1969_10 The Daily Collegian October 1969

              Editor, a
BY CARLOS •CHALE*   MARTINEZ JR
It has been my displeasure to hear, in snd shout our fair campus st
Freono Stete Collece, tte Anglo Majority on this campus cmmblinc
shoot tte so-called  campua mlUt-ots.
I hove often overheard these people refer to certain Individuals
as trouble makers wbo are stlrrlnc up trouble snd catting Mexican
g all worked up tor ootid nc In furtherlnc thetr rstionali ration
state tbat If tboee people were disposed of the Chicano
Movement would come to s stand still. Of course there are also
pejorative statsments that follow the thlnklnc that if theee two militants ln residence are not dismissed, all hell wtll break out oo this
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CHINOS I
I hate to beret any tw_hi ag, bet aeeoe todh
here st Freeao Stats Collece, some sre just
of us.   Any given individual may be tbe
tnlng the sho
tte speakers tor tte root
to colds us from the
i are only stsilnc facts, ttey are revealing the society thst
has pot us ln our present state. This phagocyte society ttet has leeched from ue tbe very pride that once made our ancestors tte grreat -
eet nation ia tte Aaierloeg. Tte tegredattee that ear people hsvs
suffered th roach the last 400 yeare has corns to sn end, once more
ee will raise our heads with pride snd with this nationalistic pride,
we shall prove thst we are proud to be whst we sre--MEXICANS'
Our Isoders will, like Moctezuma Xocoytozln II, Usi Tlaloani
(chief speaker), lead the verbal battle acalnst thoee who are againat
us but let the root of the student body be aware that, they are only
transmitting the feeling* of the Mexican Community, and they them-
oofveo sre pert of that community that Is now fighting hack to gain
Us Identity.
Third      World    Involvement
By Ramon Chacon
Accordlnc to the author-revolutionist Frsncon, the Third
World crested Europe. This
Third World were the oppressed
people of colonized nations in
Africa, Asia snd Latin America.
And wbo, Carnsles. Is the Third
World In the United States'' What
people In this cogent country
have felt the truculent fanes of
the affluent society. I'll tell you
who, Carnsles, you, our Black
brothers, snd our fellow Indians.
We are the vicarious victims of
thetr egotistical society. This
society thst worries about lis
space program, national defense,
national offense, foreign aid. foreign policy, snd sschews the re-
sponstbillty of serving domestic
needs, bat what are we — jusk a
minority, that's changing loo.
Remember  oar  parents, they
ami  It   rather difficult   in thetr
day. for In addition to the struggle they fared to survive, they
encountered the problem of competing with the gavaucho for work
In the farms. It appears that the
gringo no longer has lo work in
the farms, that no longer lives
In the ghetto, hut what happened
to us'/
Our parents have sacrificed a
greet deal so thai we would not
have to work all our lives in
the fields yet practically all
field workers are Chicanos). Our
parents were rather l.usy with
their duties and were considered
rather pacified by white society.
However, we should not criticize
them for (heir "purified state.*
they did their best, considering
the generation they lived In. You
see Carnales. they are the Third
World .Hid so are we. Today ws
are in a better position to exem
plify our wants, rights, gnd demands, these demands of the oppressed that must be met. The
affluent society hss dsprlved us
of political, social and economic
gain and It's our duty to fight this
society that has tread on us for
hundreds of years. Carnales. they
have our people In ghettos which
are in reality prison camps
established by society for our
people These prison camps are
not only found in the urban areas
such as Los Angeles, San Frsn-
clsco, and Fresno hut slso In the
rural areas of Mendota. Parlier.
Delano Five Points, etc. This
society has reparations due our
people tn the economic, social,
and political field. The establishment will not give these dues to
ue on a sliver platter, brother,
we must fight tu obtain what is
rik'htfulla oars.
A  "... although tho Chancellor seeks to avoid interference with
campus decisions, the appointment of this candidate would not be
acceptable to the Chancellor's office. : Ness
By Francisco Rodriquez
We label different objects
rrom cans to Insects to find their
Identity. We procure the Identity of certain foods to avoid being poisoned, yet even wtth such
labeling we still poison ourselves, ss we still trip over
our own Identified two feet. The
mtgrsnt farm worker s term
never fully understood deals with
such an identity. By American
standarda he livee ln a roving
world, moving along with the
crop, he sleepe under bridges,
eats nutritionally unbalanced
meals, and almost totally Ignores education. That separate identity given to him has
.had his human value degraded
sometimes to that of sn animal. In the field he has never
had unemployment Insurance,
the fringe benefits, the protections and security needed to stabilize agriculture labor, the efforts to Improve his health and
sanitation and most of all the
education of the young and adult
alike The difflcultiss in
communicating and the language
barrier have done nothing but
promote discouragement andhu-
mllitation In his  education.
In the last three years the
federal government has finally
begun to notice some or the
problems of the micrant farm
worker For example, the Migrant Teacher Assistant Program tMim-corp) organized in
MT. was created to aid the
migrant farm worker's child:
Its main objective to teach
English ag a second language.
Selective bilingual collece gtu-
dents participated in the procram Their coal was several
things:
1. to gain experience in teaching
2. to help solve some of the
everlasting problems la tte mt-
craot camps.
3. to use the Spanish language ss s vehicle to communicate with the families, thus convincing migrant parents of the
Importance of education.
In working with tbe mlgrantg
and teaching under an acadsmlc
and recreational type seat mor
school program: I toaad oat
ttet (he migrant child poeees-
seo a greater awarenees in
the environmental aspects of life
snd has. by tor. mors experience
in It.   He shows it by tte way te
Insight on
Teacher Program
speaks thinking and
to reetdent children ln hla peer
group In-advanced ways. Thig is
undoubtably gained through t
many conditional
goes through and In the (
of migrating from area to a
and from Mexico to the U.S
In working with theae chile
I compared myself to them i
I used to migrate from tte val
to the coast during summsrs t
work in the prune orchards,
differences were many becai
in the third I was barely beginning to write snd lesrn msth
while the Mexican migrant i
not only doing seventh or a
Credo work but also thinking wa'
ahead of his tlms.
Some experiences gained whil.
working with the anglo teachers
was that they do not really understand the Mexican child. During stafr meetings, their talks
were sometimes aimed insetting
up a program tor a msntally
retarded child, at times laughing
at them for the wat they- acted
and the way their Engllah was
spoken.
The ignorance of the migrant
child war bod. but to hove
seen college graduates in their
third or fourth year of teaching
and not knowing how to educate
resident children, let alone migrants, wss juet one est reuse display of the present system ln
education This type of teacher
should be done sway wtth tn the
future and putting in place bilingual teachers, preferably Chicanos thst not only hsve experienced mlgrsncy. and Chi can -
ismo but who a re will ing to change
studies snd programs to fit tte
needs of the Mejlcano from tte
one-sided anglo educational system.
Although oome or the extremes
ln the handicapped educational
wers seen, the migrant education-
si program was in some schools
very productive sad msaatagtol,
where staffing included enough
migrant toocher assistants sad
better trained bilingual teach-
erg that related closer to tte
child. School faclUtlss played
a major role ln promoting child
lntereets reeultlng ln greater
stteodaace. The afternoon
reational progrsm was always
looked  forward  to aft sr morning
rreeter
mi rec-
always
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