My name is Gabriel Cruz and I�m the sport�s editor of The Voice at Glendale Community College in Glendale Arizona. Our newspaper staff receives The Renegade Rip and I always look forward to reading it, but the Sept. 13 issue of your newspaper put the butter on the bread when they featured �M.E.Ch.A plans Monday student walkout.�

I am also the current president of the M.E.Ch.A organization on my campus, and it was nice to know you focused on a school organization�s issue with the campus and what they are doing in order to get some of those problems resolved.

I myself have worked hard this past semester just to get a class dealing with my own culture, and knowing they were not going to teach it at a �peak� time where students were going to sign up for the class.

It�s nice to know that the student organization in Bakersfield came together as a whole to get some media involved, and that�s what really made me feel proud to be somewhat associates with the same core of college students who feel the same way I do, in another part of the country. I wish Bakersfield M.E.Ch.A all the luck, for I walk in solidarity with them.

Gabriel Cruz