daily nebraskan
Wednesday, march 15, 1978
page 6
Skippingrope, not classes, is latest on-campus craze
By Elizabeth Barrett
The rhythmic tapping reverberates
through the walls of UNL residence
halls and Greek houses. A breathless stu
dent puffs ar.d pants his way to 100,
and the exercise is done.
The jump roping craze has swept
UNL like the panty raids of the 60s, but
this time it is the sports store owners
who are reaping the benefits instead of
lingerie departments.
Roxie Lindekugel, a senior physical
education major, said she began jump
roping "because I wanted to do some
thing to keep physically fit in the winter
without having to go outside."
She said that an aerobics book she
read motivated her to begin a
self-paced jump roping program.
Lindekugel, who jumps for 20
minutes a day, said the main emphasis
of jump roping is stimulation of the
cardio-vascular system.
According to two of three Lincoln
sport stores, jump rope sales recently
have increased.
Jeff Jenkins, a part-time employee at
Lawlor's 1118 0 St., said the store
was completely stocked with jump
ropes three weeks ago.
"Now we're down to only a few," he
said. "This is probably because every
body is turning to physical fitness."
Jenkins said jump roping is good
exercise.
"Some people think it's as good or
better than jogging," he said.
He said he expects the store to con
tinue selling a lot of jump ropes.
Kep Harding of Kep Harding's Sport
Shop, 1332 P St., said jump rope sales
have increased over the last year.
'This could be due to the fact that
the media has recently put much em
phasis on the physical fitness aspect of
jump roping," he said.
However, Gary Paulsen, an employee
at Gerry's Sport Shop, 1324 P St.,
said he has not noticed any major sales
increase of jump ropes.
Jump rope prices range from $2.50
for a plastic rope to $9.50 for a leather
rope, weighted with ball bearings in the
wooden handles which swivel as the
rope twirls. Cotton ropes with wooden
handles range from $3.98 to $7.50.
Laws of supply, demand evident in apartment market
By Kate Gaul
When winter temperatures plunge, apartment avail
ability in Lincoln drives.
Howard Maddux of the County -City Planning Depart
ment, said the apartment vacancy rate is 2.5 percent
during the winter-but 12 percent during the summer.
"The demand is close to the supply (for apartments),"
he said. "Students don't have the variety of selection
available in the summer."
Bob Michals of Nebraska Real Estate Corporation
agreed apartment availability is tight. He described
vacancy periods of his firm's 3,000 units as short.
Although students can find apartments, Michals said,
finding an apartment that a student would want to rent is
another thing.
Greg Johnson, ASUN president, agreed that "its tough
to find a liveable apartment, and not just a one-room
apartment."
He said when he looked for an apartment there were
"plenty open but the quality was lacking."
During winter "it's a seller's market. There are more
people looking for apartments than are available. The
landlord has the upper hand," Johnson said.
Johnson said he thought most college towns had more
ASUN agenda
The ASUN Senate will
meet tonight at 6:30 in
room 202-202A of the Ne
braska Union. The agenda
is:
I. Call To Order
II. Approval of Minutes
III. Executive Reports
Greg Johnson
Ken Christoffersen
Charles Fellingham
PV. Open Forum
V. Committee Reports
VI. Old Business
VII. New Business
Resolution 37 -Northeast
Radial
Report on LB954
and LB958 - NU
Budget.
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apartments available than Lincoln does.
Mark Williams, an UNL graduate student studying
political science graduated from the University of Iowa at
Iowa City.
Williams said that Iowa students had more control over
landlords because of a state law which rigidly defined the
contract between tenant and landlord.
The law provides the landlord must put the damage
deposit in a separate holding bank account and if any of
the deposit is withheld for repairs, the landlord has to give
a written list of the reasons.
Besides the city TenantLandlord Commission, the
University of Iowa has a tenantlandlord board which aids
students with landlord woes and furnished a list of avail
able apartments and a who's who referral list of good and
bad landlords.
Johnson said that ASUN had explored the possibility
of a referral service" to help students find apartments and
learn about landlords. .
Johnson said that he felt it was a needed service be
cause "over one-half of the student population lives off
campus."
The UNL Housing Administration once furnished a list
of available apartments, but discontinued it when it was
not being used.
Johnson attributed its failure to a lack of publicity
about the service. He said he was unaware of its existence
at the time.
Williams, since coming to Lincoln in late October, has
moved twice, he said.
In November, he said it took "about two weeks" of
"calling nightly" to find an apartment.
Williams said that he was hampered because he owned
a dog and both he and his roommate wanted an apartment
close to campus.
Williams said he called about 35 apartment listings in
January and looked at eight or ten before finding a place.
In the price range affordable to him that would accent
pets, the apartments "were pits", he said.
Williams said that about 80 percent of the apartments
he called would not take pets, but none were reluctant to
rent to students.
Genelle Moore, a sophomore physical education major,
said that when she looked for an apartment in the first
half of August, she found that quite a few were available.
"The prices varied from cheap to expensive. But some
landlords asked if 1 was a student and then wanted a two
year lease," she said.
Mrs. W. J. Maser, whose husband requested permits
from the city county last Monday to build apartment
complexes, said they were reluctant to rent to students
because of the "transitory" nature of students.
Mrs. Maser said that extra costs often were incurred
from advertising and cleaning and repainting because of
the high turnover rates among students.
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