1977_11 The Daily Collegian November 1977

              Chicanos Attend Siquieros Art School
By Artjro Ocampo
For   manv   a  Russian  Artist UrShlp hy L" nroCt" del Val
, *        ,""' " an organization of Chicano a
is a compliment If Jorge Conies Carnarena, one of Mexico's
lown   muraltsts,   compliments
em on their paintings and mu'r- School   In   Cuernavaca  bee
s says Salvador Garcia. » Is an International schoc
Salvador Garcia and JuanTur- artists, Including murallsts,
,r, both art majors at Fresno Juan Turner.
!ate,  went to Taller Siquieros The Chicano artists left in,
:hool   of   Art   In Cuernavaca, '     "- ""-
co.   They
City  ■
fPund Jfei5
found pure Raza all over," recalled Juan. "Mexico City Is
a fast moving city with hundreds
of sights to see including monuments, old buildings, new buildings."
They took a bus to Cuernavaca,
which Is 40 miles south of Mexico City.
"At the School, we were treated
well, we helped each other out,
turning each other on to new
Ideas," said Turner. "One day
all the students at the school
got together and In a very democratic way agreed that all Chlcanos from the States should not
have   to pay for tuition since lt
put on many of the workshops."
So now a Chicano can go there.
The only cost to Chlcanos now Is
Juan says that the artists at
Taller place less emphasis on
easel painting and more on murals, because murals generally
convey-a message, rj
Composition and. technique
were two aspects Juan and Salvador, considered Important ln
their studies at Taller. Turner
said a chemist went to lecture
on the chemistry of paints, and
■about the erosion and wear of
mur»l» caused by the sun.and
rain. "The' chemist said there
Is no paint at present that won't
begin to fade' after 10 to 20
years," said Turner. Thechem-
Ist recommended Polytec Acrylics paints which was invented
by a Mexican chemist,
I   the
■s that v.
offered were lithograph, metal
sculpture, mural painting techniques, History of Mexican Art,
and psychology of Art.
Garcia said the trip ln general
was meaningful.
"One thing 1 noticed while we
    .    Cuernavaca  Is   that  a
st of Gabachos in the U.S. are
omplalnlng about Illegal anglos
nd yet, trlere are many Illegal
nglos ln Cuernavaca," he said.
Many are working at language
teaching     English  or
.       They  come over  as
tourists and just decide not to
return after their visas expired.
Evidently they like the weather
beautiful all year
round, and the cost of living Is
cheap, If you have access to
U.S. currency. Many of these
Illegals have nice houses andare
living comfortably if not In luxury."
While ln Cuernavaca they did
ave a bad experience.
"One morning we were walk-
ig to the Taller when four guys
them,.they Insisted we get Into
their car. "We rumbled a llttto
and tried to get away, but they
pulled out 45's.    Then they took
"They beat and slapped ui
around," said Turner. "They
were hitting hard but not hard
enough to cause bruises. They
were accusing us of being addicts
they started questioning and
searching us, and threatened us
with an M-l pointed to our now.
"We kept telling them we were
students "from the U.S., but they
wouldn't believe us. They said
that br law they could hold us for
72 hours , but lt probably wu
puro pedo. They said that there
were alternatives, that they could
let us slide.
"We knew what they were hinting at and sure enough, they
. asked us how much money wa
had," said Turner. "1 had $500
.pesos and Juan had a couple of
hundred pesos so we gave lt ail
to them. They took about $500
and gave us both half of whatwu
left over. They released us and
warned us not to cause problems,
said Salvador,
Once at the school, the pair
told a maestro what happened,
before filing a complaint at tbe
"We received a formal apology, got our money back, had aw
four men fired, and a guarantee
that lt would never happen again.
Turner and Garcia chose not to
nie charges against the men
because It might have causedbtd
publicity for the school and fueled
the police force. Instead every
student at the school received
a pass which would protect tut
from any harassment from police
or military."
Para los Rumberos
Tof P •"Ain't  Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now"
Tower of Power In 1917: 6
years and 8 albums after their
first, "Fast   Bay Crease", was
re.hM
n Hill CI
"San Francisco" label.
What started out as a nightclub soul land lad grown into
a concer-c-rowd pleasing funk
band with some of the choppiest
horn charts known to man.  The
Discrimination
major issue
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dent Ernest Poore tomorrow (
Tuesday). Poore's involvement
is at the request of (he students who picketed his office
Nrv. 4. But Slokavich said Poore has no authority over the
CSUD.
CSUF MEChA students, who
have been assisting the students
said they will continue to offer
advice, despite CoaUngan's dismay the the student's involvement.
, CSUFgroups which had originally pledged their support are
Las AdeUtas, Chicanos ln'Htgh-
er EducaUon, and Trabajadores
de la Raza. Fresno City College MEChA, the Fresno AnU-
bakke .Demonstration Coalition,
tbe Fresno Mexican American
Political Association, and tbe
Fresno County Chapter of the
Association "of* Mexican-American Educators were sought by
"* MASUjhjo>iBto«Sittnporters.
'funkafized'audience:
across the United States with
their special blend of soul-funk
Their love ballads ("Your'e
Still A Young Man"".'"Sparkling
in the Sand" etc.) have been
known to make many people ooze
with exstacy (when heard at the
right time).
Tower fans throughout have
agreed that once Ihe pulsating
beat of "What Is Hip" pours
out Of the PA, there's nothings
else to do but stand upanddance.
Of course, their traditional
pre-encore jam, "Knock bourse If Out" does just that, sometimes for more than 20 very
funky minutes.
But for some, the Tower
hasn't been the same recently.
Die-hard Tower fans say that
they've lost some of the spark
with the loss of bassist Francis
Prestia and drummer David
Glrabaldi.
SHU, the Tower of Power
Horns', who have recorded with
bands like Elton John, Santana,
Uttle Feat, Lenny white, etc.
remain the musical heart of the
group.
They have cashed in on tbe
success of 'disco' with their own
special Tower of Power disco
sound on their last album, "Ain't
Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now", and
since then their concerts have
been drawing more "and more
new fans.
October 30, tbe Tower was
in Fresno to play two shows at
tbe Sheraton Inn, at 8 and 10 p.m.
After an unexplained delay, the
first show started at 10:30 and
the second at 12:30 a.m. What
follows Is a short, In-bejtweeo
conversation with EmIUo
CastlUo, co-writer of the majority of Tower of Power's songs,
founder and spokesman for the
band.
La Voz- How did you come up
with the name "Tower of Power?
Castillo: It was on a list and we
just grasped onto It. We were
called the "-Motowns" before.
LV: When was this? Doing clubs
in Oakland?
Castillo: Yeah, around that area,
the East Bay. We knew we never
could get a record contract called
the 'Motowns' so.... Tower of
Power was on this list and we
thought it described us good.
LV: How did you guys get
started?
CastlUo: Just got together, you
know: friends, neighborhood guys
then gradually It just grew and
grew.tben with personnel changes
with somebody we knew.
LV: When you guys first started,
what were your musical goals?
What did you want to do?
Castillo: We just wanted to play
original soul music, do our own
kind.
LV: Were you consldereda 'white
funk band' back then v
Castillo:   Yeah,   that's what It
was...that's
(chuckles)
LV: What do different, i
of the band listen to personally0
Castillo: WeU, there's ten guys
ln the band, yon know....some
guys listen to Jazz. I like soul
music myself...everybody's got
their own different preferences.
LV: Have any members of tbe
band had any formal music
schooling?
CastlUo: Yeah, a few of them
have, . .Jot Instance, Doctpr.
(Stephen Kupka) has. He -
to UC Berkeley. He almost got
a degree, .but he stopped going
to school 'cause he joined the
band, you know. He dug the
band a lot more.
LV: How do you guys go about
writing your songs?
CastlUo: We Just get together
and throw ideas at each otber.
LV: Does it happen in one long
session, or...?
CastlUo: WeU, it Is always
different, but we always try to
come up with original songs.
LV: Was there ever a period
when you found yourselves doing
tbe same thing over again, a
dry period so to sneak?
Castillo: Everybody has dry
perlofls, you know. You wouldn't
appreciate  the wet ones If ya
What accounted for
drasUc style change between
"In the Slot" and "Ain't Nothuf
Stoppin' Us Now"?
CastlUo: We just do our music
at tbe time, and lt comes cot
however it comes out. We're
bVppy with tbe way lt came oet
LV: Which do you prefer: small
clubs or large concert balls?
CastlUo: I Uke the lnttmaer
of a small club, but then I lite
The sound of a big concert when
you do good, with aU the people
and stuff....I Uke them both.
And with that final remark
be excused hlmseU with "Hey,
I gotta go now", and went backstage to rest up for tbe lilJO
show.
Ellsberg protests the n-bomb
Daniel Ellsberg, famous for
leaking tne Pentagon Papers,
urged students yesterday to apply
the same force they used ln ending the.Vietnam war to.abolish
nuclear power.
Ellsberg, a speaker at tbe
nuclear energy teach-in, told tbe
overflow crowd at the College
Union Lounge that It was "only
because Individuals pitted tbe
power of tbelr own convictions..
against the war...that made tbe
bombs stop."
The former foreign policy
advisor, who worked for tbe Defense Department on the "bl-
tarre" designs for strategic nuclear war between 1959 and 1964,
said tbe presidents in that period
-weren't the only people with
> authority to order a nuclear
attack.
"...Contrary to the Atomic
Energy Act, which says the president has sole authority to use
nuclear weapons, contrary to
assurance of several presidents
who said they interpreted that
act that under no circumstances
would tbey delegate that authority to a field commander, President Eisenhower bad delegated
that authority In 1957.
"It took President Kennedy six
months to discover that his field
commanders had signed letters
from Eisenhower giving them that
authority, and felt that tbey stlU
applied."
Ellsberg said be knew this for
a tact, as lt was his Job to find
out for President Kennedy who
bad the authority to push a nuclear attack button.
Ellsberg thought tbe situation
had changed to some degree, but
not completely.
"Whatever orders Carter has
given to his field commanders,
he can't know what it takes years
of lnvestigation...to  find out...
"It was a world then as now,
in which those lower commanders
bad tbe physical capability to
launch their weapons without
higher command.."
The connection between nuclear
energy and nuclear bombs is that
nuclear plants produce tbe potent
ingredient, plutonlom, in tbe
bombs, said Ellsberg.
For those reasons Ellsberg is
strongly opposed to providing nu
clear technology to other countries. He cited a report that
said 100 countries would have
Oe power to create nuclear weapons from tbelr peaceful nuclear
energy programs by the end of
this century, producing enough,
material for one million atom
In anticipation of a Russian
missile attack in 1961, the "year
of maxlumum danger," tbe tonnage of 12 World War H's were
put in one bomb, said Ellsberg.
There were 650 B-52 bombers
carrying two to four of these
bombs, be added:
AU this was for the 150 to
300 Intercontinental Ballistic
Missiles (ICBM's) that the Russians were purported to have,
said Ellsberg.
"What the Russians bad at
that time has never been revealed publicly, except by me
in the last tew weeks, because
lt seems that although it was
top secret, tbe American people
need to know this piece of history, Just as they needed to know
about the Pentagon Papers."
"What tbe Russians had were
four ICBM's In 196L..", he said.
Furthermore, said Ellsberg.
there Is no one who can be trusted to controlthermonculear weapons in tbe interest of humanity
at a tolerable level.
"As my son said to me recently, 'our technology has at last
caught up with out moral vacuity.' "
.   Ellsberg said that tbe media's
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m&mmm.
California State Ui
Movement has 'force'
Inner Pence holds energy
CSUF teach-in yesterday on
By Dianne Soils
Feature Editor
May the force be with you.
And. tbe wizardry of Obi Wan
Kenobl, the determination of Luke
Skywalker, the towering dominance of Cbewbacca the Wookle
and...the Inner Peace Movement.
Yes, the Inner Peace Movement 0PM) may bold for you
tbe same cosmic energy "The
Force" held for tbe adventurous
Luke Skywalker. While devoid
of Star War's scintillating' light-
sabers, IPM promises you other
tools, techniques and training to
mold your own destiny.
"We won't teach people how to
be -Obi Wan Kenobl but we will
show them how they can have
that gleam of wisdom ln tbelr
eyes," said Randy Brauer, a
24-year-oM IPM counselor.
fayoffs to Congressmen alleged
By Mike Fitzgerald
Hundreds of federal laws
and billions of dollars of federal
appropriations may be unconstitutional because congressmen
sponsoring or voting on the bills
»ere "unduly Influenced" by illegal political contributions, a
former systems engineer for Nuclear Services Corporation announced yesterday.
Peter Faulkner speaking at a
nuclear symposium at noon ln
the College Union Lounge, identified a number of nuclear proponents ln the United States Congress as recipients of large cash
contributions from Gulf Oil, a
Faulkner, now a consultant
for an anti-nuclear organization,
cited an Investigation directed by
Judge John Sirica which named
four members of the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy as recipients of laundered
oil money.
Tbe four members named
were Sen. Howard Baker
(R-Tenn.), Rep. Melvin Price
(D-IU.), Rep. Cbet HoUfled
(R-Callf. ) and Rep. Craig
Hosmer.
In 1974 Faulkner was fired
Fresno alumnus now Shasta
chief; plans guest lectures
Alfred F. Schmld, president of
toe Shasta Beverage Company,
vill beanexecutive-In-resldence
In the School of Business and Administrative Sciences at CSUF
Nov. 16-18..
Schmld wiU serve as a guest
lecturer in a wide range of business classes onadvertislng, production management, economics,
marketing, industrial relations,
administration and organlxatton-
»1 behavior, finance and business
strategy.
An alumnus of CSUF,, Schmid
*as named president and chief
executive _ and operating officer •
ot Shasta' Beverages In November, 1974. Previously, be was
vice president of both sales and
marketing. He Joined the firm In
1968 as division sales manager.
The company has grown from
a $45 million Arm in 1968 to a.
$183 million operation today and
is currently the nation's fourth
largest manufacturer of diet soft
drinks.
Much of the firm's growth came
after the 1969 ban on cyclamates
hit the diet soft drink Industry
and Shasta developed a.sugar-
free, no-calorie diet beverage
while Its competitors settled for
a 50-50 blend of sugar and sac-
. Schmld, 43, recelvetrhls bachelor's degreeJrom CSUF in 1959
and completed two years ot post
graduate work. He taught for
two years in Fresno schools before entering the sales field, first
with Owens Illinois Glass Company and later with Shasta.
from Nuclear Services after tie
testified before the U.S. Senate",
alleging mismanagement and inadequate safety controls in tbe
nuclear Industry.
Faulkner aUeged yesterday
considerable bribery of congressmen and senators has been
going on for years under tbe
guise of poUtlcal contributions.
The contributions are made
well In advance of assistance
that a congressman or representative may be called
upon to render, said the Yale
and Stanford grad.
"But since these "contri-
butions" accompany no evident
transacUons other than the im-
pUed expectations ot congressional favors it's accurate to call
them bribes for delayed services," he said.
Whether accepting large cash
amounts in this manner is bribery or not is a questions tor the
courts to decide, Faulkner admitted.
"Tbe courts win have to develop some new rules on intent
presumption of influence and on
tbe demarcation between legitimate and unduly Influencing
contributions," he said.
"Ifs going to take at least
ten years to do all this and
we're about 20 years late In
starting," Faulkner said.
Faulkner then squared off
against the NwclearDeregulatory
Commission (NRC) which he ac-
cussed of deliberately ignoring
evidence that five nuclear plants
In California and five outside the
state are wired with defective
electrical cable and pose a ser-
. ious threat to public safety.
Faulkner accused tbe NRC
of deliberately ignoring evidence
that the cable shipped to those
plants do not meet safety specifications.
He charged that the NRC was
initially advised of this problem
In April, 1976, and It received
confirmation of the deficiency ln
March'1977.
The NRC Is disregarding
the problem to eoverupanearller
federal inve. .gallonglvingtheca-
ble a clean biU of health, jaid
Faulkner.
Both tbe NRC and the power
companies are also ignoring the-
safety hazard because tbey want
to avoid the cost of replacing.
the cables, be said.
Yesterday's accusations follow an announcement Faulkner
made last August that Southern
California Edison and Pacific
Gas and Electric had accepted
and installed, degraded cable
manufactured by the Raycbem
Corporation of Menlo.Park, Cal.
for use at Diablo Canyon and
San Onofre nuclear plants.
Tbe cable is used for operation, of plant emergencysystems.
Faulkner's charges have been
confirmed by Frederick R.
Slaughterback, former Raycbem
engineer who inspected the cable.
Slaughterback alleges he was
ordered to approve tbe cable despite safety objections and release it for shipment to PG&E
and SoCal Edison.
Brauer has been with IPM
three years after sifting through
a collage of religions. Brauer
Said be finally found, the security he's been searching for.
Tbe Inner Peace Movement Is
billed as a personal development
and leadership training program.
" Founded in 1964 by Dr. Francisco Cull, the non-profit, non-
sectarian, non-political movement professes to have a following of a quarter million people.
The mainstay of tbe program
is a strong beUef ln extra-sensory perception and that man Is
basically electro-magnetic en-'
ergy.
"Once we start working with
sensitivity, there is nothing we
can't do," said Brauer. 'We
offer people a way to contlnuely
unfold it."
Ronald PinneUi, a national
leader for IPM, also sees a
strong correlation between Star
Wars and IPM. "The Force"
Is Uke the energy we all have
and Obi Wan Kenobl is like the
"guides, angels, lords or masters of the universe" that help
one master life through understanding the atmosphere and the
environment.
And Brauer Is quick to point
out that George Lucas, rather
of "Star Wars," said be wrote
tbe cineSatic gold mine "to help
people get into their feelings."
A balance between thoughts and
feelings is something constantly
stressed by IPM beUevers.
"IPM Is to free people so tbey
can free themselves," said Pln-
nelli at a recent lecture, "...you
can give a hungry man.a fish
today but be'U be hungry tomorrow. But if you teach him
how to fish, be'U never be hungry again."
That's what tbe movement has
to offer people, said PinneUi,
"tbe tools and techniques to free
yourseU, to be happier and grow .
and be abundant.'; f"
PinneUi believes everyone has
e.s.p. You Just have to tune
Into that "higher energy and keep
yourself cleansed. You have to
discern what's your energy and
what's someone else's energy."
"I once got up feeUng fine.
AU of a sudden, I bad a tem-
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