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."
Valle says that Cuba’s three main areas
of development are in education, new hous
ing construction and the agricultural indus
try. “They expect in the next 10-15 years to
be the largest producer of citrus in the
world.”
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