1978_10 The Daily Collegian October 1978

              CSUF Pinto Program
Education Seen As Alternative To Crime
By RICARDO PlMENTEL
Beyond gray prison walls the ex-
convlct's world Is seemingly full of
pitfalls, all designed to land him
back behind bars. A return to crime
and prison Is Inevitable for many
Yet there Is an alternative The
Pinto Program at California State
University. Fresno, named after the
people It helps, provides ex-offenders
with the opportunity to achieve academic rather than criminal success
It places him in college, an environment that may break the back-to
prison cycle
Tony Garduquaz, coordinator ot
the program, explained that Pinto
translated from Spanish means painted or marked  It' a a name the convict
gave himself, not accepting the labels
society conferred upon him such as
ex-con, ex-offender or Jailbird And
In light of the affect of a prison
record, the name Is appropriate
'When a |udge sentences someone to
prison...It'a a life sentence," Tony
said, because the guy 'Is marked for
life.'
Tony doesn't dalm to remove this
stigma, but what he does do. through
th program, Is provide anyone with a
prison or Jail record an alternative to
' I make It as easy as I can for them
to understand,* Tony said. *l tell
them to compare this Institution
(college) with the one they came
from. If they survived there, they can
survive here. They have the tools "
To get Into the program, which h
part cf the Educational Opportunity
Program (EOP) at CSUF, a Pinto
must meel minimum requirements
He or she must have a high school
diploma or equivalent, they must fill
out a myriad of admissions and financial aids forms, must provide an autobiographical statement and letters of
recommendations
Tony explained that these requlre-
If-ecreenlng pro-
■  Pint
Chicanas   Set   Activities
•ting  tt
if Chit
The Adehtas plan to have an Initia
tion Night to be held at 7 JO this even
mg at 1025 W Griffith, between Ash
Ian and Dakota off ot West Avenue All
Chicanas are encouraged to attend For
more information call 222-6482
and most original The La Raza Studie'
faculty judged the costumes, so yo
could just imagine the chismes
were going around' 11' she said
This year, Freddy s Royal Chi
Band de Sacramento will provide
music for the dance lo be held ir
upstairs cafeteria
Chicano Votes Divided
'Ideally, a candidate should be voted
on by the district he will represent,*
said the MAPA president.
Nunez and others are currently
looking Into the legal aspects of at-
large elections And he vows that It
'then we'll
t to
make the effort to follow through on
the procedures, it's doubtful that
he/she will succeed in school
'We're not In the business of setting
anyone up for failure," said the program coordinator
After all the paperwork is submit
ted, the Pinto meets with a commit
lee comprised of Tony, a Pinto stu
dent, and someone from either the
EOP or financial aids department
If the Pinto Is currently serving time
then   Tony   has   no   qualms   about
Once I
Is  provided   I
»reer advisement
Into    The  career
of lite that felon-
are  Ineligible
added.      'Outright     discrimm
against a Pinto Is the only legal
prison. The Pinto, on campus aa In
Ihe community, mu«t deal with stereotypes One of them, especially for
the Chicano Pinto, It that he Is a
member of a gang. "Not all Chicanos
coming out of prison are members of
U Nueatra Famllla," Tony said.
Nonetheless. It's a prevalent attl-
But much of the Plnto'a campus
difficulties stem from Interpersonal
relationships. 'Their past experiences affect th« attitudes of their
peers, * Tony said. And one Pinto
added, "Once you Ml them where
you came from, from that point on
you' re somehow different."
Its Ironic, Tony pointed out, that
the same money that keeps a man In
prison also funds tha Pinto program
And actually It's quit* a bargain.
' it costs more than $10,000 a year to
xeep a man In prison/ tha coordinator reflected, * It costs about $3,000 to
keep him In school.*
But Tony does not measure the
success of the program on kj>Ing
the Pinto in school or even*|adu-
ating him He measures tha success
by how effectively he has broken the
back-to-prison cycle.
Approxlmatley 40 Plntoa have
participated in the program since
Tony look on the coordinator Job
three years ago Tony Is assured of
the program's success. Ha knows
where most of the 40 Plntoa are...and
ii  s not back In prison.
The duration of the adjustment
period lo college depends largely on
how long the Plnfo has been out of
CSUF Office Provides
Employment
representing their views, but he/she
still has to win election clty-wlde
Particularly for minorities this Is
quite a handicap as attests the recenl
primary election   Not one minority
The CSUF Student Employment («
arfice on campus ,s offering servic
lo currently enrolled students who ,
lobs.
ailar
summer   jobs
different categoric
ing   |obs.   internsi
temporary   |obs     domestic   (ckj
education jobs
According to Ori Castro. SF super
visor, an average of 900 students a
month use the services available So
far, there have been positive comments
from the students
Listed are a few of the many |ob
openings available at the student em
ployment office
1) Position-Test Crader (grading
real estate exams  Objective tests   key
Qualifications-Must   be   18   yr,    old
Pay- *3 an hour
Hours--Tuesdays     A      Wednesdays,
6:30-9:30p m
2) Position- Santa Claus Photograph
er (take pictures of children on Santa' s
lap).
(>ialifi«tions--Experience      with      a
camera.
Pay-$3 an hour
H_^7Arran8ed'       evenings       and
il Position- Spanish Tutor, (teaching
I females ages 7 and 10 to leam
Spanish)
Qualifications   Know   how   to   speak
Spanish
Pay -Open
Hours   To be arranged.
4)   Position-inventory  Control  Clerk
(bookkeeping job)
Qualifications-Good with math and
able to operate 10-key machine by
touch
Pay  ») 75 an hour.
Hours  20 hrs a week.
5) Postion-Assorted Duties for Dent-
istlsuch as janitorial and yard work,
and typing and filing).
Qualifications-Type 40 wpm.
Pay-S3 50 and hour.
Hours-Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m.
6) Position-Engineering Technician
l surveying, drafting, and contraction
staking)
Qualification-Engineering major.
Pay-*4.50anhour.
Hours-16 hrs. a week-arranged.
For further information contact the
student employment office, 8:30-
4 30 p m (Monday-Frtd-V,', In the
loyal Administration Bldg Phone
number is 487-2703.
Castro commented, *l encourage and
mvite all students who haven't been
into the student employment office, to
come and investigate what services we
offer The staff is friendly and interest-
ed in helping students In their career
Monday
October 30. 1978
'Playing David to the stadium's Goliath'
Residents oppose stadium location
By MIKfc FITZCERALD
II .sas as far back as November of
i«*/S [)on Gennuso says, that he began
u net the idea that his opposition to
he construction site of the new sta
lium was not going to be applauded in
At that time Cennuso, along with a
roup of his neighbors from the a
urruunding    the    proposed    stadi
■instruction  site,   attended
reeling held by the University for
Ihe reaction of Gennuso and hi!
eighbors. who formed the Resident?
id Hoc Committee, was that the sta
ijor discrepancy between Cen-
indings and those of the EIR
e area of acreage to be prodded for parking Cennuso contends
parking provided»for the multi-
i attending football games will not
lay
that would link the campus with the
area west of Cedar where the stadium
is to be built
Cennuso argues that the underpass
is being wrongfully funded by state
money The Trustees for the California
State University and College (CSUC)
svstem have a policy against usage of
for projects intended for
* primarily by athletics.
The administration contends that the
lot    stadium-related,
citing a 'moral responsibility* to insure
somewhere   other   than   thei
ful neighborhood
" The administration tried to discourage us,* Gennuso says 'First of all.
the meeting was held In some school
building on Mariposa and M. Street,
.iway tar away from our neighborhood
"In light of all the meeting rooms
.ind such right here on the college, my
•eeling is that the administration chose
the distant location to discourage us
i attending "
Ihe   a
has   I
o discourage us all along,* he
continues 'When you're the underdog
it s easy to get discouraged because
the odds are so greet against you '
Gennuso, who for three years now
has been playing David to the stadium s Coliath, is the most active opponent to the stadium site from within
the ranks of the Crti-en's Ad Hoc
committee.
One of the ways he has battled con
structlon of the stadium in his neighborhood is by disputing the facts and
conclusions of the Environmental Impact Report(EIR), the analysis of the
stadium's effect on the land and community where it is to be built.
Cennuso has done this by personally
counting all of CSUF's parking spaces,
pouring over architectural blueprints
and measuring various parcels of land
on or around the construction site, then
comparing his statistics to those In
the EIR.
•We found their Information less
than accurate, * Cennuso said.
'It seems kind of a coincidence that
the University is building an underpass
urvfcr Cedar just when the stadium is
coming along And why not on Shawl*
Students crossing Shaw Ave should
have no less safety. *
Gennuso also totalled the number of
students enrolled in the P.E. classes
that use the acreage west of Cedar
be adequate, and will therefore c
flow into the neighborhood
'Part of the proposed ' parking area'
is occupied by the all-weather track,"
Cennuso says. 'Another area listed as
usable for parking is a ponding basin 10
and one half feet deep, The architects
that I' ve talked to say that th* incline
of that basin is too steep to park on.'
Cennuso says that such discrepancies alarm the people In his neighbor-,
hood: 'We know that most of the
'parking' it undesirable, taken by students or non-existent,'he says.
' If they' re going to Justify an underpass for 194 people, that's pretty expensive justification,- Cennuso adds.
When he took his finding to Long
Beach for the recent Trustees meeting
where the funding for the underpass
was approved, Cennuso says the Trustees didn't want to listen to him.
'Chairman Roy Brophy wasn't even
going to allow me to speak,* he says.
'Finally, Trustee Mary Jean Pugh
spoke up in my behalf and said that
since I had come all the way from Fresno, the least the Trustees could do was
allow me to speak '
'Chairman Brophy grudgingly gave
me two minutes, then before I even
spoke, said. * 'the students have already supported this stadium'.'
Since no referendum or poll of stu-
tion from CSUF President Norman Baxter.      •>
Cennuso says his role is to expose
Here again Gennuso has assimilated
his own statistics, sitting in his car over
a two-week period and counting the
bicyclists, pedestrians and wheelchair
riders who crossed Cedar Ave. at th*
'All I 've tried to do. and will continue to tie. Is to enlighten our fellow
neighbors, the students and the community that our neighborhood is going
to be turned into a playground,* he