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:y 3 t now g- they a, ' to relit, one way ss is tai is been •st open, lI ' mosit, Uni verst nyone ic start." s costs >r non-sj rch 21, Helton t ic class tl 1 a waiti is ils (1 the yt i>l probli lenied ti regn |et or k j reveal Utflowj e first aractent sly lias ■xcess I kstonu id deii icy fu Bank, bite dep ccounts Thursday, March 3, 1988/The Battalion/Page 9 Mug shot Didi Duffy congratulates her boyfriend, Steven Snow, after he com pleted the 2nd Annual Community Biathalon. Phi Kappa Tau and Photo by Scott Weaver Wendy’s sponsored the event to raise money for the Children’s Heart Founaation. The event took place Sat., Feb. 27. NS plans to close offices, cut workers hroughout Texas due to lack of funds ORPUS CHR1STI (AP) — A short- ge of applicants will force the Im- igration and Naturalization Serv- e to close its alien legalization office arch 16 and make cutbacks in ther centers, officials said. I The closing will come more than a month and a half before the May -1 leadline for the one-time amnesty Irogram. I In addition to the Cot pus < hi isti Posing, the INS plans to cut bar k le- lization staff at other Texas r ities, eluding San Antonio, Austin and arlingen. Mario Ortiz, chief okesman for the INS Southern legion based in Dallas, said the cuts lem from money problems. “The amnesty program was de signed to be a pay-as-you-go kind of thing,” he said. “It was supposed to be pretty much self-sufficient, and there just wasn’t enough of a turn out in some of the communities to support a local office. The numbers who actually came were not what we thought they would be at the begin ning of the program.” Local INS officials and Hispanic leaders criticized the move to close the of fice before the deadline. They were further upset at a proposal that the U.S. Border Patrol set up shop at the same location. “I think it will be another mark against the INS — especially if the border patrol moves in,” said Lewis Underdown, chief legalization offi cer at the Corpus Christi office. ‘‘Applicants are going to think the INS gave them anotherjab.” The local office opened last May 5 to give illegal aliens a chance to take advantage of the Immigration Re form and Control Act of 1986. The act offers general amnesty to illegal aliens who have lived in the United States since before Jan. I, 1982. Certain agricultural workers have a later deadline for applying. Once the Corpus Christi office closes, Ortiz said, local applicants will be referred to the nearest office, in San Antonio, where eight workers are slated to be cut or transferred March 1 1. Dr. Hector P. Garcia, founder of the Hispanic organization American GI Forum, said he is worried about applicants who have begun the am nesty process and return to find the office gone, or to discover Border Patrol agents there. Jerry Hicks, deputy chief of the Border Patrol’s McAllen Sector, said the agency intends to set up a Cor pus Christi office primarily to com bat drug trafficking along the coast. The legalization site would serve as temporary space while the agency looked for a permanent location, he said. The INS has come out against a proposal in Congress to extend the deadline. The agency launched cam paign to bring in more applicants. CU professor saves the tails of the three blind mice storms Rain in the jmat ill track o ington vhiletHe ventn tales, in veathei June -not j Brer# ■orolV teoroloi FORT WORTH (AP) — The tales of Mother Goose have lulled genet a- ns of tiny tots to sleep and nought smiles to their parents. But Professor Barry Perl mutter inks the lessons in some of the sto ps are a little bit too harsh — such mice getting their tails c hopped l, the little old lady who lives in the hoe beating her children, and the ■by falling out of the tree, cradle dall. Perlmutter, who is a child psychol ist and an associate family studies professor at Texas Christian Univer sity, has spent the last four years po licing all the Mother Goose antholo gies he could get his hands on. “OK, this is the original,” he says, clearing his throat. “Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown. And Jill came tumbling after.” Then Perlmutter smiles and looks up with wet eyes, “Here’s the revised version: “Jack and Jill went up the hill. They ran and played for hours. And when they tired they sat and talked, And picked and smelled the flow ers.” Perlmutter, 36, has his own book, titled “No More Nightmares in the Nursery: A Gentler Mother Goose.” Or, it will be a book, if a publisher likes the 52 nursery rhymes that Per lmutter has rewritten so that nobody gets anything chopped off — even when the characters still eat every thing in sight and don’t pay back the money they owe. In Perlmutter’s revisions, The farmer’s wife does not chop off the mice’s tails and the stingy woman from Exeter becomes “the gracious hostess of Exeter." In his introduction, he tells par ents has tried to keep as close to the original as possible and keep the ca dence the same, so the rhymes can still be sung. THOMAS POOL Opening March 12,1988 Spring Break Hours 11 a.m.-6 p.m. $1. 00 per person $20. 00 Discount Pass (25 swims -that’s an additional 5 free swims) 1300 James Parkway (behind the C.S. Fire Dept.) 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