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Boulevard Nights- the trouble with a picket =Comentarios= A Special Supplement to LA VOZ de AZTLAN^ Coors cerveza- still sour brew Boulevard Nights is not a movie. But, neither is it such a discriminatory and stereotypic; that we should all go out boycotted Chicanos and non-Chicanos should go to see it to gain an understanding of one of the most destructive elements of the barho- gang violence The film reinforces the fact that gang violence is undesireable and something must be done about it now Violence isn't glorified and contrary to what many have said, the in¬ cidents of violence surrounding the film have been few and far between. The most positive thing that Boulevard Nights has done by coming to Fresno is that it has helped bring more attention to the problems of the barrio. Perhaps now we can all re- dedicate ourselves to improving con- I oru ing to end it ,r boyco Chicanos In Law Group Prepares For Future As Attorneys Despite claims by President Carter and career counselors and others that there is an oversupply of lawyers, there is no oversupply of Chicano law- President Carter has said that the US has one of the heaviest concen¬ tration of lawyers on earth He has charged that there is more litigation, but he isn't sure that there is more Many Chicanos can identify with having little justice With a higher percentage of persons in prisons than in graduate schools, Chicanos are not whom Carter was speaking of when he spoke about a heavy concentration of lawyers for example there is one Chicano lawyer for every 9,4«0 Chi¬ canos, compared to one Anglo lawyer for every 53® Anglos. For many Chicano college students it, has become a challenge to consider going on to law school Here at CSUF there is an organiza¬ tion dedicated to making law school a more feasible goal. This organization is "Chicanos in Law.* Since the begin¬ ning of this school year, the group has been busy establishing itself as a serious organization. It has boosted its membership to twenty-five pre-law students under the leadership of pres¬ ident, Luis Ambriz. Among the activities thus far have been trips to various law schools in California. Members have met repre¬ sentatives of the Stanford School of Law in Palo Alto, Hastings Law School in San Francisco, UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, Boalt Hall in Berkeley, McGeorge Law School in Sacramento and most recently, Santa Clara Law School Members have also attended various minority admissions pre-law conferences. Last semester, Chicanos in Law along with 'Ola Raza,* a law group from San Francisco, hosted an LSAT prep test (similar to the SAT college ■) Law have also hosted such speakers as^ former judge Al Villa, Ed Valdez, a Fresno attorney, Robert Perez, CSUF criminology instructor and practicing attorney, Marcos Lopez an attorney from the UFW head¬ quarters in Keene, California, and Dr Karl Svenson of the political science department Topics have ranged from talks on different law schools to talks on post-Bakke effects on law school minor- Their biggest project to date has been the planning of 'Chicanos in Law, Law Day' at CSUF for the upcoming year. Recruiters from various law schools will be invited to attend and disseminate information on their A panel of speakers in the field of law will be invited to speak on pertinent legal issues, and CIL will pro¬ vide a LSAT preparatory test CIL has asked the Associated Students to help fund this project. Other future activities include: a burrito fundraiser sale; a picnic and Softball game with Chicano Business Students Association; a trip to La Par, Cesar Chavez' UFW headquarters in Keene, California, and a National Lawyer's Cuild four-day conference in Santa Clara. For the month of April, CIL is plan¬ ning a Chicano Attorney Openhouse where students will have a chance to meet and speak with local Chicano attorneys at an informal gathering. . For more information on CIL, a message may be left in the CIL message box in the La Raza Studies unice. beer was disappoint inaccurately reported by major media It is apparently true the C.I. Forum, a 10,000-strong veterans organization, is pulling out of the boycott they started when Coors company refused to hire Chicanos and other minorities It was also predictable since the Forum has done little in recent years to promote the boycott and has had to forfeit grants from the Coors Company because of the boycott It is not true, however, that the boy cott of Coors beer is over What has hap¬ pened is the powerful Coors public rela¬ tions machine has attempted to use the C.I. Forum's decision to speak for the millions of Chicanos, AFL-CIO members and other boycotts who will never drink Coors again In the 12 years since the boycott star¬ ted, too much Rocky Mountain spring water has passed under the bridge to re¬ verse the flow. In spite of Coors' domin¬ ation of the media, many people have been educated to the company's racist and reactionary politics. Union members know of Coors practice of breaking strikes and unions at the brewery Anti¬ war activists know of the gross profits of Coors owned porcelain plant made during the Vietnam war. Chicano :lents at the state's universities know oseph Coors activities as a member he Board of Regents to stop financial programs which lelped hundreds of canos attend the University of Colo- The recent media blitz behind the C.I Forum decision to end their participation in the Coors boycott is only one example of the economic success of the boycott. As a result of the boycott, Coors slipped from fourth to fifth nationwide in beer sales This year, profits for the company have continued the downward slide of The Coors company is using the C.I. Forum, golfer Lee Trevino and the news Chic; Some people will be deceived by the tokenism and misleading 'news' stories. Most people will recognize the deception as the actions of a desperate company trying to reverse the effects of a dam¬ aging boycott We cannot compromise our principles as a people. The goals of the Coors family are in direct conflict to the goals of the Chicano movement. Boycott Coors, over a million Chicanos Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: I am writing thjs letter in response to the March 19 edition of La Voz. I cannot help but detect the bias in your article by Feliz Contreras on the price of lettuce in Continental Market Craig Kozy simply state on the sign that as a result of the UFW strike the price of lettuce is 98< a head He did not say, as a result of the UFW lettuce is 9fK Why are you compelled to think that this leads to misconceptions of the strike?? Maybe because they aren't misconceptions?? Maybe because you're afraid the public will see what the strike truely (sic) represents. All Contreras talks about is the poor little hara-working Mexicans (he calls them Chicanos) who slave for the farmers at what he considers grossly insufficient wages However, nowhere does he mention that Ceasar Chavez is asking upwards to 200% wage increases which is obviously greater than the maximum increase possible under President Carter's anti-inflation wage and price guide¬ lines. A maximum increase which has been offered by the farmers by rejected bu the UFW who wants even more (sic). The absurdity of the UFW's de¬ mands are reflected by the rejection of help from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service So why the strike?? Mr. Contreras also fails to mention that within the past six months, there has been three decertification elections called for by the UFW workers themselves because they are unhappy with the union. never mentioned that there has been a marked increase in the complaints about the medical plan, by the workers themselves ever since the UFW took over, despite the fact that the UFW has amassed a $6.2 million surplus in their medical fund I think my points are very clear. Mr. 'Contreras is resorting to the old UFW tactic of trying to get public sympathy A tactic which even failed them on the famous Proposition 14 The California public is smarter than you think. My word to the public is, if you blame the UFW for high lettuce prices, it is not because of store signs, but because of what the UFW represents Don't be misled by biased articles in La Voz. Boulevard Nights is a movie about lowriders and gang members in the East Los Angeles community But some mem¬ bers of the Chicano community, both statewide and locally, feel Chicanos are being taken for a ride and that some¬ thing must be done about it. Fresno State University's Chicano student organization, MEChA, decided Thursday to join the MEChA at Fresno City College and the community-based Chicano Youth Center in a protest of the film now playing at the Tower The- 'We're not telling people don't see it,' said CSUF La Raza Studies professor Alex Saragoza at MEChA s weekly meeting Thursday 'We just want to point out to the community the movie's 'We're criticizing those elements of the movie that are negative, that ex¬ ploit and manipulate It could have been a movie about the farmworker plight ' Boulevard Nights hit Fresno last March 23 and Saragoza called it a 'Cul¬ tural event" for Chicanos The movie depicts a fatherless Chicano farr.ly whose eldest son, once a gang member himself but who "knew when to get out," sees his younger brother becoming entangled with the gang and its con¬ flicts The elder brother is a lowrider, his car decked out with hydraulic equip¬ ment that gives him the edge in a 'hop¬ ping' contests His dream is to own his own cm shop and leave behind the gang life. His younger brother, however, is a 'cholo' who becomes the target of a rival gang after one of the rival mem¬ bers is stabbed in a fight between the two gangs. The tragedy and depiction of life in the movie has been described as 'real¬ istic* portrayal of East Los Angeles life Some movie goers have even said the movie's depiction is mild to what actu¬ ally happens in East Los Angeles But Chicano activists are upset that "negative* aspects of.the Chicano life are overly stressed because different people have different interpretations of the film's message 'The little kids and cholos that watch the movie will have very different in¬ terpretation than students who would intellectualize the movie and view it with a critical sophisticated perception,' said Saragoza. Saragoza was raised in Madera and is a sociologist with degrees from CSUF and UC Berkeley New Chicano gang film draws Fresno boycott He said the movie stereotypes and 'Glorification will take place on that is racist and that MEChA has a respon- level (younger kids) They'll take what sibility to demonstrate that to the young- they want from the movie and not anal- erkids. yze it for what it' s worth * "College (Chicano) students are elite in the Chicano community because there aren't that many of us We have the responsibility to communicate the mov¬ ie ' s negativeness to our community " fz, CSUF EOP counselor Boulevard Nights Review LA -gangviolence. It is a painfully honest view of the fighting of the gangs, what motivates them to fight and the tragedy they can bring. The acting, _ . grounds and cars an authentic and < v.ncing ^^^-*-B Raymond Avila (Richard Yniguez) plays the part of the big brother we all knew and loved He makes the audience feel the anguish of trying to escape life He slaps around his younger unpredict¬ able brother Chuco (Danny de la Paz), but does so only to try to get his brother to abandon the life of a vato loco Raymond has escaped that cholo existence and is now a hard-working car customizer and dedicated lowrider ruise the main and get 'The stereotypes affect our kids edu¬ cational life They get into high school and are put into tower classes because they're perceived as low acheivers, based on these stereotypes As a result, they don't get the classes they need to qualify for college or to succeed. A leaflet prepared by the Chicano Youth Center staff was prepared and picketing of the movies set for Sunday The leaflet accuses the film as motivat ing gang warfare and stereotyping Chicanos "as being inferior and not knowing how to control or work with The leaflet suggests that films like Boulevard Nights will only further anta¬ gonize rival racial groups like the Stoner, Crips, and F-14s. "Are we going to wait until we have stabbings and shooting in our commun¬ ity before we do anything? How many more homeboys/homegirls will be kil¬ led before we stop these film producers and theatre owners from exploiting.and prostituting the Chicano community?" The statewide organization of MEChA has already called for a boycott of the movie, said FSU MEChA President Priscilla Contreras Also boycotting the movie is the Chicano Actors Croup in into hopping" contests but still wants to get ahead and eventually -Barry his girlfriend Shady (Marta Dubolis). But, Chuco, Raymond's brother still en toys life in the gang But, he is uneasily backing into the gang On the way to futt i" --*•=■•-"****************************■ can fumes, gi and fights along with his homeboys The movie ultimately turns out to oe a struggle between the brothers. Raymond, to help his brother out of the cholo lifestyle, and Chuco to gain status among his carnales The movie is a good story about the love between two brothers and their struggles in the barrio Taken as a specific took at just one segment of life in Los Angeles, Boule¬ vard Nights is an excellent film It does not glorify violence or make gang life attractive If anything it shows how tragic life in the bamocan be
Object Description
Title | 1979_04 The Daily Collegian April 1979 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1979 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
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Language | eng |
Description
Title | April 2, 1979 La Voz Pg. 2-3 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1979 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Full-Text-Search | Boulevard Nights- the trouble with a picket =Comentarios= A Special Supplement to LA VOZ de AZTLAN^ Coors cerveza- still sour brew Boulevard Nights is not a movie. But, neither is it such a discriminatory and stereotypic; that we should all go out boycotted Chicanos and non-Chicanos should go to see it to gain an understanding of one of the most destructive elements of the barho- gang violence The film reinforces the fact that gang violence is undesireable and something must be done about it now Violence isn't glorified and contrary to what many have said, the in¬ cidents of violence surrounding the film have been few and far between. The most positive thing that Boulevard Nights has done by coming to Fresno is that it has helped bring more attention to the problems of the barrio. Perhaps now we can all re- dedicate ourselves to improving con- I oru ing to end it ,r boyco Chicanos In Law Group Prepares For Future As Attorneys Despite claims by President Carter and career counselors and others that there is an oversupply of lawyers, there is no oversupply of Chicano law- President Carter has said that the US has one of the heaviest concen¬ tration of lawyers on earth He has charged that there is more litigation, but he isn't sure that there is more Many Chicanos can identify with having little justice With a higher percentage of persons in prisons than in graduate schools, Chicanos are not whom Carter was speaking of when he spoke about a heavy concentration of lawyers for example there is one Chicano lawyer for every 9,4«0 Chi¬ canos, compared to one Anglo lawyer for every 53® Anglos. For many Chicano college students it, has become a challenge to consider going on to law school Here at CSUF there is an organiza¬ tion dedicated to making law school a more feasible goal. This organization is "Chicanos in Law.* Since the begin¬ ning of this school year, the group has been busy establishing itself as a serious organization. It has boosted its membership to twenty-five pre-law students under the leadership of pres¬ ident, Luis Ambriz. Among the activities thus far have been trips to various law schools in California. Members have met repre¬ sentatives of the Stanford School of Law in Palo Alto, Hastings Law School in San Francisco, UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, Boalt Hall in Berkeley, McGeorge Law School in Sacramento and most recently, Santa Clara Law School Members have also attended various minority admissions pre-law conferences. Last semester, Chicanos in Law along with 'Ola Raza,* a law group from San Francisco, hosted an LSAT prep test (similar to the SAT college ■) Law have also hosted such speakers as^ former judge Al Villa, Ed Valdez, a Fresno attorney, Robert Perez, CSUF criminology instructor and practicing attorney, Marcos Lopez an attorney from the UFW head¬ quarters in Keene, California, and Dr Karl Svenson of the political science department Topics have ranged from talks on different law schools to talks on post-Bakke effects on law school minor- Their biggest project to date has been the planning of 'Chicanos in Law, Law Day' at CSUF for the upcoming year. Recruiters from various law schools will be invited to attend and disseminate information on their A panel of speakers in the field of law will be invited to speak on pertinent legal issues, and CIL will pro¬ vide a LSAT preparatory test CIL has asked the Associated Students to help fund this project. Other future activities include: a burrito fundraiser sale; a picnic and Softball game with Chicano Business Students Association; a trip to La Par, Cesar Chavez' UFW headquarters in Keene, California, and a National Lawyer's Cuild four-day conference in Santa Clara. For the month of April, CIL is plan¬ ning a Chicano Attorney Openhouse where students will have a chance to meet and speak with local Chicano attorneys at an informal gathering. . For more information on CIL, a message may be left in the CIL message box in the La Raza Studies unice. beer was disappoint inaccurately reported by major media It is apparently true the C.I. Forum, a 10,000-strong veterans organization, is pulling out of the boycott they started when Coors company refused to hire Chicanos and other minorities It was also predictable since the Forum has done little in recent years to promote the boycott and has had to forfeit grants from the Coors Company because of the boycott It is not true, however, that the boy cott of Coors beer is over What has hap¬ pened is the powerful Coors public rela¬ tions machine has attempted to use the C.I. Forum's decision to speak for the millions of Chicanos, AFL-CIO members and other boycotts who will never drink Coors again In the 12 years since the boycott star¬ ted, too much Rocky Mountain spring water has passed under the bridge to re¬ verse the flow. In spite of Coors' domin¬ ation of the media, many people have been educated to the company's racist and reactionary politics. Union members know of Coors practice of breaking strikes and unions at the brewery Anti¬ war activists know of the gross profits of Coors owned porcelain plant made during the Vietnam war. Chicano :lents at the state's universities know oseph Coors activities as a member he Board of Regents to stop financial programs which lelped hundreds of canos attend the University of Colo- The recent media blitz behind the C.I Forum decision to end their participation in the Coors boycott is only one example of the economic success of the boycott. As a result of the boycott, Coors slipped from fourth to fifth nationwide in beer sales This year, profits for the company have continued the downward slide of The Coors company is using the C.I. Forum, golfer Lee Trevino and the news Chic; Some people will be deceived by the tokenism and misleading 'news' stories. Most people will recognize the deception as the actions of a desperate company trying to reverse the effects of a dam¬ aging boycott We cannot compromise our principles as a people. The goals of the Coors family are in direct conflict to the goals of the Chicano movement. Boycott Coors, over a million Chicanos Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: I am writing thjs letter in response to the March 19 edition of La Voz. I cannot help but detect the bias in your article by Feliz Contreras on the price of lettuce in Continental Market Craig Kozy simply state on the sign that as a result of the UFW strike the price of lettuce is 98< a head He did not say, as a result of the UFW lettuce is 9fK Why are you compelled to think that this leads to misconceptions of the strike?? Maybe because they aren't misconceptions?? Maybe because you're afraid the public will see what the strike truely (sic) represents. All Contreras talks about is the poor little hara-working Mexicans (he calls them Chicanos) who slave for the farmers at what he considers grossly insufficient wages However, nowhere does he mention that Ceasar Chavez is asking upwards to 200% wage increases which is obviously greater than the maximum increase possible under President Carter's anti-inflation wage and price guide¬ lines. A maximum increase which has been offered by the farmers by rejected bu the UFW who wants even more (sic). The absurdity of the UFW's de¬ mands are reflected by the rejection of help from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service So why the strike?? Mr. Contreras also fails to mention that within the past six months, there has been three decertification elections called for by the UFW workers themselves because they are unhappy with the union. never mentioned that there has been a marked increase in the complaints about the medical plan, by the workers themselves ever since the UFW took over, despite the fact that the UFW has amassed a $6.2 million surplus in their medical fund I think my points are very clear. Mr. 'Contreras is resorting to the old UFW tactic of trying to get public sympathy A tactic which even failed them on the famous Proposition 14 The California public is smarter than you think. My word to the public is, if you blame the UFW for high lettuce prices, it is not because of store signs, but because of what the UFW represents Don't be misled by biased articles in La Voz. Boulevard Nights is a movie about lowriders and gang members in the East Los Angeles community But some mem¬ bers of the Chicano community, both statewide and locally, feel Chicanos are being taken for a ride and that some¬ thing must be done about it. Fresno State University's Chicano student organization, MEChA, decided Thursday to join the MEChA at Fresno City College and the community-based Chicano Youth Center in a protest of the film now playing at the Tower The- 'We're not telling people don't see it,' said CSUF La Raza Studies professor Alex Saragoza at MEChA s weekly meeting Thursday 'We just want to point out to the community the movie's 'We're criticizing those elements of the movie that are negative, that ex¬ ploit and manipulate It could have been a movie about the farmworker plight ' Boulevard Nights hit Fresno last March 23 and Saragoza called it a 'Cul¬ tural event" for Chicanos The movie depicts a fatherless Chicano farr.ly whose eldest son, once a gang member himself but who "knew when to get out," sees his younger brother becoming entangled with the gang and its con¬ flicts The elder brother is a lowrider, his car decked out with hydraulic equip¬ ment that gives him the edge in a 'hop¬ ping' contests His dream is to own his own cm shop and leave behind the gang life. His younger brother, however, is a 'cholo' who becomes the target of a rival gang after one of the rival mem¬ bers is stabbed in a fight between the two gangs. The tragedy and depiction of life in the movie has been described as 'real¬ istic* portrayal of East Los Angeles life Some movie goers have even said the movie's depiction is mild to what actu¬ ally happens in East Los Angeles But Chicano activists are upset that "negative* aspects of.the Chicano life are overly stressed because different people have different interpretations of the film's message 'The little kids and cholos that watch the movie will have very different in¬ terpretation than students who would intellectualize the movie and view it with a critical sophisticated perception,' said Saragoza. Saragoza was raised in Madera and is a sociologist with degrees from CSUF and UC Berkeley New Chicano gang film draws Fresno boycott He said the movie stereotypes and 'Glorification will take place on that is racist and that MEChA has a respon- level (younger kids) They'll take what sibility to demonstrate that to the young- they want from the movie and not anal- erkids. yze it for what it' s worth * "College (Chicano) students are elite in the Chicano community because there aren't that many of us We have the responsibility to communicate the mov¬ ie ' s negativeness to our community " fz, CSUF EOP counselor Boulevard Nights Review LA -gangviolence. It is a painfully honest view of the fighting of the gangs, what motivates them to fight and the tragedy they can bring. The acting, _ . grounds and cars an authentic and < v.ncing ^^^-*-B Raymond Avila (Richard Yniguez) plays the part of the big brother we all knew and loved He makes the audience feel the anguish of trying to escape life He slaps around his younger unpredict¬ able brother Chuco (Danny de la Paz), but does so only to try to get his brother to abandon the life of a vato loco Raymond has escaped that cholo existence and is now a hard-working car customizer and dedicated lowrider ruise the main and get 'The stereotypes affect our kids edu¬ cational life They get into high school and are put into tower classes because they're perceived as low acheivers, based on these stereotypes As a result, they don't get the classes they need to qualify for college or to succeed. A leaflet prepared by the Chicano Youth Center staff was prepared and picketing of the movies set for Sunday The leaflet accuses the film as motivat ing gang warfare and stereotyping Chicanos "as being inferior and not knowing how to control or work with The leaflet suggests that films like Boulevard Nights will only further anta¬ gonize rival racial groups like the Stoner, Crips, and F-14s. "Are we going to wait until we have stabbings and shooting in our commun¬ ity before we do anything? How many more homeboys/homegirls will be kil¬ led before we stop these film producers and theatre owners from exploiting.and prostituting the Chicano community?" The statewide organization of MEChA has already called for a boycott of the movie, said FSU MEChA President Priscilla Contreras Also boycotting the movie is the Chicano Actors Croup in into hopping" contests but still wants to get ahead and eventually -Barry his girlfriend Shady (Marta Dubolis). But, Chuco, Raymond's brother still en toys life in the gang But, he is uneasily backing into the gang On the way to futt i" --*•=■•-"****************************■ can fumes, gi and fights along with his homeboys The movie ultimately turns out to oe a struggle between the brothers. Raymond, to help his brother out of the cholo lifestyle, and Chuco to gain status among his carnales The movie is a good story about the love between two brothers and their struggles in the barrio Taken as a specific took at just one segment of life in Los Angeles, Boule¬ vard Nights is an excellent film It does not glorify violence or make gang life attractive If anything it shows how tragic life in the bamocan be |