thursday, december 11, 1980
daily nebraskan
page 5
Are you aware that:
-in the Big Eight, the average number of intramural
activities offered for men is 21 .8, for women 22.2, and for
co-rec 8.
UNL offers 53 intramural activities for men, 52 for
women, and 32 for co-rec. This is the largest number of
intramural activities offered by any school in the Big
Eight Conference.
in the Big Eight, the average number of full-time pro
fessional employees for intramurals is 2.4, and 1.4 gradu
ate assistants.
-at UNL, we have one full-time professional employee,
and no graduate assistants. This is the smallest intramural
staff in the Big Eight. Even Kearney State and UNO have
graduate assistants in their recreation programs.
UNL is seventh out of the Big Eight schools in terms
of student accessibility to indoor recreation facilities.
The University of Oklahoma is eighth, however, they will
be moving into a new recreation building next year which is
currently under construction. Since this recreational
facilities survey was taken in 1978. Oklahoma State,
Kansas, and Kansas State have completed additional
facilities, and they already had facilities superior to ours.
As the number of intramural activities offered here at
UNL has increased, the number of students participating
in the programs have also increased. This is exactly what
the intramural programs are designed to do encourage
student participation. However, the increase in students is
putting a strain on the already over-crowded indoor recre
ational facilities and under-staffed Recreation Depart
ment. At the present time, we have five different buildings
being used for indoor recreational facilities. These include
Mabel Lee, Schulte Ficldhouse, Coliseum, Men's Physical
Education, and East Campus Activities Building. The
latter three are very old buildings and need updating
badly. Not only arc our indoor facilities spread out be
tween these five buildings, but these five buildings are not
accommodating the students' needs and must be shared
with athletic programs andor the School of Health, Physi
cal Education and Recreation.
Presently, we iiave over-crowded basketball courts,
twer-crowded volleyball courts, over-crowded racquetball
courts, over-crowded weight room, an inadequate
recreational equipment storage and check-out space, an
inadequate indoor jogging track (Mushroom Gardens), an
inadequate martial art: area, no sauna, and no training
room for student recreation. Are saunas and a training
room luxuries? To the students of the University of Colo
rado, among others, a sauna is only another feature in a
complete recreational complex.
It would be much more efficient to expand, and then
consolidate all types of indoor recreational activities into
one complex. This would not only be advantageous for
the student wanting to participate in more than one phy
sical activity, but it would be much more efficient for
supervision. -
There are letters to the editor dating back as far as
1970 that point out the inadequacy of student recreation
al facilities, and since then, the average participation in
recreation programs has increased 200 percent. There
seems to be a lack of administrative support in correcting
this obvious problem, since nothing has been done in this
10-year span.
I, as one student, am tired of the inexcusably inade
quate recreational facilities we put up with at UNL, and
think it's time something is done. The time to act on such
an indoor recreational complex is now, before spiraling
costs and inflation make this type of building an impos
sibility. Maybe it is time to bring back the cigarette tax,
tliis time to build a facility that will benefit the entire
student population, not just a select few.
Isn't UNL (as a whole) concerned about the health and
physical well-being of its students? Such a recreational
complex would increase possibilities for learning and
living healthy life styles, which would result in a happier
and more productive student body. After all, a healthy
body is needed to house a healthy mind.
Jim Brockman
Recreation Advisory Board
Natural Resources
Junior
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