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Tracy Salisbury stretches out before club exercises in the Coliseum Tuesday.
Karate program kicked out of coliseum
By Ryan Steeves
Staff Reporter__
In a continuous motion, Shotokan karate
students spin on the north stage of the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln Coliseum,
casting up blocking forearms, lunge forward
jabbing their fists at imaginary opponents
and then pivot as they thrust but vicious
| kicks.
But now the karate program is receiving
a kick of its own, angering some karate
students.
Because of the Coliseum renovation, the
karate program must move to a gym in
Mabel Lee Hall. After the renovation’s
second phase, the program is scheduled to
move to a room in the Coliseum basement.
Richard Schmidt, UNL karate instructor,
said the move to Mabel Lee Hall will incon
venience karate students, but is necessary
for the renovation.
Schmidt, a UNL assistant professor of
health, physical education and recreation,
said the renovation will displace many rec
reation classes.
“Everybody is looking for some space,”
he said.
Three UNL karate classes and a club.
Nippon Shobukai, have used the stage for 13
yean. The stage, which wiS be renovated
into racquetball courts, was used solely for
karate classes. Students could practice on
the stage any time except during classes.
But at Mabel Lee, karate students will
have to share the gym with other classes,
Schmidt said. Students won’t be able to
practice at the gym outside of class because
it is locked when not in use.
“The only thing (the move) is going to do
that will be unbeneficial to us, Schmidt
said, “is that we’ll probably have less access
to a martial-arts area."
Bridget Barry, a karate student, said the
move also forced Nippon Shobukai club
members to change the nights they meet.
Barry, a senior political science and Russian
student, said this forces karate students to
change their work schedule if they work
nights.
She criticized UNL officials for not seek
ing advice from those involved in the karate
program, possibly avoiding such inconven
iences.
“All of a sudden we don’t exist — we
don’t matter,” Barry said.
7 think everyone’s
doing their best to
accommodate ev
eryone concerned
and that’s all we can
ask tor right now.'
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Ed Schmid, a •ophomort criminal justice
student, said the karate pfogr&m should get
more consideration from UNL officials
Schmid, a Nippon Shobukai member, said
karate students always had consideration
for others, keeping up the karate area and not
yelling during volleyball games. He said he
wants to sec the same consideration directed
at the club.
Margaret Penney, assistant professor of
health, physical education and recreation,
said moving the karate classes is necessary
for Coliseum renovation.
Penney, who helps find classrooms for
groups during the renovation, said the karate
club will have a better place to practice, but
the members might not have it to them
selves.
Jayne Stratton, a graduate student in
biology and an assistant karate instructor,
said the move doesn't bother her as much as
the inconsiderate construction workers
working around the Coliseum.
Stratton said workers disrupted students’
concentration by walking through class,
knocking chairs over and jackhammering
holes in the walls.
“You would like (students) to do their
best and concentrate,” she said, “but that’s
hard to do with all the noise.”
Schmidt said he is more concerned about
the move to the Coliseum basement after the
renovation’s second phase than the move to
Mabel Lee .
The basement room assigned to the ka
rate students, Schmidt said, has a linoleum
floor on top of concrete mid will have five
pillars. Schmidt said the pillars will disrupt
students’ workouts and be hard to teach
around.
“It's analogous with playing tennis in the
woods,” Schmidt said.
Stratton said the pillars also could be
dangerous for sparring students, particularly
those practicing Japanese fencing.
'Hie floor could be dangerous, Schmidt
said, because it can get slick and it won't
have enough absorption. Schmidt said he
would prefer a perma-cushioned wood floor
to reduce stress on the karate students’
joints, but admits such a floor would be
expensive:.
The ideal karate room would be spacious
and as quiet as a classroom, Schmidt said.
Unlike other recreation classes, he said,
karate requires the silence of a classroom so
students can concentrate.
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Student leaders
meet to discuss
campus unity
Awareness wanted between
Greeks and residence halls
By Victoria Ayotte
•Senior Reporter
Relations will improve between Greek and
residence hall students only through increased
awareness of each other, some University of
Nebraska-Lincoln student leaders said Thurs
day at a luncheon.
Executives of the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska, the Residence Hall
Association, the Interfratemity Council and the
Panhellenic Association attended the meeting
in the Nebraska Union.
“I’m really glad we got the opportunity to do
this at the end of the year so we can have a really
good start next year,” said Kim Beavers, ASUN
second vice president
Soup and salad were the entrees at the
luncheon, but students’ appetites were on a
higher level.
Marc Shkolnick, RHA vice president, said
he thinks student leaders should meet more
often.
“The power of the groups together is un
tapped,” Shkolnick said. “This is the start of
something that may be fruitful.”
IFC President John Smith said misconcep
tions about Greek and residence hall students
that new students bring to the university is one
reason for poor relations.
The misconceptions are a two-way street.
Smith said.
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liaison program she is setting up will go a long
way in helping improve relations and aware
ness of different groups.
Next week the ASUN Senate will discuss a
bill that would set up the program, Beavers
said.
Beavers said she is also excited about the
progress that has been made so far in making
appointments board nominations more repre
sentative. In the past, it was difficult to get a
diversified group to apply for positions, she
said.
“The ratio is better,” Beavers said. “There’s
truly a representative body that’s coming in
now.”
The students agreed more activities involv
ing both residence hall and Greek groups are
needed.
One way to improve awareness among the
student groups would be to attend each other’s
meetings.
But ASUN President Jeff Petersen cau
tioned that student leaders must show their
constituents what they’re doing.
“If that doesn’t get funneled down, we’re not
accomplishing anything,” Petersen said. “It
behooves us to get the information out.”
Nate Geisert, ASUN first vice president,
said he also thinks there should be a way to
incorporate off-campus students into the dis
cussions, since they are the largest student
group.
Student body builder to compete for title
By Anne Mohri
Senior Reporter
Julia Stubblefield, a junior art and music
major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
said she body builds as a sort of experiment
“It’s kind of an experiment to see what I can
do, to see how many candy bars I can eat
without showing it,” she said.
Stubblefield will take her experiment and 1
1/2 years of competition experience to the
Collegiate Mr. an<J Ms. Nebraska 1988 contest
Sunday.
The prejudging for the body building com
petition is at 1:30 p.m. and the evening show is
at 7 p.m. The competition is in the Nebraska
Union Centennial Ballroom.
Stubblefield said she began lifting weights
while she was in high school because she was
involved in track, gymnastics and basketball.
Her job as an aerobics instructor at Gold’s
Gym and her boyfriend, who also lifts weights,
inspired her to body build, she said.
She first competed in the 1987 Ms. Husker
land and Ms. Lincoln, she said.
Her boyfriend bet her that she would not go
through with the competition, she said. She
started preparing for the competition 3 1/2
weeks before it took place. Stubblefield placed
second out of nine women.
She said she works out six days a week at
Gold’s Gym with the help of her two trainers.
While in training, she said, she eats white
meat and drinks skim milk. About four or five
weeks before the competition, Stubblefield
said, she doesn’t eat or drink any dairy products
because of the fat
“It’s not the calories, it’s the fat,” she said.
She said the body has to have fat, but closer
to a competition a body builder has to try to
build up the body without the fat foods.
Also, she said, she stops drinking water
before the competition because water smooths
out the muscles rather than making them de
fined.
Stubblefield said she spends about $200 a
month on diet supplements. But body builders
who take steroids spend less because they can
build their bodies up faster and don’t need the
supplements, she said.
