News Scrapbook 1975-1977

Chicano Theaters Move Ahead They Have A New Style And A Will To Live By MILTON SAVAGE Wh n th flv h of a new born svn II f,rst on Ed n's gre n and old, Our foth r Adam of vnder th Tr and rotch d w,th a st,clc m the movld, by a growing audience or peopl with littl previous interest In the theater Working alway with 1ts audi nee, th Chicano the- ater movem nt has er ated an orlgrnal style of per· form n , a liberating t of th atrl conv ntlons nd festival to teatm, that had d monstrated a disciplined and skilled commitment to artist c competence. As a result, the plays of th f stival howed their audlen som of the m exciting th ater to be seen in the United States The the audiences; to conduct a week of workshops, cri- tiques, and classes; to feed, house, and care for nearly 150 artists, and to pay for it all - all this is no small undertaking.

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Member1 of the T eotro de la Gente of San Jose perform a scene from their pro- duction of "The Man Who Turned Into a Dog" at the Eighth Annual Chicano The- ater Festival in San 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 !ayor Wilson lent the weight of his office to the project with a letter of sup- port e facilities at the Uni- versity of San Diego were another factor contributing to the success of the festi- val. Sister Sally Furay, vice president and provost of the university, and Thomas J. Cosgrove, associate 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 the annual fes- tivals. This year, the teatros were able to learn from one another with un- precedented continuity and intensity. The festival generated se- Jious discus ions about the future artistic directions of the teatros and thelf future respons1bllt1es to their audi- ences. While the self-serving pretenSton., tcr pol1tical and academic respectability of some member· of the Chi UteatPr moveme t are probabl. of little Jon -t THE SAN I u ION

Among the factors con- tributing to the success of the festival this year was the ability of San Diego's Centro Cultural de la Raza, through its festival commit- tee, chaired by Marco Con· trer of the local Teatro testizo, to provide more organizational, administra- tive and financial support to the TE, AZ teatro ·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 contribut- ed another $4,500. Home Federal avmgs and Loan ssoclat1on donated $250 The remainder of the Ces- tlval budget was met by a contribution of $4,000 by COMBO (the Combined Art!i and EducatJon 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 D1egan 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

at , hoping that time will erase mistakes and an infe- rior record. " Ordmarily, the city attor- ney is elected for a four-year term, but voters in 1975 ap- proved a City Charter change making the UP<,-om- mg term a one-time only term of seven years. By the same ballot measure, voters approved a plan to elect the mayor for five years In 1979. The idea L~ to have both terms end in 1984, and th r after have the mayor and the city attorney run for four-year terms at the same lime as the presidential elec- lions are held.

And th f,rst rvd s elch Iha! the world had seen wo /OY to h s mighty h art, T,11 th D vii wh,sp r d b hind th I ves, It's pr Hy, bvt JS 11 Artt "Th Convndrvm of th Worlcshops Rudyard K,pl,ng

. . . Th plays ol this lestival show d their audienc s some of the most exciting theater to be seen in th United States. The work ol these t atros points toward the potential d velopment ol a theater ol International significance.

ons of medieval England outnumbered their orman lords, so do the Anglo peo- ples of 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 diseus• sions of the festival, anoth· er obstacle developed. The Chicano theater movement ha not yet produced an outstanding playwnght or critic. Many excellen Chi- cano 'writers are presently composing poetry and fic- tion of high quality But they are not wntmg plays for the teatro ·, nor are they writing about them The mo ement began as guemlla theater, perform- ing acts and plays that \\ere Intended to educate its audi- ences about the farrnwork· ers' struggle and to enroll them into the "huelga," or strike. Useful agit-prop has little need for the rounded characters, involved plo and realistically complex messages of more artisti- cally ambitious theaters. But m recent years the struggle for social justice has become more mt.ell - tually demandmg, morally ambiguous,· and politically realistic As they continue the fight, many teatros will find that their hard-won po- litical insights will sharpen,

th ir knowledge of the In· terface between the Chica- no and Anglo world will deepen and thew sense of "ultural identity will burn more clearly must their art. It has n an economic necessity that the players of Chicano teatros work out collectively every aspect of their performances. They have had to Invent their ets, costum(? , acting styles, public relations, fi- nancmg and pla But the discipline of per- formmg differs from the discipline of making. A good actor is ldom a skilled wnter Th IS not enough time nor ergy m the press of production to.. pract ce both rts with equal power ow the teatros of Aztlan need the critical and literary skills of disciplined Chicano writer 1C they are to contmue to explore and transform om' for your use, as I learned 11 when the moose And the reindeer roared where Paris roars lo-night: There ore nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And-every-single-one-of- them-is-right. "In the Neo/1th1c Age .. Rudyard Kipling hared labyrinth. H, re ·s my w1s

Importance, there was a re- alization among the festival participants that their teatros are beginning to command the skills diSCJ· phne and commitment needed to reach a more general audience. As a vital part of the Chicano cultural move- m nl, Ute teatros of Aztlan are in the vanguard of the march for social justice in this country. There seems to be little danger that they will desert the Chicano community for the cheap thrills of commercial free- booting or rally under the lunp banners of esthetic pu- rity and academic career- ism. But there are obstacles that must be overcome if the teatros mean to create honest, SOCJally effective and artisticall) valid repre- sentations of Chicano reali• ty for a mixed audience that mcludes 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 orman-French that preceded modern Eng- lish, has considerable 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 audience they will need to use a version of Spanglish that is more lik English peppered with Spanish. As the Anglo-Sax-

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Jones 1•~1, "I''"' ~~.'AaJ JC would pre~· to have the next e1 are tusllfl JO iuew Moy au1uuala~ election r city attorney run ! aq lnQ 'aAtA.ms 01 unnsu: conducted In three years q.vi .<1u, 10 o1la a ues UJ suosiad permitt1n 7 ii to be bt;iA s;'._ q . Y: n San Diego 0 ading Antitrus Lyle L. Jones I ,es awyer At67 Lyle L. Jones, a nationally recognized author and lecturer in the field of antitrust law and founding partner of a law firm, died Friday In a San Diego hospital. He was 67. Mr. Jones, of 4319 Collwood Lane, was a native of Parkersburg, W.Va. and held a bachelor of laws degree from St. John's University and a master of law degree from Harvard University. In 1938 he served as assistant counsel for the Rural Electri!icatlon Administration In Washington, D.C., and a variety of posts with the U.S. Department of Justice from 1939 until 1954. Between 1954 and 1968 he served as chief of the San Francisco office of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of·Justice. Amember of the American and federal bar associa- tions, he was admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court and the California and New York state courts. He was a nationally recognized author and lecturer in the field of antitrust law and was a founding partner in the law firm of Sullivan, Jones & Archer, which maintains offices in San Diego, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mr. Jones was listed in "Who's Who in the West" and was active in community affairs, having served on the board of the San Francisco Central YMCA and as a councilman for the City of Belmont. He had resided in San Diego the last nine years. Surviving are his wife Hope and three daughters, Mrs. Barbara Sturges of San Carlos, Mrs. Betsy Beeker of Miami, Fla., and Mrs. Katherine Henninger of Manhat- tan B ch Calif. FunPral rvices are pending. Humphrey's Chula Vista llrt acy is in charge of arrangements. The famlly suggests contributions to the Lyle L. Jones ~guished Professorship Fund of the University of an Diego School of Law. Tuesday, July 5, 1977 tClld reporters he

teatros points toward th pot ntlal devel- opm nt of a th ater o! Int - national , lgnif1can . In ad- dttlon to th Latin Ameri- can conn ctlon, r p nted by three group In this year's fe tlval, Teatro Campe lno toured Europe tn 1969, 1972 and 1976 To bring together 13 the- ater groups from uch dlsp rate places and points or view as attle, Venezue- la, Indiana, Ecuador, • exi• o and th southwestern nitPd tate. ; to present a full ven evemng~ of music and plays at no charge to

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Chicano Festival Stirs Ebu lienc .. By ILT AVAGE ti t.,/77 The exuberant gaiety that skull) entered the stage pie- marked the Sunday openmg ture. This figure of a woman in no Theater Festival at the black, a rebozo wrapped University of San Diego's tightly around her bone- Camino Theater turned back white death's head, is pure upon itself Monday night and Chicano folk image. In one I tied a tighter and more re- hand, La Calavera carried a flective knot of audience gunnysack, in the other, a reactions. rifle. Four of the travelers the Teatro Vato Loco (street dude) em- Movimiento Primavera of braced La Calavera. They ~D Los Angeles, set the mood. danced. He knew all along • Perched on a tall stool, his they would meet some day. - But on this occasion, La sang a set of poignant songs Calavera was not about her er Fe 5 that summarized the shared usual business. She had longing, rage and sorrow of come to be the voice of her too many generations born peoele and to teach a history did Los in the American Southwest not adequately covered by and Mexico. the Freedom Train exhibits. gun. The singer ended his set If La Calavera's intentions welcome with a song from Puerto were didactic, her methods 1 spokes- Rico that evoked a world were those of slapstick .ego Cen- burning with the fires of rev- farce. The actress portray- itro de la olution. When the audience ing La Calavera played with ,resented joined the final refrain, a sharp and gleeful energy , Conw- clapping in un\~n an~ shout- that neatly matched the 'he Man mg _the word .rue.go (frre) character's mordant wit. Do .") of the Eighth Annual Chica- John Ray Rouse, singer- fell back in terror. Only the guitarist with gllitar across his lap, he

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D Business School Bullish On Growth

When you ask a graduate today if he is presently en- gaged in the area in which he was graduated, the an- swer is almost invariably 'No.' It wouldn't make sense for us to offer highly special- ized courses in advanced banking - if a graduate goes into banking, he takes those courses from the bank he works for." Now, USD offers three majors, which in order of popularity are business administration, accounting and business economics. As the new program grows, Burns expects to see enrollment double again in the next five years. He ex- pects the annual budget will grow from $400,000 to $1 mil- lion ("inflation-adjusted," he adds with professorial exactitude), as assets soar from today's $1.5-million- plus to $3 million to $,5 mil- lion. Also, the faculty should redouble to 35 during the period. ACCREDITATION DUE Once the fund-raising campaign gets off the ground, the USD business school hopes to add a com- puter installation (It now uses time-sharing arrange- ments and also uses installa- tions of UCSD and San Diego State University); a library expanding from 6,000 to 10,000 volumes (both San Diego Trust & Savings and First Federal Savings have already helped that effort) ; a major course for executive seminars; a behavioral labo- ratory equipped with elec- tronics monitoring devices and several endowed profes- sor's chairs. This month, the USO busi- ness school should file the final papers to gain accredi- tation from the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. It is normally a two-year pro- cess. USD is already ac- credited by the Western As- sociation of Schools and Col· leges. Rooting on the sidelines will be San Diego's major university-connected busi- ness school, San Diego State University, which has 4,500 undergrands and 800 '1BA (master of business admlnis- ( Continued OD B-13, Col. i)

By >ONALD C. B UDER Flnanclol ld"or. Tno Silo DlffO Union Jn high r education cmles these days, most admim tra- tors wrestle with "stay afloat" problem . They talk of flattening enrollment curv . cost- uttlng, scaling down, belt-ti htening, con- solidating But Jim Bum apparently ha. n t heard any of th buzz wordS As d an of the Univ rslty of San Diego's , c·h I or Bu in Adminis- tration, h talks or creating n w programs, building up enrollments, adding faculty, expanding facthtl s - and of course, ral ng money. At lea t $3 milllon worth For USD's buslne s chool I g ttlng r ady to launch an mbltiou xpan Ion pro- gram with th goal of pro- viding , n DI go noth r na- t10nally ctTed1ted and rec- ognized bu n hool PROGRE 'S IMPRES ES

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Apair of mime-narrators Janie Fuentes and Nancy Mayorga, wearing denim boiler suits and whiteface, transformed themselves as needed into convincing ma- chines and a dog house. Under the artistic director Adrian Vargas, the skilled and disciplined acting troupe, playing multiple roles, was able to conjure up with ease a kitchen, a state employment office, a Chica- no bar and an executive suite. Although the language of the play might fairly be called "Spanglish," its meaning and humor were

easily grasped. The last play scheduled for Sunday night's performance, "Al Final de Camino" ("At the End of the Road"), was canceled. A spokesman for the Centro said two actors of Teatro Libre de Argentina, which was to have presented the play, were refused exit visas by the government of Mexico, where they are in exile. In spite of the cancella- tion, the festival opened on a happy and promising note.

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,;;i Humor and social satire game of hopscotch-monopoly ry Y t e A $100,000 grant to tram pc returned to the festival in with Davy Crockett, John Osvaldo valved In helping the handle t~e company of the Teatro Wayne, and a figure . who r tells of has been awarded to the Sch Libertad from Tucson with a rntroduced himself by ayed ~Y Education at University ol collectively composed play, announcing, "I am not a 1 • who IS Diego. "El Vaci! de '76." crook," making up the rules rac1Sm Th~ Bureau of Education fc This work tells of five Chi- of the game as they went elfare to Handicapped, a divis10n of th canos riding the Bicentenni- along. a dead partment of Health, Educatim al Freedom Train. After a "Y yard. Welfare (HEW), is funding the spirited group production of Milton Savage is a San with a over a three-year period. The "I'm a Yankee Doodle Diego free-lance writer and machin- year $30,000 will be given to us Dandy," La Calavera (the poet. drop .of The grant will provide fees, ttnuuu . . .. . . . . . -,..- -ilan-l1fe and stipendS for five traineeships in nence m_ .bilingual-b1cul_tur- chamlmk fencing, topped by USD's program for Master of Edu- al _theatmcal presentat10ns a red. and gold banner an- cation in the area of aiding the which can be appreciated ~y nouncmg the group's name, severely handicapped people from all ethnic set the scene. The actors Prof. DeForest L. Strunk, director backgrou_nds." . themselves handled the few of special educl:L is The first ~venmg got pieces of stage furniture: project director. . under way at 7.~ when Los three low platforms, a card 7- t>- Alacranes MoJados (the table and folding chair and I~- 17 · Scorpion Stings), a San two signs.

2 Are Appointed To USO Posts M. Susan Quinn, a Vassar College graduate who later received a law degree from the University _of San Diego, has been appointed dir~ctor 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 I graduate, has been hired as administrative assistant Quinn was employed in Vallejo and the Los Angeles a~ea before comin~ to §an Diego. '!:;J).(.)NION 7-/0-77 · -....._ ___

Staff Photo Burns indicates. Enrollment has dou- bled in five years and Burns antici- pates another doubling.

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Diego group based in "bar- rio Logan," strolled onto the stage. The four musicians strapped on gui.tars of vari- ous sizes, and launched Jmmediately, themselves into a corrido Crom Vera- cruz. the audience of about 300 , declaring Itself 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- songs from Jalapa, Cuba, tropical Latin America. Lan- guage was no problem nor were the children and photo- graphers wandering the aisle. The hugh guitarron (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

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. 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.