daily nebraskan
monday, march 10, 1930
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UNL professor: Dance
is total body conditioner
Dance is everything to Dee Hughes.
"Dance is my recreation. It's my
vocation, my joy; it's life for me," said
Hughes, an assistant UNL dance professor.
Hughes dance training includes past
attendance at dance workshops across the
country. In college, she danced in road
shows and musicals.
But Hughes wanted to teach dance.
"My desire was not geared toward per
formance," she said. "I was always inter
ested in dance education."
She has been educating students at UNL
for 25 years, she said, and hopes to teach
for many more.
Teaching dance classes in the day and
participating in group dances Wednesday
and Friday nights keeps her busy. Where
does she get her energy?
"It's a part of my being. I've always
had energy," she said.
But dancing requires more than energy .
Dancers must be in good shape, she said.
Though dance builds strength and en
durance, people must have some stamina
before they start to dance, she said.
Injuries are common if a dancer doesn't
have endurance, she added.
Despite the possibility of injuries,
Hughes said, dancing is the best kind of
exercise. It is a total body conditioner.
"Dance has become very strong in the
last 10 years," Hughes said, adding that
more people are becoming interested in
dance.
What dance is popular depends on the
music that is popular and the area where
people live, she said. Popular dances on the
coast may not be popular here, she said.
Polka is popular in Nebraska because
there are many German and Czech people,
she said.
But popular dance depends on an
individual's choice more than anything
else, she said, because different people like
different dances.
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Busy officials work, play; leisure time pursuits vary
By Mary Jo Pitzl
-Ask 10 ummsity, state and city
officials what they do in their leisure time
and the common denominator underlying
their responses is "what leisure time?'
Almost everyone contacted conceded
that their spare time was limited, thereby
curtailing their activities.
"I have very little leisure time," said
State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha. His
work at the Legislature, a fulltime job in
his Omaha barbershop and listening to
constituents' problems makes spare time
almost non-existent, Chambers said. How
ever, when some time does open up.
Chambers said he likes to lift weights.
Sports fill a lot of City Council member
Donna Frohardt's time. Her sports interests
range from downhill skiing and sledding in
the winter to sailing and swimming in the
summer.
Time and finances limit a lot of her
ambitions, Frohardt said, so she fills her
free time in Lincoln with activities that do
not require travel.
Moving details
Travel has affected a lot of Jane Baack's
leisure activities, but not a wanderlust
inspired travel. The assistant to the dean of
students said she and her family will move
to California in May, so a lot of her spare
time is absorbed with selling their home
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and other moving preparations.
Work on her doctoral dissertation re
quires at least two hours per day, Baack
said, "so if I have any leisure time my
doctoral supervisor wouldn't want to
know about it."
She listed tennis, reading and family
related projects as prime spare -time fillers.
Academic pursuits also demand a lot or
Suzanne Brown's leisure time.
Brown, assistant to the vice chancellor
for student affairs, said course work for her
PhJ. in education consumes a lot of her
free time. Brown explained that she tries to
take six credit hours of graduate work per
semester, but this semester she was forced
to cut back to three because of time
constraints.
She said spending time with her
husband and two children and reading fill
the rest of her free time.
Brown's boss, Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs Richard Armstrong, said he
does a lot of reading when out cf the
office.
"However I must confess a lot of it is
related to my area of study -student ad
vising and personnel," Armstrong said.
One night a week, Armstrong grades
papers from students enrolled in a
command and general staff course in the
Army Reserve. A member of the reserve,
Armstrong explained that he does the
correcting and grading to maintain his
active status.
Mind and body
Reading and weekly sports participation
are principal leisure activities for City
Council member Leo Scherer and Susan
Welch, chairman of the Political Science
Department.
Scherer said he tries to play handball
about twice a week and enjoys reading and
going to the horse races.
Welch said she has more time for sports
during the summer, so her school-session
free-time activities include reading and
"home repair."
NU Board of Regents member Ed
Schwartzkopf said he has no problem
filling his fee time.
"1 don't have to sit around and wonder
what to do with my time," Schwartzkopf
said. "It's a great feeling to get out of bed
in the morning and say 'clothes, let's go.' "
Among Schwartzkopfs activities when
he is not doing regents' work or working as
supervisor of the Lincoln Public Schools'
career development program are serving on
the boards of various community service
projects and participating in spectator
sports.
He also said he enjoys spending time
working on his farm southwest of Lincoln,
hunting and fishing.
State Sen. Dave Landis listed a plethora
of free -time activities. Among the senator's
diverse interests are reading poetry, acting
in local theater productions, playing tennis,
bridge and chess and listening to and per
forming music. .
Landis said he plays on a baseball team
composed of men five-feet nine-inches tall
or less. The "No Reason to Live" team (in
spired by Randy Newman's song "Short
People") is far from conventional, accord
ing to Landis' description.
Mayor Helen Boosalis said her limited
free time restricts her leisure activities to
reading, relaxing and some housework.
During the summer, she said she and her
husband try to bike and play tennis, as
time allows.
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