University Daily Kansan, June 24. 1983
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KU grad student dunks 'em to test for fat
By MELISSA BAUMAN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Instead of using height-weight charts, KU graduate student Roger Thomas, Liberty, Mo., submerges their data to determine whether they are overweight.
Thomas measures body fat in the exercise physiology laboratory in Boston.
Height-weight charts commonly used by insurance companies or published in magazines do not really tell the whole story, the exercise physiology laboratory assistant said yesterday.
THOMAS SAID THAT some height-weight charts were not an accurate measure of what a person's weight should be. Factors such as a person's height, weight and age determine whether he had large or small bones were often not taken into consideration.
Thomas said that ideally an 40-year-old woman should have about 20 percent body fat, but that that was unrealistic.
A person gains 1 percent body fat for
every three years past the age of 21, he said.
Thomas said that although a muscular person might weigh more than a chart said he should, that did not mean he was overweight.
Thomas said that because students were active they usually had less body fat than non-students. He said that an average college man's body was about 12 percent body fat and an average man's body was about 22 percent fat.
HE SAID THAT women had more fat deposits in their hips, thighs and breasts. This accounts for the 10 percent difference.
The basis of the technique for measuring body fat, known as hydrostatic weighing, is to compare the weight of a person on land to his weight in water.
The person sits on a swing in a large tank filled with water to a level just under his chin. He is given a mouthful of water, enough that is connected to a machine.
The subject must grip the bottom of the swing to assure that he does not flinch.
The person then tucks his legs under the swing and brings his head down, assuming the fetal position, so he is completely under water.
THE MOUTHPIECE is connected to a machine that measures the amount of air in his lungs. As the subject exhales, the technician will ask him to hold his breath and then takes a weight measurement.
This process is repeated three or four times to assure an accurate weighing, Thomas said.
Thomas said the tests usually lasted from one to one and one-half minutes and that the maximum time was five minutes.
The final printout gives some statistics that are used for research and, of course, the percentage of fat on the person's body.
Thomas said that athletes might have a negative percentage or that extremely obese people weighing 500 or 600 pounds might have over 100 percent body fat, both of which are statistically impossible.
He said that this could happen
because the formula used was de-
veloped for the general population and
research group.
Thomas said that coaches often had their players weighed to find out their percentage of body fat in order to determine the percentage to those of other teams.
He said they also might want to know if a certain player weighed more than 70 pounds.
If a subject wants more information, technicians usually refer him to dieticians at Watkins Memorial Hospital, he said.
Thomas said said that lab technicians did not recommend exercise programs, but did tell people not to try to lose more than one pound a week.
"Most people come in here because they want it done, not because a doctor takes it."
THE COST OF THE test is $15 for
U.S. students and faculty
and $20 for非U.S. students.
Thomas said that the man attracts more people from Kansas City and Topeka than from Lawrence, with the exception of students.
Dam bursts in Utah; flood washes out four towns
By United Press International
DELTA, Utah — An earthen dam taxed by record mountain runoff collapsed yesterday, sending a muddy surge of debris-laden water roaring through four rural communities and the evacuation of about 1,000 people.
The flood also washed out two bridges along U.S. Highway 6, the main highway between Salt Lake City and central Nevada, the Union Pacific Railroad bridge north of Delta, and a bridge on State Road 257 in Desertet.
"Millard County sheriff's dispatcher Paulette Peaney said the swollen Sevier River's waters hit the town of Desert late in the afternoon after a storm at Hinsley and Oasis and the recreation community of Sherwoid Shores.
Residents were asked to leave the four communities and Sutherland, a town bypassed by the raging floodwaters. They had up to two hours' notice and fled before the river reached their homes and farms.
There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries from the break at the Delta Millard Abraham Desert dam, about 100 miles southwest of Salt Lake
Millard County officials were unable to give a property damage estimate because the bridge washouts prevented them from reaching the areas after the evacuations.
"It (the river) is really big and very muddy, filled with uprooted trees and washed-out fences," said Delta City fire chief James Hodgson, who helped run an evacuation center.
"Normally about this time of year the river would be about up to your head.
But today it was about 25 feet deep after the dam went."
Millard County officials used explosives to breach the Gunnison Bend Reservoir, 7 miles downstream of the larger dam, hoping to drain some of its water and limit the flooding in the west central Utah valley.
"It looked like a mass migration in Desert," said Eldon A. Ellison, 68 of Boston.
Ellason she he helped his two brothers evacuate their Desertes homes.
were several large trucks offering to move people," he said.
they were total strangers who pulled into Desertet and told them they were available. People have come in with tractors for mobile homes and said they were willing to help anyone move their mobile home."
State officials said they had feared
the half-mile-wide earthen darn, would was out earlier. But by Tuesday they
Bob Morgan, spokesman for the Utah Water Resources Division, said the dam was designed to hold back 11,000 acre-feet of irrigation water.
"But the reservoir was at least 2 feet over the spillway, so it was probably filled to 15,000 acre-feet," Morgan said. "We thought it was going to be OK Tuesday, but it really took off on us today and washed out the spillway."
The dam failed while attention was focused on a larger reservoir where the Bureau of Reclamation was unaware of the magnitude of the runoff.
10 protect the biggest reservoir in the state — the Glen Canyon Dam — the federal agency said it has been forced to make a 12 percent increase in water releases from Lake Powell behind the dam.
Lawrence jobless face discouraging time
By MARY ANN COSTELLO
Staff Reporter
A student stares at the job board in the basement of Strong Hall — not an anxious glance of someone scanning a computer screen, a stare of stare of someone reading old news.
Janet Medina, Shawnee senior, is bored.
She wants to work, but for more than a month she has visited the job board outside the office of student financial Aid and still has not found a job.
WITH 4.4 PERCENT unemployment,
Lawrence is not a bad place for a student to look for a summer job. It has the fourth lowest unemployment rate in
But Medina is part of the 4.4 percent,
she's been looking for a job, but she
is discounted.
"I stopped looking for a white, I just so digged not," she said. "I had a couple of firm job offers, but then they fell through. I started looking again a
Medina said she had also looked for work at the Lawrence Job Service Center, 833 Ohio St., but there were not a large variety of jobs there.
"YOU HAVE TO have a skill," she said. "If you're a machinist or a tool-and-dye worker, it's great."
Shaun McGrath, Manhattan, is taking courses this summer in political science and German because he was a major after graduating from college in May.
"Ronald Reagan's always making a big deal about his policies," he said. "But it's time he started showing us what he's talking about."
McGrath also was checking the job board for a summer job.
Doug Olsen, Prairie Village graduate student, said that he already had a part-time job but that he had been looking for a second job since May because he was "just getting by" on the money he was making.
"PEOPLE LIKE LAWRENCE so
willing to willing take any job
to stave. he said."
He said he thought the low unemployment rate for Lawrence was
And, he said, there are not many "hard-core unemployed" in Lawrence.
partially due to the jobs created by the University.
Not all of the students who stroll up to the job board are looking for jobs. Some are just looking to see what's available.
Rose Lichtenberg, a secretary at the Student Assistance Center, is taking applications for an academic aide position at the Center.
But the chance that a student would get one of those jobs now was slim, she
There are about 60 job openings now posted on the board. Some of the camp and tourism jobs have been on the board since December.
THE OPENING WAS announced on the job board Wednesday, and by yesterday four students had applied for a position in the company she was expecting a lot of applicants.
Nearly a third of the jobs are College Work-Study jobs. Such jobs are only available to students who have applied for the Work-Study program and can show financial need. The jobs are at various departments on campus.
In contrast, Spencer Research Library has been taking applications for a library circulations clerk opening, and the deadline for applications is today. Yet only one student had applied by yesterday.
'RAM HOUSTON, head of the Student Employment Center at the Financial Aids Office, said they were still posted on social media and sometimes do not start until June.
Ed Mills, director of the Lawrence Job Service Center, 833 Ohio St., said more than 300 job seekers under 22 years old applied at the Center last
He said most of the applicants were college-age people. Many of the student applicants were seeking part-time, rather than full-time, work.
WHEN 14,000 or so college students leave Lawrence for the summer, he said, it hurts the businesses in town.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig was among the university leaders at the meeting
Budig attends conference on science funding
If a student had a job in town before the summer, he said, he is often able to keep it through the summer. But if he itesed town, the job usually goes with him.
By United Press International
"The time from the lab to the bedside has shrunk," said Edward Trabant, president of the University of Dela-
WASHINGTON -- America could regain and strengthen its edge in basic science if Congress adopts a five-year, $2 billion commitment to fund research, three senators and the heads of 10 major universities said yesterday.
"This bill is really aimed at strengthening the basic research that goes on in the United States," said Washington Governor Bill Clinton. "The growth of Sir St. Louis, the senator's brother,
gan administration cutbacks have resulted in less funding being filtered
Sen. Danforton, a Republican, said research and development "offer real hope for the future" and he believes that more research in science and looking to the future."
the senator said he expects the bill to be attached to other legislation before it reaches the floors of the House and Senate and be sent to the president. He defies the "chances of success are going to be better in the future years than they are now."
At a news conference called to
announce the University Research
Capacity Restoration Act sponsored by
Missouri Sens. Tom Eagleton and Jack
Danforth, the group including Sen.
Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., said Rea
"Support for basic research is growing at a slower rate than research and development funding generally," said Eagleton. "Too often, we look for short-term results rather than investing in research which requires long lead time before it produces new discoveries."
But the university officials said investing in research may have more benefits.
The legislation, which has five other Senate co-sponsors, would immediately add a total $1.6 billion for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 to the budgets of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institute of Health and the departments of Agriculture, Energy and Defense.
ware. "It's basic science but it doesn't mean you won't see the results in your case."
The plan would increase by "10 to 15 percent" the amount of research and development funding given to the agencies to distribute to universities and private industries applying to do research.
Youngest liver patient stable; second recipient doing well
By United Press International
MINNEAPOLIS — The youngest living recipient of a liver transplant, 7-month old Julie Bohrer of Wichita, remained in critical but stable condition yesterday, as did another infant who underwent the operation this week.
Julie, and 13-month-old Topski of Detroit, remained on respirators in the pediatric intensive care unit of the University of Minnesota Hospital.
Julie, who had been given only days to live before Wednesday's operation.
needed the respirator because the liver she received was slightly too large and was pushing against one of her lungs, a hospital soakedwoman said.
The liver appeared to be working, although chief surgeon John Najarian said it would be several days before he would know whether the liver had recovered from the shock of the operation.
Scott, who received his new liver Tuesday, was expected to be taken off the respirator by today, the spokeswoman said.
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