University Daly Kansan, December 7, 1981
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Cubans
migrant farm workers, like apple pickers". The season is over. "You just dunn't need the refrain."
But Jose Hernandez and his family have been luckier than many other refugees. When they arrived in Miami, most of the 8,233客船 came with them stayed in hotel coffins.
When the family arrived in America, they slept for eight hours in Key West. Then they were taken to the Orange Bowl in Miami and their first bath and final real meal in 11 days.
From there they went to Opa-Locka, Fla., where they waited 12 hours before being processed by the Immigration and Naturalization Services. The family did not go to one of the crumple-ridden resettlement houses, because Maria's brother lives in Miami.
Maria Hernandez had not seen her brother since the last refugee falla came to freedom in 1953.
"I was very emotional," Maria Hernandez said, her daughter Mari Ela translating for her. "I recognized my brother because we stand the same way."
The Hernandez family were just five of the 10,000 people who crammed into the Peruvian Embassy when Castro said the "worms" caused the problems because they were causing so many problems.
Maria's son from her first marriage was with them, but his father, a Communist, would not Edward, 17, to come to America, though he had not seen him since he
Jose Hernandez said the people in the embassy were the "good people." But Castro also sent what the Hernandezes called "bad people."
Castro flushed out the prisons, mental in-
stitutions, and sent the "people who liked to kid-
nap" them.
JOSE HERNANDEZ, like many of the refugees in the embassy, saw escape through the embassy as the last possible escape from what he said was horrible conditions.
Jose and his family were afraid of these "bad people," but they escaped the problems caused by them in the camps. More than 78,000 people have been kept in the camps at Fort Chaffee; Indiantown Gap, Penn.; and Fort McCov, Wis.
By the beginning of October, only 9,678 refugees were still in the camps, but the violence and rioting that happened there will not soon be forgotten.
The family left Cuba to escape the daily struggle to survive and the daily fear of being thrown in jail or being killed, Jose Hernandez said.
As he spoke, he seemed ready to burst, as if he had waited to tell someone he felt abashed.
Jose Hernandez said that in Cuba people were put in prisons for anything that considered a negative action against him, or work overtime, refusing to perform "volunteer
work' and buying on the "bolsa negra," the black market.
He said it was impossible to survive in Cuba on the rations allowed by the government, so everyone bought on the black market, risking the consequences in order to keep their families alive.
But the most horrible thing the Castro regime did to the predominantly Catholic Cubans, Jose Hernandez said, was to deny them their religion. Castro changed the date of Christmas in his country to July 26 and renamed the holiday "Children's Day."
People who do try to practice Catholicism are not in jail, he said.
10 PREVENT Cubans from practicing their faith, Castro said that everyone must work several Sundays each year doing "volunteer" work as cleaning parks.
Viki and Mari Ela began their Catholic education when they came to Miami. They took their first communication last April and it said, "It was the happiest day of rary life."
The only thing that mars Maria Hernandez's happiness now is that her exhumbant will not allow her son to come to America. Eduardo's picture sits on the television set and is shown lovingly to anyone who visits.
Eduardo keeps in constant contact with his family through the telephone and letters, but he will not be allowed to leave Cuba until he turns 21.
But in general, the Hernandez family is happy in Kansas City. The girls are studying mathematics, English and history—something they never studied in Cuba.
Jose and Maria Hernandez said the girls were serious students and they hope that they will be able to attend college when they are ready. They would lose respect for us." Maria Hernandez said.
Jose Hernandez said he was happy here but wished he could help his countrymen in Cuba. He said he wanted Cuba to be a free country and said, "I would fight Communism from all over the world in the country. If the United States wanted me to go anywhere to fight Communists, I would."
AND THE HERNANDEZ family, though they said they would always be Cubans, have adopted many American values. They are working hard to learn English and have learned quickly that workers have rights in America.
Jose Hernandez decided Friday that he had been treated unfairly at his job with a maintenance company in Kansas City, Kan. He works as a window washer and said that he planned to Catholic Charities people about quitting his job because he had not been paid overtime and was not paid for working on Thanksgiving.
Jose Hernandez earns $3.50 an hour as a window washer and although that is more than he ever earned in Cuba, they are not satisfied. They understand the American dream of working their way up the ladder, and they do not intend on letting the fact that they are refugees stand in the way of their success.
Santa
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Also, the students who were able to pinpoint when they stopped believing in Santa said the realization was actually the culmination of a story that took place in the existence of Santa, but still half-believing.
The lack of age difference was not surprising, because they were all around the age at which the French child psychologist Jean Piaget found that children acquire causative reasoning skills, one of which is called "c Conservation." That is the ability to understand that something may change its appearance without altering its essential nature.
Before that age, all of the students in the study reported believing in some form of Santa, whether it was just the spirit of the Christmas or the jolly fat elf that Clement C. Moore made popular in his poem, "A Visit From St. Nicholas," whose known as "The Night Before Christmas."
"It's part of the mystery and magic of the
science," she said. "The best aspect of it is the
pure bale."
When the students were asked if children should be taught that there was a Santa, there were three resounding "yesses" and three "maybes."
HOWEVER, two students objected to the idea that Santa Claus was a concept that people "taught" children, pointing out that most children gradually absorbed the belief of Santa as the spirit of Christmas, just as they gradually gave up the belief in the fat man in the red suit.
One of the students who said yes was Kim Piercault, Overland Park junior.
The third student who answered with a "maybe" said that she believed that decision should be left up to the individual family, depending on the children or the circumstances.
And if you're wondering about how those children answered the same questions 85 years ago, their answers were very similar to today's answers.
"I hung up my stockings behind the stove so that Santa Claus could get warm, and Papa and Mamma thought I was asleep, and the door was open." And he took the stockings off the stove, and stocking it, and felt as if I had not been good. I
Poker
Unfortunately for the University of Kansas, he said the bookstore didn't call his bet.
"Colleges and universities are an ideal place to launch some of this, as far as I'm concerned," he
"We said we'd put a Jayhawk logo on our package for them only," he said.
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profitable to the casinos—or they wouldn't accept them—and rapid in play," he said.
**THOUGH HE IS not ready to "exploit" them**, wired, Wen said he had also developed two more gambling variants, a Jack-Poker Hali-Kai honeypot and a Jack-Poker computerized craps game.
Wirken is heiding his bets by offering stores and distributors promotional gimmicks to boost sales. He mentioned one offer he made to the retail store, Lawrence Store, the Lawrence distributor of Jack-Poker.
But Wirken won't stand pat with just Las Vegas. In six months, Wirken, a mathematics graduate from the University of Illinois, figures his product will go nationwide in stores such as Macys, the Jones Store and K-Mart, and in five others that him $38 million, or 16-15, on his original bet.
economically, I would say that today there's every opportunity for young people and there's every opportunity to distribute new products.
"This thing is going to fly and it's going to fly high," he chirped happily. "It seems that the players will go lock, stock and barrel after these new games."
"Frankly, if I make a million dollars, I would savl i have earned it."
"You have to be tough, hard-nosed and intelligent enough to understand what it takes."
And of course, for Wirkun, it doesn't hurt to sell a lot of four-leaf clovers.
Most of those children in our grandparents' generation stopped believing in Santa when they were about 6% years old. This change came after the deaths of parents and friends telling them the truth.
was 8 or 9 years old when I found out," said one
sixth grade eirl.
But they, too, said that event was just the culmination of a period of suspecting there was
And most of them believe that people should teach children there is a Santa.
"Let them believe in fairy tales and myths, it won't do them any harm, and little children find out soon enough that things are not as they represented to be, without having it drummed into them from early childhood," a fifth grade girl said.
"Just remember, there's a Santa out there somewhere." Long said.
AND, OF COURSE, there are some children who never grow up to discover that things aren't always what they appear to be. Perhara there is a large chunk left in all of us that feels nostalgic for Santa.
KUAC
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The Big Eight Conference, which sought the special convention earlier this fall, had proposed legislation that would have decreased the division even more. The legislation would have required a school wanting Division I-A status to average 17,000 in attendance per home game for the 1987 conference and seating capacity of at least 30,000. It would also have wired up the 1978 IY League amendment.
But although the Big Eight proposal did not pass, the Ivy League amendment was eliminated.
The amendment gave schools I-A status if they didn't meet the other requirements, but sponsored 12 variety sports instead. Now, the only way iYLeague members can become Division I-A members is by the new requirements is to petition by waiver and voted in by other Division I-A members.
Review
From nave one
fact of life, but that doesn't mean it has to continue."
The student affairs office will investigate charges by individuals who think they have been discriminated against. People who had witnessed possible discriminatory practices should submit statements to the office, von Ende said. It would take two or more people making the same allegation of discrimination to constitute sufficient evidence, he said.
Although the lawyer for the Board of Regents, William Kauffman, has previously said that he thinks an investigation is warranted in specific cases where there is evidence印amination, the Regents are not now pursuing any.
IN ADDITION to sending a copy of his letter to Conard, Justice asked that the issue of possible racial discrimination in KU's Greek system be placed on the Regents agenda.
On the record
The burglar entered two of the cars by breaking the vent window and broke into the car.
Burglar's stall $1,655 worth of items early Saturday morning from three cars parked in an alley at 900 Kentucky St., Lawrence police said yesterday.
MORE THAN $700 worth of stereo equipment was taken along with $100 worth of shotgun shells, tools valued at $500 and some clothing and binoculars, police said.
THEIEVS CUT down a 20-foot Pondera
pine tree from Holcomb Park, E. Sixth St., B.
Kingwood.
sometime between Thursday and Friday and carted it eway, police said.
The tree had a trunk about eight inches in
length and has been estimated as worth about $10,000.
There are no suspects in the case
AFTER PRYING open a door at Round Corner Drums, 801 Massachusetts St., sometimes Friday night or early Saturday for delivery of new drugs or about 110 cops, police said.
There are no suspects in the case, police said.
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