Aerobic exercise class better than lunch
BY MARLENE BURBACII
A group of 45 men and women choose to
spend their lunch hour exercising. They are
participating in the University of Nebraska
Lincoln aerobics class, coordinated by Vickie
Histreet.
"I try to have them think of exercise not as
tedious and hard work but to have fun and
enjoy it," Miss Histreet said.
The aerobic exercise classes are designed
to help UN-L as a community, Miss Histreet
said.
The community health department wanted
to offer a service to UN-L, and not a credit
class, so it organized an exercise class.
Aerobics was chosen because it is a popu
lar form of exercising, Miss Histreet said.
It is for people who are not looking for
credit but who are interested in physical fit
ness. An aerobics class is offered for credit
through UN-L in the health, physical educa
tion, and recreation department if the stu
dents want that, Miss Histreet said.
Aim for target heart rate
Each class lasts about an hour, Miss His
treet said. It starts with a 10-minute warm-up
program.
"We go through a stretching routine at the
beginning of each class," she said. "Then
there is 15 to 20 minutes of aerobic exercis
ing." Aerobic exercising matches a person's
heartbeat to a target heart rate, Miss Histreet
said.
One's target heart rate is determined by
age. To figure it, Miss Histreet said, one sub
tracts the age from 220 (the heart rate of an
infant). Seventy to 85 percent of this total is
the target heart rate.
The class concludes with a five-to 10-minute
cool-down period.
"We basically do not stop exercising dur
ing the class except to take our pulse," Miss
Histreet said.
If a person's pulse rate is below his or her
target heart rate, he or she is not working
hard enough, she said. If it is above the target
heart rate, the person should slow down.
'Go at your own pace
"The other guide is how they feel. If they
feel light-headed, they should slow down,"
Miss Histreet said.
"One thing they hear all the time is 'go at
your own pace,' " said Miss Histreet. "They
should not try to keep up with me because
their physical fitness level is probably not the
same as mine. If they overwork themselves,
they are more likely to get discouraged and
quit," she said.
When one attends the first class, the per
son's weight, measurements and resting pulse
are recorded. At the end of the course, weight
and measurements are taken again.
Measurements are taken because many
people want to lose weight, but they lose
inches off their measurements, said Miss His
treet. Their muscles are being toned and
firmed, and therefore they lose inches but not
pounds.
Wide range of ages
Members of the aerobic classes range in
age from 16 to 60 and several are over 40, said
Miss Histreet.
"When we first started last fall, it was
mostly students," she said, "but right now it is
mostly faculty and staff members." Miss His
treet said she thinks this will change when the
first summer session starts. More students
will be on campus, so it should make a differ
ence, she said.
Miss Histreet said she does not think the
summer weather will affect the size of her
classes. Most of those who come know that
they must improve their overall physical fit
nesss, so they will come to class, she said.
Goals differ among the individuals accord
ing to their ablities and conditioning, she said.
The main goal of those who join the
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aerobic classes is to lose weight, Miss His
treet said.
"This doesn't necessarily happen all the
time," she said, "but many times they lose
inches." Others want to tone and firm their
bodies, she said.
In defining the success of this program,
Miss Histreet said the attendance has im
proved since it started. Last fall 145 to 150
members were in two classes. During the
spring semester 250 to 275 people were in five
classes and this summer four classes each
have about 45 members, Miss Histreet said.
She said the variety of ages is increasing.
The age difference proves that this program
is not for younger people, but for the whole
University of Nebraska community, she said.
"It's encouraging to see someone who has
n't had an exercise program before in his life
working on his physical fitness," Miss His
treet said.
"I believe in what I do," she said. "It's
educational. I'm giving out information and
getting feedback, and that's important to me."
More classes in fall
Classes meet at noon and 4:30 p.m., for
those who work on campus, said Miss His
treet. "We try to make it available at the times
people want it," she said.
Miss Histreet hopes to add more classes
this fall, perhaps three classes a day, she said.
There will probably be two sessions next f all.
Each session will last five weeks.
One can contact the University Health
Center to enroll in a class or to receive more
information about this program.
This aerobics class is just the beginning of
the community health program.
"We are hoping to have programs dealing
with how to stop smoking, assertiveness and
stress management," Miss Histreet said.
Miss Histreet, 29, received her bachelors
degree from UN-L in education. She has
coached volleyball at Nebraska Wesleyan
College.
Barbecues,
campus tour
will highlight
rush events
BY MARLENE BURBACH
Rush in the middle of the summer?
At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
fraternities, yes. Summer rush begins the
day students graduate from high school,
said Scott Lehr, rush chairman for the in
terfraternity council.
At the end of the school year, all frater
nities receive a list of names of male stu
dents who said they were interested in fra
ternities when they registered at UN-L.
The Panhellenic office compiles the list.
"The fraternities invite the guys they
know on the list," Lehr said. "They also
can just ask any graduating senior that is
coming to UN-L to the rush parties even if
he is not on the list."
The purpose of the parties is to ac
quaint fraternity men and the rushees, the
high school graduates going through rush,
Lehr said. The parties help the rushees to
decide if they like the house and its mem
bers and the fraternity members to decide
if the rushee would fit in at the house, Lehr
said.
Most rushees attend parties for more
than one house, Lehr said.
"It is important for the guys to look at
more than one house so they can decide
which one they like," Lehr said.
Pledging a fraternity
If a student is invited to join a house, he
is asked to sign a pledge card. If he later
decides not to join the fraternity, he may
break his pledge, but then cannot pledge
another until Sept. 25.
The first signing date was June 14,
providing students a chance to see what
several fraternities are like, Lehr said.
The average cost of belonging to a fra
ternity during the freshman year is $1,825,
Lehr said. Room and board costs about
$1,700, the pledge fee is about $25 and the
average initiation fee is $100. An estimate
of yearly dormitory cost is $1,835.
Fraternity and sorority rush are differ
ent. Sororities schedule a rush week just
before classes start in the fall and select
new members then. This year rush week is
Aug. 17 to Aug. 22.
All freshman women and transfer stu
dents, plus anyone who requests rush in
formation, will receive a brochure about
sororities and a registration form. The
form and a $25 registration fee must be in
the Panhellenic office by July 30 to partici
pate in the week of parties.
According to Kathy Roth, rush chair
woman of the Intersorority Council, about
600 to 700 women go through rush each
year.
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Two Farmhouse Fraternity members, Steve
Coll(right) and Brian Wacker (center) give a tour of
their fraternity to rushee Doug Armstrong. The rush
parties include swimming, tours of the campus and
city and an overnight stay at the fraternity house.
Rush week will begin with open houses
at the sororities on Aug. 17 and 18. On Aug.
19, the first parties will be held, Roth said.
The girls will spend an hour in each of
eight different houses to learn what the
chapter is like and what the women in the
house are like, she said.
On Aug.20, the women students will pick
up a packet of invitations at the Nebraska
Union for the second set of parties that af
ternoon. If they receive more than five in
vitations, they must decide on only five
houses, Roth said.
The houses decide that evening which
students they want to invite back to the
last set of parties on Saturday.
Saturday evening, after the last parties,
the women list three houses in order of
their preference.
un Sunday, if a woman is accepted by a
sorority, a membership invitation will be
delivered to her by members of the house.
If a student wishes to withdraw from
rush, she must contact the Panhellenic
board.
All freshman pledges are expected to
live in the residence halls during their first
year. The first year's pledge fee ranges
from $350 to $400. For the next three years,
the average fee is $150 to $200.
Room and board costs vary among
chapters too, but it is about the same as a
residence hall, Roth said The cost of be
longing to a sorority varies with the stu
dent, Roth said, and the purchases of party
favors and sports clothes with sorority
symbols, said Roth.