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diily ncbrc:ksn f ridey, cpril 16,1970 n r n o O n O i) "I T. V f ll I W B I V I l. 'Ill ' , 'I ) - V P. -; ;. ' I I .sote fey Kevin H!sy Vfefsw Szydlowski, osce the tecosd strongest rasa in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, is at UNL as a visiting professor. bemstein 1: By Sandy Mohr The second ftrongest man in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union in 1969 is teaching at UNL this semester. Wicslaw Szydlowski, a visiting professor of mechanical engineering from Poland, competed in 1969 in a contest comparable to Mr. America, lie placed one-half point behind the winner. Body building, has been "very popular" in Poland for the last 20 years, Szydlowski said. Because the sport originated in the United States, he said it took a while to . catch on in Poland. "They (Polish people) don't like any kind of sport that comes from the West," he said, A good physique and strength are only part of body building, though. Szydlowski said men participating in body building also are encouraged to build their brain power. In Poland, Szydlowski belongs to a Hercules Club for body building. Young men in the club, he said, are urged to attend school. Mere respect Men join the club, which has about 500 members, to have more respect in their circle," he said. More men want to join than the club can accommodate, he added. About two yean after body building became popular in Poland, Szydlowski said, the sport gained popularity in Convccotlon to In an attempt to start annual rural health conferences, the Helen Becker Memorial Convocation on Rural Health is scheduled for April 22. Leon Rottmann, UNL extension specialist and associ- the Soviet Union. It was publicized as a Polish sport there, he added. Not everyone in Poland likes body building, though. Szydlowski said about half of the people respect the sport, but half "laugh at those men that tense their muscles in front of an audience.' He said it takes five or six years to build muscles in the body well enough to compete in the body building cham pionship. If the sport became more popular, Szydlowski said, he thinks it might receive more money from the Polish government, which subsidizes all sports with money from a national lottery called toto-lotek. No czh awardj The winner of the annual body building champion ship between Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union gains some national recognition, but, Szydlowski said, no cash awards are given. Instead, winners receive trophies, he said. After taking second place in the contest, Szydlowski said, he decided he was too old to participate in the contest 2gain. Szydlowski, 38, was 3 1 then. At UNL, where he is teaching this semester while mechanical engineering Prof. Joseph Baumgarten is teaching at the Technical University of Warsaw, Szydlowski works out three times a week for an hour and a half at the Memorial Stadium. - focus oa rurar health Idiom plays strange tricks with uncoupling of 'couple' By Theodore M. Bernstein the fact that they are lawyers does not mean they cannot Sometimes coupled, sometimes uncoupled. A strange use good, natural English. The guidance could hardly characteristic of the word couple is that in some contexts it has the word of latched onto it and in other contexts it does not. For instance, it is considered substandard usage to say, "Let's have a couple drinks"; the word of is required after couple. That is odd because the ot is not required after some similar terms such as "a dozen" or a few" or "many." On the other hand, the word of is omitted after couple when an adjective of degree is introduced. We don't say, "Let's have a couple of more drinks." or "No, we've had a couple of too many drinks already." Either idiom has played strange and unexplainable tricks with couple or we have had a couple too many drinks at this writing. Legalese. An aversion to pompous legal phrases is expressed in a letter from, of all people, a lawyer in Philadelphia. Phrases that he particularly dislikes are such one as "the above-mentioned incident" or "the above cited "opinion" or "the following-listed authorities." Sometimes such phrases are necessary in legal documents, but most times the more natural constructions, such as "the incident mentioned earlier," will make for more comfortable- reading. The letter writer, who offers guidance about writing to younger lawyers, tells them that cjailu 2iil Editor-in-chief: Vince Boucher, News Editor: Lori Demo. Managing Editor: Randy Gordon, Associate News Editors: Gina Kiiis and Rex Seiine, Layout Editor: Miche'e Schmal. Night News Editor: Randy Blauveit. Arts and Entertainment Editor: Bill Roberts, Sports Editors: Dennis Onnen and Pete Weljman, Third Dimension Editor: Theresa Forsman. Photo Chief: Ted Kirk. Copy Editors: Pete Mason, Stephanie Noonan. Mary Kay Roth, Nancy Stohs and Matt Trued. News Assistant: Jim Kay, Editorial Assistant: Sue Kaiina. Business Manager Jerri Haussler, Advertising Managers: Bruce McMorris, Gregg Wurdeman, Gary Younkin, Production Manager: Kitty Poiicky. Second Class Postage paid at Lincoln, Neb. 3583. Address: The Daily Nebraska n, Nebraska Union 34, 14th and R streets, Lincoln, Neb. 3583. Phone: (402) 472-2583. The Daily Nebraskan is distributed one free copy for each student. Copyright 1S76, The Daily Nebraskan. Material may be. re printed without permission if attributed to the Daily Nebras kan, except material covered by another copyright. The opinions expressed in the Daily Nebraskan do not necessarily reflect tte v'tws of UTJl, rr its administrative officers. ill 111:1 mtt be better. S2y light verse. And the man who would be the first to admit that it is silly, well bet, is Leo G. Staley of Columbus, Ohio, who wrote it. Here is is: Said the horse, "I will not draw your sleigh. Your commands IH no longer obeigh. Preigh, heed what I seigh. " Or aweigh I meigh streigh. Tis too leight in the deigh for horsepleigh!" For that verse that is geigh we should out, "hooreigh!" Re the prefix re-. A bunch of Scrabble players in Texas are bothered when the prefix re- may be hitched to a word. Dorothy Tedder of Burkeville, Texas, writes to ask whether mere are rules about which verbs may be pre ceded by re-. Apparently the question came up when someone coined the word regaze. There seem to be no rules governing the use of the prefix and the nearest approcah to a rule is the observa tion that the prefix is of Latin origin and therefore is most commonly attached to words of Latin derviation or to words from the Romance languages, which derive from Latin. But just to complicate matters, the prefix sometimes is hooked on to loan words that are not of Latin origin. However, gaze is believed to be of Nordic origin and does not seem to be in that class. Perhaps the best rule that can be laid down is to look up the word in the nearest unabridged dictionary, (c) 1975 Theodore U. Bernstein Special Features Oral surgeon to speak A nationally-known dental educator and oral surgeon who toured with the medical missionary ship S.S. Hope wiH speak today at the first annual Roger Zwetzig memorial lecture at the NU Dental College. Roger Swetzig, who would have been a senior dental student at NU this year, died of leukemia in 1974. Dr. Daniel Waite wiH lecture 10:30 a on. at the Nebras ka Center for Continuing Education, 33rd and Holdrege streets, to students and faculty members on the "Sanctity of Life." Advanced dental students and faculty members will heir a lecture at 1 :30 pan. (no i p pon - - "3 P AF7 1DT3 Czy preens Fcrt-Cr.a Czy end cxzrJj prccnis The school is FULLY ACCREDITED by the Committee of Bar Examiners. State Bar of California. Tel: (213) C94-5711 0 D D 0 D 0 D D D Q 0 D D 0 UK ! I 1 D D 0 0 Q D 0 Q D 0 D ate professor for human development and family; said he hopes the convocation will be the start of annual rural health conferences in Nebraska. "The key behind an annual convention would be to better plan for the years ahead as far as rural health and medicine in Nebraska are concerned," Rottmann said. Robert Sparks, chancellor of the University of Ne braska Medical Center (UNMC), will be the convocation speaker. Musical selections performed by School of Music members and a rememberance of Helen Becker are in cluded in the program. The convocation was named in Becker's honor, because she pioneered in rural health and health education, Rott mann said. Becker, a UNL health education professor for 20 years, was active in extension health education with organiza tions such as the American Heart Association. She retired from teaching in 1971 and died in 1975. The convocation is sponsored by the College of Home Economics, the Cooperative Extension Service, the Uni versity of Nebraska Medical Center, the Nebraska Center for Health Education and the University of Nebraska Foundation. V T ' John C. Woodward, associate dean of the College of Home Economics, will be convocatiqn host, and members of Eta Sigma Gamma, health science honorary, will be ushers. The event starts at 2 pjn. in the Home Economics Hdg, 35th St. at Center Dr. Correction It was incorrectly reported in Wednesday's Daily Nebraskan that $23 million of the $25 million in student fees is distributed by the Fees Allocation Board (FAB) to organizations such as the YWCA and Teachers College Advisory Board. FAB Chairman Don Wesely said that $23 million goes to student affairs agencies such as the University Health Center, the Nebraska Union and the Recreation Dept. The YWCA receives part of the $200,000 which FAB allocates to other student organizations such as the Union Program Council and the Cultural Affairs Committee, he said. The Teachers College Advisory Board will receive no student fees this year, he said. Wesely also said that 44, not 48, organizations request ed student fees last year. FAB members do disagree on how student fees should be allocated, he said. However, he said, he does not recommend giving student organizations the amount they ask, as the story reported. ' - Instead, he said, he recommds that students, through FAB, have a prominent voice in deciding fees allocations based on an organization's need. Some FAB members, he said, think it is the administration's responsibility to decide how student fees are distributed. Wesely also said he is disppointed that FAB docs, not get more student input and participation. 'Tha pscpfo from Land & Sky csm3 in tha eirsning to tzt up our wetcrfced, which is convenient for us. You 2t so ussd to sleeping en it, you cfon't went to sieep snyvyhera clea." LoretUKdly. Lincoln tl:a na'rt tirsi tf Cs ssies t:j s;zl land and sku Frl Ann -Onti 1! r rr rri rrs r-3 r rr j-n ri r.. :i