La Voz de Aztlan, May 7 1992
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Title
La Voz de Aztlan, May 7 1992
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Associated Students of Fresno State
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La Voz de Aztlan (Daily Collegian, California State University, Fresno)
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Fresno, California
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5/7/1992
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California State University, Fresno
VolumeXXIV
Issue No. 3
LaVoz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
Thursday
Columbus:
mythical
hite god
trashed ·
Juan R. Avita
Staff writer
On Friday, May 1 in the Free
Speech Area, MEChA kickeq off
its Annual Semana de La Raza
activities. Every year for more
than a decade, events signifying
the Chicano-Mexicano culture
take placed uring the first week of
May. The event, sponsored by
CSU, Fresno and MEChA, has
always aimed its goal at educating Raza of all colors as to what
Chicano-Mexicanos are all ,a bout.
One such event dealing directly
with our history and promoted by
MEChA and other indigenous
groups throughout the world is
the 500 Years of Resistance and Af-
firmation.
500 Years of Resistance and Affirmation is a cultural, historical,
and political stance that many
Native people throughout the
world are celebrating. It is also a
protest to the highly publicized,
commercialized, and glamourized
"500 Years of the Discoveries of
the Americas." An event that is
also a celebration of the beginning
of genocide for Native Americans
and a slap on the face of people of
all colors- brown, red, black and
yellow, because the Europeans
who came with one simple task
(gold and slaves) had made our
lives hell ever since.
·
Guadalupe Acosta, a member
of the Partido de La Gente (Party
of the People), spoke to a small
but interested crowd in the Free
Speech Area on Friday, May 1.
"He (Columbus) came and
made the people go out and find
gold. If the people returned with
their hands empty they had their
hands chopped off," said Acosta.
Acosta's message was one directed mainly at Raza bttt it was
also one pertaining to Africans,
Asians, and Anglos. The message
was that we should not celebrate
500 Years of the Discoveries of the
Americas, as the racists scholars
and corporations want us too, but
see COLUMBUS page 8
Photo by Angel de Jesus
La Sef!lana·celebrates pride, heritage
' Claudia Solis
Contributing writer
the Battle of Puebla. On that
date, in 1862, the betterequiped and trained French
Poetry, speakers, music
army was defeated in their
and dancing! These are just a
first attempt to invade Mexico.
few activities taking place on
Hispanics celebrate this day in
campus this week.
honor of the undying spirit of
The reason: La Semana.
the Mexican people. .
La Semana is a celebration
The real Mexican Indein recognition of Cinco de
pendence Day is September
Mayo (May 5.) Although
16. Professor Ernesto Martisome people may think that
nez of the Chicano Latin
Cinco de Mayo is Mexican
American Studies Department
Independence Day, it ,actually
says the :'latter.is .more signifimatks the Mexican l/ittdrjtih•:·:·.·~ t:Q~qi}l~Mexico freed
itself from Spain after bun-
dreds of years; however,
people have a tendency to
celebrate in May."
Martinez was the advisor
for La Semana in the early
70's. He says, '1t is a time to
recognize not only Mexico,
but the Chicano culture as
well_." La Semana was
created as a subcommittee of
MEChA. It has been a CSUF
tradition for over two decades.
The program was initiated
at CSU, Fresno by members of
MEChA along with help from
the faculty of the Chicano and
Latin American Studies Department. One of the department professors, Dr. Lea
Ybarra, also served as an
advisor in the past. She
helped with the planning of
the celebration for 15 years.
She says the speakers and
activities are a "means of
cultural outgrowth and
political awareness. It came
about in the .60s and 70s ...
the time of the Chicano
Movement. People needed a
celebration to ymbolize pride
in their heritage."
This year's festivities were
planned by Dr. Huisaro
Garza, advisor, and Manuel
Ramirez; the Chairperson for
La Semana, says about this
year's celebration, "We hope
to educate people... make
them aware. Our history is
very rich and we have to
remember that."
.
·-
Please see page 7 for
Semana de La Raza
~lvitles
La Voz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
'iJage 2
,
Sorority seeks change
and not selling out culture
Dear Editor:
I am writing this letter in response to
ashort article that was written in the
versity isn't she accepting a system that
has oppressed people of color in the
past!!!? Isn't she glc:.ci her ancestors
fought to make a change in the system? I
AM!! Can't she see what we're trying to
do is make a change!!? We're not turning
our backs on our culture!!
Another question I have is that of
Lamda Theta Nu. I have·nothing against
this organization, as a matter of fact, I am
very proud of this sorority to take a stand
in what they believe in. Lamda Theta Nu
is a "Latina Sorority'' that is dedicated to
improving the well being of La Raza
community, and that is wonderful!! My
question is to Christina. As I stated
before, she wrote in her article that "if
Chicanos take on Greek letters, they are
accepting a system that has oppressed
people of color." Isn't the "Lamda Theta
Nu" Greek letters or is this my imagination? It seems as if she praises this sorority, but then turns around and states, to
wear Greek letters is offensive. Doesn't
this seem as if she is .contradicting herself?
I am very proud to be a MexicanAmerican women involved in an organization that is striving for positive
purposes of existence. Although, I have
to say that I am very ashamed that there
are students on my campus who do not
take the time to learn about different
. organizations. I believe everything
Lamda Sigma Gamma tries to accomplish
is based on good intentions and I am offended by articles such as hers, that do
not appreciate the_beneficial events that
occur within our sorority. I do not have a
doubt in my mind, th~t my sorority sisters
also acknowledge that we have a rich
culture and a proud history. I will never
forget how past ·gener~tions have ·
struggled to keep their-identity alive, but
also have struggled for: MAl~JNG A
CHANGE while·others have tried so
hard to avoid this reality.
MEChA Newsletter (Vol. I No. III) by
Christina Salcedo. Before I begin, I
would like to make it clear that what I am
.about to express is my own personal
feelings. I am speaking as an individual
.and I am not representing Lamda Sigma
.Gamma Sorority.
First of all, let me begin by letting .
·you know that I was very offended by
Christina Salcedo' s article. Even though
she did not directly state the sisters of
.Lamda Sigma Gamma were the Chicanas
who "turned their backs on their cul~re," I felt as if that is what she was
insinuating.
If this is what she believes, then I
honestly think she needs to take the time
to gain more informatiol'\ about our
organization before she begins writing
such offensive articles. I strongly feel
that it is unfair for her to judge others
before completely gathering all the facts
necessary to write an article.
Lamda Sigma Gamma was established to eliminate segregation. Our or-_
ganiz.ation is not a "Chicana Sorority''
but this definitely does not mean the _
-- - ··•. ·-- . . -- ·- members of our organization are not
proud of their ancestral contributions.
Our organization is a diverse sorority in
which we welcome any member of any
race. We do not want to limit ourselves
to improving the well being of only one
community.
-~-=---:.----~·
- ------- Does she really believe that since an
organization has different purposes of
existence that those members have
turned their backs on their culture? She
states, "what Chicanos must understand
is by taking on Greek letters, they are ·
· accepting a system that ·has oppress¢
people of color for centuri~s.." Wel( if
she
is knowledgeabl_e on the history of
Teresa Navarro
ag~n! We can't let this go as easily as we
opp~ssed
people, .I would l~ke her ~
Editor
diq the tutition fee increase. Did yo_u hear
m~!? WE CAN'T LET THIS GO! Late!y; in answer this for me; Were p~ple ofcolor
. always accepted into unive~ities? Were
Please·s·ee page 4'i for
th~_media there has been alot of focus on
we not oppressed in that
were upable
more opinions, viewpoints
We all had to take a cl~s in ECO- th_~ aftermath of the King verdict. Although
to attend college? Well, if ~~r viewpoint
NOMICS this year. Anoth~~:capitali~tic it i$ an important issue to discuss, it is not :
and letter to
the editor.
is correct, then tell me whv.~he is
i
word for POLITICS. Simply d~fined; Poor th~ main issue. The n;ain issue is King's .
attending a university,,' ~ttending a w1iunjust, outrageous, and sickening verdict. /
people are screwed.from behin_tl again.
.%
First, the Student Tax they casuapy . Everybody knows that-this type of brutal- .
called a Tutition Fee Raise was thrust upon ity"c--h as been happ~nirig for a long time. :
us. While the administration c;rawled on People of color are continually being h,ar-·;
it's ass so we wouldn't know· their shi~ rassed by the ju~iidal syst_em,. A system stinks!! . Well, the smell was definitely no- that is outdated. Th~it abusiv~ pehavior
·ticeable. Especially when SOil_le adminis- has become so overt that tl\ey had the au-'
·Teresa Navarro
Editor:
trators blantantly insisted th~t students dacity to stand _in front of the American
Assistant Editor: Maria Machuca
· should pay·more_to "maintain quality edu- people and mock our. fa1th in this justice
cation" (a.k.a. so~heycould keep their jobs). system. There is No Justice for People of
Photo Editor:
_A ngel de Jesus
Students could also maintain quality edu- Color in AmeriKKKa. It is a game and we
Production Editor: Yu Ting Huang
.
·
cation by demanding that these adminis- are the pc1 \rn, carelessly discarded.
Juan R. Avita, Eduardo t.
Staff writers:
This 1~ only the beginninnr :o the end
trators have M.A.'s, Ph.D.'s, a~d other
QUALITY Degrees, of which, some admin- of the equal_rights that 0ur brorhers and
Perez, Renee Ruelas
·sisters in the past struggled a ,d fought to
istrators are desparately lacking.
Of co~rse, the most recent and contro- attain for us and our children. It is our reLa Voz de Aztlan is published by the Associated Students, Inc. of California State
versial Economic disaster is the RD<:1ney sponsibility as educated people to organize
University, Fresno. 1be newspaper office is located in the Keats Campus Building,
King beating. We saw thi~ Capitalistic ourselves and utilizethepowerwelet slumFresno, CA 93740.0042. The opinions published in this paper are not necessarily of the
system for what it is, what it has been, and ber while the monster devours Our FreeAssociated Studen_t~-;-~~' ~e ~I~ C?llegia, ~~ L~ V~z ~~, ~~t~~n.
. 'with a ·FIGHT - ,what it will never be ~~
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fr.
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Simp_ly defined: Poo~ people are
screwed ,,om behind again
so
we.
By
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La Voz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
page 3
Poetry Aztlin
What's All This Identity Crisis?
CHALE HISPANIC
-Eduardo T. Perez
-Albelardo De Leon, Jr.
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be a mojado, an illegal, an alien,
. an undocumented, a Mexican jumping
bean, a wet back,
Hispanic no soy;
A palabra used by the
Gavacho to con us into believing
His
Melting
Pot
MI PUEBLO
-Rllfael Franco-Cuevas
XII-02-83
UC Irvine
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be a cholo, a zuit suitor,
a greaser, a spic, a·pachuco, a homey,
Lle.
No es nada mas que
A conglomoration of
Spanish speaking people
So as not to deal
With them on
An
Individual
Mi pueblo
de lento caminar
en esa jomada en busca de salida;
siempre tras los mismos pasos,
con un pie amarrado a la historia.
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be a Mexican, an American,
a Mexican-Ameri6tn, a Chicano,
a Latino, a Oticano-Latino,
Antes
coamiles de milpa
baldes de elotes
bateas de tamales y calabazas
ollas de atole, menudo y pozole,
terreros de mazorcas en chapiles ....... uur.1,..,
costales de f rijoles
platos de mole, pipian, ejotes, nopales;
y el le6n por detras.
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be all these for my Raza,
But never a HUMAN!
Basis.
Pos sabes que White Man
Con migo to chingaste
Para mi your labels
No
Son
Illegal Aliens
-Teresa Na'Dtlrro
You come acroos the border
and take what is not yours.
You are lazy,
and you are thieves.
You don't know the language
You don't even try to learn.
Go back where you came from .
You illegal "Aliens"
and take back what
you came with
diseases, war, and poverty
You "illegal Aliens"
Nada!
N uestra historia is
Longer and more
Glorious than you
Could ever imagine
Soy
Todo
Un
Indio!!
AndirejectyourcursedEuropeanblood.
My name is an
Assertion of the uniqueness
Of my People and an
Acknowledgement of
Self-determination and pride!
So chale
With your
Pinche
Hispanic
Yosoypuro
.,
r
~~--·_:'_
Long Over Due:
A Standing Ovation For My Chicana
-Eduardo Perez
Screaming u11der represented concerns
on the pyramid podium,
addressing La Ra za's mensaje
"United we will stand ..." while
cholitos swing on her arms,
That's my Mechista lady
leading the revolution,
~15
[9
(,
Her red nails of angered
volcanos like cutting knives when
throwing chingasos, to save her
~1~
.,,
CHICANO!!
c/s
hombre from wild predators,
That's my Aztec Warrior
protecting her property,
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1.,..-"/iLI.;_
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,! ~
,
(~.r!~
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Her soft face of rose petals
.·
blooming nocturnal days while
-,
punching madly the blob
.
.
Adolecencia
of white arine,
That's my Chicana artist
~
~
~.
creating tortilla saucers
to feed my intestines,
.
-Teresa Judith Corona
Too often I am lost in the drunken man's
dance on the road full of sober critics,
she blankets my hangover with her
Edad de sentimientos inexplicables.
De confusion y desesperacion.
De anhelar el descubrin1iento del verdadero amor.
Confundiendolo en ocasiones con-pasiones pasajeras y destructivas.
wings of resurrection,
That's my Chicana angel
saving my dignity,
De sentir que el mundo es nuestro,
sin reconocer que somos solo criaturas amantes del desafio.
My mujer taking care of little
Edad el la cual anoramos despertar al hombre o a la mujer dormidos
en nuestras almas. Sin siquiera previa preparacion.
Johny, the pad, the grub three times
a day, plus holding a jale at the
cannery assembly line,
Edad de ilusiones y desiluciones.
I sentenced her to housework because it's
Anciosos por fl.ores y frases de amor a veces vacias, que pretenden
llevamos a la perdicion de nuestros seres.
Edad en la cual deseamos
·sentir lo que no sentimos, pero .
. .••.. , , , . , , ,
~ ? s loq_u~ n~ ?e~os.~tjr. •,·•• ·• ♦.·.·. · ;;
:/ :,·:; •
• • •- . • . •
an obligation created by my culture's ignorance,
Ashamed, I hid thank you words behind
my pride to a woman deserving the world
for taking care of her blind man.
Tardes
llenas de cuen tos y rosaries
con sabor a abuelos, tios, primos, sobrinos,
al calor de la hoguera,
despues de acomodar los relinchos y bramidos en potreros.
Mediodefas
entre las patas de los caballos y en las Haves de los taros
entre peleas de gallos y estruendos de mariachis
entre tequila y tranchete en mano;
y el le6n por detras.
Mananas
repletas de azadones, hachas, martillos, rosaderas,
machetes desenfundando, de bueyes jalando el arado,
de coas sembrando esperanzas,
de manos palpando la flor d e la tierra.
Noches
de serenata a la luna,
a esa inmensidad de cielo:
veta de brillantes:
espejo de la tierra
y el le6n por detras
dando zarpazos a su presa en medio de rugidos sordos,
moviendo la cola como el latigo del capataz.
Hoy
trozos de gritos estampados en banderas
que encarcelan campos de injusticia,
invitaciones a sespertar de esa larga pesadilla:
"!Herrnano, yo soy Joaquin como tu! !Unete!
!Somos tu sangrd !E:sta ~ lu ra~a! !Somo:, lu lucha!
!Hermano, larga el yugo que te ata a tu desgracia;
vuelve a can tar con nosotros tus canciones!"
Y se invaden las entradas de tonos conocidos,
mil veces escuchados.
Grandes hileras de carros destartalados
ahogando en circulo los campos de riego y poda,
cemiendo la tierra de uvas, de duraznos, verduras
de aceitunas, nueces, de manzanas ...
Pueblo con olor a travajos forzados,
a cosechas ajenas;
con todos los nombres de santos;
caras de corridos nunca escuchados
mas siempre repetidos.
Esa serenidad,
marea de furia interna,
espanto de patrones medievales;
La Voz de Aztlan
.
Chicanos who study literature
Convocation recOnciles differences
Eduardo T. Perez
Staff writer
,
gation!, No more betrayal, No
more, No more, No more .... !
Remember that we came from
different parts of the world, have
variety shades of brown in our
skin, and practice different belief's.
It is this type of diversity by our
own people that makes us unique.
Expand in areas seldom sought
by Raza individuals and reach
back to pull us up to where you
now stand.
Allofyoucarryashapeofthe
picture that we as one "Raza" have
been unable to puzzle together.
The only thing left to do is extend
our hand to each other so that
united we can draw the picture
perfect community. In all, "Peace
for our diverse people living
within one collective group."
MEChA Newsletter focuses on education,
raising cultural awareness in community
Irma Serrano
Contributing writer
Why a MEChA Newsletter?
Mensajeros Estudientiles was created as an alternative medium to voice the political opinions of
the Chicano Community. Educating the student
population about community responsibility and
cultural awareness will be the main focus of the
newsletter.
The rich history of MEChA and how it has
struggled ·to empower our people for over twentythree years will be included, in orde,r to dispel a
· numbet of ~tive myths about.our oraanization.
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handed down to us from above
came interested in English as a
through the collective speaking
of women's experience, from the subject by reading Omar Salinas; that with the reality of the
streets, where we are impoverand when a Chicano learns
perspective of that experience"
ished and treated often like
about the canons, they immediChicano Literary theory, if
there is one, would want to
ately bring them into question. If animals. Chicanos can relate to
the anger African Americans felt
some Chicanos could, they
pursue the goals of the Chicano
about the Rodney King beating.
movement, just like feminist the- would restructure the canons,
It happens to us too.
believing that the present ones
ory is formed on the values and
It's okay to be a scholar, but it
are not representative of the
interests of the women's moveis not okay to become another
ment. Therefore, one would
entire American experience:
mainstream scholar distinthere is a lot more to consider
presume that Chicano theory
guished from the others only by
should express the values and
. than white writers with a few
the surname. We must develop
interests of the Chicano Movetoken black writers thrown in
our own theories and analyze
ment, where the term Chicano
here and there when considerliterature in our own way. We
was defined. What is great
ing English as a subject.
literature? Who says? How then
must question the greatness of
With the so-called death of
all writers heretofore considered
as a scholar committed to the
Marxism, many Chicano radigreat, and we must read and
Chicano movement, shall one
cals are finding their commitapproach the institution of Great ment in scholarship. It is impor- study Chicano writers.
We must be willing to
tant that we do not, no matter
Literature, specifically great
proclaim, if necessary, "Fuck
English Literature, that is,
how much we may learn the
Shakespeare," and study our
literature written in the English
language, become scholars conown great writers.
language? What of the canons?
cerned more with theories
Would they stay as they are?
Many Chicanos entering the
field of English, this one
The CSUF Chicano Alumni Association will host the
included, are appalled to learn
16th Annual CSUF Chicano Commencement Celebraof their lack of representation in
tion off campus for the first time in 13 years. The last
literature, even though they be-
deconstructionist. By choosing to
continue commenting on
Shakespeare, she shows some of
her earlier reverence for him.
There are differences in ideBut as feminist criticism became
ologies, and thus methodologies more significant in English dein approaching literature, but all partments, it was not placated
critics seem to agree on one
by analyzing all males, and
thing: the literature they study,
there was a conscious effort to
that which is taught in English
include more women in the
deP2,rtments, is important to
canons. Professor Jean Pickerstu~, and perhaps it wouldn't
ing of the CSUF English departbe too far off to say, is Literament tells me of a group of
ture, that is, is Great. A feminist feminist critics in English dedeconstructionist might point at
partments from all over Great
the contradictions in gender
Britain and;the U.S. who fought
roles from a Shakespeare play,
to include Doris Lessing in the
and expose the contradictions in canons, because she was a femimale-dominated society, but she · nist writer, and a good one.
was most likely drawn to
A feminist critic writes, "ConShakespeare from a love of Litsciousness raising is the major
erature, a love which allowed
technique of analysis, structure
her to indulge in the sweat
of organization, method of
words of the Great Bard. It was
practice, and theory of social
only after she became an English change of the women's movemajor and was, in essence,
ment. In consciousness raising,
forced to "take a side" by the
often in groups, the impact of
way she wrote about literature
male dominance is concretly
that she evolved into a feminist
uncovered and analyzed
Daniel Chacon
Contributing writer
facultyholdingdistinctideologies,
representatives of diverseorganizations, and absent students i r •
all
corners of the campus world
Hola Raza!
were
equally present in one
The Chicano- ~tino Convocation held on April 25 of this small room. In working together,
year, addressed existing issues they were able to create a reprethat have threaten La Raza sented agenda which will funcMovimiento and unity. For the tion as a microphone where all
first time there has been an effort concerns can be properly adto identify, explain, and solve. dressed. We can only speculate
those irritable differences that on the perceivable outcomes.
Yet, as a result of the convothreaten to separate our people.
The convocation was facili- cation, one matter was frequently
tated by respected faculty and agreed by all participants. I will
students. The main issue floating try to mimic the togetherness
in an emotional atmosphere was which occurred and hope that it
the distinct labeling, ·segregation agrees with you. No mure ruof each other, and invalid circula- mors!, No more back stabbing!,
tion of "chismes." Students and No more dictations!, No more
pointing fingers!, No more segre-
page 4
May 7, 1992
MEChA hopes to outreach to those students who are
unable to get involved regularly but align themselves with the politica of the community. Every
publication will focus on pertinent issues affecting
our community so that students may become a ware
and actively respond.
MEChA circulates approximately 200-300 issues during each publication, but intends to increase
for the fall of 1992 semester because of the rise in
demand. The newsletter contains an editorial, creative section, announcements, and a current event
section. MEChA will expand to include open letters
from community leaders, calendar events for Chicano Organ~tions, and a high school student section.
time it was held off-campus was at the Fresno Fairgrounds' old Paul Paul Theater. Since then, the CSUF
amphitheater has been the annual sight for the event.
This year, it joins the University Master's Hooding and
BA/BS commencement at the Fresno Convention
Center's Exhibit Hall.
The ceremony will begin at 6:00 p.m. and to be followed by a reception at Adrian's Restaurant located on
P Street at Inyo, directly east of the Exhibit Hall.
Mariachi closes the ceremony with "De Colores" and
continues to entertain at-the reception.
Dear Editor: LSG iind .MEChA.
:_s hould.st<lPfightingi;,lready! .
rev~gefui ;utd <unjust. Just
.-because Mexican-Americans
I am sick of the <:hildish
th.e _~me rights as White
games going on between Lamda . Amer~cans/ does not mean they
._Sigma Gamma and MEChA. The arE?Jessthan you or your organi.first thing I heard this semester -:-.~t~on. :.w eareallapartoftheLa
was ~hat ._Lamda Sunga Gamma ·Raza's·-1:#ty in promoting our
diq notr~pectMEC:hA.'s.~ uest . :culti:fre) Whetherorte is the hand
that-letters sho:uJd not be:w.tjrn- ·: )wd :th~ ·<>th~r:<
a:·foot, both. are
toMEChA'sannualeducational . n,eededf ,: ·
event, :c_
.Y~C. Lamd.a Sigma·-·
kt's/frY :to. work together
'Gamma /was ·a n)nvited gu~s~:
.pu:t . these childish :games
GET JT,· L.a.)rida, ·sigma·c;a,rpµi~ .l>~limd us (while ·t he ~ite man
Dear Editor(
.e~joy
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l!iil~!~': iil~~~!5
r~pect. _.·
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:-:MEChA :made tnJheir newslet- _.: : ~iganiza.riqns and the ~ontributet -:you·know, lou~ly -saying· · #911s they::Care :making .for la
·~mda Sigina_::Gamm,?s name· -·: -~ ---~espect La Razaand stop
._without a~ually spelling it out . Jighting·a~ongst:~itnelves.
Please; _JveJ<now exactly what
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you were · insinuating. Your ·-A ron~emed·Chicano :·
passive a~~ye .attack was
La Voz de Aztlcln
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Division entre Los
Hispanos durante
las elecciones
Marla Machuca
Assistant editor
Nuevamente, llega a nosotros una
pregunta que nos hace meditar en nuestra
posici6n como hispanos y residentes de
Esta dos Unidos, y no sabemos si realmente
estamos uniendo nuestras fuerzas en bene- ·
ficio de una mejor distribuci6n de justicia y
oportunidades, o es que solo estamos luchando unos contra otros.
En una encuesta realizada el dia 9 de
abril, se les pregunt6 a varios estudiantes
hispanos su opinion sobre las elecciones.
Los candidatos del nuevo partido poli'tico
Kaleidoscope, Marci Demings y Tovar.
Ortega y Tovar son dos candidatos
hispanos, los cuales tuvieron una intensa
campafia durante las elecciones.
Los hispanos representan cerca del 20
porciento en este plantel educativo, siendo
el grupo minoritario mas grande en la
universidad. En algunos afios mas quizas
sea el grupo etnico mas grande, y por esta
raz6n es muy importante tener representaci6n hispana en ASL
Es verdaderamente una lastima que
ninguno de los dos candidatos hispanos
para presidente hayan podido ganar en las
elecciones. Todos los hispanos esperaban
ansiosamente repetir el triunfo del af\o
anterior, en el cual Andres Montoya resultara elegido como presidente de ASL Sin
embargo muchos estudiantes piensan que
los hispanos seencontraban divididos entre
si.
Cuando se les preguntaba a los estudiantes acerca de su preferencia en las
elecciones, pocos de ellos sabian quienes
eran los candidatos representando las diferentes posiciones. Muchos de ellos, especialmente estudiantes de nuevo ingreso, ni
siquiera sabian que se estaban llevando a
cabo las elecciones. "Me hubiera gustado
tener mas informaci6n acerca de los candidatos, la mayoria estabamos confundidos
porlosdiferentescomentariosquesededan
de Tovar y Ortega", estos y muchos otros
comentarios similares eran la respuesta de
los estudiantes de nuevo ingreso.
Para los estudiantes que se encuentran
mas familiarizados con lo que sucede en la
universidad, su punto de vista era mucho
mas preciso. "Yo soy de origen hispano y
porlotantosiempreapoyarealoshispanos;
sin embargo creo que deverian estar mas
concientes y prepararse mejor para la posici6n en la cual estan postulandose como
M9y 7, 1992
page 5
••• w\-llLE \,N.,o.._LKING- TH-R,Ou&H T~E
050!\·
PATH~
OMAN
see ELECCIONES page 8
Gonzalez named CSUF 2nd-in-charge
• Provost and Academic A.ffairs Vice President is
highest ranking Latino in CSUF
Renee Ruelas
Staff writer
Exactly eight months after
being appointed acting vice
president of academic affairs,
Alex Gonzalez is officially the
Provost and Vice Pesident of
Academic aAfairs.
After an international
search of nearly 100 candidates, conducted by the
University Search Committee,
Gonzalez was one of four finalists.
John D. Welty, president
of CSUF, made the announcement to faculty and staff
through a memorandum.
"Gonzalez has done an
exemplary job as acting vice
president for Academic Affairs," Welty added, " I am
looking forward to having
him serve in the newly designated position as PVPAA."
The new position and title
makes Gonzalez the person in
charge of the University in the
absence of the president.
Gonzalez was appointed
the acting vice president, last
summer, after the resignation
of Judith Kuipers to become
chancellor to the University of
Wisconsin at La Crosse.
The position makes
Gonzalez the highest ranking
Latino in CSUF.
"We're excited," said Bill
Flores, "It's a tremendous opportunity for Alex and the entire campus."
Gonzalez has a number of
academic degrees from UC
Santa Cruz and Pomona College. He also attended Harard Law School and was post
doctoral fellow at Stanford
University.
Since 1979 when Gonzalez
arrived as an associate professor of La Raza studies, he has
held several leadership positions on the CSUF.
Two years later Gonzalez
became associate professor of
psychology. He also held the
position of chairman and professor of the Department of
Psychology.
In 1990, Gonzalez was
awarded the Outstanding Psychologist regognition by the
San Joaquin Valley Psychological Association.
Gonzalez has received numerous grants, awards and
fellowships such as the NIE/
National Council of La Raza
Reasearch Fellowship.
He also received the
Meritorious Performance and
Professional Promise Award
atCSUF.
He has also served on the
Academic Senate as a member '
of the Executive Committee. ·
Gonzalez has also been in- i
volved as a member of Task
Force on Racism, Sexism and
Homophobia, and the Athletics Appeals Panel.
Gonzalez is a member of
the Board of Directors of the
San Joaquin College of Law
and Advisory Board of the
National Hispanic Scholarship
Fund.
Dr. Alex Gonzalez
Th~ list of Gonzalez' accomp_li'shments, awards, memcame to campus and the anbership in groups and public
nouncement made public
service is extensive.
"Gonzalez has a lengthy and duringg Spring Break (April
distinguished record of service 13 through 17) after the four
to the university and the com- candidates had been interviewed.
munity," said Welty.
The position of PVPAA was
The interviews were -con• •
made
effective imnwdiately.
ducted when the finalists
La Voz de Aztlan
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May'7, 1992
page 6
Banquet recognizes achievements of many
students for their academic achievements at
the University.
The keynote speaker was Manuel A.
Rosales, president of the California State
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. In his
speech, he urges Hispanics to become in, volved and participate in their local commu.. .,_...__......., nities. His speech addressed issues of empowering the Hispanic rommunity through
the means of involvement.
"To act is critical," said Rosales. ''Hispanics are the fastest growing market segment for all consumer goods. The purchasing
power of Hispanics in the year 2000 will be
$477 billion."
Manuel Rosales said the middle class of
the Hispanic community must also become
involved and educate others.
The involvement of Hispanics on committees and in the political arena is also crul cial to establish the presence of Hispanics
Photo by Angel de Jesus within the community.
HBSA Banquet, the event held at Tomlno'• R•taurant, attracted more than 200 guests.
"We must also get involved and use the
voting rights and the power of the ballot to
Student Awards Banquet held atTomino's in
Rita Magdaleno
Fresno, on April 11, 1992. The gala event was implement change," Rosales said. "We have
Contributing writer
coordinated by the Hispanic Business Stu- the numbers. We have got to get people
registered to vote."
dents Association of CSUF. The purpose of
Rosales said that the two primary factors
Education: A Promising Outlook for this-annual event was to recognize Hispanic
Excellence was the theme for the 14th Annual
Organizations help increase
minorities in health professions
Calendario
Eduardo T. Perez
Staff writer
dents' achievement and motivation, the 5th
Annual Scholarship and Awards Banquet
was held on May 1, 19'J2.
The keynote speaker, Dr. Raymond
The numer of Chicanos going into the
health sciences is moderately increasing. Rodriguez, professor of genetics at UC
The Science Career Opportunity Program Davis, said that one of the reasons why
(SCOP), along with Chicano Health Or- minorities tend not to establish their caganization (CHO) and Charles R. Drew reers in the health science field is that they
Society, collaborated in bringing about the "qet the message that science is not for
5th Annual Scholarship and Awards Ban- them."
The scholarship and awards banquet
quet on May 1, 19'J2.
is
a
symbolic
message that the field of health
SCOP's uniqueness stems from the
support it provides for minority students is suitable for any individual with an interwho have been accepted into health profes- est. Attesting to the increasing participation of minorities in the health profession
sional careers.
For the academic years of 1991-1992, were 24 awards receipients.
The recipients, representing a wide
SCOP enrolled over 200 students in its
program. CHO was established as an in- spectrum of ethnicity, are April Amey, Rosecentive program for Chicano and Chicana mary Bernal, Phillip Castellano, Teresa
students entering the health field. CHO Judith Corona, Tarea Courington, Chang
focuses on nurturing community aware- Lee, Rithy Lim, Mary Lopes, Lea Lour,
ness through sponsoring health-related Robert Madrigal, Michelle McClare, Sergio
Mazon, Larry Montano, Martha Moran,
projects.
Lisa
Moreno, Pheakdey Norng, Andrea
The Charles R. Drew Society is a program for encouraging young black college Torres-Perez, Liliana Quintero, Manual
students into the health field. The Society Ramirez, Lilia Rodriguez, Antonio Rubio,
influences support groups for ensuring the La Mont Perry, Leslie Taylor, and Demetra
Vincent-Walker.
students' academic success.
La Voz congratulates these students
These three programs successfully
network and make the out-of-reach health and the success of the 5th Annual Awards
profession easily accessible to under-rep- Banquet in continuing to support CSUF
resented students. To acknowledge stu- students.
What is going on!? Why haven't you submitted an application for La
Voz Editor!? Don't you know that the written language is very powerful? Professors, encourage your students to use their voice; C]SA,
now's your chance to gain experience. Seniors and juniors, be examples to our freshman and sophomore brothers and sisters. They are
looking to you for diredion. It doesn't matter what year in school you
are or your major - only that you are interested and committed.
Apply Today!
that would determine the future of Hispanics
are participation and involvement.
The mistress of ceremonies was Dr. Luz
Gonzales, associate professor of the ChicanoLatino Studies Department: She was given an
award ofappreciation for her support and assisting in the success of the awards banquet.
The HBSA awarded the following students: Juventina Gutierrez, Esmeralda Salinas, and Jose Marquez with scholarships. The
HBSA ''Member of the Year'' award went to
Aleida Magdaleno for her c;ontinuous dedication to the organization. The HBSA Alumni and Friends Association was formed this academic year in order
to provide assistance for Hispanic students.
This year they awarded scholarsips to Norma
Pinedo and Jose Virrueta.
Recognition forcomittment and support
was also given to the HBSA executive board:
Jose Marquez, vice president; Nonna Pinedo,
administrative assistant; and Rene Castro, financ.ial administrator; Rita Magdaleno, Annual Awards Banquet chair.
Jesus Ceja recieved an award for his
special assistance in the awards banquet.
Awards of Appreciation wenttoHBSAadvisors Yolanda Luna and Victor Olivares.
C.W.A.A. (Chicano Writers-Artist Association)
Meeting on May 7 6:30 p.m. in CU #311
Chicano Commencement Committee
* Meeting every Thursday at 5:00 p.m. in Joyal Admin. #203
* Have you ordered your invitations yet? Pick them up at the
University Outreach Office.
* Have you bought your cap and gown? Pick them up at the
Kennel Book Store.
i
Chicano Commencement CeJ~pration
*May23
* Entertainment: Los Danzantes de Aztlan, 5:45 to 6:15 p.m.
* Ceremony, 6:15 to 8 p.m.
* Reception: Adrian's Restaurant, 8:15 to 10 p.m.
Deadline: Application for SECRETARY I
* May 8 Friday
* The University of California, Santa Cruz, Early Academic
Outreach Program Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) has
a current opening for a Secretary I position.
* Starting salary 1570/month
* Call (209) 445-5163 or (408) 459-2011
Deadline: Minority Graduate Fellowship Applications
*May15
* Applications can be picked up at the Graduate Office in the
Thomas Administration building.
Fourth Annual Latin Jazz Festival
*May24
. * Featuring: Poncho Sanchez
* $2.00 admission for non-members
* Located at Ratcliff Stadium a non-alcoholic event
APPLICATIONS FOR LA VOZ POSITIONS ARE STILL BEING
ACCEPTED!!
La Voz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
page 7
Semana de la Raza
I
-May 1, 1992 Friday
Week of Activities
11:00 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
.
Noon (The Pit)
:
I
Speaker, Jose Luis Acosta
"500 Years Of Oppression" and ''Peace and Dignity Runs"
Chicano Secret Service
.Chicano Comedy Group
:
May 4, 1992 Monday
10:00 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
11:00a.m.
Noon
12:30 p.m. (Free Speech Area)
,Opening Day Ceremony
Parade
Speaker, Dr. Hisauro Garza
"Cinco De Mayo and the Chicano Movement"
La Estudiantina Zumarraga de Mexico Qty
"An instrumental and Vocal Group from Mexico City."
May 5, 1992 Tuesday
11:30 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
Danz.antes de Aztlan
Cinco De Mayo
12:00 noon (The Pit)
Chicano Talent Show
Hombase Aztlan, Teatro Aztlan - Hollywood,
Touch of Bro~ Magic, Teatro Tortilla
May 6, 1992 Wednesday
May 7, 1992 Thursday .
Children's Day/Community Night
May 8, 1992 Friday
.
11:00 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
La Estudiantina Zumanga
Noon (Upstairs Cafeteria #200-202) Panel; "Redistricting"
Speakers, Enrique Reyes and Linda Morales
.
. ''
8:00 a.m.
Children's performances
Noon
Pinatas (spon~red by Mex-Tech students and C.L.A.S.E.
8:00 p.m. (Satellite Student Union) Teatro Aztlan - Hollywood
Speakers/Poetry, Juan Felipe Herrera, Margarita Robles & CW.A.A.
11:00 a.m.
Noon
Tardeada (food booths/
entertainment) Grassy area in front 12:30 p.m.
8:00p.m:
o·f Satelite College Union
.\
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Mariachi
Los Ninos de Aztlan
Clovis High School Marimba Band
CINCO DE MAYO DANCE ·-
Kathy Ni~to . ~- -- .
Liberal studi~1senior
;'No. Some ·p~ple; took advantage of "th~ situation.
They used it to~irob and do
things that wer~ not appropriate. I believ~the officers
should be ·groiSecuted.
However, the ~laces I see
being destroyed are not the
upper-classbut~hepoor. The
violence was directed at the
wrong people.\ I ~hink the
violence shoul«i have been
towards the upper<lass."
AnJres M Jntoya
History, senior
Julio -Cesear j..eal
E~gUsh, graduate student
Social work, -Seltior
::)
· "Violenq~ is never justified.
However, wedo need to look
into ·why _the violence occurred. Seek a medium so
violence cari be prevented.
This thing with beatings has
·been going on for a longtime
in L.A and·-i t will continue
tb happen if people in power..
continuetope exclusionary.''
"That is a hard one to answer.
don't think it -,vas ·justi5ed. It's
been bottled up for 20 years in the
black community. This was just
one more thing. It wa~ an eruption of all the feelings and beliefs
about the system. Some residents
even said, 'We are getting attention.'"
. . .. Photos by Angel cte.jesus --.
"What is justification? Was the
Rodney King incident justified?
Is harassment by the police that
happens everyday in our comm unity justified? Is the fact that
Chicano's, Mexicans, blacks,
Asians, and ·American Indians
in a continuous state of poverty
justified bythepeoplein power?
The direction of violence was
wrong bec·a use many were
blacks and Mexicans that were
injured. Bui I understand-it
· - ~\l.rM' art exp16sion: They should
have been more organized."
.
La Voz de Aztlan
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·
May 7, 1992
pag~ 8
Chicano Time Traveller: This is Fresno
CT&T is a Homeboy, all choloed out
and shit.
"Prithee, who are you and what would
you have here?" Good John will ask him.
"Orale, let me have some chicken
mole," CT&T will say, pulling the hairs of
his own goatee, squinting his eyes. "And
give me a Sprite, ese."
And he'll, upon being informed by
Good John that there were no Com Tortillas, take all the food off the pilgrims' table
and throw it on the ground and let the bugs
and birds feed on it. Then he'll, along with
the Native Americans, proceed to make the
indigenous meals of pre-Columbus days,
real food, enough to feed everybody, even
the Puritans. At the end of the episode,
CT&T will make his speech, his history
lesson for the week, and the natives will be
so touched that they'll invite the pilgrims to
stay the night before they begin their long
journey back to Europe.
In another episode CT&T can go back
to 1776 to visit the Declaration of Independence. The white men could be gathered around the table like the last supper,
arguing over the document.
John Hancock would grab the pen out
of Franklin's hand and say, "give that to
me. I'm going to sign my name much bigger than you whimps signed yours, so if
this quest for independence fails, king
George will hang me first. I plan on really
raking in the dough, so I have more to lose
than the: rest of you."
"Give that pen to me, you little girl." A
short skinny man would find his way to the
Jesus Bazan
Contributing writer
I have an idea for a Saturday morning
Super Hero series called THE CHICANO
TIME TRAVELLER. It's about a Chicano
Super Hero named Fidel who has the power,
provided by the ancient god Quetzaquautl,
to travel through time, to any event he
wants; and because he is a Chicano, he is, of
course, good. He is a homeboy from Sangar who wears big red letters "P.C." on his
chest, because he's politically correct.
He spends his time travelling to historical events that have affected the United
States, his home, Aztlan. The Chicano Time
Traveller, or CT&T for short, is a hero to
people who have been victims of events in
the anals (oops, I mean annals) of U.S.
history, people usually with dark skin and
without significant political power. Representing us all, CT&T will travel to a different event each episode and set things politically correct. In one episode he'd go to the
eastern shores of America, and he bring a
couple of homeboys from his Barrio, and
they'd wait for Columbus on the beach, for
his financed ship to sail ashore, so they
could kick the shit out of him and send him
back to Europe to pay his own damn debts.
In another, CT&T will go to the first
Thanksgiving and prevent the Puritans
from slaughtering the Indians they invited
for dinner. The puritans, with their bonnets
and long black buckle hats, will suddenly
notice CT&T sitting at their abundant table,
tying a bib around his neck.
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cans and the repercutions of those hard- the boy who raped him. This earns him
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front. "Not only will I sign my name to the
document, but I'll put where I'm from, that
way if independence fails, King George
will know where to find me---and if it
doesn't fail, you'll know where you can do
business with me. Here's my business cards,
gentleman.--lf you ever need ..."
Suddenly a flash of bright light will
cause all to squint and CT&T will appear,
dressed in a Zoot Suit, swinging his chain,
acting all cool and shit.
"Orale," he'd say. "You guys are going
about it all wrong."
"Who are you?" they'd ask in unison,
since they would all be thinking exactly
alike.
''You're going about this all wrong,"
he'd repeat. "Let me see that."
They'd hand him the document and
CT&T would rip it up into little pieces and
let them all float at once onto the hard
wooden floors. ''We have to ask otra gente
before we decide what we want to do with
this land of ours."
CT&T would then call his friend, a
tribal chief, into the room. "What do you
think we should do?"
'1 think we should send whitey home,"
the chief would say. He would be angry because his children were killed by settlers
and his wife was raped.
Then CT&T would call in a Black slave
and ask her what they should do. Her face
will be bruised and she will be pregnant
with her owner's child.
"Let's send whitey home," she would
say.
CT&T is very politically correct; he
would say to the blank-eyed businessmen
and politicians who signed the
declaration,"! have called your wives and
asked them to come. Their voices are as
important as yours."
The ladies would enter, one by one,
and when CT&T would ask them what
they thought, they would all agree, send
whitey home.
Mrs Hancock would be especially furious. "I already have the jack-off's bags
packed and ready to go," she'd say.
"I'm sorry," CT&T would tell the men,
"But you have to go home." And he would
say in his climactic speech of the episode,
"Go ahead and leave most of the women
here, because, like us, they are oppressed,
and even some of your men: those willing
to work with us, to make a better America
for all; where little Chicanitas can play in
peace with little white kids, without being
called stupid wetback by the white parents." (At this point all the other characters
would look at each other in confusion,
because they wouldn't know what a wetback or a Chicanita was. But the Chicano
viewer will all too well understand what
CT&T is talking about). "Anyone who
wants to live in peace with others, even if
they may not be like you, can stay. America
is The Place of All Colors. But you who
want to dominate, who believe that your
culture is the superior one, because you
wear underwear and read Shakespeare,
those who believe decisions can be made
without the rest of us, you mu.st leave."
COLUMBUS from page 1
ELECCIONES from page 5
rather, we should be celebrating 500
years of Resistance. Resistance to the
brainwashing, to the raping of our
culture, and to the false history that
we've been taught.
"By you being here at the University
you are resisting oppression" Acosta told
the crowd.
By the end of the hour more people
had gathered to hear what he had to say.
Acosta finished his speech by relating the
Rodney King situation to the historical
injustice that had been started by Columbus' arrival.
"It's not simply a black and white
thing like the system would want to have
us believe," Acosta said.
Columbus spared no one - not the
brown Natives, nor the Black slaves; neither will this racist system we live in and
what we call AMERII<I<KA.
This is a point Raza should think
about seriously on October 12, 1992. In
San Francisco, there will be a massive
protest by pe9ple of color. They will be
denouncing the replicas of the ships of
Columbus - the Nina, Pinta, and Santa
candidatos, no solo por la grande responsabilidad que implica ser presidente de
ASI, sino porque tam bien de alguna manera nos estan representando a nosotros
los hispanos", dijo un estudiante del
grado doce.
Cualquiera que haya sido Ia raz6n o
las razones, esperamos que el pr6ximo
afio tengamos mas exito en las elecciones.
Tambien es importante que todos los
hispanos nos unamos y apoyemos a
nuestros candidatos hispanos presentandonos a votar. Preguntamos a varios estudiantes su opini6n acerca del trabajo hecho por el presidente anterior, y
muchos estudiantes acordaron que hubo
una gran mejoria en comparasi6n a los
at\os anteriores. En nuestras manos esta
la decisi6n de hacer un cambio, y demostrades a las generaciones que vienen tras
nosotros que unidos se puede triunfar.
Maria.
You are welcome to participate and
let the world, especially the rich corporations sponsoring the event, know just
how much they have offended you, your
culture, and your basic right as a human
being!
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TEMPLE OF QUETZALCOATL
VolumeXXIV
Issue No. 3
LaVoz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
Thursday
Columbus:
mythical
hite god
trashed ·
Juan R. Avita
Staff writer
On Friday, May 1 in the Free
Speech Area, MEChA kickeq off
its Annual Semana de La Raza
activities. Every year for more
than a decade, events signifying
the Chicano-Mexicano culture
take placed uring the first week of
May. The event, sponsored by
CSU, Fresno and MEChA, has
always aimed its goal at educating Raza of all colors as to what
Chicano-Mexicanos are all ,a bout.
One such event dealing directly
with our history and promoted by
MEChA and other indigenous
groups throughout the world is
the 500 Years of Resistance and Af-
firmation.
500 Years of Resistance and Affirmation is a cultural, historical,
and political stance that many
Native people throughout the
world are celebrating. It is also a
protest to the highly publicized,
commercialized, and glamourized
"500 Years of the Discoveries of
the Americas." An event that is
also a celebration of the beginning
of genocide for Native Americans
and a slap on the face of people of
all colors- brown, red, black and
yellow, because the Europeans
who came with one simple task
(gold and slaves) had made our
lives hell ever since.
·
Guadalupe Acosta, a member
of the Partido de La Gente (Party
of the People), spoke to a small
but interested crowd in the Free
Speech Area on Friday, May 1.
"He (Columbus) came and
made the people go out and find
gold. If the people returned with
their hands empty they had their
hands chopped off," said Acosta.
Acosta's message was one directed mainly at Raza bttt it was
also one pertaining to Africans,
Asians, and Anglos. The message
was that we should not celebrate
500 Years of the Discoveries of the
Americas, as the racists scholars
and corporations want us too, but
see COLUMBUS page 8
Photo by Angel de Jesus
La Sef!lana·celebrates pride, heritage
' Claudia Solis
Contributing writer
the Battle of Puebla. On that
date, in 1862, the betterequiped and trained French
Poetry, speakers, music
army was defeated in their
and dancing! These are just a
first attempt to invade Mexico.
few activities taking place on
Hispanics celebrate this day in
campus this week.
honor of the undying spirit of
The reason: La Semana.
the Mexican people. .
La Semana is a celebration
The real Mexican Indein recognition of Cinco de
pendence Day is September
Mayo (May 5.) Although
16. Professor Ernesto Martisome people may think that
nez of the Chicano Latin
Cinco de Mayo is Mexican
American Studies Department
Independence Day, it ,actually
says the :'latter.is .more signifimatks the Mexican l/ittdrjtih•:·:·.·~ t:Q~qi}l~Mexico freed
itself from Spain after bun-
dreds of years; however,
people have a tendency to
celebrate in May."
Martinez was the advisor
for La Semana in the early
70's. He says, '1t is a time to
recognize not only Mexico,
but the Chicano culture as
well_." La Semana was
created as a subcommittee of
MEChA. It has been a CSUF
tradition for over two decades.
The program was initiated
at CSU, Fresno by members of
MEChA along with help from
the faculty of the Chicano and
Latin American Studies Department. One of the department professors, Dr. Lea
Ybarra, also served as an
advisor in the past. She
helped with the planning of
the celebration for 15 years.
She says the speakers and
activities are a "means of
cultural outgrowth and
political awareness. It came
about in the .60s and 70s ...
the time of the Chicano
Movement. People needed a
celebration to ymbolize pride
in their heritage."
This year's festivities were
planned by Dr. Huisaro
Garza, advisor, and Manuel
Ramirez; the Chairperson for
La Semana, says about this
year's celebration, "We hope
to educate people... make
them aware. Our history is
very rich and we have to
remember that."
.
·-
Please see page 7 for
Semana de La Raza
~lvitles
La Voz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
'iJage 2
,
Sorority seeks change
and not selling out culture
Dear Editor:
I am writing this letter in response to
ashort article that was written in the
versity isn't she accepting a system that
has oppressed people of color in the
past!!!? Isn't she glc:.ci her ancestors
fought to make a change in the system? I
AM!! Can't she see what we're trying to
do is make a change!!? We're not turning
our backs on our culture!!
Another question I have is that of
Lamda Theta Nu. I have·nothing against
this organization, as a matter of fact, I am
very proud of this sorority to take a stand
in what they believe in. Lamda Theta Nu
is a "Latina Sorority'' that is dedicated to
improving the well being of La Raza
community, and that is wonderful!! My
question is to Christina. As I stated
before, she wrote in her article that "if
Chicanos take on Greek letters, they are
accepting a system that has oppressed
people of color." Isn't the "Lamda Theta
Nu" Greek letters or is this my imagination? It seems as if she praises this sorority, but then turns around and states, to
wear Greek letters is offensive. Doesn't
this seem as if she is .contradicting herself?
I am very proud to be a MexicanAmerican women involved in an organization that is striving for positive
purposes of existence. Although, I have
to say that I am very ashamed that there
are students on my campus who do not
take the time to learn about different
. organizations. I believe everything
Lamda Sigma Gamma tries to accomplish
is based on good intentions and I am offended by articles such as hers, that do
not appreciate the_beneficial events that
occur within our sorority. I do not have a
doubt in my mind, th~t my sorority sisters
also acknowledge that we have a rich
culture and a proud history. I will never
forget how past ·gener~tions have ·
struggled to keep their-identity alive, but
also have struggled for: MAl~JNG A
CHANGE while·others have tried so
hard to avoid this reality.
MEChA Newsletter (Vol. I No. III) by
Christina Salcedo. Before I begin, I
would like to make it clear that what I am
.about to express is my own personal
feelings. I am speaking as an individual
.and I am not representing Lamda Sigma
.Gamma Sorority.
First of all, let me begin by letting .
·you know that I was very offended by
Christina Salcedo' s article. Even though
she did not directly state the sisters of
.Lamda Sigma Gamma were the Chicanas
who "turned their backs on their cul~re," I felt as if that is what she was
insinuating.
If this is what she believes, then I
honestly think she needs to take the time
to gain more informatiol'\ about our
organization before she begins writing
such offensive articles. I strongly feel
that it is unfair for her to judge others
before completely gathering all the facts
necessary to write an article.
Lamda Sigma Gamma was established to eliminate segregation. Our or-_
ganiz.ation is not a "Chicana Sorority''
but this definitely does not mean the _
-- - ··•. ·-- . . -- ·- members of our organization are not
proud of their ancestral contributions.
Our organization is a diverse sorority in
which we welcome any member of any
race. We do not want to limit ourselves
to improving the well being of only one
community.
-~-=---:.----~·
- ------- Does she really believe that since an
organization has different purposes of
existence that those members have
turned their backs on their culture? She
states, "what Chicanos must understand
is by taking on Greek letters, they are ·
· accepting a system that ·has oppress¢
people of color for centuri~s.." Wel( if
she
is knowledgeabl_e on the history of
Teresa Navarro
ag~n! We can't let this go as easily as we
opp~ssed
people, .I would l~ke her ~
Editor
diq the tutition fee increase. Did yo_u hear
m~!? WE CAN'T LET THIS GO! Late!y; in answer this for me; Were p~ple ofcolor
. always accepted into unive~ities? Were
Please·s·ee page 4'i for
th~_media there has been alot of focus on
we not oppressed in that
were upable
more opinions, viewpoints
We all had to take a cl~s in ECO- th_~ aftermath of the King verdict. Although
to attend college? Well, if ~~r viewpoint
NOMICS this year. Anoth~~:capitali~tic it i$ an important issue to discuss, it is not :
and letter to
the editor.
is correct, then tell me whv.~he is
i
word for POLITICS. Simply d~fined; Poor th~ main issue. The n;ain issue is King's .
attending a university,,' ~ttending a w1iunjust, outrageous, and sickening verdict. /
people are screwed.from behin_tl again.
.%
First, the Student Tax they casuapy . Everybody knows that-this type of brutal- .
called a Tutition Fee Raise was thrust upon ity"c--h as been happ~nirig for a long time. :
us. While the administration c;rawled on People of color are continually being h,ar-·;
it's ass so we wouldn't know· their shi~ rassed by the ju~iidal syst_em,. A system stinks!! . Well, the smell was definitely no- that is outdated. Th~it abusiv~ pehavior
·ticeable. Especially when SOil_le adminis- has become so overt that tl\ey had the au-'
·Teresa Navarro
Editor:
trators blantantly insisted th~t students dacity to stand _in front of the American
Assistant Editor: Maria Machuca
· should pay·more_to "maintain quality edu- people and mock our. fa1th in this justice
cation" (a.k.a. so~heycould keep their jobs). system. There is No Justice for People of
Photo Editor:
_A ngel de Jesus
Students could also maintain quality edu- Color in AmeriKKKa. It is a game and we
Production Editor: Yu Ting Huang
.
·
cation by demanding that these adminis- are the pc1 \rn, carelessly discarded.
Juan R. Avita, Eduardo t.
Staff writers:
This 1~ only the beginninnr :o the end
trators have M.A.'s, Ph.D.'s, a~d other
QUALITY Degrees, of which, some admin- of the equal_rights that 0ur brorhers and
Perez, Renee Ruelas
·sisters in the past struggled a ,d fought to
istrators are desparately lacking.
Of co~rse, the most recent and contro- attain for us and our children. It is our reLa Voz de Aztlan is published by the Associated Students, Inc. of California State
versial Economic disaster is the RD<:1ney sponsibility as educated people to organize
University, Fresno. 1be newspaper office is located in the Keats Campus Building,
King beating. We saw thi~ Capitalistic ourselves and utilizethepowerwelet slumFresno, CA 93740.0042. The opinions published in this paper are not necessarily of the
system for what it is, what it has been, and ber while the monster devours Our FreeAssociated Studen_t~-;-~~' ~e ~I~ C?llegia, ~~ L~ V~z ~~, ~~t~~n.
. 'with a ·FIGHT - ,what it will never be ~~
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fr.
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Simp_ly defined: Poo~ people are
screwed ,,om behind again
so
we.
By
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La Voz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
page 3
Poetry Aztlin
What's All This Identity Crisis?
CHALE HISPANIC
-Eduardo T. Perez
-Albelardo De Leon, Jr.
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be a mojado, an illegal, an alien,
. an undocumented, a Mexican jumping
bean, a wet back,
Hispanic no soy;
A palabra used by the
Gavacho to con us into believing
His
Melting
Pot
MI PUEBLO
-Rllfael Franco-Cuevas
XII-02-83
UC Irvine
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be a cholo, a zuit suitor,
a greaser, a spic, a·pachuco, a homey,
Lle.
No es nada mas que
A conglomoration of
Spanish speaking people
So as not to deal
With them on
An
Individual
Mi pueblo
de lento caminar
en esa jomada en busca de salida;
siempre tras los mismos pasos,
con un pie amarrado a la historia.
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be a Mexican, an American,
a Mexican-Ameri6tn, a Chicano,
a Latino, a Oticano-Latino,
Antes
coamiles de milpa
baldes de elotes
bateas de tamales y calabazas
ollas de atole, menudo y pozole,
terreros de mazorcas en chapiles ....... uur.1,..,
costales de f rijoles
platos de mole, pipian, ejotes, nopales;
y el le6n por detras.
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be all these for my Raza,
But never a HUMAN!
Basis.
Pos sabes que White Man
Con migo to chingaste
Para mi your labels
No
Son
Illegal Aliens
-Teresa Na'Dtlrro
You come acroos the border
and take what is not yours.
You are lazy,
and you are thieves.
You don't know the language
You don't even try to learn.
Go back where you came from .
You illegal "Aliens"
and take back what
you came with
diseases, war, and poverty
You "illegal Aliens"
Nada!
N uestra historia is
Longer and more
Glorious than you
Could ever imagine
Soy
Todo
Un
Indio!!
AndirejectyourcursedEuropeanblood.
My name is an
Assertion of the uniqueness
Of my People and an
Acknowledgement of
Self-determination and pride!
So chale
With your
Pinche
Hispanic
Yosoypuro
.,
r
~~--·_:'_
Long Over Due:
A Standing Ovation For My Chicana
-Eduardo Perez
Screaming u11der represented concerns
on the pyramid podium,
addressing La Ra za's mensaje
"United we will stand ..." while
cholitos swing on her arms,
That's my Mechista lady
leading the revolution,
~15
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(,
Her red nails of angered
volcanos like cutting knives when
throwing chingasos, to save her
~1~
.,,
CHICANO!!
c/s
hombre from wild predators,
That's my Aztec Warrior
protecting her property,
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,! ~
,
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Her soft face of rose petals
.·
blooming nocturnal days while
-,
punching madly the blob
.
.
Adolecencia
of white arine,
That's my Chicana artist
~
~
~.
creating tortilla saucers
to feed my intestines,
.
-Teresa Judith Corona
Too often I am lost in the drunken man's
dance on the road full of sober critics,
she blankets my hangover with her
Edad de sentimientos inexplicables.
De confusion y desesperacion.
De anhelar el descubrin1iento del verdadero amor.
Confundiendolo en ocasiones con-pasiones pasajeras y destructivas.
wings of resurrection,
That's my Chicana angel
saving my dignity,
De sentir que el mundo es nuestro,
sin reconocer que somos solo criaturas amantes del desafio.
My mujer taking care of little
Edad el la cual anoramos despertar al hombre o a la mujer dormidos
en nuestras almas. Sin siquiera previa preparacion.
Johny, the pad, the grub three times
a day, plus holding a jale at the
cannery assembly line,
Edad de ilusiones y desiluciones.
I sentenced her to housework because it's
Anciosos por fl.ores y frases de amor a veces vacias, que pretenden
llevamos a la perdicion de nuestros seres.
Edad en la cual deseamos
·sentir lo que no sentimos, pero .
. .••.. , , , . , , ,
~ ? s loq_u~ n~ ?e~os.~tjr. •,·•• ·• ♦.·.·. · ;;
:/ :,·:; •
• • •- . • . •
an obligation created by my culture's ignorance,
Ashamed, I hid thank you words behind
my pride to a woman deserving the world
for taking care of her blind man.
Tardes
llenas de cuen tos y rosaries
con sabor a abuelos, tios, primos, sobrinos,
al calor de la hoguera,
despues de acomodar los relinchos y bramidos en potreros.
Mediodefas
entre las patas de los caballos y en las Haves de los taros
entre peleas de gallos y estruendos de mariachis
entre tequila y tranchete en mano;
y el le6n por detras.
Mananas
repletas de azadones, hachas, martillos, rosaderas,
machetes desenfundando, de bueyes jalando el arado,
de coas sembrando esperanzas,
de manos palpando la flor d e la tierra.
Noches
de serenata a la luna,
a esa inmensidad de cielo:
veta de brillantes:
espejo de la tierra
y el le6n por detras
dando zarpazos a su presa en medio de rugidos sordos,
moviendo la cola como el latigo del capataz.
Hoy
trozos de gritos estampados en banderas
que encarcelan campos de injusticia,
invitaciones a sespertar de esa larga pesadilla:
"!Herrnano, yo soy Joaquin como tu! !Unete!
!Somos tu sangrd !E:sta ~ lu ra~a! !Somo:, lu lucha!
!Hermano, larga el yugo que te ata a tu desgracia;
vuelve a can tar con nosotros tus canciones!"
Y se invaden las entradas de tonos conocidos,
mil veces escuchados.
Grandes hileras de carros destartalados
ahogando en circulo los campos de riego y poda,
cemiendo la tierra de uvas, de duraznos, verduras
de aceitunas, nueces, de manzanas ...
Pueblo con olor a travajos forzados,
a cosechas ajenas;
con todos los nombres de santos;
caras de corridos nunca escuchados
mas siempre repetidos.
Esa serenidad,
marea de furia interna,
espanto de patrones medievales;
La Voz de Aztlan
.
Chicanos who study literature
Convocation recOnciles differences
Eduardo T. Perez
Staff writer
,
gation!, No more betrayal, No
more, No more, No more .... !
Remember that we came from
different parts of the world, have
variety shades of brown in our
skin, and practice different belief's.
It is this type of diversity by our
own people that makes us unique.
Expand in areas seldom sought
by Raza individuals and reach
back to pull us up to where you
now stand.
Allofyoucarryashapeofthe
picture that we as one "Raza" have
been unable to puzzle together.
The only thing left to do is extend
our hand to each other so that
united we can draw the picture
perfect community. In all, "Peace
for our diverse people living
within one collective group."
MEChA Newsletter focuses on education,
raising cultural awareness in community
Irma Serrano
Contributing writer
Why a MEChA Newsletter?
Mensajeros Estudientiles was created as an alternative medium to voice the political opinions of
the Chicano Community. Educating the student
population about community responsibility and
cultural awareness will be the main focus of the
newsletter.
The rich history of MEChA and how it has
struggled ·to empower our people for over twentythree years will be included, in orde,r to dispel a
· numbet of ~tive myths about.our oraanization.
■
■
■
handed down to us from above
came interested in English as a
through the collective speaking
of women's experience, from the subject by reading Omar Salinas; that with the reality of the
streets, where we are impoverand when a Chicano learns
perspective of that experience"
ished and treated often like
about the canons, they immediChicano Literary theory, if
there is one, would want to
ately bring them into question. If animals. Chicanos can relate to
the anger African Americans felt
some Chicanos could, they
pursue the goals of the Chicano
about the Rodney King beating.
movement, just like feminist the- would restructure the canons,
It happens to us too.
believing that the present ones
ory is formed on the values and
It's okay to be a scholar, but it
are not representative of the
interests of the women's moveis not okay to become another
ment. Therefore, one would
entire American experience:
mainstream scholar distinthere is a lot more to consider
presume that Chicano theory
guished from the others only by
should express the values and
. than white writers with a few
the surname. We must develop
interests of the Chicano Movetoken black writers thrown in
our own theories and analyze
ment, where the term Chicano
here and there when considerliterature in our own way. We
was defined. What is great
ing English as a subject.
literature? Who says? How then
must question the greatness of
With the so-called death of
all writers heretofore considered
as a scholar committed to the
Marxism, many Chicano radigreat, and we must read and
Chicano movement, shall one
cals are finding their commitapproach the institution of Great ment in scholarship. It is impor- study Chicano writers.
We must be willing to
tant that we do not, no matter
Literature, specifically great
proclaim, if necessary, "Fuck
English Literature, that is,
how much we may learn the
Shakespeare," and study our
literature written in the English
language, become scholars conown great writers.
language? What of the canons?
cerned more with theories
Would they stay as they are?
Many Chicanos entering the
field of English, this one
The CSUF Chicano Alumni Association will host the
included, are appalled to learn
16th Annual CSUF Chicano Commencement Celebraof their lack of representation in
tion off campus for the first time in 13 years. The last
literature, even though they be-
deconstructionist. By choosing to
continue commenting on
Shakespeare, she shows some of
her earlier reverence for him.
There are differences in ideBut as feminist criticism became
ologies, and thus methodologies more significant in English dein approaching literature, but all partments, it was not placated
critics seem to agree on one
by analyzing all males, and
thing: the literature they study,
there was a conscious effort to
that which is taught in English
include more women in the
deP2,rtments, is important to
canons. Professor Jean Pickerstu~, and perhaps it wouldn't
ing of the CSUF English departbe too far off to say, is Literament tells me of a group of
ture, that is, is Great. A feminist feminist critics in English dedeconstructionist might point at
partments from all over Great
the contradictions in gender
Britain and;the U.S. who fought
roles from a Shakespeare play,
to include Doris Lessing in the
and expose the contradictions in canons, because she was a femimale-dominated society, but she · nist writer, and a good one.
was most likely drawn to
A feminist critic writes, "ConShakespeare from a love of Litsciousness raising is the major
erature, a love which allowed
technique of analysis, structure
her to indulge in the sweat
of organization, method of
words of the Great Bard. It was
practice, and theory of social
only after she became an English change of the women's movemajor and was, in essence,
ment. In consciousness raising,
forced to "take a side" by the
often in groups, the impact of
way she wrote about literature
male dominance is concretly
that she evolved into a feminist
uncovered and analyzed
Daniel Chacon
Contributing writer
facultyholdingdistinctideologies,
representatives of diverseorganizations, and absent students i r •
all
corners of the campus world
Hola Raza!
were
equally present in one
The Chicano- ~tino Convocation held on April 25 of this small room. In working together,
year, addressed existing issues they were able to create a reprethat have threaten La Raza sented agenda which will funcMovimiento and unity. For the tion as a microphone where all
first time there has been an effort concerns can be properly adto identify, explain, and solve. dressed. We can only speculate
those irritable differences that on the perceivable outcomes.
Yet, as a result of the convothreaten to separate our people.
The convocation was facili- cation, one matter was frequently
tated by respected faculty and agreed by all participants. I will
students. The main issue floating try to mimic the togetherness
in an emotional atmosphere was which occurred and hope that it
the distinct labeling, ·segregation agrees with you. No mure ruof each other, and invalid circula- mors!, No more back stabbing!,
tion of "chismes." Students and No more dictations!, No more
pointing fingers!, No more segre-
page 4
May 7, 1992
MEChA hopes to outreach to those students who are
unable to get involved regularly but align themselves with the politica of the community. Every
publication will focus on pertinent issues affecting
our community so that students may become a ware
and actively respond.
MEChA circulates approximately 200-300 issues during each publication, but intends to increase
for the fall of 1992 semester because of the rise in
demand. The newsletter contains an editorial, creative section, announcements, and a current event
section. MEChA will expand to include open letters
from community leaders, calendar events for Chicano Organ~tions, and a high school student section.
time it was held off-campus was at the Fresno Fairgrounds' old Paul Paul Theater. Since then, the CSUF
amphitheater has been the annual sight for the event.
This year, it joins the University Master's Hooding and
BA/BS commencement at the Fresno Convention
Center's Exhibit Hall.
The ceremony will begin at 6:00 p.m. and to be followed by a reception at Adrian's Restaurant located on
P Street at Inyo, directly east of the Exhibit Hall.
Mariachi closes the ceremony with "De Colores" and
continues to entertain at-the reception.
Dear Editor: LSG iind .MEChA.
:_s hould.st<lPfightingi;,lready! .
rev~gefui ;utd <unjust. Just
.-because Mexican-Americans
I am sick of the <:hildish
th.e _~me rights as White
games going on between Lamda . Amer~cans/ does not mean they
._Sigma Gamma and MEChA. The arE?Jessthan you or your organi.first thing I heard this semester -:-.~t~on. :.w eareallapartoftheLa
was ~hat ._Lamda Sunga Gamma ·Raza's·-1:#ty in promoting our
diq notr~pectMEC:hA.'s.~ uest . :culti:fre) Whetherorte is the hand
that-letters sho:uJd not be:w.tjrn- ·: )wd :th~ ·<>th~r:<
a:·foot, both. are
toMEChA'sannualeducational . n,eededf ,: ·
event, :c_
.Y~C. Lamd.a Sigma·-·
kt's/frY :to. work together
'Gamma /was ·a n)nvited gu~s~:
.pu:t . these childish :games
GET JT,· L.a.)rida, ·sigma·c;a,rpµi~ .l>~limd us (while ·t he ~ite man
Dear Editor(
.e~joy
·cmd
l!iil~!~': iil~~~!5
r~pect. _.·
. ..· __ ·
T~pofaMechistaoraSis. As. for th~. imn:t~ture stlbs°' . :t~, butJ dc(r¢sped botli of your
:-:MEChA :made tnJheir newslet- _.: : ~iganiza.riqns and the ~ontributet -:you·know, lou~ly -saying· · #911s they::Care :making .for la
·~mda Sigina_::Gamm,?s name· -·: -~ ---~espect La Razaand stop
._without a~ually spelling it out . Jighting·a~ongst:~itnelves.
Please; _JveJ<now exactly what
.· VIVA·LARAZ~! .
you were · insinuating. Your ·-A ron~emed·Chicano :·
passive a~~ye .attack was
La Voz de Aztlcln
-
Division entre Los
Hispanos durante
las elecciones
Marla Machuca
Assistant editor
Nuevamente, llega a nosotros una
pregunta que nos hace meditar en nuestra
posici6n como hispanos y residentes de
Esta dos Unidos, y no sabemos si realmente
estamos uniendo nuestras fuerzas en bene- ·
ficio de una mejor distribuci6n de justicia y
oportunidades, o es que solo estamos luchando unos contra otros.
En una encuesta realizada el dia 9 de
abril, se les pregunt6 a varios estudiantes
hispanos su opinion sobre las elecciones.
Los candidatos del nuevo partido poli'tico
Kaleidoscope, Marci Demings y Tovar.
Ortega y Tovar son dos candidatos
hispanos, los cuales tuvieron una intensa
campafia durante las elecciones.
Los hispanos representan cerca del 20
porciento en este plantel educativo, siendo
el grupo minoritario mas grande en la
universidad. En algunos afios mas quizas
sea el grupo etnico mas grande, y por esta
raz6n es muy importante tener representaci6n hispana en ASL
Es verdaderamente una lastima que
ninguno de los dos candidatos hispanos
para presidente hayan podido ganar en las
elecciones. Todos los hispanos esperaban
ansiosamente repetir el triunfo del af\o
anterior, en el cual Andres Montoya resultara elegido como presidente de ASL Sin
embargo muchos estudiantes piensan que
los hispanos seencontraban divididos entre
si.
Cuando se les preguntaba a los estudiantes acerca de su preferencia en las
elecciones, pocos de ellos sabian quienes
eran los candidatos representando las diferentes posiciones. Muchos de ellos, especialmente estudiantes de nuevo ingreso, ni
siquiera sabian que se estaban llevando a
cabo las elecciones. "Me hubiera gustado
tener mas informaci6n acerca de los candidatos, la mayoria estabamos confundidos
porlosdiferentescomentariosquesededan
de Tovar y Ortega", estos y muchos otros
comentarios similares eran la respuesta de
los estudiantes de nuevo ingreso.
Para los estudiantes que se encuentran
mas familiarizados con lo que sucede en la
universidad, su punto de vista era mucho
mas preciso. "Yo soy de origen hispano y
porlotantosiempreapoyarealoshispanos;
sin embargo creo que deverian estar mas
concientes y prepararse mejor para la posici6n en la cual estan postulandose como
M9y 7, 1992
page 5
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see ELECCIONES page 8
Gonzalez named CSUF 2nd-in-charge
• Provost and Academic A.ffairs Vice President is
highest ranking Latino in CSUF
Renee Ruelas
Staff writer
Exactly eight months after
being appointed acting vice
president of academic affairs,
Alex Gonzalez is officially the
Provost and Vice Pesident of
Academic aAfairs.
After an international
search of nearly 100 candidates, conducted by the
University Search Committee,
Gonzalez was one of four finalists.
John D. Welty, president
of CSUF, made the announcement to faculty and staff
through a memorandum.
"Gonzalez has done an
exemplary job as acting vice
president for Academic Affairs," Welty added, " I am
looking forward to having
him serve in the newly designated position as PVPAA."
The new position and title
makes Gonzalez the person in
charge of the University in the
absence of the president.
Gonzalez was appointed
the acting vice president, last
summer, after the resignation
of Judith Kuipers to become
chancellor to the University of
Wisconsin at La Crosse.
The position makes
Gonzalez the highest ranking
Latino in CSUF.
"We're excited," said Bill
Flores, "It's a tremendous opportunity for Alex and the entire campus."
Gonzalez has a number of
academic degrees from UC
Santa Cruz and Pomona College. He also attended Harard Law School and was post
doctoral fellow at Stanford
University.
Since 1979 when Gonzalez
arrived as an associate professor of La Raza studies, he has
held several leadership positions on the CSUF.
Two years later Gonzalez
became associate professor of
psychology. He also held the
position of chairman and professor of the Department of
Psychology.
In 1990, Gonzalez was
awarded the Outstanding Psychologist regognition by the
San Joaquin Valley Psychological Association.
Gonzalez has received numerous grants, awards and
fellowships such as the NIE/
National Council of La Raza
Reasearch Fellowship.
He also received the
Meritorious Performance and
Professional Promise Award
atCSUF.
He has also served on the
Academic Senate as a member '
of the Executive Committee. ·
Gonzalez has also been in- i
volved as a member of Task
Force on Racism, Sexism and
Homophobia, and the Athletics Appeals Panel.
Gonzalez is a member of
the Board of Directors of the
San Joaquin College of Law
and Advisory Board of the
National Hispanic Scholarship
Fund.
Dr. Alex Gonzalez
Th~ list of Gonzalez' accomp_li'shments, awards, memcame to campus and the anbership in groups and public
nouncement made public
service is extensive.
"Gonzalez has a lengthy and duringg Spring Break (April
distinguished record of service 13 through 17) after the four
to the university and the com- candidates had been interviewed.
munity," said Welty.
The position of PVPAA was
The interviews were -con• •
made
effective imnwdiately.
ducted when the finalists
La Voz de Aztlan
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May'7, 1992
page 6
Banquet recognizes achievements of many
students for their academic achievements at
the University.
The keynote speaker was Manuel A.
Rosales, president of the California State
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. In his
speech, he urges Hispanics to become in, volved and participate in their local commu.. .,_...__......., nities. His speech addressed issues of empowering the Hispanic rommunity through
the means of involvement.
"To act is critical," said Rosales. ''Hispanics are the fastest growing market segment for all consumer goods. The purchasing
power of Hispanics in the year 2000 will be
$477 billion."
Manuel Rosales said the middle class of
the Hispanic community must also become
involved and educate others.
The involvement of Hispanics on committees and in the political arena is also crul cial to establish the presence of Hispanics
Photo by Angel de Jesus within the community.
HBSA Banquet, the event held at Tomlno'• R•taurant, attracted more than 200 guests.
"We must also get involved and use the
voting rights and the power of the ballot to
Student Awards Banquet held atTomino's in
Rita Magdaleno
Fresno, on April 11, 1992. The gala event was implement change," Rosales said. "We have
Contributing writer
coordinated by the Hispanic Business Stu- the numbers. We have got to get people
registered to vote."
dents Association of CSUF. The purpose of
Rosales said that the two primary factors
Education: A Promising Outlook for this-annual event was to recognize Hispanic
Excellence was the theme for the 14th Annual
Organizations help increase
minorities in health professions
Calendario
Eduardo T. Perez
Staff writer
dents' achievement and motivation, the 5th
Annual Scholarship and Awards Banquet
was held on May 1, 19'J2.
The keynote speaker, Dr. Raymond
The numer of Chicanos going into the
health sciences is moderately increasing. Rodriguez, professor of genetics at UC
The Science Career Opportunity Program Davis, said that one of the reasons why
(SCOP), along with Chicano Health Or- minorities tend not to establish their caganization (CHO) and Charles R. Drew reers in the health science field is that they
Society, collaborated in bringing about the "qet the message that science is not for
5th Annual Scholarship and Awards Ban- them."
The scholarship and awards banquet
quet on May 1, 19'J2.
is
a
symbolic
message that the field of health
SCOP's uniqueness stems from the
support it provides for minority students is suitable for any individual with an interwho have been accepted into health profes- est. Attesting to the increasing participation of minorities in the health profession
sional careers.
For the academic years of 1991-1992, were 24 awards receipients.
The recipients, representing a wide
SCOP enrolled over 200 students in its
program. CHO was established as an in- spectrum of ethnicity, are April Amey, Rosecentive program for Chicano and Chicana mary Bernal, Phillip Castellano, Teresa
students entering the health field. CHO Judith Corona, Tarea Courington, Chang
focuses on nurturing community aware- Lee, Rithy Lim, Mary Lopes, Lea Lour,
ness through sponsoring health-related Robert Madrigal, Michelle McClare, Sergio
Mazon, Larry Montano, Martha Moran,
projects.
Lisa
Moreno, Pheakdey Norng, Andrea
The Charles R. Drew Society is a program for encouraging young black college Torres-Perez, Liliana Quintero, Manual
students into the health field. The Society Ramirez, Lilia Rodriguez, Antonio Rubio,
influences support groups for ensuring the La Mont Perry, Leslie Taylor, and Demetra
Vincent-Walker.
students' academic success.
La Voz congratulates these students
These three programs successfully
network and make the out-of-reach health and the success of the 5th Annual Awards
profession easily accessible to under-rep- Banquet in continuing to support CSUF
resented students. To acknowledge stu- students.
What is going on!? Why haven't you submitted an application for La
Voz Editor!? Don't you know that the written language is very powerful? Professors, encourage your students to use their voice; C]SA,
now's your chance to gain experience. Seniors and juniors, be examples to our freshman and sophomore brothers and sisters. They are
looking to you for diredion. It doesn't matter what year in school you
are or your major - only that you are interested and committed.
Apply Today!
that would determine the future of Hispanics
are participation and involvement.
The mistress of ceremonies was Dr. Luz
Gonzales, associate professor of the ChicanoLatino Studies Department: She was given an
award ofappreciation for her support and assisting in the success of the awards banquet.
The HBSA awarded the following students: Juventina Gutierrez, Esmeralda Salinas, and Jose Marquez with scholarships. The
HBSA ''Member of the Year'' award went to
Aleida Magdaleno for her c;ontinuous dedication to the organization. The HBSA Alumni and Friends Association was formed this academic year in order
to provide assistance for Hispanic students.
This year they awarded scholarsips to Norma
Pinedo and Jose Virrueta.
Recognition forcomittment and support
was also given to the HBSA executive board:
Jose Marquez, vice president; Nonna Pinedo,
administrative assistant; and Rene Castro, financ.ial administrator; Rita Magdaleno, Annual Awards Banquet chair.
Jesus Ceja recieved an award for his
special assistance in the awards banquet.
Awards of Appreciation wenttoHBSAadvisors Yolanda Luna and Victor Olivares.
C.W.A.A. (Chicano Writers-Artist Association)
Meeting on May 7 6:30 p.m. in CU #311
Chicano Commencement Committee
* Meeting every Thursday at 5:00 p.m. in Joyal Admin. #203
* Have you ordered your invitations yet? Pick them up at the
University Outreach Office.
* Have you bought your cap and gown? Pick them up at the
Kennel Book Store.
i
Chicano Commencement CeJ~pration
*May23
* Entertainment: Los Danzantes de Aztlan, 5:45 to 6:15 p.m.
* Ceremony, 6:15 to 8 p.m.
* Reception: Adrian's Restaurant, 8:15 to 10 p.m.
Deadline: Application for SECRETARY I
* May 8 Friday
* The University of California, Santa Cruz, Early Academic
Outreach Program Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) has
a current opening for a Secretary I position.
* Starting salary 1570/month
* Call (209) 445-5163 or (408) 459-2011
Deadline: Minority Graduate Fellowship Applications
*May15
* Applications can be picked up at the Graduate Office in the
Thomas Administration building.
Fourth Annual Latin Jazz Festival
*May24
. * Featuring: Poncho Sanchez
* $2.00 admission for non-members
* Located at Ratcliff Stadium a non-alcoholic event
APPLICATIONS FOR LA VOZ POSITIONS ARE STILL BEING
ACCEPTED!!
La Voz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
page 7
Semana de la Raza
I
-May 1, 1992 Friday
Week of Activities
11:00 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
.
Noon (The Pit)
:
I
Speaker, Jose Luis Acosta
"500 Years Of Oppression" and ''Peace and Dignity Runs"
Chicano Secret Service
.Chicano Comedy Group
:
May 4, 1992 Monday
10:00 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
11:00a.m.
Noon
12:30 p.m. (Free Speech Area)
,Opening Day Ceremony
Parade
Speaker, Dr. Hisauro Garza
"Cinco De Mayo and the Chicano Movement"
La Estudiantina Zumarraga de Mexico Qty
"An instrumental and Vocal Group from Mexico City."
May 5, 1992 Tuesday
11:30 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
Danz.antes de Aztlan
Cinco De Mayo
12:00 noon (The Pit)
Chicano Talent Show
Hombase Aztlan, Teatro Aztlan - Hollywood,
Touch of Bro~ Magic, Teatro Tortilla
May 6, 1992 Wednesday
May 7, 1992 Thursday .
Children's Day/Community Night
May 8, 1992 Friday
.
11:00 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
La Estudiantina Zumanga
Noon (Upstairs Cafeteria #200-202) Panel; "Redistricting"
Speakers, Enrique Reyes and Linda Morales
.
. ''
8:00 a.m.
Children's performances
Noon
Pinatas (spon~red by Mex-Tech students and C.L.A.S.E.
8:00 p.m. (Satellite Student Union) Teatro Aztlan - Hollywood
Speakers/Poetry, Juan Felipe Herrera, Margarita Robles & CW.A.A.
11:00 a.m.
Noon
Tardeada (food booths/
entertainment) Grassy area in front 12:30 p.m.
8:00p.m:
o·f Satelite College Union
.\
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Mariachi
Los Ninos de Aztlan
Clovis High School Marimba Band
CINCO DE MAYO DANCE ·-
Kathy Ni~to . ~- -- .
Liberal studi~1senior
;'No. Some ·p~ple; took advantage of "th~ situation.
They used it to~irob and do
things that wer~ not appropriate. I believ~the officers
should be ·groiSecuted.
However, the ~laces I see
being destroyed are not the
upper-classbut~hepoor. The
violence was directed at the
wrong people.\ I ~hink the
violence shoul«i have been
towards the upper<lass."
AnJres M Jntoya
History, senior
Julio -Cesear j..eal
E~gUsh, graduate student
Social work, -Seltior
::)
· "Violenq~ is never justified.
However, wedo need to look
into ·why _the violence occurred. Seek a medium so
violence cari be prevented.
This thing with beatings has
·been going on for a longtime
in L.A and·-i t will continue
tb happen if people in power..
continuetope exclusionary.''
"That is a hard one to answer.
don't think it -,vas ·justi5ed. It's
been bottled up for 20 years in the
black community. This was just
one more thing. It wa~ an eruption of all the feelings and beliefs
about the system. Some residents
even said, 'We are getting attention.'"
. . .. Photos by Angel cte.jesus --.
"What is justification? Was the
Rodney King incident justified?
Is harassment by the police that
happens everyday in our comm unity justified? Is the fact that
Chicano's, Mexicans, blacks,
Asians, and ·American Indians
in a continuous state of poverty
justified bythepeoplein power?
The direction of violence was
wrong bec·a use many were
blacks and Mexicans that were
injured. Bui I understand-it
· - ~\l.rM' art exp16sion: They should
have been more organized."
.
La Voz de Aztlan
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·
May 7, 1992
pag~ 8
Chicano Time Traveller: This is Fresno
CT&T is a Homeboy, all choloed out
and shit.
"Prithee, who are you and what would
you have here?" Good John will ask him.
"Orale, let me have some chicken
mole," CT&T will say, pulling the hairs of
his own goatee, squinting his eyes. "And
give me a Sprite, ese."
And he'll, upon being informed by
Good John that there were no Com Tortillas, take all the food off the pilgrims' table
and throw it on the ground and let the bugs
and birds feed on it. Then he'll, along with
the Native Americans, proceed to make the
indigenous meals of pre-Columbus days,
real food, enough to feed everybody, even
the Puritans. At the end of the episode,
CT&T will make his speech, his history
lesson for the week, and the natives will be
so touched that they'll invite the pilgrims to
stay the night before they begin their long
journey back to Europe.
In another episode CT&T can go back
to 1776 to visit the Declaration of Independence. The white men could be gathered around the table like the last supper,
arguing over the document.
John Hancock would grab the pen out
of Franklin's hand and say, "give that to
me. I'm going to sign my name much bigger than you whimps signed yours, so if
this quest for independence fails, king
George will hang me first. I plan on really
raking in the dough, so I have more to lose
than the: rest of you."
"Give that pen to me, you little girl." A
short skinny man would find his way to the
Jesus Bazan
Contributing writer
I have an idea for a Saturday morning
Super Hero series called THE CHICANO
TIME TRAVELLER. It's about a Chicano
Super Hero named Fidel who has the power,
provided by the ancient god Quetzaquautl,
to travel through time, to any event he
wants; and because he is a Chicano, he is, of
course, good. He is a homeboy from Sangar who wears big red letters "P.C." on his
chest, because he's politically correct.
He spends his time travelling to historical events that have affected the United
States, his home, Aztlan. The Chicano Time
Traveller, or CT&T for short, is a hero to
people who have been victims of events in
the anals (oops, I mean annals) of U.S.
history, people usually with dark skin and
without significant political power. Representing us all, CT&T will travel to a different event each episode and set things politically correct. In one episode he'd go to the
eastern shores of America, and he bring a
couple of homeboys from his Barrio, and
they'd wait for Columbus on the beach, for
his financed ship to sail ashore, so they
could kick the shit out of him and send him
back to Europe to pay his own damn debts.
In another, CT&T will go to the first
Thanksgiving and prevent the Puritans
from slaughtering the Indians they invited
for dinner. The puritans, with their bonnets
and long black buckle hats, will suddenly
notice CT&T sitting at their abundant table,
tying a bib around his neck.
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front. "Not only will I sign my name to the
document, but I'll put where I'm from, that
way if independence fails, King George
will know where to find me---and if it
doesn't fail, you'll know where you can do
business with me. Here's my business cards,
gentleman.--lf you ever need ..."
Suddenly a flash of bright light will
cause all to squint and CT&T will appear,
dressed in a Zoot Suit, swinging his chain,
acting all cool and shit.
"Orale," he'd say. "You guys are going
about it all wrong."
"Who are you?" they'd ask in unison,
since they would all be thinking exactly
alike.
''You're going about this all wrong,"
he'd repeat. "Let me see that."
They'd hand him the document and
CT&T would rip it up into little pieces and
let them all float at once onto the hard
wooden floors. ''We have to ask otra gente
before we decide what we want to do with
this land of ours."
CT&T would then call his friend, a
tribal chief, into the room. "What do you
think we should do?"
'1 think we should send whitey home,"
the chief would say. He would be angry because his children were killed by settlers
and his wife was raped.
Then CT&T would call in a Black slave
and ask her what they should do. Her face
will be bruised and she will be pregnant
with her owner's child.
"Let's send whitey home," she would
say.
CT&T is very politically correct; he
would say to the blank-eyed businessmen
and politicians who signed the
declaration,"! have called your wives and
asked them to come. Their voices are as
important as yours."
The ladies would enter, one by one,
and when CT&T would ask them what
they thought, they would all agree, send
whitey home.
Mrs Hancock would be especially furious. "I already have the jack-off's bags
packed and ready to go," she'd say.
"I'm sorry," CT&T would tell the men,
"But you have to go home." And he would
say in his climactic speech of the episode,
"Go ahead and leave most of the women
here, because, like us, they are oppressed,
and even some of your men: those willing
to work with us, to make a better America
for all; where little Chicanitas can play in
peace with little white kids, without being
called stupid wetback by the white parents." (At this point all the other characters
would look at each other in confusion,
because they wouldn't know what a wetback or a Chicanita was. But the Chicano
viewer will all too well understand what
CT&T is talking about). "Anyone who
wants to live in peace with others, even if
they may not be like you, can stay. America
is The Place of All Colors. But you who
want to dominate, who believe that your
culture is the superior one, because you
wear underwear and read Shakespeare,
those who believe decisions can be made
without the rest of us, you mu.st leave."
COLUMBUS from page 1
ELECCIONES from page 5
rather, we should be celebrating 500
years of Resistance. Resistance to the
brainwashing, to the raping of our
culture, and to the false history that
we've been taught.
"By you being here at the University
you are resisting oppression" Acosta told
the crowd.
By the end of the hour more people
had gathered to hear what he had to say.
Acosta finished his speech by relating the
Rodney King situation to the historical
injustice that had been started by Columbus' arrival.
"It's not simply a black and white
thing like the system would want to have
us believe," Acosta said.
Columbus spared no one - not the
brown Natives, nor the Black slaves; neither will this racist system we live in and
what we call AMERII<I<KA.
This is a point Raza should think
about seriously on October 12, 1992. In
San Francisco, there will be a massive
protest by pe9ple of color. They will be
denouncing the replicas of the ships of
Columbus - the Nina, Pinta, and Santa
candidatos, no solo por la grande responsabilidad que implica ser presidente de
ASI, sino porque tam bien de alguna manera nos estan representando a nosotros
los hispanos", dijo un estudiante del
grado doce.
Cualquiera que haya sido Ia raz6n o
las razones, esperamos que el pr6ximo
afio tengamos mas exito en las elecciones.
Tambien es importante que todos los
hispanos nos unamos y apoyemos a
nuestros candidatos hispanos presentandonos a votar. Preguntamos a varios estudiantes su opini6n acerca del trabajo hecho por el presidente anterior, y
muchos estudiantes acordaron que hubo
una gran mejoria en comparasi6n a los
at\os anteriores. En nuestras manos esta
la decisi6n de hacer un cambio, y demostrades a las generaciones que vienen tras
nosotros que unidos se puede triunfar.
Maria.
You are welcome to participate and
let the world, especially the rich corporations sponsoring the event, know just
how much they have offended you, your
culture, and your basic right as a human
being!
·
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TEMPLE OF QUETZALCOATL
California State University, Fresno
VolumeXXIV
Issue No. 3
LaVoz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
Thursday
Columbus:
mythical
hite god
trashed ·
Juan R. Avita
Staff writer
On Friday, May 1 in the Free
Speech Area, MEChA kickeq off
its Annual Semana de La Raza
activities. Every year for more
than a decade, events signifying
the Chicano-Mexicano culture
take placed uring the first week of
May. The event, sponsored by
CSU, Fresno and MEChA, has
always aimed its goal at educating Raza of all colors as to what
Chicano-Mexicanos are all ,a bout.
One such event dealing directly
with our history and promoted by
MEChA and other indigenous
groups throughout the world is
the 500 Years of Resistance and Af-
firmation.
500 Years of Resistance and Affirmation is a cultural, historical,
and political stance that many
Native people throughout the
world are celebrating. It is also a
protest to the highly publicized,
commercialized, and glamourized
"500 Years of the Discoveries of
the Americas." An event that is
also a celebration of the beginning
of genocide for Native Americans
and a slap on the face of people of
all colors- brown, red, black and
yellow, because the Europeans
who came with one simple task
(gold and slaves) had made our
lives hell ever since.
·
Guadalupe Acosta, a member
of the Partido de La Gente (Party
of the People), spoke to a small
but interested crowd in the Free
Speech Area on Friday, May 1.
"He (Columbus) came and
made the people go out and find
gold. If the people returned with
their hands empty they had their
hands chopped off," said Acosta.
Acosta's message was one directed mainly at Raza bttt it was
also one pertaining to Africans,
Asians, and Anglos. The message
was that we should not celebrate
500 Years of the Discoveries of the
Americas, as the racists scholars
and corporations want us too, but
see COLUMBUS page 8
Photo by Angel de Jesus
La Sef!lana·celebrates pride, heritage
' Claudia Solis
Contributing writer
the Battle of Puebla. On that
date, in 1862, the betterequiped and trained French
Poetry, speakers, music
army was defeated in their
and dancing! These are just a
first attempt to invade Mexico.
few activities taking place on
Hispanics celebrate this day in
campus this week.
honor of the undying spirit of
The reason: La Semana.
the Mexican people. .
La Semana is a celebration
The real Mexican Indein recognition of Cinco de
pendence Day is September
Mayo (May 5.) Although
16. Professor Ernesto Martisome people may think that
nez of the Chicano Latin
Cinco de Mayo is Mexican
American Studies Department
Independence Day, it ,actually
says the :'latter.is .more signifimatks the Mexican l/ittdrjtih•:·:·.·~ t:Q~qi}l~Mexico freed
itself from Spain after bun-
dreds of years; however,
people have a tendency to
celebrate in May."
Martinez was the advisor
for La Semana in the early
70's. He says, '1t is a time to
recognize not only Mexico,
but the Chicano culture as
well_." La Semana was
created as a subcommittee of
MEChA. It has been a CSUF
tradition for over two decades.
The program was initiated
at CSU, Fresno by members of
MEChA along with help from
the faculty of the Chicano and
Latin American Studies Department. One of the department professors, Dr. Lea
Ybarra, also served as an
advisor in the past. She
helped with the planning of
the celebration for 15 years.
She says the speakers and
activities are a "means of
cultural outgrowth and
political awareness. It came
about in the .60s and 70s ...
the time of the Chicano
Movement. People needed a
celebration to ymbolize pride
in their heritage."
This year's festivities were
planned by Dr. Huisaro
Garza, advisor, and Manuel
Ramirez; the Chairperson for
La Semana, says about this
year's celebration, "We hope
to educate people... make
them aware. Our history is
very rich and we have to
remember that."
.
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Please see page 7 for
Semana de La Raza
~lvitles
La Voz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
'iJage 2
,
Sorority seeks change
and not selling out culture
Dear Editor:
I am writing this letter in response to
ashort article that was written in the
versity isn't she accepting a system that
has oppressed people of color in the
past!!!? Isn't she glc:.ci her ancestors
fought to make a change in the system? I
AM!! Can't she see what we're trying to
do is make a change!!? We're not turning
our backs on our culture!!
Another question I have is that of
Lamda Theta Nu. I have·nothing against
this organization, as a matter of fact, I am
very proud of this sorority to take a stand
in what they believe in. Lamda Theta Nu
is a "Latina Sorority'' that is dedicated to
improving the well being of La Raza
community, and that is wonderful!! My
question is to Christina. As I stated
before, she wrote in her article that "if
Chicanos take on Greek letters, they are
accepting a system that has oppressed
people of color." Isn't the "Lamda Theta
Nu" Greek letters or is this my imagination? It seems as if she praises this sorority, but then turns around and states, to
wear Greek letters is offensive. Doesn't
this seem as if she is .contradicting herself?
I am very proud to be a MexicanAmerican women involved in an organization that is striving for positive
purposes of existence. Although, I have
to say that I am very ashamed that there
are students on my campus who do not
take the time to learn about different
. organizations. I believe everything
Lamda Sigma Gamma tries to accomplish
is based on good intentions and I am offended by articles such as hers, that do
not appreciate the_beneficial events that
occur within our sorority. I do not have a
doubt in my mind, th~t my sorority sisters
also acknowledge that we have a rich
culture and a proud history. I will never
forget how past ·gener~tions have ·
struggled to keep their-identity alive, but
also have struggled for: MAl~JNG A
CHANGE while·others have tried so
hard to avoid this reality.
MEChA Newsletter (Vol. I No. III) by
Christina Salcedo. Before I begin, I
would like to make it clear that what I am
.about to express is my own personal
feelings. I am speaking as an individual
.and I am not representing Lamda Sigma
.Gamma Sorority.
First of all, let me begin by letting .
·you know that I was very offended by
Christina Salcedo' s article. Even though
she did not directly state the sisters of
.Lamda Sigma Gamma were the Chicanas
who "turned their backs on their cul~re," I felt as if that is what she was
insinuating.
If this is what she believes, then I
honestly think she needs to take the time
to gain more informatiol'\ about our
organization before she begins writing
such offensive articles. I strongly feel
that it is unfair for her to judge others
before completely gathering all the facts
necessary to write an article.
Lamda Sigma Gamma was established to eliminate segregation. Our or-_
ganiz.ation is not a "Chicana Sorority''
but this definitely does not mean the _
-- - ··•. ·-- . . -- ·- members of our organization are not
proud of their ancestral contributions.
Our organization is a diverse sorority in
which we welcome any member of any
race. We do not want to limit ourselves
to improving the well being of only one
community.
-~-=---:.----~·
- ------- Does she really believe that since an
organization has different purposes of
existence that those members have
turned their backs on their culture? She
states, "what Chicanos must understand
is by taking on Greek letters, they are ·
· accepting a system that ·has oppress¢
people of color for centuri~s.." Wel( if
she
is knowledgeabl_e on the history of
Teresa Navarro
ag~n! We can't let this go as easily as we
opp~ssed
people, .I would l~ke her ~
Editor
diq the tutition fee increase. Did yo_u hear
m~!? WE CAN'T LET THIS GO! Late!y; in answer this for me; Were p~ple ofcolor
. always accepted into unive~ities? Were
Please·s·ee page 4'i for
th~_media there has been alot of focus on
we not oppressed in that
were upable
more opinions, viewpoints
We all had to take a cl~s in ECO- th_~ aftermath of the King verdict. Although
to attend college? Well, if ~~r viewpoint
NOMICS this year. Anoth~~:capitali~tic it i$ an important issue to discuss, it is not :
and letter to
the editor.
is correct, then tell me whv.~he is
i
word for POLITICS. Simply d~fined; Poor th~ main issue. The n;ain issue is King's .
attending a university,,' ~ttending a w1iunjust, outrageous, and sickening verdict. /
people are screwed.from behin_tl again.
.%
First, the Student Tax they casuapy . Everybody knows that-this type of brutal- .
called a Tutition Fee Raise was thrust upon ity"c--h as been happ~nirig for a long time. :
us. While the administration c;rawled on People of color are continually being h,ar-·;
it's ass so we wouldn't know· their shi~ rassed by the ju~iidal syst_em,. A system stinks!! . Well, the smell was definitely no- that is outdated. Th~it abusiv~ pehavior
·ticeable. Especially when SOil_le adminis- has become so overt that tl\ey had the au-'
·Teresa Navarro
Editor:
trators blantantly insisted th~t students dacity to stand _in front of the American
Assistant Editor: Maria Machuca
· should pay·more_to "maintain quality edu- people and mock our. fa1th in this justice
cation" (a.k.a. so~heycould keep their jobs). system. There is No Justice for People of
Photo Editor:
_A ngel de Jesus
Students could also maintain quality edu- Color in AmeriKKKa. It is a game and we
Production Editor: Yu Ting Huang
.
·
cation by demanding that these adminis- are the pc1 \rn, carelessly discarded.
Juan R. Avita, Eduardo t.
Staff writers:
This 1~ only the beginninnr :o the end
trators have M.A.'s, Ph.D.'s, a~d other
QUALITY Degrees, of which, some admin- of the equal_rights that 0ur brorhers and
Perez, Renee Ruelas
·sisters in the past struggled a ,d fought to
istrators are desparately lacking.
Of co~rse, the most recent and contro- attain for us and our children. It is our reLa Voz de Aztlan is published by the Associated Students, Inc. of California State
versial Economic disaster is the RD<:1ney sponsibility as educated people to organize
University, Fresno. 1be newspaper office is located in the Keats Campus Building,
King beating. We saw thi~ Capitalistic ourselves and utilizethepowerwelet slumFresno, CA 93740.0042. The opinions published in this paper are not necessarily of the
system for what it is, what it has been, and ber while the monster devours Our FreeAssociated Studen_t~-;-~~' ~e ~I~ C?llegia, ~~ L~ V~z ~~, ~~t~~n.
. 'with a ·FIGHT - ,what it will never be ~~
1•,•,. . ,
fr.
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Simp_ly defined: Poo~ people are
screwed ,,om behind again
so
we.
By
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La Voz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
page 3
Poetry Aztlin
What's All This Identity Crisis?
CHALE HISPANIC
-Eduardo T. Perez
-Albelardo De Leon, Jr.
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be a mojado, an illegal, an alien,
. an undocumented, a Mexican jumping
bean, a wet back,
Hispanic no soy;
A palabra used by the
Gavacho to con us into believing
His
Melting
Pot
MI PUEBLO
-Rllfael Franco-Cuevas
XII-02-83
UC Irvine
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be a cholo, a zuit suitor,
a greaser, a spic, a·pachuco, a homey,
Lle.
No es nada mas que
A conglomoration of
Spanish speaking people
So as not to deal
With them on
An
Individual
Mi pueblo
de lento caminar
en esa jomada en busca de salida;
siempre tras los mismos pasos,
con un pie amarrado a la historia.
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be a Mexican, an American,
a Mexican-Ameri6tn, a Chicano,
a Latino, a Oticano-Latino,
Antes
coamiles de milpa
baldes de elotes
bateas de tamales y calabazas
ollas de atole, menudo y pozole,
terreros de mazorcas en chapiles ....... uur.1,..,
costales de f rijoles
platos de mole, pipian, ejotes, nopales;
y el le6n por detras.
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be all these for my Raza,
But never a HUMAN!
Basis.
Pos sabes que White Man
Con migo to chingaste
Para mi your labels
No
Son
Illegal Aliens
-Teresa Na'Dtlrro
You come acroos the border
and take what is not yours.
You are lazy,
and you are thieves.
You don't know the language
You don't even try to learn.
Go back where you came from .
You illegal "Aliens"
and take back what
you came with
diseases, war, and poverty
You "illegal Aliens"
Nada!
N uestra historia is
Longer and more
Glorious than you
Could ever imagine
Soy
Todo
Un
Indio!!
AndirejectyourcursedEuropeanblood.
My name is an
Assertion of the uniqueness
Of my People and an
Acknowledgement of
Self-determination and pride!
So chale
With your
Pinche
Hispanic
Yosoypuro
.,
r
~~--·_:'_
Long Over Due:
A Standing Ovation For My Chicana
-Eduardo Perez
Screaming u11der represented concerns
on the pyramid podium,
addressing La Ra za's mensaje
"United we will stand ..." while
cholitos swing on her arms,
That's my Mechista lady
leading the revolution,
~15
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(,
Her red nails of angered
volcanos like cutting knives when
throwing chingasos, to save her
~1~
.,,
CHICANO!!
c/s
hombre from wild predators,
That's my Aztec Warrior
protecting her property,
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,
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Her soft face of rose petals
.·
blooming nocturnal days while
-,
punching madly the blob
.
.
Adolecencia
of white arine,
That's my Chicana artist
~
~
~.
creating tortilla saucers
to feed my intestines,
.
-Teresa Judith Corona
Too often I am lost in the drunken man's
dance on the road full of sober critics,
she blankets my hangover with her
Edad de sentimientos inexplicables.
De confusion y desesperacion.
De anhelar el descubrin1iento del verdadero amor.
Confundiendolo en ocasiones con-pasiones pasajeras y destructivas.
wings of resurrection,
That's my Chicana angel
saving my dignity,
De sentir que el mundo es nuestro,
sin reconocer que somos solo criaturas amantes del desafio.
My mujer taking care of little
Edad el la cual anoramos despertar al hombre o a la mujer dormidos
en nuestras almas. Sin siquiera previa preparacion.
Johny, the pad, the grub three times
a day, plus holding a jale at the
cannery assembly line,
Edad de ilusiones y desiluciones.
I sentenced her to housework because it's
Anciosos por fl.ores y frases de amor a veces vacias, que pretenden
llevamos a la perdicion de nuestros seres.
Edad en la cual deseamos
·sentir lo que no sentimos, pero .
. .••.. , , , . , , ,
~ ? s loq_u~ n~ ?e~os.~tjr. •,·•• ·• ♦.·.·. · ;;
:/ :,·:; •
• • •- . • . •
an obligation created by my culture's ignorance,
Ashamed, I hid thank you words behind
my pride to a woman deserving the world
for taking care of her blind man.
Tardes
llenas de cuen tos y rosaries
con sabor a abuelos, tios, primos, sobrinos,
al calor de la hoguera,
despues de acomodar los relinchos y bramidos en potreros.
Mediodefas
entre las patas de los caballos y en las Haves de los taros
entre peleas de gallos y estruendos de mariachis
entre tequila y tranchete en mano;
y el le6n por detras.
Mananas
repletas de azadones, hachas, martillos, rosaderas,
machetes desenfundando, de bueyes jalando el arado,
de coas sembrando esperanzas,
de manos palpando la flor d e la tierra.
Noches
de serenata a la luna,
a esa inmensidad de cielo:
veta de brillantes:
espejo de la tierra
y el le6n por detras
dando zarpazos a su presa en medio de rugidos sordos,
moviendo la cola como el latigo del capataz.
Hoy
trozos de gritos estampados en banderas
que encarcelan campos de injusticia,
invitaciones a sespertar de esa larga pesadilla:
"!Herrnano, yo soy Joaquin como tu! !Unete!
!Somos tu sangrd !E:sta ~ lu ra~a! !Somo:, lu lucha!
!Hermano, larga el yugo que te ata a tu desgracia;
vuelve a can tar con nosotros tus canciones!"
Y se invaden las entradas de tonos conocidos,
mil veces escuchados.
Grandes hileras de carros destartalados
ahogando en circulo los campos de riego y poda,
cemiendo la tierra de uvas, de duraznos, verduras
de aceitunas, nueces, de manzanas ...
Pueblo con olor a travajos forzados,
a cosechas ajenas;
con todos los nombres de santos;
caras de corridos nunca escuchados
mas siempre repetidos.
Esa serenidad,
marea de furia interna,
espanto de patrones medievales;
La Voz de Aztlan
.
Chicanos who study literature
Convocation recOnciles differences
Eduardo T. Perez
Staff writer
,
gation!, No more betrayal, No
more, No more, No more .... !
Remember that we came from
different parts of the world, have
variety shades of brown in our
skin, and practice different belief's.
It is this type of diversity by our
own people that makes us unique.
Expand in areas seldom sought
by Raza individuals and reach
back to pull us up to where you
now stand.
Allofyoucarryashapeofthe
picture that we as one "Raza" have
been unable to puzzle together.
The only thing left to do is extend
our hand to each other so that
united we can draw the picture
perfect community. In all, "Peace
for our diverse people living
within one collective group."
MEChA Newsletter focuses on education,
raising cultural awareness in community
Irma Serrano
Contributing writer
Why a MEChA Newsletter?
Mensajeros Estudientiles was created as an alternative medium to voice the political opinions of
the Chicano Community. Educating the student
population about community responsibility and
cultural awareness will be the main focus of the
newsletter.
The rich history of MEChA and how it has
struggled ·to empower our people for over twentythree years will be included, in orde,r to dispel a
· numbet of ~tive myths about.our oraanization.
■
■
■
handed down to us from above
came interested in English as a
through the collective speaking
of women's experience, from the subject by reading Omar Salinas; that with the reality of the
streets, where we are impoverand when a Chicano learns
perspective of that experience"
ished and treated often like
about the canons, they immediChicano Literary theory, if
there is one, would want to
ately bring them into question. If animals. Chicanos can relate to
the anger African Americans felt
some Chicanos could, they
pursue the goals of the Chicano
about the Rodney King beating.
movement, just like feminist the- would restructure the canons,
It happens to us too.
believing that the present ones
ory is formed on the values and
It's okay to be a scholar, but it
are not representative of the
interests of the women's moveis not okay to become another
ment. Therefore, one would
entire American experience:
mainstream scholar distinthere is a lot more to consider
presume that Chicano theory
guished from the others only by
should express the values and
. than white writers with a few
the surname. We must develop
interests of the Chicano Movetoken black writers thrown in
our own theories and analyze
ment, where the term Chicano
here and there when considerliterature in our own way. We
was defined. What is great
ing English as a subject.
literature? Who says? How then
must question the greatness of
With the so-called death of
all writers heretofore considered
as a scholar committed to the
Marxism, many Chicano radigreat, and we must read and
Chicano movement, shall one
cals are finding their commitapproach the institution of Great ment in scholarship. It is impor- study Chicano writers.
We must be willing to
tant that we do not, no matter
Literature, specifically great
proclaim, if necessary, "Fuck
English Literature, that is,
how much we may learn the
Shakespeare," and study our
literature written in the English
language, become scholars conown great writers.
language? What of the canons?
cerned more with theories
Would they stay as they are?
Many Chicanos entering the
field of English, this one
The CSUF Chicano Alumni Association will host the
included, are appalled to learn
16th Annual CSUF Chicano Commencement Celebraof their lack of representation in
tion off campus for the first time in 13 years. The last
literature, even though they be-
deconstructionist. By choosing to
continue commenting on
Shakespeare, she shows some of
her earlier reverence for him.
There are differences in ideBut as feminist criticism became
ologies, and thus methodologies more significant in English dein approaching literature, but all partments, it was not placated
critics seem to agree on one
by analyzing all males, and
thing: the literature they study,
there was a conscious effort to
that which is taught in English
include more women in the
deP2,rtments, is important to
canons. Professor Jean Pickerstu~, and perhaps it wouldn't
ing of the CSUF English departbe too far off to say, is Literament tells me of a group of
ture, that is, is Great. A feminist feminist critics in English dedeconstructionist might point at
partments from all over Great
the contradictions in gender
Britain and;the U.S. who fought
roles from a Shakespeare play,
to include Doris Lessing in the
and expose the contradictions in canons, because she was a femimale-dominated society, but she · nist writer, and a good one.
was most likely drawn to
A feminist critic writes, "ConShakespeare from a love of Litsciousness raising is the major
erature, a love which allowed
technique of analysis, structure
her to indulge in the sweat
of organization, method of
words of the Great Bard. It was
practice, and theory of social
only after she became an English change of the women's movemajor and was, in essence,
ment. In consciousness raising,
forced to "take a side" by the
often in groups, the impact of
way she wrote about literature
male dominance is concretly
that she evolved into a feminist
uncovered and analyzed
Daniel Chacon
Contributing writer
facultyholdingdistinctideologies,
representatives of diverseorganizations, and absent students i r •
all
corners of the campus world
Hola Raza!
were
equally present in one
The Chicano- ~tino Convocation held on April 25 of this small room. In working together,
year, addressed existing issues they were able to create a reprethat have threaten La Raza sented agenda which will funcMovimiento and unity. For the tion as a microphone where all
first time there has been an effort concerns can be properly adto identify, explain, and solve. dressed. We can only speculate
those irritable differences that on the perceivable outcomes.
Yet, as a result of the convothreaten to separate our people.
The convocation was facili- cation, one matter was frequently
tated by respected faculty and agreed by all participants. I will
students. The main issue floating try to mimic the togetherness
in an emotional atmosphere was which occurred and hope that it
the distinct labeling, ·segregation agrees with you. No mure ruof each other, and invalid circula- mors!, No more back stabbing!,
tion of "chismes." Students and No more dictations!, No more
pointing fingers!, No more segre-
page 4
May 7, 1992
MEChA hopes to outreach to those students who are
unable to get involved regularly but align themselves with the politica of the community. Every
publication will focus on pertinent issues affecting
our community so that students may become a ware
and actively respond.
MEChA circulates approximately 200-300 issues during each publication, but intends to increase
for the fall of 1992 semester because of the rise in
demand. The newsletter contains an editorial, creative section, announcements, and a current event
section. MEChA will expand to include open letters
from community leaders, calendar events for Chicano Organ~tions, and a high school student section.
time it was held off-campus was at the Fresno Fairgrounds' old Paul Paul Theater. Since then, the CSUF
amphitheater has been the annual sight for the event.
This year, it joins the University Master's Hooding and
BA/BS commencement at the Fresno Convention
Center's Exhibit Hall.
The ceremony will begin at 6:00 p.m. and to be followed by a reception at Adrian's Restaurant located on
P Street at Inyo, directly east of the Exhibit Hall.
Mariachi closes the ceremony with "De Colores" and
continues to entertain at-the reception.
Dear Editor: LSG iind .MEChA.
:_s hould.st<lPfightingi;,lready! .
rev~gefui ;utd <unjust. Just
.-because Mexican-Americans
I am sick of the <:hildish
th.e _~me rights as White
games going on between Lamda . Amer~cans/ does not mean they
._Sigma Gamma and MEChA. The arE?Jessthan you or your organi.first thing I heard this semester -:-.~t~on. :.w eareallapartoftheLa
was ~hat ._Lamda Sunga Gamma ·Raza's·-1:#ty in promoting our
diq notr~pectMEC:hA.'s.~ uest . :culti:fre) Whetherorte is the hand
that-letters sho:uJd not be:w.tjrn- ·: )wd :th~ ·<>th~r:<
a:·foot, both. are
toMEChA'sannualeducational . n,eededf ,: ·
event, :c_
.Y~C. Lamd.a Sigma·-·
kt's/frY :to. work together
'Gamma /was ·a n)nvited gu~s~:
.pu:t . these childish :games
GET JT,· L.a.)rida, ·sigma·c;a,rpµi~ .l>~limd us (while ·t he ~ite man
Dear Editor(
.e~joy
·cmd
l!iil~!~': iil~~~!5
r~pect. _.·
. ..· __ ·
T~pofaMechistaoraSis. As. for th~. imn:t~ture stlbs°' . :t~, butJ dc(r¢sped botli of your
:-:MEChA :made tnJheir newslet- _.: : ~iganiza.riqns and the ~ontributet -:you·know, lou~ly -saying· · #911s they::Care :making .for la
·~mda Sigina_::Gamm,?s name· -·: -~ ---~espect La Razaand stop
._without a~ually spelling it out . Jighting·a~ongst:~itnelves.
Please; _JveJ<now exactly what
.· VIVA·LARAZ~! .
you were · insinuating. Your ·-A ron~emed·Chicano :·
passive a~~ye .attack was
La Voz de Aztlcln
-
Division entre Los
Hispanos durante
las elecciones
Marla Machuca
Assistant editor
Nuevamente, llega a nosotros una
pregunta que nos hace meditar en nuestra
posici6n como hispanos y residentes de
Esta dos Unidos, y no sabemos si realmente
estamos uniendo nuestras fuerzas en bene- ·
ficio de una mejor distribuci6n de justicia y
oportunidades, o es que solo estamos luchando unos contra otros.
En una encuesta realizada el dia 9 de
abril, se les pregunt6 a varios estudiantes
hispanos su opinion sobre las elecciones.
Los candidatos del nuevo partido poli'tico
Kaleidoscope, Marci Demings y Tovar.
Ortega y Tovar son dos candidatos
hispanos, los cuales tuvieron una intensa
campafia durante las elecciones.
Los hispanos representan cerca del 20
porciento en este plantel educativo, siendo
el grupo minoritario mas grande en la
universidad. En algunos afios mas quizas
sea el grupo etnico mas grande, y por esta
raz6n es muy importante tener representaci6n hispana en ASL
Es verdaderamente una lastima que
ninguno de los dos candidatos hispanos
para presidente hayan podido ganar en las
elecciones. Todos los hispanos esperaban
ansiosamente repetir el triunfo del af\o
anterior, en el cual Andres Montoya resultara elegido como presidente de ASL Sin
embargo muchos estudiantes piensan que
los hispanos seencontraban divididos entre
si.
Cuando se les preguntaba a los estudiantes acerca de su preferencia en las
elecciones, pocos de ellos sabian quienes
eran los candidatos representando las diferentes posiciones. Muchos de ellos, especialmente estudiantes de nuevo ingreso, ni
siquiera sabian que se estaban llevando a
cabo las elecciones. "Me hubiera gustado
tener mas informaci6n acerca de los candidatos, la mayoria estabamos confundidos
porlosdiferentescomentariosquesededan
de Tovar y Ortega", estos y muchos otros
comentarios similares eran la respuesta de
los estudiantes de nuevo ingreso.
Para los estudiantes que se encuentran
mas familiarizados con lo que sucede en la
universidad, su punto de vista era mucho
mas preciso. "Yo soy de origen hispano y
porlotantosiempreapoyarealoshispanos;
sin embargo creo que deverian estar mas
concientes y prepararse mejor para la posici6n en la cual estan postulandose como
M9y 7, 1992
page 5
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Gonzalez named CSUF 2nd-in-charge
• Provost and Academic A.ffairs Vice President is
highest ranking Latino in CSUF
Renee Ruelas
Staff writer
Exactly eight months after
being appointed acting vice
president of academic affairs,
Alex Gonzalez is officially the
Provost and Vice Pesident of
Academic aAfairs.
After an international
search of nearly 100 candidates, conducted by the
University Search Committee,
Gonzalez was one of four finalists.
John D. Welty, president
of CSUF, made the announcement to faculty and staff
through a memorandum.
"Gonzalez has done an
exemplary job as acting vice
president for Academic Affairs," Welty added, " I am
looking forward to having
him serve in the newly designated position as PVPAA."
The new position and title
makes Gonzalez the person in
charge of the University in the
absence of the president.
Gonzalez was appointed
the acting vice president, last
summer, after the resignation
of Judith Kuipers to become
chancellor to the University of
Wisconsin at La Crosse.
The position makes
Gonzalez the highest ranking
Latino in CSUF.
"We're excited," said Bill
Flores, "It's a tremendous opportunity for Alex and the entire campus."
Gonzalez has a number of
academic degrees from UC
Santa Cruz and Pomona College. He also attended Harard Law School and was post
doctoral fellow at Stanford
University.
Since 1979 when Gonzalez
arrived as an associate professor of La Raza studies, he has
held several leadership positions on the CSUF.
Two years later Gonzalez
became associate professor of
psychology. He also held the
position of chairman and professor of the Department of
Psychology.
In 1990, Gonzalez was
awarded the Outstanding Psychologist regognition by the
San Joaquin Valley Psychological Association.
Gonzalez has received numerous grants, awards and
fellowships such as the NIE/
National Council of La Raza
Reasearch Fellowship.
He also received the
Meritorious Performance and
Professional Promise Award
atCSUF.
He has also served on the
Academic Senate as a member '
of the Executive Committee. ·
Gonzalez has also been in- i
volved as a member of Task
Force on Racism, Sexism and
Homophobia, and the Athletics Appeals Panel.
Gonzalez is a member of
the Board of Directors of the
San Joaquin College of Law
and Advisory Board of the
National Hispanic Scholarship
Fund.
Dr. Alex Gonzalez
Th~ list of Gonzalez' accomp_li'shments, awards, memcame to campus and the anbership in groups and public
nouncement made public
service is extensive.
"Gonzalez has a lengthy and duringg Spring Break (April
distinguished record of service 13 through 17) after the four
to the university and the com- candidates had been interviewed.
munity," said Welty.
The position of PVPAA was
The interviews were -con• •
made
effective imnwdiately.
ducted when the finalists
La Voz de Aztlan
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May'7, 1992
page 6
Banquet recognizes achievements of many
students for their academic achievements at
the University.
The keynote speaker was Manuel A.
Rosales, president of the California State
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. In his
speech, he urges Hispanics to become in, volved and participate in their local commu.. .,_...__......., nities. His speech addressed issues of empowering the Hispanic rommunity through
the means of involvement.
"To act is critical," said Rosales. ''Hispanics are the fastest growing market segment for all consumer goods. The purchasing
power of Hispanics in the year 2000 will be
$477 billion."
Manuel Rosales said the middle class of
the Hispanic community must also become
involved and educate others.
The involvement of Hispanics on committees and in the political arena is also crul cial to establish the presence of Hispanics
Photo by Angel de Jesus within the community.
HBSA Banquet, the event held at Tomlno'• R•taurant, attracted more than 200 guests.
"We must also get involved and use the
voting rights and the power of the ballot to
Student Awards Banquet held atTomino's in
Rita Magdaleno
Fresno, on April 11, 1992. The gala event was implement change," Rosales said. "We have
Contributing writer
coordinated by the Hispanic Business Stu- the numbers. We have got to get people
registered to vote."
dents Association of CSUF. The purpose of
Rosales said that the two primary factors
Education: A Promising Outlook for this-annual event was to recognize Hispanic
Excellence was the theme for the 14th Annual
Organizations help increase
minorities in health professions
Calendario
Eduardo T. Perez
Staff writer
dents' achievement and motivation, the 5th
Annual Scholarship and Awards Banquet
was held on May 1, 19'J2.
The keynote speaker, Dr. Raymond
The numer of Chicanos going into the
health sciences is moderately increasing. Rodriguez, professor of genetics at UC
The Science Career Opportunity Program Davis, said that one of the reasons why
(SCOP), along with Chicano Health Or- minorities tend not to establish their caganization (CHO) and Charles R. Drew reers in the health science field is that they
Society, collaborated in bringing about the "qet the message that science is not for
5th Annual Scholarship and Awards Ban- them."
The scholarship and awards banquet
quet on May 1, 19'J2.
is
a
symbolic
message that the field of health
SCOP's uniqueness stems from the
support it provides for minority students is suitable for any individual with an interwho have been accepted into health profes- est. Attesting to the increasing participation of minorities in the health profession
sional careers.
For the academic years of 1991-1992, were 24 awards receipients.
The recipients, representing a wide
SCOP enrolled over 200 students in its
program. CHO was established as an in- spectrum of ethnicity, are April Amey, Rosecentive program for Chicano and Chicana mary Bernal, Phillip Castellano, Teresa
students entering the health field. CHO Judith Corona, Tarea Courington, Chang
focuses on nurturing community aware- Lee, Rithy Lim, Mary Lopes, Lea Lour,
ness through sponsoring health-related Robert Madrigal, Michelle McClare, Sergio
Mazon, Larry Montano, Martha Moran,
projects.
Lisa
Moreno, Pheakdey Norng, Andrea
The Charles R. Drew Society is a program for encouraging young black college Torres-Perez, Liliana Quintero, Manual
students into the health field. The Society Ramirez, Lilia Rodriguez, Antonio Rubio,
influences support groups for ensuring the La Mont Perry, Leslie Taylor, and Demetra
Vincent-Walker.
students' academic success.
La Voz congratulates these students
These three programs successfully
network and make the out-of-reach health and the success of the 5th Annual Awards
profession easily accessible to under-rep- Banquet in continuing to support CSUF
resented students. To acknowledge stu- students.
What is going on!? Why haven't you submitted an application for La
Voz Editor!? Don't you know that the written language is very powerful? Professors, encourage your students to use their voice; C]SA,
now's your chance to gain experience. Seniors and juniors, be examples to our freshman and sophomore brothers and sisters. They are
looking to you for diredion. It doesn't matter what year in school you
are or your major - only that you are interested and committed.
Apply Today!
that would determine the future of Hispanics
are participation and involvement.
The mistress of ceremonies was Dr. Luz
Gonzales, associate professor of the ChicanoLatino Studies Department: She was given an
award ofappreciation for her support and assisting in the success of the awards banquet.
The HBSA awarded the following students: Juventina Gutierrez, Esmeralda Salinas, and Jose Marquez with scholarships. The
HBSA ''Member of the Year'' award went to
Aleida Magdaleno for her c;ontinuous dedication to the organization. The HBSA Alumni and Friends Association was formed this academic year in order
to provide assistance for Hispanic students.
This year they awarded scholarsips to Norma
Pinedo and Jose Virrueta.
Recognition forcomittment and support
was also given to the HBSA executive board:
Jose Marquez, vice president; Nonna Pinedo,
administrative assistant; and Rene Castro, financ.ial administrator; Rita Magdaleno, Annual Awards Banquet chair.
Jesus Ceja recieved an award for his
special assistance in the awards banquet.
Awards of Appreciation wenttoHBSAadvisors Yolanda Luna and Victor Olivares.
C.W.A.A. (Chicano Writers-Artist Association)
Meeting on May 7 6:30 p.m. in CU #311
Chicano Commencement Committee
* Meeting every Thursday at 5:00 p.m. in Joyal Admin. #203
* Have you ordered your invitations yet? Pick them up at the
University Outreach Office.
* Have you bought your cap and gown? Pick them up at the
Kennel Book Store.
i
Chicano Commencement CeJ~pration
*May23
* Entertainment: Los Danzantes de Aztlan, 5:45 to 6:15 p.m.
* Ceremony, 6:15 to 8 p.m.
* Reception: Adrian's Restaurant, 8:15 to 10 p.m.
Deadline: Application for SECRETARY I
* May 8 Friday
* The University of California, Santa Cruz, Early Academic
Outreach Program Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) has
a current opening for a Secretary I position.
* Starting salary 1570/month
* Call (209) 445-5163 or (408) 459-2011
Deadline: Minority Graduate Fellowship Applications
*May15
* Applications can be picked up at the Graduate Office in the
Thomas Administration building.
Fourth Annual Latin Jazz Festival
*May24
. * Featuring: Poncho Sanchez
* $2.00 admission for non-members
* Located at Ratcliff Stadium a non-alcoholic event
APPLICATIONS FOR LA VOZ POSITIONS ARE STILL BEING
ACCEPTED!!
La Voz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
page 7
Semana de la Raza
I
-May 1, 1992 Friday
Week of Activities
11:00 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
.
Noon (The Pit)
:
I
Speaker, Jose Luis Acosta
"500 Years Of Oppression" and ''Peace and Dignity Runs"
Chicano Secret Service
.Chicano Comedy Group
:
May 4, 1992 Monday
10:00 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
11:00a.m.
Noon
12:30 p.m. (Free Speech Area)
,Opening Day Ceremony
Parade
Speaker, Dr. Hisauro Garza
"Cinco De Mayo and the Chicano Movement"
La Estudiantina Zumarraga de Mexico Qty
"An instrumental and Vocal Group from Mexico City."
May 5, 1992 Tuesday
11:30 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
Danz.antes de Aztlan
Cinco De Mayo
12:00 noon (The Pit)
Chicano Talent Show
Hombase Aztlan, Teatro Aztlan - Hollywood,
Touch of Bro~ Magic, Teatro Tortilla
May 6, 1992 Wednesday
May 7, 1992 Thursday .
Children's Day/Community Night
May 8, 1992 Friday
.
11:00 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
La Estudiantina Zumanga
Noon (Upstairs Cafeteria #200-202) Panel; "Redistricting"
Speakers, Enrique Reyes and Linda Morales
.
. ''
8:00 a.m.
Children's performances
Noon
Pinatas (spon~red by Mex-Tech students and C.L.A.S.E.
8:00 p.m. (Satellite Student Union) Teatro Aztlan - Hollywood
Speakers/Poetry, Juan Felipe Herrera, Margarita Robles & CW.A.A.
11:00 a.m.
Noon
Tardeada (food booths/
entertainment) Grassy area in front 12:30 p.m.
8:00p.m:
o·f Satelite College Union
.\
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Mariachi
Los Ninos de Aztlan
Clovis High School Marimba Band
CINCO DE MAYO DANCE ·-
Kathy Ni~to . ~- -- .
Liberal studi~1senior
;'No. Some ·p~ple; took advantage of "th~ situation.
They used it to~irob and do
things that wer~ not appropriate. I believ~the officers
should be ·groiSecuted.
However, the ~laces I see
being destroyed are not the
upper-classbut~hepoor. The
violence was directed at the
wrong people.\ I ~hink the
violence shoul«i have been
towards the upper<lass."
AnJres M Jntoya
History, senior
Julio -Cesear j..eal
E~gUsh, graduate student
Social work, -Seltior
::)
· "Violenq~ is never justified.
However, wedo need to look
into ·why _the violence occurred. Seek a medium so
violence cari be prevented.
This thing with beatings has
·been going on for a longtime
in L.A and·-i t will continue
tb happen if people in power..
continuetope exclusionary.''
"That is a hard one to answer.
don't think it -,vas ·justi5ed. It's
been bottled up for 20 years in the
black community. This was just
one more thing. It wa~ an eruption of all the feelings and beliefs
about the system. Some residents
even said, 'We are getting attention.'"
. . .. Photos by Angel cte.jesus --.
"What is justification? Was the
Rodney King incident justified?
Is harassment by the police that
happens everyday in our comm unity justified? Is the fact that
Chicano's, Mexicans, blacks,
Asians, and ·American Indians
in a continuous state of poverty
justified bythepeoplein power?
The direction of violence was
wrong bec·a use many were
blacks and Mexicans that were
injured. Bui I understand-it
· - ~\l.rM' art exp16sion: They should
have been more organized."
.
La Voz de Aztlan
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·
May 7, 1992
pag~ 8
Chicano Time Traveller: This is Fresno
CT&T is a Homeboy, all choloed out
and shit.
"Prithee, who are you and what would
you have here?" Good John will ask him.
"Orale, let me have some chicken
mole," CT&T will say, pulling the hairs of
his own goatee, squinting his eyes. "And
give me a Sprite, ese."
And he'll, upon being informed by
Good John that there were no Com Tortillas, take all the food off the pilgrims' table
and throw it on the ground and let the bugs
and birds feed on it. Then he'll, along with
the Native Americans, proceed to make the
indigenous meals of pre-Columbus days,
real food, enough to feed everybody, even
the Puritans. At the end of the episode,
CT&T will make his speech, his history
lesson for the week, and the natives will be
so touched that they'll invite the pilgrims to
stay the night before they begin their long
journey back to Europe.
In another episode CT&T can go back
to 1776 to visit the Declaration of Independence. The white men could be gathered around the table like the last supper,
arguing over the document.
John Hancock would grab the pen out
of Franklin's hand and say, "give that to
me. I'm going to sign my name much bigger than you whimps signed yours, so if
this quest for independence fails, king
George will hang me first. I plan on really
raking in the dough, so I have more to lose
than the: rest of you."
"Give that pen to me, you little girl." A
short skinny man would find his way to the
Jesus Bazan
Contributing writer
I have an idea for a Saturday morning
Super Hero series called THE CHICANO
TIME TRAVELLER. It's about a Chicano
Super Hero named Fidel who has the power,
provided by the ancient god Quetzaquautl,
to travel through time, to any event he
wants; and because he is a Chicano, he is, of
course, good. He is a homeboy from Sangar who wears big red letters "P.C." on his
chest, because he's politically correct.
He spends his time travelling to historical events that have affected the United
States, his home, Aztlan. The Chicano Time
Traveller, or CT&T for short, is a hero to
people who have been victims of events in
the anals (oops, I mean annals) of U.S.
history, people usually with dark skin and
without significant political power. Representing us all, CT&T will travel to a different event each episode and set things politically correct. In one episode he'd go to the
eastern shores of America, and he bring a
couple of homeboys from his Barrio, and
they'd wait for Columbus on the beach, for
his financed ship to sail ashore, so they
could kick the shit out of him and send him
back to Europe to pay his own damn debts.
In another, CT&T will go to the first
Thanksgiving and prevent the Puritans
from slaughtering the Indians they invited
for dinner. The puritans, with their bonnets
and long black buckle hats, will suddenly
notice CT&T sitting at their abundant table,
tying a bib around his neck.
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front. "Not only will I sign my name to the
document, but I'll put where I'm from, that
way if independence fails, King George
will know where to find me---and if it
doesn't fail, you'll know where you can do
business with me. Here's my business cards,
gentleman.--lf you ever need ..."
Suddenly a flash of bright light will
cause all to squint and CT&T will appear,
dressed in a Zoot Suit, swinging his chain,
acting all cool and shit.
"Orale," he'd say. "You guys are going
about it all wrong."
"Who are you?" they'd ask in unison,
since they would all be thinking exactly
alike.
''You're going about this all wrong,"
he'd repeat. "Let me see that."
They'd hand him the document and
CT&T would rip it up into little pieces and
let them all float at once onto the hard
wooden floors. ''We have to ask otra gente
before we decide what we want to do with
this land of ours."
CT&T would then call his friend, a
tribal chief, into the room. "What do you
think we should do?"
'1 think we should send whitey home,"
the chief would say. He would be angry because his children were killed by settlers
and his wife was raped.
Then CT&T would call in a Black slave
and ask her what they should do. Her face
will be bruised and she will be pregnant
with her owner's child.
"Let's send whitey home," she would
say.
CT&T is very politically correct; he
would say to the blank-eyed businessmen
and politicians who signed the
declaration,"! have called your wives and
asked them to come. Their voices are as
important as yours."
The ladies would enter, one by one,
and when CT&T would ask them what
they thought, they would all agree, send
whitey home.
Mrs Hancock would be especially furious. "I already have the jack-off's bags
packed and ready to go," she'd say.
"I'm sorry," CT&T would tell the men,
"But you have to go home." And he would
say in his climactic speech of the episode,
"Go ahead and leave most of the women
here, because, like us, they are oppressed,
and even some of your men: those willing
to work with us, to make a better America
for all; where little Chicanitas can play in
peace with little white kids, without being
called stupid wetback by the white parents." (At this point all the other characters
would look at each other in confusion,
because they wouldn't know what a wetback or a Chicanita was. But the Chicano
viewer will all too well understand what
CT&T is talking about). "Anyone who
wants to live in peace with others, even if
they may not be like you, can stay. America
is The Place of All Colors. But you who
want to dominate, who believe that your
culture is the superior one, because you
wear underwear and read Shakespeare,
those who believe decisions can be made
without the rest of us, you mu.st leave."
COLUMBUS from page 1
ELECCIONES from page 5
rather, we should be celebrating 500
years of Resistance. Resistance to the
brainwashing, to the raping of our
culture, and to the false history that
we've been taught.
"By you being here at the University
you are resisting oppression" Acosta told
the crowd.
By the end of the hour more people
had gathered to hear what he had to say.
Acosta finished his speech by relating the
Rodney King situation to the historical
injustice that had been started by Columbus' arrival.
"It's not simply a black and white
thing like the system would want to have
us believe," Acosta said.
Columbus spared no one - not the
brown Natives, nor the Black slaves; neither will this racist system we live in and
what we call AMERII<I<KA.
This is a point Raza should think
about seriously on October 12, 1992. In
San Francisco, there will be a massive
protest by pe9ple of color. They will be
denouncing the replicas of the ships of
Columbus - the Nina, Pinta, and Santa
candidatos, no solo por la grande responsabilidad que implica ser presidente de
ASI, sino porque tam bien de alguna manera nos estan representando a nosotros
los hispanos", dijo un estudiante del
grado doce.
Cualquiera que haya sido Ia raz6n o
las razones, esperamos que el pr6ximo
afio tengamos mas exito en las elecciones.
Tambien es importante que todos los
hispanos nos unamos y apoyemos a
nuestros candidatos hispanos presentandonos a votar. Preguntamos a varios estudiantes su opini6n acerca del trabajo hecho por el presidente anterior, y
muchos estudiantes acordaron que hubo
una gran mejoria en comparasi6n a los
at\os anteriores. En nuestras manos esta
la decisi6n de hacer un cambio, y demostrades a las generaciones que vienen tras
nosotros que unidos se puede triunfar.
Maria.
You are welcome to participate and
let the world, especially the rich corporations sponsoring the event, know just
how much they have offended you, your
culture, and your basic right as a human
being!
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TEMPLE OF QUETZALCOATL
VolumeXXIV
Issue No. 3
LaVoz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
Thursday
Columbus:
mythical
hite god
trashed ·
Juan R. Avita
Staff writer
On Friday, May 1 in the Free
Speech Area, MEChA kickeq off
its Annual Semana de La Raza
activities. Every year for more
than a decade, events signifying
the Chicano-Mexicano culture
take placed uring the first week of
May. The event, sponsored by
CSU, Fresno and MEChA, has
always aimed its goal at educating Raza of all colors as to what
Chicano-Mexicanos are all ,a bout.
One such event dealing directly
with our history and promoted by
MEChA and other indigenous
groups throughout the world is
the 500 Years of Resistance and Af-
firmation.
500 Years of Resistance and Affirmation is a cultural, historical,
and political stance that many
Native people throughout the
world are celebrating. It is also a
protest to the highly publicized,
commercialized, and glamourized
"500 Years of the Discoveries of
the Americas." An event that is
also a celebration of the beginning
of genocide for Native Americans
and a slap on the face of people of
all colors- brown, red, black and
yellow, because the Europeans
who came with one simple task
(gold and slaves) had made our
lives hell ever since.
·
Guadalupe Acosta, a member
of the Partido de La Gente (Party
of the People), spoke to a small
but interested crowd in the Free
Speech Area on Friday, May 1.
"He (Columbus) came and
made the people go out and find
gold. If the people returned with
their hands empty they had their
hands chopped off," said Acosta.
Acosta's message was one directed mainly at Raza bttt it was
also one pertaining to Africans,
Asians, and Anglos. The message
was that we should not celebrate
500 Years of the Discoveries of the
Americas, as the racists scholars
and corporations want us too, but
see COLUMBUS page 8
Photo by Angel de Jesus
La Sef!lana·celebrates pride, heritage
' Claudia Solis
Contributing writer
the Battle of Puebla. On that
date, in 1862, the betterequiped and trained French
Poetry, speakers, music
army was defeated in their
and dancing! These are just a
first attempt to invade Mexico.
few activities taking place on
Hispanics celebrate this day in
campus this week.
honor of the undying spirit of
The reason: La Semana.
the Mexican people. .
La Semana is a celebration
The real Mexican Indein recognition of Cinco de
pendence Day is September
Mayo (May 5.) Although
16. Professor Ernesto Martisome people may think that
nez of the Chicano Latin
Cinco de Mayo is Mexican
American Studies Department
Independence Day, it ,actually
says the :'latter.is .more signifimatks the Mexican l/ittdrjtih•:·:·.·~ t:Q~qi}l~Mexico freed
itself from Spain after bun-
dreds of years; however,
people have a tendency to
celebrate in May."
Martinez was the advisor
for La Semana in the early
70's. He says, '1t is a time to
recognize not only Mexico,
but the Chicano culture as
well_." La Semana was
created as a subcommittee of
MEChA. It has been a CSUF
tradition for over two decades.
The program was initiated
at CSU, Fresno by members of
MEChA along with help from
the faculty of the Chicano and
Latin American Studies Department. One of the department professors, Dr. Lea
Ybarra, also served as an
advisor in the past. She
helped with the planning of
the celebration for 15 years.
She says the speakers and
activities are a "means of
cultural outgrowth and
political awareness. It came
about in the .60s and 70s ...
the time of the Chicano
Movement. People needed a
celebration to ymbolize pride
in their heritage."
This year's festivities were
planned by Dr. Huisaro
Garza, advisor, and Manuel
Ramirez; the Chairperson for
La Semana, says about this
year's celebration, "We hope
to educate people... make
them aware. Our history is
very rich and we have to
remember that."
.
·-
Please see page 7 for
Semana de La Raza
~lvitles
La Voz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
'iJage 2
,
Sorority seeks change
and not selling out culture
Dear Editor:
I am writing this letter in response to
ashort article that was written in the
versity isn't she accepting a system that
has oppressed people of color in the
past!!!? Isn't she glc:.ci her ancestors
fought to make a change in the system? I
AM!! Can't she see what we're trying to
do is make a change!!? We're not turning
our backs on our culture!!
Another question I have is that of
Lamda Theta Nu. I have·nothing against
this organization, as a matter of fact, I am
very proud of this sorority to take a stand
in what they believe in. Lamda Theta Nu
is a "Latina Sorority'' that is dedicated to
improving the well being of La Raza
community, and that is wonderful!! My
question is to Christina. As I stated
before, she wrote in her article that "if
Chicanos take on Greek letters, they are
accepting a system that has oppressed
people of color." Isn't the "Lamda Theta
Nu" Greek letters or is this my imagination? It seems as if she praises this sorority, but then turns around and states, to
wear Greek letters is offensive. Doesn't
this seem as if she is .contradicting herself?
I am very proud to be a MexicanAmerican women involved in an organization that is striving for positive
purposes of existence. Although, I have
to say that I am very ashamed that there
are students on my campus who do not
take the time to learn about different
. organizations. I believe everything
Lamda Sigma Gamma tries to accomplish
is based on good intentions and I am offended by articles such as hers, that do
not appreciate the_beneficial events that
occur within our sorority. I do not have a
doubt in my mind, th~t my sorority sisters
also acknowledge that we have a rich
culture and a proud history. I will never
forget how past ·gener~tions have ·
struggled to keep their-identity alive, but
also have struggled for: MAl~JNG A
CHANGE while·others have tried so
hard to avoid this reality.
MEChA Newsletter (Vol. I No. III) by
Christina Salcedo. Before I begin, I
would like to make it clear that what I am
.about to express is my own personal
feelings. I am speaking as an individual
.and I am not representing Lamda Sigma
.Gamma Sorority.
First of all, let me begin by letting .
·you know that I was very offended by
Christina Salcedo' s article. Even though
she did not directly state the sisters of
.Lamda Sigma Gamma were the Chicanas
who "turned their backs on their cul~re," I felt as if that is what she was
insinuating.
If this is what she believes, then I
honestly think she needs to take the time
to gain more informatiol'\ about our
organization before she begins writing
such offensive articles. I strongly feel
that it is unfair for her to judge others
before completely gathering all the facts
necessary to write an article.
Lamda Sigma Gamma was established to eliminate segregation. Our or-_
ganiz.ation is not a "Chicana Sorority''
but this definitely does not mean the _
-- - ··•. ·-- . . -- ·- members of our organization are not
proud of their ancestral contributions.
Our organization is a diverse sorority in
which we welcome any member of any
race. We do not want to limit ourselves
to improving the well being of only one
community.
-~-=---:.----~·
- ------- Does she really believe that since an
organization has different purposes of
existence that those members have
turned their backs on their culture? She
states, "what Chicanos must understand
is by taking on Greek letters, they are ·
· accepting a system that ·has oppress¢
people of color for centuri~s.." Wel( if
she
is knowledgeabl_e on the history of
Teresa Navarro
ag~n! We can't let this go as easily as we
opp~ssed
people, .I would l~ke her ~
Editor
diq the tutition fee increase. Did yo_u hear
m~!? WE CAN'T LET THIS GO! Late!y; in answer this for me; Were p~ple ofcolor
. always accepted into unive~ities? Were
Please·s·ee page 4'i for
th~_media there has been alot of focus on
we not oppressed in that
were upable
more opinions, viewpoints
We all had to take a cl~s in ECO- th_~ aftermath of the King verdict. Although
to attend college? Well, if ~~r viewpoint
NOMICS this year. Anoth~~:capitali~tic it i$ an important issue to discuss, it is not :
and letter to
the editor.
is correct, then tell me whv.~he is
i
word for POLITICS. Simply d~fined; Poor th~ main issue. The n;ain issue is King's .
attending a university,,' ~ttending a w1iunjust, outrageous, and sickening verdict. /
people are screwed.from behin_tl again.
.%
First, the Student Tax they casuapy . Everybody knows that-this type of brutal- .
called a Tutition Fee Raise was thrust upon ity"c--h as been happ~nirig for a long time. :
us. While the administration c;rawled on People of color are continually being h,ar-·;
it's ass so we wouldn't know· their shi~ rassed by the ju~iidal syst_em,. A system stinks!! . Well, the smell was definitely no- that is outdated. Th~it abusiv~ pehavior
·ticeable. Especially when SOil_le adminis- has become so overt that tl\ey had the au-'
·Teresa Navarro
Editor:
trators blantantly insisted th~t students dacity to stand _in front of the American
Assistant Editor: Maria Machuca
· should pay·more_to "maintain quality edu- people and mock our. fa1th in this justice
cation" (a.k.a. so~heycould keep their jobs). system. There is No Justice for People of
Photo Editor:
_A ngel de Jesus
Students could also maintain quality edu- Color in AmeriKKKa. It is a game and we
Production Editor: Yu Ting Huang
.
·
cation by demanding that these adminis- are the pc1 \rn, carelessly discarded.
Juan R. Avita, Eduardo t.
Staff writers:
This 1~ only the beginninnr :o the end
trators have M.A.'s, Ph.D.'s, a~d other
QUALITY Degrees, of which, some admin- of the equal_rights that 0ur brorhers and
Perez, Renee Ruelas
·sisters in the past struggled a ,d fought to
istrators are desparately lacking.
Of co~rse, the most recent and contro- attain for us and our children. It is our reLa Voz de Aztlan is published by the Associated Students, Inc. of California State
versial Economic disaster is the RD<:1ney sponsibility as educated people to organize
University, Fresno. 1be newspaper office is located in the Keats Campus Building,
King beating. We saw thi~ Capitalistic ourselves and utilizethepowerwelet slumFresno, CA 93740.0042. The opinions published in this paper are not necessarily of the
system for what it is, what it has been, and ber while the monster devours Our FreeAssociated Studen_t~-;-~~' ~e ~I~ C?llegia, ~~ L~ V~z ~~, ~~t~~n.
. 'with a ·FIGHT - ,what it will never be ~~
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fr.
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Simp_ly defined: Poo~ people are
screwed ,,om behind again
so
we.
By
so
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La Voz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
page 3
Poetry Aztlin
What's All This Identity Crisis?
CHALE HISPANIC
-Eduardo T. Perez
-Albelardo De Leon, Jr.
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be a mojado, an illegal, an alien,
. an undocumented, a Mexican jumping
bean, a wet back,
Hispanic no soy;
A palabra used by the
Gavacho to con us into believing
His
Melting
Pot
MI PUEBLO
-Rllfael Franco-Cuevas
XII-02-83
UC Irvine
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be a cholo, a zuit suitor,
a greaser, a spic, a·pachuco, a homey,
Lle.
No es nada mas que
A conglomoration of
Spanish speaking people
So as not to deal
With them on
An
Individual
Mi pueblo
de lento caminar
en esa jomada en busca de salida;
siempre tras los mismos pasos,
con un pie amarrado a la historia.
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be a Mexican, an American,
a Mexican-Ameri6tn, a Chicano,
a Latino, a Oticano-Latino,
Antes
coamiles de milpa
baldes de elotes
bateas de tamales y calabazas
ollas de atole, menudo y pozole,
terreros de mazorcas en chapiles ....... uur.1,..,
costales de f rijoles
platos de mole, pipian, ejotes, nopales;
y el le6n por detras.
Damn!, How much it hurts
to be all these for my Raza,
But never a HUMAN!
Basis.
Pos sabes que White Man
Con migo to chingaste
Para mi your labels
No
Son
Illegal Aliens
-Teresa Na'Dtlrro
You come acroos the border
and take what is not yours.
You are lazy,
and you are thieves.
You don't know the language
You don't even try to learn.
Go back where you came from .
You illegal "Aliens"
and take back what
you came with
diseases, war, and poverty
You "illegal Aliens"
Nada!
N uestra historia is
Longer and more
Glorious than you
Could ever imagine
Soy
Todo
Un
Indio!!
AndirejectyourcursedEuropeanblood.
My name is an
Assertion of the uniqueness
Of my People and an
Acknowledgement of
Self-determination and pride!
So chale
With your
Pinche
Hispanic
Yosoypuro
.,
r
~~--·_:'_
Long Over Due:
A Standing Ovation For My Chicana
-Eduardo Perez
Screaming u11der represented concerns
on the pyramid podium,
addressing La Ra za's mensaje
"United we will stand ..." while
cholitos swing on her arms,
That's my Mechista lady
leading the revolution,
~15
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(,
Her red nails of angered
volcanos like cutting knives when
throwing chingasos, to save her
~1~
.,,
CHICANO!!
c/s
hombre from wild predators,
That's my Aztec Warrior
protecting her property,
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,
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Her soft face of rose petals
.·
blooming nocturnal days while
-,
punching madly the blob
.
.
Adolecencia
of white arine,
That's my Chicana artist
~
~
~.
creating tortilla saucers
to feed my intestines,
.
-Teresa Judith Corona
Too often I am lost in the drunken man's
dance on the road full of sober critics,
she blankets my hangover with her
Edad de sentimientos inexplicables.
De confusion y desesperacion.
De anhelar el descubrin1iento del verdadero amor.
Confundiendolo en ocasiones con-pasiones pasajeras y destructivas.
wings of resurrection,
That's my Chicana angel
saving my dignity,
De sentir que el mundo es nuestro,
sin reconocer que somos solo criaturas amantes del desafio.
My mujer taking care of little
Edad el la cual anoramos despertar al hombre o a la mujer dormidos
en nuestras almas. Sin siquiera previa preparacion.
Johny, the pad, the grub three times
a day, plus holding a jale at the
cannery assembly line,
Edad de ilusiones y desiluciones.
I sentenced her to housework because it's
Anciosos por fl.ores y frases de amor a veces vacias, que pretenden
llevamos a la perdicion de nuestros seres.
Edad en la cual deseamos
·sentir lo que no sentimos, pero .
. .••.. , , , . , , ,
~ ? s loq_u~ n~ ?e~os.~tjr. •,·•• ·• ♦.·.·. · ;;
:/ :,·:; •
• • •- . • . •
an obligation created by my culture's ignorance,
Ashamed, I hid thank you words behind
my pride to a woman deserving the world
for taking care of her blind man.
Tardes
llenas de cuen tos y rosaries
con sabor a abuelos, tios, primos, sobrinos,
al calor de la hoguera,
despues de acomodar los relinchos y bramidos en potreros.
Mediodefas
entre las patas de los caballos y en las Haves de los taros
entre peleas de gallos y estruendos de mariachis
entre tequila y tranchete en mano;
y el le6n por detras.
Mananas
repletas de azadones, hachas, martillos, rosaderas,
machetes desenfundando, de bueyes jalando el arado,
de coas sembrando esperanzas,
de manos palpando la flor d e la tierra.
Noches
de serenata a la luna,
a esa inmensidad de cielo:
veta de brillantes:
espejo de la tierra
y el le6n por detras
dando zarpazos a su presa en medio de rugidos sordos,
moviendo la cola como el latigo del capataz.
Hoy
trozos de gritos estampados en banderas
que encarcelan campos de injusticia,
invitaciones a sespertar de esa larga pesadilla:
"!Herrnano, yo soy Joaquin como tu! !Unete!
!Somos tu sangrd !E:sta ~ lu ra~a! !Somo:, lu lucha!
!Hermano, larga el yugo que te ata a tu desgracia;
vuelve a can tar con nosotros tus canciones!"
Y se invaden las entradas de tonos conocidos,
mil veces escuchados.
Grandes hileras de carros destartalados
ahogando en circulo los campos de riego y poda,
cemiendo la tierra de uvas, de duraznos, verduras
de aceitunas, nueces, de manzanas ...
Pueblo con olor a travajos forzados,
a cosechas ajenas;
con todos los nombres de santos;
caras de corridos nunca escuchados
mas siempre repetidos.
Esa serenidad,
marea de furia interna,
espanto de patrones medievales;
La Voz de Aztlan
.
Chicanos who study literature
Convocation recOnciles differences
Eduardo T. Perez
Staff writer
,
gation!, No more betrayal, No
more, No more, No more .... !
Remember that we came from
different parts of the world, have
variety shades of brown in our
skin, and practice different belief's.
It is this type of diversity by our
own people that makes us unique.
Expand in areas seldom sought
by Raza individuals and reach
back to pull us up to where you
now stand.
Allofyoucarryashapeofthe
picture that we as one "Raza" have
been unable to puzzle together.
The only thing left to do is extend
our hand to each other so that
united we can draw the picture
perfect community. In all, "Peace
for our diverse people living
within one collective group."
MEChA Newsletter focuses on education,
raising cultural awareness in community
Irma Serrano
Contributing writer
Why a MEChA Newsletter?
Mensajeros Estudientiles was created as an alternative medium to voice the political opinions of
the Chicano Community. Educating the student
population about community responsibility and
cultural awareness will be the main focus of the
newsletter.
The rich history of MEChA and how it has
struggled ·to empower our people for over twentythree years will be included, in orde,r to dispel a
· numbet of ~tive myths about.our oraanization.
■
■
■
handed down to us from above
came interested in English as a
through the collective speaking
of women's experience, from the subject by reading Omar Salinas; that with the reality of the
streets, where we are impoverand when a Chicano learns
perspective of that experience"
ished and treated often like
about the canons, they immediChicano Literary theory, if
there is one, would want to
ately bring them into question. If animals. Chicanos can relate to
the anger African Americans felt
some Chicanos could, they
pursue the goals of the Chicano
about the Rodney King beating.
movement, just like feminist the- would restructure the canons,
It happens to us too.
believing that the present ones
ory is formed on the values and
It's okay to be a scholar, but it
are not representative of the
interests of the women's moveis not okay to become another
ment. Therefore, one would
entire American experience:
mainstream scholar distinthere is a lot more to consider
presume that Chicano theory
guished from the others only by
should express the values and
. than white writers with a few
the surname. We must develop
interests of the Chicano Movetoken black writers thrown in
our own theories and analyze
ment, where the term Chicano
here and there when considerliterature in our own way. We
was defined. What is great
ing English as a subject.
literature? Who says? How then
must question the greatness of
With the so-called death of
all writers heretofore considered
as a scholar committed to the
Marxism, many Chicano radigreat, and we must read and
Chicano movement, shall one
cals are finding their commitapproach the institution of Great ment in scholarship. It is impor- study Chicano writers.
We must be willing to
tant that we do not, no matter
Literature, specifically great
proclaim, if necessary, "Fuck
English Literature, that is,
how much we may learn the
Shakespeare," and study our
literature written in the English
language, become scholars conown great writers.
language? What of the canons?
cerned more with theories
Would they stay as they are?
Many Chicanos entering the
field of English, this one
The CSUF Chicano Alumni Association will host the
included, are appalled to learn
16th Annual CSUF Chicano Commencement Celebraof their lack of representation in
tion off campus for the first time in 13 years. The last
literature, even though they be-
deconstructionist. By choosing to
continue commenting on
Shakespeare, she shows some of
her earlier reverence for him.
There are differences in ideBut as feminist criticism became
ologies, and thus methodologies more significant in English dein approaching literature, but all partments, it was not placated
critics seem to agree on one
by analyzing all males, and
thing: the literature they study,
there was a conscious effort to
that which is taught in English
include more women in the
deP2,rtments, is important to
canons. Professor Jean Pickerstu~, and perhaps it wouldn't
ing of the CSUF English departbe too far off to say, is Literament tells me of a group of
ture, that is, is Great. A feminist feminist critics in English dedeconstructionist might point at
partments from all over Great
the contradictions in gender
Britain and;the U.S. who fought
roles from a Shakespeare play,
to include Doris Lessing in the
and expose the contradictions in canons, because she was a femimale-dominated society, but she · nist writer, and a good one.
was most likely drawn to
A feminist critic writes, "ConShakespeare from a love of Litsciousness raising is the major
erature, a love which allowed
technique of analysis, structure
her to indulge in the sweat
of organization, method of
words of the Great Bard. It was
practice, and theory of social
only after she became an English change of the women's movemajor and was, in essence,
ment. In consciousness raising,
forced to "take a side" by the
often in groups, the impact of
way she wrote about literature
male dominance is concretly
that she evolved into a feminist
uncovered and analyzed
Daniel Chacon
Contributing writer
facultyholdingdistinctideologies,
representatives of diverseorganizations, and absent students i r •
all
corners of the campus world
Hola Raza!
were
equally present in one
The Chicano- ~tino Convocation held on April 25 of this small room. In working together,
year, addressed existing issues they were able to create a reprethat have threaten La Raza sented agenda which will funcMovimiento and unity. For the tion as a microphone where all
first time there has been an effort concerns can be properly adto identify, explain, and solve. dressed. We can only speculate
those irritable differences that on the perceivable outcomes.
Yet, as a result of the convothreaten to separate our people.
The convocation was facili- cation, one matter was frequently
tated by respected faculty and agreed by all participants. I will
students. The main issue floating try to mimic the togetherness
in an emotional atmosphere was which occurred and hope that it
the distinct labeling, ·segregation agrees with you. No mure ruof each other, and invalid circula- mors!, No more back stabbing!,
tion of "chismes." Students and No more dictations!, No more
pointing fingers!, No more segre-
page 4
May 7, 1992
MEChA hopes to outreach to those students who are
unable to get involved regularly but align themselves with the politica of the community. Every
publication will focus on pertinent issues affecting
our community so that students may become a ware
and actively respond.
MEChA circulates approximately 200-300 issues during each publication, but intends to increase
for the fall of 1992 semester because of the rise in
demand. The newsletter contains an editorial, creative section, announcements, and a current event
section. MEChA will expand to include open letters
from community leaders, calendar events for Chicano Organ~tions, and a high school student section.
time it was held off-campus was at the Fresno Fairgrounds' old Paul Paul Theater. Since then, the CSUF
amphitheater has been the annual sight for the event.
This year, it joins the University Master's Hooding and
BA/BS commencement at the Fresno Convention
Center's Exhibit Hall.
The ceremony will begin at 6:00 p.m. and to be followed by a reception at Adrian's Restaurant located on
P Street at Inyo, directly east of the Exhibit Hall.
Mariachi closes the ceremony with "De Colores" and
continues to entertain at-the reception.
Dear Editor: LSG iind .MEChA.
:_s hould.st<lPfightingi;,lready! .
rev~gefui ;utd <unjust. Just
.-because Mexican-Americans
I am sick of the <:hildish
th.e _~me rights as White
games going on between Lamda . Amer~cans/ does not mean they
._Sigma Gamma and MEChA. The arE?Jessthan you or your organi.first thing I heard this semester -:-.~t~on. :.w eareallapartoftheLa
was ~hat ._Lamda Sunga Gamma ·Raza's·-1:#ty in promoting our
diq notr~pectMEC:hA.'s.~ uest . :culti:fre) Whetherorte is the hand
that-letters sho:uJd not be:w.tjrn- ·: )wd :th~ ·<>th~r:<
a:·foot, both. are
toMEChA'sannualeducational . n,eededf ,: ·
event, :c_
.Y~C. Lamd.a Sigma·-·
kt's/frY :to. work together
'Gamma /was ·a n)nvited gu~s~:
.pu:t . these childish :games
GET JT,· L.a.)rida, ·sigma·c;a,rpµi~ .l>~limd us (while ·t he ~ite man
Dear Editor(
.e~joy
·cmd
l!iil~!~': iil~~~!5
r~pect. _.·
. ..· __ ·
T~pofaMechistaoraSis. As. for th~. imn:t~ture stlbs°' . :t~, butJ dc(r¢sped botli of your
:-:MEChA :made tnJheir newslet- _.: : ~iganiza.riqns and the ~ontributet -:you·know, lou~ly -saying· · #911s they::Care :making .for la
·~mda Sigina_::Gamm,?s name· -·: -~ ---~espect La Razaand stop
._without a~ually spelling it out . Jighting·a~ongst:~itnelves.
Please; _JveJ<now exactly what
.· VIVA·LARAZ~! .
you were · insinuating. Your ·-A ron~emed·Chicano :·
passive a~~ye .attack was
La Voz de Aztlcln
-
Division entre Los
Hispanos durante
las elecciones
Marla Machuca
Assistant editor
Nuevamente, llega a nosotros una
pregunta que nos hace meditar en nuestra
posici6n como hispanos y residentes de
Esta dos Unidos, y no sabemos si realmente
estamos uniendo nuestras fuerzas en bene- ·
ficio de una mejor distribuci6n de justicia y
oportunidades, o es que solo estamos luchando unos contra otros.
En una encuesta realizada el dia 9 de
abril, se les pregunt6 a varios estudiantes
hispanos su opinion sobre las elecciones.
Los candidatos del nuevo partido poli'tico
Kaleidoscope, Marci Demings y Tovar.
Ortega y Tovar son dos candidatos
hispanos, los cuales tuvieron una intensa
campafia durante las elecciones.
Los hispanos representan cerca del 20
porciento en este plantel educativo, siendo
el grupo minoritario mas grande en la
universidad. En algunos afios mas quizas
sea el grupo etnico mas grande, y por esta
raz6n es muy importante tener representaci6n hispana en ASL
Es verdaderamente una lastima que
ninguno de los dos candidatos hispanos
para presidente hayan podido ganar en las
elecciones. Todos los hispanos esperaban
ansiosamente repetir el triunfo del af\o
anterior, en el cual Andres Montoya resultara elegido como presidente de ASL Sin
embargo muchos estudiantes piensan que
los hispanos seencontraban divididos entre
si.
Cuando se les preguntaba a los estudiantes acerca de su preferencia en las
elecciones, pocos de ellos sabian quienes
eran los candidatos representando las diferentes posiciones. Muchos de ellos, especialmente estudiantes de nuevo ingreso, ni
siquiera sabian que se estaban llevando a
cabo las elecciones. "Me hubiera gustado
tener mas informaci6n acerca de los candidatos, la mayoria estabamos confundidos
porlosdiferentescomentariosquesededan
de Tovar y Ortega", estos y muchos otros
comentarios similares eran la respuesta de
los estudiantes de nuevo ingreso.
Para los estudiantes que se encuentran
mas familiarizados con lo que sucede en la
universidad, su punto de vista era mucho
mas preciso. "Yo soy de origen hispano y
porlotantosiempreapoyarealoshispanos;
sin embargo creo que deverian estar mas
concientes y prepararse mejor para la posici6n en la cual estan postulandose como
M9y 7, 1992
page 5
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050!\·
PATH~
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see ELECCIONES page 8
Gonzalez named CSUF 2nd-in-charge
• Provost and Academic A.ffairs Vice President is
highest ranking Latino in CSUF
Renee Ruelas
Staff writer
Exactly eight months after
being appointed acting vice
president of academic affairs,
Alex Gonzalez is officially the
Provost and Vice Pesident of
Academic aAfairs.
After an international
search of nearly 100 candidates, conducted by the
University Search Committee,
Gonzalez was one of four finalists.
John D. Welty, president
of CSUF, made the announcement to faculty and staff
through a memorandum.
"Gonzalez has done an
exemplary job as acting vice
president for Academic Affairs," Welty added, " I am
looking forward to having
him serve in the newly designated position as PVPAA."
The new position and title
makes Gonzalez the person in
charge of the University in the
absence of the president.
Gonzalez was appointed
the acting vice president, last
summer, after the resignation
of Judith Kuipers to become
chancellor to the University of
Wisconsin at La Crosse.
The position makes
Gonzalez the highest ranking
Latino in CSUF.
"We're excited," said Bill
Flores, "It's a tremendous opportunity for Alex and the entire campus."
Gonzalez has a number of
academic degrees from UC
Santa Cruz and Pomona College. He also attended Harard Law School and was post
doctoral fellow at Stanford
University.
Since 1979 when Gonzalez
arrived as an associate professor of La Raza studies, he has
held several leadership positions on the CSUF.
Two years later Gonzalez
became associate professor of
psychology. He also held the
position of chairman and professor of the Department of
Psychology.
In 1990, Gonzalez was
awarded the Outstanding Psychologist regognition by the
San Joaquin Valley Psychological Association.
Gonzalez has received numerous grants, awards and
fellowships such as the NIE/
National Council of La Raza
Reasearch Fellowship.
He also received the
Meritorious Performance and
Professional Promise Award
atCSUF.
He has also served on the
Academic Senate as a member '
of the Executive Committee. ·
Gonzalez has also been in- i
volved as a member of Task
Force on Racism, Sexism and
Homophobia, and the Athletics Appeals Panel.
Gonzalez is a member of
the Board of Directors of the
San Joaquin College of Law
and Advisory Board of the
National Hispanic Scholarship
Fund.
Dr. Alex Gonzalez
Th~ list of Gonzalez' accomp_li'shments, awards, memcame to campus and the anbership in groups and public
nouncement made public
service is extensive.
"Gonzalez has a lengthy and duringg Spring Break (April
distinguished record of service 13 through 17) after the four
to the university and the com- candidates had been interviewed.
munity," said Welty.
The position of PVPAA was
The interviews were -con• •
made
effective imnwdiately.
ducted when the finalists
La Voz de Aztlan
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May'7, 1992
page 6
Banquet recognizes achievements of many
students for their academic achievements at
the University.
The keynote speaker was Manuel A.
Rosales, president of the California State
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. In his
speech, he urges Hispanics to become in, volved and participate in their local commu.. .,_...__......., nities. His speech addressed issues of empowering the Hispanic rommunity through
the means of involvement.
"To act is critical," said Rosales. ''Hispanics are the fastest growing market segment for all consumer goods. The purchasing
power of Hispanics in the year 2000 will be
$477 billion."
Manuel Rosales said the middle class of
the Hispanic community must also become
involved and educate others.
The involvement of Hispanics on committees and in the political arena is also crul cial to establish the presence of Hispanics
Photo by Angel de Jesus within the community.
HBSA Banquet, the event held at Tomlno'• R•taurant, attracted more than 200 guests.
"We must also get involved and use the
voting rights and the power of the ballot to
Student Awards Banquet held atTomino's in
Rita Magdaleno
Fresno, on April 11, 1992. The gala event was implement change," Rosales said. "We have
Contributing writer
coordinated by the Hispanic Business Stu- the numbers. We have got to get people
registered to vote."
dents Association of CSUF. The purpose of
Rosales said that the two primary factors
Education: A Promising Outlook for this-annual event was to recognize Hispanic
Excellence was the theme for the 14th Annual
Organizations help increase
minorities in health professions
Calendario
Eduardo T. Perez
Staff writer
dents' achievement and motivation, the 5th
Annual Scholarship and Awards Banquet
was held on May 1, 19'J2.
The keynote speaker, Dr. Raymond
The numer of Chicanos going into the
health sciences is moderately increasing. Rodriguez, professor of genetics at UC
The Science Career Opportunity Program Davis, said that one of the reasons why
(SCOP), along with Chicano Health Or- minorities tend not to establish their caganization (CHO) and Charles R. Drew reers in the health science field is that they
Society, collaborated in bringing about the "qet the message that science is not for
5th Annual Scholarship and Awards Ban- them."
The scholarship and awards banquet
quet on May 1, 19'J2.
is
a
symbolic
message that the field of health
SCOP's uniqueness stems from the
support it provides for minority students is suitable for any individual with an interwho have been accepted into health profes- est. Attesting to the increasing participation of minorities in the health profession
sional careers.
For the academic years of 1991-1992, were 24 awards receipients.
The recipients, representing a wide
SCOP enrolled over 200 students in its
program. CHO was established as an in- spectrum of ethnicity, are April Amey, Rosecentive program for Chicano and Chicana mary Bernal, Phillip Castellano, Teresa
students entering the health field. CHO Judith Corona, Tarea Courington, Chang
focuses on nurturing community aware- Lee, Rithy Lim, Mary Lopes, Lea Lour,
ness through sponsoring health-related Robert Madrigal, Michelle McClare, Sergio
Mazon, Larry Montano, Martha Moran,
projects.
Lisa
Moreno, Pheakdey Norng, Andrea
The Charles R. Drew Society is a program for encouraging young black college Torres-Perez, Liliana Quintero, Manual
students into the health field. The Society Ramirez, Lilia Rodriguez, Antonio Rubio,
influences support groups for ensuring the La Mont Perry, Leslie Taylor, and Demetra
Vincent-Walker.
students' academic success.
La Voz congratulates these students
These three programs successfully
network and make the out-of-reach health and the success of the 5th Annual Awards
profession easily accessible to under-rep- Banquet in continuing to support CSUF
resented students. To acknowledge stu- students.
What is going on!? Why haven't you submitted an application for La
Voz Editor!? Don't you know that the written language is very powerful? Professors, encourage your students to use their voice; C]SA,
now's your chance to gain experience. Seniors and juniors, be examples to our freshman and sophomore brothers and sisters. They are
looking to you for diredion. It doesn't matter what year in school you
are or your major - only that you are interested and committed.
Apply Today!
that would determine the future of Hispanics
are participation and involvement.
The mistress of ceremonies was Dr. Luz
Gonzales, associate professor of the ChicanoLatino Studies Department: She was given an
award ofappreciation for her support and assisting in the success of the awards banquet.
The HBSA awarded the following students: Juventina Gutierrez, Esmeralda Salinas, and Jose Marquez with scholarships. The
HBSA ''Member of the Year'' award went to
Aleida Magdaleno for her c;ontinuous dedication to the organization. The HBSA Alumni and Friends Association was formed this academic year in order
to provide assistance for Hispanic students.
This year they awarded scholarsips to Norma
Pinedo and Jose Virrueta.
Recognition forcomittment and support
was also given to the HBSA executive board:
Jose Marquez, vice president; Nonna Pinedo,
administrative assistant; and Rene Castro, financ.ial administrator; Rita Magdaleno, Annual Awards Banquet chair.
Jesus Ceja recieved an award for his
special assistance in the awards banquet.
Awards of Appreciation wenttoHBSAadvisors Yolanda Luna and Victor Olivares.
C.W.A.A. (Chicano Writers-Artist Association)
Meeting on May 7 6:30 p.m. in CU #311
Chicano Commencement Committee
* Meeting every Thursday at 5:00 p.m. in Joyal Admin. #203
* Have you ordered your invitations yet? Pick them up at the
University Outreach Office.
* Have you bought your cap and gown? Pick them up at the
Kennel Book Store.
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Chicano Commencement CeJ~pration
*May23
* Entertainment: Los Danzantes de Aztlan, 5:45 to 6:15 p.m.
* Ceremony, 6:15 to 8 p.m.
* Reception: Adrian's Restaurant, 8:15 to 10 p.m.
Deadline: Application for SECRETARY I
* May 8 Friday
* The University of California, Santa Cruz, Early Academic
Outreach Program Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) has
a current opening for a Secretary I position.
* Starting salary 1570/month
* Call (209) 445-5163 or (408) 459-2011
Deadline: Minority Graduate Fellowship Applications
*May15
* Applications can be picked up at the Graduate Office in the
Thomas Administration building.
Fourth Annual Latin Jazz Festival
*May24
. * Featuring: Poncho Sanchez
* $2.00 admission for non-members
* Located at Ratcliff Stadium a non-alcoholic event
APPLICATIONS FOR LA VOZ POSITIONS ARE STILL BEING
ACCEPTED!!
La Voz de Aztlan
May 7, 1992
page 7
Semana de la Raza
I
-May 1, 1992 Friday
Week of Activities
11:00 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
.
Noon (The Pit)
:
I
Speaker, Jose Luis Acosta
"500 Years Of Oppression" and ''Peace and Dignity Runs"
Chicano Secret Service
.Chicano Comedy Group
:
May 4, 1992 Monday
10:00 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
11:00a.m.
Noon
12:30 p.m. (Free Speech Area)
,Opening Day Ceremony
Parade
Speaker, Dr. Hisauro Garza
"Cinco De Mayo and the Chicano Movement"
La Estudiantina Zumarraga de Mexico Qty
"An instrumental and Vocal Group from Mexico City."
May 5, 1992 Tuesday
11:30 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
Danz.antes de Aztlan
Cinco De Mayo
12:00 noon (The Pit)
Chicano Talent Show
Hombase Aztlan, Teatro Aztlan - Hollywood,
Touch of Bro~ Magic, Teatro Tortilla
May 6, 1992 Wednesday
May 7, 1992 Thursday .
Children's Day/Community Night
May 8, 1992 Friday
.
11:00 a.m. (Free Speech Area)
La Estudiantina Zumanga
Noon (Upstairs Cafeteria #200-202) Panel; "Redistricting"
Speakers, Enrique Reyes and Linda Morales
.
. ''
8:00 a.m.
Children's performances
Noon
Pinatas (spon~red by Mex-Tech students and C.L.A.S.E.
8:00 p.m. (Satellite Student Union) Teatro Aztlan - Hollywood
Speakers/Poetry, Juan Felipe Herrera, Margarita Robles & CW.A.A.
11:00 a.m.
Noon
Tardeada (food booths/
entertainment) Grassy area in front 12:30 p.m.
8:00p.m:
o·f Satelite College Union
.\
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Mariachi
Los Ninos de Aztlan
Clovis High School Marimba Band
CINCO DE MAYO DANCE ·-
Kathy Ni~to . ~- -- .
Liberal studi~1senior
;'No. Some ·p~ple; took advantage of "th~ situation.
They used it to~irob and do
things that wer~ not appropriate. I believ~the officers
should be ·groiSecuted.
However, the ~laces I see
being destroyed are not the
upper-classbut~hepoor. The
violence was directed at the
wrong people.\ I ~hink the
violence shoul«i have been
towards the upper<lass."
AnJres M Jntoya
History, senior
Julio -Cesear j..eal
E~gUsh, graduate student
Social work, -Seltior
::)
· "Violenq~ is never justified.
However, wedo need to look
into ·why _the violence occurred. Seek a medium so
violence cari be prevented.
This thing with beatings has
·been going on for a longtime
in L.A and·-i t will continue
tb happen if people in power..
continuetope exclusionary.''
"That is a hard one to answer.
don't think it -,vas ·justi5ed. It's
been bottled up for 20 years in the
black community. This was just
one more thing. It wa~ an eruption of all the feelings and beliefs
about the system. Some residents
even said, 'We are getting attention.'"
. . .. Photos by Angel cte.jesus --.
"What is justification? Was the
Rodney King incident justified?
Is harassment by the police that
happens everyday in our comm unity justified? Is the fact that
Chicano's, Mexicans, blacks,
Asians, and ·American Indians
in a continuous state of poverty
justified bythepeoplein power?
The direction of violence was
wrong bec·a use many were
blacks and Mexicans that were
injured. Bui I understand-it
· - ~\l.rM' art exp16sion: They should
have been more organized."
.
La Voz de Aztlan
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May 7, 1992
pag~ 8
Chicano Time Traveller: This is Fresno
CT&T is a Homeboy, all choloed out
and shit.
"Prithee, who are you and what would
you have here?" Good John will ask him.
"Orale, let me have some chicken
mole," CT&T will say, pulling the hairs of
his own goatee, squinting his eyes. "And
give me a Sprite, ese."
And he'll, upon being informed by
Good John that there were no Com Tortillas, take all the food off the pilgrims' table
and throw it on the ground and let the bugs
and birds feed on it. Then he'll, along with
the Native Americans, proceed to make the
indigenous meals of pre-Columbus days,
real food, enough to feed everybody, even
the Puritans. At the end of the episode,
CT&T will make his speech, his history
lesson for the week, and the natives will be
so touched that they'll invite the pilgrims to
stay the night before they begin their long
journey back to Europe.
In another episode CT&T can go back
to 1776 to visit the Declaration of Independence. The white men could be gathered around the table like the last supper,
arguing over the document.
John Hancock would grab the pen out
of Franklin's hand and say, "give that to
me. I'm going to sign my name much bigger than you whimps signed yours, so if
this quest for independence fails, king
George will hang me first. I plan on really
raking in the dough, so I have more to lose
than the: rest of you."
"Give that pen to me, you little girl." A
short skinny man would find his way to the
Jesus Bazan
Contributing writer
I have an idea for a Saturday morning
Super Hero series called THE CHICANO
TIME TRAVELLER. It's about a Chicano
Super Hero named Fidel who has the power,
provided by the ancient god Quetzaquautl,
to travel through time, to any event he
wants; and because he is a Chicano, he is, of
course, good. He is a homeboy from Sangar who wears big red letters "P.C." on his
chest, because he's politically correct.
He spends his time travelling to historical events that have affected the United
States, his home, Aztlan. The Chicano Time
Traveller, or CT&T for short, is a hero to
people who have been victims of events in
the anals (oops, I mean annals) of U.S.
history, people usually with dark skin and
without significant political power. Representing us all, CT&T will travel to a different event each episode and set things politically correct. In one episode he'd go to the
eastern shores of America, and he bring a
couple of homeboys from his Barrio, and
they'd wait for Columbus on the beach, for
his financed ship to sail ashore, so they
could kick the shit out of him and send him
back to Europe to pay his own damn debts.
In another, CT&T will go to the first
Thanksgiving and prevent the Puritans
from slaughtering the Indians they invited
for dinner. The puritans, with their bonnets
and long black buckle hats, will suddenly
notice CT&T sitting at their abundant table,
tying a bib around his neck.
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front. "Not only will I sign my name to the
document, but I'll put where I'm from, that
way if independence fails, King George
will know where to find me---and if it
doesn't fail, you'll know where you can do
business with me. Here's my business cards,
gentleman.--lf you ever need ..."
Suddenly a flash of bright light will
cause all to squint and CT&T will appear,
dressed in a Zoot Suit, swinging his chain,
acting all cool and shit.
"Orale," he'd say. "You guys are going
about it all wrong."
"Who are you?" they'd ask in unison,
since they would all be thinking exactly
alike.
''You're going about this all wrong,"
he'd repeat. "Let me see that."
They'd hand him the document and
CT&T would rip it up into little pieces and
let them all float at once onto the hard
wooden floors. ''We have to ask otra gente
before we decide what we want to do with
this land of ours."
CT&T would then call his friend, a
tribal chief, into the room. "What do you
think we should do?"
'1 think we should send whitey home,"
the chief would say. He would be angry because his children were killed by settlers
and his wife was raped.
Then CT&T would call in a Black slave
and ask her what they should do. Her face
will be bruised and she will be pregnant
with her owner's child.
"Let's send whitey home," she would
say.
CT&T is very politically correct; he
would say to the blank-eyed businessmen
and politicians who signed the
declaration,"! have called your wives and
asked them to come. Their voices are as
important as yours."
The ladies would enter, one by one,
and when CT&T would ask them what
they thought, they would all agree, send
whitey home.
Mrs Hancock would be especially furious. "I already have the jack-off's bags
packed and ready to go," she'd say.
"I'm sorry," CT&T would tell the men,
"But you have to go home." And he would
say in his climactic speech of the episode,
"Go ahead and leave most of the women
here, because, like us, they are oppressed,
and even some of your men: those willing
to work with us, to make a better America
for all; where little Chicanitas can play in
peace with little white kids, without being
called stupid wetback by the white parents." (At this point all the other characters
would look at each other in confusion,
because they wouldn't know what a wetback or a Chicanita was. But the Chicano
viewer will all too well understand what
CT&T is talking about). "Anyone who
wants to live in peace with others, even if
they may not be like you, can stay. America
is The Place of All Colors. But you who
want to dominate, who believe that your
culture is the superior one, because you
wear underwear and read Shakespeare,
those who believe decisions can be made
without the rest of us, you mu.st leave."
COLUMBUS from page 1
ELECCIONES from page 5
rather, we should be celebrating 500
years of Resistance. Resistance to the
brainwashing, to the raping of our
culture, and to the false history that
we've been taught.
"By you being here at the University
you are resisting oppression" Acosta told
the crowd.
By the end of the hour more people
had gathered to hear what he had to say.
Acosta finished his speech by relating the
Rodney King situation to the historical
injustice that had been started by Columbus' arrival.
"It's not simply a black and white
thing like the system would want to have
us believe," Acosta said.
Columbus spared no one - not the
brown Natives, nor the Black slaves; neither will this racist system we live in and
what we call AMERII<I<KA.
This is a point Raza should think
about seriously on October 12, 1992. In
San Francisco, there will be a massive
protest by pe9ple of color. They will be
denouncing the replicas of the ships of
Columbus - the Nina, Pinta, and Santa
candidatos, no solo por la grande responsabilidad que implica ser presidente de
ASI, sino porque tam bien de alguna manera nos estan representando a nosotros
los hispanos", dijo un estudiante del
grado doce.
Cualquiera que haya sido Ia raz6n o
las razones, esperamos que el pr6ximo
afio tengamos mas exito en las elecciones.
Tambien es importante que todos los
hispanos nos unamos y apoyemos a
nuestros candidatos hispanos presentandonos a votar. Preguntamos a varios estudiantes su opini6n acerca del trabajo hecho por el presidente anterior, y
muchos estudiantes acordaron que hubo
una gran mejoria en comparasi6n a los
at\os anteriores. En nuestras manos esta
la decisi6n de hacer un cambio, y demostrades a las generaciones que vienen tras
nosotros que unidos se puede triunfar.
Maria.
You are welcome to participate and
let the world, especially the rich corporations sponsoring the event, know just
how much they have offended you, your
culture, and your basic right as a human
being!
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