voz (Oct.16, 1989) 1orthe second
· or perhaps they
, department of sociology. In 1984,
,,
politic Y u nfarr,
the
part of Martinez's essay
where he
are just using the example of the after eaning his Ph.D., he won
will sh,..·e what the student
Go vemor and o thers w h o seemingly U.C. President's Post Doctoral delegation
... , learned from a meeting
reward such behavior. Just ask Vick.
F~T~ching CLAS 3- and CLAS with a Sandinista soldier and one of
5 Oucano culture this semester. _ __ Telpaneca's teachers.
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the show inspires them to go on with
their art."
·
encountered obstacles in the art
world related to her gender and
ethnicity. ''Not enough respect is
given to women artists and to women
ingeneral."
Hernandez feels that doors are
opening up to Chicana artists thanks
to cultural centers like Centro Bellas
<>IA&
Bellas
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political in nature, to appoint
someone who would ignore the will
of the students and try to hang on to
power for his conservative buddies
who weren't elected, is an affront to
our sense of fair political play.
But what really has Ia Vaz de
Aztldn concerned is the decision by
authorities at CSUF to reward Viele
with a teaching position.. It is
evidence of the administrations lack
of concern.
How do vou succeed at CSUF? Ask
Vick. Should students be afraid to be
blatantly
racist
or
politically
unfair? Ask Vick. The current
Reality controlled ASI senate has
clearly got the message and have
little concern for the ramifications of
their actions.
It has been the ASrs consistent
practice of having the legislative
vice president, the chair of the
senate, appoint a parliamentarian to
help facilitate the meetings and to