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Saccharin or real Sugar
check the label, Sweetie
Coffee lovers who find packages of sugar substitutes rviar
the coffee service in the Nebraska Union shouldnt jump to
conclusions. It's not an attempt to cut costs by not buying the
real thing, according to Food Service Manager Bob Richeson,
Real sugar will still be available, he said. Richeson said the
substitute, which costs as much as genuine sugar, is an
additional service to students who have requested it. "These
are the days of dieting, that is why we serve the sugar
substitute and also offer diet soft drinks," he added.
One brand of the substance found in the Union is labelled
"instant sugar" According to Richeson, this is real sugar.
Hazel Fox,, chairman of the UNL department of food and
nutrition, said she has no idea what is meant by instant sugar,
although she did say there are several forms of sugar, sucrose
being the most common. She said manufacturers should
inform consumers of the contents of packages on the label.
The sugar substitute used in the Union contains four per
cent soluble saccharin and warns that it should be used only
by persons who must restrict their intake of ordinary sweets.
Fox said manufacturers may be a little cautious about
saccharin. It has been taken off the list of foods previously
thought harmless by the Food and Drug Administration.
"These things are rather complicated chemicals foreign to
the body," Fox said. "Manufacturers may be cautioning
against using too much of the saccharin until we know more
about them," she added.
Cyclamates were taken off the market in 1969 because they
were found to cause cancer in rats, she said. It took large
quantities of saccharin to cause cancer, but rats developed
bladder tumors. Nothing can be sold on the open market in
any amount that causes cancer, she said.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are now
studying the serendipity berry that grows wild in West Africa.
The berry contains a low-calorie natural sweetener 3,000 times
sweeter titan sugar.
After a year's work, researchers isolated a white powder
they called Wlonellin. "One-four hundredth , of an ounce
dissolved in a glass of water imparts a definite sweet sensation
to the tongue." Before it can be used as a dietary additive,
however, more study will have to be done.
Sugar experts say this year the world may experience one
of the greatest sugar shortages ever, which has already started
to skyrocket sugar prices. It may open the market ever wider
to artificial sweeteners. J
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Candidates tangle on housing
Incumbent Regent Ed
Schwartzkopf of Lincoln, and
one of his primary election
challengers, J. James Plant, a
UNL graduate student,
Tuesday night found they
agreed on more than they
disagreed on.
The two candidates debated
in front of approximately 25
students in the Sandoz Hall
lounge as part of Political
Awareness Week at that
dormitory complex.
Schwartzkopf and Plant
both agreed that more money
was the ingredient necessary to
boost the University to a
top-flight academic institution.
"We dont gat statewide
support for our academic
program, Schwartzkopf said.
"We need the kind of statewide
support we get in athletics,
particularly our football
program.
Plant also said the problem
now is a lack of money.
Although Schwartzkopf said
the regents can't do anything
about it, he said he wouldn't
object to Plant's suggestion
that students be represented on
the board.
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Authority for adding
student rtprtsentation,
Schwartzkopf noted, must
coma via a change in law.
Plant told Schwartzkopf ha
intended to prasant a
resolution at the next board
meeting calling for a student
member. He said he also
intends to try and introduce
legislation making that
possible.
The two did tangle briefly
on the question of married
student housing.
Plant said that two years
ago he went before UNLs
Council on Student Life and
encouraged them to look into
the University's role in solving
Lincoln's housing shortage
problem.
"Two years later,". Plant
said, "we're not far from where
we started.
Schwartzkopf asked Plant
how he would have handled
the problem.
-"We should have issued
bonds to build more housing,
Plant answered.
Schwartzkopf said,
however, that a study of the
community's housing
needs-which the University
recently obtained federal
funding for-is needed before
bonds can be issued.
"We've got to know how
many units we'll need, first,
Schwartzkopf said.
Schwartzkopf also
challenged what he termed
Plant's criticism of the board
for purchasing land in the
Malone area, adjacent to the'
University along Vine Street.
Many of the houses
purchased, according to
Schwartzkopf, aren't
habitable.
"I say we've done the city a
great favor by eliminating mem
(the substandard housing) from
the market," he said.
On another subject. Plant
said he favored more student
self-direction. Noting that 80
per cent of UNL students are
legally adults, he said he found
it offensive when the
University turned to parents
for decisions students should
be making, like dormitory
visitation regulations.
Schwartzkopf said he
favored co-ed visitation in the
dorms, but that the question of
who determines what visitation
rules is not as simple to answer
as Plant made it.
PAGE 14
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 26, 1972