1989_05 The Daily Collegian May 1989

              The Dally Collegian
Thursday, May 4,1989
Page 3
Munoz speaks out for Chicanos
Founder of MECHA remembers role of Mexican Americans in activism
By Alila Loe
Staff Writer
Contrary to most books, the '60s
weren't just-a time for white radical stu¬
dent movements, but a lime where
students created the Chicano movement
and the birth of MEChA.
Carlos Munoz, one of the founders of
MEChA in 1969 at University of
California Berkeley, creator and professor
of Chicano studies at Berkeley, spoke on
"20 years of student activism" to appro¬
ximately 80 people yesterday at CSUFs
Satelite Student Union as pan of
MEChA's 20-year aniversary celebration.
Munoz said the late 60's were a lime
when the Chicano movement became
critical of the old methods and saw the
need for a more radical approach.
"The Chicano movement was a quest
for identity and power," he said!
Although the 1960s saw for the first
time Mexican Americans involved in
national politics with the campaigning
and election of John F. Kennedy into the
presidency, the Chicano movement wasn't
helped, said Munoz.
"In time they found out how Kennedy
ignored Mexicans," he said. "Sometimes
you have to tell it like it is, sometimes
the truth hurts."
activists as Luis Vaidez began to see "the
reality of power in America. Mexicans
wem't provided the same opportunities"
as their white counterparts.
In 1968, things really began to "get cri¬
tical" in the Chicano movement, he said.
The first Chicano student strike was
held at UCLA, with 10,000 protesters
bringing to a halt "the largest school
district" for over a week, said Munoz.
"There were 13 people indicted for, con¬
spiracy ...each faced 66 years in prison,"
said Munoz, including himself.
Also in San Francisco in 1968, a Third
World strike was organized, the first time
in history that Chicanos joined with
white student radicals on a university
campus to demand change, said Munoz.
"We made clear we deserve a stop to
racism in the schools...demand to fire
rasist staff and demand Mexican American
teachers," he said.
When MEChA was formed at Berkeley,
Munoz said it was made clear that the role
of students was to struggle for Chicano
rights at the school and in tire-
community.
"It was a quest for identity and power,"
said Munoz. "Pride in our past...we're go¬
ing to build our own political institu¬
tion."
However, Munoz said there are two
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Carlos   Munoz   speaks   on   'Twenty   Years   of   Student   Action,"   as
part of the 20th anniversary of MEChA Wednesday at the SSU.
movements, especially in the role of the
Chicano movement.
According to Munoz, such political    problems with the history of the '60s
PE skills stressed
Physical Education and Sports Week
aims importancej$:health at youth
"First, we are led to believe that this is
the first time these kinds of things hap¬
pened," he said. "But it's not Ihe first
lime for the struggle of oppressed people.
Munoz also said most books about the
'60s don't mention the Chicano move¬
ment ,.
"If you look at books, you say 'my
god, it's a white movement,'" said
Munoz. "Yeah, there was a civil rights
See MECHA, page 5
By Werner Kreuz
Staff Writer
To make people aware of how impor¬
tant physical education skills are on the
elementary school level, the CSUF
Physical Education Department celebrates
the Physical Education and Sports Week
in connection with the nationwide event.
"Health is so important, but children
are still not taught to perform basic skills
like running, jumping, hopping, leaping
or ihrowing right," said Dr. Shaunna
McGhie, P.E instructor and main coor¬
dinator of the week's events.
The events started on Monday with a
symposium and several presentations
about how to teach specific sports skills
correctly.
There will be a Fitness-Walking Test
Thursday to evaluate the cardiovascular
i fitness of each participant of the one-mile-
walk.
Friday, CSUF will host the Far West
Junior Wheelchair Games with competi¬
tions in swimming, table tennis, track
and field, archery and wcighih'fting.
According to Dr. Virginia Atkins, who
organized the event, youths from all over
the West and up to 18-years-old will
participate in the three-day event   '
Physical Education and Sports Week
should promote awareness among adults
and children about the opportunities and
benefits of P.E., according to McGhie.
"You need a qualified P.E. educator in
elementary school levels," she said. "Play¬
ing on the streets is sufficient only for
See P.E, page 5
Speech uncovers
Hmong maladies
By Mike Klingbeil
Staff Writer
: Daily warfare and abuse at the hands
oiTJiailand soldiers areday-to-day occur¬
ences for Hmongs in B^Vinai—«:
refugee camp in northern Thailand, Dr.
Marion FaJdas told a Upstairs Cafeteria
crowd We&tesday night
Faldas, a maternal and child health
med ica! officer there for the past year,
told thei" mainly* Hmong crowd: that
many Hmongs at the camp are sold
opium by the Thai land soldiers and then
are framed with'the possession of the
drug. Examples such as these, Faldas
said, are typical- because of their
VuineraoUity ia the ThailaMs«3ety..
,. Faldas also explained mat, along
with the abuse  they sustain;  many"
suffer from health maladies as well.
Said Faldas, "There has been a chick¬
en pox epidemic lately. Last year there
were 24 cases of tetanus."
According to Faldas, the infant mor¬
tality rate is at an astrahomicat 20 per¬
cent " '
f   Much of the poor health conditions
can be attributed to Ate lax turnout for
innoc'utaiiofts, Faldas said. For exam¬
ple, in 1988. only 35 percent of the
refugees received immunizations. In a
more dramatic example, he added that
just four percent of children under the
age of five got immunized.
" We^'trying to carry out an effective
health care system," Faldas commented.
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