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[[newspaper clipping]] Page 2 The Daily [[cut off]] [[photo - a group of people meeting outside a building, some standing, some sitting on the grass]] [[caption]] CHICANOS MEET - A group of Chicanos participating in the election of a new 32-member interim board of trustees for Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl university yesterday at the former army site west of Davis took advantage of the balmy weather to caucus out of doors. Sixteen Chicanos and 16 Indians were elected to the new board, which will serve not more than one year. [[/caption]] D-QU Continued from Page 1 tell the truth, which we haven't had before. It will challenge the misconceptions of history." UCD law student Arturo Apodaca said the people at the meeting realized the need for an Indian-Chicano institution of higher learning and the need for unity of both groups to accomplish it. "The way to progress for us is control of our own destiny," stated Apodaca, a Vietnam veteran and former merchant seaman. Tom Campbell, a Pomo Indian from Mendocino county, said he hopes the new school will educate Indian and Chicano children in ways other than the white man's. "Going out and taking things away from fellow humans - that's the way this country has been brought up," he said. Risling emphasized the open character of the new institution and stressed that it will be adaptable to the many needs of its constituents. Risling, Apodaca and Campbell are members of the new board. Announcements were made that a meeting of the former board and the new one will be held March 5 and 6 at the D-QU site to work out legal and formal details of the turnover of administrative power. An effort will be made to form D-QU committees in various communities throughout the state to form bases of support for the university. Risling said a formal ceremony is expected to be held April 2 to denote the transfer of the site from the federal government to the D-QU board of trustees. The Indian board members elected yesterday are: Risling, a Hoopa Indian; Campbell, affiliated with California Indian Legal Services; Alex Corpus, a Pit River Indian and employe [[sic]] of the state of California; Morgan Otis, a Kiowa, coordinator of Native American studies at Sacramento state college and president of the California Indian Education association; Jack Forbes, a Powhatan, UCD anthropology professor and Indian historian; Mrs. Sarah Hutchinson, a Cherokee, Sacramento psychotherapist; Alfred Hicks, a Navajo, teacher in the Richmond schools; Abby Abinanti, a Yurok, UCD law student; Alice Williams, Paiute, Shoshone and Bannock, of Reno; Grace Thorpe, Sac and Fox, a Hawthorne publicist; Jenny Joe, Navajo and Seneca, a public health service nurse from Berkeley; Wilfred Wasson, a Coos Indian and teacher at Western Washington college; Vivian Hailstone, Hoopa, Karok and Yurok, a north state gift shop owner; Mahlon Marshall, a Hoopa and teacher in the California state department of education: Dr. Frank Clark, a Hualpai Indian and physician: and Richard Luna, Jemez Pueblo, a Davis Jeweler. Chicano board members are: Apodaca; Luis Flores, Chicano studies director at UCD; Jesus Genera, a UCD law student; Elena Marquez, a UCD pre-veterinary student; Gonzalo Rucobo, president of the board of directors of the United Council of the Spanish-speaking, an employe [[sic]] of the California state department of human resources development in Oakland and a student at UC Berkeley; Eduardo Rosas, a teacher at Colusa high school and Yuba college; Rafael Guerrero, a Mexican history expert, poet and writer from San Luis Obispo; Roberto Gutierrez, a student at Diablo Valley college in Pleasant Hill; Al Negretto, principal of a Sacramento elementary school and director of bilingual programs for the Sacramento schools; Jose Zamora, a French and Spanish teacher in Antioch; Randall Gonzales, a student at Chico state college; Abel Villareal, president of the Mexican-American Concilio of Yuba and Sutter counties; Crespin Alcazar, of the Casa Campesina in Livingston; Ricardo Garcia, a UCD pre-medical student; Jovita Alvarez, a community organizer in Livingston; and Rudy Cuiellar of the Mexican-American Concilio in Roseville. [[photo - A group of people at a meeting, being addressed by a man speaking]] [[caption]] DQU BOARD ELECTION - David Risling chaired the Indian portion of yesterday's all-day meeting which resulted in the election of a 32-member interim board of trustees for Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl university. The new board is half Indian and half Chicano. It will serve no more than one year. The meeting, attended by about 400 Indians and Mexican-Americans from various western states, was held at the former army site on county road 31 west of Davis. The site is being converted for use as the DQU campus. [[/caption]] GOPers oppose D-QU SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Resolutions condemning "the Nixon administration socialism" and use of federal surplus land for a minority group university have been approved by governors of United Republicans of California. At Sunday's close of its weekend quarterly meeting, the 22-member Board of Governors adopted a measure criticizing "the ever-increasing federal paternalistic control over every phase of our lives." The resolution says the volunteer GOP group "urges all Americans and Congress to speak out against the Nixon administration socialism, including the guaranteed annual income (family assistance plan), full-employment budget, revenue sharing, national health program, allowing federal override of state veto or any similar programs cloaked in new names or disguises." Another approved resolution urges the federal government not to grant 640 acres of surplus land in Davis for development of Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University for Indians and Mexican-Americans. About 50 Indians occupied the former Army base last Nov. 3 and applied for the property. The University of California at Davis then withdrew its application to use the land for agricultural research. The property was turned over to the university trustees Jan. 15, pending final approval in Washington. The UROC resolution backs the UC-Davis application "because their research will better serve all the people" of California. It also says DQU is not an accredited university and the state's higher education system "provides adequate and diversified educational facilities open to all nationalities and races without prejudice or segregation." [[ad]] ROBIN WINN 408 Baylor Drive Woodland YOU - WIN! [[/AD]]
