La Voz de Aztlan, October 24 1991
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La Voz de Aztlan, October 24 1991
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Vol 23 No. 2
Fall 1991
CSU, Fresno
The Chicano-Latino News a er
Oct, 24, 1991
'?'
Chicano-Latinos encouraged to study
students with Chicano interests
Clubs, Orf!aniza_tions
•Mexico, Spain study offered through CSUF
Renee Ruelas
Assitant Editor
Joining a club or
organization can be a new and
confusing step for students
new and old to CSUF.
CSUF has many organizations and clubs for students
with similar interests and
ideas. To become involved
with and find information
about groups on campus is in
provided in University
Student Union Rm. 306.
Different organizations
offer advising, contacts to
enhance future contacts and
look good on a resume.
Applications ask for a list of
clubs and organizations the
applicant is a participant. Most
applicants turn in the application with this section blank.
Students new and old
now have a chance to turn
their future around by joining
a group on campus.
Chicano clubs are also
available for students interested in promoting Chicano
culture in an organization.
Chicanos In Law is a prelaw organization established
in 1978 to promote Chicano
interest in becoming lawyers.
CIL helps students with
admission to law school and
provides counseling.
Chicano Writers Artists Association encourages Chicano
art and literature in their
organization. CWAA holds
poetry readings and has pub-
lished student works.
Hispanic Business Students
Association is a national organization established in 1971
to promote Chicanos in business. HBSA sponsors speakers
and trips related to business.
Chicano Journalism
Students Association formed
in 1988 for students with
journalism and telecommunication interest, but all students
are welcome to work on CJSA
projects.
Chicano Health Organization founded in 1968 for
students interested in health
related fields. CHO members
are active in promoting good
health and are active in campus health related projects.
Colemna Universitaria
Hispana actively promotes the
Latino culture. They also
sponsor an annual Posada.
MEChA is involved in education and politics involving
Chicanos in the community.
MEChA's main focus is on student issues.
Migrant Student Alliance
works with migrant students
on campus. The group works
closely with students in their
college experience.
Chicano Commencement
Committee formed in 1976
with the CSUF Chicano
Alumni Association organizes
the annual Chicano graduation.
Chicano-Latino Association
see clubs
l~ffl
page3
James Gonzalez
La Voz Staff writer
The temperature in Guanajuato, Mexico, this summer is
expected to be in the mid 70s perfect weather for traveling, margaritas - and a little studying.
In Madrid, Spain the Prado
Museum, which ranks in size and
importance with the Louvre, gears
up for its 172nd year.
CSUF students have the chance
next year to explore, and absorb
the language and culture of Spain
and Mexico.
California State University
International Programs and the
CSUF Division of Extended Education both offer study programs
abroad.
Campus Coordinator for International Programs Sonya Hildreth
said, that in a typical year, only 10
to 20 people from CSUF take the
opportunity to study in Mexico or
Spain.
"It's not that people are eliminated because of criteria, it's just
that they don't apply," Hildreth
said.
International Programs requires enrollment at a CSU campus no later then spring term 1992.
Other requirements include a
2.75 cumulative grade point average and upper division or graduate standing by the end of spring
term 1992.
'1've had people come in on the
Feb.I deadline and apply, but I
wouldn't recommend doingthat,"
Hildreth said.
Advanced language and culture programs in Spain and Mexico require two years of collegelevel Spanish, but the "Learn Span-
ish" program in Mexico requires
only one year.
Many Hispanics in the program
are interested in traveling to Spain
rather than Mexico, Hildreth said.
Students in general consider
Europe "exotic" and want to travel
far from home, as opposed to
Mexico, she said.
International Programs offers
two one-year programs in Spain:
one at the University of Granada
and the other at the University of
Madrid.
Both programs give students
the opportunity to sharpen language skills through formal study
and immersion in the Spanish
language culture.
Students earn regular resident
credit for their coursework.
Spanish culture will definitely
beondisplaythissummerasSpain
hosts the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
ltwon'tbecheap;theestimated
cost for a year in Spain is $12,075.
All cam pus financial aid, with
the exception of work-study, is
applicable overseas.
Students in the "Learn Spanish" program in Mexico attend the
Universidad lberoamericana on
the outskirts of Mexico City and
are emmersed in an intensive program of formal language study
along with a broad variety of
courses in Mexican culture, social
sciences, and humanities.
Courses in the "Language and
Culture"programallowadvanced
students to complete their mastery of the Spanish language and
Mexican culture.
Each program in Mexico is estimated to cost $6,980. About the
same cost as living in California in
one year
'1n addition to studying, there
is fun" Hildreth said.
She said during breaks in the
course of the year a resident director, usually a faculty member of
CSU, will try to arrange tours of
local historical sites and nearby
cities.
"I feel we are changing the
negative stereotypes on both
sides," said Dr. Cosme 2.aragoza,
professor of foreign languages.
2.aragoza sponsors a summer
study program in Guanajuato,
Mexico, through the Department
of Foreign Languages and Literature and the CSUF Division of Extended Education.
He said the program isa unique
opportunity for Mexican people
to understand American people.
The colonial city of
Guanajuato is located on
Mexico's central plateau, between
Mexico's two largest cities,
Guadalajara and Mexico City.
A weekend trip to either city is
easy to arrange and inexpensive.
Students spend the summer
studying the language and culture of Mexico at the Universidad
deGuanajuatoandreceiveregular
credit for their coursework.
The only eligibility requirement
is Spanish 10 - one year of collegelevel Spanish or the high school
equivalent, two years.
"The first year we took close to
30 people," 2.aragoza said, "half
the participants were Chicanos"
He said the program was
cancelled last year due to lack of
participants.
program
pg.3
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
2
The pain of Aztlin remembered 22 years ago in
"El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan"
*Sisterhood, brotherhood, peace and love; the Chicano movement shall continue
La Voz Editor
Joe M. Torres
the truth about the history and
legacy behind "La Raza". It
became one of the first document
to use the word Aztlan to signify
the culural birthplace, a place of
geographic-mythicized significance usually associated with the
southwest a region once part of
Mexico until 1848.
Presented. is the plan as it
originally appeared in the Denver convention in 1969:
poeple whose time ha.s come and
who struggles against the foreigner
"gabacho" who exploits our riches
and destroys our culture. With our
heart in our hands and our hands in
the soil, we declare the independence
of our mestizo nation. We are a
bronze people with a bronze cluture.
Before the world, before all of North
America, before all our brothers on
the bronze continent, we are a
nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan.
of boundaries. National.ism is the
common denominator that all members of La Raza can agree upon.
and our programs.
4. INSTITUTIONS shall
serve our people by providing the
service necessary for a full life and
their welfare on the basis of restitution, not handouts or beggar's
crumbs Restitution for the past
economic slavery, political. civil and
human rights. Institutions in our
community which do not serve the
people have no place in the community. The institutions belong to the
people.
El Plan Espiritual de
Organiz11tional Go11ls
Aztlan a drafted document
conceived out of the late 60s
1. UNITY in the thinking of
recognizedtheneedtobring
our people concerning the barrios,
Chicano people together by
the peublo, the campo, the land, the
identifying "La Raza" in terms of
poor, the middle class, the profesthe ethnic and historical ties
sional-all committed to the liberawithin the culture of those
tion of La Raz.a.
people having a understanding
El Pl11n £spiritual de
of their Mexican heritage but
2. ECONOMY: Economic
Aztl4n
Program
have been a large part living
control of our lives and our
within the United States.
communities can only come about
5. SELF-DEFENSE of the
In the spirit of a new people
The politically active
El Plan Espirtual de Aztlan
by driving the exploiter out ofour
community must rely on the
that is concious not only of its
sets the theme that the Chicanos (La communities, our pueblos, and our
Chicano movement began
combined strength of the people. The
proud historical heritage but also of
Raz.a de'Bronze) must use their
within the confines of the
lands and by controlling and develfront line defense will cone form the
the brutal "gringo" invasion of our
mainstream society, but it benationalism as the key or common
oP.ing our own tal.ents sweat, and
barrios, the campos, the pueblos,
territores, we, the Chicano
came important to tie in the
denominator for mass mobilization
resources. Cultural background and and the ranchitos. Their involement
inhabitants and civilzers of the
sameness of the people within
and organization. Oncew we are
val.ues which ignore materialism
as protectors of their people will be
the cultural movement to
northern land of Aztltin from
committed to the idea and philosphy and embrace humanism will
given respect and dignity. They in
whence came our forefathers,
maintain a politically active
of El Plan de Aztlan, we can only
tum offer their responsibilty and
contribute to the act of cooperative
voice with their protest of the
reclaiming the land of their birth ,
conclude that social., economic,
buying and the distribution of retheir lives for their people. Those
inequalities going on at the time.
and consecrating the determination
who pal.ce themselves in th front
cultural., and political independence sources and production to sustain
of our prople of the sun, declare,
As equally important had been
is the only road to total. liberation
an economic base for healthy growth ranks for their people fo so out of
the ties to the Pre-Columbian
that the call of our blood is power,
love and carnal.ismo. Those instituform oppression, exploitation, and
and development. Lands rightfully
our respponsibility, and our
people which are largely part of
racism. Qur struggle then must be
ours will be fought for and defended. tions which are /attend by our
the make-up of the ancestry.
inevitable destiny.
brothers to provide employment and
for control of our barrios, campos,
Land and realty ownership will be
This key recognition is essential
We are free and sovereign to pueblos, lands, our economy, our
acquired by the community for the
political porl barrels for the gringo
to the political renaissance as it
determine those tasks which are
culture and our political life. El plan people's welfare. Economic ties of re- will do so obly as acts of liberation
began to form in the 60s and this
justly called for by our house, our
commits all levels of Chicano
sponsibliity must be secured by naand for La Causa. For the very
form began to be recognized as
land, the weat of our brows, and by society-the barrio, the campo, the ra- tionalism and the Chicano defense
young there will no longer be acts of
the Chicano Movement.
our hearts. Aztlan belongs to those
chero, the writer, the teacher,
units.
juvenile delinqency, but for revoluThe plan became unveiled who plant the seeds, water the fields, theworker, the professional.
tionary acts.
at the first National Chicano
and gather the crops and not to the
3. EDUCATION must be
Youth Conference in Denver.
foreign Europeans. We do not recogNationalism
relative to our people ,i.e., history,
6. CULTURAL values of
Colorado in 1%9. The plan erenize capricious frontiers on the
culture, bilingual education, contri- our peaple stregthen our identity
ated many groundbreaking ideas bronze continents.
Nationalism as the key to
butfonfi, etc. Community control of
and the moral backbone of the
organization transcends all religous, our schools, our teachers, our
Brotherhoo4 uri#es us,.and
movement. Our culture unites and
still striking the hearts of .t;nany
political, class, and econmic factions admministrators, our counselors,
plan
cont. pg4
love for our brothers makes us a
in the Chicano culture seeking
All gone
Luis Cobarru ias
"Hey, Luis, I heard that
Panchony and his Young
Soldiers are around," Shrimpo
said as he approached us from
behind.
"What's up, loco! What
are you talking about? Who told
you that?" I asked him as I
turned to give him out homeboyto-homeboy handshake.
"Ya, I heard the same
thing." Flaco agreed.
"Ya, and he's got about
30 of his Soldiers with him."
The quinceanera had
just finished. It was about 12:30
a.m. and as we usually did after
every party, we kicked back
outside with all the homies in
the parking lot, checking out the
cruising and the rucas that were
passing by.
- Flaco, Raton, Smurf,
Cat, Summer Valero, Ben and I
were leaning on the wall, each of
us with one foot up against it.
The other smaller homies were
on our left side trying to pick up
on two of the Smurphetes, a girl
gang in the San Joaquin, Flaca
and Pinta.
As I was telling Ben
about last Saturday's fight with
the Surenos, a gang that consist
mainly of native Mexicans, I
noticed three vehicles coming
toward us: a red mini truck, a
red '63 Impala, and a big red
-
ID
one night
pickup truck. We quickly
formed into a pack next to the
wall where Ben and I stood. As
Ben and I stood in front of the
pack, the three vehicles slowly
surrounded us. The Impala
parked directly in front of me
and from the driver's seat out
came a 5-foot-8-inch, 200-pound
of what appeared to be pure
muscle Mexican man. He stood
there with one hand in his black
trenchcoat' s pocket, while the
other hand scratched his right
eye. After he finished scratching
his eye he snapped his fingers.
Out from the other cars came the
Soldiers. There appeared. to be
about 20 of them, all wearing
long, black trenchcoats. Panchony stepped back and Robert, better known as Eight Ball, the
right hand of Panchony, stepped
forward.
"Who's the leader of
the G.V. Boys?" he asked.
No one said anything.
This was the first time that
Panchony and his Young
Soldiers had been in the San
Joaquin. Yet we knew from the
expression Panchony had on his
big hairy face that this wasn't a
social visit. This was just like the
encounter with the Surenos that I
was telling Ben about earlier.
It too was on a Saturday night, after a party that my
homeboy Hitman had thrown
for his birthday. After we had
finishd two kegs, we went to a
liquor store in K-town (Kerman)
to get a case of Bud for ourselves. Cat and I were kicking
back in a nearby alley waiting in
Chaca's truck while others did
the beer run. About two
minutes after they left for the
liquor store, Cat noticed a bunch
of guys coming toward us. We
couldn't distinguish who they
were because it was pitch dark
that night. As they began to
close in, I could hear them
saying, "Esta ves nose nos van a
escapar como lo isieron en el parke
la semana pasada." That night I
had nothing to worry about. I
had five of my biggest homeboys, along with five smaller
ones. As soon as I recognized
them as the Surenos, I realized
that they weren't here to join the
party. That Saturday I was the
only one who fought. I fought
their leader, Z.apata. It didn't
take me more than two minutes
to have him on the ground,
leaving him with no chance of
getting back up soon. That night
I came out with only a bump on
my head.
"I said, who's the
leader!" Eight Ball said as he
began to take off his trenchcoat,
leaving him with only a white
undershirt.
"He is." All the smaller
homies pointed toward me.
"I heard you're bad,
Luis, so let's see what you got,"
said Eight Ball as he handed his
trenchcoat back to Panchony.
Eight Ball had been a
soldier for five years. He and
Panchony first started the
Soldiers five years ago, but that
didn't bother me. He was about
my size, maybe a couple of
inches taller, but not by much.
So without saying a word, I took
off my sweater and left my white
turtleneck shirt on, thinking that
this wouldn't take me anymore
than a minute of two, like usual.
Pow, pow, pow. Three
punches: a left hook to his right
cheek, a right to his left and a
straight punch to his mouth.
Nothing.
Eight Ball took a couple
of steps back toward his homeboys and smiled," Is this all that
the G.V. Boys have? You ain't
shit, Luis. I'm going to destroy
you."
I didn't understand. I
knew that I had hit him hard
because the knuckles on my
right hand were bleeding from
the punch to his mouth. Yet it
appeared by the way he was
acting as though I hadn't even
touched him. He took a couple
more steps back and took off his
undershirt, leaving him with a
bare back.
"Now let me show you
little punks how sorry your
leader really is." He picked me
up and slammed me to the
pavement. A kick to my head
and another to my ribs and
another.
night
cont. pg4.
La Voz de Aztlan
Editor
Joe M. Torres
Assistant editor
Renee Ruelas
Photo editor
Angel de Jesus
taff Writers
Belarmino Castellanos
Luis Cobarruvias
Chris Heredia
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
PoetryAztl6n
Please tell me I sing the words 'luve' and 'hunger' like no one else. Well, everything I know is wrapped up in those two words.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your-life before you can hold still for anybody's damn sermon.
-Billie Holiday
Maiiana He'll Lead
Call to Action
Without doubt
Heisto be
our leader.
at the srene of it all
i witness the masses
gathering together to see
another fallen
angel on the pavement
In leading
He is to have
knowledge.
Black on white.
With knowledge
Heis to be
wise.
The pitiful voices of authority
interrupted by the strong movement
of sound
echoing from years past.
The wind sweeps through the night
uplifting the souls of those innocent
exhuasted
dead
victims.
With wisdom
He is to be
understanding.
With promises
He is to be
kind.
!
hl
Sirens hail the praises of another victory
I close the door to my cell.
Trapped
with fear inside me.
With kindness
He is to be
supportive.
With support
He is to be
our strength
- Lucia Sanchez
Celebration of Diversity
With power
Heis to be
courageous.
Girls without fathers.
Boys without fathers.
Children without clothes.
Babies without milk.
And White men in three piece suits with big fat stomachs.
...,..
Brown women with black eyes, bruises and no medical care.
- Barbara. E. Alvarez
HJack women with children and no child support.
White women with crappy jobs and no raise.
Yellow women with American husbands and no say so.
Red women with scars of rape and injustice.
And White men with big businesses and lots of pretty secretaries.
RACIST STOPLIGHT
Brown men that pick up walnuts.
Black men that pick up aluminium cans.
Poor white men that pick up their baggy pants.
Yellow men that pick up after White men.
Red men that pick up dead bodies.
And White men that pick up their big fat pay checks on Friday afternoon.
La Familia.
-Papa, Que paso con Ud.?- ·
-Mafiana, mijita, Mafiana.-
It took so long
to turn green
I know it was
cus soy chicano.
Somehow it sensed
I was listening to
Mexican music
and that my air
conditioner
wasn't working.
It wouldn't
change colors,
wanted me to wait,
misunderstood my
cultural impatience
of sitting so long
in windshield-strong sun.
It was racist, I know.
And when it did change
finally, I know it thought
that if not for the threat
that l"d jump outta my car
and strangle its big steel pole neck,
it would make me wait
till a white guy drove up.
quoole, r,ato
yo soy el niiio
the one who you said was a travieso
the one you claimed caused all the pleito
the one who long ago you did not care for
even though you were my maestro
fijate
a lo qlll! hll pasado ·
it's been a long time pero no ando calmao
see remember the day I got into a fight
con otro niiio who's color was white
he told his story, I said "siempre me buSC4"
you said to me "el espaiiol no se habla"
so I got in trouble for speaking spanish
and my interest in school suddenly vanished
pero to make things worst,
you called my papi and said I was to blame
and so he disciplined me with physical pain
see mexican parents respect authority
my word against yours ... y'asi quz sufri
pues el tiempo paso and things got no better
It seemed every week you would send home a letter
telling my parents I was bad in class
little did you know I felt like an ass
como un mudito, I sat all alone
listening to a language I did not speak at home
With strength ·
He is to
have power.
With courage
He is to be
MAESTRO
Brown People called wetbacks.
Black People called niggers.
Poor White People called white trash.
Yellow People called chinks.
Red People called savages.
And White men called Goel
White men that are Presidents in Indian land.
White men that continue to enslave a People of Color.
White men that rape and degrade and exploit women.
White men that molest our children with their White way.
And
A People that can no longer bleed and cry.
And
A People that screams out for freedom and justice.
And
A People that stands up and breaks their chains
while the White man runs for his life.
- Frank Aviles
and just because I found the curriculum boring
you insisted that knowledge I was not yearning
and just because I spoke with a mexican accent
you insisted that in wood shop my time'd be best spent
and just cause I wore on a gangster trip
and, finally. because my skin was brown
se reian los gringos and they put me down
and you maestro, you could not see
why I got mad cuando se burblaban de mi
btit wnat hurt me more was the comment you made
you said I was lazy cause no attention I paid
yet the truth was that I was afraid
tenia verguensa and so quiet I stayed
those early years really fucked my mind
I was confused and no one I could find
who understood me at your racist school
the place where they treated me as though I was a fool
and so open your eyes, maestro, what do you see?
I guess I'm excatly what you expected I'd be
an addict,
a convict,
a loud talking spic
a lazy chicano who don't give a shit
an animal,
criminal,
psychopath cholo
a mal-nourished kid who would never grow
a mexican boy who could never read
and who even today with an accent he speaks
another homeboy who never got far
a drunken thief who breaks in to your cart
a farm working mexican with eight kids and a wife
a convicted rapist serving 20 to life!
pues sabes que, teach, you were correct
cause all the above you did expect
see I rose to the level of your expectation
fijate teacher I'm your creation
-Juan R Avitia
- Daniel Chacon
If
from pg I
'Toe magic number is 20.
With 20 (people) you can have a
good program in Mexico,"
l.aragoza said.
Students in the program live
with middle class Mexican
families and are active in family
life and activities.
l.aragoza said students in the
United States can read a book or
attend a conference on the
language and culture of Mexico,
but it's not the same.
program
"You have to live the language and culture," l.aragoza
said.
The application deadline is
May 17, but fees for this year's
program are in the process of
being worked out.
Information on summer
study in Guanajuato, may be
obtained from the CSUF
Division of Extended Education
or Cosme Zaragoza.
Questions regarding one-year
studies abroad may be referred
to Sonya Hildreth at the International Student Office.
3
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
4
Chicano Latino Association of Student Educators
(C.L.A.S.E.)meets Thursdays 5pm-6pm
HECHA meets Wednesdays
1n the College Union 4pm-5pm
Chicano Journalism Students Association
(CJSA)meets Thursday 7 pm In Joyal 203
Ch1cano Youth Conference meets Mondays
In Upshtrs Cafeteria Rm. 5pm-6pm
Lambda Sigma Gamma meets Wednesday 7pm
Burt Corona ,.The Chicano Movement-Then and Now.,
Hr. Corona ts co-founder of the Mexican-American
Polll1cel Association and a long-Ume rights activist
In labor end Immigration. Friday, Oct, 25th Lecture
et 7pm end will be free to the public.
Fresno County Hlsptrnlc Commission
on Alcohol&. Drug Abuse Services, Inc.
Presents the: First Annual Red Ribbon Week;
Sober end Drug FREE:
FAHILV FIESTA et Fresno's Roed1ng Perk
amphitheater OCT, 26, I 99 I 12pm-5pm.
(Chicano Arts Reformation end Afflrnet1on) Dolores Huerta
"The Farmworker Movement end Its Impact on the Chicano
Movement., Dolores Huerta Is Vice-President and co-founder
of the Un1ted Farmworkers Union end ecttvlst In the Chtcano
movement.
(Chicano Arts Reformation end Affirmation) Panel Discussion:
Fresno Art Museum .. Current and Future Direction of the
Chicano Movement," Or. Bt11 Flores (CSUF), Dr. Lee Yberrti
(CSUF Chlctino/Ltillno Amerlctin Studies). Ben Bentivldez,
(Ntitlonel President, MAPA), Juan Arambula,
(President FUSD Board of Trustees) will chair the lecture .
WEEK
Altars on display.
Library 2nd floor
throughout the
week
night
Tuesday
Oct. 29th
Poetry in The Pit
8 pm -9:30pm
Arte Americas: Presents Dr. Loco's Rocking Jalapeno Band
that has become one of the most popular Ch1cano bands In the
Sen Frtinclsco, Btiy Area. Place: Wernor's Thetitre, Ster Peltice
$10 at the door (ctill Artas Americas tit 266-2623 for details
-Tickets ere tivti1lebla tit the CLS Dept. Office.
Clubs and organizations listings and times are subject to
change without notice, students interested in pa,rticipating
should check with the CollegeUnion.
OF
Enchilada sale in
the Free Speech
EVENTS
Procession;
3:30p.m.
procession will
assemble in
Free Speech/
Teatro; 4:00-6:00pm
Memorial reading
and altar for
Ernesto Trejo
Fresno Art Museum
admission is free
8pm
from page 2
I got up. An upper-cut
to his chin and a hook to his ribs.
Nothing! I went down again.
This time I landed on my right
shoulder.
A kick to my ribs, two
to my head and one to my face.
I got up again. This
time I wasn't able to punch with
my left arm, so a right to his ear
and another to his mouth.
Nothing! I was on the floor
again. This time the landing was
hard! I felt my head bleeding
and my vision was beginning to
get blurry as the kicks kept
coming. I couldn't take it
anymore.
"Ben, Cat, Raton,
Flaco, .... get him off me!" No one
responded.
I got slammed about
four more times until finally,
Shrimpo's dad, who had been
watching the fight, took Eight
Ball off me.
Ben and Cat carried me
for a block t til we reached their
house. There, Ben's mom took
off my pants and the remains of
my turtleneck. Outside the
restroom I could hear Ben and
Cat crying,,.."Shit, why didn't we
help him?"
''Flaco, how come you
didn't get Eight Ball off?"
. They went--9n bl~ming
each.other. After Ben's mom
was through with cleaning the
dirt and blood from my face and
back, she called for someone to
carry me to Cat's room.
That night, in Cat's
room, my homeboys attended
their leader's funeral. As I was
lying there on Cat's bed, not
being able to speak or move and
hardly seeing at times, I thought,
who are the G.V. Boys? All
those times that I had fought
hard so that my homeboys
would be proud of belonging to
this gang were gone. All the
pride that came with being the
leader of G.V. Boys and the
respect that I received from them
at most times no longer meant
anything to me. I could no
longer care for any of this. How
could they stand there while I
was begging for help? I had
never begged before. When my
calls for help remained unanswered that night, the bond that
I cherished for three years was
broken.
Never had I thought
that when I lose my first fight I
would lose so much. That night
I lost so much. Since that night I
cont.
CLUBS
from pg. 1
haven't been able to talk to my
of Student Educator,s (CLASE)formed to promote
homeboys as I.once did, for they
Chicanos in education and teaching: ·
·.•·
had betrayed my friendship, my
pride, my spirit, my beliefs and
Mexican Americans in Technology promotes ·, :
my way of thinking. My outlook
student involvement in the technology field. Ad:.
.on life was peat~p. out o{ me that , vising, spcia!E}vents ·and other a_ctivities are sp<;>n~
night. _
sor~d by M:~-Tech. · . . ,"i .. .. .. ;
:c: .·. 'i
All of it gone in just one
Numerous
other
organizations
are
on
car.npus
·
night.
for studen~;; Wishi11g fo··Become in an organization;
_·.
__;...,_--:;:.
·· B~oming invol;ed in a gro~p only req_ujres
interest, the first step tobecoming involved in
.a·n organization_. .
. .
.
_¾ . The big~st st~p is ~
walkitrg 14to tne
:and becoming involved
meeting
Fall 1991
CSU, Fresno
The Chicano-Latino News a er
Oct, 24, 1991
'?'
Chicano-Latinos encouraged to study
students with Chicano interests
Clubs, Orf!aniza_tions
•Mexico, Spain study offered through CSUF
Renee Ruelas
Assitant Editor
Joining a club or
organization can be a new and
confusing step for students
new and old to CSUF.
CSUF has many organizations and clubs for students
with similar interests and
ideas. To become involved
with and find information
about groups on campus is in
provided in University
Student Union Rm. 306.
Different organizations
offer advising, contacts to
enhance future contacts and
look good on a resume.
Applications ask for a list of
clubs and organizations the
applicant is a participant. Most
applicants turn in the application with this section blank.
Students new and old
now have a chance to turn
their future around by joining
a group on campus.
Chicano clubs are also
available for students interested in promoting Chicano
culture in an organization.
Chicanos In Law is a prelaw organization established
in 1978 to promote Chicano
interest in becoming lawyers.
CIL helps students with
admission to law school and
provides counseling.
Chicano Writers Artists Association encourages Chicano
art and literature in their
organization. CWAA holds
poetry readings and has pub-
lished student works.
Hispanic Business Students
Association is a national organization established in 1971
to promote Chicanos in business. HBSA sponsors speakers
and trips related to business.
Chicano Journalism
Students Association formed
in 1988 for students with
journalism and telecommunication interest, but all students
are welcome to work on CJSA
projects.
Chicano Health Organization founded in 1968 for
students interested in health
related fields. CHO members
are active in promoting good
health and are active in campus health related projects.
Colemna Universitaria
Hispana actively promotes the
Latino culture. They also
sponsor an annual Posada.
MEChA is involved in education and politics involving
Chicanos in the community.
MEChA's main focus is on student issues.
Migrant Student Alliance
works with migrant students
on campus. The group works
closely with students in their
college experience.
Chicano Commencement
Committee formed in 1976
with the CSUF Chicano
Alumni Association organizes
the annual Chicano graduation.
Chicano-Latino Association
see clubs
l~ffl
page3
James Gonzalez
La Voz Staff writer
The temperature in Guanajuato, Mexico, this summer is
expected to be in the mid 70s perfect weather for traveling, margaritas - and a little studying.
In Madrid, Spain the Prado
Museum, which ranks in size and
importance with the Louvre, gears
up for its 172nd year.
CSUF students have the chance
next year to explore, and absorb
the language and culture of Spain
and Mexico.
California State University
International Programs and the
CSUF Division of Extended Education both offer study programs
abroad.
Campus Coordinator for International Programs Sonya Hildreth
said, that in a typical year, only 10
to 20 people from CSUF take the
opportunity to study in Mexico or
Spain.
"It's not that people are eliminated because of criteria, it's just
that they don't apply," Hildreth
said.
International Programs requires enrollment at a CSU campus no later then spring term 1992.
Other requirements include a
2.75 cumulative grade point average and upper division or graduate standing by the end of spring
term 1992.
'1've had people come in on the
Feb.I deadline and apply, but I
wouldn't recommend doingthat,"
Hildreth said.
Advanced language and culture programs in Spain and Mexico require two years of collegelevel Spanish, but the "Learn Span-
ish" program in Mexico requires
only one year.
Many Hispanics in the program
are interested in traveling to Spain
rather than Mexico, Hildreth said.
Students in general consider
Europe "exotic" and want to travel
far from home, as opposed to
Mexico, she said.
International Programs offers
two one-year programs in Spain:
one at the University of Granada
and the other at the University of
Madrid.
Both programs give students
the opportunity to sharpen language skills through formal study
and immersion in the Spanish
language culture.
Students earn regular resident
credit for their coursework.
Spanish culture will definitely
beondisplaythissummerasSpain
hosts the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
ltwon'tbecheap;theestimated
cost for a year in Spain is $12,075.
All cam pus financial aid, with
the exception of work-study, is
applicable overseas.
Students in the "Learn Spanish" program in Mexico attend the
Universidad lberoamericana on
the outskirts of Mexico City and
are emmersed in an intensive program of formal language study
along with a broad variety of
courses in Mexican culture, social
sciences, and humanities.
Courses in the "Language and
Culture"programallowadvanced
students to complete their mastery of the Spanish language and
Mexican culture.
Each program in Mexico is estimated to cost $6,980. About the
same cost as living in California in
one year
'1n addition to studying, there
is fun" Hildreth said.
She said during breaks in the
course of the year a resident director, usually a faculty member of
CSU, will try to arrange tours of
local historical sites and nearby
cities.
"I feel we are changing the
negative stereotypes on both
sides," said Dr. Cosme 2.aragoza,
professor of foreign languages.
2.aragoza sponsors a summer
study program in Guanajuato,
Mexico, through the Department
of Foreign Languages and Literature and the CSUF Division of Extended Education.
He said the program isa unique
opportunity for Mexican people
to understand American people.
The colonial city of
Guanajuato is located on
Mexico's central plateau, between
Mexico's two largest cities,
Guadalajara and Mexico City.
A weekend trip to either city is
easy to arrange and inexpensive.
Students spend the summer
studying the language and culture of Mexico at the Universidad
deGuanajuatoandreceiveregular
credit for their coursework.
The only eligibility requirement
is Spanish 10 - one year of collegelevel Spanish or the high school
equivalent, two years.
"The first year we took close to
30 people," 2.aragoza said, "half
the participants were Chicanos"
He said the program was
cancelled last year due to lack of
participants.
program
pg.3
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
2
The pain of Aztlin remembered 22 years ago in
"El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan"
*Sisterhood, brotherhood, peace and love; the Chicano movement shall continue
La Voz Editor
Joe M. Torres
the truth about the history and
legacy behind "La Raza". It
became one of the first document
to use the word Aztlan to signify
the culural birthplace, a place of
geographic-mythicized significance usually associated with the
southwest a region once part of
Mexico until 1848.
Presented. is the plan as it
originally appeared in the Denver convention in 1969:
poeple whose time ha.s come and
who struggles against the foreigner
"gabacho" who exploits our riches
and destroys our culture. With our
heart in our hands and our hands in
the soil, we declare the independence
of our mestizo nation. We are a
bronze people with a bronze cluture.
Before the world, before all of North
America, before all our brothers on
the bronze continent, we are a
nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan.
of boundaries. National.ism is the
common denominator that all members of La Raza can agree upon.
and our programs.
4. INSTITUTIONS shall
serve our people by providing the
service necessary for a full life and
their welfare on the basis of restitution, not handouts or beggar's
crumbs Restitution for the past
economic slavery, political. civil and
human rights. Institutions in our
community which do not serve the
people have no place in the community. The institutions belong to the
people.
El Plan Espiritual de
Organiz11tional Go11ls
Aztlan a drafted document
conceived out of the late 60s
1. UNITY in the thinking of
recognizedtheneedtobring
our people concerning the barrios,
Chicano people together by
the peublo, the campo, the land, the
identifying "La Raza" in terms of
poor, the middle class, the profesthe ethnic and historical ties
sional-all committed to the liberawithin the culture of those
tion of La Raz.a.
people having a understanding
El Pl11n £spiritual de
of their Mexican heritage but
2. ECONOMY: Economic
Aztl4n
Program
have been a large part living
control of our lives and our
within the United States.
communities can only come about
5. SELF-DEFENSE of the
In the spirit of a new people
The politically active
El Plan Espirtual de Aztlan
by driving the exploiter out ofour
community must rely on the
that is concious not only of its
sets the theme that the Chicanos (La communities, our pueblos, and our
Chicano movement began
combined strength of the people. The
proud historical heritage but also of
Raz.a de'Bronze) must use their
within the confines of the
lands and by controlling and develfront line defense will cone form the
the brutal "gringo" invasion of our
mainstream society, but it benationalism as the key or common
oP.ing our own tal.ents sweat, and
barrios, the campos, the pueblos,
territores, we, the Chicano
came important to tie in the
denominator for mass mobilization
resources. Cultural background and and the ranchitos. Their involement
inhabitants and civilzers of the
sameness of the people within
and organization. Oncew we are
val.ues which ignore materialism
as protectors of their people will be
the cultural movement to
northern land of Aztltin from
committed to the idea and philosphy and embrace humanism will
given respect and dignity. They in
whence came our forefathers,
maintain a politically active
of El Plan de Aztlan, we can only
tum offer their responsibilty and
contribute to the act of cooperative
voice with their protest of the
reclaiming the land of their birth ,
conclude that social., economic,
buying and the distribution of retheir lives for their people. Those
inequalities going on at the time.
and consecrating the determination
who pal.ce themselves in th front
cultural., and political independence sources and production to sustain
of our prople of the sun, declare,
As equally important had been
is the only road to total. liberation
an economic base for healthy growth ranks for their people fo so out of
the ties to the Pre-Columbian
that the call of our blood is power,
love and carnal.ismo. Those instituform oppression, exploitation, and
and development. Lands rightfully
our respponsibility, and our
people which are largely part of
racism. Qur struggle then must be
ours will be fought for and defended. tions which are /attend by our
the make-up of the ancestry.
inevitable destiny.
brothers to provide employment and
for control of our barrios, campos,
Land and realty ownership will be
This key recognition is essential
We are free and sovereign to pueblos, lands, our economy, our
acquired by the community for the
political porl barrels for the gringo
to the political renaissance as it
determine those tasks which are
culture and our political life. El plan people's welfare. Economic ties of re- will do so obly as acts of liberation
began to form in the 60s and this
justly called for by our house, our
commits all levels of Chicano
sponsibliity must be secured by naand for La Causa. For the very
form began to be recognized as
land, the weat of our brows, and by society-the barrio, the campo, the ra- tionalism and the Chicano defense
young there will no longer be acts of
the Chicano Movement.
our hearts. Aztlan belongs to those
chero, the writer, the teacher,
units.
juvenile delinqency, but for revoluThe plan became unveiled who plant the seeds, water the fields, theworker, the professional.
tionary acts.
at the first National Chicano
and gather the crops and not to the
3. EDUCATION must be
Youth Conference in Denver.
foreign Europeans. We do not recogNationalism
relative to our people ,i.e., history,
6. CULTURAL values of
Colorado in 1%9. The plan erenize capricious frontiers on the
culture, bilingual education, contri- our peaple stregthen our identity
ated many groundbreaking ideas bronze continents.
Nationalism as the key to
butfonfi, etc. Community control of
and the moral backbone of the
organization transcends all religous, our schools, our teachers, our
Brotherhoo4 uri#es us,.and
movement. Our culture unites and
still striking the hearts of .t;nany
political, class, and econmic factions admministrators, our counselors,
plan
cont. pg4
love for our brothers makes us a
in the Chicano culture seeking
All gone
Luis Cobarru ias
"Hey, Luis, I heard that
Panchony and his Young
Soldiers are around," Shrimpo
said as he approached us from
behind.
"What's up, loco! What
are you talking about? Who told
you that?" I asked him as I
turned to give him out homeboyto-homeboy handshake.
"Ya, I heard the same
thing." Flaco agreed.
"Ya, and he's got about
30 of his Soldiers with him."
The quinceanera had
just finished. It was about 12:30
a.m. and as we usually did after
every party, we kicked back
outside with all the homies in
the parking lot, checking out the
cruising and the rucas that were
passing by.
- Flaco, Raton, Smurf,
Cat, Summer Valero, Ben and I
were leaning on the wall, each of
us with one foot up against it.
The other smaller homies were
on our left side trying to pick up
on two of the Smurphetes, a girl
gang in the San Joaquin, Flaca
and Pinta.
As I was telling Ben
about last Saturday's fight with
the Surenos, a gang that consist
mainly of native Mexicans, I
noticed three vehicles coming
toward us: a red mini truck, a
red '63 Impala, and a big red
-
ID
one night
pickup truck. We quickly
formed into a pack next to the
wall where Ben and I stood. As
Ben and I stood in front of the
pack, the three vehicles slowly
surrounded us. The Impala
parked directly in front of me
and from the driver's seat out
came a 5-foot-8-inch, 200-pound
of what appeared to be pure
muscle Mexican man. He stood
there with one hand in his black
trenchcoat' s pocket, while the
other hand scratched his right
eye. After he finished scratching
his eye he snapped his fingers.
Out from the other cars came the
Soldiers. There appeared. to be
about 20 of them, all wearing
long, black trenchcoats. Panchony stepped back and Robert, better known as Eight Ball, the
right hand of Panchony, stepped
forward.
"Who's the leader of
the G.V. Boys?" he asked.
No one said anything.
This was the first time that
Panchony and his Young
Soldiers had been in the San
Joaquin. Yet we knew from the
expression Panchony had on his
big hairy face that this wasn't a
social visit. This was just like the
encounter with the Surenos that I
was telling Ben about earlier.
It too was on a Saturday night, after a party that my
homeboy Hitman had thrown
for his birthday. After we had
finishd two kegs, we went to a
liquor store in K-town (Kerman)
to get a case of Bud for ourselves. Cat and I were kicking
back in a nearby alley waiting in
Chaca's truck while others did
the beer run. About two
minutes after they left for the
liquor store, Cat noticed a bunch
of guys coming toward us. We
couldn't distinguish who they
were because it was pitch dark
that night. As they began to
close in, I could hear them
saying, "Esta ves nose nos van a
escapar como lo isieron en el parke
la semana pasada." That night I
had nothing to worry about. I
had five of my biggest homeboys, along with five smaller
ones. As soon as I recognized
them as the Surenos, I realized
that they weren't here to join the
party. That Saturday I was the
only one who fought. I fought
their leader, Z.apata. It didn't
take me more than two minutes
to have him on the ground,
leaving him with no chance of
getting back up soon. That night
I came out with only a bump on
my head.
"I said, who's the
leader!" Eight Ball said as he
began to take off his trenchcoat,
leaving him with only a white
undershirt.
"He is." All the smaller
homies pointed toward me.
"I heard you're bad,
Luis, so let's see what you got,"
said Eight Ball as he handed his
trenchcoat back to Panchony.
Eight Ball had been a
soldier for five years. He and
Panchony first started the
Soldiers five years ago, but that
didn't bother me. He was about
my size, maybe a couple of
inches taller, but not by much.
So without saying a word, I took
off my sweater and left my white
turtleneck shirt on, thinking that
this wouldn't take me anymore
than a minute of two, like usual.
Pow, pow, pow. Three
punches: a left hook to his right
cheek, a right to his left and a
straight punch to his mouth.
Nothing.
Eight Ball took a couple
of steps back toward his homeboys and smiled," Is this all that
the G.V. Boys have? You ain't
shit, Luis. I'm going to destroy
you."
I didn't understand. I
knew that I had hit him hard
because the knuckles on my
right hand were bleeding from
the punch to his mouth. Yet it
appeared by the way he was
acting as though I hadn't even
touched him. He took a couple
more steps back and took off his
undershirt, leaving him with a
bare back.
"Now let me show you
little punks how sorry your
leader really is." He picked me
up and slammed me to the
pavement. A kick to my head
and another to my ribs and
another.
night
cont. pg4.
La Voz de Aztlan
Editor
Joe M. Torres
Assistant editor
Renee Ruelas
Photo editor
Angel de Jesus
taff Writers
Belarmino Castellanos
Luis Cobarruvias
Chris Heredia
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
PoetryAztl6n
Please tell me I sing the words 'luve' and 'hunger' like no one else. Well, everything I know is wrapped up in those two words.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your-life before you can hold still for anybody's damn sermon.
-Billie Holiday
Maiiana He'll Lead
Call to Action
Without doubt
Heisto be
our leader.
at the srene of it all
i witness the masses
gathering together to see
another fallen
angel on the pavement
In leading
He is to have
knowledge.
Black on white.
With knowledge
Heis to be
wise.
The pitiful voices of authority
interrupted by the strong movement
of sound
echoing from years past.
The wind sweeps through the night
uplifting the souls of those innocent
exhuasted
dead
victims.
With wisdom
He is to be
understanding.
With promises
He is to be
kind.
!
hl
Sirens hail the praises of another victory
I close the door to my cell.
Trapped
with fear inside me.
With kindness
He is to be
supportive.
With support
He is to be
our strength
- Lucia Sanchez
Celebration of Diversity
With power
Heis to be
courageous.
Girls without fathers.
Boys without fathers.
Children without clothes.
Babies without milk.
And White men in three piece suits with big fat stomachs.
...,..
Brown women with black eyes, bruises and no medical care.
- Barbara. E. Alvarez
HJack women with children and no child support.
White women with crappy jobs and no raise.
Yellow women with American husbands and no say so.
Red women with scars of rape and injustice.
And White men with big businesses and lots of pretty secretaries.
RACIST STOPLIGHT
Brown men that pick up walnuts.
Black men that pick up aluminium cans.
Poor white men that pick up their baggy pants.
Yellow men that pick up after White men.
Red men that pick up dead bodies.
And White men that pick up their big fat pay checks on Friday afternoon.
La Familia.
-Papa, Que paso con Ud.?- ·
-Mafiana, mijita, Mafiana.-
It took so long
to turn green
I know it was
cus soy chicano.
Somehow it sensed
I was listening to
Mexican music
and that my air
conditioner
wasn't working.
It wouldn't
change colors,
wanted me to wait,
misunderstood my
cultural impatience
of sitting so long
in windshield-strong sun.
It was racist, I know.
And when it did change
finally, I know it thought
that if not for the threat
that l"d jump outta my car
and strangle its big steel pole neck,
it would make me wait
till a white guy drove up.
quoole, r,ato
yo soy el niiio
the one who you said was a travieso
the one you claimed caused all the pleito
the one who long ago you did not care for
even though you were my maestro
fijate
a lo qlll! hll pasado ·
it's been a long time pero no ando calmao
see remember the day I got into a fight
con otro niiio who's color was white
he told his story, I said "siempre me buSC4"
you said to me "el espaiiol no se habla"
so I got in trouble for speaking spanish
and my interest in school suddenly vanished
pero to make things worst,
you called my papi and said I was to blame
and so he disciplined me with physical pain
see mexican parents respect authority
my word against yours ... y'asi quz sufri
pues el tiempo paso and things got no better
It seemed every week you would send home a letter
telling my parents I was bad in class
little did you know I felt like an ass
como un mudito, I sat all alone
listening to a language I did not speak at home
With strength ·
He is to
have power.
With courage
He is to be
MAESTRO
Brown People called wetbacks.
Black People called niggers.
Poor White People called white trash.
Yellow People called chinks.
Red People called savages.
And White men called Goel
White men that are Presidents in Indian land.
White men that continue to enslave a People of Color.
White men that rape and degrade and exploit women.
White men that molest our children with their White way.
And
A People that can no longer bleed and cry.
And
A People that screams out for freedom and justice.
And
A People that stands up and breaks their chains
while the White man runs for his life.
- Frank Aviles
and just because I found the curriculum boring
you insisted that knowledge I was not yearning
and just because I spoke with a mexican accent
you insisted that in wood shop my time'd be best spent
and just cause I wore on a gangster trip
and, finally. because my skin was brown
se reian los gringos and they put me down
and you maestro, you could not see
why I got mad cuando se burblaban de mi
btit wnat hurt me more was the comment you made
you said I was lazy cause no attention I paid
yet the truth was that I was afraid
tenia verguensa and so quiet I stayed
those early years really fucked my mind
I was confused and no one I could find
who understood me at your racist school
the place where they treated me as though I was a fool
and so open your eyes, maestro, what do you see?
I guess I'm excatly what you expected I'd be
an addict,
a convict,
a loud talking spic
a lazy chicano who don't give a shit
an animal,
criminal,
psychopath cholo
a mal-nourished kid who would never grow
a mexican boy who could never read
and who even today with an accent he speaks
another homeboy who never got far
a drunken thief who breaks in to your cart
a farm working mexican with eight kids and a wife
a convicted rapist serving 20 to life!
pues sabes que, teach, you were correct
cause all the above you did expect
see I rose to the level of your expectation
fijate teacher I'm your creation
-Juan R Avitia
- Daniel Chacon
If
from pg I
'Toe magic number is 20.
With 20 (people) you can have a
good program in Mexico,"
l.aragoza said.
Students in the program live
with middle class Mexican
families and are active in family
life and activities.
l.aragoza said students in the
United States can read a book or
attend a conference on the
language and culture of Mexico,
but it's not the same.
program
"You have to live the language and culture," l.aragoza
said.
The application deadline is
May 17, but fees for this year's
program are in the process of
being worked out.
Information on summer
study in Guanajuato, may be
obtained from the CSUF
Division of Extended Education
or Cosme Zaragoza.
Questions regarding one-year
studies abroad may be referred
to Sonya Hildreth at the International Student Office.
3
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
4
Chicano Latino Association of Student Educators
(C.L.A.S.E.)meets Thursdays 5pm-6pm
HECHA meets Wednesdays
1n the College Union 4pm-5pm
Chicano Journalism Students Association
(CJSA)meets Thursday 7 pm In Joyal 203
Ch1cano Youth Conference meets Mondays
In Upshtrs Cafeteria Rm. 5pm-6pm
Lambda Sigma Gamma meets Wednesday 7pm
Burt Corona ,.The Chicano Movement-Then and Now.,
Hr. Corona ts co-founder of the Mexican-American
Polll1cel Association and a long-Ume rights activist
In labor end Immigration. Friday, Oct, 25th Lecture
et 7pm end will be free to the public.
Fresno County Hlsptrnlc Commission
on Alcohol&. Drug Abuse Services, Inc.
Presents the: First Annual Red Ribbon Week;
Sober end Drug FREE:
FAHILV FIESTA et Fresno's Roed1ng Perk
amphitheater OCT, 26, I 99 I 12pm-5pm.
(Chicano Arts Reformation end Afflrnet1on) Dolores Huerta
"The Farmworker Movement end Its Impact on the Chicano
Movement., Dolores Huerta Is Vice-President and co-founder
of the Un1ted Farmworkers Union end ecttvlst In the Chtcano
movement.
(Chicano Arts Reformation end Affirmation) Panel Discussion:
Fresno Art Museum .. Current and Future Direction of the
Chicano Movement," Or. Bt11 Flores (CSUF), Dr. Lee Yberrti
(CSUF Chlctino/Ltillno Amerlctin Studies). Ben Bentivldez,
(Ntitlonel President, MAPA), Juan Arambula,
(President FUSD Board of Trustees) will chair the lecture .
WEEK
Altars on display.
Library 2nd floor
throughout the
week
night
Tuesday
Oct. 29th
Poetry in The Pit
8 pm -9:30pm
Arte Americas: Presents Dr. Loco's Rocking Jalapeno Band
that has become one of the most popular Ch1cano bands In the
Sen Frtinclsco, Btiy Area. Place: Wernor's Thetitre, Ster Peltice
$10 at the door (ctill Artas Americas tit 266-2623 for details
-Tickets ere tivti1lebla tit the CLS Dept. Office.
Clubs and organizations listings and times are subject to
change without notice, students interested in pa,rticipating
should check with the CollegeUnion.
OF
Enchilada sale in
the Free Speech
EVENTS
Procession;
3:30p.m.
procession will
assemble in
Free Speech/
Teatro; 4:00-6:00pm
Memorial reading
and altar for
Ernesto Trejo
Fresno Art Museum
admission is free
8pm
from page 2
I got up. An upper-cut
to his chin and a hook to his ribs.
Nothing! I went down again.
This time I landed on my right
shoulder.
A kick to my ribs, two
to my head and one to my face.
I got up again. This
time I wasn't able to punch with
my left arm, so a right to his ear
and another to his mouth.
Nothing! I was on the floor
again. This time the landing was
hard! I felt my head bleeding
and my vision was beginning to
get blurry as the kicks kept
coming. I couldn't take it
anymore.
"Ben, Cat, Raton,
Flaco, .... get him off me!" No one
responded.
I got slammed about
four more times until finally,
Shrimpo's dad, who had been
watching the fight, took Eight
Ball off me.
Ben and Cat carried me
for a block t til we reached their
house. There, Ben's mom took
off my pants and the remains of
my turtleneck. Outside the
restroom I could hear Ben and
Cat crying,,.."Shit, why didn't we
help him?"
''Flaco, how come you
didn't get Eight Ball off?"
. They went--9n bl~ming
each.other. After Ben's mom
was through with cleaning the
dirt and blood from my face and
back, she called for someone to
carry me to Cat's room.
That night, in Cat's
room, my homeboys attended
their leader's funeral. As I was
lying there on Cat's bed, not
being able to speak or move and
hardly seeing at times, I thought,
who are the G.V. Boys? All
those times that I had fought
hard so that my homeboys
would be proud of belonging to
this gang were gone. All the
pride that came with being the
leader of G.V. Boys and the
respect that I received from them
at most times no longer meant
anything to me. I could no
longer care for any of this. How
could they stand there while I
was begging for help? I had
never begged before. When my
calls for help remained unanswered that night, the bond that
I cherished for three years was
broken.
Never had I thought
that when I lose my first fight I
would lose so much. That night
I lost so much. Since that night I
cont.
CLUBS
from pg. 1
haven't been able to talk to my
of Student Educator,s (CLASE)formed to promote
homeboys as I.once did, for they
Chicanos in education and teaching: ·
·.•·
had betrayed my friendship, my
pride, my spirit, my beliefs and
Mexican Americans in Technology promotes ·, :
my way of thinking. My outlook
student involvement in the technology field. Ad:.
.on life was peat~p. out o{ me that , vising, spcia!E}vents ·and other a_ctivities are sp<;>n~
night. _
sor~d by M:~-Tech. · . . ,"i .. .. .. ;
:c: .·. 'i
All of it gone in just one
Numerous
other
organizations
are
on
car.npus
·
night.
for studen~;; Wishi11g fo··Become in an organization;
_·.
__;...,_--:;:.
·· B~oming invol;ed in a gro~p only req_ujres
interest, the first step tobecoming involved in
.a·n organization_. .
. .
.
_¾ . The big~st st~p is ~
walkitrg 14to tne
:and becoming involved
meeting
Vol 23 No. 2
Fall 1991
CSU, Fresno
The Chicano-Latino News a er
Oct, 24, 1991
'?'
Chicano-Latinos encouraged to study
students with Chicano interests
Clubs, Orf!aniza_tions
•Mexico, Spain study offered through CSUF
Renee Ruelas
Assitant Editor
Joining a club or
organization can be a new and
confusing step for students
new and old to CSUF.
CSUF has many organizations and clubs for students
with similar interests and
ideas. To become involved
with and find information
about groups on campus is in
provided in University
Student Union Rm. 306.
Different organizations
offer advising, contacts to
enhance future contacts and
look good on a resume.
Applications ask for a list of
clubs and organizations the
applicant is a participant. Most
applicants turn in the application with this section blank.
Students new and old
now have a chance to turn
their future around by joining
a group on campus.
Chicano clubs are also
available for students interested in promoting Chicano
culture in an organization.
Chicanos In Law is a prelaw organization established
in 1978 to promote Chicano
interest in becoming lawyers.
CIL helps students with
admission to law school and
provides counseling.
Chicano Writers Artists Association encourages Chicano
art and literature in their
organization. CWAA holds
poetry readings and has pub-
lished student works.
Hispanic Business Students
Association is a national organization established in 1971
to promote Chicanos in business. HBSA sponsors speakers
and trips related to business.
Chicano Journalism
Students Association formed
in 1988 for students with
journalism and telecommunication interest, but all students
are welcome to work on CJSA
projects.
Chicano Health Organization founded in 1968 for
students interested in health
related fields. CHO members
are active in promoting good
health and are active in campus health related projects.
Colemna Universitaria
Hispana actively promotes the
Latino culture. They also
sponsor an annual Posada.
MEChA is involved in education and politics involving
Chicanos in the community.
MEChA's main focus is on student issues.
Migrant Student Alliance
works with migrant students
on campus. The group works
closely with students in their
college experience.
Chicano Commencement
Committee formed in 1976
with the CSUF Chicano
Alumni Association organizes
the annual Chicano graduation.
Chicano-Latino Association
see clubs
l~ffl
page3
James Gonzalez
La Voz Staff writer
The temperature in Guanajuato, Mexico, this summer is
expected to be in the mid 70s perfect weather for traveling, margaritas - and a little studying.
In Madrid, Spain the Prado
Museum, which ranks in size and
importance with the Louvre, gears
up for its 172nd year.
CSUF students have the chance
next year to explore, and absorb
the language and culture of Spain
and Mexico.
California State University
International Programs and the
CSUF Division of Extended Education both offer study programs
abroad.
Campus Coordinator for International Programs Sonya Hildreth
said, that in a typical year, only 10
to 20 people from CSUF take the
opportunity to study in Mexico or
Spain.
"It's not that people are eliminated because of criteria, it's just
that they don't apply," Hildreth
said.
International Programs requires enrollment at a CSU campus no later then spring term 1992.
Other requirements include a
2.75 cumulative grade point average and upper division or graduate standing by the end of spring
term 1992.
'1've had people come in on the
Feb.I deadline and apply, but I
wouldn't recommend doingthat,"
Hildreth said.
Advanced language and culture programs in Spain and Mexico require two years of collegelevel Spanish, but the "Learn Span-
ish" program in Mexico requires
only one year.
Many Hispanics in the program
are interested in traveling to Spain
rather than Mexico, Hildreth said.
Students in general consider
Europe "exotic" and want to travel
far from home, as opposed to
Mexico, she said.
International Programs offers
two one-year programs in Spain:
one at the University of Granada
and the other at the University of
Madrid.
Both programs give students
the opportunity to sharpen language skills through formal study
and immersion in the Spanish
language culture.
Students earn regular resident
credit for their coursework.
Spanish culture will definitely
beondisplaythissummerasSpain
hosts the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
ltwon'tbecheap;theestimated
cost for a year in Spain is $12,075.
All cam pus financial aid, with
the exception of work-study, is
applicable overseas.
Students in the "Learn Spanish" program in Mexico attend the
Universidad lberoamericana on
the outskirts of Mexico City and
are emmersed in an intensive program of formal language study
along with a broad variety of
courses in Mexican culture, social
sciences, and humanities.
Courses in the "Language and
Culture"programallowadvanced
students to complete their mastery of the Spanish language and
Mexican culture.
Each program in Mexico is estimated to cost $6,980. About the
same cost as living in California in
one year
'1n addition to studying, there
is fun" Hildreth said.
She said during breaks in the
course of the year a resident director, usually a faculty member of
CSU, will try to arrange tours of
local historical sites and nearby
cities.
"I feel we are changing the
negative stereotypes on both
sides," said Dr. Cosme 2.aragoza,
professor of foreign languages.
2.aragoza sponsors a summer
study program in Guanajuato,
Mexico, through the Department
of Foreign Languages and Literature and the CSUF Division of Extended Education.
He said the program isa unique
opportunity for Mexican people
to understand American people.
The colonial city of
Guanajuato is located on
Mexico's central plateau, between
Mexico's two largest cities,
Guadalajara and Mexico City.
A weekend trip to either city is
easy to arrange and inexpensive.
Students spend the summer
studying the language and culture of Mexico at the Universidad
deGuanajuatoandreceiveregular
credit for their coursework.
The only eligibility requirement
is Spanish 10 - one year of collegelevel Spanish or the high school
equivalent, two years.
"The first year we took close to
30 people," 2.aragoza said, "half
the participants were Chicanos"
He said the program was
cancelled last year due to lack of
participants.
program
pg.3
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
2
The pain of Aztlin remembered 22 years ago in
"El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan"
*Sisterhood, brotherhood, peace and love; the Chicano movement shall continue
La Voz Editor
Joe M. Torres
the truth about the history and
legacy behind "La Raza". It
became one of the first document
to use the word Aztlan to signify
the culural birthplace, a place of
geographic-mythicized significance usually associated with the
southwest a region once part of
Mexico until 1848.
Presented. is the plan as it
originally appeared in the Denver convention in 1969:
poeple whose time ha.s come and
who struggles against the foreigner
"gabacho" who exploits our riches
and destroys our culture. With our
heart in our hands and our hands in
the soil, we declare the independence
of our mestizo nation. We are a
bronze people with a bronze cluture.
Before the world, before all of North
America, before all our brothers on
the bronze continent, we are a
nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan.
of boundaries. National.ism is the
common denominator that all members of La Raza can agree upon.
and our programs.
4. INSTITUTIONS shall
serve our people by providing the
service necessary for a full life and
their welfare on the basis of restitution, not handouts or beggar's
crumbs Restitution for the past
economic slavery, political. civil and
human rights. Institutions in our
community which do not serve the
people have no place in the community. The institutions belong to the
people.
El Plan Espiritual de
Organiz11tional Go11ls
Aztlan a drafted document
conceived out of the late 60s
1. UNITY in the thinking of
recognizedtheneedtobring
our people concerning the barrios,
Chicano people together by
the peublo, the campo, the land, the
identifying "La Raza" in terms of
poor, the middle class, the profesthe ethnic and historical ties
sional-all committed to the liberawithin the culture of those
tion of La Raz.a.
people having a understanding
El Pl11n £spiritual de
of their Mexican heritage but
2. ECONOMY: Economic
Aztl4n
Program
have been a large part living
control of our lives and our
within the United States.
communities can only come about
5. SELF-DEFENSE of the
In the spirit of a new people
The politically active
El Plan Espirtual de Aztlan
by driving the exploiter out ofour
community must rely on the
that is concious not only of its
sets the theme that the Chicanos (La communities, our pueblos, and our
Chicano movement began
combined strength of the people. The
proud historical heritage but also of
Raz.a de'Bronze) must use their
within the confines of the
lands and by controlling and develfront line defense will cone form the
the brutal "gringo" invasion of our
mainstream society, but it benationalism as the key or common
oP.ing our own tal.ents sweat, and
barrios, the campos, the pueblos,
territores, we, the Chicano
came important to tie in the
denominator for mass mobilization
resources. Cultural background and and the ranchitos. Their involement
inhabitants and civilzers of the
sameness of the people within
and organization. Oncew we are
val.ues which ignore materialism
as protectors of their people will be
the cultural movement to
northern land of Aztltin from
committed to the idea and philosphy and embrace humanism will
given respect and dignity. They in
whence came our forefathers,
maintain a politically active
of El Plan de Aztlan, we can only
tum offer their responsibilty and
contribute to the act of cooperative
voice with their protest of the
reclaiming the land of their birth ,
conclude that social., economic,
buying and the distribution of retheir lives for their people. Those
inequalities going on at the time.
and consecrating the determination
who pal.ce themselves in th front
cultural., and political independence sources and production to sustain
of our prople of the sun, declare,
As equally important had been
is the only road to total. liberation
an economic base for healthy growth ranks for their people fo so out of
the ties to the Pre-Columbian
that the call of our blood is power,
love and carnal.ismo. Those instituform oppression, exploitation, and
and development. Lands rightfully
our respponsibility, and our
people which are largely part of
racism. Qur struggle then must be
ours will be fought for and defended. tions which are /attend by our
the make-up of the ancestry.
inevitable destiny.
brothers to provide employment and
for control of our barrios, campos,
Land and realty ownership will be
This key recognition is essential
We are free and sovereign to pueblos, lands, our economy, our
acquired by the community for the
political porl barrels for the gringo
to the political renaissance as it
determine those tasks which are
culture and our political life. El plan people's welfare. Economic ties of re- will do so obly as acts of liberation
began to form in the 60s and this
justly called for by our house, our
commits all levels of Chicano
sponsibliity must be secured by naand for La Causa. For the very
form began to be recognized as
land, the weat of our brows, and by society-the barrio, the campo, the ra- tionalism and the Chicano defense
young there will no longer be acts of
the Chicano Movement.
our hearts. Aztlan belongs to those
chero, the writer, the teacher,
units.
juvenile delinqency, but for revoluThe plan became unveiled who plant the seeds, water the fields, theworker, the professional.
tionary acts.
at the first National Chicano
and gather the crops and not to the
3. EDUCATION must be
Youth Conference in Denver.
foreign Europeans. We do not recogNationalism
relative to our people ,i.e., history,
6. CULTURAL values of
Colorado in 1%9. The plan erenize capricious frontiers on the
culture, bilingual education, contri- our peaple stregthen our identity
ated many groundbreaking ideas bronze continents.
Nationalism as the key to
butfonfi, etc. Community control of
and the moral backbone of the
organization transcends all religous, our schools, our teachers, our
Brotherhoo4 uri#es us,.and
movement. Our culture unites and
still striking the hearts of .t;nany
political, class, and econmic factions admministrators, our counselors,
plan
cont. pg4
love for our brothers makes us a
in the Chicano culture seeking
All gone
Luis Cobarru ias
"Hey, Luis, I heard that
Panchony and his Young
Soldiers are around," Shrimpo
said as he approached us from
behind.
"What's up, loco! What
are you talking about? Who told
you that?" I asked him as I
turned to give him out homeboyto-homeboy handshake.
"Ya, I heard the same
thing." Flaco agreed.
"Ya, and he's got about
30 of his Soldiers with him."
The quinceanera had
just finished. It was about 12:30
a.m. and as we usually did after
every party, we kicked back
outside with all the homies in
the parking lot, checking out the
cruising and the rucas that were
passing by.
- Flaco, Raton, Smurf,
Cat, Summer Valero, Ben and I
were leaning on the wall, each of
us with one foot up against it.
The other smaller homies were
on our left side trying to pick up
on two of the Smurphetes, a girl
gang in the San Joaquin, Flaca
and Pinta.
As I was telling Ben
about last Saturday's fight with
the Surenos, a gang that consist
mainly of native Mexicans, I
noticed three vehicles coming
toward us: a red mini truck, a
red '63 Impala, and a big red
-
ID
one night
pickup truck. We quickly
formed into a pack next to the
wall where Ben and I stood. As
Ben and I stood in front of the
pack, the three vehicles slowly
surrounded us. The Impala
parked directly in front of me
and from the driver's seat out
came a 5-foot-8-inch, 200-pound
of what appeared to be pure
muscle Mexican man. He stood
there with one hand in his black
trenchcoat' s pocket, while the
other hand scratched his right
eye. After he finished scratching
his eye he snapped his fingers.
Out from the other cars came the
Soldiers. There appeared. to be
about 20 of them, all wearing
long, black trenchcoats. Panchony stepped back and Robert, better known as Eight Ball, the
right hand of Panchony, stepped
forward.
"Who's the leader of
the G.V. Boys?" he asked.
No one said anything.
This was the first time that
Panchony and his Young
Soldiers had been in the San
Joaquin. Yet we knew from the
expression Panchony had on his
big hairy face that this wasn't a
social visit. This was just like the
encounter with the Surenos that I
was telling Ben about earlier.
It too was on a Saturday night, after a party that my
homeboy Hitman had thrown
for his birthday. After we had
finishd two kegs, we went to a
liquor store in K-town (Kerman)
to get a case of Bud for ourselves. Cat and I were kicking
back in a nearby alley waiting in
Chaca's truck while others did
the beer run. About two
minutes after they left for the
liquor store, Cat noticed a bunch
of guys coming toward us. We
couldn't distinguish who they
were because it was pitch dark
that night. As they began to
close in, I could hear them
saying, "Esta ves nose nos van a
escapar como lo isieron en el parke
la semana pasada." That night I
had nothing to worry about. I
had five of my biggest homeboys, along with five smaller
ones. As soon as I recognized
them as the Surenos, I realized
that they weren't here to join the
party. That Saturday I was the
only one who fought. I fought
their leader, Z.apata. It didn't
take me more than two minutes
to have him on the ground,
leaving him with no chance of
getting back up soon. That night
I came out with only a bump on
my head.
"I said, who's the
leader!" Eight Ball said as he
began to take off his trenchcoat,
leaving him with only a white
undershirt.
"He is." All the smaller
homies pointed toward me.
"I heard you're bad,
Luis, so let's see what you got,"
said Eight Ball as he handed his
trenchcoat back to Panchony.
Eight Ball had been a
soldier for five years. He and
Panchony first started the
Soldiers five years ago, but that
didn't bother me. He was about
my size, maybe a couple of
inches taller, but not by much.
So without saying a word, I took
off my sweater and left my white
turtleneck shirt on, thinking that
this wouldn't take me anymore
than a minute of two, like usual.
Pow, pow, pow. Three
punches: a left hook to his right
cheek, a right to his left and a
straight punch to his mouth.
Nothing.
Eight Ball took a couple
of steps back toward his homeboys and smiled," Is this all that
the G.V. Boys have? You ain't
shit, Luis. I'm going to destroy
you."
I didn't understand. I
knew that I had hit him hard
because the knuckles on my
right hand were bleeding from
the punch to his mouth. Yet it
appeared by the way he was
acting as though I hadn't even
touched him. He took a couple
more steps back and took off his
undershirt, leaving him with a
bare back.
"Now let me show you
little punks how sorry your
leader really is." He picked me
up and slammed me to the
pavement. A kick to my head
and another to my ribs and
another.
night
cont. pg4.
La Voz de Aztlan
Editor
Joe M. Torres
Assistant editor
Renee Ruelas
Photo editor
Angel de Jesus
taff Writers
Belarmino Castellanos
Luis Cobarruvias
Chris Heredia
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
PoetryAztl6n
Please tell me I sing the words 'luve' and 'hunger' like no one else. Well, everything I know is wrapped up in those two words.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your-life before you can hold still for anybody's damn sermon.
-Billie Holiday
Maiiana He'll Lead
Call to Action
Without doubt
Heisto be
our leader.
at the srene of it all
i witness the masses
gathering together to see
another fallen
angel on the pavement
In leading
He is to have
knowledge.
Black on white.
With knowledge
Heis to be
wise.
The pitiful voices of authority
interrupted by the strong movement
of sound
echoing from years past.
The wind sweeps through the night
uplifting the souls of those innocent
exhuasted
dead
victims.
With wisdom
He is to be
understanding.
With promises
He is to be
kind.
!
hl
Sirens hail the praises of another victory
I close the door to my cell.
Trapped
with fear inside me.
With kindness
He is to be
supportive.
With support
He is to be
our strength
- Lucia Sanchez
Celebration of Diversity
With power
Heis to be
courageous.
Girls without fathers.
Boys without fathers.
Children without clothes.
Babies without milk.
And White men in three piece suits with big fat stomachs.
...,..
Brown women with black eyes, bruises and no medical care.
- Barbara. E. Alvarez
HJack women with children and no child support.
White women with crappy jobs and no raise.
Yellow women with American husbands and no say so.
Red women with scars of rape and injustice.
And White men with big businesses and lots of pretty secretaries.
RACIST STOPLIGHT
Brown men that pick up walnuts.
Black men that pick up aluminium cans.
Poor white men that pick up their baggy pants.
Yellow men that pick up after White men.
Red men that pick up dead bodies.
And White men that pick up their big fat pay checks on Friday afternoon.
La Familia.
-Papa, Que paso con Ud.?- ·
-Mafiana, mijita, Mafiana.-
It took so long
to turn green
I know it was
cus soy chicano.
Somehow it sensed
I was listening to
Mexican music
and that my air
conditioner
wasn't working.
It wouldn't
change colors,
wanted me to wait,
misunderstood my
cultural impatience
of sitting so long
in windshield-strong sun.
It was racist, I know.
And when it did change
finally, I know it thought
that if not for the threat
that l"d jump outta my car
and strangle its big steel pole neck,
it would make me wait
till a white guy drove up.
quoole, r,ato
yo soy el niiio
the one who you said was a travieso
the one you claimed caused all the pleito
the one who long ago you did not care for
even though you were my maestro
fijate
a lo qlll! hll pasado ·
it's been a long time pero no ando calmao
see remember the day I got into a fight
con otro niiio who's color was white
he told his story, I said "siempre me buSC4"
you said to me "el espaiiol no se habla"
so I got in trouble for speaking spanish
and my interest in school suddenly vanished
pero to make things worst,
you called my papi and said I was to blame
and so he disciplined me with physical pain
see mexican parents respect authority
my word against yours ... y'asi quz sufri
pues el tiempo paso and things got no better
It seemed every week you would send home a letter
telling my parents I was bad in class
little did you know I felt like an ass
como un mudito, I sat all alone
listening to a language I did not speak at home
With strength ·
He is to
have power.
With courage
He is to be
MAESTRO
Brown People called wetbacks.
Black People called niggers.
Poor White People called white trash.
Yellow People called chinks.
Red People called savages.
And White men called Goel
White men that are Presidents in Indian land.
White men that continue to enslave a People of Color.
White men that rape and degrade and exploit women.
White men that molest our children with their White way.
And
A People that can no longer bleed and cry.
And
A People that screams out for freedom and justice.
And
A People that stands up and breaks their chains
while the White man runs for his life.
- Frank Aviles
and just because I found the curriculum boring
you insisted that knowledge I was not yearning
and just because I spoke with a mexican accent
you insisted that in wood shop my time'd be best spent
and just cause I wore on a gangster trip
and, finally. because my skin was brown
se reian los gringos and they put me down
and you maestro, you could not see
why I got mad cuando se burblaban de mi
btit wnat hurt me more was the comment you made
you said I was lazy cause no attention I paid
yet the truth was that I was afraid
tenia verguensa and so quiet I stayed
those early years really fucked my mind
I was confused and no one I could find
who understood me at your racist school
the place where they treated me as though I was a fool
and so open your eyes, maestro, what do you see?
I guess I'm excatly what you expected I'd be
an addict,
a convict,
a loud talking spic
a lazy chicano who don't give a shit
an animal,
criminal,
psychopath cholo
a mal-nourished kid who would never grow
a mexican boy who could never read
and who even today with an accent he speaks
another homeboy who never got far
a drunken thief who breaks in to your cart
a farm working mexican with eight kids and a wife
a convicted rapist serving 20 to life!
pues sabes que, teach, you were correct
cause all the above you did expect
see I rose to the level of your expectation
fijate teacher I'm your creation
-Juan R Avitia
- Daniel Chacon
If
from pg I
'Toe magic number is 20.
With 20 (people) you can have a
good program in Mexico,"
l.aragoza said.
Students in the program live
with middle class Mexican
families and are active in family
life and activities.
l.aragoza said students in the
United States can read a book or
attend a conference on the
language and culture of Mexico,
but it's not the same.
program
"You have to live the language and culture," l.aragoza
said.
The application deadline is
May 17, but fees for this year's
program are in the process of
being worked out.
Information on summer
study in Guanajuato, may be
obtained from the CSUF
Division of Extended Education
or Cosme Zaragoza.
Questions regarding one-year
studies abroad may be referred
to Sonya Hildreth at the International Student Office.
3
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
4
Chicano Latino Association of Student Educators
(C.L.A.S.E.)meets Thursdays 5pm-6pm
HECHA meets Wednesdays
1n the College Union 4pm-5pm
Chicano Journalism Students Association
(CJSA)meets Thursday 7 pm In Joyal 203
Ch1cano Youth Conference meets Mondays
In Upshtrs Cafeteria Rm. 5pm-6pm
Lambda Sigma Gamma meets Wednesday 7pm
Burt Corona ,.The Chicano Movement-Then and Now.,
Hr. Corona ts co-founder of the Mexican-American
Polll1cel Association and a long-Ume rights activist
In labor end Immigration. Friday, Oct, 25th Lecture
et 7pm end will be free to the public.
Fresno County Hlsptrnlc Commission
on Alcohol&. Drug Abuse Services, Inc.
Presents the: First Annual Red Ribbon Week;
Sober end Drug FREE:
FAHILV FIESTA et Fresno's Roed1ng Perk
amphitheater OCT, 26, I 99 I 12pm-5pm.
(Chicano Arts Reformation end Afflrnet1on) Dolores Huerta
"The Farmworker Movement end Its Impact on the Chicano
Movement., Dolores Huerta Is Vice-President and co-founder
of the Un1ted Farmworkers Union end ecttvlst In the Chtcano
movement.
(Chicano Arts Reformation end Affirmation) Panel Discussion:
Fresno Art Museum .. Current and Future Direction of the
Chicano Movement," Or. Bt11 Flores (CSUF), Dr. Lee Yberrti
(CSUF Chlctino/Ltillno Amerlctin Studies). Ben Bentivldez,
(Ntitlonel President, MAPA), Juan Arambula,
(President FUSD Board of Trustees) will chair the lecture .
WEEK
Altars on display.
Library 2nd floor
throughout the
week
night
Tuesday
Oct. 29th
Poetry in The Pit
8 pm -9:30pm
Arte Americas: Presents Dr. Loco's Rocking Jalapeno Band
that has become one of the most popular Ch1cano bands In the
Sen Frtinclsco, Btiy Area. Place: Wernor's Thetitre, Ster Peltice
$10 at the door (ctill Artas Americas tit 266-2623 for details
-Tickets ere tivti1lebla tit the CLS Dept. Office.
Clubs and organizations listings and times are subject to
change without notice, students interested in pa,rticipating
should check with the CollegeUnion.
OF
Enchilada sale in
the Free Speech
EVENTS
Procession;
3:30p.m.
procession will
assemble in
Free Speech/
Teatro; 4:00-6:00pm
Memorial reading
and altar for
Ernesto Trejo
Fresno Art Museum
admission is free
8pm
from page 2
I got up. An upper-cut
to his chin and a hook to his ribs.
Nothing! I went down again.
This time I landed on my right
shoulder.
A kick to my ribs, two
to my head and one to my face.
I got up again. This
time I wasn't able to punch with
my left arm, so a right to his ear
and another to his mouth.
Nothing! I was on the floor
again. This time the landing was
hard! I felt my head bleeding
and my vision was beginning to
get blurry as the kicks kept
coming. I couldn't take it
anymore.
"Ben, Cat, Raton,
Flaco, .... get him off me!" No one
responded.
I got slammed about
four more times until finally,
Shrimpo's dad, who had been
watching the fight, took Eight
Ball off me.
Ben and Cat carried me
for a block t til we reached their
house. There, Ben's mom took
off my pants and the remains of
my turtleneck. Outside the
restroom I could hear Ben and
Cat crying,,.."Shit, why didn't we
help him?"
''Flaco, how come you
didn't get Eight Ball off?"
. They went--9n bl~ming
each.other. After Ben's mom
was through with cleaning the
dirt and blood from my face and
back, she called for someone to
carry me to Cat's room.
That night, in Cat's
room, my homeboys attended
their leader's funeral. As I was
lying there on Cat's bed, not
being able to speak or move and
hardly seeing at times, I thought,
who are the G.V. Boys? All
those times that I had fought
hard so that my homeboys
would be proud of belonging to
this gang were gone. All the
pride that came with being the
leader of G.V. Boys and the
respect that I received from them
at most times no longer meant
anything to me. I could no
longer care for any of this. How
could they stand there while I
was begging for help? I had
never begged before. When my
calls for help remained unanswered that night, the bond that
I cherished for three years was
broken.
Never had I thought
that when I lose my first fight I
would lose so much. That night
I lost so much. Since that night I
cont.
CLUBS
from pg. 1
haven't been able to talk to my
of Student Educator,s (CLASE)formed to promote
homeboys as I.once did, for they
Chicanos in education and teaching: ·
·.•·
had betrayed my friendship, my
pride, my spirit, my beliefs and
Mexican Americans in Technology promotes ·, :
my way of thinking. My outlook
student involvement in the technology field. Ad:.
.on life was peat~p. out o{ me that , vising, spcia!E}vents ·and other a_ctivities are sp<;>n~
night. _
sor~d by M:~-Tech. · . . ,"i .. .. .. ;
:c: .·. 'i
All of it gone in just one
Numerous
other
organizations
are
on
car.npus
·
night.
for studen~;; Wishi11g fo··Become in an organization;
_·.
__;...,_--:;:.
·· B~oming invol;ed in a gro~p only req_ujres
interest, the first step tobecoming involved in
.a·n organization_. .
. .
.
_¾ . The big~st st~p is ~
walkitrg 14to tne
:and becoming involved
meeting
Fall 1991
CSU, Fresno
The Chicano-Latino News a er
Oct, 24, 1991
'?'
Chicano-Latinos encouraged to study
students with Chicano interests
Clubs, Orf!aniza_tions
•Mexico, Spain study offered through CSUF
Renee Ruelas
Assitant Editor
Joining a club or
organization can be a new and
confusing step for students
new and old to CSUF.
CSUF has many organizations and clubs for students
with similar interests and
ideas. To become involved
with and find information
about groups on campus is in
provided in University
Student Union Rm. 306.
Different organizations
offer advising, contacts to
enhance future contacts and
look good on a resume.
Applications ask for a list of
clubs and organizations the
applicant is a participant. Most
applicants turn in the application with this section blank.
Students new and old
now have a chance to turn
their future around by joining
a group on campus.
Chicano clubs are also
available for students interested in promoting Chicano
culture in an organization.
Chicanos In Law is a prelaw organization established
in 1978 to promote Chicano
interest in becoming lawyers.
CIL helps students with
admission to law school and
provides counseling.
Chicano Writers Artists Association encourages Chicano
art and literature in their
organization. CWAA holds
poetry readings and has pub-
lished student works.
Hispanic Business Students
Association is a national organization established in 1971
to promote Chicanos in business. HBSA sponsors speakers
and trips related to business.
Chicano Journalism
Students Association formed
in 1988 for students with
journalism and telecommunication interest, but all students
are welcome to work on CJSA
projects.
Chicano Health Organization founded in 1968 for
students interested in health
related fields. CHO members
are active in promoting good
health and are active in campus health related projects.
Colemna Universitaria
Hispana actively promotes the
Latino culture. They also
sponsor an annual Posada.
MEChA is involved in education and politics involving
Chicanos in the community.
MEChA's main focus is on student issues.
Migrant Student Alliance
works with migrant students
on campus. The group works
closely with students in their
college experience.
Chicano Commencement
Committee formed in 1976
with the CSUF Chicano
Alumni Association organizes
the annual Chicano graduation.
Chicano-Latino Association
see clubs
l~ffl
page3
James Gonzalez
La Voz Staff writer
The temperature in Guanajuato, Mexico, this summer is
expected to be in the mid 70s perfect weather for traveling, margaritas - and a little studying.
In Madrid, Spain the Prado
Museum, which ranks in size and
importance with the Louvre, gears
up for its 172nd year.
CSUF students have the chance
next year to explore, and absorb
the language and culture of Spain
and Mexico.
California State University
International Programs and the
CSUF Division of Extended Education both offer study programs
abroad.
Campus Coordinator for International Programs Sonya Hildreth
said, that in a typical year, only 10
to 20 people from CSUF take the
opportunity to study in Mexico or
Spain.
"It's not that people are eliminated because of criteria, it's just
that they don't apply," Hildreth
said.
International Programs requires enrollment at a CSU campus no later then spring term 1992.
Other requirements include a
2.75 cumulative grade point average and upper division or graduate standing by the end of spring
term 1992.
'1've had people come in on the
Feb.I deadline and apply, but I
wouldn't recommend doingthat,"
Hildreth said.
Advanced language and culture programs in Spain and Mexico require two years of collegelevel Spanish, but the "Learn Span-
ish" program in Mexico requires
only one year.
Many Hispanics in the program
are interested in traveling to Spain
rather than Mexico, Hildreth said.
Students in general consider
Europe "exotic" and want to travel
far from home, as opposed to
Mexico, she said.
International Programs offers
two one-year programs in Spain:
one at the University of Granada
and the other at the University of
Madrid.
Both programs give students
the opportunity to sharpen language skills through formal study
and immersion in the Spanish
language culture.
Students earn regular resident
credit for their coursework.
Spanish culture will definitely
beondisplaythissummerasSpain
hosts the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
ltwon'tbecheap;theestimated
cost for a year in Spain is $12,075.
All cam pus financial aid, with
the exception of work-study, is
applicable overseas.
Students in the "Learn Spanish" program in Mexico attend the
Universidad lberoamericana on
the outskirts of Mexico City and
are emmersed in an intensive program of formal language study
along with a broad variety of
courses in Mexican culture, social
sciences, and humanities.
Courses in the "Language and
Culture"programallowadvanced
students to complete their mastery of the Spanish language and
Mexican culture.
Each program in Mexico is estimated to cost $6,980. About the
same cost as living in California in
one year
'1n addition to studying, there
is fun" Hildreth said.
She said during breaks in the
course of the year a resident director, usually a faculty member of
CSU, will try to arrange tours of
local historical sites and nearby
cities.
"I feel we are changing the
negative stereotypes on both
sides," said Dr. Cosme 2.aragoza,
professor of foreign languages.
2.aragoza sponsors a summer
study program in Guanajuato,
Mexico, through the Department
of Foreign Languages and Literature and the CSUF Division of Extended Education.
He said the program isa unique
opportunity for Mexican people
to understand American people.
The colonial city of
Guanajuato is located on
Mexico's central plateau, between
Mexico's two largest cities,
Guadalajara and Mexico City.
A weekend trip to either city is
easy to arrange and inexpensive.
Students spend the summer
studying the language and culture of Mexico at the Universidad
deGuanajuatoandreceiveregular
credit for their coursework.
The only eligibility requirement
is Spanish 10 - one year of collegelevel Spanish or the high school
equivalent, two years.
"The first year we took close to
30 people," 2.aragoza said, "half
the participants were Chicanos"
He said the program was
cancelled last year due to lack of
participants.
program
pg.3
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
2
The pain of Aztlin remembered 22 years ago in
"El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan"
*Sisterhood, brotherhood, peace and love; the Chicano movement shall continue
La Voz Editor
Joe M. Torres
the truth about the history and
legacy behind "La Raza". It
became one of the first document
to use the word Aztlan to signify
the culural birthplace, a place of
geographic-mythicized significance usually associated with the
southwest a region once part of
Mexico until 1848.
Presented. is the plan as it
originally appeared in the Denver convention in 1969:
poeple whose time ha.s come and
who struggles against the foreigner
"gabacho" who exploits our riches
and destroys our culture. With our
heart in our hands and our hands in
the soil, we declare the independence
of our mestizo nation. We are a
bronze people with a bronze cluture.
Before the world, before all of North
America, before all our brothers on
the bronze continent, we are a
nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan.
of boundaries. National.ism is the
common denominator that all members of La Raza can agree upon.
and our programs.
4. INSTITUTIONS shall
serve our people by providing the
service necessary for a full life and
their welfare on the basis of restitution, not handouts or beggar's
crumbs Restitution for the past
economic slavery, political. civil and
human rights. Institutions in our
community which do not serve the
people have no place in the community. The institutions belong to the
people.
El Plan Espiritual de
Organiz11tional Go11ls
Aztlan a drafted document
conceived out of the late 60s
1. UNITY in the thinking of
recognizedtheneedtobring
our people concerning the barrios,
Chicano people together by
the peublo, the campo, the land, the
identifying "La Raza" in terms of
poor, the middle class, the profesthe ethnic and historical ties
sional-all committed to the liberawithin the culture of those
tion of La Raz.a.
people having a understanding
El Pl11n £spiritual de
of their Mexican heritage but
2. ECONOMY: Economic
Aztl4n
Program
have been a large part living
control of our lives and our
within the United States.
communities can only come about
5. SELF-DEFENSE of the
In the spirit of a new people
The politically active
El Plan Espirtual de Aztlan
by driving the exploiter out ofour
community must rely on the
that is concious not only of its
sets the theme that the Chicanos (La communities, our pueblos, and our
Chicano movement began
combined strength of the people. The
proud historical heritage but also of
Raz.a de'Bronze) must use their
within the confines of the
lands and by controlling and develfront line defense will cone form the
the brutal "gringo" invasion of our
mainstream society, but it benationalism as the key or common
oP.ing our own tal.ents sweat, and
barrios, the campos, the pueblos,
territores, we, the Chicano
came important to tie in the
denominator for mass mobilization
resources. Cultural background and and the ranchitos. Their involement
inhabitants and civilzers of the
sameness of the people within
and organization. Oncew we are
val.ues which ignore materialism
as protectors of their people will be
the cultural movement to
northern land of Aztltin from
committed to the idea and philosphy and embrace humanism will
given respect and dignity. They in
whence came our forefathers,
maintain a politically active
of El Plan de Aztlan, we can only
tum offer their responsibilty and
contribute to the act of cooperative
voice with their protest of the
reclaiming the land of their birth ,
conclude that social., economic,
buying and the distribution of retheir lives for their people. Those
inequalities going on at the time.
and consecrating the determination
who pal.ce themselves in th front
cultural., and political independence sources and production to sustain
of our prople of the sun, declare,
As equally important had been
is the only road to total. liberation
an economic base for healthy growth ranks for their people fo so out of
the ties to the Pre-Columbian
that the call of our blood is power,
love and carnal.ismo. Those instituform oppression, exploitation, and
and development. Lands rightfully
our respponsibility, and our
people which are largely part of
racism. Qur struggle then must be
ours will be fought for and defended. tions which are /attend by our
the make-up of the ancestry.
inevitable destiny.
brothers to provide employment and
for control of our barrios, campos,
Land and realty ownership will be
This key recognition is essential
We are free and sovereign to pueblos, lands, our economy, our
acquired by the community for the
political porl barrels for the gringo
to the political renaissance as it
determine those tasks which are
culture and our political life. El plan people's welfare. Economic ties of re- will do so obly as acts of liberation
began to form in the 60s and this
justly called for by our house, our
commits all levels of Chicano
sponsibliity must be secured by naand for La Causa. For the very
form began to be recognized as
land, the weat of our brows, and by society-the barrio, the campo, the ra- tionalism and the Chicano defense
young there will no longer be acts of
the Chicano Movement.
our hearts. Aztlan belongs to those
chero, the writer, the teacher,
units.
juvenile delinqency, but for revoluThe plan became unveiled who plant the seeds, water the fields, theworker, the professional.
tionary acts.
at the first National Chicano
and gather the crops and not to the
3. EDUCATION must be
Youth Conference in Denver.
foreign Europeans. We do not recogNationalism
relative to our people ,i.e., history,
6. CULTURAL values of
Colorado in 1%9. The plan erenize capricious frontiers on the
culture, bilingual education, contri- our peaple stregthen our identity
ated many groundbreaking ideas bronze continents.
Nationalism as the key to
butfonfi, etc. Community control of
and the moral backbone of the
organization transcends all religous, our schools, our teachers, our
Brotherhoo4 uri#es us,.and
movement. Our culture unites and
still striking the hearts of .t;nany
political, class, and econmic factions admministrators, our counselors,
plan
cont. pg4
love for our brothers makes us a
in the Chicano culture seeking
All gone
Luis Cobarru ias
"Hey, Luis, I heard that
Panchony and his Young
Soldiers are around," Shrimpo
said as he approached us from
behind.
"What's up, loco! What
are you talking about? Who told
you that?" I asked him as I
turned to give him out homeboyto-homeboy handshake.
"Ya, I heard the same
thing." Flaco agreed.
"Ya, and he's got about
30 of his Soldiers with him."
The quinceanera had
just finished. It was about 12:30
a.m. and as we usually did after
every party, we kicked back
outside with all the homies in
the parking lot, checking out the
cruising and the rucas that were
passing by.
- Flaco, Raton, Smurf,
Cat, Summer Valero, Ben and I
were leaning on the wall, each of
us with one foot up against it.
The other smaller homies were
on our left side trying to pick up
on two of the Smurphetes, a girl
gang in the San Joaquin, Flaca
and Pinta.
As I was telling Ben
about last Saturday's fight with
the Surenos, a gang that consist
mainly of native Mexicans, I
noticed three vehicles coming
toward us: a red mini truck, a
red '63 Impala, and a big red
-
ID
one night
pickup truck. We quickly
formed into a pack next to the
wall where Ben and I stood. As
Ben and I stood in front of the
pack, the three vehicles slowly
surrounded us. The Impala
parked directly in front of me
and from the driver's seat out
came a 5-foot-8-inch, 200-pound
of what appeared to be pure
muscle Mexican man. He stood
there with one hand in his black
trenchcoat' s pocket, while the
other hand scratched his right
eye. After he finished scratching
his eye he snapped his fingers.
Out from the other cars came the
Soldiers. There appeared. to be
about 20 of them, all wearing
long, black trenchcoats. Panchony stepped back and Robert, better known as Eight Ball, the
right hand of Panchony, stepped
forward.
"Who's the leader of
the G.V. Boys?" he asked.
No one said anything.
This was the first time that
Panchony and his Young
Soldiers had been in the San
Joaquin. Yet we knew from the
expression Panchony had on his
big hairy face that this wasn't a
social visit. This was just like the
encounter with the Surenos that I
was telling Ben about earlier.
It too was on a Saturday night, after a party that my
homeboy Hitman had thrown
for his birthday. After we had
finishd two kegs, we went to a
liquor store in K-town (Kerman)
to get a case of Bud for ourselves. Cat and I were kicking
back in a nearby alley waiting in
Chaca's truck while others did
the beer run. About two
minutes after they left for the
liquor store, Cat noticed a bunch
of guys coming toward us. We
couldn't distinguish who they
were because it was pitch dark
that night. As they began to
close in, I could hear them
saying, "Esta ves nose nos van a
escapar como lo isieron en el parke
la semana pasada." That night I
had nothing to worry about. I
had five of my biggest homeboys, along with five smaller
ones. As soon as I recognized
them as the Surenos, I realized
that they weren't here to join the
party. That Saturday I was the
only one who fought. I fought
their leader, Z.apata. It didn't
take me more than two minutes
to have him on the ground,
leaving him with no chance of
getting back up soon. That night
I came out with only a bump on
my head.
"I said, who's the
leader!" Eight Ball said as he
began to take off his trenchcoat,
leaving him with only a white
undershirt.
"He is." All the smaller
homies pointed toward me.
"I heard you're bad,
Luis, so let's see what you got,"
said Eight Ball as he handed his
trenchcoat back to Panchony.
Eight Ball had been a
soldier for five years. He and
Panchony first started the
Soldiers five years ago, but that
didn't bother me. He was about
my size, maybe a couple of
inches taller, but not by much.
So without saying a word, I took
off my sweater and left my white
turtleneck shirt on, thinking that
this wouldn't take me anymore
than a minute of two, like usual.
Pow, pow, pow. Three
punches: a left hook to his right
cheek, a right to his left and a
straight punch to his mouth.
Nothing.
Eight Ball took a couple
of steps back toward his homeboys and smiled," Is this all that
the G.V. Boys have? You ain't
shit, Luis. I'm going to destroy
you."
I didn't understand. I
knew that I had hit him hard
because the knuckles on my
right hand were bleeding from
the punch to his mouth. Yet it
appeared by the way he was
acting as though I hadn't even
touched him. He took a couple
more steps back and took off his
undershirt, leaving him with a
bare back.
"Now let me show you
little punks how sorry your
leader really is." He picked me
up and slammed me to the
pavement. A kick to my head
and another to my ribs and
another.
night
cont. pg4.
La Voz de Aztlan
Editor
Joe M. Torres
Assistant editor
Renee Ruelas
Photo editor
Angel de Jesus
taff Writers
Belarmino Castellanos
Luis Cobarruvias
Chris Heredia
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
PoetryAztl6n
Please tell me I sing the words 'luve' and 'hunger' like no one else. Well, everything I know is wrapped up in those two words.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your-life before you can hold still for anybody's damn sermon.
-Billie Holiday
Maiiana He'll Lead
Call to Action
Without doubt
Heisto be
our leader.
at the srene of it all
i witness the masses
gathering together to see
another fallen
angel on the pavement
In leading
He is to have
knowledge.
Black on white.
With knowledge
Heis to be
wise.
The pitiful voices of authority
interrupted by the strong movement
of sound
echoing from years past.
The wind sweeps through the night
uplifting the souls of those innocent
exhuasted
dead
victims.
With wisdom
He is to be
understanding.
With promises
He is to be
kind.
!
hl
Sirens hail the praises of another victory
I close the door to my cell.
Trapped
with fear inside me.
With kindness
He is to be
supportive.
With support
He is to be
our strength
- Lucia Sanchez
Celebration of Diversity
With power
Heis to be
courageous.
Girls without fathers.
Boys without fathers.
Children without clothes.
Babies without milk.
And White men in three piece suits with big fat stomachs.
...,..
Brown women with black eyes, bruises and no medical care.
- Barbara. E. Alvarez
HJack women with children and no child support.
White women with crappy jobs and no raise.
Yellow women with American husbands and no say so.
Red women with scars of rape and injustice.
And White men with big businesses and lots of pretty secretaries.
RACIST STOPLIGHT
Brown men that pick up walnuts.
Black men that pick up aluminium cans.
Poor white men that pick up their baggy pants.
Yellow men that pick up after White men.
Red men that pick up dead bodies.
And White men that pick up their big fat pay checks on Friday afternoon.
La Familia.
-Papa, Que paso con Ud.?- ·
-Mafiana, mijita, Mafiana.-
It took so long
to turn green
I know it was
cus soy chicano.
Somehow it sensed
I was listening to
Mexican music
and that my air
conditioner
wasn't working.
It wouldn't
change colors,
wanted me to wait,
misunderstood my
cultural impatience
of sitting so long
in windshield-strong sun.
It was racist, I know.
And when it did change
finally, I know it thought
that if not for the threat
that l"d jump outta my car
and strangle its big steel pole neck,
it would make me wait
till a white guy drove up.
quoole, r,ato
yo soy el niiio
the one who you said was a travieso
the one you claimed caused all the pleito
the one who long ago you did not care for
even though you were my maestro
fijate
a lo qlll! hll pasado ·
it's been a long time pero no ando calmao
see remember the day I got into a fight
con otro niiio who's color was white
he told his story, I said "siempre me buSC4"
you said to me "el espaiiol no se habla"
so I got in trouble for speaking spanish
and my interest in school suddenly vanished
pero to make things worst,
you called my papi and said I was to blame
and so he disciplined me with physical pain
see mexican parents respect authority
my word against yours ... y'asi quz sufri
pues el tiempo paso and things got no better
It seemed every week you would send home a letter
telling my parents I was bad in class
little did you know I felt like an ass
como un mudito, I sat all alone
listening to a language I did not speak at home
With strength ·
He is to
have power.
With courage
He is to be
MAESTRO
Brown People called wetbacks.
Black People called niggers.
Poor White People called white trash.
Yellow People called chinks.
Red People called savages.
And White men called Goel
White men that are Presidents in Indian land.
White men that continue to enslave a People of Color.
White men that rape and degrade and exploit women.
White men that molest our children with their White way.
And
A People that can no longer bleed and cry.
And
A People that screams out for freedom and justice.
And
A People that stands up and breaks their chains
while the White man runs for his life.
- Frank Aviles
and just because I found the curriculum boring
you insisted that knowledge I was not yearning
and just because I spoke with a mexican accent
you insisted that in wood shop my time'd be best spent
and just cause I wore on a gangster trip
and, finally. because my skin was brown
se reian los gringos and they put me down
and you maestro, you could not see
why I got mad cuando se burblaban de mi
btit wnat hurt me more was the comment you made
you said I was lazy cause no attention I paid
yet the truth was that I was afraid
tenia verguensa and so quiet I stayed
those early years really fucked my mind
I was confused and no one I could find
who understood me at your racist school
the place where they treated me as though I was a fool
and so open your eyes, maestro, what do you see?
I guess I'm excatly what you expected I'd be
an addict,
a convict,
a loud talking spic
a lazy chicano who don't give a shit
an animal,
criminal,
psychopath cholo
a mal-nourished kid who would never grow
a mexican boy who could never read
and who even today with an accent he speaks
another homeboy who never got far
a drunken thief who breaks in to your cart
a farm working mexican with eight kids and a wife
a convicted rapist serving 20 to life!
pues sabes que, teach, you were correct
cause all the above you did expect
see I rose to the level of your expectation
fijate teacher I'm your creation
-Juan R Avitia
- Daniel Chacon
If
from pg I
'Toe magic number is 20.
With 20 (people) you can have a
good program in Mexico,"
l.aragoza said.
Students in the program live
with middle class Mexican
families and are active in family
life and activities.
l.aragoza said students in the
United States can read a book or
attend a conference on the
language and culture of Mexico,
but it's not the same.
program
"You have to live the language and culture," l.aragoza
said.
The application deadline is
May 17, but fees for this year's
program are in the process of
being worked out.
Information on summer
study in Guanajuato, may be
obtained from the CSUF
Division of Extended Education
or Cosme Zaragoza.
Questions regarding one-year
studies abroad may be referred
to Sonya Hildreth at the International Student Office.
3
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
4
Chicano Latino Association of Student Educators
(C.L.A.S.E.)meets Thursdays 5pm-6pm
HECHA meets Wednesdays
1n the College Union 4pm-5pm
Chicano Journalism Students Association
(CJSA)meets Thursday 7 pm In Joyal 203
Ch1cano Youth Conference meets Mondays
In Upshtrs Cafeteria Rm. 5pm-6pm
Lambda Sigma Gamma meets Wednesday 7pm
Burt Corona ,.The Chicano Movement-Then and Now.,
Hr. Corona ts co-founder of the Mexican-American
Polll1cel Association and a long-Ume rights activist
In labor end Immigration. Friday, Oct, 25th Lecture
et 7pm end will be free to the public.
Fresno County Hlsptrnlc Commission
on Alcohol&. Drug Abuse Services, Inc.
Presents the: First Annual Red Ribbon Week;
Sober end Drug FREE:
FAHILV FIESTA et Fresno's Roed1ng Perk
amphitheater OCT, 26, I 99 I 12pm-5pm.
(Chicano Arts Reformation end Afflrnet1on) Dolores Huerta
"The Farmworker Movement end Its Impact on the Chicano
Movement., Dolores Huerta Is Vice-President and co-founder
of the Un1ted Farmworkers Union end ecttvlst In the Chtcano
movement.
(Chicano Arts Reformation end Affirmation) Panel Discussion:
Fresno Art Museum .. Current and Future Direction of the
Chicano Movement," Or. Bt11 Flores (CSUF), Dr. Lee Yberrti
(CSUF Chlctino/Ltillno Amerlctin Studies). Ben Bentivldez,
(Ntitlonel President, MAPA), Juan Arambula,
(President FUSD Board of Trustees) will chair the lecture .
WEEK
Altars on display.
Library 2nd floor
throughout the
week
night
Tuesday
Oct. 29th
Poetry in The Pit
8 pm -9:30pm
Arte Americas: Presents Dr. Loco's Rocking Jalapeno Band
that has become one of the most popular Ch1cano bands In the
Sen Frtinclsco, Btiy Area. Place: Wernor's Thetitre, Ster Peltice
$10 at the door (ctill Artas Americas tit 266-2623 for details
-Tickets ere tivti1lebla tit the CLS Dept. Office.
Clubs and organizations listings and times are subject to
change without notice, students interested in pa,rticipating
should check with the CollegeUnion.
OF
Enchilada sale in
the Free Speech
EVENTS
Procession;
3:30p.m.
procession will
assemble in
Free Speech/
Teatro; 4:00-6:00pm
Memorial reading
and altar for
Ernesto Trejo
Fresno Art Museum
admission is free
8pm
from page 2
I got up. An upper-cut
to his chin and a hook to his ribs.
Nothing! I went down again.
This time I landed on my right
shoulder.
A kick to my ribs, two
to my head and one to my face.
I got up again. This
time I wasn't able to punch with
my left arm, so a right to his ear
and another to his mouth.
Nothing! I was on the floor
again. This time the landing was
hard! I felt my head bleeding
and my vision was beginning to
get blurry as the kicks kept
coming. I couldn't take it
anymore.
"Ben, Cat, Raton,
Flaco, .... get him off me!" No one
responded.
I got slammed about
four more times until finally,
Shrimpo's dad, who had been
watching the fight, took Eight
Ball off me.
Ben and Cat carried me
for a block t til we reached their
house. There, Ben's mom took
off my pants and the remains of
my turtleneck. Outside the
restroom I could hear Ben and
Cat crying,,.."Shit, why didn't we
help him?"
''Flaco, how come you
didn't get Eight Ball off?"
. They went--9n bl~ming
each.other. After Ben's mom
was through with cleaning the
dirt and blood from my face and
back, she called for someone to
carry me to Cat's room.
That night, in Cat's
room, my homeboys attended
their leader's funeral. As I was
lying there on Cat's bed, not
being able to speak or move and
hardly seeing at times, I thought,
who are the G.V. Boys? All
those times that I had fought
hard so that my homeboys
would be proud of belonging to
this gang were gone. All the
pride that came with being the
leader of G.V. Boys and the
respect that I received from them
at most times no longer meant
anything to me. I could no
longer care for any of this. How
could they stand there while I
was begging for help? I had
never begged before. When my
calls for help remained unanswered that night, the bond that
I cherished for three years was
broken.
Never had I thought
that when I lose my first fight I
would lose so much. That night
I lost so much. Since that night I
cont.
CLUBS
from pg. 1
haven't been able to talk to my
of Student Educator,s (CLASE)formed to promote
homeboys as I.once did, for they
Chicanos in education and teaching: ·
·.•·
had betrayed my friendship, my
pride, my spirit, my beliefs and
Mexican Americans in Technology promotes ·, :
my way of thinking. My outlook
student involvement in the technology field. Ad:.
.on life was peat~p. out o{ me that , vising, spcia!E}vents ·and other a_ctivities are sp<;>n~
night. _
sor~d by M:~-Tech. · . . ,"i .. .. .. ;
:c: .·. 'i
All of it gone in just one
Numerous
other
organizations
are
on
car.npus
·
night.
for studen~;; Wishi11g fo··Become in an organization;
_·.
__;...,_--:;:.
·· B~oming invol;ed in a gro~p only req_ujres
interest, the first step tobecoming involved in
.a·n organization_. .
. .
.
_¾ . The big~st st~p is ~
walkitrg 14to tne
:and becoming involved
meeting