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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, January 26, 1984 Joggers train despite cold By PAMELA BARNES Reporter The gray winter skies dull the atmosphere and the north wind chills to the bone, but joggers on the Texas A&M aerobics track keep on exercising. Some may think it crazy to exercise during such winter days but Rusty Higham of the Health and Physical Education Depart ment says if joggers dress prop erly, warm up slowly, and cool down after the main workout, there should be no problems. “For winter exercising you have to treat your body like you treat your car in the winter,” Higham says. “You have to start it up and warm it up slowly be fore it will go properly.” Always stretch out before running, Higham says. Start running at a slow pace and work up to the main workout. After running, give your body a chance to cool down. “It’s even a good idea to walk inside to cool down,” Higham says. “Your body cools down drastically outside.” He suggests walking the halls of East Kyle near the aerobics tract, or around the inside tracks. Richard Dickerson, a senior aerospace engineering major from Austin and an avid jogger, says cold, rainy days keep him from running sometimes, but the cold itself isn’t a problem. “I don’t warm up like I should,” Dickerson says. “I just start out running slowly and work up to a faster pace. I tend to run farther in the winter be cause I don’t lose as much water.” The proper dress is essential to winter running, Higham says. His advice: wear layers for warmth and comfort and be sure to cover the hands, ears and head. “You lose up to 40 percent of your body heat through your head,” Higham says. “It’s a good idea to wear a hat and maybe a scarf around your neck and mouth.” DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE Jan. 27-28 RAMADAINN Pre-register by phone: 846-9271/846-1904 FEE $20 Ticket Deferral and 10% Insurance Discount Dickerson says he sometimes wears thermal underwear under his jogging shorts or warm ups. “Layers are the best,” he says. “As you warm up you can always take something off and tie it around your shoulders or waist.” He also suggests wearing a cap and cotton gloves. Dr. Claude Goswick, director of the Student Health Center, says the cold shouldn’t stop out side exercising except for those who know they have had promb- lems previously. “Actually, it is better to run now as opposed to the summer, because in the summer you have to deal with the humidity and the heat,” Goswick says. It takes more energy and calories to run \ |\ A / y KT-JV hou.se TRo-dtAi o*JaJ ly Eke bk&r ptsrf pccr+y oM C-O-MpuLS' n9.rV-i9 r\<& °^e O v ^\o in the cold, because your body has to work harder just to keep warm. There shouldn’t be any real problems with winter running in this area. Except for the real bit ter cold days, there isn’t much chance of getting frostbite. Gos wick also suggests proper cover age of the head and hands to keep the heat in. “Getting out and sweating doesn’t necessarily cause a cold,” Goswick says. Breathing the cold, dry air may irritate the lungs and cause a cough. He suggests breathing in through the nose so the mucus mem brane will warm the air before it reaches the lungs and prevent irritation. Dickerson and Higham agree that the wind can be a problem for joggers. They suggest that it’s best to start out running into the cold wind so you can go slow ly, and when your body works up a sweat you don’t turn around and face the wind. Higham also suggests run ning only in an area that you are familiar with in case you have to stop running and seek shelter. Just as long as you keep fit and your respiratory system in shape, he says, any form of exer cise is good. Moscow accuses Preside! of using cover-up speech MOSGOW — The Soviet Union accused President Reagan Thursday of using his State of the Union address as a campaign speech to cover up failed domestic programs and a militaristic foreign policy. Tass said the speech Wednesday to a joint session of Congress was “made in a spirit of electioneering.” The official news agency described it as “an attempt to picture in a favorable light the results of his three-year rule and justify his policy, marked by extreme aggressiveness in the international field and tot al disregard for the needs of the common people.” The Novosti news agency said Reagan’s speech had “many high-sounding slo gans, but little of substance.” It dismissed Reagan’s direct appeal to the Soviet people to build a safer world as “melod ramatic” and “highly in appropriate in its insincerity.” While offering no concrete proposals for thawing rela tions between the United States and the Soviet Union, Reagan appealed directly to the Soviet people to seek peace. “It’s true our governments have had serious dif ferences,” Reagan said. “But our sons and daughters have never fought each other in war. If we Americans have our way, they never will.” But Novosti countered that the Soviet people "know bel ter than the U.S. president that a nuclear war is unwinn- able and that even the most limited use of nud weapons will lead to a sal nuclear holocaust" Novosti accused Reap implying that Presidem Andropov’s Tuesday inent, which came inreaa * junior to a Reagan speech oneai when in the week, “in someta, a change of policy by Mu and a result of his resoia hard-line policies.” The news agency said, is in no way a change." Andropov, in a statt* lot king the caustic rhetoti Foreign Minister Ai Gromyko’s recent speea Stockholm, said a“broni' ta" of talks could beheld.! only if the U.S. Peiiiifl neith and cruise missiles statit in Europe were dismantle Nurse’s boss testifies United Press International GEORGETOWN — Dr. Kathleen Holland, the pediatri cian who employed Nurse HELP US TO HELP OTHERS FALL “BANANA SPLIT & BLUE JEANS” RUSH Tues. Jan. 31 MSC 230-231 7 p.m. Thurs. Feb. 2 1st Floor Pavilion 7 p.m. Please call us for more info: Mary Ann Wacker 260-0877 OMEGA PHI ALPHA National Service Sorority recognized by Texas A&M University Generic Jones in her Kerrville clinic, testified Thursday the nurse told her to throw away a bottle of muscle relaxant that suspiciously contained two nee dle pricks in its cover. Holland said she had never used or ordered anyone to use the drug Anectine, the brand name for the muscle relaxant, succinylcholine. Therefore, she said, she was surprised to discov er two needlemarks in the bottle a few days after 15-month-old Ghelsea McClellan died. Jones, a 33-year-old mother of two, is accused of killing Chelsea by injecting her with succinylcholine at Dr. Holland’s office on Sept. 17, 1982. Hol land said she approached Jones after the nurse seemed “coolly defensive” after being ques tioned about a missing bottle of Anectine. “She (Jones) could not ex plain how the holes got there. I said ‘Genene, how am 1 going to explain these holes?’ She said, T don’t think we should explain them at all. After all, we thought we lost it. 1 think we should just throw it out.’” Jones, who had remained un emotional throughout the trial, was trembling violently and clinging to the arms of her attor ney’s secretary as she left the courtroom Thursday following the doctor’s testimony. Holland was scheduled to re sume testimony at 9 a.m. today. Chelsea’s mother. Petti McClellan, previously testified she watched Jones giit daughter one injection, made the child flailwidel mamici of a seizure. Mtfl \ displ then said Jones gaveik .motliei shot that maded and i mecli; deadl agree Tz | day i Air I but al of dis jamin Soutl fessc reaso C Bruc was r ble, i “we ment Hi deuu the s go limp. The child died way to a San Antonio Jones, who has denied Chelsea anything bm routine shots for chudlmil eases, is charged in Kemil San Antonio with sevenlj of injury toachild.MIttel’ dim survived. Chelsea was taken toij nic on Aug. 24, 1982,shcn[ ter it opened and sufft first “seizure,” which *i agnosed as respirator) Holland said Jones re] bottle of Anectine mis9i;| Aug. 24. About nine days Chelsea’s death, Holland Jones told hershehadfi missing Ixmle, and it m the pediatrician discover# two needle holes in thetopi relaxant. Holland testified Jonei the only member from die staf f around Chelsea wkj had her two alleged set Earlier Thursday, an thesiologist testified jonesi her to lecture to a gn nurses about the proci and drugs involved in children before surgery Dr. Sheila Swartzmr pilots Unite “Th anest hesiologist at thelnr ch'H l ty of Texas Health Scientti ter in San Antonio, saidim lure to Jones and other included a descriptionot of the muscle relaxant sit TRUCK OWNERS' (a ‘‘shop&lot” just for you) We buy, sell, trade, and offer complete service on your pick-up including: •4 wheel drive •front end alignment •transmissions “one day service on most repairs” •brakes •overhauls •specialty work Pickups-Plus 512 W. Carson (across from Army Reserve) (409)775-6708 Icholine. She said she at the i ecjuest of Jones. Also Thursday, a p a d mitt e d u rider ci examination that she clu her opinion on the cam Chelsea’s death after County District attorne; Sutton told her the babyiR have been killed with a jection of succinylcholine |[ Dr. Kathleen Kagan Hif rvrrict nihilwfeU cone this hole nobc try v e gave thek® w jjj} of ones. surf; the new War It ii neuropathologist wtioHp at th amined the child’s brainft? lore ^ she believes the baby died^ 1 * j ori an injection of succinylcbWhich Kagan-Hallet said sliehF^Ai i traces of the drug in tissuf^ ew s ag the baby’s exumed body g .,^ ni Session I Registration: Feb. 7-8 If you want to be a part of MSC After Hours, fill out an application in Room 216 MSC before January 27 rr SHAPE UP FOR THE UPCOMING SUMMER MONTHS THE TAMU AEROBICS CLUB OFFERS DIVERSE SPRING EXERCISE PROGRAMMING (The Aerobics Club is Sponsored by the Health & Physical Education Department) THE FOLLOWING CLASSES WILL BE CONDUCTED FROM JANUARY 30 THRU APRIL 27, 1984: •NOON STRETCH/FLEX/TONE (MWF 12:05-12:50 p.m.) $20.00 •EVENING STRETCH/FLEX/ TONE (M thru Thurs 5:30-6:15 p.m.) $25.00 ►DYNAMIC CALISTHENICS (Tu Th 6:30-7:15 p.m.) $20.00 •BODY DYNAMICS (Fast-Paced Dancercise) (MW 6:30-7:15 p.m.) $20.00 EVENING AQUADYNAMICS (Aerobic swimming & separate water exercises) (MTuF 6-6:45 DOWNS INDOOR POOL) These structured fitness classes are geared to if prove cardiovascular fitness, tone and strengthen musculature, increase flexibility, and improve self] image. 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