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Officials suspect food poisoning in student illnesses
By Kathy Stokebrand
Food poisoning has not been ruled out as the cause of
several student illnesses, according to Garland Bare,
medical director of the University Health Center.
Several students arrived at the health center Sunday
complaining of flu symptoms, Bare said. While symptoms .
for influenza and food poisoning are the same, food
poisoning is likely when large numbers of people display
the symptoms simultaneously, he said; , . .
Regents: Allegations
of ASUN in error
By Michelle Can
Two members of the NU Board of Regents have denied
making derogatory statements toward students and stu
dent concerns, which arose from two separate incidents.
Mark Hirschfeld, chairman of the Government Liaison
Committee, was quoted in a Sunday Lincoln Journal and
jj Star story as saying that when he offered a blue balloon
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inflate it.
Hirschfeld told the Daily Neb raskan that the incident
occurred during a speech given by Regent Ed Schwartz
kopf last Thursday in the Union. Hirschfeld said he
couldn't recall exactly what Schwartzkopf said but "it
was. kind' of derogatory and he wasn't too pleased. He
didn't take the balloon." ,
Because of the heavy emotions and high tempers of
the question and answer portion of the speech, Hirschfeld
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According to Schwartzkopf, he did not tell Hirschfeld
: where he might choose to inflate . the balloon,- Hirsch
feld's "antics" during the speech .did provoke a statement,
but he declined to say what it was.
"I don't see how that (repeating the statement) would
enhance the quality of education at the university,'!, he
said. -
Schwartzkopf said that Hirschfeld did not hand him
the balloon, but rather "thrust" it at him with no expla
nation about its significance.
, . "I wasn't aware what the balloon stood for. If he
! V would have said, 'Here's a balloon representing student
concern for you to let go aUhe game, it would have been
different."
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Sunday morning 12 members of Chi Omega sorority
suffered nausea, diarrhea, and upset stomachs. The
illnesses spurred an investigation for possible food poison
ing, Bare said.
The women had eaten together during the preceding 48
hours, at a Friday night father-daughter dinner in the
Nebraska Union ballroom and at a brunch Saturday morn
ing at the Chi Omega house , Bare said .
Del Weed, a staff member at the Environmental Health
and Safety Division of UNL, said the symptoms probably
were caused by food.
He said some of the fathers also had flu symptoms, but
added that some daughters and fathers who ate both
meals had no symptoms.
Two of the women were severely dehydrated and one
of them was given intravenous .fluid. All of the other
women were put on fluid diets.
Bare said lab specimens were taken from those who
had diarrhea. Test results have not shown any organisms
that would indicate poisoning, he said. ,
However, Bare said, food poison organisms are not
present in the body for long periods of time.
"Organisms remain in the body only as long as the
acute symptoms, vomiting and diarrhea, are there," Bare
said. If the girls had come in sooner, food poisoning
organisms might have been detected, Bare said.
"It is hard to establish any particular cause," Bare said.
Health officials attempted to pin down the cduse to
certain food items but couldn't, he said.
Bare said he has little fear that the symptoms are
contagious: - .
More sensitive follow-up tests will Tbe done on the
specimens and the results should be known within a week,
Bare said.
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Tuesday's dreary drizzle made for an unpleasant bicycle ride to campus for Donna Stuver, a UNL English
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Thousands won, lost in student's weekend sports ritual
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By Mike Sweeney
(c) 1979 Daily Nebraskan
Editor's note: This is the last in a three-part series on
campus football gambling. . -..
A touch of Irish luck and a few well-placed bets have
given a UNL student a $7,000 car.
They also have given him gray hairs and upset stomachs
on his way to winning $16,000 in the last two years.
"Last year I was surprised I didn't get an ulcer," the
student said.
"Like during the World Series, I'd pace through here a
couple times and then go out on the porch and spit. It
seemed every time I'd do that the team kept on doing
good "he said.
Marshall (not his real name) said he bets an average of
$1,100 on every televised football game. He sometimes
bets as little as $220 to make a game interesting, but will
bet $2,200 on a game if he likes it, he said.
The bets often add up to $5,000 for a weekend of
college and professional football games, Marshall said. One
.weekend he won $4 ,800; another he lost $4,200,
"It usually evens out " he said.
Fortunately, he has won more than he has lost, he said,
" and so far this year he is ahead $4j000. He won $12,000
last year.
MARSHALL, A JUNIOR, doesn't need the money to
pay tuition or college expenses. A summer construction
job paid him $450 an hour, he said, and he lives comfort
ably in a UNL fraternity.
He bets because it Is something to do, he said. He puts
his winnings in a bank account where they earn interest.
He is able to afford thousand-dollar bets because of
that bank account, filled with money from, previous
betting sprees.
Marshall said he first started placing bets when he was
in junior high school. The bets started out at $10, but "
increased as he kept winning, he said.
Three years ago, he got his first big win .
Marshall said he was at the Ak-sar-ben races when he
got a tip from a millionaire he knew. He bet $3,000 to
win, $300 to place, and $300 to show -and walked away
with $5 ,000, he said.
Although he regularly ; bets hundreds of dollars,
Marshall said he has no system for picking winning teams.
He used to read football magazines to learn more about
. the teams, but now "I take a guess," he said .
"I usually bet the opposite of everybody else ," he said.
"It seems to be the kiss of death if you find out everyone
else is betting the same way you are."
HE SAID HE only bets on familiar teams. The Pitts
burgh Steelers were a good bet in their prime, he said, and
a few college teams consistently beat the point spread.
"I usually bet on 'Bama and Ohio State," Marshall said.
"I always look for a team that runs up the socre. Devaney
(former Nebraska coach Bob) was good. He always liked
to blow out opponents."
Marshall said he has done well bettingon Nebraska this
year, winning four of four. Book makers gave no point
spread for either Utah State because it was the Huskers'
first opponent, or New Mexico State because it was such a
poor team.
Besides his World Series porch -spitting routine,
Marshall has a pre -game ritual that helps his teams win, he
said. .
"I always have my pre-game pop,' he said. "Thafs
why I lost last night (San Diego's NFL loss to Oakland).
The pop machine wasn't working and I didn't have my
pre-game pop."
Despite his winning record .Marshall said he is cutting
down on his bets. :
"I hope to get out of it fairly soon," he said. "You've
got to call it quits sooner or later."
Watching his teams on television cuts into his study
time, he said.
He said a person has a hard time quitting once he is
hooked on gambling. However, he said he needs to stop
because his winning percentage has dropped dangerously
low.
He is winning only 50 percent of his bets," he said.
Gamblers heed to win about 53 percent to cover their
losses and pay their bet runners, he said .
His mother, who doesn't know how much he bets, also
has been urging him to quit r he said.
"My mom' always tells me sooner or later 111 lose my
ass."
Tough job: A juror in the retrial of Erwin Charles
Sim ants says she is proud of the verdict Pae 8
Where Are They Now? Humor: columnist reviews the
status of old Halloween favorites Ps 14
81-pound Weakling?: Defensive end L.C. Cole no longer
finds the NU weightroom so intimidating. . . . Pss 16
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