Rec director strives to meet demands
Keeping up with students' needs
presents Campbell a challenge
by Chad Lorenz
Staff Reporter.
Stan Campbell can’t keep up.
The director of the Office of Cam
pus Recreation launches successful
new programs and new facilities every
year, but another project is always wait
ing for him.
“Seems like every time we increase
offerings, we get more demand,”
Campbell said.
Three new programs have taken off
since the first week of class, and some
already need to be expanded.
Two new full time wellness consult
ants are completely booked into Octo
ber with the opening of Wellness Ser
vices, Campbell said.
Consultants will assess a student’s
nutrition and fitness levels and iden
tify any health risks. The consultant
will also design an exercise program
according to the student’s, fitness needs.
Many students have used the ser
vice as a doorway to get in shape be
cause they didn’t have good eating hab
its or exercise regularly, Campbell said.
Wellness services were available
last year, but the $45 consultation fee
was too expensive for students,
Campbell said. The new $10 service
is subsidized by student fees.
Another service, massage therapy,
has expanded this year. A licensed
massage therapist will arrange 25,45
and 60-minute sessions for $15, $25
and $30.
Campus Rec’s new Adventure
Challenge Ropes Course hasn’t be
come as popular yet, Campbell said,
but he is proud to offer one of the only
courses like it in the area.
The course is divided into two sec
tions — a high and low course —
where students tackle different ob
stacles. UNL students may spend a day
on both courses for $20 per person.
The course is the only (me in the
state that handicapped participants can
use, Campbell said.
Campbell also depends on the
Campus Recreation Advisory Council
to find out what new recreation pro
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grams students want, he said.
Every year, Campbell has to up
grade pals of the informal recreation
program, the most-used part of cam
pus rec, he said.
Some exercise equipment was
transplanted from the weight training
room to the super circuit, next to the
raquetball courts, and scattered
throughout the running track, Campbell
said.
By adding equipment and moving
it around, Campbell hoped to alleviate
congestion in the weight training room,
he said.
“Now the super circuit is crowded
and the weight training room is
crowded.”
Some UNL students have figured
out how to avoid crowds at the rec cen
ter.
Bob Morrissey, a senior biology
major, said he sometimes has to wait
for a basketball court at night, so he
shoots hoops during the day.
Chris Linder, a sophomore finance
major, said she beats the afternoon rush
in die weight training room by work
ing out in the mornings.
And when she’s not on cardiovas
cular equipment, she’s at aerobics or
running, she said.
The rec center is the perfect place
for Linder to maintain the fit lifestyle
she beganin high school, she said.
“Having a nice rec center makes it
easier to stick with it,” Linder said.
Although Campbell has been busy
inproving current programs, he has
already started studying new additions
to the rec center, he said.
He is trying to figure out the best
place for a 45-foot climbing wall: ei
ther the NU Coliseum or Cook
Pavillion.
The Campus Rec Advisory Board
suggested the idea, so Campbell started
getting cost estimates, he said. If
Campbell decides to build the wall, it
would be ready after spring break, he
said.
After that project is completed,
Campbell surely will have another
mountainous project to climb.
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Football Pick 'Em, flag football,
broomball join intramural lineup
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter
Although picking the winners of football
games may not seem like a sport, armchair quar
terbacks at UNL can submit their picks for in
tramural points.
In Football Pick ‘Em, a new intramural ac
tivity, students pick die winners of 10 college
football games for 10 weeks, Todd Pfingsten,
assistant Campus Recreation director for intra
mural sports.
The first twQ weeks of the intramural brought
in 500 entries, Pfingsten said.
A preseason flag football tournament and
broomball on ice will join the 180 udramurals
offered byCampus Rec, Pfingsten said. -
started Thursday and mns through this wdek
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end. Students told Pfingsten they were interested
in an event to kick off the beginning of the regu
lar flag football season, he said.
Until this year, broomball usually was played
on concrete, and occasionally on snow and ice
covered concrete.
The opening of an ice rink at the State Fair
Colliseum allows UNL intramural athletes to
play broomball the way it was intended,
Pfingsten said. .'
“I’m from Minnesota, and there we always
play broomball on ice,” Pfingsten said.
The home ice for the Lincoln Stars will of
fer future intramural possibilities such as ice
hockey and skating, Pfingsten said.
Intramural athletes looking for new events
will find this year’s roster four events short.
' Ultimate frisbee, co-rec outdoor soccer, and
Korf Ball (Australian ba&etball^wen’t popu