News Scrapbook 1975-1977

Chicano Theaters Move Ahead They Have A New Style And A Will To Live

Witt Draws Last-Minute Competition College Trustee Reid Unopposed As City Filing Deadline Passes Community College Trustee Charl s Reid won virtual re- election to the District E scat yesterday when the period for filing for office closed without anyone opposing him. But City Atty. John Wilt drew a lai.i-mlnute opponent yesterday when Rodney Hfchard Jone , a 30-year-ol~ la~ professor at the University of San Diego, brought m his nominating papers with more than 600 signatures. . "I ran in 1969 without opposition and I ran in 1973 With opposition and I can say I definitely prefer the former to the latter," Witt said. "Yes, I'm disappointed," he told a questioner. "I'm not the classic politician who loves a campaign.'' By DONALD u: HARRISON PollllCI Wrllff, TIie san D1090 \Jnlon

the audiences; to conduct a week of workshops, cri- tiques, and classes; to feed, house, and care for nearly 150 artists, and to pay ror it all - all this no small undertaking. Among the factors con- tributing to the uecess of the Cesti val this year was the ability of San Diego's Centro Cultural de la Raza, through its fest val commlt- tee, chaired by Marco Con- treras or the local Teatro Mestizo, to provide more organizational, administra- tive and fmancial support to the TE AZ teatros than has been available In the past. Working to a proposed budget of just over $20,000, a small amount of money for an undertaking of this magnitude, the festival committee was able to gen- erate $4,000 from within the local Centro Cultural itself. Festival registration fees paid by the individual art- ists of the teatros contnbut- ed another $4,500. Home Federal Savings and Loan A oclation donated $250. The remainder of the fes- tival budget was met by a contribution of $4,000 by COMBO (the Combined and Education Council of San Diego County) and an appropriation of approx- imately $7,000 from the city's transient occupancy tax At least 4,000 San Diegans attended the festi- val. That works out to about $2.50 each per play, if you do not count the cornucopia of folk music the festival offered. When representatives of

f 1val to teatros that had demonstrated a disciplined and skilled commitment to artistic competence. As a result, the plays of this festival howed their audien some of the most exciting th ater to be n in the United States. The

y MILTON SAVAGE Wh n the flush of o n w- born sun i II f,rsf on Ed n's r n and gold, Our father Adam saf under th Tre and crotch d with a st,ck ,n !ht mould, And the f,rst r sketch that th world hod s en was JOY to h, mighty heart, T,11 th D v,I wh,sp red b hind the I av s, 'Its prelty, but ,s 1t Artl' "Th Convndtum of the Workshops - Rudyard K1pltn9

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Members of the Teotro de la Gente of Son Jose perform o scene from their pro- duction of "The Man Who Turned Into o Dog" ot the Eighth Annual Chicano The- ater Festival in Son Diego. the Centro appeared before the Public Services and Safety Committee of the City of San Diego, chaired by Councilman Jess Haro, seeking support for the fes- tival, they offered the com- munity an opportunity to participate in an interna- tionally Important cultural event. After due deliberation, the committee voted its support of the festival. The City Council subsequently ratified the committee's recommendation and , tayor Wilson lent the weight of his office to the project with a letter of sup- po e facilities at the Uni- versity of San Diego were another factor contributing to the success or the festi- val. Sister Sally Furay, vice president and provost of the university, and Thomas J. Cosgrove, aSSOCJate dean of students, worked with the Centro's festival committee to supply, at reasonable cost, the Camino Theater for rehearsals and perfor- mances, accommodations and meals for all of the artists and working space for the nearly continuous workshops that are the most important internal function of th annual fes- tivals. This year, the teatros were able to learn from one another with un- precedented continuity and intensity The festival generated se- rious discussions about the future artistic directions of the teatros and their future responsibllties to their audi- ences. While thP self-serving preten. ons to politiral and academic re. ectability of some members of the Chl :mu theater movemen• are probabl. of little Ion •

Th plays of this fi stival show d their audiences some of the molt xcitJng theater to b s en in th United State . The work of these t atros points toward the potential velopment of a theater of International significance.

ons of medieval England outnumbered their. orman lord , so do the Anglo peo- ples or Aztlan outnumber their Spanish-speaking companeros. And questions of who got here first aside, brute numbers count in the formation of new lan- guages. In the workshop discus- sions of the festival, anoth• er o cle developed. The Chfcano thf --~-·

their knowledge of the In- terface between the Chica- no and Anglo worlds will deepen and their sense of ultural identity will burn more clearly. So must their art. It has been an economic necessity that the players of h1cano teatros work out collectively every aspect of their performances. They have had to Invent their

importance, there was a re- alization among the festJ,•al participants that their teatros are beginning to command the skills disci- pline and commitment needed to reach a more general audience. As a vi ta! part of the Chicano cultural move- ment, the tcatros o Aztlan are in the vanguard of the march for social justice m this country. There seems to be little danger that they will desert the Chicano community for tbe cheap thrills of commercial free- booting or rally under the limp banners of esthetic pu- rity and academic career- ism. But there are obstacles that must be overcome if the teatros mean to create honest, socially effective and artistically valid repre- sentations of Chicano reali- ty for a mixed audience that Includes members of a society brought up on "Oklahoma!". "How the West Was Won ' and revi- vals of "Charley's Aunt." One such redoubt is lan- guage. "Spanglish," the tongue of Aztlan, like the mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Latinate Norman-French that preceded modem Eng- lish, has consJderable liter- ary potential. There al- ready exists a worthwhile body of Spanglish poetry and fiction Until recently, Chicano teatros have used Spanglish to address a mostly Span- ish-speaking audience. The language of their stages has been Spanish salted with English If the teatros in- tend to peak t a larger mixed audl nee, t e ·lli. need to use a , ersion of Spanglish hat is more like English peppered with Spanish As he Anglo-Sax-

JONES SPOILS WITT'S PARTY "No opposition has sur- faced to date, and I am oplim1 le enough to believe th t IC none has shown s0 far - none will," wrote City Atty. John Witt on Thursday about his re-election bid. He invited everyone to join him in his office at 5 p.m. yester- day to celebrate But Rodney R. Jones, a university of San Diego law professor, took out papers on Thursday and returned them with enough signatures yes- terday to qualify for the bal- lot. The party? It was held anyway. "Instead of cele- brating, I guess we're offer- ing coJ)dolenCX'S," comment- ed LoUlS Wolfshe1mer, chair- man ·of th city Ianning Comm1 10n.

Witt had raised between $5,000 and $7,000 at a recent fund-raising party, and said he expected now that his activities will call for "more money, more work" before the Sept. 20 election. B cause Wilt drew only one opponent, his election for a seven-year term will be settled on Sept. 20. Had there been other opponents, a Nov. II- 8 runoff might have been 1 necessary e Jones, filing his papers an ;i hour before the 5 p.m. dead- line, told reporters he had not decided to get into the race until Thursday when he l realized that nobody else l planned to oppose Witt. "I am absolutely opposed 1 to anyone bemg elected to such a lengthy term by default," said Jones. "No one should own the job of 1 city attorney and the incum- bent certainly is not entitled ' to an automatic seven-year; retirement plan, whereby he can remain perpetually unan~wPra.bl to the pJef'for ,c

has not y1 outstandmg critic. Man cano write composing tion of hi they are r for the teal writing al> The mo• guerrilla I ing arts a1 intended ti ences abo ers' strug them into strike. Us llttle nfel character and real message~ cally aml But in strugg' ha beco tually dE amb1gua realistic the figh find tha litical in/

~ork or th teatros po nts toward the pot nlial d vel- opm nt of n th ater of nter- natlonal significance. In ad- dition to the Lalin Ameri- can connection, rep nted by three gro ps m this y ar' f t1val, Tcatro CampeSUJo toured Europe In 1969, 1972 and 1976. To bring together 13 the- at r groups from such d parate pla es and points of view as Seattle, Venezue- la, Indiana, Ecuador, Mexi- co and the southwestern United State ; to present a full ven evening~ of music and plays at no charge to

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THE SAN DIEGO UNION

BULLISH ON GROWTH USD School Of Business Continues Expansion Plans

FIRST NIGHTERS CHEER AT USD

Chicano Theater Festival Opens By ~ILTON SAVAG_E enjoyed itself_. So did Los A pair of mime-na 0 rrators, easily grasped. The eighth ~nnual Chicano Alacranes MoJados. Janie Fuentes and Nancy transfo~ed themselves a~ the End of the Road"), was rught 111 the_~aw_mo Ibea£ec man for the San Diego Cen- needed mto convincing ma- canceled. A spokesman for tfj; lhe pmyers1ty Pt San tro Cultural, the Teatro de la chines and a dog house. the Centro said two actors of . . Gente de San Jose presented Under the artistic director Teatro Libre de Argentina ''.El Hombre que se Convir- Adrian Vargas, the skilled which was to have presented tio en Perro" ("The Man and disciplined acting the play were refused exit The last play scheduled for "Al Final de Camino" ("At Thea~r Festival of Teatro The fiesta had begun. Mayorga'. wearing denim Sunday night's performance, Nacional de Aztlan Following a brief welcome boiler suits and whiteface (TEN~Z) open~d Sunday to the festival by spokes-

mall but high-quality facul- Bums can count on enthUSJ· ty," said Hungate. astic support from USD U D on of four Roman President Author Hughes Catholic university-conn ct- who himself has a PhD in schools In Cali- busmess admmistration and the others being who was a former dean of In Los Northern Arizona Universi- d busln f rn a -

(Co ti ued fr m P ge 8-tl trat on) cand dates and a faculty of 100 (80 full-time) . "I'm v ry po Uv on what th y (USO) are doing -

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.Jim Burns Is one of our Angele , the University of ty's business school. graduates," said San Diego San FranCJ co the Uruvers1• In Southern California. seems to know how to prac- with private lice what he preaches. "In "Th y're bu1ldlng a quail· schools P pperdine, USC, the last semester, 38 per ty kind of operation - I'v Loyola- arymount and cent of students in our un- rv d on adv! ry <'Ommlt- Occid ntal, a well as state- dergrad program were t and a a mlconsul- supported San Diego State women, and 19 per rent of tant. I would expect th m to t:ruvers1ty and UCLA. our graduate students were g t th acer dltaUon. It's a In building hi. program, women. And 20 per cent of our faculty are women," he beamed. gate. USD compet Bums preaches pragmatic business education and he State Univ r lty bu iness ty of chool Dean Robert Hun- nta Clara.

Performances will contin- ue rughtly at 7 through Sat- program "ill ~gm with a

troupe, playing multiple visas by' the government of IS a collective roles, was able to conjure up Mexico, where they are in

urday, free__of charge. ~ach Who Turned Into a Dog.")

$100,0 0 G ANT TO AID DISABLED A $100,~ grant to tram persons Involved m helpmg the handicapped :has been awarded to the School of Education at University of San Diego. The Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, a division of the De- partment of Health, Education and WeUare (HEW), is funding the grant over a three-year period. The first year $30,000 will be given to USD. The ~ant will provide fees, tuition and stipends for five traineeships In USD's program for Master of Edu- cation in the area of aiding the severely handicapped. Prof. DeForest L. Strunk director of special educl,: L •~ Is project c.irector. · ' 7-lf'-17 ·

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concert _of Chicano music adaptation by the members with ease a kitchen, a state exile. and contmue with two short of the teatro of a story by the employment office a Chica- Argentinian writer Osvaldo no bar and an 'executive This year, TENAZ has Dragun. This version tells of suite. brought together theater a Chicano worker, played by Although the language of separated places as Indiana, forced by poverty, 'racism the play might fairly be Venezuela, Seattle and Mexi- and his refusal of welfare to calle~ "Spanglish," its co as ~ell as the southwest- take a job replacing a dead meanmg and humor were ern Umted States. watchdog in a factory yard T~e stated intention of the The story was told with fesf:1val IS to offer significant minimum of stage machin- soc1al, political and cultural ery. A gray backdrop of n:,~ o!,the Chican~ expe- painted, larger-than-life plays by guest troupes. groups from such widely Jose Luis Valenzuela who ls

In spite of the cancelia- t10n the festival opened on a happy and promising note

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Later m the intemew, he proved the old business- man's adage of knowing where one's bread is buttered. "I report to the university provost." Who happens to be Sister Sally Furay.

nence m bilmgual-b1cultur- chalnlink fencing topped by al _theatirical presentations a red and gold banner an- which can be appreciated by nouncing the group's name people from all ethnic set the scene. The actor~ backgrounds." themselves handled the few The first evening got pieces of stage furniture: under way at 7:22 when Los three low platforms a card Alacranes ~ojados (the table and folding chair and Scorp10n Stmgs), a San two signs Diego group based in "bar- ·

2 Are Appointed To USO Posts M. Susan Quinn, a Vassar Coll~ge graduate who later received a )aw degree from the Umvers1ty _of San Diego, has been appomted director of graduate career pro- grams for the university and the National Center for Par- alegal Training here. _Nancy M. Belford, a San Diego State University honor graduate, has been hired as admi_nistrative assistant. Qumn was employed in Vallejo and the Los Angeles a~ea before comin~ to §an Diego. S°J::>. VNtON 7-/0-77 '---' '----

rio Logan," strolled onto the stage. The four musicians strapped on gui_tars of vari- ous sizes, and launched Immediately, themselves into a corrido from Vera- cruz. the audience of about 300 , declaring itseU to be out for a good time, responded with the usual encourage- ments, yips of joy, whistles and raucous shouts of "arriba!' The Alacranes played folk- son~s from Jalapa, Cuba, tropical Latin America Lan- guage was no problem nor were the children and photo- graphers wandering the aisle The hugh guitarton (bass guitar) beat like the summer sun on a central valley let- tuce field. The crowd laughed, sang along, clapped with the music and generally

. Sister ~ally Furay, provost and vice president of the University of San Diego, has been named to the legal services review panel of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.