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HlKh uround till, Huskers to be tested by run-and-shoot Saturday Sports, Patfe 7 Pat Wynne sings for Central American moms Arts & Entertainment, Page 9 0 'amy K - x( U 11 October 3, 1986 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 86 No. 29 A J ,1: V i Gustin Paul VonderlageDaily Nebraskan A speakeasy revival. 112-year-old literature club looking for members By Kevin Freadhoff Staff Reporter Despite spurts and droughts of member ship, the Delian Union Literary Society is still alive on the UNL campus after 112 years; Organized by UNL students for the pur pose of individual development and group achievement along musical, dramatic, public speaking and social lines the society meets to perform skits, read, watch films and have parties. Active members vote on what they are going to do. Anyone who writes poe try, short stories, plays or other forms of liter ature can join the group, read their works and discuss them. Clark Gustin, the alumni sponsor, attended the university in 1921 and graduated in 1925. He has been active in the society since 1925. Gustin said years ago the society occupied an entire floor in the Temple Building. When the theater department moved into the build ing, they moved to the Nebraska Union. Gus tin said that's how the group became known as the Delian-Union Society, but he said he doesn't know where the word Delian came from. Gustin said the society has a good alumni group, but the campus group is not strong. The society now has 10 active members on campus, and some new members joined the group last spring. No new members have joined this semester, he said. Gustin said that when he was an active member, The group met every Monday night. Now the group meets once every two weeks and the alumni meets once a month. Gustin said he tries to attend the active meetings as well as the those of the alumni. The society has been emphasizing short story writing in recent years, Gustin said. Every year the society awards a $200 prize for the best short story submitted. This year the group hopes to have many short-story contests with smaller prizes, Gustin said. The next meeting for the society is sche duled for Sunday at 6:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. Room number will be posted. Smrfs up for Homecoming: 4C-c-catch the NU Wave' By Joeth Zucco Staff Reporter Waves, sand and volleyball. . . sounds like California in the midst of summer. It's really UNL in the midst of football season, celebrating this year's Homecoming and its theme, "Catch the NU Wave." Homecoming Week 1986 begins Monday with the Plaza Beach Bash at the Nebraska Union from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Free food, free drinks and free entertainment will be provided by Coca Cola and Trash Can Alley. Tuesday, the Student Alumni Association and the Homecoming committee will sponsor a sand volleyball tournament from 3 to 10 p.m. The first 32 teams that applied will play at the Harper-Schramm-Smith sand volleyball court. The final game will be played at P.O. Pears, 322 S. Ninth St. At 5 p.m. Tuesday Kaleidoscope will present comedian Tim Cavanaugh at the East Union Ter races. Wednesday, DaVinci's Pizza will sponsor the Homecoming talent show at 7:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Centennial Room. Cavanuagh will emcee, and door prizes will be given away. Royalty elections will be held at both Unions from 8 am. to 8 p.m. Wednesday." " - The Royalty candidates are Jonie Blackstone, Pamela Dykeman, Kathy Johnson, Lisa Maneely, Valeria Roeder, Cory Schukei, Julie Tucker, Susan Wampler, Julie Williams, Daniel Bentzin- ger, Keith Berns, Jonathan Kahle, Ned Kirklin, Bob Huber, Rod Ponner, Jon Olson, Bryan Robertson and Brian Yaw. Campus Activities and Prgranis will sponsor the Activities Festival in the main lounge at the Nebraska Union from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday. Thursday, a repeat performance of the Home coming talent show will be held at the NBC Plaza downtown from noon to 1 p.m. The Activities Festival will move to the East Union from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The annual Homecoming danc e, spon sored by UPC Dances and Cornstock and the Homecoming committee, will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Nebraska Union. Friday, the Homecoming parade will wind through the UNL campus and downtown Lincoln starting at 6 p.m. A pep rally will follow at Broyhill Fountain, sponsored by KHAT and the Homecoming committee. On Saturday, Scarlet and Cream, the UNL pep band, the Cornhusker cheerleaders and Home coming talent show participants and winners will head plaza activities before the game against Oklahoma State at 6:45 p.m. Homecom ing royalty will be crowned at half-time. A post game reception will be held at the Cornhusker Hotel for alumni. On top of ail the planned activities, Tassels and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation will be selling Big Red balloons downtown and outside Memorial Stadium before the game to help sup port research in finding a cure for diabetes. Alcohol games hard to swallow By Jody Beem Staff Reporter Some people laugh when they hear alcohol related stories. There was the story about a girl who swallowed a quarter playing a beer-drinking game. It lodged in her windpipe. Friends had to rush her to a hospital where doctors stuck pincers down her throat and pulled the quarter out. Then there's the one about a guy who was hospitalized after drinking an excessive amount of an alcoholic drink called "Strip and Go Naked." There are several stories about people who have had quarters surgically removed from their stomachs and small intestines. But the staff at the University Health Center doesn't laugh when they hear these stories. They only see problems with party games. Games that require students to drink as part of the rules are very popular on campus, said Dr. Margaret Nellis. One of the most popular games is quarters. The rules vary slightly, but the game usually requries a person to flip or bounce a quarter into a glass full of alcohol. If the quarter goes in the glass, the glass is passed to someone of their choice who is required to drink. If the person fails to bounce the quarter in, tries agains and misses, he is obligated to drink the contents of the glass. "What is dangerous is that the game indicates how much a student drinks," Nellis said. Margaret Pavelka, a registered nurse at the Health Center's community health department, said she has heard of four or five students in September who needed a medical follow-up after swallowing a quarter. In her four years working at the community health department of the Health Center, she estimates she hears of about 20 such eases a year. "These are just the ones I hear about," she said. "Many students go directly to the Lincoln hospitals." Problems from swallowing quarters are nu merous and potentially lethal, Pavelka said. The quarter can get caught in the esophagus, the tube leading to the stomach; in the trachea, also known as the windpipe; the stomach or the small intestine. See QUARTERS on 3 JL Staff Reports ' .rf-Wv-.; -v :; - rifi f - r- r- 'f- er.dfa.".ce &snCKL:i: ftvjh-. 1". fie en cr:ntri a ; t! .? r F t &r.i o;;tecii Asia, ATrba, ll-nwi ast'i South America re to be represented ty students zx &etsa- ;u;t C7i :nriry in the Kctnslca' Ur.kn Ccnier.r.Ll P.eo.r.. Tickets are cn :':- ct the Ncv.rr.:!-.i Unbn kv i ' - ' r L: ' . .t "i.'.n ii ilz f.r.h y: ;r . .r tlr I -1 ) r..;rcser.tc.tive in ths tf.'S.l --it siii this year's :z i vii :rvel. 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