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Cuban family finds home in Kansas City
Jose Hernandez, right, brought his family to Kansas City because he wanted his children to grow up as Americans.
By CATHY BEHAN Staff Reporter
Cuban police pounded on the door to Jose Hernandez's house at 2:00 a.m. May 7, 1880, and told him and his family that they were finally going to the boats.
After 28 days, this was the news they had been waiting for. Jose Hernandez, his wife, and their two daughters hurried to get dressed as the armed police hustled them into a waiting truck crowded with other refugees on their way to the boats.
They were anxious but excited as they hurried away from their house where they had been locked in for those four weeks, and because of their last chance to leave Fidel Castra's Cuba.
The trip to the boats, however, was longer than they had anticipated.
The trip halted abruptly when they came to a detention camp where they remained for eight days within sight of the boats that would take them to freedom. They were forced to swim and hide in the water, so would prod them with sticks and harass them by calling them "worms" and other names.
THEY WERE GIVEN nothing but raw rice and bread to eat with no way to cook the
After eight days, the Hernandez family left the camp and went to the boat christened 9999, owned by a Puerto Rican who was trying to get his own family out of the country.
Jose Hernandez smiled wryly and said recently, "I am 39 years old but my mind, I mind," he said.
Jose and Maria Hernandez stood against a wall allowing their children to sit in the two chairs in the small dining room of their apartment.
The two girls argued over the last drop of coffee, seemingly unaware of their parents as they related the story of the hard trip to America.
The family arrived in Key West, Fla., May 17, 1980, and last month, Catholic Charities of Kansas City, Mo. brought them to Kansas City, where they provided Jose and Maria Hernandez with jobs, helped them find a place to live and start living their lives again.
"I have been better treated, better received, and received more help here than I ever was in Cuba," Jose Hernandez said wearing jeans, Jean Yanes, of Catholic Churches.
Now that the family has settled in their two-bedroom Kansas City, Mo., apartment, the children move to a quiet suburban home.
Embassy in Havana without toilet or bathing facilities. One two-day trip from Cuba are over, but not for tourism.
THE STREET THE family lives on in Kansas City is dark and dirty, but the apartment is clean, if sparsely furnished, and the Christmas tree frames with the chaperone outside.
Vici, 11, and Mart Ela, 10, sang Christmas carols in English while they stood and stared
For all the Hernandez family, celebrating Christmas is a wonderful novelty to them. In Cuba they were not allowed to practice their Catholic religion.
"In Cuba, God is called a painted idol by the Castro regime, and the children are taught only about Communism and the revolution in the schools." Jose Hernandez said.
"The girls were always in a state of trauma because they are studious. What they were studying went against what we wanted them to know."
Jose Hernandez left Miami to come Kansas City because, he said, the community wanted him.
to grow up as Americans, but remembering that they were Cuban.
Some friends of the Hernandez family, Fransisco and Myda Carbonell, had come to Kansas City a month before the Hernandezes came to them that Kansas City was a good place to go.
The Hernandezes contacted Catholic Charities, who had helped the Carbohelenals, and a priest who was involved in the case.
There are about 250 Cuban refugees in the Kansas City area, said Brother Michael Fehrenback, head of the refugee division of Catholic Charities in Kansas City, Mo.
CATHOLIC CHARITIES sponsored many of the refugees brought here from Fort St. Louis, who are sponsors, provide housing and basic necessities for the refugees and help them find jobs and get settled.
But some of the refugees in Kansas City and the area have been abandoned by other sponsors, and Catholic Charities does not pay for them allotted to pick up abandoned refugees.
"Some have been dumped and sold as
HYLNIN sources."
Belief in Santa wanes, but the magic doesn't
Rv.JOLYNNE WALZ
Staff Reporter
Santa Claus is coming to town, and once again the children will be lying awake, too excited to sleep, trying to hear Rudolph's hooves on the roof.
But most college students long ago stopped believing in the fat, jolly gentleman in the red coat, although most of them—according to an informal survey conducted yesterday—still vividly remember the magic of believing in Santa.
In the survey, KU students answered three questions that University of Nebraska at Lincoln graduate psychology student Frances E. Duncombe first asked grade school students in 1896.
- When you were little, what did you think about Santa Claus? Tell all you can remember about your ideas of him.
- How did you find out afterward who he really
15? How old were you, and how did you feel when you first learned this?
Ten KU students answered the questions, although two students' answers were disqualified according to the same disqualification system used in 1896.
- Do you think young children should be taught to believe in Santa Claus? 'Give your reasons.
ONE STUDENT's answer was disqualified because he said he still believed in Santa.
Of the students who said they had stopped believing in Santa, two said that other children had told them about Santa when they got to school.
And Frances Stewart, McPherson freshman,
said that she never believed in Santa because she
had older brothers and sisters who had talked
early on.
"I still think there's a Santa out there somewhere," said Mark Long, Topeka junior. "But can the Easter Funny as far as I'm concerned."
"I was standing in line to go outside, and there was this one little boy down the line from me who was being real rowdy," said Liz Donaldson, Lawrence senior. "He leaped over and said, 'You don't still believe in Santa Claus, do you?' Well I still did, but I didn't want him to know that, so I said, 'Naw.' Then all of a sudden it hit me. 'What do you know, there isn't a Santa,'."
"I overheard my mother talking to my grandmother, but they stopped talking when I stepped into the kitchen," said Nancy Moats, Wichita junior. "The other kids at school are St. Clare's炎症 is not, you honey, I guess I knew, but I had never admitted it until then, I was just asked. It ruins the whole idea of it."
Three students said they learned the truth from their parents.
THE OTHER three students in the study said they gradually stopped believing in Santa when they were about 6 or 7 years old.
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Official seeking Greek investigation
BY CONNIE SCHALLAU
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A state representative has sent a letter to several state officials, including Chancellor Gene A. Budig, asking for an investigation into possible discrimination in KU's Greek system.
State Rep. Norman Justice, D-Kansas City, sent the letter to the Kansas Legislative Coordination Council last week. He said that he had received a response in council in order to receive a response to his request.
"It is a formal request," Justice said. "They
"I know what I want to say, but they have to say
either" to an investigation.
State Senate. Ross Doyen, president of the Kansas Senate and chairman of the council, said Friday the council probably would consider Justice's request at its January meeting.
Justice asked for an investigation into possible racial discrimination in KU's fraternities and sororities because more than $10,000 a year in tax money supplements the salaries of Greek system advisers at the University of Kansas, he said.
Agencies that receive tax money may not legally practice racial discrimination. Justice said he believed that many people in the Greek system might be violating the law.
JUSTICE SAID he hoped an investigation would reveal that no racial discrimination occurred in the KU Greek system. However, if the investigation revealed any discrimination, he said, he wanted state funding for KU Greek system advisers to cease.
"I see absolutely no reason for our money to be used like that," Justice said. "I want all racial discrimination in these organizations to stop if tax money is going to be used to support them."
The thought of racial discrimination occurring in the Greek system was very disturbing, he said, because he looked to universities to be forerunners in eliminating racial discrimination
"The thought of discrimination, racism and apartheid existing here in one of the Regents institutions frankly frightens the hell out of me," Justice said.
According to a university statement released by Rick von Ende, executive secretary of the University, "The University of Kansas is committed to educational equity and social justice for all students and believes that racial and ethnic inclusion is an indispensable concept to achieve these ends. Its opposition to racism and sexism is well-stated in University policy and procedure."
with respect to affiliated student organizations, the University, through the division of student affairs, demands compliance with the Regents policy on non-discrimination in organizational memberships and works to ensure that commitment to the concepts which undergird it.
"The University will deny affiliation to any group in violation of these policies. The division of student affairs stands ready to investigate any charge or evidence of racial discrimination in such organizations. It has clearly defined that any such discrimination on a temporal time there are no such charges pending."
If a charge were filed it would be investigated "fully and completely," von Ende said yester-
"We will pursue it to the end," he said. "Not to be forced on our obligations and also invalidate our stated policies."
Student affairs has tried to encourage these organizations to broaden their membership base, von Ende said.
He said it would vigorously continue to try to eliminate "immoral and illegal discrimination."
"They are working on the best way to get this accomplished," he said. "But not many things."
aid. "That discrimination exists is a See REVIEW page 5
Staff Reporter
By EILEEN MARKEY Staff Reporter
NCAA convention acts to shrink Division I-A
The outcome of a National Collegiate Athletic Association special convention last week, intended to appease the demands of members of the school athletic committee, only angered officials at top football schools.
Delegates at the convention adopted new legislation which reduced the number of member schools in Division I-A, its top football division.
Del Brinkman, KU's faculty representative and Bob Marcum, KU athletic director, attended the NCAA convention in St. Louis on Thursday. The 2013 conference convention in the organization's 76-year history.
"The new legislation dropped the current I-A membership from about 137 to 94 members," Brinkman said. "But a lot of those representatives from big CFA institutions were very annoyed by the fact that property rights weren't discussed."
TWO CFA a schools filed lawsuits in September, seeking to bar the NCAA from grabbing total control of property rights to televised football. The schools had said that property rights belonged to individuals, and they had deferred signing a contract with NBC television under the assumption that the issue would be discussed at last week's convention.
Because the property rights issue was dismissed from the floor, hard-line CF A schools like the University of Texas and Clermont, the university would be threatened to sign a $180 million contract with
NBC television if they can get any nine schools to join them—including one from the Big Eight Conference. They must sign the contract by Dec. 14.
Brinkman said that despite the CFA action, there was no doubt that at the annual January NCAA convention in Houston, the delegates voted to allow NCAA to television football property rights forever.
"There's no doubt it will pass," Brinkman said. "The Division II and III schools will be there voting, and they want the NCAA in control so can be assured money that it guarantees them."
"When the NCAA signs a contract with a television network, it will require the network to televise about five of its other championships," Marcus said.
A large share of the revenue derived from the typical television games between top Division I football schools is used to finance the NCAA championships in other sports.
Marcum said that NCAA television contracts also guaranteed coverage and revenue for minor television stations.
The CFA schools, which include 61 of the top independent and conference schools except for the Pacific 10 and Big Ten conferences, wanted a new school in FA than the former 137 member division.
WHAT THEY GOT, as a result of the convention, was a division that Brinkman said would have about 94 members. But the CFA considers that number too large.
"They want a smaller group with like problems, interests and needs." Marcum said.
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Inventor placing his bets on a new deck of cards
By MARK ZIEMAN Staff Reporter
At age 73, Frank Wirken has bet his shirt- or at least his last $200,000—that he can make it big in the world of business. He's a natural, he says. It's in the cards.
Wirken's business is cards. The inventor, owner and president of Jack-Poker, Ltd., a Kansas City insurance consultant, is hoping that his new deck of cards, which is being test-marketed in Lawrence and the Kansas City area, will outbid current, conventional playing cards for the business of the estimated 150 million player players in America.
"Poker is a five-card game, but you play it with four suits (hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds)," Wirken said. "That's not a natural. Five-of-a-kind is a natural.
The fifth suit, which Wirken named clovers but "you can call them darn near anything," means that his Jack-Poker deck contains 65 cards, instead of the regular 52.
"We've developed a fifth suit. Now it becomes a natural."
"The underlying premise of the fifth suit is to get away from wild cards," he said.
"I did a lot of library research, and the predominant symbol in the research was
clovers, what the hell? You can't put at three-leaf green clover on a red and black card of cards, so you don't have to.
THE NEW SUIT changes the odds on traditional card games—all of which can be played on the Jack-Poker deck—and lends itself to the invention of new games, such as "Jack-Poker," a variation of poker, and "Red-Jack," a sort of high-low blackjack game.
Wirken has kept the idea for Jack-Poker close to his chest for 25 of those years, but within a month or two he's planning to bring out his ace in the hole—Las Vegas.
The standard deck of 52 cards has been around for about 500 years and is "the only product that I know in this world that has no competition." Wirken said.
"The casinos in Las Vegas and the gaming board have approved the introduction of two games with five suits (Red-Jack and Black) and "That was no easy task. Look at me 2½ years."
Those years were spent in research, part of which involved programming a computer to play 400,000 hands of Jack-Poker to determine the best hand that will make a profit with the addition of the fifth suit.
"(The games) had to be viable, practical,
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Jack Poker, a new deck of cards, offering a fifth suit called "clovers," is "a natural" according to its inventor, Frank Wirken.
Weather
It will be mostly sunny and very mild today with a high around 60, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be northwestier today at 10-25 mph, changing to 5-15 mph tonight.
Tonight's low will be around 30, and tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the upper 30s to lower 80s.
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