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ROTC cadets attack stadium garbage
By Henry Battistoni
Staff Reporter__
After the Saturday hoopla in
Memorial Stadium is over, hard re
alities fix themselves on the Corn
huskers’ home. The 76,000 people
that pour into the stadium rush out
leaving two tons of trash behind,
j The day after a game, the sta
dium looks like an abandoned
inner-city lot. At 6:30 a.m Sunday,
the cleanup team takes to the field.
Cleaning the stadium falls to the
ROTC. The Air Force ROTC used to
have an exclusive contract with the
athletic department to clean the
stadium, but two years ago when
the Air Force unit was going to be
closed, the contract was split with
the other ROTC branches. Now all
branches share days during the
season when they arc to be gar
bage collectors.
Air Force ROTC Colonel Michael
Carr said the unit receives $1,000
a cleanup. He said the money is
used to buy equipment, supplies,
and to pay for some daily expenses
and a family night where parents
and their prospective officers have
a meal.
Carr said it usually takes 60
cadets five hours to clean the sta
dium. Last Sunday there were \1
cadets, Carr and his two staff
members. It took A 1/2 hours.
Like family night, the stadium
cleanup is designed to bring the ca
dets together
Cadet Brec \X ilshuscn said the
cleanup affords upperclassmen an
opportunity to meet freshmen
cadets. He said there are 128
people in the cadet corps, and
since courses do not always put
upperclassmen into contact with
freshmen, the two groups do not
gel to see each other often.
Cadet 3rd Class Matt Joy has
cleaned the stadium three times
now.
“The first time I did it I thought,
1 Why do 1 have to do this?”’ he said.
Joy is happier with cleaning
now that he is behind a broom and
not stooping to pick up cups and
hot dog wrappers. I le also said the
unit learns to work together as a
team.
The cadets get doughnuts for a
break in the ordeal. This is the
break before the dreaded student
S
section is attacked.
Cries of “Oh-no!” went around
as cadets marched up the student
section steps with two or three
burlap sacks in hand. The student
section is the most trash-filled part
of the stadium. Old hands only
could compare the devastation to
the mess left by the Farm-Aid con
cert. The Oklahoma games also are
called to memory when a particu
larly trash thick row is waded into.
It is obvious from a quick in
spection of the stadiu m that the no
alcohol sign over the gates is uni
versally ignored. Liquor bottles lit
ter the stands and bathrooms. The
Cornhusker drinks of choice found
by consensus among the cadets
who remove the dead soldiers are
schnapps and Bacardi rum. An un
opened bottle of Seagrams-7
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turned up Sunday.
The spoils of cleanup are usu
ally monetary though. One cadet
found $6 last lime the Air Force
cleaned the stadium. With the high
consumption of alcohol, it is amaz
ing nothing more than sobriety and
pocket-change is lost.
Bill Shepard, athletic depart
ment grounds director, said that on
Monday after the cadets are fin
ished he and three workers blow
small trash out of the stands. This
takes about three days.
Shepard said in the 1960s it took
nearly a week to do the same job,
and the stadium was smaller then.
It is a cold and tiring job, but at
least this year when the cadets go
into Memorial Stadium they will
not be picking up half-frozen or
anges.
Shaun Sartln/ Dally Nebraskan
Air Force ROTC cadets clean Memorial Stadium Sunday morning. The cadets start at 6:30 a.m. and
spend about five hours picking up trash from the previous game day.
Joe Heinzlc/ Dally Nebraskan
Chris Salves of Waverly pushes a rack of cups through the tap'll ne
under the South Stadium. Annette Oligmueller, a junior psychol
ogy major, tops off cups while Bruce Ruhge puts on cellophane
tops.
Roaming snack vendors
compete for fans' funds
By Pattie Greene
Staff Reporter
Nothing’s more American, or
Nebraskan, at a college football
game than hot dogs and Coca
Cola.
Donna Clark, manager of con
cessions, estimates that fans con
sume up to 60,000 Cokes and
20,000 hot dogs-a game.
The red hot dogs, that turn the
buns red too, are “made specially
for us,” Clark said. Red food color
ing is used to dye them for “Go Big
Red.”
On game days, concession
workers arrive at 6 a m. to start
setting up the stands. The rest of
the workers arrive at 9:30 a m.
“We’re all ready to go when the
doors open,” she said.
Volunteers from various organi
zations help out in the 25 conces
sion stands. Most stands have four
people working, while larger ones
have up to eight people, Clark said.
For the fans’ convenience, ven
dors sell food and drinks in the
stands. Most of the vendors are
high school students trying to earn
a little extra spending money.
Joe Darling, a freshman at Lin
coln East junior High School, said
he sells 250 Runzas every game.
He said he sells Runzas “for the
money,’’making up to $50 a game. |
Darling said he started selling
Runzas last year after seeing
people do it at the games.
“I just called in and asked to
sell,” he said.
Another Runza vendor, Ryan
Dugdale, a sophomore at Milford |
High School, said it was “quick,
easy money," because he can take
it home with him that day.
Chad Brouse, a junior at Lincoln
East High School, said he usually
makes $2.50 profit on Coke trays.
"I do it for the money,” he said.
Brouse said vendors have to pay
for their trays right away, but they
make the money back quickly.
One vendor says he does it for
fun and to get into the games free.
Kevin 1 lauptman said he started
selling hot dogs in 1972, when the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
was asking junior high students if
they wanted to help.
Hauptman said he sells 250
hot dogs a game.
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