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Senate hears evaluations, curriculum Student access to course evaluation in formation will be discussed today and Fri day at 3:30 in Room 229 of the Law School after the University Senate considers new courses recommended by the curriculum committee, says Senate Chairer Catherine Jones. Debate on new curriculum has priority since faculty recommendations must be sent to the State Board in January. However, English Professor Stanley Greenfield says he plans to introduce a substitute motion that would take the place of the Ad Hoc Committee on Student Evaluation of Courses' recommendations. Greenfield says the motion makes no at tempt to compromise with the committee's recommendations. The Greenfield-Holbo amendment would leave evaluation format up to individual de partments and makes no provision for stu dent access to course evaluation informa tion. The committee recommends a University-wide form and student access to statistical evaluation information with the consent of the instructor. The Student University Affairs Board has decided to support the recommendations of the committee, but hopes to change the questionnaire format to include a section for instructor response while striking the clause that leaves student access up to the instructor. The Senate will meet again on Friday at 3:30 p.m. to complete discussion on stu dent evaluations and other motions. Chicanos detail Cuban images By MARY FORAN Of the Emerald When Chicano poet Victor Manuel Valle and his wife Maria arrived in Havana, Cuba, for the International Youth Festival — an annual socialist youth conference — they were welcomed at the airport at 4 a.m. by an orchestra playing "Guantanamera,” a song written by a famous Cuban poet, revolutio nary and folk hero. In a slide presentation Tuesday night, Victor and Maria Valle gave their "Impres sions of Cuba” and the youth festival, con trasting Cuba with Mexican and American realities. Cubans take pride in the cleanliness of their cities, says Valle. "I come from L.A., which is a dirty city, so I was impressed with Cuba." Valle says Cubans have dealt with their housing problem by strictly distributing a vailable space. Beverly Hills-type mansions in the old residential section of Havana have been converted to child care centers, union halls, embassies and schools. Some hold up to two families. There is very little blatant propaganda in the streets of Havana says Valle. Most ap pear as abstract symbols, mobiles or sculp tures. "At least there’s no duttering of the environment," says Valle. “They’re more imaginative than in the U.S." Valle visited the cultural workers union — Cuba’s writers and poets — to try and es tablish a process of literary exchange with Cuban publications. Editor of "Chisme Arte" and associate editor of "Somos" — a magazine to pro mote Chicano community involvement, Valle is an internationally published poet and winner of the 1977 poetry contest at the In a poem called “Mode of Produc tion," Valle describes the clash of new ideologies with older traditional Chicano values: The Word, Yahweh's first word no longer has any relation to my life... what do street lights yellow, falling, liquid have to do with water rusty, chlorine, pesticide in mothers milk, with the food we eat? What does aluminum have to do with bauxite have to do with Jamaica and gold with South Africa and slavery with oil, and Exxon and God with steel God and steel with heavy industry Jesus and Mary with capital concentration the Holy Spirit with steam and coal...? University of California, Irvine, where he taught folklore and mythology. Tonight at 7:30 in the EMU Forum room, Valle will present “An Evening of Chicano Poetry, Theater and Art” — a multi-media program using videotapes and Valle’s poetry to explore the reality of Chicano urban life. Included is “A choice of colors,” vid eotaped interviews with members of Chicano youth gangs exploring urban ghetto life and the aesthetics of Chicano graffiti. A videotape of Chicano Theater will also be presented In an interview for the KLCC program "America Presente,” which aired last Sun day, Valle told host Enrique Lamadrid, Uni versity Chicano literature professor, that the Cubans "are very much aware of us being Mexicans,” seeing Chicano as a "false distinction.” “I agree,” says Valle. “I see myself as a Mexicano, of the southwest.” "The beautiful thing about it,” said Maria Valle, "is that in Cuba they’re so aware of our culture, our history, our social and economic problems ... just as much as we were interested and studied them, they have studied us.” Valle says that historically there have been dose ties between Cuba and Mexico. "Cubans have a great affection for Mexican culture and anything related to Mexico," he adds. “What impressed me most was the peo ple,” says Valle. “The spirit of the people and the very hard reality they live. There's very little room for escapism in their reality. They’re constantly confronting their exis tence ... and that's what impressed me ... What it actually takes to run a society differ ent from ours over here.” “The people reveal that intensity,” says Maria Valle. “The intensity that they’re educating themselves, they’re working. They have a new generation of children with a different mentality. They’re products of the revolution ... you just look into their faces and you can see the difference ... they're the future." 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