La Voz de Aztlan, November 27 1991
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La Voz de Aztlan, November 27 1991
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La Voz de Aztlan (Daily Collegian, California State University, Fresno)
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CSU, Fresno
The Chicano-Latino Newspaper
Nov,27,1991
Rodriguez aids farmers
Comedian Paul Rodriguez speaking on the Freeze Relief
By Manny Fernandez
La Voz Staff writer
"The monies that we're
raising here
re perhaps a spit in the
bucketbut it's our bucket."
-Paul Rodriguez
Paul Rodriguez has
been making people laugh
for years.
Usually he's on TV,
crossing gang-lines, counseling criminals and getting
laughs.
Or maybe he's doing
stand-up comedy in night
clubs acro~s the country.
But on Saturday, Nov.
23, Rodriguez made people
laugh for an entirely different reason.
Rodriguez hosted the
all-star Freeze Relief Benefit
Concert in the Selland
Arena.
All proceeds from the
concert will go to the
victims of the 1990 December Freeze.
The freeze left over
25,000 farmworkers and left
families unemployed and
faced with extreme hardships.
"As the crops go in this
part of the country, so does
the work," Rodriguez said
at a press conference Friday
afternoon.
"It affects everything."
Despite aid proposals
from politicians and various
the concert drew attention
social services, families are
to their suffering. "We're not
still hurting.
fooling ourselves. We're
Victor Lopez, mayor of
not
going to solve the probOrange Cove, Calif. and
lem, but what we can do is
chairman of the Freeze
point out the fact that it's
Relief Committee, brought
going to be a very, very
about the idea of holding a
difficult Christmas season
fundraiser to help the famifor our farmers," he said.
lies in need.
Rodriguez's concern for
The concert featured
suffering
farmers is close to
performances from Latin
Side of Soul, Pete Escovedo, home. The comedian's
older brother George was
and Little Joe and La Faone of the Orange Cove
milia.
Rodriguez
"The smallest farmers hurt
by the Decemsaid that the
pe rcentage Of OUr ber Freeze.
economic
problems the
wages goes into
"Americountry is
food production. cans enjoy the
facing this
gift of fresh
Why? Because
fruits and
year will only
heighten the
we have these
vegetables," he
farmer's
migrant farm work- said."The .
plight.
ers who pick for
smallest per"If you
compound the
literally slave
centage of our
problems that
"
wages goes
Iabor.
into food proare occuring
nationally on
duction..
top of the citrus situation
,. Why? Because we have
and the farming situation,
these migrant farm workers
these people ... ," Rodriguez
who pick for literally slave
said, shaking his head,
labor."
pausing to think about the
Rodriguez, the son of
starving families, "my heart migrant farm workers, was
goes out to them" .Yet
born in Mazatlan, Mexico.
Rodriguez isn't disilluSince then he has starred in
sioned. He said he doesn't
various movies and has dosee an immediate end to the nated his free time to
problem, but he hopes that
Project Literacy, Comic
\1anuel and Daniel Cortes
Relief, and the National
Lukemia Telethon.
It has been a slow but
gratifying rise to the top.
"My father brought us
here to America and he
said, 'There is no estate.
There is no money I'm
going to leave you guys.
Your inheritance is America,"' he said.
This problem won't be
over
over
tomorrow. It's going to
affect
the families, kids, and
our
school education. And
that's
our future."
-Little Joe
Rodriguez said he
hopes this concert will especially help needy families
who can't afford a decent
holiday meal.
· "Whe;n a.11 of us are
surrounded by our loved
ones and are digging
into the turkey, we
should realize that
there
are families, not
way across the world,
but right
across the
street, who are not
having
that
turkey dinner," he said.
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
4
Chlcirno L8l1no Association of Student Educetors
(C.L.A.S .E.)meets Thursd8ys Spm-6pm
MECHA meets Wednesdays
in the College Union 4pm-Spm
Chi ceno Journe 11 sm Students Assoc1 et I on
(CJSA)meets Thursday 7 pm in Joyal 203
Chicano Youth Conference meets Mondays
In Upstairs Cefeterlo Rm. Spm-6pm
Lembd8 Sigma Gemme meets Wednesday 7pm
Burt CoroM "The Chicano MoYement-Then and Now"
Hr . Corona is co-founder of the Mexican-American
Po11tice1 Association end e long-time rights actlYist
in lobar ond immlgr8t1on. Fridoy. Oct, 25th Lecture
et 7pm end wi 11 be free to the pub11c.
Fresno county Hlsponic Commission
on Alcohol 3' Drug Abuse SerYices. Inc.
Presents the: First Annual Red Ribbon Week;
Sober and Drug FREE:
FAMILY FIESTA ot Fresno's Roedlng Pork
8mphl theeter OCT. 26. 1991 12pm-Spm.
(Chicano Arts Reformet1on end Afflrnetlon) Dolores Huerta
"The Farmworker MoYement and Its Impact on the Chlcono
MoYement" Dolores Huerta ts Vice-President and co-founder
of the United Farmworkers Union 8nd ectlYlst tn the Chicano
moYement.
(Chicano Arts Reformation end Affirmation) Panel Discussion:
Fresno Art Museum .. Current and Future Dlrect1on of the
Chicano MoYement." Dr. Bill Flores (CSUF). Dr. Lee Yborre
(CSUF Chlceno/Lol1no American Studies). Ben BeneYldez.
(NettoMl President. MAPA). Juen Arambulo.
(President FUSO Board of Trustees) will chair the lecture.
WEEK
Altars on display.
Library 2nd floor
throughout the
week
Arte Amer1c8s: Presents Dr. Loco's Rocking Jel8peno Band
th8t hes become one of the most popular Chlceno bends In the
sen Francisco. Bey Aree. Place: Wernor·s Theatre, Ster Palace
$10 at the door (ce11 Art es Amert cos ftt 266-2623 for detftll s
-Tickets are au11eble et the CLS Dept. Office .
Clubs and organizations listings and times are subject to
change without notice, studen'ls interested in participating
should check with the ColiegeUnion.
OF
Tuesday
Oct. 29th
Poetry in The Pit
8 pm -9:30pm
Wednesday
Oct. 30th
Enchilada sale in
the Free Speech
area
10 arn-2 pm
EVENTS
Thursday
Oct. 31st
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
'
Dias de los muertos
night
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?"
T)iey. went ,?n blaming
each·other. After Ben's morn
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
haven't been able to talk to my
homeboys as I_once did, for they
had betrayed my friendship, my
pride, my spirit, my beliefs and
my way of thinking. My outlook
on life was peahm out of me that
night.
All of it gone in just one
night.
CLUBS
from·pg. 1
of Student Educators (CLASE) formed to promote for student,; wishing to become in an organizaChicanos in education and ~eaching. :
tion,
-Mexican Americans in Technologyp;romot~s , . ·' - :S~ominginvolved in a,group only requjres
student involvement in the techllology-field. Ad- ·interest, th~ first step to becoming involved in
vising( spci~!_events and other adi_vities are spon,:- an organization.
.
.
sor~ M!~-T~h. .
;- ,. ·- . · - ·.
;
The biggest step is walki~ 1ht~ th'e meeting
Numerous other organizations are on ·campus
and becoming involved
cont,
by
Chicano Veteranos
Amvet Post 98 State color guard from Sanger.
A Selma Vietnam Veteran prays for his lost friends.
wife of Vietnam Veterans display the colors in the Clovis
parade.
In remembrance
to the heroes of
the
I
I
I
Vietnam War
Salute to Parlier; Vietnam Veteran's Memorial.
fighting here at home
. . . over and abroad
Amvets post 98 marching in Clovis parade in the theme "Welcome Home" Veteran's Day parade.
Sororities need to be recognizedwith
peace, dignity and respect
Editor, La Voz de Aztla.n
Joe M. Torres
There is time to still change and
still treat each ·other as human
beings, a controversy began not to
long ago about two organizations
on campus respectivelY, Lambda
Gamma Sigma and Lambda Theta
Nu, two sororities on campus
which have done a lot to promote
the idealisms of the Chicano culture.
More respectively it is time to
recognize these women for collectively organizing into a group for
the benefit of themselves as women
in this society. Largely women
have been neglected through history for many of the same things
men have suffered. Yet, when you
began to stop recognizing the
women in this culture as our mothers, our sisters and our peers than
this is a rather large step back for
the future of all of us as Chicano It is of no concern to continue to
people
brood about a significant change,
As a man I would respectively once a change had occurred than
like to challenge all other men on in order for the change to be sucthis campus to see the hurt and the cessful it must be mandated furpain being caused by denying the ther, and further.
In order to bring the society up
members of our own Raza.
a strong urge
ThroughouttheMexi- Throughout the Mexican must be maincan history
history the true victors tained to emthe
the true vic- fighting for the independ- power
women of the
tors fighting
for the inde- ence in our nation were society with
the woman, many times the beleifs
pendence in
our nation even dying in battle along women choose
to have in their
were
the
side their brothers.
own right.
woman,
many times even dying in battle
Then, No longer will ,we, as a
along side their brothers.For our people be regarded as anything
race came out of two distinct and less than,we, want to become, and
proud cultures the Spanish and this is as human beings, with the
the Mestizo.
respect and dignity entitled to all
Bringing a new breed of people continuing to struggle and be ed umuch stronger and more vile than cated ina free system, freeofabuse
ever possible before on this earth. and filled with the love of the true
The Daily Collegian is unfair
By Frank P. Aviles
There is anastyrumor going around
that the Daily Collegian is objective
fair, and accurate in its reporting. As
a staff member of the Collegian I
would like to put this rumor to rest.
I would like to begin with the fallacy that the Collegian is fair and
accurate in its reporting. Apparently,
a student by the name of Chris Glass
doesn't think that the Collegian is fair.
In
in
to th:e!pJt,licMiorrs
Commission he accused the Collegian of censorship. Is this accusation
true?
Let's askTeranceFrazier, an African American, whose letter to the
editor about police harassment on
campus was never published. Maybe
we should ask Susan Arreola, a Native American, whose letter we never
saw which was about a racially insensitive Cartoon and her support for the
anti-Columbus protest Let's talk to
Linda Brown whose letter in support
of affirmative action never surfaced.
What about Lawrence Tovar's, a
Native American, response to the Collegians degradation of Native Americans through cartoons and editorials.
Or maybe Jose E. Lopez, a Chicano,
can tell us what it meant when the Col- .··
legian didn't run the letter he wrote
about Aids in the minority and impoverished communities. Betteryet, why
don't we ask Danny Chacon who finally pulled his editorial about racism
after two weeks of not seeing it in the
paper. Isn't it peculiar that these letters which represent the viewpoints of
people of color have not been published.
Well, now lets discuss the
Collegian's accurate reporting. Does
accurate reporting mean being selective? Interestingly enough, our earthy
journalists have taken it upon themselves this semester to help us decide
that trees are more important than the
genocide of indigenous and African
people. This semester there were two
protests one about redwoods clone in
the form of a concert by Earth First
and the other done by a group of students in protest of Columbus day. Although both received introduction
stories, only the one about the redwoods received a follow up story. I
guess over hundred students at a protest that deals with the genocide of a
race of people isn't important to receive a follow up. The Collegian's
stance on the anti-Columbus protest
was made very clear when they ran a
fkt iletter
cartoon four days later which made a Alfonso Gamino. The letter appeared
joke out of this very serious issue.
unedited with several grammatical
This "objective" newspaper has errors.
also made a joke out the Brown and
Well, anyway let's talk about
Black people on campus with the help something funny now. Have you seen
of Michael Handorf, a Collegian the cartoons lately. They 're almost as
columnist and editor of the a newslet- funny as those minority jokes.
ter called the EDGE. In several of his
There were at least three cartoons
columns Handorf has written degrad- (not counting the Columbus one) that
ing things about people of color. In appeared which stereotyped African
some cases he equated rninor,ities with Americans, Native Americans and
animals and also he infers thatminori- Chicanos.
-ties' '8Jld the poor are ignorant alcoI would like you to open up your
holic baby machines. Not only has Colle2ian to the 9/5 issu.e. Let's look
Handorf used the Collegian to bash at the Black child with the "pickanminorities maybe once or twice a week, inny" hairstyle. Yes, the one with the
but also.to promote his newsletter, the overexaggerated forehead and cheeks.
EDGE, which specifically attacks Chi- Yes, the one standing in front of a run
canos and African Americans. In the down building next to the "Crack for
10/18 issue of the Collegian there is an Sale" sign. I hope after looking at this
advertisement three columns in length cartoon you don't believe that myth
(pg. 3) which reads "Handorf. Wed- that all black people snort coke and
nesdays. He'll take you the EDGE ... " wait in welfare lines.
Now turn to
And a few weeks
the 9/23 issue to
later the EDGE I would like you to open
the cartoon that
appearedintheli- up your Collegian to the
reads "How to
brary and on the
9/5 issue. Let's look at Choose a Sudesks and in mail
preme Court Jusboxes all around the Black chi{d with the
tice." The cartoon
campus. Since "pickaninny" hairstyle.
specifically atHandorf' s raI hope after looking at
tacks Chicanas.
cially insensitive
Well this cartoon
newsletter has this cartoon you don't
infers that in orbeen given P.R. b~lieve that myth that
der to hire a miknowingly or un- all black peopie snort
supreme
knowingly has
coke and wait in welfare nority
court justice, we
anyone been repli"nes.
have to create qualifications cause
rimanded.
The Collegian staff has not only minorities don't have any. Is this an
shown support for Handorf, but they attack on equal representation?
Well, now turn to the 11/6 issue.
have also joined in the minority bashing. For example, on 10/29 Chicanos, Now isn't that a cute picture of an
African Americans, and Native Ameri- "Indian. " with two feathers on his
cans attended a senate meeting in head. Doesn't this cartoon look fawhich they crumpled up resolutions miliar. Yeah, it's like that column that
(written by senator Rose denouncing Handorf did when he equated Native
Pres. Montoya) and threw them on the Americans with animals. Yeah, the
floor. The following day a Column one about the controversy around using
written by the staff appeared in which Native Americans as mascots. This
these actions were referred to as "pa- cartoon shows a stereotypical Native
::hetic" and "real mature" (or rather American selling bumper stickers for
immature). I'm glad they (the staff), $2.50. I wonderif thiscartoonimplies
don't think they're better than people that Native Americans are exploiting
of color. Also, on 11/16 the Collegian the whole situation for they're own
staff wrote an editorial denouncing benefit. Hmmmm.
President Montoya, a Chicano, and
Racist cartoons, censoring Native
Senator Jones, an African American; American issues and minority letters
the verv two oeoole that the EDGE to the editor, attacking people of color
specifically attacks. There have also in editorials, supporting someone who
been instances in which negative is openly racist. What does all this
headlines about Montoya appear in mean?
bold while those in favor of him apDoes this mean that the Collegian
pear in italics. In fact under one of the staff doesn't really like us as much as
italic headlines on 10/31 was a letter they say they do? Is this called rawritten in support of Montoya by cism?
brotherhood of mankind
Please realize the two sororities Lambda Sigma Gamma and
Lambda Theta Nu exist as apart of
the Chicano culture and choosing
not to see them as such is not only
denying them from the race, but
also denying them of the proud
women, we, as men should always
be able to hold up in any damn
society
To all the members of each
sorority may you be strong and
filled with the spirit of VIV A la
RAZA, you make me proud for
the very fact you exist, and all of
you belong among the best.
Viva/a
Raza
and Have
A Happy
Thanksgiving
Holiday from
La Vozde
-A-zt~'~--
Poetry Aztl6n
The Dead
Sothwestern New Mexico
10,000 B.C.-1150 A. D.
I
FIVIII Asia, you crossed a bridge of land,
now called the Bering Strait, now swallowed
1n water. No human steps to follow,
you slowly found your way on pathless groundsuntouched, unseen, untrampled. Your lungs, growing
lik.e grass, lived an~ breathed an air as soft as clouch.
Swimming, drinking, bathing, You, in wombs of water
blue as morning skies. The rain wu clean then.
Travelen lost in tim,i,,walking, chanting,
dancing-tracks on map less earth, no man-made lines,
no borders. Arriving not in ships, with no supplies,
waving no flags, claiming nothing, naming
no piece of dirt for wealthy lords of earth.
You did not come to own; you came to live.
Hunting huge mammoths, you killed toe.at, ·
survive. In time, the mammoth died.
You lived, continued moving-southward.
Days and days of walking, the earth memorizing
your steps-walking, sometimes stopping,
pemaps pausing to pray, to dream, to wonder.
Your eyes saw: buffalo, deer,.b.lnbyour hands leaving portraits on rocka.
Explorers, nomads never settlingephemeral camps your home until your legs gave out
You sat and breathed the air, the arid dust,
planting your feet in the desert.
It rained-and there your roots grew deep.
Ten thousands years. Ten thousand years before resting.
II
From yellow hills, you viewed the growing trees.
Wet grounds, smells of green, you reached for it.
You drank from rivets water, knew what to eat,
knew which seeds to plant You plowed rows
with hands; dug ditches with hands. Things grew.
Gardena. Rows weaving the ground Into rugs-patterns
of Spring. The lines in leaves of com, deep
clay and water, and sun to bake the bricks
li.ke fire baked your bread. You built from mud,
surrounded. And there, your children learned.
Li.ke com, your towns grew taJL Fruitful, you multiplied.
Soon, you were many. Villages speaking your language.
Occupied hands, laborers on the land-hearts
aching for more. Listening to rains, and winds, and wolvesyou told stories. Stories of wandering fathers-spokenyou left no books. But pots. Molded clay, you formed
perfect bowls. Pots to cook, to carry crops, plates
to hold your food. Your hearts ached for more. And then
your artist's eyes taught working hand s to paint
-from Calender of Dust
Benjamin A lite Saenz
La Uoz de Aztlan
Editor, Joe M. Torres
Assistant Editor, Rene Ruelas
Photo editor, Angel de Jesus
Staff Writer, Manny Fernandez
Special thanks to goes to The Daily
Collegianstaff for their help and support
La Vaz de Aztldn is published monthly by the Assoicated Students Inc.
of CSU, Fresno. The newspaper office is located in the Keats campus
building, Fresno, Ca 93740-0042. The opinions in La Vaz are not
neccessarily that of the ASI or The Daily Collegian . Unsigned editorials
are the majority opinion of the editorial staff.
The Chicano-Latino Newspaper
Nov,27,1991
Rodriguez aids farmers
Comedian Paul Rodriguez speaking on the Freeze Relief
By Manny Fernandez
La Voz Staff writer
"The monies that we're
raising here
re perhaps a spit in the
bucketbut it's our bucket."
-Paul Rodriguez
Paul Rodriguez has
been making people laugh
for years.
Usually he's on TV,
crossing gang-lines, counseling criminals and getting
laughs.
Or maybe he's doing
stand-up comedy in night
clubs acro~s the country.
But on Saturday, Nov.
23, Rodriguez made people
laugh for an entirely different reason.
Rodriguez hosted the
all-star Freeze Relief Benefit
Concert in the Selland
Arena.
All proceeds from the
concert will go to the
victims of the 1990 December Freeze.
The freeze left over
25,000 farmworkers and left
families unemployed and
faced with extreme hardships.
"As the crops go in this
part of the country, so does
the work," Rodriguez said
at a press conference Friday
afternoon.
"It affects everything."
Despite aid proposals
from politicians and various
the concert drew attention
social services, families are
to their suffering. "We're not
still hurting.
fooling ourselves. We're
Victor Lopez, mayor of
not
going to solve the probOrange Cove, Calif. and
lem, but what we can do is
chairman of the Freeze
point out the fact that it's
Relief Committee, brought
going to be a very, very
about the idea of holding a
difficult Christmas season
fundraiser to help the famifor our farmers," he said.
lies in need.
Rodriguez's concern for
The concert featured
suffering
farmers is close to
performances from Latin
Side of Soul, Pete Escovedo, home. The comedian's
older brother George was
and Little Joe and La Faone of the Orange Cove
milia.
Rodriguez
"The smallest farmers hurt
by the Decemsaid that the
pe rcentage Of OUr ber Freeze.
economic
problems the
wages goes into
"Americountry is
food production. cans enjoy the
facing this
gift of fresh
Why? Because
fruits and
year will only
heighten the
we have these
vegetables," he
farmer's
migrant farm work- said."The .
plight.
ers who pick for
smallest per"If you
compound the
literally slave
centage of our
problems that
"
wages goes
Iabor.
into food proare occuring
nationally on
duction..
top of the citrus situation
,. Why? Because we have
and the farming situation,
these migrant farm workers
these people ... ," Rodriguez
who pick for literally slave
said, shaking his head,
labor."
pausing to think about the
Rodriguez, the son of
starving families, "my heart migrant farm workers, was
goes out to them" .Yet
born in Mazatlan, Mexico.
Rodriguez isn't disilluSince then he has starred in
sioned. He said he doesn't
various movies and has dosee an immediate end to the nated his free time to
problem, but he hopes that
Project Literacy, Comic
\1anuel and Daniel Cortes
Relief, and the National
Lukemia Telethon.
It has been a slow but
gratifying rise to the top.
"My father brought us
here to America and he
said, 'There is no estate.
There is no money I'm
going to leave you guys.
Your inheritance is America,"' he said.
This problem won't be
over
over
tomorrow. It's going to
affect
the families, kids, and
our
school education. And
that's
our future."
-Little Joe
Rodriguez said he
hopes this concert will especially help needy families
who can't afford a decent
holiday meal.
· "Whe;n a.11 of us are
surrounded by our loved
ones and are digging
into the turkey, we
should realize that
there
are families, not
way across the world,
but right
across the
street, who are not
having
that
turkey dinner," he said.
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
4
Chlcirno L8l1no Association of Student Educetors
(C.L.A.S .E.)meets Thursd8ys Spm-6pm
MECHA meets Wednesdays
in the College Union 4pm-Spm
Chi ceno Journe 11 sm Students Assoc1 et I on
(CJSA)meets Thursday 7 pm in Joyal 203
Chicano Youth Conference meets Mondays
In Upstairs Cefeterlo Rm. Spm-6pm
Lembd8 Sigma Gemme meets Wednesday 7pm
Burt CoroM "The Chicano MoYement-Then and Now"
Hr . Corona is co-founder of the Mexican-American
Po11tice1 Association end e long-time rights actlYist
in lobar ond immlgr8t1on. Fridoy. Oct, 25th Lecture
et 7pm end wi 11 be free to the pub11c.
Fresno county Hlsponic Commission
on Alcohol 3' Drug Abuse SerYices. Inc.
Presents the: First Annual Red Ribbon Week;
Sober and Drug FREE:
FAMILY FIESTA ot Fresno's Roedlng Pork
8mphl theeter OCT. 26. 1991 12pm-Spm.
(Chicano Arts Reformet1on end Afflrnetlon) Dolores Huerta
"The Farmworker MoYement and Its Impact on the Chlcono
MoYement" Dolores Huerta ts Vice-President and co-founder
of the United Farmworkers Union 8nd ectlYlst tn the Chicano
moYement.
(Chicano Arts Reformation end Affirmation) Panel Discussion:
Fresno Art Museum .. Current and Future Dlrect1on of the
Chicano MoYement." Dr. Bill Flores (CSUF). Dr. Lee Yborre
(CSUF Chlceno/Lol1no American Studies). Ben BeneYldez.
(NettoMl President. MAPA). Juen Arambulo.
(President FUSO Board of Trustees) will chair the lecture.
WEEK
Altars on display.
Library 2nd floor
throughout the
week
Arte Amer1c8s: Presents Dr. Loco's Rocking Jel8peno Band
th8t hes become one of the most popular Chlceno bends In the
sen Francisco. Bey Aree. Place: Wernor·s Theatre, Ster Palace
$10 at the door (ce11 Art es Amert cos ftt 266-2623 for detftll s
-Tickets are au11eble et the CLS Dept. Office .
Clubs and organizations listings and times are subject to
change without notice, studen'ls interested in participating
should check with the ColiegeUnion.
OF
Tuesday
Oct. 29th
Poetry in The Pit
8 pm -9:30pm
Wednesday
Oct. 30th
Enchilada sale in
the Free Speech
area
10 arn-2 pm
EVENTS
Thursday
Oct. 31st
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
'
Dias de los muertos
night
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?"
T)iey. went ,?n blaming
each·other. After Ben's morn
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
haven't been able to talk to my
homeboys as I_once did, for they
had betrayed my friendship, my
pride, my spirit, my beliefs and
my way of thinking. My outlook
on life was peahm out of me that
night.
All of it gone in just one
night.
CLUBS
from·pg. 1
of Student Educators (CLASE) formed to promote for student,; wishing to become in an organizaChicanos in education and ~eaching. :
tion,
-Mexican Americans in Technologyp;romot~s , . ·' - :S~ominginvolved in a,group only requjres
student involvement in the techllology-field. Ad- ·interest, th~ first step to becoming involved in
vising( spci~!_events and other adi_vities are spon,:- an organization.
.
.
sor~ M!~-T~h. .
;- ,. ·- . · - ·.
;
The biggest step is walki~ 1ht~ th'e meeting
Numerous other organizations are on ·campus
and becoming involved
cont,
by
Chicano Veteranos
Amvet Post 98 State color guard from Sanger.
A Selma Vietnam Veteran prays for his lost friends.
wife of Vietnam Veterans display the colors in the Clovis
parade.
In remembrance
to the heroes of
the
I
I
I
Vietnam War
Salute to Parlier; Vietnam Veteran's Memorial.
fighting here at home
. . . over and abroad
Amvets post 98 marching in Clovis parade in the theme "Welcome Home" Veteran's Day parade.
Sororities need to be recognizedwith
peace, dignity and respect
Editor, La Voz de Aztla.n
Joe M. Torres
There is time to still change and
still treat each ·other as human
beings, a controversy began not to
long ago about two organizations
on campus respectivelY, Lambda
Gamma Sigma and Lambda Theta
Nu, two sororities on campus
which have done a lot to promote
the idealisms of the Chicano culture.
More respectively it is time to
recognize these women for collectively organizing into a group for
the benefit of themselves as women
in this society. Largely women
have been neglected through history for many of the same things
men have suffered. Yet, when you
began to stop recognizing the
women in this culture as our mothers, our sisters and our peers than
this is a rather large step back for
the future of all of us as Chicano It is of no concern to continue to
people
brood about a significant change,
As a man I would respectively once a change had occurred than
like to challenge all other men on in order for the change to be sucthis campus to see the hurt and the cessful it must be mandated furpain being caused by denying the ther, and further.
In order to bring the society up
members of our own Raza.
a strong urge
ThroughouttheMexi- Throughout the Mexican must be maincan history
history the true victors tained to emthe
the true vic- fighting for the independ- power
women of the
tors fighting
for the inde- ence in our nation were society with
the woman, many times the beleifs
pendence in
our nation even dying in battle along women choose
to have in their
were
the
side their brothers.
own right.
woman,
many times even dying in battle
Then, No longer will ,we, as a
along side their brothers.For our people be regarded as anything
race came out of two distinct and less than,we, want to become, and
proud cultures the Spanish and this is as human beings, with the
the Mestizo.
respect and dignity entitled to all
Bringing a new breed of people continuing to struggle and be ed umuch stronger and more vile than cated ina free system, freeofabuse
ever possible before on this earth. and filled with the love of the true
The Daily Collegian is unfair
By Frank P. Aviles
There is anastyrumor going around
that the Daily Collegian is objective
fair, and accurate in its reporting. As
a staff member of the Collegian I
would like to put this rumor to rest.
I would like to begin with the fallacy that the Collegian is fair and
accurate in its reporting. Apparently,
a student by the name of Chris Glass
doesn't think that the Collegian is fair.
In
in
to th:e!pJt,licMiorrs
Commission he accused the Collegian of censorship. Is this accusation
true?
Let's askTeranceFrazier, an African American, whose letter to the
editor about police harassment on
campus was never published. Maybe
we should ask Susan Arreola, a Native American, whose letter we never
saw which was about a racially insensitive Cartoon and her support for the
anti-Columbus protest Let's talk to
Linda Brown whose letter in support
of affirmative action never surfaced.
What about Lawrence Tovar's, a
Native American, response to the Collegians degradation of Native Americans through cartoons and editorials.
Or maybe Jose E. Lopez, a Chicano,
can tell us what it meant when the Col- .··
legian didn't run the letter he wrote
about Aids in the minority and impoverished communities. Betteryet, why
don't we ask Danny Chacon who finally pulled his editorial about racism
after two weeks of not seeing it in the
paper. Isn't it peculiar that these letters which represent the viewpoints of
people of color have not been published.
Well, now lets discuss the
Collegian's accurate reporting. Does
accurate reporting mean being selective? Interestingly enough, our earthy
journalists have taken it upon themselves this semester to help us decide
that trees are more important than the
genocide of indigenous and African
people. This semester there were two
protests one about redwoods clone in
the form of a concert by Earth First
and the other done by a group of students in protest of Columbus day. Although both received introduction
stories, only the one about the redwoods received a follow up story. I
guess over hundred students at a protest that deals with the genocide of a
race of people isn't important to receive a follow up. The Collegian's
stance on the anti-Columbus protest
was made very clear when they ran a
fkt iletter
cartoon four days later which made a Alfonso Gamino. The letter appeared
joke out of this very serious issue.
unedited with several grammatical
This "objective" newspaper has errors.
also made a joke out the Brown and
Well, anyway let's talk about
Black people on campus with the help something funny now. Have you seen
of Michael Handorf, a Collegian the cartoons lately. They 're almost as
columnist and editor of the a newslet- funny as those minority jokes.
ter called the EDGE. In several of his
There were at least three cartoons
columns Handorf has written degrad- (not counting the Columbus one) that
ing things about people of color. In appeared which stereotyped African
some cases he equated rninor,ities with Americans, Native Americans and
animals and also he infers thatminori- Chicanos.
-ties' '8Jld the poor are ignorant alcoI would like you to open up your
holic baby machines. Not only has Colle2ian to the 9/5 issu.e. Let's look
Handorf used the Collegian to bash at the Black child with the "pickanminorities maybe once or twice a week, inny" hairstyle. Yes, the one with the
but also.to promote his newsletter, the overexaggerated forehead and cheeks.
EDGE, which specifically attacks Chi- Yes, the one standing in front of a run
canos and African Americans. In the down building next to the "Crack for
10/18 issue of the Collegian there is an Sale" sign. I hope after looking at this
advertisement three columns in length cartoon you don't believe that myth
(pg. 3) which reads "Handorf. Wed- that all black people snort coke and
nesdays. He'll take you the EDGE ... " wait in welfare lines.
Now turn to
And a few weeks
the 9/23 issue to
later the EDGE I would like you to open
the cartoon that
appearedintheli- up your Collegian to the
reads "How to
brary and on the
9/5 issue. Let's look at Choose a Sudesks and in mail
preme Court Jusboxes all around the Black chi{d with the
tice." The cartoon
campus. Since "pickaninny" hairstyle.
specifically atHandorf' s raI hope after looking at
tacks Chicanas.
cially insensitive
Well this cartoon
newsletter has this cartoon you don't
infers that in orbeen given P.R. b~lieve that myth that
der to hire a miknowingly or un- all black peopie snort
supreme
knowingly has
coke and wait in welfare nority
court justice, we
anyone been repli"nes.
have to create qualifications cause
rimanded.
The Collegian staff has not only minorities don't have any. Is this an
shown support for Handorf, but they attack on equal representation?
Well, now turn to the 11/6 issue.
have also joined in the minority bashing. For example, on 10/29 Chicanos, Now isn't that a cute picture of an
African Americans, and Native Ameri- "Indian. " with two feathers on his
cans attended a senate meeting in head. Doesn't this cartoon look fawhich they crumpled up resolutions miliar. Yeah, it's like that column that
(written by senator Rose denouncing Handorf did when he equated Native
Pres. Montoya) and threw them on the Americans with animals. Yeah, the
floor. The following day a Column one about the controversy around using
written by the staff appeared in which Native Americans as mascots. This
these actions were referred to as "pa- cartoon shows a stereotypical Native
::hetic" and "real mature" (or rather American selling bumper stickers for
immature). I'm glad they (the staff), $2.50. I wonderif thiscartoonimplies
don't think they're better than people that Native Americans are exploiting
of color. Also, on 11/16 the Collegian the whole situation for they're own
staff wrote an editorial denouncing benefit. Hmmmm.
President Montoya, a Chicano, and
Racist cartoons, censoring Native
Senator Jones, an African American; American issues and minority letters
the verv two oeoole that the EDGE to the editor, attacking people of color
specifically attacks. There have also in editorials, supporting someone who
been instances in which negative is openly racist. What does all this
headlines about Montoya appear in mean?
bold while those in favor of him apDoes this mean that the Collegian
pear in italics. In fact under one of the staff doesn't really like us as much as
italic headlines on 10/31 was a letter they say they do? Is this called rawritten in support of Montoya by cism?
brotherhood of mankind
Please realize the two sororities Lambda Sigma Gamma and
Lambda Theta Nu exist as apart of
the Chicano culture and choosing
not to see them as such is not only
denying them from the race, but
also denying them of the proud
women, we, as men should always
be able to hold up in any damn
society
To all the members of each
sorority may you be strong and
filled with the spirit of VIV A la
RAZA, you make me proud for
the very fact you exist, and all of
you belong among the best.
Viva/a
Raza
and Have
A Happy
Thanksgiving
Holiday from
La Vozde
-A-zt~'~--
Poetry Aztl6n
The Dead
Sothwestern New Mexico
10,000 B.C.-1150 A. D.
I
FIVIII Asia, you crossed a bridge of land,
now called the Bering Strait, now swallowed
1n water. No human steps to follow,
you slowly found your way on pathless groundsuntouched, unseen, untrampled. Your lungs, growing
lik.e grass, lived an~ breathed an air as soft as clouch.
Swimming, drinking, bathing, You, in wombs of water
blue as morning skies. The rain wu clean then.
Travelen lost in tim,i,,walking, chanting,
dancing-tracks on map less earth, no man-made lines,
no borders. Arriving not in ships, with no supplies,
waving no flags, claiming nothing, naming
no piece of dirt for wealthy lords of earth.
You did not come to own; you came to live.
Hunting huge mammoths, you killed toe.at, ·
survive. In time, the mammoth died.
You lived, continued moving-southward.
Days and days of walking, the earth memorizing
your steps-walking, sometimes stopping,
pemaps pausing to pray, to dream, to wonder.
Your eyes saw: buffalo, deer,.b.lnbyour hands leaving portraits on rocka.
Explorers, nomads never settlingephemeral camps your home until your legs gave out
You sat and breathed the air, the arid dust,
planting your feet in the desert.
It rained-and there your roots grew deep.
Ten thousands years. Ten thousand years before resting.
II
From yellow hills, you viewed the growing trees.
Wet grounds, smells of green, you reached for it.
You drank from rivets water, knew what to eat,
knew which seeds to plant You plowed rows
with hands; dug ditches with hands. Things grew.
Gardena. Rows weaving the ground Into rugs-patterns
of Spring. The lines in leaves of com, deep
clay and water, and sun to bake the bricks
li.ke fire baked your bread. You built from mud,
surrounded. And there, your children learned.
Li.ke com, your towns grew taJL Fruitful, you multiplied.
Soon, you were many. Villages speaking your language.
Occupied hands, laborers on the land-hearts
aching for more. Listening to rains, and winds, and wolvesyou told stories. Stories of wandering fathers-spokenyou left no books. But pots. Molded clay, you formed
perfect bowls. Pots to cook, to carry crops, plates
to hold your food. Your hearts ached for more. And then
your artist's eyes taught working hand s to paint
-from Calender of Dust
Benjamin A lite Saenz
La Uoz de Aztlan
Editor, Joe M. Torres
Assistant Editor, Rene Ruelas
Photo editor, Angel de Jesus
Staff Writer, Manny Fernandez
Special thanks to goes to The Daily
Collegianstaff for their help and support
La Vaz de Aztldn is published monthly by the Assoicated Students Inc.
of CSU, Fresno. The newspaper office is located in the Keats campus
building, Fresno, Ca 93740-0042. The opinions in La Vaz are not
neccessarily that of the ASI or The Daily Collegian . Unsigned editorials
are the majority opinion of the editorial staff.
CSU, Fresno
The Chicano-Latino Newspaper
Nov,27,1991
Rodriguez aids farmers
Comedian Paul Rodriguez speaking on the Freeze Relief
By Manny Fernandez
La Voz Staff writer
"The monies that we're
raising here
re perhaps a spit in the
bucketbut it's our bucket."
-Paul Rodriguez
Paul Rodriguez has
been making people laugh
for years.
Usually he's on TV,
crossing gang-lines, counseling criminals and getting
laughs.
Or maybe he's doing
stand-up comedy in night
clubs acro~s the country.
But on Saturday, Nov.
23, Rodriguez made people
laugh for an entirely different reason.
Rodriguez hosted the
all-star Freeze Relief Benefit
Concert in the Selland
Arena.
All proceeds from the
concert will go to the
victims of the 1990 December Freeze.
The freeze left over
25,000 farmworkers and left
families unemployed and
faced with extreme hardships.
"As the crops go in this
part of the country, so does
the work," Rodriguez said
at a press conference Friday
afternoon.
"It affects everything."
Despite aid proposals
from politicians and various
the concert drew attention
social services, families are
to their suffering. "We're not
still hurting.
fooling ourselves. We're
Victor Lopez, mayor of
not
going to solve the probOrange Cove, Calif. and
lem, but what we can do is
chairman of the Freeze
point out the fact that it's
Relief Committee, brought
going to be a very, very
about the idea of holding a
difficult Christmas season
fundraiser to help the famifor our farmers," he said.
lies in need.
Rodriguez's concern for
The concert featured
suffering
farmers is close to
performances from Latin
Side of Soul, Pete Escovedo, home. The comedian's
older brother George was
and Little Joe and La Faone of the Orange Cove
milia.
Rodriguez
"The smallest farmers hurt
by the Decemsaid that the
pe rcentage Of OUr ber Freeze.
economic
problems the
wages goes into
"Americountry is
food production. cans enjoy the
facing this
gift of fresh
Why? Because
fruits and
year will only
heighten the
we have these
vegetables," he
farmer's
migrant farm work- said."The .
plight.
ers who pick for
smallest per"If you
compound the
literally slave
centage of our
problems that
"
wages goes
Iabor.
into food proare occuring
nationally on
duction..
top of the citrus situation
,. Why? Because we have
and the farming situation,
these migrant farm workers
these people ... ," Rodriguez
who pick for literally slave
said, shaking his head,
labor."
pausing to think about the
Rodriguez, the son of
starving families, "my heart migrant farm workers, was
goes out to them" .Yet
born in Mazatlan, Mexico.
Rodriguez isn't disilluSince then he has starred in
sioned. He said he doesn't
various movies and has dosee an immediate end to the nated his free time to
problem, but he hopes that
Project Literacy, Comic
\1anuel and Daniel Cortes
Relief, and the National
Lukemia Telethon.
It has been a slow but
gratifying rise to the top.
"My father brought us
here to America and he
said, 'There is no estate.
There is no money I'm
going to leave you guys.
Your inheritance is America,"' he said.
This problem won't be
over
over
tomorrow. It's going to
affect
the families, kids, and
our
school education. And
that's
our future."
-Little Joe
Rodriguez said he
hopes this concert will especially help needy families
who can't afford a decent
holiday meal.
· "Whe;n a.11 of us are
surrounded by our loved
ones and are digging
into the turkey, we
should realize that
there
are families, not
way across the world,
but right
across the
street, who are not
having
that
turkey dinner," he said.
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
4
Chlcirno L8l1no Association of Student Educetors
(C.L.A.S .E.)meets Thursd8ys Spm-6pm
MECHA meets Wednesdays
in the College Union 4pm-Spm
Chi ceno Journe 11 sm Students Assoc1 et I on
(CJSA)meets Thursday 7 pm in Joyal 203
Chicano Youth Conference meets Mondays
In Upstairs Cefeterlo Rm. Spm-6pm
Lembd8 Sigma Gemme meets Wednesday 7pm
Burt CoroM "The Chicano MoYement-Then and Now"
Hr . Corona is co-founder of the Mexican-American
Po11tice1 Association end e long-time rights actlYist
in lobar ond immlgr8t1on. Fridoy. Oct, 25th Lecture
et 7pm end wi 11 be free to the pub11c.
Fresno county Hlsponic Commission
on Alcohol 3' Drug Abuse SerYices. Inc.
Presents the: First Annual Red Ribbon Week;
Sober and Drug FREE:
FAMILY FIESTA ot Fresno's Roedlng Pork
8mphl theeter OCT. 26. 1991 12pm-Spm.
(Chicano Arts Reformet1on end Afflrnetlon) Dolores Huerta
"The Farmworker MoYement and Its Impact on the Chlcono
MoYement" Dolores Huerta ts Vice-President and co-founder
of the United Farmworkers Union 8nd ectlYlst tn the Chicano
moYement.
(Chicano Arts Reformation end Affirmation) Panel Discussion:
Fresno Art Museum .. Current and Future Dlrect1on of the
Chicano MoYement." Dr. Bill Flores (CSUF). Dr. Lee Yborre
(CSUF Chlceno/Lol1no American Studies). Ben BeneYldez.
(NettoMl President. MAPA). Juen Arambulo.
(President FUSO Board of Trustees) will chair the lecture.
WEEK
Altars on display.
Library 2nd floor
throughout the
week
Arte Amer1c8s: Presents Dr. Loco's Rocking Jel8peno Band
th8t hes become one of the most popular Chlceno bends In the
sen Francisco. Bey Aree. Place: Wernor·s Theatre, Ster Palace
$10 at the door (ce11 Art es Amert cos ftt 266-2623 for detftll s
-Tickets are au11eble et the CLS Dept. Office .
Clubs and organizations listings and times are subject to
change without notice, studen'ls interested in participating
should check with the ColiegeUnion.
OF
Tuesday
Oct. 29th
Poetry in The Pit
8 pm -9:30pm
Wednesday
Oct. 30th
Enchilada sale in
the Free Speech
area
10 arn-2 pm
EVENTS
Thursday
Oct. 31st
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
'
Dias de los muertos
night
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?"
T)iey. went ,?n blaming
each·other. After Ben's morn
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
haven't been able to talk to my
homeboys as I_once did, for they
had betrayed my friendship, my
pride, my spirit, my beliefs and
my way of thinking. My outlook
on life was peahm out of me that
night.
All of it gone in just one
night.
CLUBS
from·pg. 1
of Student Educators (CLASE) formed to promote for student,; wishing to become in an organizaChicanos in education and ~eaching. :
tion,
-Mexican Americans in Technologyp;romot~s , . ·' - :S~ominginvolved in a,group only requjres
student involvement in the techllology-field. Ad- ·interest, th~ first step to becoming involved in
vising( spci~!_events and other adi_vities are spon,:- an organization.
.
.
sor~ M!~-T~h. .
;- ,. ·- . · - ·.
;
The biggest step is walki~ 1ht~ th'e meeting
Numerous other organizations are on ·campus
and becoming involved
cont,
by
Chicano Veteranos
Amvet Post 98 State color guard from Sanger.
A Selma Vietnam Veteran prays for his lost friends.
wife of Vietnam Veterans display the colors in the Clovis
parade.
In remembrance
to the heroes of
the
I
I
I
Vietnam War
Salute to Parlier; Vietnam Veteran's Memorial.
fighting here at home
. . . over and abroad
Amvets post 98 marching in Clovis parade in the theme "Welcome Home" Veteran's Day parade.
Sororities need to be recognizedwith
peace, dignity and respect
Editor, La Voz de Aztla.n
Joe M. Torres
There is time to still change and
still treat each ·other as human
beings, a controversy began not to
long ago about two organizations
on campus respectivelY, Lambda
Gamma Sigma and Lambda Theta
Nu, two sororities on campus
which have done a lot to promote
the idealisms of the Chicano culture.
More respectively it is time to
recognize these women for collectively organizing into a group for
the benefit of themselves as women
in this society. Largely women
have been neglected through history for many of the same things
men have suffered. Yet, when you
began to stop recognizing the
women in this culture as our mothers, our sisters and our peers than
this is a rather large step back for
the future of all of us as Chicano It is of no concern to continue to
people
brood about a significant change,
As a man I would respectively once a change had occurred than
like to challenge all other men on in order for the change to be sucthis campus to see the hurt and the cessful it must be mandated furpain being caused by denying the ther, and further.
In order to bring the society up
members of our own Raza.
a strong urge
ThroughouttheMexi- Throughout the Mexican must be maincan history
history the true victors tained to emthe
the true vic- fighting for the independ- power
women of the
tors fighting
for the inde- ence in our nation were society with
the woman, many times the beleifs
pendence in
our nation even dying in battle along women choose
to have in their
were
the
side their brothers.
own right.
woman,
many times even dying in battle
Then, No longer will ,we, as a
along side their brothers.For our people be regarded as anything
race came out of two distinct and less than,we, want to become, and
proud cultures the Spanish and this is as human beings, with the
the Mestizo.
respect and dignity entitled to all
Bringing a new breed of people continuing to struggle and be ed umuch stronger and more vile than cated ina free system, freeofabuse
ever possible before on this earth. and filled with the love of the true
The Daily Collegian is unfair
By Frank P. Aviles
There is anastyrumor going around
that the Daily Collegian is objective
fair, and accurate in its reporting. As
a staff member of the Collegian I
would like to put this rumor to rest.
I would like to begin with the fallacy that the Collegian is fair and
accurate in its reporting. Apparently,
a student by the name of Chris Glass
doesn't think that the Collegian is fair.
In
in
to th:e!pJt,licMiorrs
Commission he accused the Collegian of censorship. Is this accusation
true?
Let's askTeranceFrazier, an African American, whose letter to the
editor about police harassment on
campus was never published. Maybe
we should ask Susan Arreola, a Native American, whose letter we never
saw which was about a racially insensitive Cartoon and her support for the
anti-Columbus protest Let's talk to
Linda Brown whose letter in support
of affirmative action never surfaced.
What about Lawrence Tovar's, a
Native American, response to the Collegians degradation of Native Americans through cartoons and editorials.
Or maybe Jose E. Lopez, a Chicano,
can tell us what it meant when the Col- .··
legian didn't run the letter he wrote
about Aids in the minority and impoverished communities. Betteryet, why
don't we ask Danny Chacon who finally pulled his editorial about racism
after two weeks of not seeing it in the
paper. Isn't it peculiar that these letters which represent the viewpoints of
people of color have not been published.
Well, now lets discuss the
Collegian's accurate reporting. Does
accurate reporting mean being selective? Interestingly enough, our earthy
journalists have taken it upon themselves this semester to help us decide
that trees are more important than the
genocide of indigenous and African
people. This semester there were two
protests one about redwoods clone in
the form of a concert by Earth First
and the other done by a group of students in protest of Columbus day. Although both received introduction
stories, only the one about the redwoods received a follow up story. I
guess over hundred students at a protest that deals with the genocide of a
race of people isn't important to receive a follow up. The Collegian's
stance on the anti-Columbus protest
was made very clear when they ran a
fkt iletter
cartoon four days later which made a Alfonso Gamino. The letter appeared
joke out of this very serious issue.
unedited with several grammatical
This "objective" newspaper has errors.
also made a joke out the Brown and
Well, anyway let's talk about
Black people on campus with the help something funny now. Have you seen
of Michael Handorf, a Collegian the cartoons lately. They 're almost as
columnist and editor of the a newslet- funny as those minority jokes.
ter called the EDGE. In several of his
There were at least three cartoons
columns Handorf has written degrad- (not counting the Columbus one) that
ing things about people of color. In appeared which stereotyped African
some cases he equated rninor,ities with Americans, Native Americans and
animals and also he infers thatminori- Chicanos.
-ties' '8Jld the poor are ignorant alcoI would like you to open up your
holic baby machines. Not only has Colle2ian to the 9/5 issu.e. Let's look
Handorf used the Collegian to bash at the Black child with the "pickanminorities maybe once or twice a week, inny" hairstyle. Yes, the one with the
but also.to promote his newsletter, the overexaggerated forehead and cheeks.
EDGE, which specifically attacks Chi- Yes, the one standing in front of a run
canos and African Americans. In the down building next to the "Crack for
10/18 issue of the Collegian there is an Sale" sign. I hope after looking at this
advertisement three columns in length cartoon you don't believe that myth
(pg. 3) which reads "Handorf. Wed- that all black people snort coke and
nesdays. He'll take you the EDGE ... " wait in welfare lines.
Now turn to
And a few weeks
the 9/23 issue to
later the EDGE I would like you to open
the cartoon that
appearedintheli- up your Collegian to the
reads "How to
brary and on the
9/5 issue. Let's look at Choose a Sudesks and in mail
preme Court Jusboxes all around the Black chi{d with the
tice." The cartoon
campus. Since "pickaninny" hairstyle.
specifically atHandorf' s raI hope after looking at
tacks Chicanas.
cially insensitive
Well this cartoon
newsletter has this cartoon you don't
infers that in orbeen given P.R. b~lieve that myth that
der to hire a miknowingly or un- all black peopie snort
supreme
knowingly has
coke and wait in welfare nority
court justice, we
anyone been repli"nes.
have to create qualifications cause
rimanded.
The Collegian staff has not only minorities don't have any. Is this an
shown support for Handorf, but they attack on equal representation?
Well, now turn to the 11/6 issue.
have also joined in the minority bashing. For example, on 10/29 Chicanos, Now isn't that a cute picture of an
African Americans, and Native Ameri- "Indian. " with two feathers on his
cans attended a senate meeting in head. Doesn't this cartoon look fawhich they crumpled up resolutions miliar. Yeah, it's like that column that
(written by senator Rose denouncing Handorf did when he equated Native
Pres. Montoya) and threw them on the Americans with animals. Yeah, the
floor. The following day a Column one about the controversy around using
written by the staff appeared in which Native Americans as mascots. This
these actions were referred to as "pa- cartoon shows a stereotypical Native
::hetic" and "real mature" (or rather American selling bumper stickers for
immature). I'm glad they (the staff), $2.50. I wonderif thiscartoonimplies
don't think they're better than people that Native Americans are exploiting
of color. Also, on 11/16 the Collegian the whole situation for they're own
staff wrote an editorial denouncing benefit. Hmmmm.
President Montoya, a Chicano, and
Racist cartoons, censoring Native
Senator Jones, an African American; American issues and minority letters
the verv two oeoole that the EDGE to the editor, attacking people of color
specifically attacks. There have also in editorials, supporting someone who
been instances in which negative is openly racist. What does all this
headlines about Montoya appear in mean?
bold while those in favor of him apDoes this mean that the Collegian
pear in italics. In fact under one of the staff doesn't really like us as much as
italic headlines on 10/31 was a letter they say they do? Is this called rawritten in support of Montoya by cism?
brotherhood of mankind
Please realize the two sororities Lambda Sigma Gamma and
Lambda Theta Nu exist as apart of
the Chicano culture and choosing
not to see them as such is not only
denying them from the race, but
also denying them of the proud
women, we, as men should always
be able to hold up in any damn
society
To all the members of each
sorority may you be strong and
filled with the spirit of VIV A la
RAZA, you make me proud for
the very fact you exist, and all of
you belong among the best.
Viva/a
Raza
and Have
A Happy
Thanksgiving
Holiday from
La Vozde
-A-zt~'~--
Poetry Aztl6n
The Dead
Sothwestern New Mexico
10,000 B.C.-1150 A. D.
I
FIVIII Asia, you crossed a bridge of land,
now called the Bering Strait, now swallowed
1n water. No human steps to follow,
you slowly found your way on pathless groundsuntouched, unseen, untrampled. Your lungs, growing
lik.e grass, lived an~ breathed an air as soft as clouch.
Swimming, drinking, bathing, You, in wombs of water
blue as morning skies. The rain wu clean then.
Travelen lost in tim,i,,walking, chanting,
dancing-tracks on map less earth, no man-made lines,
no borders. Arriving not in ships, with no supplies,
waving no flags, claiming nothing, naming
no piece of dirt for wealthy lords of earth.
You did not come to own; you came to live.
Hunting huge mammoths, you killed toe.at, ·
survive. In time, the mammoth died.
You lived, continued moving-southward.
Days and days of walking, the earth memorizing
your steps-walking, sometimes stopping,
pemaps pausing to pray, to dream, to wonder.
Your eyes saw: buffalo, deer,.b.lnbyour hands leaving portraits on rocka.
Explorers, nomads never settlingephemeral camps your home until your legs gave out
You sat and breathed the air, the arid dust,
planting your feet in the desert.
It rained-and there your roots grew deep.
Ten thousands years. Ten thousand years before resting.
II
From yellow hills, you viewed the growing trees.
Wet grounds, smells of green, you reached for it.
You drank from rivets water, knew what to eat,
knew which seeds to plant You plowed rows
with hands; dug ditches with hands. Things grew.
Gardena. Rows weaving the ground Into rugs-patterns
of Spring. The lines in leaves of com, deep
clay and water, and sun to bake the bricks
li.ke fire baked your bread. You built from mud,
surrounded. And there, your children learned.
Li.ke com, your towns grew taJL Fruitful, you multiplied.
Soon, you were many. Villages speaking your language.
Occupied hands, laborers on the land-hearts
aching for more. Listening to rains, and winds, and wolvesyou told stories. Stories of wandering fathers-spokenyou left no books. But pots. Molded clay, you formed
perfect bowls. Pots to cook, to carry crops, plates
to hold your food. Your hearts ached for more. And then
your artist's eyes taught working hand s to paint
-from Calender of Dust
Benjamin A lite Saenz
La Uoz de Aztlan
Editor, Joe M. Torres
Assistant Editor, Rene Ruelas
Photo editor, Angel de Jesus
Staff Writer, Manny Fernandez
Special thanks to goes to The Daily
Collegianstaff for their help and support
La Vaz de Aztldn is published monthly by the Assoicated Students Inc.
of CSU, Fresno. The newspaper office is located in the Keats campus
building, Fresno, Ca 93740-0042. The opinions in La Vaz are not
neccessarily that of the ASI or The Daily Collegian . Unsigned editorials
are the majority opinion of the editorial staff.
The Chicano-Latino Newspaper
Nov,27,1991
Rodriguez aids farmers
Comedian Paul Rodriguez speaking on the Freeze Relief
By Manny Fernandez
La Voz Staff writer
"The monies that we're
raising here
re perhaps a spit in the
bucketbut it's our bucket."
-Paul Rodriguez
Paul Rodriguez has
been making people laugh
for years.
Usually he's on TV,
crossing gang-lines, counseling criminals and getting
laughs.
Or maybe he's doing
stand-up comedy in night
clubs acro~s the country.
But on Saturday, Nov.
23, Rodriguez made people
laugh for an entirely different reason.
Rodriguez hosted the
all-star Freeze Relief Benefit
Concert in the Selland
Arena.
All proceeds from the
concert will go to the
victims of the 1990 December Freeze.
The freeze left over
25,000 farmworkers and left
families unemployed and
faced with extreme hardships.
"As the crops go in this
part of the country, so does
the work," Rodriguez said
at a press conference Friday
afternoon.
"It affects everything."
Despite aid proposals
from politicians and various
the concert drew attention
social services, families are
to their suffering. "We're not
still hurting.
fooling ourselves. We're
Victor Lopez, mayor of
not
going to solve the probOrange Cove, Calif. and
lem, but what we can do is
chairman of the Freeze
point out the fact that it's
Relief Committee, brought
going to be a very, very
about the idea of holding a
difficult Christmas season
fundraiser to help the famifor our farmers," he said.
lies in need.
Rodriguez's concern for
The concert featured
suffering
farmers is close to
performances from Latin
Side of Soul, Pete Escovedo, home. The comedian's
older brother George was
and Little Joe and La Faone of the Orange Cove
milia.
Rodriguez
"The smallest farmers hurt
by the Decemsaid that the
pe rcentage Of OUr ber Freeze.
economic
problems the
wages goes into
"Americountry is
food production. cans enjoy the
facing this
gift of fresh
Why? Because
fruits and
year will only
heighten the
we have these
vegetables," he
farmer's
migrant farm work- said."The .
plight.
ers who pick for
smallest per"If you
compound the
literally slave
centage of our
problems that
"
wages goes
Iabor.
into food proare occuring
nationally on
duction..
top of the citrus situation
,. Why? Because we have
and the farming situation,
these migrant farm workers
these people ... ," Rodriguez
who pick for literally slave
said, shaking his head,
labor."
pausing to think about the
Rodriguez, the son of
starving families, "my heart migrant farm workers, was
goes out to them" .Yet
born in Mazatlan, Mexico.
Rodriguez isn't disilluSince then he has starred in
sioned. He said he doesn't
various movies and has dosee an immediate end to the nated his free time to
problem, but he hopes that
Project Literacy, Comic
\1anuel and Daniel Cortes
Relief, and the National
Lukemia Telethon.
It has been a slow but
gratifying rise to the top.
"My father brought us
here to America and he
said, 'There is no estate.
There is no money I'm
going to leave you guys.
Your inheritance is America,"' he said.
This problem won't be
over
over
tomorrow. It's going to
affect
the families, kids, and
our
school education. And
that's
our future."
-Little Joe
Rodriguez said he
hopes this concert will especially help needy families
who can't afford a decent
holiday meal.
· "Whe;n a.11 of us are
surrounded by our loved
ones and are digging
into the turkey, we
should realize that
there
are families, not
way across the world,
but right
across the
street, who are not
having
that
turkey dinner," he said.
La Voz de Aztlan
Oct 24 1991
4
Chlcirno L8l1no Association of Student Educetors
(C.L.A.S .E.)meets Thursd8ys Spm-6pm
MECHA meets Wednesdays
in the College Union 4pm-Spm
Chi ceno Journe 11 sm Students Assoc1 et I on
(CJSA)meets Thursday 7 pm in Joyal 203
Chicano Youth Conference meets Mondays
In Upstairs Cefeterlo Rm. Spm-6pm
Lembd8 Sigma Gemme meets Wednesday 7pm
Burt CoroM "The Chicano MoYement-Then and Now"
Hr . Corona is co-founder of the Mexican-American
Po11tice1 Association end e long-time rights actlYist
in lobar ond immlgr8t1on. Fridoy. Oct, 25th Lecture
et 7pm end wi 11 be free to the pub11c.
Fresno county Hlsponic Commission
on Alcohol 3' Drug Abuse SerYices. Inc.
Presents the: First Annual Red Ribbon Week;
Sober and Drug FREE:
FAMILY FIESTA ot Fresno's Roedlng Pork
8mphl theeter OCT. 26. 1991 12pm-Spm.
(Chicano Arts Reformet1on end Afflrnetlon) Dolores Huerta
"The Farmworker MoYement and Its Impact on the Chlcono
MoYement" Dolores Huerta ts Vice-President and co-founder
of the United Farmworkers Union 8nd ectlYlst tn the Chicano
moYement.
(Chicano Arts Reformation end Affirmation) Panel Discussion:
Fresno Art Museum .. Current and Future Dlrect1on of the
Chicano MoYement." Dr. Bill Flores (CSUF). Dr. Lee Yborre
(CSUF Chlceno/Lol1no American Studies). Ben BeneYldez.
(NettoMl President. MAPA). Juen Arambulo.
(President FUSO Board of Trustees) will chair the lecture.
WEEK
Altars on display.
Library 2nd floor
throughout the
week
Arte Amer1c8s: Presents Dr. Loco's Rocking Jel8peno Band
th8t hes become one of the most popular Chlceno bends In the
sen Francisco. Bey Aree. Place: Wernor·s Theatre, Ster Palace
$10 at the door (ce11 Art es Amert cos ftt 266-2623 for detftll s
-Tickets are au11eble et the CLS Dept. Office .
Clubs and organizations listings and times are subject to
change without notice, studen'ls interested in participating
should check with the ColiegeUnion.
OF
Tuesday
Oct. 29th
Poetry in The Pit
8 pm -9:30pm
Wednesday
Oct. 30th
Enchilada sale in
the Free Speech
area
10 arn-2 pm
EVENTS
Thursday
Oct. 31st
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
'
Dias de los muertos
night
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?"
T)iey. went ,?n blaming
each·other. After Ben's morn
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
haven't been able to talk to my
homeboys as I_once did, for they
had betrayed my friendship, my
pride, my spirit, my beliefs and
my way of thinking. My outlook
on life was peahm out of me that
night.
All of it gone in just one
night.
CLUBS
from·pg. 1
of Student Educators (CLASE) formed to promote for student,; wishing to become in an organizaChicanos in education and ~eaching. :
tion,
-Mexican Americans in Technologyp;romot~s , . ·' - :S~ominginvolved in a,group only requjres
student involvement in the techllology-field. Ad- ·interest, th~ first step to becoming involved in
vising( spci~!_events and other adi_vities are spon,:- an organization.
.
.
sor~ M!~-T~h. .
;- ,. ·- . · - ·.
;
The biggest step is walki~ 1ht~ th'e meeting
Numerous other organizations are on ·campus
and becoming involved
cont,
by
Chicano Veteranos
Amvet Post 98 State color guard from Sanger.
A Selma Vietnam Veteran prays for his lost friends.
wife of Vietnam Veterans display the colors in the Clovis
parade.
In remembrance
to the heroes of
the
I
I
I
Vietnam War
Salute to Parlier; Vietnam Veteran's Memorial.
fighting here at home
. . . over and abroad
Amvets post 98 marching in Clovis parade in the theme "Welcome Home" Veteran's Day parade.
Sororities need to be recognizedwith
peace, dignity and respect
Editor, La Voz de Aztla.n
Joe M. Torres
There is time to still change and
still treat each ·other as human
beings, a controversy began not to
long ago about two organizations
on campus respectivelY, Lambda
Gamma Sigma and Lambda Theta
Nu, two sororities on campus
which have done a lot to promote
the idealisms of the Chicano culture.
More respectively it is time to
recognize these women for collectively organizing into a group for
the benefit of themselves as women
in this society. Largely women
have been neglected through history for many of the same things
men have suffered. Yet, when you
began to stop recognizing the
women in this culture as our mothers, our sisters and our peers than
this is a rather large step back for
the future of all of us as Chicano It is of no concern to continue to
people
brood about a significant change,
As a man I would respectively once a change had occurred than
like to challenge all other men on in order for the change to be sucthis campus to see the hurt and the cessful it must be mandated furpain being caused by denying the ther, and further.
In order to bring the society up
members of our own Raza.
a strong urge
ThroughouttheMexi- Throughout the Mexican must be maincan history
history the true victors tained to emthe
the true vic- fighting for the independ- power
women of the
tors fighting
for the inde- ence in our nation were society with
the woman, many times the beleifs
pendence in
our nation even dying in battle along women choose
to have in their
were
the
side their brothers.
own right.
woman,
many times even dying in battle
Then, No longer will ,we, as a
along side their brothers.For our people be regarded as anything
race came out of two distinct and less than,we, want to become, and
proud cultures the Spanish and this is as human beings, with the
the Mestizo.
respect and dignity entitled to all
Bringing a new breed of people continuing to struggle and be ed umuch stronger and more vile than cated ina free system, freeofabuse
ever possible before on this earth. and filled with the love of the true
The Daily Collegian is unfair
By Frank P. Aviles
There is anastyrumor going around
that the Daily Collegian is objective
fair, and accurate in its reporting. As
a staff member of the Collegian I
would like to put this rumor to rest.
I would like to begin with the fallacy that the Collegian is fair and
accurate in its reporting. Apparently,
a student by the name of Chris Glass
doesn't think that the Collegian is fair.
In
in
to th:e!pJt,licMiorrs
Commission he accused the Collegian of censorship. Is this accusation
true?
Let's askTeranceFrazier, an African American, whose letter to the
editor about police harassment on
campus was never published. Maybe
we should ask Susan Arreola, a Native American, whose letter we never
saw which was about a racially insensitive Cartoon and her support for the
anti-Columbus protest Let's talk to
Linda Brown whose letter in support
of affirmative action never surfaced.
What about Lawrence Tovar's, a
Native American, response to the Collegians degradation of Native Americans through cartoons and editorials.
Or maybe Jose E. Lopez, a Chicano,
can tell us what it meant when the Col- .··
legian didn't run the letter he wrote
about Aids in the minority and impoverished communities. Betteryet, why
don't we ask Danny Chacon who finally pulled his editorial about racism
after two weeks of not seeing it in the
paper. Isn't it peculiar that these letters which represent the viewpoints of
people of color have not been published.
Well, now lets discuss the
Collegian's accurate reporting. Does
accurate reporting mean being selective? Interestingly enough, our earthy
journalists have taken it upon themselves this semester to help us decide
that trees are more important than the
genocide of indigenous and African
people. This semester there were two
protests one about redwoods clone in
the form of a concert by Earth First
and the other done by a group of students in protest of Columbus day. Although both received introduction
stories, only the one about the redwoods received a follow up story. I
guess over hundred students at a protest that deals with the genocide of a
race of people isn't important to receive a follow up. The Collegian's
stance on the anti-Columbus protest
was made very clear when they ran a
fkt iletter
cartoon four days later which made a Alfonso Gamino. The letter appeared
joke out of this very serious issue.
unedited with several grammatical
This "objective" newspaper has errors.
also made a joke out the Brown and
Well, anyway let's talk about
Black people on campus with the help something funny now. Have you seen
of Michael Handorf, a Collegian the cartoons lately. They 're almost as
columnist and editor of the a newslet- funny as those minority jokes.
ter called the EDGE. In several of his
There were at least three cartoons
columns Handorf has written degrad- (not counting the Columbus one) that
ing things about people of color. In appeared which stereotyped African
some cases he equated rninor,ities with Americans, Native Americans and
animals and also he infers thatminori- Chicanos.
-ties' '8Jld the poor are ignorant alcoI would like you to open up your
holic baby machines. Not only has Colle2ian to the 9/5 issu.e. Let's look
Handorf used the Collegian to bash at the Black child with the "pickanminorities maybe once or twice a week, inny" hairstyle. Yes, the one with the
but also.to promote his newsletter, the overexaggerated forehead and cheeks.
EDGE, which specifically attacks Chi- Yes, the one standing in front of a run
canos and African Americans. In the down building next to the "Crack for
10/18 issue of the Collegian there is an Sale" sign. I hope after looking at this
advertisement three columns in length cartoon you don't believe that myth
(pg. 3) which reads "Handorf. Wed- that all black people snort coke and
nesdays. He'll take you the EDGE ... " wait in welfare lines.
Now turn to
And a few weeks
the 9/23 issue to
later the EDGE I would like you to open
the cartoon that
appearedintheli- up your Collegian to the
reads "How to
brary and on the
9/5 issue. Let's look at Choose a Sudesks and in mail
preme Court Jusboxes all around the Black chi{d with the
tice." The cartoon
campus. Since "pickaninny" hairstyle.
specifically atHandorf' s raI hope after looking at
tacks Chicanas.
cially insensitive
Well this cartoon
newsletter has this cartoon you don't
infers that in orbeen given P.R. b~lieve that myth that
der to hire a miknowingly or un- all black peopie snort
supreme
knowingly has
coke and wait in welfare nority
court justice, we
anyone been repli"nes.
have to create qualifications cause
rimanded.
The Collegian staff has not only minorities don't have any. Is this an
shown support for Handorf, but they attack on equal representation?
Well, now turn to the 11/6 issue.
have also joined in the minority bashing. For example, on 10/29 Chicanos, Now isn't that a cute picture of an
African Americans, and Native Ameri- "Indian. " with two feathers on his
cans attended a senate meeting in head. Doesn't this cartoon look fawhich they crumpled up resolutions miliar. Yeah, it's like that column that
(written by senator Rose denouncing Handorf did when he equated Native
Pres. Montoya) and threw them on the Americans with animals. Yeah, the
floor. The following day a Column one about the controversy around using
written by the staff appeared in which Native Americans as mascots. This
these actions were referred to as "pa- cartoon shows a stereotypical Native
::hetic" and "real mature" (or rather American selling bumper stickers for
immature). I'm glad they (the staff), $2.50. I wonderif thiscartoonimplies
don't think they're better than people that Native Americans are exploiting
of color. Also, on 11/16 the Collegian the whole situation for they're own
staff wrote an editorial denouncing benefit. Hmmmm.
President Montoya, a Chicano, and
Racist cartoons, censoring Native
Senator Jones, an African American; American issues and minority letters
the verv two oeoole that the EDGE to the editor, attacking people of color
specifically attacks. There have also in editorials, supporting someone who
been instances in which negative is openly racist. What does all this
headlines about Montoya appear in mean?
bold while those in favor of him apDoes this mean that the Collegian
pear in italics. In fact under one of the staff doesn't really like us as much as
italic headlines on 10/31 was a letter they say they do? Is this called rawritten in support of Montoya by cism?
brotherhood of mankind
Please realize the two sororities Lambda Sigma Gamma and
Lambda Theta Nu exist as apart of
the Chicano culture and choosing
not to see them as such is not only
denying them from the race, but
also denying them of the proud
women, we, as men should always
be able to hold up in any damn
society
To all the members of each
sorority may you be strong and
filled with the spirit of VIV A la
RAZA, you make me proud for
the very fact you exist, and all of
you belong among the best.
Viva/a
Raza
and Have
A Happy
Thanksgiving
Holiday from
La Vozde
-A-zt~'~--
Poetry Aztl6n
The Dead
Sothwestern New Mexico
10,000 B.C.-1150 A. D.
I
FIVIII Asia, you crossed a bridge of land,
now called the Bering Strait, now swallowed
1n water. No human steps to follow,
you slowly found your way on pathless groundsuntouched, unseen, untrampled. Your lungs, growing
lik.e grass, lived an~ breathed an air as soft as clouch.
Swimming, drinking, bathing, You, in wombs of water
blue as morning skies. The rain wu clean then.
Travelen lost in tim,i,,walking, chanting,
dancing-tracks on map less earth, no man-made lines,
no borders. Arriving not in ships, with no supplies,
waving no flags, claiming nothing, naming
no piece of dirt for wealthy lords of earth.
You did not come to own; you came to live.
Hunting huge mammoths, you killed toe.at, ·
survive. In time, the mammoth died.
You lived, continued moving-southward.
Days and days of walking, the earth memorizing
your steps-walking, sometimes stopping,
pemaps pausing to pray, to dream, to wonder.
Your eyes saw: buffalo, deer,.b.lnbyour hands leaving portraits on rocka.
Explorers, nomads never settlingephemeral camps your home until your legs gave out
You sat and breathed the air, the arid dust,
planting your feet in the desert.
It rained-and there your roots grew deep.
Ten thousands years. Ten thousand years before resting.
II
From yellow hills, you viewed the growing trees.
Wet grounds, smells of green, you reached for it.
You drank from rivets water, knew what to eat,
knew which seeds to plant You plowed rows
with hands; dug ditches with hands. Things grew.
Gardena. Rows weaving the ground Into rugs-patterns
of Spring. The lines in leaves of com, deep
clay and water, and sun to bake the bricks
li.ke fire baked your bread. You built from mud,
surrounded. And there, your children learned.
Li.ke com, your towns grew taJL Fruitful, you multiplied.
Soon, you were many. Villages speaking your language.
Occupied hands, laborers on the land-hearts
aching for more. Listening to rains, and winds, and wolvesyou told stories. Stories of wandering fathers-spokenyou left no books. But pots. Molded clay, you formed
perfect bowls. Pots to cook, to carry crops, plates
to hold your food. Your hearts ached for more. And then
your artist's eyes taught working hand s to paint
-from Calender of Dust
Benjamin A lite Saenz
La Uoz de Aztlan
Editor, Joe M. Torres
Assistant Editor, Rene Ruelas
Photo editor, Angel de Jesus
Staff Writer, Manny Fernandez
Special thanks to goes to The Daily
Collegianstaff for their help and support
La Vaz de Aztldn is published monthly by the Assoicated Students Inc.
of CSU, Fresno. The newspaper office is located in the Keats campus
building, Fresno, Ca 93740-0042. The opinions in La Vaz are not
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are the majority opinion of the editorial staff.