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Fitness
holds open house
laboratory
A treadmill, bicycle
ergometer, and oxygen com
puter may seem like strange
additions to Memorial Stadium
but they're there as part of the
new physical fitness laboratory
to be dedicated Friday.
The new lab, located under
the east stadium and
coordinated by the University
Health Service, is one of 10 to
IS physical fitness research
labs in the country, said Dr.
Kenneth Rose, director of the
facility. It is designed to study
physical fitness and test in
dividual capacities for ex
ercise. Dedication ceremonies will
begin with a luncheon followed
by an open house at the lab
from 2-5 p.m.
Speaker at the luncheon will
be Dr. Kenneth Cooper. Cooper
is the author of the book "The
New Aerobics" and was in
charge of developing the Air
Force physical fitness pro
gram. Dr. Cooper, a Lieutenant
Colonel in the Air Force will
also speak at a public lecture
at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Love
Library Auditorium.
The idea for the lab began in
1960, Dr. Rose said. Funds for
the lab came from the
University Athletic department
and Health Service, the Na
tional Institute of Health, the
Nebraska Heart Association
and the National Collegiate
Athletic Association.
"College students are
notoriously bad p h y s i a 1
specimens," Dr. Rose said.
"The lab will help demonstrate
the need for physical fitness by
gathering facts on student
physical conditions."
During several football
games this year one of the
Nebraska players will be tested
by the use of a small FM
broadcasting device imbedded
in his shoulder pad. The
transmitter will broadcast the
player's electrocardiram
reading into the lab.
"This will enable us to study '
fitness under actual exercise
conditions, something other
fitness labs cannot do," Dr.
Rose commented.
Another problem that will
concern researchers in the lab
is coronary heart disease, he
said. He added that the Late Dr.
R. L. Holman,. a pathologist
from the University of
Louisiana, advanced the theory
that heart disease due to poor
physical fitness begins at age
two and becomes irreversible
after age 20. Lab researchers
will attempt to prove this
theory right or wrong.
"The question of whether or
not epileptics should
participate in sports will also
be investigated by the lab," Dr.
Rose said.
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