Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: The family of a Sacred Heart University student who choked to death last year during a pancake eating contest is suing the university. 
  
 Caitlin Nelson, 20, of Clark, N.J., started to choke minutes after the contest began on March 30, 2017, and died days later at a New York hospital. 
  
 The lawsuit, filed Monday morning in Superior Court in Bridgeport, claims the university was at fault for allowing the competitive pancake eating contest to occur. 
  
 Nelson began to choke during the contest and Fairfield police and medics who responded within minutes were not able to clear her mouth and throat of pancakes. The blockage deprived Nelson of oxygen for an extended period and caused serious brain damage. 
  
 Campus Saddened By Death Of Student After Choking At Pancake Eating Contest » 
  
 An autopsy determined Nelson died of asphyxia due to obstruction of her airway by a lump of food. 
  
 According to the lawsuit, Fairfield police officers who tried to save Nelson found her mouth “was compacted with pancakes, almost to her teeth” and that pancake paste in her mouth was “like concrete.” 
  
 They were not able to clear away the pancakes to restore Nelson’s ability to breathe. 
  
 Bridgeport law firm Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder brought the lawsuit on behalf of Nelson’s mother, Rosanne Nelson. 
  
 A spokesperson for Sacred Heart declined to comment because of the litigation. 
  
 Sacred Heart Student Died Of Asphyxia, NY Medical Examiner Rules » 
  
 While the lawsuit seeks money damages, lawyer Katie Mesner-Hage said it also seeks to expose the danger of amateur eating contests and to prevent other families from experiencing such a tragedy. 
  
 “These contests are significantly more dangerous than people realize and it’s critically important for the public — especially educational institutions — to understand that certain foods are safer than others and a modicum of forethought can literally save lives.” 
  
 The lawsuit suggests ice cream and whipped cream are safer for amateur competitive eating contests because they melt before they can block a person’s airway. ||||| Legal action has been taken against the Connecticut university where a 20-year-old college student choked to death in a pancake-eating competition, according to reports. 
  
 The family of Caitlin Nelson filed a lawsuit Monday blaming Sacred Heart University in her April 2017 death for hosting the fatal eating contest, the Hartford Courant reported. 
  
 Nelson, of Clark, New Jersey, was reportedly minutes into the Greek life competition March 30, 2017, when she began to choke and collapsed. 
  
 “She starts to choke on a pancake and someone recognized it — one of the nursing students at the competition — and she caught her and brought her slowly to the ground,” Fairfield police Lt. Robert Kalamaras told The Post in April 2017. 
  
 Responding officers tried to clear Nelson’s airway, but were unable to save her. The lawsuit claims police found her mouth “compacted with pancakes, almost to her teeth,” according to the Hartford Courant. 
  
 The Kappa Delta sorority member was rushed to a local hospital then transferred to New York’s Columbia University Medical Center, where she died days later. 
  
 An autopsy determined Nelson died from asphyxia due to obstruction of the airway. 
  
 The lawsuit against the university is seeking monetary damages and to bring awareness about the dangers of amateur eating contests. 
  
 “These contests are significantly more dangerous than people realize and it’s critically important for the public — especially educational institutions — to understand that certain foods are safer than others and a modicum of forethought can literally save lives,” lawyer Katie Mesner-Hage told the Hartford Courant. ||||| The family of a Sacred Heart University junior who died last year after participating in a charity pancake-eating contest is suing the university, saying it was at fault for sanctioning the event and not having medical staff on hand. 
  
 Caitlin Nelson, 20 years old, of Clark, N.J., began choking shortly after the contest began on March 30, 2017, and collapsed. Emergency responders had to scoop pancake from her mouth and airway, according to the complaint filed Monday in state court in Bridgeport, Conn. 
  
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Student:
It was supposed to be a goofy competition, but it ended with the choking death of a college student. Now the mom of 20-year-old Caitlin Nelson, who died in April 2017 after wolfing down a handful of pancakes in an eating contest, is suing Sacred Heart University, claiming the college should never have let the contest take place, the Hartford Courant reports. The complaint alleges that when cops arrived on the scene of the Greek life competition and tried to resuscitate Nelson on March 30, 2017, the pancake mush in her mouth was like "concrete," and that the inside of her mouth was "compacted with pancakes, almost to her teeth." Despite CPR efforts, first responders couldn't get all the pancakes out of her breathing path; Nelson, who the New York Post notes was a member of the Kappa Delta sorority, died of asphyxia a few days later, per an autopsy. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages, but Nelson's mom also wants to alert people to the perils of shoving large amounts of food down one's throat for fun. "These contests are significantly more dangerous than people realize," the complaint notes, adding that whipped cream or ice cream would be better items for such amateur contests if they must be held, as they'll melt away before becoming a choking hazard. The suit also alleges that Sacred Heart didn't have staff nearby during the contest to keep participants from "chipmunking" (storing too much food in their cheeks), or medical workers to assist in case of any problems, per the AP and the Wall Street Journal. What brought an extra dose of tragedy to Nelson's death: Her dad, James Nelson, was a Port Authority cop who'd died in the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center. (A man died trying to eat a giant doughnut in Denver.)