Monday March 1,1993 Vol. CXIX, No. 31
Student group demands Chicano Studies program
By Allyson Daniel
Staff Writer
Members of MEChA — Movi-miento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan — held a press conference in front of Bovard Administration Building at noon Friday to voice their demand for a Chicano Studies program at the university.
"It's important because it provides the different aspects of our culture, said Gustavo Bianchi, a junior majoring in biology and a MEChA member. "They can't just place us as a group of His-panics. There are different attitudes and experiences in our culture."
This press conference was scheduled on the heels of a gathering and candlelight vigil last Wednesday night, also in front of Bovard.
After “Cuauhtemoc'' performed a native dance dedicated to MEChA's desire to bring the Chicano culture to the universi-
ty, two coordinators of the organization, Joey Tellez, a sophomore majoring in engineering, and Adriana Chavarin, a sophomore majoring in education, read a list of demands directed to the administration:
•	The implementation of 10 Chicana/o Studies courses (five in fall '93 and five in spring '94).
•	The addition of three Chicana/o faculty members in fall '93 and a six-year faculty hiring plan adding two to three members each year.
•	The creation of a Chicana/o minor by fall '93.
•	The inclusion of MEChA in Chicana/o faculty hiring, the university review board and the development process for the proposed Chicana/o Studies Department.
"A school of diversity should recognize its people," said MEChA Coordinator Jaime Rojas, a sophomore majoring in business.
Bianchi said he believes the Chicano studies program is necessary considering the ethnic group's growing population within the Los Angeles community.
Many members said they are frustrated by the administration's lack of attention to their demands. Nancy Ruiz, director of the Latino Student Assembly, said she has met with university President Steven Sample on three different occasions.
"He sees no need for a Chicano department," said Ruiz, a junior majoring in education.
She said Sample is concerned that only Chicanos will take part in the program. "He is saying we are not important to this university, we should not be educated. He has the power to motivate and advocate yet he is not willing to do that."
Sample was not available for comment.
(See MEChA, page 5)
Jim Sabo / Dally Tro|an
MEChA members rallied Friday at Bovard Administration Building.
‘Team Change’ dismisses Moye
By Kim Smith
Staff Writer
Just before Student Senate elections, the Team Change slate has reduced its membership by asking Jimmy "Sha-bazz" Moye to leave. He will now be running as an independent candidate for a residence hall seat.
The change was announced Friday by the members of the slate, which is now comprised of James Emerson, Julie Gabler and Roy Nwaisser. According to their press release, the change was due to Moye's "questionable campaign ethics."
"It was a question of financing," said Nwaisser. "We didn't know who was being asked for money or what was being spent."
According to Nwaisser, Moye refused to tell the other slate members where their financing was coming from.
"We heard things, but he wasn't being straightforward," Nwaisser said. "If he wasn't being straightforward and honest with us, we didn't feel we could support him in the campaign."
Gabler said the slate had been ignorant of how the finances (See Change, page 3)
Senate election forming into slates of candidates
By Kim Smith
Staff Writer
Student Senate elections begin Tuesday, with nearly 40 candidates running for the 16 open positions. Of those candidates, 28 are running as members of slates.
A new senate rule governing slates, which allows students to pool campaign resources permits only four candidates per slate, down from 16 last year, to prevent any one slate from winning a majority.
There are two slates running for the commuter seats on campus. Those senators represent the students who live outside the 90007 zip code.
Trojans United candidates Carl Beverly, Pedro Rincon, Robert Straight and Joanne Yi want to address issues of parking and safety that concern commuter students, said Rincon, but they also want to improve the senate as a whole.
"We want to bring back
more unity among the campus — to bring the voice back to the students and make the students feel like a part of the senate," said Rincon. "We want to make the senators more approachable and make the students aware that the senate is there."
The STOP (Students Troubled Over Parking) slate carries Don Hansen, Cesar Reinoso, Jason Omstein and Josh Stem. Their three main goals are to study parking (See Elections, page 5)
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Carl Beverly	Todd Carper	Shamus R. Carr	Marcos Alvarado	Lara Kierlin
Don Hansen	Russell Davidson	James Emeison	Carolyn Bachino	Hsiang (Ivan) Kuan
I. Gregory Mucino	Shana Eddy	Julie Gabler	Pammie Crawford	Darrin M. McGreevy
Jason Omstein	Naveen Kanal	Martin Hermans	Dinesh de Silva	Jason Patria
Cesar Ramirez	Carter Lloyds	TalmadgeAlan Lenertz	Brenda Eguilos	Kaushik Ranchod
Cesar H. Reinoso	Kent Mader	Jimmy Moye	John Essmiller	Kathryn Ress
Pedro T. Rincon	Luke A. Powell	Roy Nwaisser Ruoen Orosco	Richard Florez	Ernest Savage
Josh Stem	Todd R. Ricker		Sean Hansen	Brandon Shamim
Robert Jay Straight IV	Kelly Yurick	Thomas B. Shropshire		
Joanne H. Yi		Michael Van SicUe Karreem Washington		
Sun coalition offers diversity proposals
By Thomas Kozikowski
Staff Writer
Charging that candidates for the Student Senate are generally indifferent to the needs of their constituents, the Children of the Sun Coalition has challenged them to take a stand on the concerns of black, Latino and Asian students.
"The candidates already commit to something — they commit to themselves," said Hameed Williams, a member of the coalition. "What I would like to see them do is commit to the students." He said that the group has sent a nine-point proposal to more than 30 candidates.
The proposal asks that the black, Asian and Latino student
Trant K. Tirufca/Ddly Trojan
assemblies be removed from senate supervision and that minority students be appointed to senate committees.
It also requests senate support for Asian, Latino / Chicano, and African / African-American studies programs and for a greater effort by the university to reach out to the surrounding community.
To help achieve these goals, the coalition asks that more minorities be appointed to high-level positions on the university faculty and staff.
As of Friday afternoon, members of the coalition said they had received a response to their proposal from eight of the candidates.
(See Coalition, page 3)