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o n lmm Friday, February 17, 1934 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 83 No. 103 ! ! t r - r- , I ( I j rikc . U . 1 1 i i J i M a C ; i .. i ' ' - ' ' - - . - ........... ; : ': V I 7." ' ' t ij -::.::ui rr ..tJi : : ' j : I; re; ?: ur.r " 1 ::.- r r r. I - : r; -i r-: - " : ':.!? I'. j .: r ; .". . - '::':.::? - :'c- . .It; L-';J. v s. ..:?r- '," :. -m - . - ; f I.".-:!, r. - '- . - ' A , ... 4 . i, : - ' v f' t.',..i:lI-. ! I'll ' ' ' .-: r f - .:'.; -, , '. .. ... i . , ' ' : ..... . t- . Vi .i ......... .i . 'i. . .. ; v .- 1 "1 ' " rf ' .. '. .... .. 1. n.' ..,. L i, , ,. i ,.. ., .u I j, ,. v": f ) iff ?-! J- ..-1 f ' " " ' -v "i - " ' ' 1 " r.r - -s-- vt-w y A v ' t f 1 v-- " - - Kerrey stresses outdoor activity By Petty Prycr Gov. Bob Kerrey, known for his firm belief in healthy lifestyles and physical fitness, announced the Governor's 1984 Outdoor Conditioning Camp at a press conference Thursday. This is an attempt to get Nebraskans outdoors, an attempt to get Nebraskans involved in physical conditioning and to get Nebraskans involved in an assessment of their own lifestyles," he said. Sponsored by the Governor's Office in conjunc tion with the Game and Parks Commission, the Department of Health and the Nebraska National Guard, the April 27-29 camp will take place at Platte River State Park near Louisville. The National Guard training camp in Ashland also will be used for intensive sessions on compass orientation, survival, first aid skills and rapelling. In addition to volleyball, softball, bicycling, horse back riding, archery and a five-mile jog-walk, partic ipants will help build a permanent Tit 'n Fun Trail" in the park. A $90 registration fee covers lodging, meals instruction and use of equipment. Camp partici pants must be 18 or older, unless accompanied by an adult. Kerrey said the camp originally was planned to last a week, but was cut down in an effort to attract more participants. It probably will become an annual event, "unless I get impeached," he said. The camp may eventually take place in the fall, too, possibly in Chadron State Park. "I want to encourage everyone to sign up as quickly as possible" Kerrey said, "because it's going to be a good time. In another announcement, Kerrey said he and Wyoming Gov. Ed Herschler mailed a letter to Presi dent Reagan urging him to postpone deployment of of the MX missile in their two states. Such a postponement would be well-timed in light of the change in Soviet leadership, he said. The letter reads in part: "A unilateral offer to post pone deployment of the missile for one year may be read as a clear signal by the Soviet Union that our countries should jointly strive to keep the peace in a more settled world.", A postponement would, be helpful in balancing the federal budget, Kerrey said, and in allowing the states to study the environmental impact of deployment. Campus 'a Iwibed of germs ' By Dsb Pederecn Students who bite fingernails or chew pencils help spread influenza and the common cold, said the Univer sity Health Center medical director. "Students spread out geographically and get expecsd to a variety of exotic germs," Dr. Gerald Fteischli said. "Then they bring back the germs and share them. Campus is like a hotbed of germs." In a study done at a university health center, Fleischli said, the re searchers took time-lapse photographs of graduate students in class and noted how many times each chewed a pencil or fingernail. The figure then was compared with, how many times the student had been treated at the health center. The experiment showed that the higher the incidence of pencil chew ing or nail biting, the higher the inci dence of sickness. Influenza and the common cold are caused by different viruses. The symp toms are similar, but they vary in intensity, Fleischli said. Fleischli said influenza is subdivided into hundreds of varieties. The two main categories of influenza are Type A and Type B. The crisis in science and mathemat ics education has increased to the point that the United States is "rapidly becoming a scientifically illiterate nation," said a UNL physics professor Thursday. Eugene Rudd, professor of physics and astronomy, said hih school enrol lment has declined steadily in physics, chemistry and mathematics courses "nationwide. A 1C32 study showed that only 20 percent of graduating high school seniors had taken physics at some point, compared with 95 percent in 1805. Similar declines have occurred in math and chemistry courses, he said. Eudd gave two probable reasons for the enrollment declines. First, he said, h::;h schools oITer many elective courses. Students tend to think physics and chemistry ere difficult sutjects, and choose other courses, he said. "As long as a student can get the . same credit for driver's ed as for phys-- "Once a person has a specific type, he is immune to that type, but he still can get other types," Fleischli said. . There are two methods of general treatment for influenza and colds; sys tematic treatment and body build-up, he said. Systematic treatment cses' medica tions such as decongestants and antih istamines. The medications have side effects so there is a trade-off between the side effects and the symptoms. Aspirin and Tylenol are not really needed with a low-grade fever because the fever helps the body fight the virus, he said. Body build-up is the more important category of treatment, Fleischli said. Body build-up has three components good nutrition, fluids and rest. Maintaining good nutrition helps the body fight the virus and a mild increase in vitamins also may help, he said. Fluids help flush out toxic by-products and replenish body fluids, he said. . "The most important and hardest thing to do is rest," Fleischli said. "Rest lets the body focus its fighting ability to fight off the invader. If this isn't done, the virus will linger on." own iHipw . -Vy 1,11 If 1 f -" - - Tom LauderDaily Nsbrsskan O sciie nmsa all 7J O A ics, why not take the "easy course?" Rudd said. The second reason for the problem, Rudd said, is the shortage of qualified teachers in the sciences. This problem has worsened in recent years, as teach ers have left the schools for higher pay ing jobs in industry. Five times as many physics teachers leave for this reason than to retire, Rudd'said. In Texas, Rudd said, teacher salaries averaged $21,000, while salaries in the applied sciences averaged $41,000. "It's easy to see why teachers are leaving," he said. ' Local school boards often find it dif ficult to replace those teachers, Rudd said. According to a September 1933 article in Physics Today magazine, 63 percent of the high school physics teachers in Iowa do not have a college major or even a minor in physics. . Rudd said he recently went to a meeting of the Nebraska Association cf Physics Teachers. Teachers said they were being forced to teach physics or chemistry, even though they hadn't had a course in those subjects, Rudd fcesJL . . . .... The lack of qualified teachers prob ably hurts student interest, worsening the enrollment problem, Rudd said. While qualified teachers are leaving, virtually no qualified replacements are coming from colleges, Rudd said. Ac cording to the Physics Today article, 65 percent fewer students train for science education than in 1973. Of all the students at Iowa's 27 colleges and universities, Rudd said, only two peo ple are majoring in science education. The reason for this low number, he said, is probably money. Giving more money to teachers could be a solution, Rudd said. Local school boards and state governments must raise salaries for physics and math teachers to compete with salaries in industry, he said. Until then, Americans can expect the quality of education to continue to decline, Rudd said. One stumbling block to raising salar ies for science and math teachers, Rudd said, is that lecal teacher's unions should realize the demand for science teaeh crs n akes higher pay a necessity, Inside The NU Board of Regents plans to follow through with faculty salary increases recom- j mended by its Agriculture 2001 committee Pcp C Disco Ranch discovers that sometimes less is better . .. , P2 8 UNL's three All-American wres tlers are depended on, but never feel put upon Pegs 10 Inde St Arts and Entertainment 0 Classified 14 Crossword 15 Editorial 4 Off The Wire . 2 L Sports 13 -1 ; it 4 -:
