monday, december 5 1977
page 12
daily nebraskan
UPC hopes to make up deficit by next semester
By Jim Williams
The Union Program Council (UPC) will
begin surveying student opinions in about
two weeks in hopes of solving UPC finan
cial problems, council officials said.
Program manager Gary GHger said the
council already has spent most of its
$40,000 student fee allocation, and has a
deficit of about $5 ,000.
Gilger said the council had expected to
be in the black at this time, but that pro
fits from the Fleetwood Mac and Crosby,
Stills and Nash concerts had to be spent to
cover losses in other programs.
Gilger gave the foreign film program,
Comedy Week, and the Jose Feliciano con
cert as examples of programs that did not
bring in as much money as'expected. He
said the film program lost $5,000 to
$7,000 because ticket sales were about
half of last year's. While the Feliciano and
comedy programs stayed within their
budgets, they were not as profitable as the
council had hoped, he said.
Gilger said it is hard to tell exactly
how much UPC is in the red, because the
university is slow in sending out bills.
But he said that the council's deficit is no
problem as long as second semester
programs make enough money to meet
it.
UPC president Shari Patrick said the
council has plans to make sure the deficit
is paid. She said UPC has been restruc
tured to control expenses more tightly.
Patrick said the council also would seek
permission from the Fee Allocation Board
to spend less for second semester events
like Winter Walpurgisnacht.
Patrick said other schools have had
attendance problems at events. She said
tight entertainment budgets and student
apathy might be the cause.
"I'm not so down on the student body,
except that they won't buy a ticket unless
you walk up and show it to them," she
Patrick said lack of fee support was
another problem. She said the Fee Allo
cation Board encouraged UPC to reduce its
fee request this year. For example, she said
UNL's city and east campus unions
together receive about $55,000 in fee
money, while UNO gets $75,000.
Patrick said that because most of this
year's fee money is gone, second semester
programs will have to support themselves.
She said the market survey is intended to
help plan programs students want.
arts St
Vargas favored
to rack up win
By Rex Henderson
It may have looked like they were playing pool in the
Nebraska Union Sunday evening, but the name of the
game was "Beat Vargas."
Richard Vargas, the top seeded player in this year's
UNL billiards championship and a three-time winner in
the tournament, was the obvious man to beat.
Particularly intent on beating Vargas was Bob Gebler,
a UNL junior who has finished second to Vargas two
consecutive years.
Gebler has been playing pool for about five years,
and for the past year has been practicing seven hours a
week with only one thing in mind: winning this year.
Gebler admits that Vargas is the best pool player on
campus, but with the help of little luck Gebler said he
still can win.
Two years ago Vargas beat Gebler by more than 30
balls in a game to 75. Last year Vargas came from a
10-ball deficit to win a closer game. Gebler is hoping the
trend in his favor continues.
Hours of practice
Gebler, who is an outfielder on the UNL baseball
team, says Vargas spends more hours a day on a pool
table and has been playing longer,
"It shows," Gebler said, because Vargas is one of the
most consistent players he has seen.
Dennis Muhs, Gebler's practice partner and the third
seeded player in the tournament, concurs.
Vargas has won three consecutive UNL champion
ships, an Association of College Unions-International
(ACUI) regional championship and placed eighth in the
nationals on luck, Muhs said.
Vargas wouldn't make a flat prediction that he would
win, but said the competition this year is no tougher
than the past three.
If the competition is no tougher, there is more of it.
This year's tournament attracted 18 men, the largest
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field ever for the tournament.
Women in tourney
Women also are in the tournament this year for the
first time. Four entered the women's bracket.
Both men and women play 14.1 continuous pool,
the men to 75, women to 35.
For the uninitiated in the world of pool, in
14.1 continuous pool, the players begin with the stand
ard 15 balls on the table, shoot them down until there is
's billiards championship, which is the same game play-
one ball left on the table.
The other 14 balls are racked and the players continue
shooting, until one player reaches the winning score.
Each shot must be called.
The winner of this year's tournament in both men's
and women's brackets will go to the ACUI regional
tournament at Kansas State University in Manhattan.
The winner of that tournament advances to the national
championship at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Therapist: massage just one way to ease stress
By Kathy Foreman
About 50 persons gathered in the
Schramm Residence HaU lounge Thursday
to learn how to get "rubbed the right
way." In a health -aid -sponsored program,
UNL physical therapist and athletic trainer
Dennis Sealey told the group how to re
cognize stress-caused muscle aches and
counseled them on methods to relieve the
pain. One of those methods was massage.
Sealey told the group how to reco'gnize
the difference between muscle ache caused
by injury and aches caused by stress. In
, jury, involving muscle strains or sprains
should be treated with ice, according to
Sealey. Stress-related aches are best
relieved by moist heat, he said.
The stiffness and soreness of muscles,
especially in the back and neck, are
common in the weeks preceding and during
finals, Sealey said. Some body tension is
normal and necessary to hold the body
erect. However, when a student is caught
in 'a conflict of situations" more impulses
than normal are relayed to the brain, re
sulting in a type of muscle spasm, Sealey
said.
He went on to say that treatment can
lessen and temporarily relieve tension
but, the key to treating stress caused pain
Is finding the emotional problem behind
the pain and eliminating it.
For many UNL students, the cause of
tension this time of year is final exams
and therefore the source of emotional
pain cannot be removed. Sealey made these
recommendations to students:
l)unng the season before and during
riiuh the best ining you can da is get
plenty of rest and exercise." Sealey said
exercise has the beneficial effect of increas
ing circulation.
If these preventative measures do not
succeed in warding off test-tension, Sealey
suggested that stiff muscles can benefit
from a warm bath or shower. Most tension
caused muscle spasms result in slowing
circulation in and around the muscle. In
creased circulation caused by moist heat or
stretching relieves any pain in most cases,
Sealey warned 'that the maximum
therapeutic effect of hot baths and showers
lasts up to 20 minutes. Any lingering after
20 minutes cannot further help relieve
pain and, since heat is a sedative, may
result in fatigue.
Sealey defined massage as, "the scien
tific and systematic manipulation of soft
body tissues." He explained that massage
is a professional area and that improper
technique or method can be more harmful
than helpful. The therapist said msage,
when properly used, is an excellent means
of increasing circulation by moving the
blood flow and lymph through rubbing
action. Sealey said massage will be practic
ed by nonprofessionals regardless of his
warning, he gave these tips:
Always stroke toward the hear! with as
much surface of the hand contact as poss
ible. Pressure should be firm and applied
with the palm of the hand.
At least one hand should be kept in
contact with the body at all times during
the massage.
The athletic trainer also suggested strok
ing and kneading motions be used during
the massage and that the rub last no longer
than 10 minutes.
Sealey said that a lotion or powder
to help the hand slide over the bod is
a good idea for a massage. Professionally,
Sealey recommended baby powder since it
allows sliding but can also create mild fric
tion between the hand and body. He said,
however, any lotion may be used.
In response to audience questions,
Sealey gave a brief explanation of the mas
sage techniques for neck and back rubs.
"For a back massage, start at the base
of the spine and place your hands on either
side of the spine. Move toward the neck,
then fan down the muscle on top of the
shoulder. Next, slide back down the body
to the starting position," he said.
For a neck massage, Sealey recom
mended that the person being massaged
have a rolled towel under his forehead
and a pillow under his chest. These
measures allow the neck-to be tipped, for
easier access, and allow the subject to
breathe easier.
The therapist trainer explained that any
touching of the body has some thera
peutic vlaue.
"In the profession we call it 'the laying
on of the hands,' " he explained. "It relays
trust."
Gallery Theatre
auditions today
Auditions for the next Gallery Theatre
production will be today and Tuesday
at the Lincoln Community Playhouse.
Playhouse administrative assistant Carol
McVey said the auditions will be at 7 p.m.
both days for the play, The Wager by Mark
Medhoff.
The Wager is a two-act drama with roles
for three men and one woman. McVey
said persons who want to audition need not
prepare any speeches for the tryouts
beacuse they will read from the script.
Medhoff s most well-known play, When
Ya' Coming Back, Red Ryder?, was pro
duced by the UNL theatre dept. last
spring.
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