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Volume LXV No. 147
April 12, 1974

an independent student newspaper

University of Kentucky
Lexington. KY. 40506

 

Two election resolutions

discussed by

By KAREN HOSKINS
Kernel Staff Writer

Two resolutions allowing more students
to run for Student Senate offices. and
requesting clarification of voting
procedures were discussed Thursday at a
Student Senate meeting.

Present rules require a student be a
junior or senior during his term as student
senator. Original wording of the resolution
would have allowed all undergraduates to
run for office. Senator Mark Kleckner said
this would lead to “high school graduates
running around campaigning on campus.“

THE RESOLL'TION was amended to
allow students who will be sophomores or
higher during their term of office to run.
and was passed. it must be approved by
the University Senate and Board of
Trustees before going into effect.

Senator Dave Williams offered a
resolution asking SG Elections Board to

Senate

answer candidates questions about voting
procedure.

“There is no intent in my mind of
making a challenge." Williams said. who
recently ran for SC president. “i think any
candidate has the right to know how the
votes were counted."

(‘OMPL'TERS WERE used successfully
for thefirst time in this week's SG election.

Lack of a quorum prevented voting on an
amendment that would change the date SG
officers take office. This would give the
president summer membership on the
Board of Trustees.

Funds were granted to a member of the
Black Social Workers attending a con-
vention in Los Angeles. and two students
planning to participate in Experiment in
international Living this summer

(‘ontinued on Past 9

 

AAUP hears

salaries

report

By PRISCILLA DEVEREAL'X
Kernel Staff Writer

A report on salaries of UK faculty by
rank was given Thursday by Committee
“Z" of the UK chapter of American
Association of University Professors.
AAUP).

The report. not yet viewed by the whole
committee was compiled by committee
chairman Albert W. Patrick. an ac-
counting professor.

THE INCREASE IN salaries was 4.6 per

News In Brief

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

0 Elections announced

0 investigation authorized
0 ‘Peace and honor'
OArab terrorists strike
oStovall denies aid

0 MS offical testifies
OAdequate

gasoline

0 Today's weather...

cent for 1973~74. The 10~month contracts
increase were:
Professors-w
2.5 per cent~—$20.250 to 520.750
Associate meessors—
3.4 percent»$14,750 to 515.250
Assistant Professors—
4.1 percent~~$12.‘250 to $12.7
instructors had a decline in median
salary.
The medians by rank are:
P rofessor~$21 .000
Assoctate~$15250
Assistant~r$12.750
instructor*510.250
l'niversity taii)-~$15.000
The median ranges are:
Professor-
$16,250 tLibrary Sciencet—824.750 ‘Lawt
Associate-
313.500 (Fine Arty—$18.73)
Eco.)
Assistant—
Sil.000 tArchitecture»——$16.250
Prof.)
instructor—-
$8.250 tArchitecturer—813.250 tBus. and
Eco.)

(Bus. and

tSoc.

Continued on page 6

A study in contrasts

The buds on this tree near the Patterson Office Tower are proof that spring is
here to stay. The light from the photographer's strobe reflects off the branches
in such a way that the contrast provided by the usually drab-appearing

background is more acceptable .

(Staff photo by Pinkie Foster.)

 

0 ELECTIONS for Arts and Sciences
Student'Advisory Council will be held
beginning April 22. Applications for
positions may be obtained through noon
April. 19. in the A & S Deans Office. in the
Room 275. Office Tower.

0 WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. William
B. Saxbe said Thursday he has authorized
special prosecutors to proceed with tax
investigations involving several
Watergate figures and President Nixon' 5
tax lawyer. Frank DeMarco.

Saxbe told newsmen that Watergate
prosecutor Leon Jaworski asked him
about a week ago whether his jurisdiction
covered tax matters and also DeMarco.
the Californian who prepared Nixon‘s tax
returns for 1969 through 1972.

. .IERl’SAI.EM -- Premier Golda Meir
said Thursday that israel would continue
to seek peace and honor its international
commitments despite the current political
uncertainty in the Jewish state.

Formally announcing her resignation
before a packed parliament. she also

warned that israel‘s army is deployed "as
alwaysand stands ready to fulfill its task."
0 QIRYAT SHMONAH. ISRAEL ——
Three Arab terrorists slipped across the
Lebanese border into this northern lsraeli
town Thursday and killed 18 persons in the
most deadly guerrilla action since the Tel
Aviv airport massacre two years ago.
The terrorists also perished as lsraeli
forces stormed the apartment where they
were holed up,

0 FRANKFURT —— Secretary of State
Thelma Stovall denied Thursday she
helped other candidates meet filing
requirements any more than she did Sen.
Marlow Cook.

The only difference. she said. was she
had sent letters to advise candidates who
had filed by mail that their forms were
incomplete and informed Cook verbally
when he filed In person March 22.

0 WASHINGTON —- The White House
obtained sensrtive tax data on its friends
and enemies from a highly placed internal
Revenue Service official. according to

secret and sworn testimony by a former
law enforcement adviser to President
Nixon.

in his March 23 testimony. John
(‘aulfield identified Vemon D. Acree. now
L'S. Commissioner of Customs and for-
merly with the iRS. as his principal
contact for obtaining tax information on
screen star John Wayne. evangelist Billy
Graham and others.
0 [.01 IS\ 11 I. F -— Gasoline supplies
throughout Kentucky will be adequate for
the coming week. the Blue Grass and
Louisvrlle Automobile (lubs reported
Thursday

...showers

Warm temperatures and showers and
possibly thunderstorms will be here as the
week draws to an end. The high today
should be m the 705 “lift an 80 per cent
chance of ram. The low tonight should be
in the mid 505 with 70 per cent chance of
mm The showers should end Saturday
morning with cooler temperatures
coming in Saturday afternoon.

 

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Drawing to an end

At one time. Richard Nixon and the Committee to
lie—Elect the President (circa 1972) dismissed the
Watergate break-in as a third-rate burglary.

Now. almost two years later, the circle of ac-
cusations and charges has narrowed disturbingly
close to the Oval Office.

In those two years of government’s disclosures
that politics is a nasty business, we have seen dozens
of careers ruined or at least tarnished by Watergate.
Haldeman, Ehrliehman, Mitchell, Dean, Klein-
deinst et a1, became household names because of
their complicity in the various scandals.

Archibald Cox, Elliott Richardson and William
Ruckelshaus became, if you will, heroes by not
yielding to White House pressure to curb their in-
vestigations. ‘

In his turn, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworsky has
become the white .knight. He and his staff ac-
cumulated bundles of evidence, including a
celebrated suitcase full of Nixon-related documents.
Indictments followed soon after, and trials are to
begin before summer‘s heat becomes oppresive.
Even now, Mitchell and CREEP treasurer Maurice
Stans are standing trial for campaign irregularities.

Amid the turmoil. Nixon has attempted to run the
country. He has lost all but the reactionary fringe
from his record 1972 electoral mandate. It has been
obvious to most for a long time that his machinations
at “business as usual" are little more than window
dressing. Nixon is in serious trouble, has been for a
long time. and will remain so until his almost-certain
impeachment is official.

Until the House Judiciary Committee, bogled down
as much by volumes of evidence as it is by its love for
rhetdric. calls for impeachment any attempt to
disguise the seriousness of the situation is ridiculous.
Only when Nixon faces the Senate and answers the
myriad charges against him and his administration
will government be able to point to business that is,
indeed, important to the national interest.

Your health

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50 WHAT'S WRONG WITH CLAIMING YOU AND NIXON A! DIPlNBIN‘I’ST'

Letters to the Kernel

An unoriginal 35¢ idea

This letter is directed to all you
people who, like me, want to
contribute something worthwhile
to our world but are caught up in
a series of circumstances that
will not allow you to get really
involved in anything, while
wanting to get involved with
everything.

My unoriginal idea costs 35
cents, takes 20 minutes and can
be enjoyed for as long as you live,
fates ordaining.

Last year, while walking home
from classes I spotted a crooked,
struggling Maple tree, ap-
proximately three inches tall,
poking his way through a crack
inbetween a hedgerow and a
sidewalk. I pulled him up and
replanted him in a 35 cent clay
pot. He has thrived in a mixture
of his own soil and potting soil
and is even straightening out
some. His leaves are perfect.

Woody Dicot has been a mini
lesson Botany and his leafy
greenness has been just a plain
pleasure as well. My husband and

I will give him to a relative to
plant in their yard and enjoy
when the time comes, or keep
him in our own if we have one.
Right now he soaks up the sun
right next to our herbs on the
window sill.

Today I saw another little tree
about four inches tall, very
crooked in his pursuitof light and
getting to the height where he
was bound to draw attention to
himself. This summer, if not cut
down with a sickle or mower, he
would become a threat to the
“Sidewalk preservation com~
mittee" and would probably be
rubbed out by their hit man.

I haven‘t room for too many
more maple trees in my ef-

ficiency so if some of you others
with 35 cents and a window sill
would help these orphans of our
asphalt jungle you'd help
yourself, me. and a tree makes
three.

Linda Hitter
English-junior

That queasy feeling is usually gastroenteritis

By DR. STANLEY HUFFMAN

Frequently at the Health Service we see
students who feel they are victims of food
poisoning. The usual story is that the
student remembers eating a
greaseburger at the corner burger palace
or pizza that ”tasted funny" from Dirty
Sally's Pizzarena. The next day he
awakens feeling poorly. develops a little
diarrheaand feels weak and tired. He has
food poisoning, right‘.’ WRONGT — or at
least he is usually wrong.

The. over-whelming majority of such
cases are not real food poisoning, but are
instead a coincidental occurrence of
gastroenteritis, most often due to a virus.

TRI'F FOOD poisoning is the result of
contact with pathogenic bacteria or a toxin
produced by bacteria. In adults the bac-
teria causing food poisoning include
salmonella, staphylococci, and clostridia.
There are a few cases of genuine food
poisoning on campus each year, and here
are the patterns they usually follow.

Staphylococcal Food Poisoning

When an outbreak of food poisoning

effects a group of patients the cause is

frequently an enterotixin produced by
staphylococcus, i.e., “staph“. Foods are
commonly contaminated from skin in-
fections in food»handlers or by nasal
droplets. Foods involved include cream-
filled pastries. custards, cottage cheese,
milk products. or meats subjected to
improper refrigeration, allowing the
bacteria to multiply.

Symptoms appear abruptly one to six
hours after ingestion of the contaminated
food and include nausea. vomiting,
cramping abdominal pain. diarrhea, and
prostration. The disease is brief and
requires only rest and sedation.

Salmonella Food Poisoning

INFECTION is almost always acquired
by the oral route by ingestion of con-
tamina ted food or drink. Any food product,
especially that of animal origin, is a
potential source of human infection. Meat,
or egg products, cake mixes and con-
taminated milk or water can serve as
vehicles for infection. Fish meal, meat
meal. bone meal and other by-products of
the meat packing industry are often
contaminated.

Pets such as parakeets, dogs, cats, and
miniature turtles have been shown to
harbor the bacteria. Although gastroen-
teritis often occurs in large epidemics

among indivuduals who have eaten some,

of the contaminated food, family out-
breaks and sporadic cases are even more
common. From eight to 48 hours after
eating contaminated food or drink there is
sudden onset of colicky abdominal pain
and loose watery diarrhea, occasionally
with mucus and blood. Nausea and
vomiting occur frequently. Fever of 101-
102 is common.

Symptoms usually subside within 2-5
days, and recovery is uneventful.
Treatment consists of correcting
dehydration and controlling abdominal
pain. Antibiotics are not indicated in most
cases.

(‘Iostridium Food Poisoning

MEAT AND meat products con-
taminated with these bacteria are
frequently responsible for outbreaks of
acute gastroenteritis. Typical symptoms
of diarrhea with abdominal pain develop
eight to 24 hours after ingestion of meat.

stew or soup which has been stored at a
warm temperature for several hours after
cooking. Nausea is common but vomiting
is rare. Systemic manifestations such as
chills, fever, and muscle aches are usually
absent, and recovery is uneventful after 12
to 24 hours.

Another type of Clostridium-associated
disease—botulism—is caused by eating
contaminated or improperly prepared
home canned foods such as string beans,
corm, beets, spinach, asparagus, peppers,
olives, tomatoes and peaches. However
this disease produces nerve damage and
does not cause intestinal symptoms.

IT IS COMMON to observe that, among
a group of individuals who have eaten
approximately the same amounts of bad
food, some are severly prostrated while
others escape with a cramp or two.
Specific identification is important in
order to prevent recurrence. Tracking
down the source ofan infection is one of the
jobs performed by local health officials.
Dr. Stanley Huffman is a physician with
the Student Health Service.

 

  

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Once upon a time. there lived a
king named Midas. One day,
after finding favour with the
mighty god Bacchus, Midas was
offered any gift he desired.
Unhesitatingly. Midas asked that
everything he should touch would
be turned to gold. This wish was
granted.

Midas delighted in his golden
touch. transforming everything
wuthm his reach. Then he became
hungry and ordered a sumptuous
meal. He reached for a piece of
fruit and. to his astonishment. it
too turned to gold.

The king then realized that, in
his rashness. he had grasped for
something that apparently
hrought immediate good. but
which. if continued, would hasten
his death.

Seeing the drastic results that
awaited him. Midas pleaded with
Bacchus to take back the ‘gift'. In
his great mercy. the god Bacchus
freedMidas from the blightof the
Golden Touch. Bacchus and
Midas have faded into the mists
of the past, but still the people
yearn for the Golden Touch from
the 20th Century gods...

The people have asked the 20th
Century gods to protect all
persons from their own folly:

—Take 20 rats and feed them
saccharin as five per cent of their
diet. (This is the equivalentof 875
bottles of diet soft drinks a day
for an adult human.) When three
of the twenty rats develop
bladder tumors which “appear to
be malignant,“ remove sac-
charin from the list of products
recognized as safe for human
consumption (as the Food and
Drug Administration did).

Discover that glue in aerosol
cans. when eaten by pregnant
women. may cause birth defects.
(You know how pregnant women
are...) Withdraw this product
from the market. even though
graphic artists consider it in-

The Midas touch

. Or: what the citizens receive
from the 20th century gods

dispensible to their work (as the
FDA did).

—t"lassify Vitamin C in tablets
of 100 mg. or more as a drug.
(Question: will a cup of fresh
orange juice containing 120 mg.
of Vitamin C be labeled as a
drug?)

The people have asked the 20th
Century gods to provide financial
security for all:

—Take $468 a year from the
average wage earner and make
his employer match it, for a total
of $936 taken from each worker.
(If the employer did not pay the
matching money. he could pay it
to the worker instead.)

At 'this rate. the average
worker puts in a total of $34,532
over a period of 37 years. If the
$936 per year were deposited in a
savings account at five per cent
simple interest, it would grow to
more than $66,000 by age 65.

Now, at age 65, the average
married worker gets $223 per
month and has about 101 months
left to live. That means he gets
back a little over $22,000 from his
$66,000. or about one-third of what
it cost him.

But that‘s not all. For every $2
the over-65 worker earns. $1 is
deducted from his Social Security
benefits. ()n top of that. he must
continue to pay Social Security
and income taxes. This means
that up to two‘thirds of his in-
come may go to taxes.

The people have asked the 20th
Century gods to provide more
and better low-income housing:

-— Empowered by urban
renewal legislation. from 1949 to

1971 the government erected
200,687 housing units and
destroyed 538,044. In other words,
168 per cent more units were
destroyed than built.

Of the new units erected. 49 per
cent were upper-income units.
priced out of reach of even
moderate income people.

All this was done for only $12
billion.

The overall result: a net loss of
337,357 units and an increase in
prices of the remaining low in-
come housing due to shortages.
causing even more crowding of
urban slums.

The people have asked the 20th
Century gods to guarantee that
workers are not underpaid by
their employers:

—Make it illegal to pay an
employee less than $1.60 per
hour. (All people whose skills
areworth less than $1.60 per hour
to an employer now become
worth nothing—and unem-
ployed.)

Deny on-the-job training to
those with the lowest skills by
pricing their services out of the
market. hence denying them the
opportunity of reaching even the
first rung of the employment
opportunity ladder. One result
has been to drive the black
teenage unemployment rate from
about eight per cent to well over
35 per cent since World War II.

The people have asked the 20th
Century gods to take exclusive
rights over mail delivery.

~r()utlaw all competition.
thereby rewarding inefficiency.
Some of the results:

—In October 1972. 87
Washington-bound letters were
mailed from Philadelphia. Then
James Boren saddled up and
started an eight-horse Pony
Express-style relay to
Washington, carrying letters to
the same addresses. The men on
horses beat the Postal Service on
84 of the 87 letters.

—When the cor“ munitv of East
Windsor. N.J.. reached its 175
anniversary. President Nixon
sent a special message of
congratulation. But the White
House made just one mistake: it
mailed the message. Thus the
President‘s congratulations did
not arrive until six days after the
celebration.

The people have asked the 20th
Century gods to establish ceilings
on prices charged for goods and
services.

Establish
which:

~Encourage chicken growers
to drown their products instead
of having to sell them for less
than it cost to raise them. thereby
increasing shortages;

r-Make the prices of raw
materials (foodstuffs and in-
dustrial commodities) rise 20 per
cent during the five months of
Phase ll.’

price controls

Permit retail prices to rise
8.8 per cent and wholesale prices
to rise 21.7 per cent during the
first three months of Phase III.
Before controls. retail prices
were rising at an annual rate of
11.8 per cent. wholesale less than
five per cent,

Hold down the price of fuel

 

Salim Patell

oils. which encourages growing
depletion of current energy
sources. while at the same time
discouraging exploration for new
sources.

The people have asked the 20th
Century gods to guarantee ef-
ficient mass air transportation.

—Set up a Civil Aeronautics
Board (CAB) to regulate air
transportation which crosses
state boundaries.

One result: CAB interstate
"regulated" air fares average
about 74 per cent higher than
fares of comparable distance but
within a state. and thus not
regulated by the CAB.

Some examples:

~-l\'ew York-Washington: CAB
fare $24.07. intrastate fare $14.96.

—-Chicago-Washington CAB
fare $47.22. intrastate fare $30.97;

—Los Angeles-New York: CAB
fare $150.93. intrastate fare
$90.21:

—Miami-New York: CAB fare
$76.22; intrastate fare $41.76;

—~Los Angeles-Reno: CAB fare
$39.63. intrastate fare $15.28.

How much of that 74 per cent
increase is legitimate and how
much is bureaucratic red tape is
left to your imagination.

And so, the people continue to
ask for more solutions through
regulations. and the 20th Century
gods continue to grant their
wishes. Bacchus. where are you
when we need you?

This article is reprinted by
permission of (‘ampus Studies
Institute. 11722 Sorrento Valley
Road. San Diego. (‘alif. (”Sl. a
division of World Research Inc..
is a non-profit. tax-exempt
research and educational
organization. Its various
educational materials reach ever
a half-million students and
facult) each _\ear.

     

    
     
    
 
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
    
   
  
  
 
   
  
  
  
   
 
  
   
  
 
   
   
 
  
 
 
  
   
  
  
 
  
   
 
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
 
  
 
  
  
 
   
  
 
  
   
  
  
   
     
  
 
 
  
 
   
   
  
 
 
    
  
    
 
  
   
     
  
  

  

   

      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
   
   
   
  
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Drawing to an end

At one time. Richard Nixon and the Committee to
Re-Elect the President (circa 1972) dismissed the
Watergate break-in as a third-rate burglary.

Now. almost two years later, the circle of ac—
cusations and charges has narrowed disturbingly
close to the Oval Office.

In those two years of government's disclosures
that politics is a nasty business, we have seen dozens
of careers ruined or at least tarnished by Watergate.
Haldeman. Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Dean, Klein-
deinst et a1. became household names because of
their complicity in the various scandals.

Archibald Cox, Elliott Richardson and William
Ruckelshaus became. if you will, heroes by not
yielding to White House pressure to curb their in-
vestigations. '

In his turn. Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworsky has
become the white .knight. He and his staff ac-
cumulated bundles of evidence, including a
celebrated suitcase full of Nixon-related documents.
Indictments followed soon after, and trials are to
begin before summer‘s heat becomes oppresive.
Even now. Mitchell and CREEP treasurer Maurice
Stans are standing trial for campaign irregularities.

Amid the turmoil. Nixon has attempted to run the
country. He has lost all but the reactionary fringe
from his record 1972 electoral mandate. It has been
obvious to most for a long time that his machinations
at “business as usual" are little more than window
dressing. Nixon is in serious trouble. has been for a
long time. and will remain so until his almost-certain
impeachment is official.

Until the House Judiciary Committee, bogled down
as much by volumes of evidence as it is by its love for
rhetdric. calls for impeachment any attempt to
disguise the seriousness of the situation is ridiculous.
Only when Nixon faces the Senate and answers the
myriad charges against him and his administration
will government be able to point to business that is,
indeed. important to the national interest.

Your health

That queasy feeling is usually

editorials represent the opinions of the editors. not the university

    

   
   
   

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'SO WHAT'S WRONG WITH CLAIMING YOU AND NIXON A! DIPINDINTSY

Letters to the Kernel

Editorials

w,%

An unoriginal 35‘ idea

This letter is directed to all you
people who, like me, want to
contribute something worthwhile
to our world but are caught up in
a series of circumstances that
will not allow you to get really
involved in anything, while
wanting to get involved with
everything.

My unoriginal idea costs 35
cents, takes 20 minutes and can
be enjoyed for as long as you live,
fates ordaining.

Last year, while walking home
from classes I spotted a crooked,
struggling Maple tree, ap-
proximately three inches tall,
poking his way through a crack
inbetween a hedgerow and a
sidewalk. I pulled him up and
replanted him in a 35 cent clay
pot. He has thrived in a mixture
of his own soil and potting soil
and is even straightening out
some. His leaves are perfect.

Woody Dicot has been a mini
lesson Botany and his leafy
greenness has been just a plain
pleasure as well. My husband and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By DR. STANLEY HUFFMAN

Frequently at the Health Service we see
students who feel they are victims of food
poisoning, The usual story is that the
student remembers eating a
greaseburger at the corner burger palace
or pizza that ”lasted funny“ from Dirty
Sally's Pizzarena. The next day he
awakens feeling poorly. develops a little
diarrhea. and feels weak and tired. He has
lood poisoning. right'.’ ~- WRONGf — or at
least he is usually wrong.

The. over-whelming majority of such
cases are not real food poisoning, but are
instead a coincidental occurrence of
gastroenteritis. most often due to a virus.

TRI'E FOOI) poisoning is the result of
contact with pathogenic bacteria or a toxin
produced by bacteria. In adults the bac-
teria causing food poisoning include
salmonella. staphylococci. and clostridia.
There are a few cases of genuine food
poisoning on campus each year. and here
are the patterns they usually follow.

Staphylococcal Food Poisoning

When an outbreak of food poisoning

effects a group of patients the cause is

    

frequently an enterotixin produced by
staphylococcus. i.e.. “staph”. Foods are
commonly contaminated from skin in-
fections in food‘handlers or by nasal
droplets. Foods involved include cream-
filled pastries. custards. cottage cheese,
milk products. or meats subjected to
improper refrigeration. allowing the
bacteria to multiply.

Symptoms appear abruptly one to six
hours after ingestion of the contaminated
food and include nausea. vomiting,
cramping abdominal pain, diarrhea. and
prostration. The disease is brief and
requires only rest and sedation.

Salmonella Food Poisoning

INFECTION IS almost always acquired
by the oral route by ingestion of con-
taminated food or drink. Any food product.
especially that of animal origin, is a
potential source of human infection. Meat
or egg products. cake mixes and con-
taminated milk or water can serve as
vehicles for infection. Fish meal, meat
meal. bone meal and other by-products of
the meat packing industry are often
contaminated.

Pets such as parakeets, dogs, cats, and
miniature turtles have been shown to
harbor the bacteria. Although gastroen-
teritis often occurs in large epidemics

among indivuduals who have eaten some.

of the contaminated food, family out-
breaks and sporadic cases are even more
common. From eight to 48 hours after
eating contaminated food or drink there is
sudden onset of colicky abdominal pain
and loose watery diarrhea, occasionally
with mucus and blood. Nausea and
vomiting occur frequently. Fever of 101-
102 is common.

Symptoms usually subside within 2—5
days. and recovery is uneventful.
Treatment consists of correcting
dehydration and controlling abdominal
pain. Antibiotics are not indicated in most
cases.

(‘Iostridium Food Poisoning

MEAT AND meat products con-
taminated with these bacteria are
frequently responsible for outbreaks of
acute gastroenteritis. Typical symptoms
of diarrhea with abdominal pain develop
eight to 24 hours after ingestion of meat.

I will give him to a relative to
plant in their yard and enjoy
when the time comes, or keep
him in our own if we have one.
Right now he soaks up the sun
right next to our herbs on the
window sill.

Today I saw another little tree
about four inches tall, very
crooked in his pursuit of light and
getting to the height where he
was bound to draw attention to
himself. This summer, if not cut
down with a sickle or mower. he
would become a threat to the
“Sidewalk preservation com-
mittee" and would probably be
rubbed out by their hit man.

I haven‘t room for too many
more maple trees in my ef-
ficiency so if some of you others
with 35 cents and a window sill
would help these orphans of our
asphalt jungle you‘d help
yourself. me, and a tree makes
three.

Linda Ritter
English-junior

gastroenteritis

stew or soup which has been stored at a
warm temperature for several hours after
cooking. Nausea is common but vomiting
is rare. Systemic manifestations such as
chills, fever, and muscle aches are usually
absent, and recovery is uneventful after 12
to 24 hours.

Another type of Clostridium-associated
disease——botulism—is caused by eating
contaminated or improperly prepared
home canned foods such as string beans,
corm, beets, spinach, asparagus, peppers,
olives, tomatoes and peaches. However
this disease produces nerve damage and
does not cause intestinal symptoms.

IT IS COMMON to observe that, among
a group of individuals who have eaten
approximately the same amounts of bad
food, some are severly prostrated while
others escape with a cramp or two.
Specific identification is important in
order to prevent recurrence. Tracking
down the source of an infection is one of the
jobs performed by local health officials.
Dr. Stanley Huffman is a physician with
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Once upon a time, there lived a
king named Midas. One day,
after finding favour with the
mighty god Bacchus. Midas was
offered any gift he desired.
Unhesitatingly, Midas asked that
everything he should touch would
be turned to gold. This wish was
granted.

Midas delighted in his golden
touch. transforming everything
within his reach. Then he became
hungry and ordered a sumptuous
meal. He reached for a piece of
fruit and. to his astonishment, it
too turned to gold.

The king then realized that, in
his rashness, he had grasped for
something that apparently
brought immediate good. but
which. if continued, would hasten
his death.

Seeing the drastic results that
awaited him. Midas pleaded with
Bacchus to take back the ‘gift‘. [n
his great mercy. the god Bacchus
freedMidas from the blight of the
Golden Touch. Bacchus and
Midas have faded into the mists
of the past. but still the people
yearn for the Golden Touch from
the 20th Century gods...

The people have asked the 20th
Century gods to protect all
persons from their own folly:

—Take 20 rats and feed them
saccharin as five per cent of their
diet. (This is the equivalentof 875
bottles of diet soft drinks a day
for an adult human.) When three
of the twenty