La Voz de Aztlan, October 15 1990
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La Voz de Aztlan, October 15 1990
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Associated Students of Fresno State
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La Voz de Aztlan (Daily Collegian, California State University, Fresno)
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Volume XXL Number V
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California State University, Fresno
Monday October 15, 1990
MINI-CORP
AIDES MIGRANT
CHILDREN
By Virginia R. Madrid
LA VOZ STAFF WRITER
The California Mini-Corp school
year programs at Fresno State are
full of purpose and expectation.
The school year program evolved
from the summer program. The
idea for a corp of people with a
rural migrant background to work
not only during the summer school
program was put into action in
1974.
Mini-corp students use their talents, dedication and work in the
migrant impacted class room and
are a link between the migrant
community and the school. The
mini-corp students get perso_nally
aquainted with the student and
his parents.
The purpose of the progaram is to
serve as migrant students. "We
are part of the umbrella of migrant education," saidJose Lomeli,
coordinator for California MiniCorp at Fresno State. The program also provides training for
mini-corp students who were migrants themselves to become professional educators, and develop a
sensitivity for migrant students
needs. The mini-corp students also
get training, in putting together
lesson plans.
"Teachertrainingis one ofour other
goals it's not one of our primary
goals. Our primary goal is to provide services to migrant children.
But it's another function to prepare sensitive bilingual educaters
to migrant children." said Irma
Marquez, associate-director for
California Mini-Corp based in
Sacramento.
The migrant students receive mentoring from the mini-corp students
and also develop a big brother role
model relationship. The mini-corp
students help the migrant students
feel compfortable with the schools
enviornment. Because of the cultural similarity that the mini-corp
student and the migrant students
share, the migrant student develops a better learning experience.
"Most of the administrators and
school districts are happy having
the mini-corp because in general
mini-corp have a good reputation."
Lomeli said.
"The students that are in the program come in with all kinds ofgood
experiences. The schools dont get
people who need to be trained by
the schools. They get people who
are already accomplished, and has
all kinds of skills." Lomeli said.
"They have the perfect background
to deal with the kinds of kids that
are out in the schools. Plus the
schools don't have to pay for the
mini-corp students. So it's one of
those situations were everybody
benefits."
The first priority in the training
process for the mini-corp student is
to be sensitive to the migrant students' needs and· ~ult-are. Their
culture is reenf'>rced by the minicorp student.
See CORP on page 8...
CIL HOLDS 12TH ANNUAL
LAW DAY CONFERENCE
By Cristina Medina
LA VOZ STAFF WRITER
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pon~;red bjCCNMA.,Fresno Chap-
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workshop students, reporters. editors
alism .. Students Association, The
neVy s bro~dca:sters and media reiate
resno Bee, The Visalia Times Delta,
pe~sons from all over California. Th
e Dow Jones Newspaper Fund,
guest speaker for the night is J u a
SU;-Fresno Department ofJournal~
Vasquez.a formerwritterforThe Lo
the ·Division of Student
ArigelesTimes, and now a networ
r.orrespondent for the CBS News i
See BANQUET on page 8...
Chicanos in law, a support group that
exposes members to opportunities in
the field of law, will co-sponsor wtih
help from ASI, Law Day Nov. 8.
Representatives from Arizona State
University, Mc George College oflaw,
and University of San Diego are among
the many schools that will set up booths
a long the balcony of the student union
from 8 a.m. to 4p.m.
In its 12th year, Law Day providdes an
opportunity for law schools t o recruit
students. Seminars and a samole Law
school claass will be held inthe ASI
s ,n te rooms.
Oscar Rubio, Chicanos in Law President, stresses that the lub is open to
all.
"We don't want to be known as an
exclusive club. We are the only prelaw club. We ar the only pre-law
club in the valley area. It is our duty
to be open to all," Rubio said. "We
try to be diverse and meet the
U niversitys needs."
EDITORIAL...
Page2
De Facto
Segregation
lwa11~dto,~~this:¥ditona1 ::others to-f ~e-:a~titiri''~o tha~:wemay·-·
There is a tragedy going on in
n th~Jirst issue · c;f La Voz de ·,,,]mow how to reacti:We musttake ac- . White America. It is destroying the
tlan;but du~ to tinie restraints tion first iil whateyer ·sitwition that , potential and the lives of Chicanitos as
wa~Jorced ~ --wait utitil:'how,to · \v..e find ourselves.in/ Whether.it be in ' well as other students o_fcolor and poor
rifoniyou of.La Voz'iin~wdirec.- .: the'barrio;:,i nt,befi~ldsoronaradst
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we
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campus,
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whites [note: When I use the word
"Whites" alone rm excluding poor
whites]. This tragedy is the education
sySt em. A system that isn't interested
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u~ editors y.ra:s· w~1( :~~nded. .,{~t1kingandsotlliitthey~bemade, Whites) also pay taxes.
ou;:rn~lists should make· }>etter\(aware ofithe 'artistic abmty:of·ltheL
Although we ar e in the 90's, stu-
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. oughts .s,.nd .tryµigtop~ovide
more ·editorials, ~ays/ ~#4.J Wleast + hiS to ry, cultureandrolemodels. Teachla~fonnforoµietjtodo thel:!atne; one pagtof Chicanppoetri4\:Ih\ iddi-<l ers make them write essays about the
·... ''-,qu:9µgh )>nt)lie'r.~stqf this ' tio11, we· ~ ~µIfeontinue 'til Worm < great White men that created a
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fwillbe·amonthlyjournal ofClji~/·to · writeJ.pjµs>#\gtee wi.thfais ' dis.: · culture. In fact, thP. education system
hfough '.,P(>~t.w. short
stQri~s:and ,":.·.:· . : " > ,._i_..
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the culturally and racially insensitive
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· ::;::;:::::'=·:: .: :':.':'.:==~==!2±1 tions; less positive teacher response
and more critcism. Also, in an article
in the Sociology of Education journal
Let'sProtests The Concrete
studies indicated that teachers looked
for and reinforced achievement-ori.:-,,:='t<=
'\,:,:
In the last week we've seen
a protest at the Joyal Administration building by members of
the Unity-SRGparty, objectingto
the wrongs committed by the Administration of this University
against the Unity party in studentgovernment. Ihavetwoquestions for the orchestrators of this
demonstration: Why not sooner?
d why not for another issue
·ust as legitimate?
The occurence of the protest was provoked by a stand-off
currently in progress between the
nity party, now in controli of
ASI senate, and the Administration. The ASI historically has
employedanAdministrativeAide.
· The Administrative Vice President (AVP), who works the closest with this Aide, usually picks
the person hired for this position.
This year, however, ASI presidentDonDaves, member ofUnity,
broke prec~dent when he circumvented the authority usually given
to the AVP, and hired his choice
for the Adminstrative Aide.
T.oni Castelli, the current AVP
protested, saying that the right to'
choose the AVP Aide has historically been the perogative of his
position. So instead of working
with Daves's choice for &de
Castelli has been working with
Nishon Najarian, even though
Nishon has not been hired as a
student assistant for the ASI.
The controversy comes about
when the Administration, repres~nted by Pat Work, ASI financial
consultant, and Bob Lundal, associate dean of Student Affairs and ASI
advisor, authorized payment for
Nishon's services out of ASI funds
thereby circumventing Daves' au~
thority. Daves, through the vagueness of the ASI bylaws, has assumed
the power to decide who is a student
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get me wrong, this is an issue that
should be protested and should be
brought to the attention of the students here on campus. The Administration had no right to do what it
did, and we as part of the locked-out
people on this campus have an obligation to join in with the members o
Unity-SRG and oppose this outrage.
But why not sooner? Why not
sooner when there have been just as
many important and pertinent issues, issues deserving the attention
of this issue, from before the beginning of the fall 19~0 semester? For
instance, why is there a complete
under representation ofChicano and
African-Americanfaculty?Why have
the efforts of the different department and the administration as a
whole been lax when r ecruiting
p eople of color for open positions?
While this area of the country is
la:::g,:ily Raza, cur CSUF history department has only one Chicano professor. The English department is in
the same, having only one Chicano
... see Protest paoe 4
ented behaviors in White students more
often than in students of color. Although some teachers might not be
· intentionally or consciously teaching
with this attitude, it is happening and
the Chicano & Afrir.an American communities have to deal with the detrimental emotional & psychological side
affects that these attitudes are having
on our children. One of these side
affects is low selfesteem. Despite these
barriers, White politicians, White
educators, Wnitepeopleingeneral the
Vendidos (sellout Chicanos) and 1 the
Uncle Toms continue to say that Students of color can "make it" if they try.
rm amazed that any people of color
"make it" at all considering the de-
October 15,1990
structive, so called, learning environment that they are exposed
to.
For those students who
live in and attend schools in the
low income communities which
are mainly populated with
people of color (often referred to
by Whites as the "bad part of
town") there is another barrier
to face. The children from the
so called "bad parts of town"
have to suffer the injustice of
over crowded class rooms, inadequate heating and cooling
systems, and limited or no access to math books, computers,
other academic materials, uniforms for sports or band, and
musical instruments. For some
strange reason these schools
aren't getting thP, funds that
they need in order to provide a
condusive learning environment for students of color.
Apparently on the "good
side oftown" (where mainly the
Whites live) they are able to
provide schools that far exceed
the quality of those schools that
non white students are for ced
to attend. When school boards
(which are usually White)
obonld be rlistri.butiri.g t he
monies ina more equitable manner, they seem to be providing
the "good schools" with more
money. Clovis West High in
Fresno is one example ofa school
for the White priveleged. This
school looka like a junior college. They have the best of
everything and why shouldn't
they? After all, most of their
. students are White.
_
Fresno has tried to mask
this inequality by building
Edison Comput ech on the
Edison High campus which is
located in the West side (poor
side of town). Now there is a
good school on the "bad side of
town" with computers, excellent teachers and quality academic materials. The only catch
is that a lot of the students that
attend Edison Computech are
being bussed over from the "good
side of town." Moreover , this
SeeEDUCATION on page 4 ...
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,? Co~tributi~~ Writei:s: Frank Aviles, Mark Anthony
Alvid~ez, Darnel Chacon,and Andres Montoya
Special Thanks toSylvia Castro, and Pat Boylan and Jasop.
. Carr91l .of the Daily Collegian
.
. La Voz deAztlan is published monthlybythe.Assodated Students Inc. of
Ca1ifom1aS~t~ University, Fresno. The newspaper office is located in the Keats
Campus Buudmg. Fresno, CA 93740-0042. The opions published on thi
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October 15,1990
What's on the Chicano Horizon?
As I walk around campus, I often ask myself, are the 80's truely
over? Is the Chicano Movimiento
that died in the eighties still dead,
oris it alive and kicking somewhere
out there? Is the decade ofla bala de
plata really over? What should be
the direction ofChicanos in the 90's?
Should we forget the struggle and
assimilate into american society,
will they let us, do really want to?
Why does this elitist group of Chicanos, myself included, known as
university students forget our mothers and fathers in the fields, los
vatos and rucas struggling in the
barrios, and especially the little Chicanitos in the class rooms of our
racist educational system? These,
along with many other questions,
still remain unanswerd . .
First, I must say that the eighties are finally over thank God. I am
also glad to say that a lot of us are
once again proud of being Chicanos
and not HI-SPanICS. To know that
the pride, identity and self
respect,that was once taken away
. from us in the Reagan decade, is
now slowly but surely coming back,
and coming back strong. Such
events as the Chicano Moratorium
in Los Angeles last August and just
recently the Mexico-U.S. symposyum here at the university along
with groups such as CWAA,
MEChA, CLASE and Chcanos in
Law, to name only a few, are proof
of the new unity of Chicanos here
on campus. These groups are here
expressly for us Chicanos to let
ourselves grow acadamically and
spiritually. With this new unity
we need to totaly restructure this
present politicat and socio- economic system, we need to act now.
I personally would like to think
that the decade ofla bala de plata
is really over. I don't want to see
anymore brown people sellingtheir
souls to "The System" for a few
dollars. To see them on television
advocating and supporting the
exploitation of all brown people
here in the United States.
In his lecture here at CSUF,
Chicano artistMalaquiasMontoya
spoke ofthe social responsabilities
of the Chicano artist, which were
to maintain their form and craft
out of the greedy hands of the
giant advertising agencies that
work for big business. These social
responsabilities also pertain to any
Chicano that graduates from this
university and "makes it."
By the way what does happen
to all those Chicanos tnat "make it',
anyway? After they receive their
B.A and or M.A, it seems that the
Earth somehow swallows them
whole or is it the system that swallows them but kind of gets them
stuck in its throaght and calls them
hispanics? But the ones that aren't
hispanics·; · wh~re are they? They
can't all be here at Fresno State
·teaching, can they? I often wonder
if they are out there, but are being
suppressed by their employers or
organizations. Is the media not
letting us recognize our own positive role modeles? We need to go
out there and locate them and use
them.
It bas taken us too long to get
Chicano studies into the University, it is now that we need these
courses in the middle schools and
high schools through out all of
California. We need for our little
· Chicanitos that are being promoted
from grade to grade to do so with
pride. Fresno State University is
on its way to getting a Chicano
studies major, why shouldn't we go
on to individual majors in literature and art and history etc? We
I must have looked like a Chicano Socrates. I walked down the
cement stairs to the pit during
lunch, waving my hands in the
air, mumbling to myself "Why?
Why?WHY???"
Students were lounging beneath the red, white, and blue
umbrellas as if they were at the
beach or some swanky outdoor
cafe on the pier-sunglasses and
blonde hair and white teeth and
tanned skin blurred by me as I
went through the automatic glass
doors into the cafeteria. I ordered
a tuna sandwhich from a girl
named Judy who I had met at
Summer Bridge. As she was plopping a glop of gooey tuna on my
bread, she looked into my searching eyes, stopped what she was
doing,andasked what was wrong.
"Life is meaningless," I said.
"It has no purpose."
Judy seemed surprised that I
would say this. " Are you serious?" she asked me.
"No meaning," I assurred her.
"I mean, what the hell's the
use?There's no point to our lives.
We might as well be fish. In fact,
we're no better off than that tuna
your scraping up from that metal
pan."
She looked down at my
sandwhich, then she looked
around the cafeteria as if she
might spot something that would
prove me wrong.
"So what are you saying?" she
said. "I'm going to school for nothing? My father worked his ass off
in the fields for nothing?Just to
get me here? Just so you can declare my life-my existencemeaningless?"
"Well..."
"Look,Dan. I'm really sorry
things may not be going well for
you. But my life has plenty of
meaning."
"No it doesn't. Youjustthinkit
does."
"You're ajerk," she said.
She shoved the sandwhich at
me and told me that I was hopeless. She was right. I was hopeless. I felt like eating my last meal,
walking up to the Peter's Building, all the way to the very top,
above the sixth floor, and I telt
like throwing myselfdown, Jumping off. I would splatter like chery
Jello on the asphalt path below,
all over trees,and the faces and
legs of people walking by.
Why was I so unhappy? Why
didn't I have Judy's perspective?
I mean, we are the same, Judy
and me. I'm from a poor background. My father had to work
his ass off. I am the only one in my
family to make it to the university.
Hey, Chicano, remember over 30
years ago? You wanted to study your
culture and your history at the university, because you had become
equipped with New Consciousness, a
New Awareness. You knew that you
were too important to be ignored.You
started La Raza studies at Fresno
State, and even though you were
threatned and fired by racist administrators, you kept going, kept struggling, fighting, because you knew that
you were an emerging giant ofa people
Pedro Garcia
editorials con safos.
You are Alicia Anguiano who
spends afternoons sitting in the
ampitheater under the sun, studying, and dreaming of semesters at a
University in Mexico. You are Lisa
Rocha who takes long walks talking
tent as a second or third class citizen. and list~ning to your friend Tamara.
You are Frank Aviles, and you
You knew that the false illusion that
the Southwest belonged entirely to were attacked by drunk frat boys as
the Anglos was fading into the clear you were walking through campus
New Picture of Aztlan, the land of late one night with your friend Salyour indigenous ancestors, the Land vador Cuevas. You are the Chicaof Hope, the land stolen from Mexico nos who are the butt ofracial slurs on
by the Treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo-a the bathroom walls and in the
treaty that promised but denied the freespheech area; but you are also
rights of the Mexican and indiginous Ralph Avitia, Ron Castillo, Genoveva Islas, and Marta Velasco
populations.
You knew that this New Vision of fighting racism in the senate.
You are Juana Perez from Aguas
Aztlan was a place where you will not
be oppressed by a "dominate culture," Calientes. You are a freshman. You
where you will be the dominate cul- came through Summer Bridge. You
ture.You will not live in poverty. You are Albertina Soto and Ramiro
will not die in the fields and factories. Teran and Ana Diaz and you are the
You will not be left out of the univer- Sanchez brothers, Celestino and
Frank. You are Evangelina Martisity experience.
Now you are the Chicano-Latin nez who writes poetry in Spanish.
You are Manuel Cortez who
American Studies Department of
CSUF. You are internationally re- makes sketches in a notebook that
spected as a place for research. You are good enough and important
enough to be on canvas and on the
have published many books.
You do not belong to the university, walls ofart museums.You are Frank
the university belongs to you.You are Barbosa who feels a heart-deep comhigher education. You are the stu- mitment to yourfamily and your gente
dents who formed the Chicano Writ- . You are Mike Espino who will not
ers Artists Association (CWAA), be defeated.
You are todos de los "Perros de la
and have poetry readings underneath
the stars, guerilla poetry, in the spirit Raza." You like to have fun. You are
the Danztantes de Aztlan, you are
of El Theatro Carnpesino.
Take a look at yourself, Chicano. Colmena U niversitaria Hispania You
See who you are. In the early morn- are Rauls, Moreno and Diaz of the
ings you are the small man in a white UMS-you are the UMS. You are
Tijuana hat who sweeps wet leaves Proud of your culture. You listen to
from the parking lot you like it when Los Tigres del Norte and Vincente
you feel the steam from your coffee Fernandez and M.C. Hammer and
going up your nose, because it makes Bobby Brown and REM and Santana
you feel warm and at home. You are and Juan Serrano and Led Zepplin
Dr. Rueben Sanchez, the first ten- and Armanda Miguel and Prince and
ure-track Chicano in the English de- Kid Frost and Public Enemy.
You are existentialist intellectupartment of CSUF, the advisor of
CWAA You are editor of the Daily als. You are Gene Uruttia, Julio
Collegian ChrisHer~dia, and though Leal, Teresa Navarro, and Jesse
you are criticized for having too many Aleman. You are Jill Soltero-you
ads and too much sports coverage, - wear red and black UFW t-shirts to
your heart aches at the sight ofracism
...see LIFE page 5
and homophobia, and you sign your
Hey, Chicar:,o, yoythr). lt~ge:becon. I
has no. meaning.
By Daniel Chac6n
are finally taking our education
seriously and not just as a way to
escape the Chicano class.
At present we ally ourselves
with other minorities groups, would
the Chicanos benefit if these ties
were to be broken so that these
changes that we want to see will
come into fruition at a faster rate
or should we keep our alliance and
make sure that no one gets left
behind? Should we seggrigate ourselves from the rest of american
society and become our own power
or should we assimilate and become HI-SPanICS.
I know I really didn't answer
any of my own questions but instead asked more. This editorial
was written so that all you out
there along with myself can hear
from each other and exchange our
ideas through the paper if not in
person and so that this collective
unity of Chicanos can bring about
the much needed changes.
October 15,1990
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I am the Aztec angel
fraternal partner
of an orthodox society
where pachuco children
hurl stones ...
Luis Omar Salinas
The Aztec in Chicano
Literature
Who is this Aztec guy? This
strong image is often called an esoteric beast in Chicano literature and
art. These ancient people· guide
Chicanos through their art form
today. The Aztec image is used in
Chicano literary journals, art, and
even Chicano publishing companies
use the symbol. A critic may think
the Chicano's use of the Aztec image
could expose a triteness. However,
Chicanos use this image as an inspiration.
When I was a child, my mother
would take me to the bakery (Mexi-
cano) on Sunday morning after
church. At this bakery, there were
calendars with paintings of Aztecs
pinned to the walls that were also
cluttered with pinatas and pictures
ofsingers. ThepicturesoftheAztec
women and men usually intrigued
me. Years passed, but at the same
bakery, the calendars that I had
once admired were now gone. The
colorful featherd men and women
were now gone. Where were they I
asked myself over and over? I
would later find out in college that
the Aztecs were all around. My
fellow Chicano brothers and sisters
possessed the spirits which were
once conquerd by the Spaniards.
There are no Aztecs living in
Fresno or on any other city here in
the valley. The Aztecs are gone
period; yet they live in Chicano literature today. It has been a while
since fve seen a calendar with Aztec
paintings, but I could always read a
poem, short story, and novel written
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by a Chicano for the spiritual influence.
As a begining Chicano writer,
my Aztec images reflect my yearning
for the freedom of our people. The
Aztecs were oppressed by the Spaniards and Chicanos today can find
themselves in the same situation. Our
ties to these ancient indians are thick
and cannot be severed.
Tonatiuh International, Publishers of Chicano Literature, uses the
Aztec image in their books. This
publishing company published
Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me tntima"
and his several drawings of pyramids
and calendars. New Visions ofAztlan,
a Chicano literary journal from Riverside, California uses the Aztec images
as well. The first issue has a beautiful
sketch of an Aztec and a pyramid.
This is a new journal for Chicano writers and artists. There is a new publisher named Charlie Trujillo who has
started bis own company in the Bay
area. He calls his company Chusma
Publishing. Charlie uses a stone
Aztec head for the company symbol.
These examples illustrate how infuential the Aztec is to the Chicano.
Chicano literature speaks of the
real and the surreal. The surrealism
in our literature isn't taken very serious by the literary circles. Chicano
folklore also plays its part in our literature. The mythology of the Aztec
gods such as Quetzalcoatl influences
Chicanos to write differently. In
Aztec art we see stone carvings of
skulls, sacrificial temples, highly
advanced calenders, stone serpent
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heads, and even a rabbit giving to an
Eagle Knight.
There is nothing
morbid about the Aztec image. It is
full oflife, death, and beauty.
Chicano wri~rs and artists want
to grasp the beauty of the Aztec culture. It is hard, especially when you
can barely understan~ their civilization. Using the Aztec image is more
like soul searching. In every Chicano
there is a Stone Aztec god waiting to
be born. That is how Chicanos feel
about their art and literature.
Mark Anthony Alvidrez
PROTEST continued from page 2...
professor. While the Chemistry department has NO! Chicano instructors.
Why wasn't this protested and
brought to the attention of the people
by the Vangaurd of Unity. This is a
problem that has been with us since
the first Chicano went to college. This
is a problem that affects every single
Chicano student on Campus, a concrete issue, not an abstract issue created by simple power politics in student government that can hopefully
have at least a symbolic reference.
What about aauirine- more slots for
EOP, so that more African-Americans and Chicano and Southeast
Asians and Native Americans can
attend this Campus? Concrete issues! This is what we should have
been protesting from the start of
school. But instead we get the same
'ol political reassurances that these
issues are being dealt with and not
until their own symbolic power is
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directly threatened do we see a demonstration of force by the Vanguard,
Unity.
As I said before we as Chicanos
should support this issue, this symbolic struggle for emancipation. But
more importantly we should b~ finding our representatives in SRG (they
can be found many times in the Free
Speech area) and encouraging them
to confront the issues, out in the open,
in whatever way that will bring about
justice. Let them know! Let them
know so that they will never be able to
claim ignorance. We must make our
issues known, the time for silence and
back room politics is not now, we must
take our movement by the reigns, and
ride forward.
WE ARE THE
PEOPLE!! Viva La Raza! Y-Que!
C/S
EDUCATION contin. from page 2...
school ( at the junior high level) requires that students take a test in
order to be accepted into the program. If students from the West side
haven't been provided with a proper
early education how are they suppose
to pass this test? Apparently most of
the students of color in that community are being locked out this school of
academic excellence which was originally built for them. The community
is given an illusion of a school in the
low income area that's providing
access and a proper education for
students of color, when in actuality
they have a magnet school, Edison
Computech, mainly for the White and
a Edison High for people ofcolor both
on the same campus.
There is something wrong when
students of color can't attend a good
school that should have been built for
them. There is somethingwrongwith
this White system. No wonder the
drop out rate in the Chicano & African American communities have skyrocketted. Some Brown and Black
youth are turning to drugs, gangs,
and violence because they are frustrated and angry with the system.
This system continues to deny them
access to a culturally diverse academic curriculum, adequate materials and a positive ler;:raing environment. How are they suppose to "make
it?" If any person of color is going to
"make it" in this White racist educational system, it is not going to be because of equal opportunity or an equal
access to education. Students ofcolor
might "make it" because of luck, a
miracle or because there are Brown
or Black hands there to pull them up.
The Chicano and African American
communities on this campus need to
be some of those hands.
Frank Aviles
ESteban Villa
an0bthe11'◊hic~n&:k~ists dis~u~,s tt~; beauty J'
Ezequiel Lee Orona's "Metropolis Yirgin".
LIFE continued from page...3
work, and buttons that say "Viva
LaMujer."
You are the the writer of these
words.
Sometimes you fail to look at
yourself and where you are. The
things around you all have meaning-Hershel the Cowboy Preacher
who screams God's word in the
freespeech area- the little lady
Mary who pulls aluminim cans out
of the trash
--and remember Danny Enriquez playing guitar in the Free
Speech area, how he used to walk
up to you and give you the Chicano
handshake as ifyou were brothers
separated for too long.
These all have meaning: The
U.S.-Mexico Conference: the big
parties at near-by apartments like
the Meadow Woods, The Californians, The Park Woods: the speech
by Malaquias Montoya who said
that Chicano art must be an art of
protest, it must reflect and advance
the struggle: the new MEChA booth
with the Eagle on it: the public
affairs program on KFSR (the
Campus radio station), and the
Sunday night sh ow called Musica
Chicana hosted by Los Night Owls
ltichard Delgado and Matt
Polanco:the CWAA's reader's theatre production of original plays
writting by Chicano CSUF students; and their production of
Lament for the Death of Ignacio
Sanchez Mejia. All these things matter. These too have meaning.
I was seated in the darkest
corner of the cafeteria eating my
tuna. Every time I lifted the
sandwhichmyfingers would poke
a hole in the bread, and juices
would squirm down my arm like
streams of non-fat milk.
Across from rows of tables
where students ate and socialized as if they were in a beer commercial, I saw Judy talking to her
shift supervisor. She was listening to him talk, and she nodded
her head up-and-down at what he
said. She removedherworkapron
and held it in her hands, listening
to him. The supervisor patted
Jurly on the shoulder as if to say
"Good job," and he walked off.
Judy got a plastic cup, filled it
with ice, and poured soda into it.
She walked past the cashier and
looked around for a place to sit,
an empty table.
I waved my hand from the very
farthest corner hoping that she
would join me, and she saw me
immediately. She waved back. She
kept looking around for a place to
sit, so I waved at her again, this
time with both hands. She got the
message and reluctantly walked
over to my table.
"Are you still here, Socrates?"
she asked.
"I'm sorry about that, all that
stufflsaid,Judy.rve been thinking about it-and you're right.
There is meaning. I justsomehwere along the line-lost
sense of it. That's all."
"Well..." She sipped from the
top of her soda, smacked her lips
at the taste, and said "Oh, all right.
You're forgiven."
She sat on the chair across the
table from me. We just sat there,
not saying anything,just looking
around the cafeteria at the different people. All the different
people.
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Chicano Poetry
Abuelita
the sun on my . back
My 1st grade teacher said that Columbus discovered America and the
Indians too.
Abuelita said the Indians were never losl and neithe1· was America.
Abuelita said I have no gun so I must draw pictures of a White man
discovering our people and our land.
The policeman stopped my brother-in-law, Juan, the other day
to check if he had insurance, but he didn't.
He can't afford insurance cause he has three kids, a pregnant wife (Lupita)
and a minimum wage job . .
So they took away his license and fined him $400.
Abuelita said Juan has no gun so he must pay his ticket and try to bum
rides to work.
The poison on the orange trees made !1ami sick.
She threw-up and her face turned like a red balloon.
She doesn't complain cause they might fire her.
AbueHta said Mami doesn't have a gun so she must put cream on her
face and keep on picking oranges.
iMy~fsister.
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dn, t
Lupita,
The doctor wouldn't admit her in the hospltal cause she didn't have
roe~i;~~1u:; h~~a~~he i;:i;·i~c~he emergency room and it accidently died.
:~~:i: :
i llke it
when· the
•·• sun ·
. hits my back;
like the hand of
god
slapping me,
':Jl)al<-ing me feel .
<llke a man~
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The neighbors don't like my Abuelita so they took her to court today.
They said she didn't have papers, or a green card but she did.
The judge wanted to see her papers.
Abuelita told the judge she didn't have to show him anything.
He said she had to go back to Mexico where she belonged.
Abuelita had a gun so she pulled it out and shot the judge, neighbors,
teacher, policeman, !1ami' s boss, the principal, the doctor and the
President too.
Then she reloaded her gun, put it back in her purse, gently grabbed my hand,
and we walked out quietly. ·
Frank Pancho Aviles
"Hijo del Sol"
A
carnival
brown,
black,
laughing,
playing·,
no one real izi ng
that in the
nights of
. '
amer1ca
brown and black
are colors of death,
depress i on.
all but cognizance at this
carnival,
all but sadness and understanding,
all but revolutionaries
and romantics.
only the fabricated reality
of america.
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October 15,1990
Chicano Poetry
a tour
The Vineyards
tried not to be illusive or vague
or abrstract,
So I wondered into a garden to
collect myself,
and to sort out what has happened
so far.
The grape fights that my brother
and I
had wi t h our friends in the hot
days of October.
To walk in the water filled
di t hches between the
dark gre en rows of the old Tokay
vines
in the warmth of the mid day's
sun,
The ditch es that my black dog
Rebel and I
woul d break while wrestling
that I woul d later have to fix when
it was time
to go out with dad.
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Out in t he bi g empty solar beh i nd
our house
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playing baseball with all of my
'---~
friends
after sch ool and fighting over
the cool looking rootbeer cans
I
wi th the little ,._ _.
pa ndas on them,
my frie nds they didn't care if we:•••••••••••••••••••••••••••:
won or lost,
: thesky
bymarkanthonyalvidrez
•
but I hated l oosing, I still do .. . •
:
: with her fat arms the moon
:
To go ba ck and give life to all the : caressed me until a point where
:
l ittle birds
• i wanted to dance to an afrikan
•
tha t I SHOT and KILLED,
: beat.
:
so tha t ~ hen _I hear one sing I : the white owl people sang lullabies:
won t cringe and ~eel
: to the babies of the dark while
:
ashamed and helpless like they : omar salinas read poems to poets :
were
• of dawn,
•
when I took aim and SHOT.
: all this happened you see.
:
: you can't.
:
God i w ish i could go back,
: who can?
•
wish i didn't understand and
• only death crazed chicanos who
:
could go .back
: dream
:
to those l ush green .grape gardens,: not american but of revolutions.
:
Go back and hit my best friend • i didn't care about revolutions at :
Tony right smack
: the time,
•
in his eye with a fat red juicey : the moon was my love with the
:
grape,
: dark
:
wrestle w i th Rebel until the small: hair she had, those brown eyes
:
ditch was
• brought out my lycanthrope tenden-•
. the size of a small canal,
: ci es.
:
1t would take me a half hour to • the stars spoke to stars
:
hose the dark
: that were dead .
:
brown mud off of myself outside : the Aztec ange l kept reading.
:
on
: stone gods came alive and
•
the yard befor e ama wou ld l et me • graded ou r lives .
:
.
go
: th ey talked like po liti cians w i t h
:
into the house.
: salt water in their lying mouths.
:
: all this happened you see.
:
and wish i could play baseball all:you still can't.
:
day
• maybe you never will.
•
••
next to my home
•• nobody knows.
and never hear a little bird sing : only death crazed chicanos with
:
again.
: dreams of revolutions .
:
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bymarkanthonyalvirdez
at night, tonight, I decide to
write a poem.
.
I will not let the summer heat or
the winter's air bother my creativity
that flows through my often called
sick mind.
I will not speak of racists that
dwe 11 around me.
the actions of cesar chavez are
absent
as well.
my words are not about a woman I
don't
posses in my shallow heart.
the grotesque images of rainbows,
fluffy
clouds, and pretty smiles will not
be found here.
I will not lie about footsteps along
a gravely polluted beach with
hypodermic
needles attempting to dliute our
pure blood.
I will not.
I'm writing a poem.
a poem where I dance under a hot
moon.
my partner is the dead mexicana
from ta)es passed down generations.
graves near and beyond have our
names
upon them.
a corrido in the background speaks
of a
a man who is blank in my mind.
this is not a dream.
it is a place.
a place · where cucarachas do
cartwheels in the sky.
wh'ere god answers to God .
there is no boycott here.
I will not ban anything.
I never have I never will.
this ; poem is about my life.
a quiet place full of noises.
there is life and death about.
death mostly,
but then again, what else is there?
October 15,1990
CALENDARIOCALENDARIO
i=-=...J,.;:~-=1=5_.;;...•There will be a
tudent rally and protest today at
2:30. Check the MEChA booth for
ore information.
EChA High Outreach Commite will hold a general meeting
day on the benches in fromt of
he Cafeteria, from 6-7p.m. For
ore information contact Beatriz
t227-2482.
'J!ES 16: The C.Y.C.
will hold a gemeral
day at the Joyal Ad·on Building room 203,
£'ES 17:
EChA will hold a general
eeting today at the U.S.U. room
02, at 4:00p.m. Everyone is
elcomed!
hicanos in Law will hold a
eneral meeting today at 5:30p.m.
'll'E
18: C.H.O. will
old a general meeting today at
e U.S.U. room 312 from 235:30:30p.m. For more information
CORP continued from page 1...
The second priority is education.
"We feel that the more education
they get the more training in different areas, the more effective
they'll be with the migrant student," Lomeli said.
The mini-corp student is taught
bow to set up a lesson plan, how to
teach accorqingto the lesson plan,
and is trained in communitcation
skills. The students are also
trained in curriculumn and academics.
However the main focus of the
contact Manuel at 432-4548.
'VI'E$9{'ES 19: "Find Out
What's Happening in Cuba Today"
Latin America Support Committee
will be sponsering a slide show and
discussionby Jack Pit to be held at
the Unitarian Church 4144 N.
Millbrook, at 7:00pm.
S52L'B.9L1JO 20:
"Confrencefor
Bilingual Educators" will be held
today and October 27 at the upstairs
cafeteria room 200, from 9:105:00p.m. For more information call
Lydia Montelongo at 278-2381.
2'ef.jl!R'1'£5 23: The C.Y.C.
committee will hold a general meeting today at the Joyal Administration Building room 203, at 5:00p.m.
Afl'E'RCOL'ES 24: The.CLS
Dept. will hold an information
meeting for students intrested in
persuing a PH.D, today at the
U.S.U. room 302, from 1-3p.m.
There will be a general MEChA
meeting today. Check the MEChA
booth for time and place.
Chicanos in Law wil hold a general
meeting today at 5:30p.m.
ralist and instructor at San Francisco Art Institute, will hold a
lecture today at the Industrial Art
Bldg. rooml0l, from 6-8p.m.
Career Fair will be held today at
the Fresno Conv1mtion Center, from
l0·0O
_4 .00
· a.m. · p.m.
S52L'B.9L1JO 2 7: The second half ;Jvl[4!R.P£5 G: The C.Y.C. comof the "Confrence For Bilingual
Educators" will be held today at the
Upstairs Cafeteria room 200, from
9:00a.m.-5:00p.m. For more information contact Lydia Montelango at
278-2381
1JOAff;J{{jO 28: "Mexico:
Rediscovery of an Artist's Roots"
Eduardo Carrillo, a professor of art
at the University of Santa Cruz,
will hold a iecture today at the
Conly Art Building room 101, from
6-8p.m.
;Jvf.91!RTES 30: The C.Y.C.
committee will hold a general meeting today at the Joyal Administration Building room.203, at 5:00p.m.
mittee will hold a general meeting
today at the Joyal Administration
Building rot>m 203, at 5:00p.m.
The CLS Department will hold a
meeting for students intrested in
completing a minor in Chicano
Studies or Latin American Studies
at the U.S.U. room 308, at
12:00p.m.
Afl'E(R.COL'ES 7:
"Grass-
Represantative Maria Toj from
Guatemala will speak today at
CSUF. Check for details.
There will be a general MEChA
meeting today. Check the MEChA
booth for time and place.
Chicanos in Law will hold a general
meeting today at 5:30p.m.
Afl'E$.COL'£5 31: Chicanos J'll'E'VES 8:
in Law will hold a general meeting
Chicanos in Law
and Associated Students will be
holding the 12th Annual Law Day
from 9a.m.to 3:00p.m. at the U.C.U.
room 312-314. Everyone is welcomed to attend.
today at 5:30p.m.
NOVIE.M13RE.
'Vf'E'R7'{'ES 26: "Ojos de
Lucha-A Chicana perspective"
Juana Alicia, a San Francisco mumini-corp training is t e reenforrnent of self esteem. They teach
"Yo Puedo", a self esteem enhancement activity for the migrant students.
Migrant Education is a federal program. And funding comes from the
federal government. In Washington, the government dispurses the
money to the states. In turn, the
money is dispursed to the counties.
According to Marquez there are an
estimated 4,000 students who benefit from this program.
Having Fresno State in the valley
helps the large consitration of mi-
S52L'B.9l.1JO 3: The Northern
California Affirmative Action
grant students with programs such
as these two, coordinated by Liz
Gamez and Jose Lomeli. The state
of California has a total of 20 programs each with an average of 20
students.
There is a strict criteria to get in
the program. "We prefer that they
be bilingual. They have to be able
to speak one of the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, or Punjabi, with a minimum
G.P.A of2.5attheuniveristy. Come
from a migrant backround with an
interest in teaching. And finally
they have to be full time students,
and also show a financial need,"
said Marquez.
CONTINUED from page 1...
Miami.
Seventeen students will be presented with scholarships at the banquet. Among the students there
were severe} Fresno State student~:
Cristina Medina, Rinee Mitchell,
Eloisa Estrada, and Virginia R.
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Chicano artists .during his lee~
turewhich ·wa·s
p,art ofJl:1.e,. l.J_
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·Mexican·: Sy:·mpo~
sium.
.
Eu'.:evio Arias/La Voz du Aztlan
.
The purpose of the workshop was
to get more minority students in
the media. The workshop taught
students betterwritingtechinques,
how to conduct interviews, and
techniques for the disign and production of a neMipaper:
The date for the banquet is Nov.
9 at the Fresno County Plaza in
downtown Fresno from 6 p.m. to 1
a.m. Tickets for the banquet are
$25. Those interested in attending
the banquet should contact Tom
Uribes at (209) 278-5366.
Volume XXL Number V
DZ
California State University, Fresno
Monday October 15, 1990
MINI-CORP
AIDES MIGRANT
CHILDREN
By Virginia R. Madrid
LA VOZ STAFF WRITER
The California Mini-Corp school
year programs at Fresno State are
full of purpose and expectation.
The school year program evolved
from the summer program. The
idea for a corp of people with a
rural migrant background to work
not only during the summer school
program was put into action in
1974.
Mini-corp students use their talents, dedication and work in the
migrant impacted class room and
are a link between the migrant
community and the school. The
mini-corp students get perso_nally
aquainted with the student and
his parents.
The purpose of the progaram is to
serve as migrant students. "We
are part of the umbrella of migrant education," saidJose Lomeli,
coordinator for California MiniCorp at Fresno State. The program also provides training for
mini-corp students who were migrants themselves to become professional educators, and develop a
sensitivity for migrant students
needs. The mini-corp students also
get training, in putting together
lesson plans.
"Teachertrainingis one ofour other
goals it's not one of our primary
goals. Our primary goal is to provide services to migrant children.
But it's another function to prepare sensitive bilingual educaters
to migrant children." said Irma
Marquez, associate-director for
California Mini-Corp based in
Sacramento.
The migrant students receive mentoring from the mini-corp students
and also develop a big brother role
model relationship. The mini-corp
students help the migrant students
feel compfortable with the schools
enviornment. Because of the cultural similarity that the mini-corp
student and the migrant students
share, the migrant student develops a better learning experience.
"Most of the administrators and
school districts are happy having
the mini-corp because in general
mini-corp have a good reputation."
Lomeli said.
"The students that are in the program come in with all kinds ofgood
experiences. The schools dont get
people who need to be trained by
the schools. They get people who
are already accomplished, and has
all kinds of skills." Lomeli said.
"They have the perfect background
to deal with the kinds of kids that
are out in the schools. Plus the
schools don't have to pay for the
mini-corp students. So it's one of
those situations were everybody
benefits."
The first priority in the training
process for the mini-corp student is
to be sensitive to the migrant students' needs and· ~ult-are. Their
culture is reenf'>rced by the minicorp student.
See CORP on page 8...
CIL HOLDS 12TH ANNUAL
LAW DAY CONFERENCE
By Cristina Medina
LA VOZ STAFF WRITER
.· gli;iialislli
ribe~'.
~m tJ
W<>rk~ll§~ .aiitcied -by r ~ta-~ets~n_o, •···n·tuher1~mb·_ees..d__ia".~aj~:.ia~tj,l
The ~i;,;,~p w~s co-
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l
pon~;red bjCCNMA.,Fresno Chap-
. i.I'he banquent will also hb'nor th .
r ; the CSU, Fresno Chicano Jour-
workshop students, reporters. editors
alism .. Students Association, The
neVy s bro~dca:sters and media reiate
resno Bee, The Visalia Times Delta,
pe~sons from all over California. Th
e Dow Jones Newspaper Fund,
guest speaker for the night is J u a
SU;-Fresno Department ofJournal~
Vasquez.a formerwritterforThe Lo
the ·Division of Student
ArigelesTimes, and now a networ
r.orrespondent for the CBS News i
See BANQUET on page 8...
Chicanos in law, a support group that
exposes members to opportunities in
the field of law, will co-sponsor wtih
help from ASI, Law Day Nov. 8.
Representatives from Arizona State
University, Mc George College oflaw,
and University of San Diego are among
the many schools that will set up booths
a long the balcony of the student union
from 8 a.m. to 4p.m.
In its 12th year, Law Day providdes an
opportunity for law schools t o recruit
students. Seminars and a samole Law
school claass will be held inthe ASI
s ,n te rooms.
Oscar Rubio, Chicanos in Law President, stresses that the lub is open to
all.
"We don't want to be known as an
exclusive club. We are the only prelaw club. We ar the only pre-law
club in the valley area. It is our duty
to be open to all," Rubio said. "We
try to be diverse and meet the
U niversitys needs."
EDITORIAL...
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in the Sociology of Education journal
Let'sProtests The Concrete
studies indicated that teachers looked
for and reinforced achievement-ori.:-,,:='t<=
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In the last week we've seen
a protest at the Joyal Administration building by members of
the Unity-SRGparty, objectingto
the wrongs committed by the Administration of this University
against the Unity party in studentgovernment. Ihavetwoquestions for the orchestrators of this
demonstration: Why not sooner?
d why not for another issue
·ust as legitimate?
The occurence of the protest was provoked by a stand-off
currently in progress between the
nity party, now in controli of
ASI senate, and the Administration. The ASI historically has
employedanAdministrativeAide.
· The Administrative Vice President (AVP), who works the closest with this Aide, usually picks
the person hired for this position.
This year, however, ASI presidentDonDaves, member ofUnity,
broke prec~dent when he circumvented the authority usually given
to the AVP, and hired his choice
for the Adminstrative Aide.
T.oni Castelli, the current AVP
protested, saying that the right to'
choose the AVP Aide has historically been the perogative of his
position. So instead of working
with Daves's choice for &de
Castelli has been working with
Nishon Najarian, even though
Nishon has not been hired as a
student assistant for the ASI.
The controversy comes about
when the Administration, repres~nted by Pat Work, ASI financial
consultant, and Bob Lundal, associate dean of Student Affairs and ASI
advisor, authorized payment for
Nishon's services out of ASI funds
thereby circumventing Daves' au~
thority. Daves, through the vagueness of the ASI bylaws, has assumed
the power to decide who is a student
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get me wrong, this is an issue that
should be protested and should be
brought to the attention of the students here on campus. The Administration had no right to do what it
did, and we as part of the locked-out
people on this campus have an obligation to join in with the members o
Unity-SRG and oppose this outrage.
But why not sooner? Why not
sooner when there have been just as
many important and pertinent issues, issues deserving the attention
of this issue, from before the beginning of the fall 19~0 semester? For
instance, why is there a complete
under representation ofChicano and
African-Americanfaculty?Why have
the efforts of the different department and the administration as a
whole been lax when r ecruiting
p eople of color for open positions?
While this area of the country is
la:::g,:ily Raza, cur CSUF history department has only one Chicano professor. The English department is in
the same, having only one Chicano
... see Protest paoe 4
ented behaviors in White students more
often than in students of color. Although some teachers might not be
· intentionally or consciously teaching
with this attitude, it is happening and
the Chicano & Afrir.an American communities have to deal with the detrimental emotional & psychological side
affects that these attitudes are having
on our children. One of these side
affects is low selfesteem. Despite these
barriers, White politicians, White
educators, Wnitepeopleingeneral the
Vendidos (sellout Chicanos) and 1 the
Uncle Toms continue to say that Students of color can "make it" if they try.
rm amazed that any people of color
"make it" at all considering the de-
October 15,1990
structive, so called, learning environment that they are exposed
to.
For those students who
live in and attend schools in the
low income communities which
are mainly populated with
people of color (often referred to
by Whites as the "bad part of
town") there is another barrier
to face. The children from the
so called "bad parts of town"
have to suffer the injustice of
over crowded class rooms, inadequate heating and cooling
systems, and limited or no access to math books, computers,
other academic materials, uniforms for sports or band, and
musical instruments. For some
strange reason these schools
aren't getting thP, funds that
they need in order to provide a
condusive learning environment for students of color.
Apparently on the "good
side oftown" (where mainly the
Whites live) they are able to
provide schools that far exceed
the quality of those schools that
non white students are for ced
to attend. When school boards
(which are usually White)
obonld be rlistri.butiri.g t he
monies ina more equitable manner, they seem to be providing
the "good schools" with more
money. Clovis West High in
Fresno is one example ofa school
for the White priveleged. This
school looka like a junior college. They have the best of
everything and why shouldn't
they? After all, most of their
. students are White.
_
Fresno has tried to mask
this inequality by building
Edison Comput ech on the
Edison High campus which is
located in the West side (poor
side of town). Now there is a
good school on the "bad side of
town" with computers, excellent teachers and quality academic materials. The only catch
is that a lot of the students that
attend Edison Computech are
being bussed over from the "good
side of town." Moreover , this
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October 15,1990
What's on the Chicano Horizon?
As I walk around campus, I often ask myself, are the 80's truely
over? Is the Chicano Movimiento
that died in the eighties still dead,
oris it alive and kicking somewhere
out there? Is the decade ofla bala de
plata really over? What should be
the direction ofChicanos in the 90's?
Should we forget the struggle and
assimilate into american society,
will they let us, do really want to?
Why does this elitist group of Chicanos, myself included, known as
university students forget our mothers and fathers in the fields, los
vatos and rucas struggling in the
barrios, and especially the little Chicanitos in the class rooms of our
racist educational system? These,
along with many other questions,
still remain unanswerd . .
First, I must say that the eighties are finally over thank God. I am
also glad to say that a lot of us are
once again proud of being Chicanos
and not HI-SPanICS. To know that
the pride, identity and self
respect,that was once taken away
. from us in the Reagan decade, is
now slowly but surely coming back,
and coming back strong. Such
events as the Chicano Moratorium
in Los Angeles last August and just
recently the Mexico-U.S. symposyum here at the university along
with groups such as CWAA,
MEChA, CLASE and Chcanos in
Law, to name only a few, are proof
of the new unity of Chicanos here
on campus. These groups are here
expressly for us Chicanos to let
ourselves grow acadamically and
spiritually. With this new unity
we need to totaly restructure this
present politicat and socio- economic system, we need to act now.
I personally would like to think
that the decade ofla bala de plata
is really over. I don't want to see
anymore brown people sellingtheir
souls to "The System" for a few
dollars. To see them on television
advocating and supporting the
exploitation of all brown people
here in the United States.
In his lecture here at CSUF,
Chicano artistMalaquiasMontoya
spoke ofthe social responsabilities
of the Chicano artist, which were
to maintain their form and craft
out of the greedy hands of the
giant advertising agencies that
work for big business. These social
responsabilities also pertain to any
Chicano that graduates from this
university and "makes it."
By the way what does happen
to all those Chicanos tnat "make it',
anyway? After they receive their
B.A and or M.A, it seems that the
Earth somehow swallows them
whole or is it the system that swallows them but kind of gets them
stuck in its throaght and calls them
hispanics? But the ones that aren't
hispanics·; · wh~re are they? They
can't all be here at Fresno State
·teaching, can they? I often wonder
if they are out there, but are being
suppressed by their employers or
organizations. Is the media not
letting us recognize our own positive role modeles? We need to go
out there and locate them and use
them.
It bas taken us too long to get
Chicano studies into the University, it is now that we need these
courses in the middle schools and
high schools through out all of
California. We need for our little
· Chicanitos that are being promoted
from grade to grade to do so with
pride. Fresno State University is
on its way to getting a Chicano
studies major, why shouldn't we go
on to individual majors in literature and art and history etc? We
I must have looked like a Chicano Socrates. I walked down the
cement stairs to the pit during
lunch, waving my hands in the
air, mumbling to myself "Why?
Why?WHY???"
Students were lounging beneath the red, white, and blue
umbrellas as if they were at the
beach or some swanky outdoor
cafe on the pier-sunglasses and
blonde hair and white teeth and
tanned skin blurred by me as I
went through the automatic glass
doors into the cafeteria. I ordered
a tuna sandwhich from a girl
named Judy who I had met at
Summer Bridge. As she was plopping a glop of gooey tuna on my
bread, she looked into my searching eyes, stopped what she was
doing,andasked what was wrong.
"Life is meaningless," I said.
"It has no purpose."
Judy seemed surprised that I
would say this. " Are you serious?" she asked me.
"No meaning," I assurred her.
"I mean, what the hell's the
use?There's no point to our lives.
We might as well be fish. In fact,
we're no better off than that tuna
your scraping up from that metal
pan."
She looked down at my
sandwhich, then she looked
around the cafeteria as if she
might spot something that would
prove me wrong.
"So what are you saying?" she
said. "I'm going to school for nothing? My father worked his ass off
in the fields for nothing?Just to
get me here? Just so you can declare my life-my existencemeaningless?"
"Well..."
"Look,Dan. I'm really sorry
things may not be going well for
you. But my life has plenty of
meaning."
"No it doesn't. Youjustthinkit
does."
"You're ajerk," she said.
She shoved the sandwhich at
me and told me that I was hopeless. She was right. I was hopeless. I felt like eating my last meal,
walking up to the Peter's Building, all the way to the very top,
above the sixth floor, and I telt
like throwing myselfdown, Jumping off. I would splatter like chery
Jello on the asphalt path below,
all over trees,and the faces and
legs of people walking by.
Why was I so unhappy? Why
didn't I have Judy's perspective?
I mean, we are the same, Judy
and me. I'm from a poor background. My father had to work
his ass off. I am the only one in my
family to make it to the university.
Hey, Chicano, remember over 30
years ago? You wanted to study your
culture and your history at the university, because you had become
equipped with New Consciousness, a
New Awareness. You knew that you
were too important to be ignored.You
started La Raza studies at Fresno
State, and even though you were
threatned and fired by racist administrators, you kept going, kept struggling, fighting, because you knew that
you were an emerging giant ofa people
Pedro Garcia
editorials con safos.
You are Alicia Anguiano who
spends afternoons sitting in the
ampitheater under the sun, studying, and dreaming of semesters at a
University in Mexico. You are Lisa
Rocha who takes long walks talking
tent as a second or third class citizen. and list~ning to your friend Tamara.
You are Frank Aviles, and you
You knew that the false illusion that
the Southwest belonged entirely to were attacked by drunk frat boys as
the Anglos was fading into the clear you were walking through campus
New Picture of Aztlan, the land of late one night with your friend Salyour indigenous ancestors, the Land vador Cuevas. You are the Chicaof Hope, the land stolen from Mexico nos who are the butt ofracial slurs on
by the Treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo-a the bathroom walls and in the
treaty that promised but denied the freespheech area; but you are also
rights of the Mexican and indiginous Ralph Avitia, Ron Castillo, Genoveva Islas, and Marta Velasco
populations.
You knew that this New Vision of fighting racism in the senate.
You are Juana Perez from Aguas
Aztlan was a place where you will not
be oppressed by a "dominate culture," Calientes. You are a freshman. You
where you will be the dominate cul- came through Summer Bridge. You
ture.You will not live in poverty. You are Albertina Soto and Ramiro
will not die in the fields and factories. Teran and Ana Diaz and you are the
You will not be left out of the univer- Sanchez brothers, Celestino and
Frank. You are Evangelina Martisity experience.
Now you are the Chicano-Latin nez who writes poetry in Spanish.
You are Manuel Cortez who
American Studies Department of
CSUF. You are internationally re- makes sketches in a notebook that
spected as a place for research. You are good enough and important
enough to be on canvas and on the
have published many books.
You do not belong to the university, walls ofart museums.You are Frank
the university belongs to you.You are Barbosa who feels a heart-deep comhigher education. You are the stu- mitment to yourfamily and your gente
dents who formed the Chicano Writ- . You are Mike Espino who will not
ers Artists Association (CWAA), be defeated.
You are todos de los "Perros de la
and have poetry readings underneath
the stars, guerilla poetry, in the spirit Raza." You like to have fun. You are
the Danztantes de Aztlan, you are
of El Theatro Carnpesino.
Take a look at yourself, Chicano. Colmena U niversitaria Hispania You
See who you are. In the early morn- are Rauls, Moreno and Diaz of the
ings you are the small man in a white UMS-you are the UMS. You are
Tijuana hat who sweeps wet leaves Proud of your culture. You listen to
from the parking lot you like it when Los Tigres del Norte and Vincente
you feel the steam from your coffee Fernandez and M.C. Hammer and
going up your nose, because it makes Bobby Brown and REM and Santana
you feel warm and at home. You are and Juan Serrano and Led Zepplin
Dr. Rueben Sanchez, the first ten- and Armanda Miguel and Prince and
ure-track Chicano in the English de- Kid Frost and Public Enemy.
You are existentialist intellectupartment of CSUF, the advisor of
CWAA You are editor of the Daily als. You are Gene Uruttia, Julio
Collegian ChrisHer~dia, and though Leal, Teresa Navarro, and Jesse
you are criticized for having too many Aleman. You are Jill Soltero-you
ads and too much sports coverage, - wear red and black UFW t-shirts to
your heart aches at the sight ofracism
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and homophobia, and you sign your
Hey, Chicar:,o, yoythr). lt~ge:becon. I
has no. meaning.
By Daniel Chac6n
are finally taking our education
seriously and not just as a way to
escape the Chicano class.
At present we ally ourselves
with other minorities groups, would
the Chicanos benefit if these ties
were to be broken so that these
changes that we want to see will
come into fruition at a faster rate
or should we keep our alliance and
make sure that no one gets left
behind? Should we seggrigate ourselves from the rest of american
society and become our own power
or should we assimilate and become HI-SPanICS.
I know I really didn't answer
any of my own questions but instead asked more. This editorial
was written so that all you out
there along with myself can hear
from each other and exchange our
ideas through the paper if not in
person and so that this collective
unity of Chicanos can bring about
the much needed changes.
October 15,1990
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I am the Aztec angel
fraternal partner
of an orthodox society
where pachuco children
hurl stones ...
Luis Omar Salinas
The Aztec in Chicano
Literature
Who is this Aztec guy? This
strong image is often called an esoteric beast in Chicano literature and
art. These ancient people· guide
Chicanos through their art form
today. The Aztec image is used in
Chicano literary journals, art, and
even Chicano publishing companies
use the symbol. A critic may think
the Chicano's use of the Aztec image
could expose a triteness. However,
Chicanos use this image as an inspiration.
When I was a child, my mother
would take me to the bakery (Mexi-
cano) on Sunday morning after
church. At this bakery, there were
calendars with paintings of Aztecs
pinned to the walls that were also
cluttered with pinatas and pictures
ofsingers. ThepicturesoftheAztec
women and men usually intrigued
me. Years passed, but at the same
bakery, the calendars that I had
once admired were now gone. The
colorful featherd men and women
were now gone. Where were they I
asked myself over and over? I
would later find out in college that
the Aztecs were all around. My
fellow Chicano brothers and sisters
possessed the spirits which were
once conquerd by the Spaniards.
There are no Aztecs living in
Fresno or on any other city here in
the valley. The Aztecs are gone
period; yet they live in Chicano literature today. It has been a while
since fve seen a calendar with Aztec
paintings, but I could always read a
poem, short story, and novel written
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by a Chicano for the spiritual influence.
As a begining Chicano writer,
my Aztec images reflect my yearning
for the freedom of our people. The
Aztecs were oppressed by the Spaniards and Chicanos today can find
themselves in the same situation. Our
ties to these ancient indians are thick
and cannot be severed.
Tonatiuh International, Publishers of Chicano Literature, uses the
Aztec image in their books. This
publishing company published
Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me tntima"
and his several drawings of pyramids
and calendars. New Visions ofAztlan,
a Chicano literary journal from Riverside, California uses the Aztec images
as well. The first issue has a beautiful
sketch of an Aztec and a pyramid.
This is a new journal for Chicano writers and artists. There is a new publisher named Charlie Trujillo who has
started bis own company in the Bay
area. He calls his company Chusma
Publishing. Charlie uses a stone
Aztec head for the company symbol.
These examples illustrate how infuential the Aztec is to the Chicano.
Chicano literature speaks of the
real and the surreal. The surrealism
in our literature isn't taken very serious by the literary circles. Chicano
folklore also plays its part in our literature. The mythology of the Aztec
gods such as Quetzalcoatl influences
Chicanos to write differently. In
Aztec art we see stone carvings of
skulls, sacrificial temples, highly
advanced calenders, stone serpent
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heads, and even a rabbit giving to an
Eagle Knight.
There is nothing
morbid about the Aztec image. It is
full oflife, death, and beauty.
Chicano wri~rs and artists want
to grasp the beauty of the Aztec culture. It is hard, especially when you
can barely understan~ their civilization. Using the Aztec image is more
like soul searching. In every Chicano
there is a Stone Aztec god waiting to
be born. That is how Chicanos feel
about their art and literature.
Mark Anthony Alvidrez
PROTEST continued from page 2...
professor. While the Chemistry department has NO! Chicano instructors.
Why wasn't this protested and
brought to the attention of the people
by the Vangaurd of Unity. This is a
problem that has been with us since
the first Chicano went to college. This
is a problem that affects every single
Chicano student on Campus, a concrete issue, not an abstract issue created by simple power politics in student government that can hopefully
have at least a symbolic reference.
What about aauirine- more slots for
EOP, so that more African-Americans and Chicano and Southeast
Asians and Native Americans can
attend this Campus? Concrete issues! This is what we should have
been protesting from the start of
school. But instead we get the same
'ol political reassurances that these
issues are being dealt with and not
until their own symbolic power is
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directly threatened do we see a demonstration of force by the Vanguard,
Unity.
As I said before we as Chicanos
should support this issue, this symbolic struggle for emancipation. But
more importantly we should b~ finding our representatives in SRG (they
can be found many times in the Free
Speech area) and encouraging them
to confront the issues, out in the open,
in whatever way that will bring about
justice. Let them know! Let them
know so that they will never be able to
claim ignorance. We must make our
issues known, the time for silence and
back room politics is not now, we must
take our movement by the reigns, and
ride forward.
WE ARE THE
PEOPLE!! Viva La Raza! Y-Que!
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EDUCATION contin. from page 2...
school ( at the junior high level) requires that students take a test in
order to be accepted into the program. If students from the West side
haven't been provided with a proper
early education how are they suppose
to pass this test? Apparently most of
the students of color in that community are being locked out this school of
academic excellence which was originally built for them. The community
is given an illusion of a school in the
low income area that's providing
access and a proper education for
students of color, when in actuality
they have a magnet school, Edison
Computech, mainly for the White and
a Edison High for people ofcolor both
on the same campus.
There is something wrong when
students of color can't attend a good
school that should have been built for
them. There is somethingwrongwith
this White system. No wonder the
drop out rate in the Chicano & African American communities have skyrocketted. Some Brown and Black
youth are turning to drugs, gangs,
and violence because they are frustrated and angry with the system.
This system continues to deny them
access to a culturally diverse academic curriculum, adequate materials and a positive ler;:raing environment. How are they suppose to "make
it?" If any person of color is going to
"make it" in this White racist educational system, it is not going to be because of equal opportunity or an equal
access to education. Students ofcolor
might "make it" because of luck, a
miracle or because there are Brown
or Black hands there to pull them up.
The Chicano and African American
communities on this campus need to
be some of those hands.
Frank Aviles
ESteban Villa
an0bthe11'◊hic~n&:k~ists dis~u~,s tt~; beauty J'
Ezequiel Lee Orona's "Metropolis Yirgin".
LIFE continued from page...3
work, and buttons that say "Viva
LaMujer."
You are the the writer of these
words.
Sometimes you fail to look at
yourself and where you are. The
things around you all have meaning-Hershel the Cowboy Preacher
who screams God's word in the
freespeech area- the little lady
Mary who pulls aluminim cans out
of the trash
--and remember Danny Enriquez playing guitar in the Free
Speech area, how he used to walk
up to you and give you the Chicano
handshake as ifyou were brothers
separated for too long.
These all have meaning: The
U.S.-Mexico Conference: the big
parties at near-by apartments like
the Meadow Woods, The Californians, The Park Woods: the speech
by Malaquias Montoya who said
that Chicano art must be an art of
protest, it must reflect and advance
the struggle: the new MEChA booth
with the Eagle on it: the public
affairs program on KFSR (the
Campus radio station), and the
Sunday night sh ow called Musica
Chicana hosted by Los Night Owls
ltichard Delgado and Matt
Polanco:the CWAA's reader's theatre production of original plays
writting by Chicano CSUF students; and their production of
Lament for the Death of Ignacio
Sanchez Mejia. All these things matter. These too have meaning.
I was seated in the darkest
corner of the cafeteria eating my
tuna. Every time I lifted the
sandwhichmyfingers would poke
a hole in the bread, and juices
would squirm down my arm like
streams of non-fat milk.
Across from rows of tables
where students ate and socialized as if they were in a beer commercial, I saw Judy talking to her
shift supervisor. She was listening to him talk, and she nodded
her head up-and-down at what he
said. She removedherworkapron
and held it in her hands, listening
to him. The supervisor patted
Jurly on the shoulder as if to say
"Good job," and he walked off.
Judy got a plastic cup, filled it
with ice, and poured soda into it.
She walked past the cashier and
looked around for a place to sit,
an empty table.
I waved my hand from the very
farthest corner hoping that she
would join me, and she saw me
immediately. She waved back. She
kept looking around for a place to
sit, so I waved at her again, this
time with both hands. She got the
message and reluctantly walked
over to my table.
"Are you still here, Socrates?"
she asked.
"I'm sorry about that, all that
stufflsaid,Judy.rve been thinking about it-and you're right.
There is meaning. I justsomehwere along the line-lost
sense of it. That's all."
"Well..." She sipped from the
top of her soda, smacked her lips
at the taste, and said "Oh, all right.
You're forgiven."
She sat on the chair across the
table from me. We just sat there,
not saying anything,just looking
around the cafeteria at the different people. All the different
people.
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,
Chicano Poetry
Abuelita
the sun on my . back
My 1st grade teacher said that Columbus discovered America and the
Indians too.
Abuelita said the Indians were never losl and neithe1· was America.
Abuelita said I have no gun so I must draw pictures of a White man
discovering our people and our land.
The policeman stopped my brother-in-law, Juan, the other day
to check if he had insurance, but he didn't.
He can't afford insurance cause he has three kids, a pregnant wife (Lupita)
and a minimum wage job . .
So they took away his license and fined him $400.
Abuelita said Juan has no gun so he must pay his ticket and try to bum
rides to work.
The poison on the orange trees made !1ami sick.
She threw-up and her face turned like a red balloon.
She doesn't complain cause they might fire her.
AbueHta said Mami doesn't have a gun so she must put cream on her
face and keep on picking oranges.
iMy~fsister.
i;~~;;~:f!'.~went:~~~~;into:;~labor;~~:the; : :other~~;~day.:~:::.~:::::'.h;i~\
1
dn, t
Lupita,
The doctor wouldn't admit her in the hospltal cause she didn't have
roe~i;~~1u:; h~~a~~he i;:i;·i~c~he emergency room and it accidently died.
:~~:i: :
i llke it
when· the
•·• sun ·
. hits my back;
like the hand of
god
slapping me,
':Jl)al<-ing me feel .
<llke a man~
·
/~worker ;· •·· ·
. H§efuJ. {_ •
·• f ~t: \imy~ :r!pen.<
JJ: Yirtter•·my t:
Words
:/(.:reel• sb· i
\damned.
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lowaFd l he .greeh
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tn~:t h::ew:u~:nh:~P ::1 J~u::ohp~~d~::nd::d:::: Iec te
Papi and other !1exicanos & Chicanos have to work in the fields all day
te lling me / l o
:n~;hi~/ freezing coId and boiling hot and they don't get paid hardly
Iii~~~g~t~;t8,i~1~!)lll;>
5
5
~l~ ;~;:i=~~•~~ a;:i n°gu~ I~~~;~i~r~~~ e~~ e~iJ~~~e~!c ~::: ;oo hge~~s .;;II"
people.
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Anda§sHontova} · ••·
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The neighbors don't like my Abuelita so they took her to court today.
They said she didn't have papers, or a green card but she did.
The judge wanted to see her papers.
Abuelita told the judge she didn't have to show him anything.
He said she had to go back to Mexico where she belonged.
Abuelita had a gun so she pulled it out and shot the judge, neighbors,
teacher, policeman, !1ami' s boss, the principal, the doctor and the
President too.
Then she reloaded her gun, put it back in her purse, gently grabbed my hand,
and we walked out quietly. ·
Frank Pancho Aviles
"Hijo del Sol"
A
carnival
brown,
black,
laughing,
playing·,
no one real izi ng
that in the
nights of
. '
amer1ca
brown and black
are colors of death,
depress i on.
all but cognizance at this
carnival,
all but sadness and understanding,
all but revolutionaries
and romantics.
only the fabricated reality
of america.
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October 15,1990
Chicano Poetry
a tour
The Vineyards
tried not to be illusive or vague
or abrstract,
So I wondered into a garden to
collect myself,
and to sort out what has happened
so far.
The grape fights that my brother
and I
had wi t h our friends in the hot
days of October.
To walk in the water filled
di t hches between the
dark gre en rows of the old Tokay
vines
in the warmth of the mid day's
sun,
The ditch es that my black dog
Rebel and I
woul d break while wrestling
that I woul d later have to fix when
it was time
to go out with dad.
~"?-c~;-;
Out in t he bi g empty solar beh i nd
our house
....J--------J'----f'rii:'i'lll
playing baseball with all of my
'---~
friends
after sch ool and fighting over
the cool looking rootbeer cans
I
wi th the little ,._ _.
pa ndas on them,
my frie nds they didn't care if we:•••••••••••••••••••••••••••:
won or lost,
: thesky
bymarkanthonyalvidrez
•
but I hated l oosing, I still do .. . •
:
: with her fat arms the moon
:
To go ba ck and give life to all the : caressed me until a point where
:
l ittle birds
• i wanted to dance to an afrikan
•
tha t I SHOT and KILLED,
: beat.
:
so tha t ~ hen _I hear one sing I : the white owl people sang lullabies:
won t cringe and ~eel
: to the babies of the dark while
:
ashamed and helpless like they : omar salinas read poems to poets :
were
• of dawn,
•
when I took aim and SHOT.
: all this happened you see.
:
: you can't.
:
God i w ish i could go back,
: who can?
•
wish i didn't understand and
• only death crazed chicanos who
:
could go .back
: dream
:
to those l ush green .grape gardens,: not american but of revolutions.
:
Go back and hit my best friend • i didn't care about revolutions at :
Tony right smack
: the time,
•
in his eye with a fat red juicey : the moon was my love with the
:
grape,
: dark
:
wrestle w i th Rebel until the small: hair she had, those brown eyes
:
ditch was
• brought out my lycanthrope tenden-•
. the size of a small canal,
: ci es.
:
1t would take me a half hour to • the stars spoke to stars
:
hose the dark
: that were dead .
:
brown mud off of myself outside : the Aztec ange l kept reading.
:
on
: stone gods came alive and
•
the yard befor e ama wou ld l et me • graded ou r lives .
:
.
go
: th ey talked like po liti cians w i t h
:
into the house.
: salt water in their lying mouths.
:
: all this happened you see.
:
and wish i could play baseball all:you still can't.
:
day
• maybe you never will.
•
••
next to my home
•• nobody knows.
and never hear a little bird sing : only death crazed chicanos with
:
again.
: dreams of revolutions .
:
•
•••••
•• •• ••• •••••• ••••• •• •••••
bymarkanthonyalvirdez
at night, tonight, I decide to
write a poem.
.
I will not let the summer heat or
the winter's air bother my creativity
that flows through my often called
sick mind.
I will not speak of racists that
dwe 11 around me.
the actions of cesar chavez are
absent
as well.
my words are not about a woman I
don't
posses in my shallow heart.
the grotesque images of rainbows,
fluffy
clouds, and pretty smiles will not
be found here.
I will not lie about footsteps along
a gravely polluted beach with
hypodermic
needles attempting to dliute our
pure blood.
I will not.
I'm writing a poem.
a poem where I dance under a hot
moon.
my partner is the dead mexicana
from ta)es passed down generations.
graves near and beyond have our
names
upon them.
a corrido in the background speaks
of a
a man who is blank in my mind.
this is not a dream.
it is a place.
a place · where cucarachas do
cartwheels in the sky.
wh'ere god answers to God .
there is no boycott here.
I will not ban anything.
I never have I never will.
this ; poem is about my life.
a quiet place full of noises.
there is life and death about.
death mostly,
but then again, what else is there?
October 15,1990
CALENDARIOCALENDARIO
i=-=...J,.;:~-=1=5_.;;...•There will be a
tudent rally and protest today at
2:30. Check the MEChA booth for
ore information.
EChA High Outreach Commite will hold a general meeting
day on the benches in fromt of
he Cafeteria, from 6-7p.m. For
ore information contact Beatriz
t227-2482.
'J!ES 16: The C.Y.C.
will hold a gemeral
day at the Joyal Ad·on Building room 203,
£'ES 17:
EChA will hold a general
eeting today at the U.S.U. room
02, at 4:00p.m. Everyone is
elcomed!
hicanos in Law will hold a
eneral meeting today at 5:30p.m.
'll'E
18: C.H.O. will
old a general meeting today at
e U.S.U. room 312 from 235:30:30p.m. For more information
CORP continued from page 1...
The second priority is education.
"We feel that the more education
they get the more training in different areas, the more effective
they'll be with the migrant student," Lomeli said.
The mini-corp student is taught
bow to set up a lesson plan, how to
teach accorqingto the lesson plan,
and is trained in communitcation
skills. The students are also
trained in curriculumn and academics.
However the main focus of the
contact Manuel at 432-4548.
'VI'E$9{'ES 19: "Find Out
What's Happening in Cuba Today"
Latin America Support Committee
will be sponsering a slide show and
discussionby Jack Pit to be held at
the Unitarian Church 4144 N.
Millbrook, at 7:00pm.
S52L'B.9L1JO 20:
"Confrencefor
Bilingual Educators" will be held
today and October 27 at the upstairs
cafeteria room 200, from 9:105:00p.m. For more information call
Lydia Montelongo at 278-2381.
2'ef.jl!R'1'£5 23: The C.Y.C.
committee will hold a general meeting today at the Joyal Administration Building room 203, at 5:00p.m.
Afl'E'RCOL'ES 24: The.CLS
Dept. will hold an information
meeting for students intrested in
persuing a PH.D, today at the
U.S.U. room 302, from 1-3p.m.
There will be a general MEChA
meeting today. Check the MEChA
booth for time and place.
Chicanos in Law wil hold a general
meeting today at 5:30p.m.
ralist and instructor at San Francisco Art Institute, will hold a
lecture today at the Industrial Art
Bldg. rooml0l, from 6-8p.m.
Career Fair will be held today at
the Fresno Conv1mtion Center, from
l0·0O
_4 .00
· a.m. · p.m.
S52L'B.9L1JO 2 7: The second half ;Jvl[4!R.P£5 G: The C.Y.C. comof the "Confrence For Bilingual
Educators" will be held today at the
Upstairs Cafeteria room 200, from
9:00a.m.-5:00p.m. For more information contact Lydia Montelango at
278-2381
1JOAff;J{{jO 28: "Mexico:
Rediscovery of an Artist's Roots"
Eduardo Carrillo, a professor of art
at the University of Santa Cruz,
will hold a iecture today at the
Conly Art Building room 101, from
6-8p.m.
;Jvf.91!RTES 30: The C.Y.C.
committee will hold a general meeting today at the Joyal Administration Building room.203, at 5:00p.m.
mittee will hold a general meeting
today at the Joyal Administration
Building rot>m 203, at 5:00p.m.
The CLS Department will hold a
meeting for students intrested in
completing a minor in Chicano
Studies or Latin American Studies
at the U.S.U. room 308, at
12:00p.m.
Afl'E(R.COL'ES 7:
"Grass-
Represantative Maria Toj from
Guatemala will speak today at
CSUF. Check for details.
There will be a general MEChA
meeting today. Check the MEChA
booth for time and place.
Chicanos in Law will hold a general
meeting today at 5:30p.m.
Afl'E$.COL'£5 31: Chicanos J'll'E'VES 8:
in Law will hold a general meeting
Chicanos in Law
and Associated Students will be
holding the 12th Annual Law Day
from 9a.m.to 3:00p.m. at the U.C.U.
room 312-314. Everyone is welcomed to attend.
today at 5:30p.m.
NOVIE.M13RE.
'Vf'E'R7'{'ES 26: "Ojos de
Lucha-A Chicana perspective"
Juana Alicia, a San Francisco mumini-corp training is t e reenforrnent of self esteem. They teach
"Yo Puedo", a self esteem enhancement activity for the migrant students.
Migrant Education is a federal program. And funding comes from the
federal government. In Washington, the government dispurses the
money to the states. In turn, the
money is dispursed to the counties.
According to Marquez there are an
estimated 4,000 students who benefit from this program.
Having Fresno State in the valley
helps the large consitration of mi-
S52L'B.9l.1JO 3: The Northern
California Affirmative Action
grant students with programs such
as these two, coordinated by Liz
Gamez and Jose Lomeli. The state
of California has a total of 20 programs each with an average of 20
students.
There is a strict criteria to get in
the program. "We prefer that they
be bilingual. They have to be able
to speak one of the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, or Punjabi, with a minimum
G.P.A of2.5attheuniveristy. Come
from a migrant backround with an
interest in teaching. And finally
they have to be full time students,
and also show a financial need,"
said Marquez.
CONTINUED from page 1...
Miami.
Seventeen students will be presented with scholarships at the banquet. Among the students there
were severe} Fresno State student~:
Cristina Medina, Rinee Mitchell,
Eloisa Estrada, and Virginia R.
·: : ···:=}ii[=;J1/,./?'.•::.:
Madrid.
l~~! ibi'1V~lrt
1
l:i !:' :/: It{"' nrofessor
I"-'.
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··=·:::.·.·.;•.···--
lt~fl~:~;ftl1tfll'i•:'.
-· sp~J~l:: r~sp.on,~i- . ,.
.~i 1'ily::,:pf th e .·=.:/;:,::!fy. . _. •
Chicano artists .during his lee~
turewhich ·wa·s
p,art ofJl:1.e,. l.J_
.$.
·Mexican·: Sy:·mpo~
sium.
.
Eu'.:evio Arias/La Voz du Aztlan
.
The purpose of the workshop was
to get more minority students in
the media. The workshop taught
students betterwritingtechinques,
how to conduct interviews, and
techniques for the disign and production of a neMipaper:
The date for the banquet is Nov.
9 at the Fresno County Plaza in
downtown Fresno from 6 p.m. to 1
a.m. Tickets for the banquet are
$25. Those interested in attending
the banquet should contact Tom
Uribes at (209) 278-5366.
A.
Volume XXL Number V
DZ
California State University, Fresno
Monday October 15, 1990
MINI-CORP
AIDES MIGRANT
CHILDREN
By Virginia R. Madrid
LA VOZ STAFF WRITER
The California Mini-Corp school
year programs at Fresno State are
full of purpose and expectation.
The school year program evolved
from the summer program. The
idea for a corp of people with a
rural migrant background to work
not only during the summer school
program was put into action in
1974.
Mini-corp students use their talents, dedication and work in the
migrant impacted class room and
are a link between the migrant
community and the school. The
mini-corp students get perso_nally
aquainted with the student and
his parents.
The purpose of the progaram is to
serve as migrant students. "We
are part of the umbrella of migrant education," saidJose Lomeli,
coordinator for California MiniCorp at Fresno State. The program also provides training for
mini-corp students who were migrants themselves to become professional educators, and develop a
sensitivity for migrant students
needs. The mini-corp students also
get training, in putting together
lesson plans.
"Teachertrainingis one ofour other
goals it's not one of our primary
goals. Our primary goal is to provide services to migrant children.
But it's another function to prepare sensitive bilingual educaters
to migrant children." said Irma
Marquez, associate-director for
California Mini-Corp based in
Sacramento.
The migrant students receive mentoring from the mini-corp students
and also develop a big brother role
model relationship. The mini-corp
students help the migrant students
feel compfortable with the schools
enviornment. Because of the cultural similarity that the mini-corp
student and the migrant students
share, the migrant student develops a better learning experience.
"Most of the administrators and
school districts are happy having
the mini-corp because in general
mini-corp have a good reputation."
Lomeli said.
"The students that are in the program come in with all kinds ofgood
experiences. The schools dont get
people who need to be trained by
the schools. They get people who
are already accomplished, and has
all kinds of skills." Lomeli said.
"They have the perfect background
to deal with the kinds of kids that
are out in the schools. Plus the
schools don't have to pay for the
mini-corp students. So it's one of
those situations were everybody
benefits."
The first priority in the training
process for the mini-corp student is
to be sensitive to the migrant students' needs and· ~ult-are. Their
culture is reenf'>rced by the minicorp student.
See CORP on page 8...
CIL HOLDS 12TH ANNUAL
LAW DAY CONFERENCE
By Cristina Medina
LA VOZ STAFF WRITER
.· gli;iialislli
ribe~'.
~m tJ
W<>rk~ll§~ .aiitcied -by r ~ta-~ets~n_o, •···n·tuher1~mb·_ees..d__ia".~aj~:.ia~tj,l
The ~i;,;,~p w~s co-
~J .• t'
l
pon~;red bjCCNMA.,Fresno Chap-
. i.I'he banquent will also hb'nor th .
r ; the CSU, Fresno Chicano Jour-
workshop students, reporters. editors
alism .. Students Association, The
neVy s bro~dca:sters and media reiate
resno Bee, The Visalia Times Delta,
pe~sons from all over California. Th
e Dow Jones Newspaper Fund,
guest speaker for the night is J u a
SU;-Fresno Department ofJournal~
Vasquez.a formerwritterforThe Lo
the ·Division of Student
ArigelesTimes, and now a networ
r.orrespondent for the CBS News i
See BANQUET on page 8...
Chicanos in law, a support group that
exposes members to opportunities in
the field of law, will co-sponsor wtih
help from ASI, Law Day Nov. 8.
Representatives from Arizona State
University, Mc George College oflaw,
and University of San Diego are among
the many schools that will set up booths
a long the balcony of the student union
from 8 a.m. to 4p.m.
In its 12th year, Law Day providdes an
opportunity for law schools t o recruit
students. Seminars and a samole Law
school claass will be held inthe ASI
s ,n te rooms.
Oscar Rubio, Chicanos in Law President, stresses that the lub is open to
all.
"We don't want to be known as an
exclusive club. We are the only prelaw club. We ar the only pre-law
club in the valley area. It is our duty
to be open to all," Rubio said. "We
try to be diverse and meet the
U niversitys needs."
EDITORIAL...
Page2
De Facto
Segregation
lwa11~dto,~~this:¥ditona1 ::others to-f ~e-:a~titiri''~o tha~:wemay·-·
There is a tragedy going on in
n th~Jirst issue · c;f La Voz de ·,,,]mow how to reacti:We musttake ac- . White America. It is destroying the
tlan;but du~ to tinie restraints tion first iil whateyer ·sitwition that , potential and the lives of Chicanitos as
wa~Jorced ~ --wait utitil:'how,to · \v..e find ourselves.in/ Whether.it be in ' well as other students o_fcolor and poor
rifoniyou of.La Voz'iin~wdirec.- .: the'barrio;:,i nt,befi~ldsoronaradst
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·aft.bethi-~ we· are'
rs
havt·received
.f<>r .:: .forced to rea~t. · :>> ..
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u.r ~m.pro,vil)g g:rappics and .
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we
tnust
campus,
:pr~se
au:::'.; ..
whites [note: When I use the word
"Whites" alone rm excluding poor
whites]. This tragedy is the education
sySt em. A system that isn't interested
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ou;:rn~lists should make· }>etter\(aware ofithe 'artistic abmty:of·ltheL
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In the last week we've seen
a protest at the Joyal Administration building by members of
the Unity-SRGparty, objectingto
the wrongs committed by the Administration of this University
against the Unity party in studentgovernment. Ihavetwoquestions for the orchestrators of this
demonstration: Why not sooner?
d why not for another issue
·ust as legitimate?
The occurence of the protest was provoked by a stand-off
currently in progress between the
nity party, now in controli of
ASI senate, and the Administration. The ASI historically has
employedanAdministrativeAide.
· The Administrative Vice President (AVP), who works the closest with this Aide, usually picks
the person hired for this position.
This year, however, ASI presidentDonDaves, member ofUnity,
broke prec~dent when he circumvented the authority usually given
to the AVP, and hired his choice
for the Adminstrative Aide.
T.oni Castelli, the current AVP
protested, saying that the right to'
choose the AVP Aide has historically been the perogative of his
position. So instead of working
with Daves's choice for &de
Castelli has been working with
Nishon Najarian, even though
Nishon has not been hired as a
student assistant for the ASI.
The controversy comes about
when the Administration, repres~nted by Pat Work, ASI financial
consultant, and Bob Lundal, associate dean of Student Affairs and ASI
advisor, authorized payment for
Nishon's services out of ASI funds
thereby circumventing Daves' au~
thority. Daves, through the vagueness of the ASI bylaws, has assumed
the power to decide who is a student
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should be protested and should be
brought to the attention of the students here on campus. The Administration had no right to do what it
did, and we as part of the locked-out
people on this campus have an obligation to join in with the members o
Unity-SRG and oppose this outrage.
But why not sooner? Why not
sooner when there have been just as
many important and pertinent issues, issues deserving the attention
of this issue, from before the beginning of the fall 19~0 semester? For
instance, why is there a complete
under representation ofChicano and
African-Americanfaculty?Why have
the efforts of the different department and the administration as a
whole been lax when r ecruiting
p eople of color for open positions?
While this area of the country is
la:::g,:ily Raza, cur CSUF history department has only one Chicano professor. The English department is in
the same, having only one Chicano
... see Protest paoe 4
ented behaviors in White students more
often than in students of color. Although some teachers might not be
· intentionally or consciously teaching
with this attitude, it is happening and
the Chicano & Afrir.an American communities have to deal with the detrimental emotional & psychological side
affects that these attitudes are having
on our children. One of these side
affects is low selfesteem. Despite these
barriers, White politicians, White
educators, Wnitepeopleingeneral the
Vendidos (sellout Chicanos) and 1 the
Uncle Toms continue to say that Students of color can "make it" if they try.
rm amazed that any people of color
"make it" at all considering the de-
October 15,1990
structive, so called, learning environment that they are exposed
to.
For those students who
live in and attend schools in the
low income communities which
are mainly populated with
people of color (often referred to
by Whites as the "bad part of
town") there is another barrier
to face. The children from the
so called "bad parts of town"
have to suffer the injustice of
over crowded class rooms, inadequate heating and cooling
systems, and limited or no access to math books, computers,
other academic materials, uniforms for sports or band, and
musical instruments. For some
strange reason these schools
aren't getting thP, funds that
they need in order to provide a
condusive learning environment for students of color.
Apparently on the "good
side oftown" (where mainly the
Whites live) they are able to
provide schools that far exceed
the quality of those schools that
non white students are for ced
to attend. When school boards
(which are usually White)
obonld be rlistri.butiri.g t he
monies ina more equitable manner, they seem to be providing
the "good schools" with more
money. Clovis West High in
Fresno is one example ofa school
for the White priveleged. This
school looka like a junior college. They have the best of
everything and why shouldn't
they? After all, most of their
. students are White.
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Fresno has tried to mask
this inequality by building
Edison Comput ech on the
Edison High campus which is
located in the West side (poor
side of town). Now there is a
good school on the "bad side of
town" with computers, excellent teachers and quality academic materials. The only catch
is that a lot of the students that
attend Edison Computech are
being bussed over from the "good
side of town." Moreover , this
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October 15,1990
What's on the Chicano Horizon?
As I walk around campus, I often ask myself, are the 80's truely
over? Is the Chicano Movimiento
that died in the eighties still dead,
oris it alive and kicking somewhere
out there? Is the decade ofla bala de
plata really over? What should be
the direction ofChicanos in the 90's?
Should we forget the struggle and
assimilate into american society,
will they let us, do really want to?
Why does this elitist group of Chicanos, myself included, known as
university students forget our mothers and fathers in the fields, los
vatos and rucas struggling in the
barrios, and especially the little Chicanitos in the class rooms of our
racist educational system? These,
along with many other questions,
still remain unanswerd . .
First, I must say that the eighties are finally over thank God. I am
also glad to say that a lot of us are
once again proud of being Chicanos
and not HI-SPanICS. To know that
the pride, identity and self
respect,that was once taken away
. from us in the Reagan decade, is
now slowly but surely coming back,
and coming back strong. Such
events as the Chicano Moratorium
in Los Angeles last August and just
recently the Mexico-U.S. symposyum here at the university along
with groups such as CWAA,
MEChA, CLASE and Chcanos in
Law, to name only a few, are proof
of the new unity of Chicanos here
on campus. These groups are here
expressly for us Chicanos to let
ourselves grow acadamically and
spiritually. With this new unity
we need to totaly restructure this
present politicat and socio- economic system, we need to act now.
I personally would like to think
that the decade ofla bala de plata
is really over. I don't want to see
anymore brown people sellingtheir
souls to "The System" for a few
dollars. To see them on television
advocating and supporting the
exploitation of all brown people
here in the United States.
In his lecture here at CSUF,
Chicano artistMalaquiasMontoya
spoke ofthe social responsabilities
of the Chicano artist, which were
to maintain their form and craft
out of the greedy hands of the
giant advertising agencies that
work for big business. These social
responsabilities also pertain to any
Chicano that graduates from this
university and "makes it."
By the way what does happen
to all those Chicanos tnat "make it',
anyway? After they receive their
B.A and or M.A, it seems that the
Earth somehow swallows them
whole or is it the system that swallows them but kind of gets them
stuck in its throaght and calls them
hispanics? But the ones that aren't
hispanics·; · wh~re are they? They
can't all be here at Fresno State
·teaching, can they? I often wonder
if they are out there, but are being
suppressed by their employers or
organizations. Is the media not
letting us recognize our own positive role modeles? We need to go
out there and locate them and use
them.
It bas taken us too long to get
Chicano studies into the University, it is now that we need these
courses in the middle schools and
high schools through out all of
California. We need for our little
· Chicanitos that are being promoted
from grade to grade to do so with
pride. Fresno State University is
on its way to getting a Chicano
studies major, why shouldn't we go
on to individual majors in literature and art and history etc? We
I must have looked like a Chicano Socrates. I walked down the
cement stairs to the pit during
lunch, waving my hands in the
air, mumbling to myself "Why?
Why?WHY???"
Students were lounging beneath the red, white, and blue
umbrellas as if they were at the
beach or some swanky outdoor
cafe on the pier-sunglasses and
blonde hair and white teeth and
tanned skin blurred by me as I
went through the automatic glass
doors into the cafeteria. I ordered
a tuna sandwhich from a girl
named Judy who I had met at
Summer Bridge. As she was plopping a glop of gooey tuna on my
bread, she looked into my searching eyes, stopped what she was
doing,andasked what was wrong.
"Life is meaningless," I said.
"It has no purpose."
Judy seemed surprised that I
would say this. " Are you serious?" she asked me.
"No meaning," I assurred her.
"I mean, what the hell's the
use?There's no point to our lives.
We might as well be fish. In fact,
we're no better off than that tuna
your scraping up from that metal
pan."
She looked down at my
sandwhich, then she looked
around the cafeteria as if she
might spot something that would
prove me wrong.
"So what are you saying?" she
said. "I'm going to school for nothing? My father worked his ass off
in the fields for nothing?Just to
get me here? Just so you can declare my life-my existencemeaningless?"
"Well..."
"Look,Dan. I'm really sorry
things may not be going well for
you. But my life has plenty of
meaning."
"No it doesn't. Youjustthinkit
does."
"You're ajerk," she said.
She shoved the sandwhich at
me and told me that I was hopeless. She was right. I was hopeless. I felt like eating my last meal,
walking up to the Peter's Building, all the way to the very top,
above the sixth floor, and I telt
like throwing myselfdown, Jumping off. I would splatter like chery
Jello on the asphalt path below,
all over trees,and the faces and
legs of people walking by.
Why was I so unhappy? Why
didn't I have Judy's perspective?
I mean, we are the same, Judy
and me. I'm from a poor background. My father had to work
his ass off. I am the only one in my
family to make it to the university.
Hey, Chicano, remember over 30
years ago? You wanted to study your
culture and your history at the university, because you had become
equipped with New Consciousness, a
New Awareness. You knew that you
were too important to be ignored.You
started La Raza studies at Fresno
State, and even though you were
threatned and fired by racist administrators, you kept going, kept struggling, fighting, because you knew that
you were an emerging giant ofa people
Pedro Garcia
editorials con safos.
You are Alicia Anguiano who
spends afternoons sitting in the
ampitheater under the sun, studying, and dreaming of semesters at a
University in Mexico. You are Lisa
Rocha who takes long walks talking
tent as a second or third class citizen. and list~ning to your friend Tamara.
You are Frank Aviles, and you
You knew that the false illusion that
the Southwest belonged entirely to were attacked by drunk frat boys as
the Anglos was fading into the clear you were walking through campus
New Picture of Aztlan, the land of late one night with your friend Salyour indigenous ancestors, the Land vador Cuevas. You are the Chicaof Hope, the land stolen from Mexico nos who are the butt ofracial slurs on
by the Treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo-a the bathroom walls and in the
treaty that promised but denied the freespheech area; but you are also
rights of the Mexican and indiginous Ralph Avitia, Ron Castillo, Genoveva Islas, and Marta Velasco
populations.
You knew that this New Vision of fighting racism in the senate.
You are Juana Perez from Aguas
Aztlan was a place where you will not
be oppressed by a "dominate culture," Calientes. You are a freshman. You
where you will be the dominate cul- came through Summer Bridge. You
ture.You will not live in poverty. You are Albertina Soto and Ramiro
will not die in the fields and factories. Teran and Ana Diaz and you are the
You will not be left out of the univer- Sanchez brothers, Celestino and
Frank. You are Evangelina Martisity experience.
Now you are the Chicano-Latin nez who writes poetry in Spanish.
You are Manuel Cortez who
American Studies Department of
CSUF. You are internationally re- makes sketches in a notebook that
spected as a place for research. You are good enough and important
enough to be on canvas and on the
have published many books.
You do not belong to the university, walls ofart museums.You are Frank
the university belongs to you.You are Barbosa who feels a heart-deep comhigher education. You are the stu- mitment to yourfamily and your gente
dents who formed the Chicano Writ- . You are Mike Espino who will not
ers Artists Association (CWAA), be defeated.
You are todos de los "Perros de la
and have poetry readings underneath
the stars, guerilla poetry, in the spirit Raza." You like to have fun. You are
the Danztantes de Aztlan, you are
of El Theatro Carnpesino.
Take a look at yourself, Chicano. Colmena U niversitaria Hispania You
See who you are. In the early morn- are Rauls, Moreno and Diaz of the
ings you are the small man in a white UMS-you are the UMS. You are
Tijuana hat who sweeps wet leaves Proud of your culture. You listen to
from the parking lot you like it when Los Tigres del Norte and Vincente
you feel the steam from your coffee Fernandez and M.C. Hammer and
going up your nose, because it makes Bobby Brown and REM and Santana
you feel warm and at home. You are and Juan Serrano and Led Zepplin
Dr. Rueben Sanchez, the first ten- and Armanda Miguel and Prince and
ure-track Chicano in the English de- Kid Frost and Public Enemy.
You are existentialist intellectupartment of CSUF, the advisor of
CWAA You are editor of the Daily als. You are Gene Uruttia, Julio
Collegian ChrisHer~dia, and though Leal, Teresa Navarro, and Jesse
you are criticized for having too many Aleman. You are Jill Soltero-you
ads and too much sports coverage, - wear red and black UFW t-shirts to
your heart aches at the sight ofracism
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and homophobia, and you sign your
Hey, Chicar:,o, yoythr). lt~ge:becon. I
has no. meaning.
By Daniel Chac6n
are finally taking our education
seriously and not just as a way to
escape the Chicano class.
At present we ally ourselves
with other minorities groups, would
the Chicanos benefit if these ties
were to be broken so that these
changes that we want to see will
come into fruition at a faster rate
or should we keep our alliance and
make sure that no one gets left
behind? Should we seggrigate ourselves from the rest of american
society and become our own power
or should we assimilate and become HI-SPanICS.
I know I really didn't answer
any of my own questions but instead asked more. This editorial
was written so that all you out
there along with myself can hear
from each other and exchange our
ideas through the paper if not in
person and so that this collective
unity of Chicanos can bring about
the much needed changes.
October 15,1990
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I am the Aztec angel
fraternal partner
of an orthodox society
where pachuco children
hurl stones ...
Luis Omar Salinas
The Aztec in Chicano
Literature
Who is this Aztec guy? This
strong image is often called an esoteric beast in Chicano literature and
art. These ancient people· guide
Chicanos through their art form
today. The Aztec image is used in
Chicano literary journals, art, and
even Chicano publishing companies
use the symbol. A critic may think
the Chicano's use of the Aztec image
could expose a triteness. However,
Chicanos use this image as an inspiration.
When I was a child, my mother
would take me to the bakery (Mexi-
cano) on Sunday morning after
church. At this bakery, there were
calendars with paintings of Aztecs
pinned to the walls that were also
cluttered with pinatas and pictures
ofsingers. ThepicturesoftheAztec
women and men usually intrigued
me. Years passed, but at the same
bakery, the calendars that I had
once admired were now gone. The
colorful featherd men and women
were now gone. Where were they I
asked myself over and over? I
would later find out in college that
the Aztecs were all around. My
fellow Chicano brothers and sisters
possessed the spirits which were
once conquerd by the Spaniards.
There are no Aztecs living in
Fresno or on any other city here in
the valley. The Aztecs are gone
period; yet they live in Chicano literature today. It has been a while
since fve seen a calendar with Aztec
paintings, but I could always read a
poem, short story, and novel written
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by a Chicano for the spiritual influence.
As a begining Chicano writer,
my Aztec images reflect my yearning
for the freedom of our people. The
Aztecs were oppressed by the Spaniards and Chicanos today can find
themselves in the same situation. Our
ties to these ancient indians are thick
and cannot be severed.
Tonatiuh International, Publishers of Chicano Literature, uses the
Aztec image in their books. This
publishing company published
Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me tntima"
and his several drawings of pyramids
and calendars. New Visions ofAztlan,
a Chicano literary journal from Riverside, California uses the Aztec images
as well. The first issue has a beautiful
sketch of an Aztec and a pyramid.
This is a new journal for Chicano writers and artists. There is a new publisher named Charlie Trujillo who has
started bis own company in the Bay
area. He calls his company Chusma
Publishing. Charlie uses a stone
Aztec head for the company symbol.
These examples illustrate how infuential the Aztec is to the Chicano.
Chicano literature speaks of the
real and the surreal. The surrealism
in our literature isn't taken very serious by the literary circles. Chicano
folklore also plays its part in our literature. The mythology of the Aztec
gods such as Quetzalcoatl influences
Chicanos to write differently. In
Aztec art we see stone carvings of
skulls, sacrificial temples, highly
advanced calenders, stone serpent
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heads, and even a rabbit giving to an
Eagle Knight.
There is nothing
morbid about the Aztec image. It is
full oflife, death, and beauty.
Chicano wri~rs and artists want
to grasp the beauty of the Aztec culture. It is hard, especially when you
can barely understan~ their civilization. Using the Aztec image is more
like soul searching. In every Chicano
there is a Stone Aztec god waiting to
be born. That is how Chicanos feel
about their art and literature.
Mark Anthony Alvidrez
PROTEST continued from page 2...
professor. While the Chemistry department has NO! Chicano instructors.
Why wasn't this protested and
brought to the attention of the people
by the Vangaurd of Unity. This is a
problem that has been with us since
the first Chicano went to college. This
is a problem that affects every single
Chicano student on Campus, a concrete issue, not an abstract issue created by simple power politics in student government that can hopefully
have at least a symbolic reference.
What about aauirine- more slots for
EOP, so that more African-Americans and Chicano and Southeast
Asians and Native Americans can
attend this Campus? Concrete issues! This is what we should have
been protesting from the start of
school. But instead we get the same
'ol political reassurances that these
issues are being dealt with and not
until their own symbolic power is
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Unity.
As I said before we as Chicanos
should support this issue, this symbolic struggle for emancipation. But
more importantly we should b~ finding our representatives in SRG (they
can be found many times in the Free
Speech area) and encouraging them
to confront the issues, out in the open,
in whatever way that will bring about
justice. Let them know! Let them
know so that they will never be able to
claim ignorance. We must make our
issues known, the time for silence and
back room politics is not now, we must
take our movement by the reigns, and
ride forward.
WE ARE THE
PEOPLE!! Viva La Raza! Y-Que!
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EDUCATION contin. from page 2...
school ( at the junior high level) requires that students take a test in
order to be accepted into the program. If students from the West side
haven't been provided with a proper
early education how are they suppose
to pass this test? Apparently most of
the students of color in that community are being locked out this school of
academic excellence which was originally built for them. The community
is given an illusion of a school in the
low income area that's providing
access and a proper education for
students of color, when in actuality
they have a magnet school, Edison
Computech, mainly for the White and
a Edison High for people ofcolor both
on the same campus.
There is something wrong when
students of color can't attend a good
school that should have been built for
them. There is somethingwrongwith
this White system. No wonder the
drop out rate in the Chicano & African American communities have skyrocketted. Some Brown and Black
youth are turning to drugs, gangs,
and violence because they are frustrated and angry with the system.
This system continues to deny them
access to a culturally diverse academic curriculum, adequate materials and a positive ler;:raing environment. How are they suppose to "make
it?" If any person of color is going to
"make it" in this White racist educational system, it is not going to be because of equal opportunity or an equal
access to education. Students ofcolor
might "make it" because of luck, a
miracle or because there are Brown
or Black hands there to pull them up.
The Chicano and African American
communities on this campus need to
be some of those hands.
Frank Aviles
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LIFE continued from page...3
work, and buttons that say "Viva
LaMujer."
You are the the writer of these
words.
Sometimes you fail to look at
yourself and where you are. The
things around you all have meaning-Hershel the Cowboy Preacher
who screams God's word in the
freespeech area- the little lady
Mary who pulls aluminim cans out
of the trash
--and remember Danny Enriquez playing guitar in the Free
Speech area, how he used to walk
up to you and give you the Chicano
handshake as ifyou were brothers
separated for too long.
These all have meaning: The
U.S.-Mexico Conference: the big
parties at near-by apartments like
the Meadow Woods, The Californians, The Park Woods: the speech
by Malaquias Montoya who said
that Chicano art must be an art of
protest, it must reflect and advance
the struggle: the new MEChA booth
with the Eagle on it: the public
affairs program on KFSR (the
Campus radio station), and the
Sunday night sh ow called Musica
Chicana hosted by Los Night Owls
ltichard Delgado and Matt
Polanco:the CWAA's reader's theatre production of original plays
writting by Chicano CSUF students; and their production of
Lament for the Death of Ignacio
Sanchez Mejia. All these things matter. These too have meaning.
I was seated in the darkest
corner of the cafeteria eating my
tuna. Every time I lifted the
sandwhichmyfingers would poke
a hole in the bread, and juices
would squirm down my arm like
streams of non-fat milk.
Across from rows of tables
where students ate and socialized as if they were in a beer commercial, I saw Judy talking to her
shift supervisor. She was listening to him talk, and she nodded
her head up-and-down at what he
said. She removedherworkapron
and held it in her hands, listening
to him. The supervisor patted
Jurly on the shoulder as if to say
"Good job," and he walked off.
Judy got a plastic cup, filled it
with ice, and poured soda into it.
She walked past the cashier and
looked around for a place to sit,
an empty table.
I waved my hand from the very
farthest corner hoping that she
would join me, and she saw me
immediately. She waved back. She
kept looking around for a place to
sit, so I waved at her again, this
time with both hands. She got the
message and reluctantly walked
over to my table.
"Are you still here, Socrates?"
she asked.
"I'm sorry about that, all that
stufflsaid,Judy.rve been thinking about it-and you're right.
There is meaning. I justsomehwere along the line-lost
sense of it. That's all."
"Well..." She sipped from the
top of her soda, smacked her lips
at the taste, and said "Oh, all right.
You're forgiven."
She sat on the chair across the
table from me. We just sat there,
not saying anything,just looking
around the cafeteria at the different people. All the different
people.
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Chicano Poetry
Abuelita
the sun on my . back
My 1st grade teacher said that Columbus discovered America and the
Indians too.
Abuelita said the Indians were never losl and neithe1· was America.
Abuelita said I have no gun so I must draw pictures of a White man
discovering our people and our land.
The policeman stopped my brother-in-law, Juan, the other day
to check if he had insurance, but he didn't.
He can't afford insurance cause he has three kids, a pregnant wife (Lupita)
and a minimum wage job . .
So they took away his license and fined him $400.
Abuelita said Juan has no gun so he must pay his ticket and try to bum
rides to work.
The poison on the orange trees made !1ami sick.
She threw-up and her face turned like a red balloon.
She doesn't complain cause they might fire her.
AbueHta said Mami doesn't have a gun so she must put cream on her
face and keep on picking oranges.
iMy~fsister.
i;~~;;~:f!'.~went:~~~~;into:;~labor;~~:the; : :other~~;~day.:~:::.~:::::'.h;i~\
1
dn, t
Lupita,
The doctor wouldn't admit her in the hospltal cause she didn't have
roe~i;~~1u:; h~~a~~he i;:i;·i~c~he emergency room and it accidently died.
:~~:i: :
i llke it
when· the
•·• sun ·
. hits my back;
like the hand of
god
slapping me,
':Jl)al<-ing me feel .
<llke a man~
·
/~worker ;· •·· ·
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Papi and other !1exicanos & Chicanos have to work in the fields all day
te lling me / l o
:n~;hi~/ freezing coId and boiling hot and they don't get paid hardly
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The neighbors don't like my Abuelita so they took her to court today.
They said she didn't have papers, or a green card but she did.
The judge wanted to see her papers.
Abuelita told the judge she didn't have to show him anything.
He said she had to go back to Mexico where she belonged.
Abuelita had a gun so she pulled it out and shot the judge, neighbors,
teacher, policeman, !1ami' s boss, the principal, the doctor and the
President too.
Then she reloaded her gun, put it back in her purse, gently grabbed my hand,
and we walked out quietly. ·
Frank Pancho Aviles
"Hijo del Sol"
A
carnival
brown,
black,
laughing,
playing·,
no one real izi ng
that in the
nights of
. '
amer1ca
brown and black
are colors of death,
depress i on.
all but cognizance at this
carnival,
all but sadness and understanding,
all but revolutionaries
and romantics.
only the fabricated reality
of america.
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October 15,1990
Chicano Poetry
a tour
The Vineyards
tried not to be illusive or vague
or abrstract,
So I wondered into a garden to
collect myself,
and to sort out what has happened
so far.
The grape fights that my brother
and I
had wi t h our friends in the hot
days of October.
To walk in the water filled
di t hches between the
dark gre en rows of the old Tokay
vines
in the warmth of the mid day's
sun,
The ditch es that my black dog
Rebel and I
woul d break while wrestling
that I woul d later have to fix when
it was time
to go out with dad.
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Out in t he bi g empty solar beh i nd
our house
....J--------J'----f'rii:'i'lll
playing baseball with all of my
'---~
friends
after sch ool and fighting over
the cool looking rootbeer cans
I
wi th the little ,._ _.
pa ndas on them,
my frie nds they didn't care if we:•••••••••••••••••••••••••••:
won or lost,
: thesky
bymarkanthonyalvidrez
•
but I hated l oosing, I still do .. . •
:
: with her fat arms the moon
:
To go ba ck and give life to all the : caressed me until a point where
:
l ittle birds
• i wanted to dance to an afrikan
•
tha t I SHOT and KILLED,
: beat.
:
so tha t ~ hen _I hear one sing I : the white owl people sang lullabies:
won t cringe and ~eel
: to the babies of the dark while
:
ashamed and helpless like they : omar salinas read poems to poets :
were
• of dawn,
•
when I took aim and SHOT.
: all this happened you see.
:
: you can't.
:
God i w ish i could go back,
: who can?
•
wish i didn't understand and
• only death crazed chicanos who
:
could go .back
: dream
:
to those l ush green .grape gardens,: not american but of revolutions.
:
Go back and hit my best friend • i didn't care about revolutions at :
Tony right smack
: the time,
•
in his eye with a fat red juicey : the moon was my love with the
:
grape,
: dark
:
wrestle w i th Rebel until the small: hair she had, those brown eyes
:
ditch was
• brought out my lycanthrope tenden-•
. the size of a small canal,
: ci es.
:
1t would take me a half hour to • the stars spoke to stars
:
hose the dark
: that were dead .
:
brown mud off of myself outside : the Aztec ange l kept reading.
:
on
: stone gods came alive and
•
the yard befor e ama wou ld l et me • graded ou r lives .
:
.
go
: th ey talked like po liti cians w i t h
:
into the house.
: salt water in their lying mouths.
:
: all this happened you see.
:
and wish i could play baseball all:you still can't.
:
day
• maybe you never will.
•
••
next to my home
•• nobody knows.
and never hear a little bird sing : only death crazed chicanos with
:
again.
: dreams of revolutions .
:
•
•••••
•• •• ••• •••••• ••••• •• •••••
bymarkanthonyalvirdez
at night, tonight, I decide to
write a poem.
.
I will not let the summer heat or
the winter's air bother my creativity
that flows through my often called
sick mind.
I will not speak of racists that
dwe 11 around me.
the actions of cesar chavez are
absent
as well.
my words are not about a woman I
don't
posses in my shallow heart.
the grotesque images of rainbows,
fluffy
clouds, and pretty smiles will not
be found here.
I will not lie about footsteps along
a gravely polluted beach with
hypodermic
needles attempting to dliute our
pure blood.
I will not.
I'm writing a poem.
a poem where I dance under a hot
moon.
my partner is the dead mexicana
from ta)es passed down generations.
graves near and beyond have our
names
upon them.
a corrido in the background speaks
of a
a man who is blank in my mind.
this is not a dream.
it is a place.
a place · where cucarachas do
cartwheels in the sky.
wh'ere god answers to God .
there is no boycott here.
I will not ban anything.
I never have I never will.
this ; poem is about my life.
a quiet place full of noises.
there is life and death about.
death mostly,
but then again, what else is there?
October 15,1990
CALENDARIOCALENDARIO
i=-=...J,.;:~-=1=5_.;;...•There will be a
tudent rally and protest today at
2:30. Check the MEChA booth for
ore information.
EChA High Outreach Commite will hold a general meeting
day on the benches in fromt of
he Cafeteria, from 6-7p.m. For
ore information contact Beatriz
t227-2482.
'J!ES 16: The C.Y.C.
will hold a gemeral
day at the Joyal Ad·on Building room 203,
£'ES 17:
EChA will hold a general
eeting today at the U.S.U. room
02, at 4:00p.m. Everyone is
elcomed!
hicanos in Law will hold a
eneral meeting today at 5:30p.m.
'll'E
18: C.H.O. will
old a general meeting today at
e U.S.U. room 312 from 235:30:30p.m. For more information
CORP continued from page 1...
The second priority is education.
"We feel that the more education
they get the more training in different areas, the more effective
they'll be with the migrant student," Lomeli said.
The mini-corp student is taught
bow to set up a lesson plan, how to
teach accorqingto the lesson plan,
and is trained in communitcation
skills. The students are also
trained in curriculumn and academics.
However the main focus of the
contact Manuel at 432-4548.
'VI'E$9{'ES 19: "Find Out
What's Happening in Cuba Today"
Latin America Support Committee
will be sponsering a slide show and
discussionby Jack Pit to be held at
the Unitarian Church 4144 N.
Millbrook, at 7:00pm.
S52L'B.9L1JO 20:
"Confrencefor
Bilingual Educators" will be held
today and October 27 at the upstairs
cafeteria room 200, from 9:105:00p.m. For more information call
Lydia Montelongo at 278-2381.
2'ef.jl!R'1'£5 23: The C.Y.C.
committee will hold a general meeting today at the Joyal Administration Building room 203, at 5:00p.m.
Afl'E'RCOL'ES 24: The.CLS
Dept. will hold an information
meeting for students intrested in
persuing a PH.D, today at the
U.S.U. room 302, from 1-3p.m.
There will be a general MEChA
meeting today. Check the MEChA
booth for time and place.
Chicanos in Law wil hold a general
meeting today at 5:30p.m.
ralist and instructor at San Francisco Art Institute, will hold a
lecture today at the Industrial Art
Bldg. rooml0l, from 6-8p.m.
Career Fair will be held today at
the Fresno Conv1mtion Center, from
l0·0O
_4 .00
· a.m. · p.m.
S52L'B.9L1JO 2 7: The second half ;Jvl[4!R.P£5 G: The C.Y.C. comof the "Confrence For Bilingual
Educators" will be held today at the
Upstairs Cafeteria room 200, from
9:00a.m.-5:00p.m. For more information contact Lydia Montelango at
278-2381
1JOAff;J{{jO 28: "Mexico:
Rediscovery of an Artist's Roots"
Eduardo Carrillo, a professor of art
at the University of Santa Cruz,
will hold a iecture today at the
Conly Art Building room 101, from
6-8p.m.
;Jvf.91!RTES 30: The C.Y.C.
committee will hold a general meeting today at the Joyal Administration Building room.203, at 5:00p.m.
mittee will hold a general meeting
today at the Joyal Administration
Building rot>m 203, at 5:00p.m.
The CLS Department will hold a
meeting for students intrested in
completing a minor in Chicano
Studies or Latin American Studies
at the U.S.U. room 308, at
12:00p.m.
Afl'E(R.COL'ES 7:
"Grass-
Represantative Maria Toj from
Guatemala will speak today at
CSUF. Check for details.
There will be a general MEChA
meeting today. Check the MEChA
booth for time and place.
Chicanos in Law will hold a general
meeting today at 5:30p.m.
Afl'E$.COL'£5 31: Chicanos J'll'E'VES 8:
in Law will hold a general meeting
Chicanos in Law
and Associated Students will be
holding the 12th Annual Law Day
from 9a.m.to 3:00p.m. at the U.C.U.
room 312-314. Everyone is welcomed to attend.
today at 5:30p.m.
NOVIE.M13RE.
'Vf'E'R7'{'ES 26: "Ojos de
Lucha-A Chicana perspective"
Juana Alicia, a San Francisco mumini-corp training is t e reenforrnent of self esteem. They teach
"Yo Puedo", a self esteem enhancement activity for the migrant students.
Migrant Education is a federal program. And funding comes from the
federal government. In Washington, the government dispurses the
money to the states. In turn, the
money is dispursed to the counties.
According to Marquez there are an
estimated 4,000 students who benefit from this program.
Having Fresno State in the valley
helps the large consitration of mi-
S52L'B.9l.1JO 3: The Northern
California Affirmative Action
grant students with programs such
as these two, coordinated by Liz
Gamez and Jose Lomeli. The state
of California has a total of 20 programs each with an average of 20
students.
There is a strict criteria to get in
the program. "We prefer that they
be bilingual. They have to be able
to speak one of the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, or Punjabi, with a minimum
G.P.A of2.5attheuniveristy. Come
from a migrant backround with an
interest in teaching. And finally
they have to be full time students,
and also show a financial need,"
said Marquez.
CONTINUED from page 1...
Miami.
Seventeen students will be presented with scholarships at the banquet. Among the students there
were severe} Fresno State student~:
Cristina Medina, Rinee Mitchell,
Eloisa Estrada, and Virginia R.
·: : ···:=}ii[=;J1/,./?'.•::.:
Madrid.
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1
l:i !:' :/: It{"' nrofessor
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lt~fl~:~;ftl1tfll'i•:'.
-· sp~J~l:: r~sp.on,~i- . ,.
.~i 1'ily::,:pf th e .·=.:/;:,::!fy. . _. •
Chicano artists .during his lee~
turewhich ·wa·s
p,art ofJl:1.e,. l.J_
.$.
·Mexican·: Sy:·mpo~
sium.
.
Eu'.:evio Arias/La Voz du Aztlan
.
The purpose of the workshop was
to get more minority students in
the media. The workshop taught
students betterwritingtechinques,
how to conduct interviews, and
techniques for the disign and production of a neMipaper:
The date for the banquet is Nov.
9 at the Fresno County Plaza in
downtown Fresno from 6 p.m. to 1
a.m. Tickets for the banquet are
$25. Those interested in attending
the banquet should contact Tom
Uribes at (209) 278-5366.
Volume XXL Number V
DZ
California State University, Fresno
Monday October 15, 1990
MINI-CORP
AIDES MIGRANT
CHILDREN
By Virginia R. Madrid
LA VOZ STAFF WRITER
The California Mini-Corp school
year programs at Fresno State are
full of purpose and expectation.
The school year program evolved
from the summer program. The
idea for a corp of people with a
rural migrant background to work
not only during the summer school
program was put into action in
1974.
Mini-corp students use their talents, dedication and work in the
migrant impacted class room and
are a link between the migrant
community and the school. The
mini-corp students get perso_nally
aquainted with the student and
his parents.
The purpose of the progaram is to
serve as migrant students. "We
are part of the umbrella of migrant education," saidJose Lomeli,
coordinator for California MiniCorp at Fresno State. The program also provides training for
mini-corp students who were migrants themselves to become professional educators, and develop a
sensitivity for migrant students
needs. The mini-corp students also
get training, in putting together
lesson plans.
"Teachertrainingis one ofour other
goals it's not one of our primary
goals. Our primary goal is to provide services to migrant children.
But it's another function to prepare sensitive bilingual educaters
to migrant children." said Irma
Marquez, associate-director for
California Mini-Corp based in
Sacramento.
The migrant students receive mentoring from the mini-corp students
and also develop a big brother role
model relationship. The mini-corp
students help the migrant students
feel compfortable with the schools
enviornment. Because of the cultural similarity that the mini-corp
student and the migrant students
share, the migrant student develops a better learning experience.
"Most of the administrators and
school districts are happy having
the mini-corp because in general
mini-corp have a good reputation."
Lomeli said.
"The students that are in the program come in with all kinds ofgood
experiences. The schools dont get
people who need to be trained by
the schools. They get people who
are already accomplished, and has
all kinds of skills." Lomeli said.
"They have the perfect background
to deal with the kinds of kids that
are out in the schools. Plus the
schools don't have to pay for the
mini-corp students. So it's one of
those situations were everybody
benefits."
The first priority in the training
process for the mini-corp student is
to be sensitive to the migrant students' needs and· ~ult-are. Their
culture is reenf'>rced by the minicorp student.
See CORP on page 8...
CIL HOLDS 12TH ANNUAL
LAW DAY CONFERENCE
By Cristina Medina
LA VOZ STAFF WRITER
.· gli;iialislli
ribe~'.
~m tJ
W<>rk~ll§~ .aiitcied -by r ~ta-~ets~n_o, •···n·tuher1~mb·_ees..d__ia".~aj~:.ia~tj,l
The ~i;,;,~p w~s co-
~J .• t'
l
pon~;red bjCCNMA.,Fresno Chap-
. i.I'he banquent will also hb'nor th .
r ; the CSU, Fresno Chicano Jour-
workshop students, reporters. editors
alism .. Students Association, The
neVy s bro~dca:sters and media reiate
resno Bee, The Visalia Times Delta,
pe~sons from all over California. Th
e Dow Jones Newspaper Fund,
guest speaker for the night is J u a
SU;-Fresno Department ofJournal~
Vasquez.a formerwritterforThe Lo
the ·Division of Student
ArigelesTimes, and now a networ
r.orrespondent for the CBS News i
See BANQUET on page 8...
Chicanos in law, a support group that
exposes members to opportunities in
the field of law, will co-sponsor wtih
help from ASI, Law Day Nov. 8.
Representatives from Arizona State
University, Mc George College oflaw,
and University of San Diego are among
the many schools that will set up booths
a long the balcony of the student union
from 8 a.m. to 4p.m.
In its 12th year, Law Day providdes an
opportunity for law schools t o recruit
students. Seminars and a samole Law
school claass will be held inthe ASI
s ,n te rooms.
Oscar Rubio, Chicanos in Law President, stresses that the lub is open to
all.
"We don't want to be known as an
exclusive club. We are the only prelaw club. We ar the only pre-law
club in the valley area. It is our duty
to be open to all," Rubio said. "We
try to be diverse and meet the
U niversitys needs."
EDITORIAL...
Page2
De Facto
Segregation
lwa11~dto,~~this:¥ditona1 ::others to-f ~e-:a~titiri''~o tha~:wemay·-·
There is a tragedy going on in
n th~Jirst issue · c;f La Voz de ·,,,]mow how to reacti:We musttake ac- . White America. It is destroying the
tlan;but du~ to tinie restraints tion first iil whateyer ·sitwition that , potential and the lives of Chicanitos as
wa~Jorced ~ --wait utitil:'how,to · \v..e find ourselves.in/ Whether.it be in ' well as other students o_fcolor and poor
rifoniyou of.La Voz'iin~wdirec.- .: the'barrio;:,i nt,befi~ldsoronaradst
.011.:l)pringJhe past·fe~:sem~s.- S·
j~:
·aft.bethi-~ we· are'
rs
havt·received
.f<>r .:: .forced to rea~t. · :>> ..
._·.· ·_·
u.r ~m.pro,vil)g g:rappics and .
I am :hopjng l~t in the future.
we
tnust
campus,
:pr~se
au:::'.; ..
whites [note: When I use the word
"Whites" alone rm excluding poor
whites]. This tragedy is the education
sySt em. A system that isn't interested
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~~tf:'!'lfflpt::~ttJ;':oCZ~i~ii~~f.r!:!
:
be
0
uality ofthe.papei_b yJheprevi- ' munity:='i:an aw.are _ofwhat:we are\ (like those of middle-upper class
u~ editors y.ra:s· w~1( :~~nded. .,{~t1kingandsotlliitthey~bemade, Whites) also pay taxes.
ou;:rn~lists should make· }>etter\(aware ofithe 'artistic abmty:of·ltheL
Although we ar e in the 90's, stu-
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a''
. oughts .s,.nd .tryµigtop~ovide
more ·editorials, ~ays/ ~#4.J Wleast + hiS to ry, cultureandrolemodels. Teachla~fonnforoµietjtodo thel:!atne; one pagtof Chicanppoetri4\:Ih\ iddi-<l ers make them write essays about the
·... ''-,qu:9µgh )>nt)lie'r.~stqf this ' tio11, we· ~ ~µIfeontinue 'til Worm < great White men that created a
:1tt!tft?.!tia1,r1a111~ta~r;~=a~~;;:~; 1~:~:
fwillbe·amonthlyjournal ofClji~/·to · writeJ.pjµs>#\gtee wi.thfais ' dis.: · culture. In fact, thP. education system
hfough '.,P(>~t.w. short
stQri~s:and ,":.·.:· . : " > ,._i_..
. . : :....._·.. .:'•: ::::-::Ii}::•:-:
the culturally and racially insensitive
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· ::;::;:::::'=·:: .: :':.':'.:==~==!2±1 tions; less positive teacher response
and more critcism. Also, in an article
in the Sociology of Education journal
Let'sProtests The Concrete
studies indicated that teachers looked
for and reinforced achievement-ori.:-,,:='t<=
'\,:,:
In the last week we've seen
a protest at the Joyal Administration building by members of
the Unity-SRGparty, objectingto
the wrongs committed by the Administration of this University
against the Unity party in studentgovernment. Ihavetwoquestions for the orchestrators of this
demonstration: Why not sooner?
d why not for another issue
·ust as legitimate?
The occurence of the protest was provoked by a stand-off
currently in progress between the
nity party, now in controli of
ASI senate, and the Administration. The ASI historically has
employedanAdministrativeAide.
· The Administrative Vice President (AVP), who works the closest with this Aide, usually picks
the person hired for this position.
This year, however, ASI presidentDonDaves, member ofUnity,
broke prec~dent when he circumvented the authority usually given
to the AVP, and hired his choice
for the Adminstrative Aide.
T.oni Castelli, the current AVP
protested, saying that the right to'
choose the AVP Aide has historically been the perogative of his
position. So instead of working
with Daves's choice for &de
Castelli has been working with
Nishon Najarian, even though
Nishon has not been hired as a
student assistant for the ASI.
The controversy comes about
when the Administration, repres~nted by Pat Work, ASI financial
consultant, and Bob Lundal, associate dean of Student Affairs and ASI
advisor, authorized payment for
Nishon's services out of ASI funds
thereby circumventing Daves' au~
thority. Daves, through the vagueness of the ASI bylaws, has assumed
the power to decide who is a student
li:S:S.l:SLUUL
auu
WllU .l:SU L.
J.'IOW
uou L
get me wrong, this is an issue that
should be protested and should be
brought to the attention of the students here on campus. The Administration had no right to do what it
did, and we as part of the locked-out
people on this campus have an obligation to join in with the members o
Unity-SRG and oppose this outrage.
But why not sooner? Why not
sooner when there have been just as
many important and pertinent issues, issues deserving the attention
of this issue, from before the beginning of the fall 19~0 semester? For
instance, why is there a complete
under representation ofChicano and
African-Americanfaculty?Why have
the efforts of the different department and the administration as a
whole been lax when r ecruiting
p eople of color for open positions?
While this area of the country is
la:::g,:ily Raza, cur CSUF history department has only one Chicano professor. The English department is in
the same, having only one Chicano
... see Protest paoe 4
ented behaviors in White students more
often than in students of color. Although some teachers might not be
· intentionally or consciously teaching
with this attitude, it is happening and
the Chicano & Afrir.an American communities have to deal with the detrimental emotional & psychological side
affects that these attitudes are having
on our children. One of these side
affects is low selfesteem. Despite these
barriers, White politicians, White
educators, Wnitepeopleingeneral the
Vendidos (sellout Chicanos) and 1 the
Uncle Toms continue to say that Students of color can "make it" if they try.
rm amazed that any people of color
"make it" at all considering the de-
October 15,1990
structive, so called, learning environment that they are exposed
to.
For those students who
live in and attend schools in the
low income communities which
are mainly populated with
people of color (often referred to
by Whites as the "bad part of
town") there is another barrier
to face. The children from the
so called "bad parts of town"
have to suffer the injustice of
over crowded class rooms, inadequate heating and cooling
systems, and limited or no access to math books, computers,
other academic materials, uniforms for sports or band, and
musical instruments. For some
strange reason these schools
aren't getting thP, funds that
they need in order to provide a
condusive learning environment for students of color.
Apparently on the "good
side oftown" (where mainly the
Whites live) they are able to
provide schools that far exceed
the quality of those schools that
non white students are for ced
to attend. When school boards
(which are usually White)
obonld be rlistri.butiri.g t he
monies ina more equitable manner, they seem to be providing
the "good schools" with more
money. Clovis West High in
Fresno is one example ofa school
for the White priveleged. This
school looka like a junior college. They have the best of
everything and why shouldn't
they? After all, most of their
. students are White.
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Fresno has tried to mask
this inequality by building
Edison Comput ech on the
Edison High campus which is
located in the West side (poor
side of town). Now there is a
good school on the "bad side of
town" with computers, excellent teachers and quality academic materials. The only catch
is that a lot of the students that
attend Edison Computech are
being bussed over from the "good
side of town." Moreover , this
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October 15,1990
What's on the Chicano Horizon?
As I walk around campus, I often ask myself, are the 80's truely
over? Is the Chicano Movimiento
that died in the eighties still dead,
oris it alive and kicking somewhere
out there? Is the decade ofla bala de
plata really over? What should be
the direction ofChicanos in the 90's?
Should we forget the struggle and
assimilate into american society,
will they let us, do really want to?
Why does this elitist group of Chicanos, myself included, known as
university students forget our mothers and fathers in the fields, los
vatos and rucas struggling in the
barrios, and especially the little Chicanitos in the class rooms of our
racist educational system? These,
along with many other questions,
still remain unanswerd . .
First, I must say that the eighties are finally over thank God. I am
also glad to say that a lot of us are
once again proud of being Chicanos
and not HI-SPanICS. To know that
the pride, identity and self
respect,that was once taken away
. from us in the Reagan decade, is
now slowly but surely coming back,
and coming back strong. Such
events as the Chicano Moratorium
in Los Angeles last August and just
recently the Mexico-U.S. symposyum here at the university along
with groups such as CWAA,
MEChA, CLASE and Chcanos in
Law, to name only a few, are proof
of the new unity of Chicanos here
on campus. These groups are here
expressly for us Chicanos to let
ourselves grow acadamically and
spiritually. With this new unity
we need to totaly restructure this
present politicat and socio- economic system, we need to act now.
I personally would like to think
that the decade ofla bala de plata
is really over. I don't want to see
anymore brown people sellingtheir
souls to "The System" for a few
dollars. To see them on television
advocating and supporting the
exploitation of all brown people
here in the United States.
In his lecture here at CSUF,
Chicano artistMalaquiasMontoya
spoke ofthe social responsabilities
of the Chicano artist, which were
to maintain their form and craft
out of the greedy hands of the
giant advertising agencies that
work for big business. These social
responsabilities also pertain to any
Chicano that graduates from this
university and "makes it."
By the way what does happen
to all those Chicanos tnat "make it',
anyway? After they receive their
B.A and or M.A, it seems that the
Earth somehow swallows them
whole or is it the system that swallows them but kind of gets them
stuck in its throaght and calls them
hispanics? But the ones that aren't
hispanics·; · wh~re are they? They
can't all be here at Fresno State
·teaching, can they? I often wonder
if they are out there, but are being
suppressed by their employers or
organizations. Is the media not
letting us recognize our own positive role modeles? We need to go
out there and locate them and use
them.
It bas taken us too long to get
Chicano studies into the University, it is now that we need these
courses in the middle schools and
high schools through out all of
California. We need for our little
· Chicanitos that are being promoted
from grade to grade to do so with
pride. Fresno State University is
on its way to getting a Chicano
studies major, why shouldn't we go
on to individual majors in literature and art and history etc? We
I must have looked like a Chicano Socrates. I walked down the
cement stairs to the pit during
lunch, waving my hands in the
air, mumbling to myself "Why?
Why?WHY???"
Students were lounging beneath the red, white, and blue
umbrellas as if they were at the
beach or some swanky outdoor
cafe on the pier-sunglasses and
blonde hair and white teeth and
tanned skin blurred by me as I
went through the automatic glass
doors into the cafeteria. I ordered
a tuna sandwhich from a girl
named Judy who I had met at
Summer Bridge. As she was plopping a glop of gooey tuna on my
bread, she looked into my searching eyes, stopped what she was
doing,andasked what was wrong.
"Life is meaningless," I said.
"It has no purpose."
Judy seemed surprised that I
would say this. " Are you serious?" she asked me.
"No meaning," I assurred her.
"I mean, what the hell's the
use?There's no point to our lives.
We might as well be fish. In fact,
we're no better off than that tuna
your scraping up from that metal
pan."
She looked down at my
sandwhich, then she looked
around the cafeteria as if she
might spot something that would
prove me wrong.
"So what are you saying?" she
said. "I'm going to school for nothing? My father worked his ass off
in the fields for nothing?Just to
get me here? Just so you can declare my life-my existencemeaningless?"
"Well..."
"Look,Dan. I'm really sorry
things may not be going well for
you. But my life has plenty of
meaning."
"No it doesn't. Youjustthinkit
does."
"You're ajerk," she said.
She shoved the sandwhich at
me and told me that I was hopeless. She was right. I was hopeless. I felt like eating my last meal,
walking up to the Peter's Building, all the way to the very top,
above the sixth floor, and I telt
like throwing myselfdown, Jumping off. I would splatter like chery
Jello on the asphalt path below,
all over trees,and the faces and
legs of people walking by.
Why was I so unhappy? Why
didn't I have Judy's perspective?
I mean, we are the same, Judy
and me. I'm from a poor background. My father had to work
his ass off. I am the only one in my
family to make it to the university.
Hey, Chicano, remember over 30
years ago? You wanted to study your
culture and your history at the university, because you had become
equipped with New Consciousness, a
New Awareness. You knew that you
were too important to be ignored.You
started La Raza studies at Fresno
State, and even though you were
threatned and fired by racist administrators, you kept going, kept struggling, fighting, because you knew that
you were an emerging giant ofa people
Pedro Garcia
editorials con safos.
You are Alicia Anguiano who
spends afternoons sitting in the
ampitheater under the sun, studying, and dreaming of semesters at a
University in Mexico. You are Lisa
Rocha who takes long walks talking
tent as a second or third class citizen. and list~ning to your friend Tamara.
You are Frank Aviles, and you
You knew that the false illusion that
the Southwest belonged entirely to were attacked by drunk frat boys as
the Anglos was fading into the clear you were walking through campus
New Picture of Aztlan, the land of late one night with your friend Salyour indigenous ancestors, the Land vador Cuevas. You are the Chicaof Hope, the land stolen from Mexico nos who are the butt ofracial slurs on
by the Treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo-a the bathroom walls and in the
treaty that promised but denied the freespheech area; but you are also
rights of the Mexican and indiginous Ralph Avitia, Ron Castillo, Genoveva Islas, and Marta Velasco
populations.
You knew that this New Vision of fighting racism in the senate.
You are Juana Perez from Aguas
Aztlan was a place where you will not
be oppressed by a "dominate culture," Calientes. You are a freshman. You
where you will be the dominate cul- came through Summer Bridge. You
ture.You will not live in poverty. You are Albertina Soto and Ramiro
will not die in the fields and factories. Teran and Ana Diaz and you are the
You will not be left out of the univer- Sanchez brothers, Celestino and
Frank. You are Evangelina Martisity experience.
Now you are the Chicano-Latin nez who writes poetry in Spanish.
You are Manuel Cortez who
American Studies Department of
CSUF. You are internationally re- makes sketches in a notebook that
spected as a place for research. You are good enough and important
enough to be on canvas and on the
have published many books.
You do not belong to the university, walls ofart museums.You are Frank
the university belongs to you.You are Barbosa who feels a heart-deep comhigher education. You are the stu- mitment to yourfamily and your gente
dents who formed the Chicano Writ- . You are Mike Espino who will not
ers Artists Association (CWAA), be defeated.
You are todos de los "Perros de la
and have poetry readings underneath
the stars, guerilla poetry, in the spirit Raza." You like to have fun. You are
the Danztantes de Aztlan, you are
of El Theatro Carnpesino.
Take a look at yourself, Chicano. Colmena U niversitaria Hispania You
See who you are. In the early morn- are Rauls, Moreno and Diaz of the
ings you are the small man in a white UMS-you are the UMS. You are
Tijuana hat who sweeps wet leaves Proud of your culture. You listen to
from the parking lot you like it when Los Tigres del Norte and Vincente
you feel the steam from your coffee Fernandez and M.C. Hammer and
going up your nose, because it makes Bobby Brown and REM and Santana
you feel warm and at home. You are and Juan Serrano and Led Zepplin
Dr. Rueben Sanchez, the first ten- and Armanda Miguel and Prince and
ure-track Chicano in the English de- Kid Frost and Public Enemy.
You are existentialist intellectupartment of CSUF, the advisor of
CWAA You are editor of the Daily als. You are Gene Uruttia, Julio
Collegian ChrisHer~dia, and though Leal, Teresa Navarro, and Jesse
you are criticized for having too many Aleman. You are Jill Soltero-you
ads and too much sports coverage, - wear red and black UFW t-shirts to
your heart aches at the sight ofracism
...see LIFE page 5
and homophobia, and you sign your
Hey, Chicar:,o, yoythr). lt~ge:becon. I
has no. meaning.
By Daniel Chac6n
are finally taking our education
seriously and not just as a way to
escape the Chicano class.
At present we ally ourselves
with other minorities groups, would
the Chicanos benefit if these ties
were to be broken so that these
changes that we want to see will
come into fruition at a faster rate
or should we keep our alliance and
make sure that no one gets left
behind? Should we seggrigate ourselves from the rest of american
society and become our own power
or should we assimilate and become HI-SPanICS.
I know I really didn't answer
any of my own questions but instead asked more. This editorial
was written so that all you out
there along with myself can hear
from each other and exchange our
ideas through the paper if not in
person and so that this collective
unity of Chicanos can bring about
the much needed changes.
October 15,1990
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I am the Aztec angel
fraternal partner
of an orthodox society
where pachuco children
hurl stones ...
Luis Omar Salinas
The Aztec in Chicano
Literature
Who is this Aztec guy? This
strong image is often called an esoteric beast in Chicano literature and
art. These ancient people· guide
Chicanos through their art form
today. The Aztec image is used in
Chicano literary journals, art, and
even Chicano publishing companies
use the symbol. A critic may think
the Chicano's use of the Aztec image
could expose a triteness. However,
Chicanos use this image as an inspiration.
When I was a child, my mother
would take me to the bakery (Mexi-
cano) on Sunday morning after
church. At this bakery, there were
calendars with paintings of Aztecs
pinned to the walls that were also
cluttered with pinatas and pictures
ofsingers. ThepicturesoftheAztec
women and men usually intrigued
me. Years passed, but at the same
bakery, the calendars that I had
once admired were now gone. The
colorful featherd men and women
were now gone. Where were they I
asked myself over and over? I
would later find out in college that
the Aztecs were all around. My
fellow Chicano brothers and sisters
possessed the spirits which were
once conquerd by the Spaniards.
There are no Aztecs living in
Fresno or on any other city here in
the valley. The Aztecs are gone
period; yet they live in Chicano literature today. It has been a while
since fve seen a calendar with Aztec
paintings, but I could always read a
poem, short story, and novel written
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by a Chicano for the spiritual influence.
As a begining Chicano writer,
my Aztec images reflect my yearning
for the freedom of our people. The
Aztecs were oppressed by the Spaniards and Chicanos today can find
themselves in the same situation. Our
ties to these ancient indians are thick
and cannot be severed.
Tonatiuh International, Publishers of Chicano Literature, uses the
Aztec image in their books. This
publishing company published
Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me tntima"
and his several drawings of pyramids
and calendars. New Visions ofAztlan,
a Chicano literary journal from Riverside, California uses the Aztec images
as well. The first issue has a beautiful
sketch of an Aztec and a pyramid.
This is a new journal for Chicano writers and artists. There is a new publisher named Charlie Trujillo who has
started bis own company in the Bay
area. He calls his company Chusma
Publishing. Charlie uses a stone
Aztec head for the company symbol.
These examples illustrate how infuential the Aztec is to the Chicano.
Chicano literature speaks of the
real and the surreal. The surrealism
in our literature isn't taken very serious by the literary circles. Chicano
folklore also plays its part in our literature. The mythology of the Aztec
gods such as Quetzalcoatl influences
Chicanos to write differently. In
Aztec art we see stone carvings of
skulls, sacrificial temples, highly
advanced calenders, stone serpent
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heads, and even a rabbit giving to an
Eagle Knight.
There is nothing
morbid about the Aztec image. It is
full oflife, death, and beauty.
Chicano wri~rs and artists want
to grasp the beauty of the Aztec culture. It is hard, especially when you
can barely understan~ their civilization. Using the Aztec image is more
like soul searching. In every Chicano
there is a Stone Aztec god waiting to
be born. That is how Chicanos feel
about their art and literature.
Mark Anthony Alvidrez
PROTEST continued from page 2...
professor. While the Chemistry department has NO! Chicano instructors.
Why wasn't this protested and
brought to the attention of the people
by the Vangaurd of Unity. This is a
problem that has been with us since
the first Chicano went to college. This
is a problem that affects every single
Chicano student on Campus, a concrete issue, not an abstract issue created by simple power politics in student government that can hopefully
have at least a symbolic reference.
What about aauirine- more slots for
EOP, so that more African-Americans and Chicano and Southeast
Asians and Native Americans can
attend this Campus? Concrete issues! This is what we should have
been protesting from the start of
school. But instead we get the same
'ol political reassurances that these
issues are being dealt with and not
until their own symbolic power is
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As I said before we as Chicanos
should support this issue, this symbolic struggle for emancipation. But
more importantly we should b~ finding our representatives in SRG (they
can be found many times in the Free
Speech area) and encouraging them
to confront the issues, out in the open,
in whatever way that will bring about
justice. Let them know! Let them
know so that they will never be able to
claim ignorance. We must make our
issues known, the time for silence and
back room politics is not now, we must
take our movement by the reigns, and
ride forward.
WE ARE THE
PEOPLE!! Viva La Raza! Y-Que!
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EDUCATION contin. from page 2...
school ( at the junior high level) requires that students take a test in
order to be accepted into the program. If students from the West side
haven't been provided with a proper
early education how are they suppose
to pass this test? Apparently most of
the students of color in that community are being locked out this school of
academic excellence which was originally built for them. The community
is given an illusion of a school in the
low income area that's providing
access and a proper education for
students of color, when in actuality
they have a magnet school, Edison
Computech, mainly for the White and
a Edison High for people ofcolor both
on the same campus.
There is something wrong when
students of color can't attend a good
school that should have been built for
them. There is somethingwrongwith
this White system. No wonder the
drop out rate in the Chicano & African American communities have skyrocketted. Some Brown and Black
youth are turning to drugs, gangs,
and violence because they are frustrated and angry with the system.
This system continues to deny them
access to a culturally diverse academic curriculum, adequate materials and a positive ler;:raing environment. How are they suppose to "make
it?" If any person of color is going to
"make it" in this White racist educational system, it is not going to be because of equal opportunity or an equal
access to education. Students ofcolor
might "make it" because of luck, a
miracle or because there are Brown
or Black hands there to pull them up.
The Chicano and African American
communities on this campus need to
be some of those hands.
Frank Aviles
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Ezequiel Lee Orona's "Metropolis Yirgin".
LIFE continued from page...3
work, and buttons that say "Viva
LaMujer."
You are the the writer of these
words.
Sometimes you fail to look at
yourself and where you are. The
things around you all have meaning-Hershel the Cowboy Preacher
who screams God's word in the
freespeech area- the little lady
Mary who pulls aluminim cans out
of the trash
--and remember Danny Enriquez playing guitar in the Free
Speech area, how he used to walk
up to you and give you the Chicano
handshake as ifyou were brothers
separated for too long.
These all have meaning: The
U.S.-Mexico Conference: the big
parties at near-by apartments like
the Meadow Woods, The Californians, The Park Woods: the speech
by Malaquias Montoya who said
that Chicano art must be an art of
protest, it must reflect and advance
the struggle: the new MEChA booth
with the Eagle on it: the public
affairs program on KFSR (the
Campus radio station), and the
Sunday night sh ow called Musica
Chicana hosted by Los Night Owls
ltichard Delgado and Matt
Polanco:the CWAA's reader's theatre production of original plays
writting by Chicano CSUF students; and their production of
Lament for the Death of Ignacio
Sanchez Mejia. All these things matter. These too have meaning.
I was seated in the darkest
corner of the cafeteria eating my
tuna. Every time I lifted the
sandwhichmyfingers would poke
a hole in the bread, and juices
would squirm down my arm like
streams of non-fat milk.
Across from rows of tables
where students ate and socialized as if they were in a beer commercial, I saw Judy talking to her
shift supervisor. She was listening to him talk, and she nodded
her head up-and-down at what he
said. She removedherworkapron
and held it in her hands, listening
to him. The supervisor patted
Jurly on the shoulder as if to say
"Good job," and he walked off.
Judy got a plastic cup, filled it
with ice, and poured soda into it.
She walked past the cashier and
looked around for a place to sit,
an empty table.
I waved my hand from the very
farthest corner hoping that she
would join me, and she saw me
immediately. She waved back. She
kept looking around for a place to
sit, so I waved at her again, this
time with both hands. She got the
message and reluctantly walked
over to my table.
"Are you still here, Socrates?"
she asked.
"I'm sorry about that, all that
stufflsaid,Judy.rve been thinking about it-and you're right.
There is meaning. I justsomehwere along the line-lost
sense of it. That's all."
"Well..." She sipped from the
top of her soda, smacked her lips
at the taste, and said "Oh, all right.
You're forgiven."
She sat on the chair across the
table from me. We just sat there,
not saying anything,just looking
around the cafeteria at the different people. All the different
people.
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Chicano Poetry
Abuelita
the sun on my . back
My 1st grade teacher said that Columbus discovered America and the
Indians too.
Abuelita said the Indians were never losl and neithe1· was America.
Abuelita said I have no gun so I must draw pictures of a White man
discovering our people and our land.
The policeman stopped my brother-in-law, Juan, the other day
to check if he had insurance, but he didn't.
He can't afford insurance cause he has three kids, a pregnant wife (Lupita)
and a minimum wage job . .
So they took away his license and fined him $400.
Abuelita said Juan has no gun so he must pay his ticket and try to bum
rides to work.
The poison on the orange trees made !1ami sick.
She threw-up and her face turned like a red balloon.
She doesn't complain cause they might fire her.
AbueHta said Mami doesn't have a gun so she must put cream on her
face and keep on picking oranges.
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roe~i;~~1u:; h~~a~~he i;:i;·i~c~he emergency room and it accidently died.
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The neighbors don't like my Abuelita so they took her to court today.
They said she didn't have papers, or a green card but she did.
The judge wanted to see her papers.
Abuelita told the judge she didn't have to show him anything.
He said she had to go back to Mexico where she belonged.
Abuelita had a gun so she pulled it out and shot the judge, neighbors,
teacher, policeman, !1ami' s boss, the principal, the doctor and the
President too.
Then she reloaded her gun, put it back in her purse, gently grabbed my hand,
and we walked out quietly. ·
Frank Pancho Aviles
"Hijo del Sol"
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carnival
brown,
black,
laughing,
playing·,
no one real izi ng
that in the
nights of
. '
amer1ca
brown and black
are colors of death,
depress i on.
all but cognizance at this
carnival,
all but sadness and understanding,
all but revolutionaries
and romantics.
only the fabricated reality
of america.
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October 15,1990
Chicano Poetry
a tour
The Vineyards
tried not to be illusive or vague
or abrstract,
So I wondered into a garden to
collect myself,
and to sort out what has happened
so far.
The grape fights that my brother
and I
had wi t h our friends in the hot
days of October.
To walk in the water filled
di t hches between the
dark gre en rows of the old Tokay
vines
in the warmth of the mid day's
sun,
The ditch es that my black dog
Rebel and I
woul d break while wrestling
that I woul d later have to fix when
it was time
to go out with dad.
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Out in t he bi g empty solar beh i nd
our house
....J--------J'----f'rii:'i'lll
playing baseball with all of my
'---~
friends
after sch ool and fighting over
the cool looking rootbeer cans
I
wi th the little ,._ _.
pa ndas on them,
my frie nds they didn't care if we:•••••••••••••••••••••••••••:
won or lost,
: thesky
bymarkanthonyalvidrez
•
but I hated l oosing, I still do .. . •
:
: with her fat arms the moon
:
To go ba ck and give life to all the : caressed me until a point where
:
l ittle birds
• i wanted to dance to an afrikan
•
tha t I SHOT and KILLED,
: beat.
:
so tha t ~ hen _I hear one sing I : the white owl people sang lullabies:
won t cringe and ~eel
: to the babies of the dark while
:
ashamed and helpless like they : omar salinas read poems to poets :
were
• of dawn,
•
when I took aim and SHOT.
: all this happened you see.
:
: you can't.
:
God i w ish i could go back,
: who can?
•
wish i didn't understand and
• only death crazed chicanos who
:
could go .back
: dream
:
to those l ush green .grape gardens,: not american but of revolutions.
:
Go back and hit my best friend • i didn't care about revolutions at :
Tony right smack
: the time,
•
in his eye with a fat red juicey : the moon was my love with the
:
grape,
: dark
:
wrestle w i th Rebel until the small: hair she had, those brown eyes
:
ditch was
• brought out my lycanthrope tenden-•
. the size of a small canal,
: ci es.
:
1t would take me a half hour to • the stars spoke to stars
:
hose the dark
: that were dead .
:
brown mud off of myself outside : the Aztec ange l kept reading.
:
on
: stone gods came alive and
•
the yard befor e ama wou ld l et me • graded ou r lives .
:
.
go
: th ey talked like po liti cians w i t h
:
into the house.
: salt water in their lying mouths.
:
: all this happened you see.
:
and wish i could play baseball all:you still can't.
:
day
• maybe you never will.
•
••
next to my home
•• nobody knows.
and never hear a little bird sing : only death crazed chicanos with
:
again.
: dreams of revolutions .
:
•
•••••
•• •• ••• •••••• ••••• •• •••••
bymarkanthonyalvirdez
at night, tonight, I decide to
write a poem.
.
I will not let the summer heat or
the winter's air bother my creativity
that flows through my often called
sick mind.
I will not speak of racists that
dwe 11 around me.
the actions of cesar chavez are
absent
as well.
my words are not about a woman I
don't
posses in my shallow heart.
the grotesque images of rainbows,
fluffy
clouds, and pretty smiles will not
be found here.
I will not lie about footsteps along
a gravely polluted beach with
hypodermic
needles attempting to dliute our
pure blood.
I will not.
I'm writing a poem.
a poem where I dance under a hot
moon.
my partner is the dead mexicana
from ta)es passed down generations.
graves near and beyond have our
names
upon them.
a corrido in the background speaks
of a
a man who is blank in my mind.
this is not a dream.
it is a place.
a place · where cucarachas do
cartwheels in the sky.
wh'ere god answers to God .
there is no boycott here.
I will not ban anything.
I never have I never will.
this ; poem is about my life.
a quiet place full of noises.
there is life and death about.
death mostly,
but then again, what else is there?
October 15,1990
CALENDARIOCALENDARIO
i=-=...J,.;:~-=1=5_.;;...•There will be a
tudent rally and protest today at
2:30. Check the MEChA booth for
ore information.
EChA High Outreach Commite will hold a general meeting
day on the benches in fromt of
he Cafeteria, from 6-7p.m. For
ore information contact Beatriz
t227-2482.
'J!ES 16: The C.Y.C.
will hold a gemeral
day at the Joyal Ad·on Building room 203,
£'ES 17:
EChA will hold a general
eeting today at the U.S.U. room
02, at 4:00p.m. Everyone is
elcomed!
hicanos in Law will hold a
eneral meeting today at 5:30p.m.
'll'E
18: C.H.O. will
old a general meeting today at
e U.S.U. room 312 from 235:30:30p.m. For more information
CORP continued from page 1...
The second priority is education.
"We feel that the more education
they get the more training in different areas, the more effective
they'll be with the migrant student," Lomeli said.
The mini-corp student is taught
bow to set up a lesson plan, how to
teach accorqingto the lesson plan,
and is trained in communitcation
skills. The students are also
trained in curriculumn and academics.
However the main focus of the
contact Manuel at 432-4548.
'VI'E$9{'ES 19: "Find Out
What's Happening in Cuba Today"
Latin America Support Committee
will be sponsering a slide show and
discussionby Jack Pit to be held at
the Unitarian Church 4144 N.
Millbrook, at 7:00pm.
S52L'B.9L1JO 20:
"Confrencefor
Bilingual Educators" will be held
today and October 27 at the upstairs
cafeteria room 200, from 9:105:00p.m. For more information call
Lydia Montelongo at 278-2381.
2'ef.jl!R'1'£5 23: The C.Y.C.
committee will hold a general meeting today at the Joyal Administration Building room 203, at 5:00p.m.
Afl'E'RCOL'ES 24: The.CLS
Dept. will hold an information
meeting for students intrested in
persuing a PH.D, today at the
U.S.U. room 302, from 1-3p.m.
There will be a general MEChA
meeting today. Check the MEChA
booth for time and place.
Chicanos in Law wil hold a general
meeting today at 5:30p.m.
ralist and instructor at San Francisco Art Institute, will hold a
lecture today at the Industrial Art
Bldg. rooml0l, from 6-8p.m.
Career Fair will be held today at
the Fresno Conv1mtion Center, from
l0·0O
_4 .00
· a.m. · p.m.
S52L'B.9L1JO 2 7: The second half ;Jvl[4!R.P£5 G: The C.Y.C. comof the "Confrence For Bilingual
Educators" will be held today at the
Upstairs Cafeteria room 200, from
9:00a.m.-5:00p.m. For more information contact Lydia Montelango at
278-2381
1JOAff;J{{jO 28: "Mexico:
Rediscovery of an Artist's Roots"
Eduardo Carrillo, a professor of art
at the University of Santa Cruz,
will hold a iecture today at the
Conly Art Building room 101, from
6-8p.m.
;Jvf.91!RTES 30: The C.Y.C.
committee will hold a general meeting today at the Joyal Administration Building room.203, at 5:00p.m.
mittee will hold a general meeting
today at the Joyal Administration
Building rot>m 203, at 5:00p.m.
The CLS Department will hold a
meeting for students intrested in
completing a minor in Chicano
Studies or Latin American Studies
at the U.S.U. room 308, at
12:00p.m.
Afl'E(R.COL'ES 7:
"Grass-
Represantative Maria Toj from
Guatemala will speak today at
CSUF. Check for details.
There will be a general MEChA
meeting today. Check the MEChA
booth for time and place.
Chicanos in Law will hold a general
meeting today at 5:30p.m.
Afl'E$.COL'£5 31: Chicanos J'll'E'VES 8:
in Law will hold a general meeting
Chicanos in Law
and Associated Students will be
holding the 12th Annual Law Day
from 9a.m.to 3:00p.m. at the U.C.U.
room 312-314. Everyone is welcomed to attend.
today at 5:30p.m.
NOVIE.M13RE.
'Vf'E'R7'{'ES 26: "Ojos de
Lucha-A Chicana perspective"
Juana Alicia, a San Francisco mumini-corp training is t e reenforrnent of self esteem. They teach
"Yo Puedo", a self esteem enhancement activity for the migrant students.
Migrant Education is a federal program. And funding comes from the
federal government. In Washington, the government dispurses the
money to the states. In turn, the
money is dispursed to the counties.
According to Marquez there are an
estimated 4,000 students who benefit from this program.
Having Fresno State in the valley
helps the large consitration of mi-
S52L'B.9l.1JO 3: The Northern
California Affirmative Action
grant students with programs such
as these two, coordinated by Liz
Gamez and Jose Lomeli. The state
of California has a total of 20 programs each with an average of 20
students.
There is a strict criteria to get in
the program. "We prefer that they
be bilingual. They have to be able
to speak one of the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, or Punjabi, with a minimum
G.P.A of2.5attheuniveristy. Come
from a migrant backround with an
interest in teaching. And finally
they have to be full time students,
and also show a financial need,"
said Marquez.
CONTINUED from page 1...
Miami.
Seventeen students will be presented with scholarships at the banquet. Among the students there
were severe} Fresno State student~:
Cristina Medina, Rinee Mitchell,
Eloisa Estrada, and Virginia R.
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Madrid.
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-· sp~J~l:: r~sp.on,~i- . ,.
.~i 1'ily::,:pf th e .·=.:/;:,::!fy. . _. •
Chicano artists .during his lee~
turewhich ·wa·s
p,art ofJl:1.e,. l.J_
.$.
·Mexican·: Sy:·mpo~
sium.
.
Eu'.:evio Arias/La Voz du Aztlan
.
The purpose of the workshop was
to get more minority students in
the media. The workshop taught
students betterwritingtechinques,
how to conduct interviews, and
techniques for the disign and production of a neMipaper:
The date for the banquet is Nov.
9 at the Fresno County Plaza in
downtown Fresno from 6 p.m. to 1
a.m. Tickets for the banquet are
$25. Those interested in attending
the banquet should contact Tom
Uribes at (209) 278-5366.