Thursday, May 1, 1975
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Sauna's popularity grows at KU
By PAT LIPNICKY
Kansan Staff Reporter
The 2,000-year-old Scandinavian custom of taking sauna baths has recently been adopted by a large number of University of Kansas students, according to Don Alexander, interior decorator for the residence halls.
Sauna baths were first installed in the men and women rooms in Robinson Roxborough.
*Students learned about the saunas at Johnson, and then began to request them for themselves.*
A sauna bath and shower were installed in Lewis hall last semester, according to J. J. Wilson, director of housing. He said that sauna baths and showers would be installed in GSP-Corbin and Tempil residence halls by the beginning of the 1975 fall semester.
Wilson also said that tentative plans were being drawn up for the possible construction of a new plant.
The sauna bath and showers cost approximately $7,000 to install. Wilson said,
Ted Wiedemann, salesman for the Viking Sauna Co. which has constructed all saunas on campus, said there had been an increase in the Lawrence area within the last few years.
"I'm not sure what caused it, but there seems to have been a boom of interest in saunas in the last two years," Wiedeman said.
He said that his company had also installed saunas at the Lawrence Racquet Club and at the Malls Olde English Village apartments.
The suma is a Finnish bath which uses dry heat in the absence of humidity, according to an article written for the Journal of Health, Physical Education and Recreation by Marlene Mawson, assistant professor of physical education.
The sama originated in Central Asia where Finnish tribesmen were believed to have brought it from China.
The original Finnish sauna, technically called the rauuchaasna, was created by occasionally pouring warm water on the stones of a sauna stove, which created a wave of air that surrounded the bathers, according to Mawson.
The splashing water, Mawson said,
produced a smoky steam that lowered the
temperature of the lake and occupied
the occupants of the sauna to
feel a hot flash that was called a "loyly."
spirit or soul of the sauna," Mawson said. A kelvytatja, or saunia lady, then entered the sauna with a vulta, or birch leaf switch, and flogged the bathers, which increased their circulation of skin surface blood, according to Mawson.
"this feeling was considered to be the spirit or soul of the sauna." Mawson said.
The sauna is dry heat and should not be confused with a steam bath, she said. The operating temperature of the sauna is between 170 and 196 degrees, with a humidity of between 8 and 20 per cent, she said.
"The bather then came out of his sauna and immediately plunged into either ice ocean waters or into a snow bank," she said. Mawson said that American saunas were built in wooden wood panels rooms which consist of wooden benches and a sauna stone with rocks.
Wiedeman said that all the sauna rooms can be constructed with redwood and maple.
The correct procedure for taking a sama
bath begins by taking a shower, Wideman
"After a shower, the bath with a towel, should then enter the sauna and either sit or recline on the redwood bench for approximately 10 minutes," he said.
After the first ten minutes the bather
was out of it and she take
another cold shower. Weed was
down.
The bather can then again enter the sauna for as many 10 minute intervals as he desires, acceding to Wiedeman. Only three hours of intervals in the sauna are re-commended.
Wiedeman said that when a sauna bath is
taken regularly it could serve to stimulate
the body.
" it works something like exercising, it beats the body and blood circulation. Wiedemann said
Although medical authorities do not condemn the sauna as a health hazard, Mawson said that they have warned that people should leave the sauna directing healing effects for any diseases.
"There is no scientific proof that the sauna does anything but open porch, bring blood to the skin surface and improve circulation." Mawson said.
Wayne Omess, professor of physical education, said that animals have a cleanliness and hygiene.
"Sunsas work by removing the normal mechanisms the body has to cool itself, thus eliminating heat."
Claims have been made that induced perspiration is beneficial in relieving rheumatism, burstis and arthritis. Ossess said that he wouldn't agree or disagree.
KU governing bodies meet to outline plans
Changes in the Senate Code and rules and regulations will be discussed by the University Senate at 3:30 p.m. today in Swarthout Reecital Hall.
Because Senate meetings have in the past been plagued by a lack of quorums, action was taken by the Senate on April 10 which makes it possible for the University Council to take binding action without the approval of the Senate.
The Senate approved a code change that states that if a lack of a quorum prevents a Senate meeting at the designated time, action of the council will become effective.
The third branch of the University governance system, we have its no. 3 branch office, located on Office May 30.
Members of the new SenEx:
Arthur Breipohl, professor of electrical engineering; Robert Casad, professor of law; Joel Gold, professor of English; Frances Horowitz, professor of human development and psychology; Arno Knapper, associate professor of business; Andrew Barker, associate professor; Adrienne Hyle, Lawrence graduate student; Steve Seebregt, Prairie Village siphomore; and Tedde Tasheff, Wichita siphomore.
Briephold, Gold, Zuther and Hyle were all relected to SenEx at a University Council meeting April 3. Zuther will be chairman of SenEx.
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