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D&ily Nebrufcira Senior Seporter
Some people keep anything.
On the top two floors of Nebraska Hall,
the Nebraska State Museum keeps about
everything it doesn't have in Morrill Hall
more than 09 percent of its exhibits
and research specimans.
The Nebraska Hall collection usually i3
locked away from public view. Friday
night, however, 471 people had a chance
to see the specimens arid chat with cura
tors at the museum's "Friends Night."
After helping themselves to a buffet of
fresh fruit and white wine, the guests
wandered the halls and toured the
research and collection rooms. There
they saw a sampling of the museum's
store, everything from Indian artifacts to
8-inch tarantulas to the fossils of Ice Age
camels.
The strong-stomached could watch a
taxidermist skin a rat and stuff it for
display.
The event was sponsored by Friends of
the State Museum, a 1 50-member organi
zation of museum contributors. Member
ship donations range from $10 for stu
dents and senior citizens and $25 for
families to $25,000 for major benefactors.
Benefits include an annual dinner in Ele
phant Hall, discounts at the museum
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Dave Schmidt (left) of Lincoln and John Simmons of Scottsbluff partake in
wine and conversrticn daring the Nebraska State Museum's Friend's Night
at Nebraska Hall Friday.
shop and planetarium, a subscription to Although some of the relics and arti-
Explorer magazine and a tax deduction, facts are collected by UNL researchers,
Members also may work in the field with many are donated to the museum, said
museum researchers. Patricia Freeman, curator of zoology.
The collection was started as early as
1871 by the museum's founding director
Edwin Barbour. Although the museum
was intended for native Nebraska speci
mens, donations are taken from all over
the world. Freeman said.
The curator said she cant estimate the
collection's worth.
"It's priceless for its research value,"
she said. Tou really can't put a dollar
value on it. These specimens, in many
cases, are the only one found in the
world."
The specimens usually are used for
research by scientists, professors and
graduate students, Freeman said. The
museum often borrows and loans research
specimens with other university muse
ums, she said.
The museum curators preserve, catalog
and store the specimens. Some are locked
in steel cabinets with moth crystals to
keep bugs away. Other specimens sit on
shelves in buckets, boxes and cereal car
tons. Some just lie in piles on the floor.
Interim Director John Janovy said the
stored specimens may seem unorganized,
but the curators somehow keep track of
it all.
"IVe never seen a curator yet who
didn't know exactly where everything
was," Janovy said.
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Problem more than facts, figures
Though probably not entertaining and definitely
not about art, this week's column is about a timely
subject. In light of the past week being alcohol aware
ness week, the Daily Nebraskan has presented a ser
ies of stories with the facts and figures. I'd like to
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relate something of the more personal side of the
problem.
I have an acquaintance that is a chronic alcoholic.
I'll call him Lloyd. I used to consider Lloyd a friend,
but friendships are based on mutual trust and
respect, qualities that become secondary in alcohol
ics' lives.
Lloyd started drinking during high school on the
weekends, not exactly an uncommon occurrence. His
usual order was a six-pack of Colt 45, a bottle of
Boone's Farm apple wine and a box of Swisher
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Sweets. That order was fairly standard for all the guys
in Lloyd's gang.
Lloyd finished high school in pretty good standing
and always had a steady girlfriend.
Lloyd came to UNL, attended most of his classes,
and did fairly well. Slowly but steadily, Lloyd's drink
ing increased to near nightly consumption, whether it
be in downtown clubs or at home. It had the appear
ance of a habit, maybe, but not one of immense pro
portions. Gradually though, Lloyd's portions and his
tolerance for booze began to increase. On a few foot
ball Saturdays I can remember Lloyd singlehandedly
polishing off more than a case.
Lloyd managed to graduate with a BA in 4Vfc years.
By his senior year he had begun drinking in the morn
ings to take the edge off his hangover and to keep
from getting anxiety attacks in certain classes. Lloyd
lost a longtime lover and started asking his room
mates to lie to people on the phone to cover for his
binges. The way Lloyd expresses it, he had three choi
ces: he could dry out and be able to function fairly
well after a few days of "detox zombieness," he could
stay slightly inebriated (at least enough to function in
public) or he could just stay drunk.
Nowadays Lloyd openly admits he's an alcoholic.
He has achieved a few minor accomplishments since
his graduation last year, apparently as some form of
compensation for the guilt he says he constantly feels.
But his life is still centered around alcohol Lloyd never
calls or visits his friends anymore unless it's for,
money or he needs a run to the Uquor store, -
because he's got the shakes too bad. Frankly, IVe
pretty much given up hope for Lloyd, too. It's hard to
muster much sympathy for someone who lies and
cheats his so-called friends, all in the name of self
destructive behavior.
Lloyd mostly sits around home alone with the
shades pulled, watching TV, when he's not at his part
time job in a department store. He cant explain to me
how or why he became an alcoholic, but he says, "I
just got sucked in." Lloyd has lost most of his friends,
his lovers, a few jobs, his ambition, his driver's license
and a large chunk of his life.
Lloyd once showed me a poem he'd written. The
first stanza went like this:
"wallowing in bewilderment,
staving off tommorrow,
a six-pack is my bestfriend,
and wallowing in confusion ..."
It gets worse after that.
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