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UNL junior Amy York looks over one of the gingerbread houses on display at the Cather
Pound-Neihardt cafeteria Wednesday evening during the holiday dinner.
Staff makes gingerbread houses
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Editor
Imagine a house 2 feet tall, a foot
and a half wide and 2 feet deep —
covered with 45 pounds of white
frosting.
Such houses can be found at the
Cather-Pound-Neihardt cafeteria. The
gingerbread houses were on display
during the holiday dinner Wednesday
night.
Clarice Martin, production man
ager for Cather-Pound-Neihardt food
service, said she made gingerbread
houses almost every year. The past
four have been made in the Abel
Sandoz food service bakery.
This holiday season, she made
three: two have plastic foam frames.
the other is made from true ginger
bread.
The genuine gingerbread house, a
3- foot cross section of Santa’s work
shop, stands two stories high. A dozen
4- inch frosting elves surround an 8
inch frosting Santa. Candy and toys
are scattered about. Log-shaped
Tootsie Rolls sit in the fireplace, lit
up with a white Christmas light.
Reindeer poke their frosting heads
through the window of the stable as
they munch on hay (made of shred
ded wheat cereal). M&Ms form a
cobblestone sidewalk up to the door,
and mounds of white frosting cover
the roof and ground outside.
“All this is icing, and it gets hard,
so you can build stuff with it,” Mar
tin said.
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The two white frosting houses
were decorated with cracker shingles,
a candy cane doorway, gum drops,
jaw breakers and candy mints.
Ann Johnson, a fellow baker, made
six chocolate houses to add to the dis
play. The 6-inch tall log cabins were
sprinkled with white powdered sugar
and circled by ponds made from shiny
mirrors on trays covered with fluffy
cotton.
Martin said that after the houses
had been displayed, she would take
them somewhere where they would
be appreciated. Last year, she took
them to the Lancaster Manor nursing
home. Martin said she might take
them to the children’s museum this
year.
Hu season starts aneaa ot scneaule
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Editor
High fever, chills, physical fatigue,
painful cough, sore throat and nau
sea are symptoms UNL students have
felt during an early outbreak of the
flu.
Mary Lutz, a University Health
Center physician, said her staff had
treated 30 to 40 cases of influenza
since students returned from Thanks
giving break two weeks ago.
“People are really stopped in their
tracks by this stuff,” Lutz said.
The outbreak has come a couple
weeks earlier than expected, she said.
Flu season usually doesn’t start until
mid-December and lasts until March.
Students who didn’t get flu shots
need to be careful of the virus because
of upcoming final examinations. Lutz
said.
“It’s something not conducive to
studying,” Lutz said.
Students should try to avoid the
virus and get early treatment if they
uPeople are really stopped in their tracks by this
stuff. ”
MARY LUTZ
Health Center physician
notice symptoms, she said.
Amantadine, a prescription antivi
ral drug, can help fight the flu if taken
within 48 hours of the first signs of
symptoms.
The drug also can be used as a pro
phylaxis to prevent others from catch
ing the flu, Lutz said.
Students whose roommates have
the flu should come to the health cen
ter and get a prescription for
amantadine, she said.
They should take one dose a day
until the virus subsides in their room
mates, Lutz said. They also should
avoid sharing drinking cups or silver
ware with their roommates.
Students who have already caught
the flu should try ibuprofen medi
cines, such as Advil, Nuprin and
Motrin, to help relieve symptoms, she
said.
Lutz said infected students should
get plenty of rest and drink fluids.
To accommodate the outbreak, the
health center’s urgent care center is
open until 10 p.m.
The Lincoln-Lancaster County
Health Department issued a statement
confirming the outbreak. At least 23
schools have reported 10 percent of
their students absent because of flu
symptoms.
Maintenance worker activates alarm
By Melanie Brandert
Staff Reporter
A UNL maintenance worker acci
dentally set off a fire alarm in Manter
Hall Wednesday afternoon while
working with a torch in a basement
laboratory.
David Bolan of the Facilities Man
agement Department said a worker
was melting plastic with a propane
torch to seal a linoleum floor together.
The plastic created enough fumes to
drift upward to the smoke detector on
the ceiling and activate the fire alarm.
Bolan said maintenance workers
were instructed to call their supervi
sor before using a torch so that the
supervisor could shut off the fire
alarm.
“We can disable the area that
they’re doing construction in, but they
"They should cover the (smoke) head or take it out
of service, but they don’t seem to do it. ”
BOB KING
Deputy Chief of the Lincoln Fire Department
don’t always make a phone call or
don’t know who to call if it’s a new
guy on campus,” he said.
Bolan said one of the workers had
left to make the call when another
started work with the torch.
Deputy Chief Bob King of the Lin
coln Fire Department said that type
of incident occurred often at the uni
versity and that it was a “real prob
lem.”
“They should cover the (smoke)
head or take it out of service, but they
don’t seem to do it,” he said.
King said the department was dis
patched to the scene at 1:34 p.m. A
UNL police officer also responded to
the call.
King estimated between 40 and 50
people were evacuated from the
building. They were allowed back
inside the building a few minutes
later, he said.
No damage was reported, King
said.
UNL building garden
to honor alumnus’ wife
By Melanie Brandert
Staff Reporter
A garden commemorating the
wife of a UNL alumnus is being
built south of C.Y. Thompson Li
brary on East Campus.
Wilbur Dasenbrock, director of
Landscape Services, said the gar
den would honor Jeanne Yeutter,
wife of UNL graduate Clayton
Yeutter. Clayton Yeutter served as
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture un
der former President Ronald
Reagan.
Dasenbrock said the project was
proposed last year when Yeutter
asked UNL Landscape Services
about building a memorial on East
Campus. He said Kim Todd, cam
pus landscape architect, proposed
a site, and Yeutter accepted.
Dasenbrock declined to say how
much it would cost to build the
garden, to which Yeutter has given
money.
He said most of the earthwork
for the garden has been completed.
The area has been raised to form a
slight hill to add to the overall de
sign.
Jeff Culbertson, East Campus
supervisor for Landscape Services,
said sidewalks for the garden have
been completed, but much of the
project still is in planning stages.
He said various shrubs and low
growing flowers still needed to be
added. Limestone that lines the
sidewalk has been added to most
of the area.
Dasenbrock said a memorial
plaque also would be placed in the
garden.
The garden will cover about two
acres when it is completed some
time next spring. It will be dedi
cated in May in a private ceremony. '
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