1970_11 The Daily Collegian November 1970

              'IT CAN BE DONE'
The vote, student organization
are sources of power
There Is a general belief among
so-called 'liberal-oriented* stu-
jents and professors that It Is
possible to generate some type of
Involvement from Nixon's 'Silent
Majority.* There Is a belief In
the possibility of changing this
country's system or at least
making It operable forthebenefit
of not only the affluent few, but
also the  suppressed and down-
at Fresno State College, I have
reached the conclusion that this
will never occur. Take this campus. We have been rapping our
tongues raw trying to accomplish
this for the past three years and
have not made any significant
headway.
The so-called 'silent' student
has had his grades tampered
with via the loss of the computer,
his Ubrarywlndows broken, his
fellow students clubbed and the
whole campus shut prior to the
actual termination of Instruction,
and he still sits on his desk-
broadened rear and says to himself, 'The police and the administration will take care of everything!*
My point Is this. We as minority students, along with the or- .
ganlzed efforts of other Involved
students, have two sources of
power that up to this point have
been untapped. These two are
campus organization and the vote.
By organization, I am referring
to the conglomeration of all the
different organizations such as
MECHA, BSU, Resistance, Fraternities, etc. I am referring to
a conglomeration of spirit and
drive to make this campus an
institution of higher learning,
not only for the offspring of the
businessmen or farmers that sit
on all the boards of education,
but for the minority students as
well.
This can be accomplished easily for the following reason. This
campus does not have 13,000 or
so students. It has enrolled 11,000
computers and 3,000 students.
The definition of these students
Is as follows: The computer student has brought the great American Ideal that a student Is one
body  that comes to the campus
desk, opens a look, and fills his
brains with mathematical equations, scientific hypotheses, and
diploma In four years and goes
out Into the world, hollering that
he is educated. I would estimate
the number of these students to
be close to the 11,000 mark. The
remaining 3,000 students are the
real students, who came to obtain
a social and academic education
simultaneously. I base my statements on this fact: this college
Is a little community In Itself,
separated from its surroundings
by a plastic shell. Some of us
have the ability to pass right
through this shell because we are
aware of the problems and social
requirements that await us out
there. But the 11,000 who remain,
prefer to stay under Its protective cover until they are ready
to attack It with a sheepskin that
by social standards won't be
worth a damn in two or three
years. Getting back to my original
statement, I stlU assure you that
the dissident student who Is
against poverty, discrimination,
pollution and the war has and will
have the ultimate power because
of one simple little detail. They
are right. It Is evident that this
country I • going all to hell and
they are trying to tell the man
to look around. Organizing Is
where It's at.
I don't mean violence and disruption. There are enough people
taking care of that all around the
country. We need the organization to get the Man's foot off our
necks so we can at least stand
up and breathe! Off campus this
can be -accomplished by interested parents by means of the
roost powerful source in this
country to change things: the
VOTE. IT CAN BE DONEI
The community is no different
than this campus or the country.
You still have the large 'Silent
Majority" that sita in front of
the television with a beer on the
day of the polls. If the Mexicans
or chlcanos In this state alone
would go vote, we could have
representation In any phase of
government. We Mexicans could
run this state, if we went out and
voted. The truth hurts, bat It
doesn't have to. The Job that Is
cal differences,* Is to get their
parents to vote this November.
Then this state would be managed
as we see fit, and not by the
whims of Standard Oil or the
Southern pacific Railroad.
—Cres Hernandez
DC AZTLAN
Daily
Collegian
lXXVI/Jt>* MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1970
Victim of registration
violence gives views
who was Injured In the violence
that occured Sept. 12 at Fresno
State  College.  I   felt compelled
Raza situation. To do this, 1
talked, In person, with Dr. Baxter   and   by   telephone with  Al
On Saturday, Sept. 12, Dr.
Baxter explained that he had
told the La Raza students the en-
made to Ernie Palomino. But, at
the time of the protest, Mr. Pal-
Imlno had not been signed up to
teach. Therefore, La Mesa protested Justifiably,because at that
particular time there were no La
Raza studies. As Al Villa stated,
the students were naturally frustrated In that many of them had
already been enrolled In La Raza
classes. Then, at the last moment, Dr. Baxter , by cancelling
the classes, 'pulled the rug out
from underneath them.* If Dr.
Baxter didn't want the program,
why didn't he cancel It before
the students had registered?
I asked Dr. Baxter about the
i La Raza classes,
that In the spring
■ of 1970, the average
enrollment per class In La Raza
was only about 10 per cent of
what the classes' capacities
would ' old. It Is also Important
to note thant no student has created  a   curriculum   towards  a
degree in La Raza Studies. If
a degree of this type could be
forced, and If La Raza classes
would be offered as filling general education requirements (as
a tew of them were in the 1970
spring semester), possibly more
students would take the classes.
On the question of hiring La
Raza teachers, Dr. Baxter stated
that La Mesa was permitting him
to hire only certain persons whom
they had Interviewed. He felt that
this was an extension of power
being exerted on the administration by the Mexican community in that he was only to be
permitted to hire those people
that La Mesa had found accept-
able. He felt that the administration should have the privilege of hiring any teacher they
'desire.
La Mesa is trying to exercise
the same opportunity to fulfill
the Mexican community's needs
as Is the well established Bulldog Foundation, which has been
attempting to do the same sort
of thing In the field of athletics.
Since the Foundation has been
such a help to the college In
the past, La Mesa could also
prove to be a great help to the
college. I feel that La Mesa
is trying desperately to make
a place for themselves In the
college community. With a good
administrator like Dr. Baxter
who Is trying hard to solve the
problem of getting better educa-
 ; AQUARIAN AGE	
Minorities on campus working
for revolution of ideas, attitudes
By Robert Mejla
When the great zodiacal Age of
Aquarius moved upon the world,
overshadowing It with a fantastic
wealth of enlightening Influences
tlon  for minorities, I sincerely
feel  that  a place will be made
(Editor's Note: Although most
Chlcanos will disagree with Doitg
Walla's estimation of Fresno
State College President Dr. Norman A. Baxter's administrative
proficiency and commitment to
minorities on campus, It is heartening to see that despite his bad
experience on Sept. 12, Walla .
took the time and trouble to educate himself on the La Raza
Studies Issue.
Instead of reacting to bis experience with a blanket condemnation of all Chlcanos and their
goals as a people, he chose to
Investigate the roots of protest
and violence. For this be stands r
bead and shoulders above many
of his contemporaries, who continue to close their eyes and pretend the issues do not exlstrJ.R.)
nlpotent omnipresent, unseen
source, like radial, scintillating
beams of ethereal light, It found
man's emotions tight within him,
like a partially frozen serpent
hiding under a rock.
As these powerful emanations
reached out and warmed the
earth, the serpent gratefully
stirred Itself, and slowly, painfully, but steadily crept out to
bask In the wonderous light. As
it Immersed Itself In the warmth
that filled every corner of Its
being, the serpent relaxed and
loosened Its colls, then stretched
towards Its maximum to capture
more of the delicious warmth.
After a time he was still not
completely thawed, but he was
same time striving desperately
to bold together the Jig saw pieces
of the outer, we find Hermes'
expression of *As above, so below; as In the inner, so In the
outer* suddenly taking on a
strange meaning. Will we find the
same Jumbled mass In the Inner
world that abounds out here, or
will we have to clean up the outer
to make It harmonize with the
hopefully peaceful Inner, so that
we can stop having to rationalize
pr Justify our behavior, our opinions,-our Ideas.
With the broadening of the
mind, one hopes will come a let
up in the fears, prejudices and
distrust of the old era, the old
dispensation, and the widening
gap be filled with an inpouring of
•let's get together'. Let's get together has to happen sooner .or
later, and hopefully sooner,at
FSC.
Minorities on campus this year
are working feverishly to bring
about a revolution. A revolution
of Ideas, of attitudes, of preconceived opinions. Tbey are
armed with the guns of ambition
and crying need, which they've
carefully loaded with the blunt-
nosed bullets of fast-hitting
ideas, with which tbey fully la-
tend to riddle the heads of administration and the student body
at large. When these blunt-nosed
bullets explode In the brain they
will make bug* boles, which on*
hopes will be filled with the fragmented shrapnel of Innovative
ideas.
Their point? That, her* torts*
taking, is a surging, restless,
power pool of human resources,
(Continued on Pag« 4, Col. 3)