1979_09 The Daily Collegian September 1979

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Poor H.S. counseling
attracts few Chicanos
rhrs to the second in a series of ortkdes
dealing with the dnmsrfry between dw
local Chicano population and CSUF's
Chicano enrollment; the former stands at
» percent, and the latter 9 percent of
the total. Different aspects of dw prob
lem will be discussed each week
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Thousands of toed college sbk Chi
canos are not aspiring toward higher
education partly because of poor counseling at their high schools.
That to ttw conclusion of Francis Pans,
director of ttw Recruiting Students Via
Parents Program, who last year went
to many of dw local high schools to
recruit Chicanm ter CSUF
She found dwt many counselors, who
she said play a 'maaor role' in itudwdj'
academic and career pursuits, ore doing
a 'vary good fob* in counseling Chicanm.
'We teJkad to thousands of students
this past same tear/ Pans taid. "We
would ask then who dwir counselor
was, and dwy wouadn 't know. The counselors never ceded them in to ask tham
about their career goals.'
While counsoteri could be directing
students into tho fields of law, medicine
or nursing, tha said, they initeed
direct tham mt
and secretarial fobs.'
Pens thinks dw problem can be
attributed to 'racism' or 'stereotypes
that Chacanos can't perform/
Manual Perm, derector of ttw Educa
tional Opportunity Program, thinks that
many counselors am uninformed about
programs to help Chicanos, and some
'don't make any extended effort te find
out about the programs '
'Sometimes we found that the counselors think dwt EOF it fust for students
who don't do very well, and that's iust
not true,' he said
'In some instances, I think they (high
school counselors) am not really interested,' Perez tsid "Odwr times I
don t know what their problem is "
Perez thinks ttwt counselors have to
make an extra effort to help tome
Chfcsnos--for instance in filling out
30 forms-bee
ts) am eager ,
to go to collage, but they don t have the
background te help them fill out dw
"And maybe the student doesn t go to
school if ttw counselors don't help/
Paras sssd.
Pans and Perez agree that counselors
horn a huge toad of students, which,
dwy say, adds tremendously to ttw
problem That, they taid, to the reason
their programs are rmportant
Pons pinpointed the counseling prob
lam te eight local high schools, wham
she said, 'uncooperative' coungstbri
affect thousands of students
Perez thinks that by establishing
'better lines of communication with the
counselors/ much of ttw problem could
be alleviated
"We keep harping about the same
problem/ he mid. "We need to think
about how we can do better "
- El Grito de Dolores -
(continued from paga 1)
in Moreira However, because of his curious mind snd his reading af
French philosophers like Rousseau and others, Hidalgo wm charged
with heresy and moral lapses  He escaped conviction but wm bon-
ished to the parish of Dolores
Hidalgo's convictions soon involved him in politics where he championed the rights of the underdogs of Mexican society the Indian and
mestizo He became involved in a social and literary dub of Queetaro,
wham s plot wm already underway for declaring independence
against Spain. The conspirators had planned to announce in October,
however Spanish officials got word of it snd began to arrest ttw
members of the Queretaro Literary Oub At this point, Dons Josefs
Ortiz de Dominguez, rode out to Dolores to warn Hidalgo of the situation In the evening of September IS, 1810, Hidalgo rang ttw church-
baas at Dolores, called on the Indian masses and recounted ttw in-
I hsd committed over the past 300 years.
"Viva Nuestrs Sdhors de Guadalupe ' 'Long live our lady of Guadalupe ' Muera ei Mai Cobaerno, Mueran lot Cachupinm" (Death to bad
government, death to the Cachupinm) Thto wm the beginning of
ttw Crito do Dolores, ttw battle cry of the Mexican Revolution The
symbol of ttw movement was the Virgin of Guadalupe
The war would rage on for the next sloven years Hidalgo would be
captured by March of 1811 and executed However, the revolution
would pass into the hands of others who would continue the struggle
tjntttMmico obtained rttiniiepondeomw 1821
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla had settled nothing, but hit GHte de
Dean so inspired others to battle ond he it therefore remembered
m the first hero and father of ttw Mexican Independence movement
from Spain.
Today. Sapaanebai 16, ttw day of Hidalgo's Onto de Dolores, to
Jtt fiwaini snd throughout the Southwest aa Mexico's in-
day Chicanm in the Southwest end throughout most
parts af ttte United States also celebrate rt in recognition of the fact
ttwt m mag as there it oppressive government, like Hidalgo, we will
to struggle against it Moreover, we still recognize dw fact
fag our tncoetori and relatives cams from Mexico ar gad
(in Mexico today and wa hove a link between us.
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swent m caaapwe psoases    Dr. Herman George ef ttw Ethnic Sea-
I and Gad Waaeer mil, of ttw Womens Studies Department awe
spoke   (Pnote by George Aguarre)
La Raza Studies course
offers on-job experience
The course to divided into dime general categories The dms rs a require
ment for those seeking bilingual, cross
cultural specwlist credentials The criminal rustics system end Chicanm it
another category Students who have a
particular community agency or protect
in mind comprise ttw third category
Most of dw field work involves little or
no pay
Since the course originates in ttw La
Raza Studies department, tt isn't surprising that most of dw placements are
in the Chacsno community. But students
aren't restricted to Oiicano agencies
Tham are basic problems common to all
groups, Perm said Moot of dw stu
dents, however, want to work with young
people In trouble, Perez snd Gonzalez
byBicwasf
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A Ls Raza Studies dam is taking theory out of ttw classroom snd putting it to
practical um.
Field Work in ttw Community, Ul
145, pieces students in ttw actual cultural conditions thsy will encounter in
jobs after graduation 'Students have
an unoerstandtng of culture from a
text," mid Teresa Perm, one of three
instructors for ttw course "They need
a hands-on experience The two other
instructors are Aim Gonzalez a new
addition to the La Ram Studies tteff, and
Tony CarrJuqus, EOP counselor
Twenty-five students ham registered for this i ems iter's dms, down from
ttw 65 who completed ttw course last
semester, according to Perm. In ttw
past, ttudenti have bean placed with
with Centre U Famiua, ttw Chicano
Youth Center, Cnicano media projects
ruvenile hall, with m-offender programs
and    chicano    student    organizations
Although placement hm traditionally
been wrth community agencies, students
may develop their own programs for
credit, one woman is working in migrant
education this aemsiter with an eye to
developing a comprehensive study oi migrant children for next semester
The sky seems to be the limit Perez
said ttw only restraint pieced on s ttu-
dent is hrs or her lack of creativrty One
group of students, for instance, will develop s male parenting group for Centro
La Familis, a family advocacy group
Still another student is working st Roosevelt High informing others of
csjportunibas. One ttudent to I
down two positions, one at an Orange
Com hearth dime and another tutoring
Before ttw ttudents can be Disced in
their field assignments, they must sign a
contract ensuring they meet with the instructor for at least one hour a week,
spend six hours minimum a weak in an
approved field placement, snd keep a
detailed record of dwir activities via a
daity or weakly log or a final term paper The contract, according to Gonzal
es, ensures that the student just doesn t
find an agency, tit down snd do nothing
Something as mote must come out of
each student't placement, he added.
Aside from providing a valuable community service, ttw course often rmuJU
in permanent jobs for some students A
student, once placed at an emptoyrnent
development agency, to now working full
time for that agency Another student rs
working for Wakefield School after working there m a student intern through the
La R.sza course 'We don t guarantee a
rob/Perez mid, "but our students have
But noone is working as a flunky, Per
ez and Gonzalez said 'No one is shut off
in the back to do filing or ctertcal Jobs:"
'At the very least,' Gonzalez said,
'students gat ttw opportunity to try on
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