Wednesday, January 29, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5
ewA&M lab will help
assessing level of fat
f By SARA STEPHENS
Reporter
k'our body overfat, or is it over-
There is a difference be-
the two, and one of the pur-
l of the opening of a new
lological laboratory at Texas
is to explain that difference to
ulty and students, says Dr. Steve
Jse, director of the new lab and
jrdinator of an undergraduate
"^"^■ise program at A&M.
\ J i\ ■ l ocatef i at south end
WV lle Field, will not be completed
l/sj® least six months, but its pur-
■ and goals have already been
;erniined, he says.
? ) “1 see it developing into a two-
»ed approach,” Crouse says.
j§>c ; He first approach, he says, will
to physically assess faculty and
. - .^idejnts,
V/wTBis will include treadmill stress
is. assessment of body fat through
■rwater weighing, flexibility
ts, and measurement of choles-
wOCW nc ^ blood fat, he says.
■e’ll be doing that in the context
'GL£fc: ‘'[health and fitness program,”
^^ksesays.
Ty ^ ''I s preventive medicine, it you
- r - nt io think about it like that,” he
Although the lab is not yet com
pleted, some of these testing pro
grams are currently underway and
available for those interested.
The second aspect of the lab is
what Crouse terms “sport perfor
mance or exercise physiology” as it
pertains to athletics.
“We see ourselves developing a
very close working relationship with
“A 250-pound football
player may not be overfat
at all, but he may certainly
be overweight, in terms of
a height/weight ratio.”
— Dr. Steve Crouse, di
rector of the new lab.
the A&M athletic
Crouse says.
community.
Under this function, the lab will
assist coaches by assessing the ath
letes in terms of strength and fitness,
maximum oxygen intake, endur
ance, and underwater body compo
sition through hydrostatic weighing,
Crouse says.
Hydrostatic weighing is the proc
ess by which a person’s body fat is
measured, he says.
“A 250-pound football player may
not be overfat at all, but he may cer
tainly be overweight, in terms of a
height/weight ratio,” Crouse says.
Crouse says the recommended
percentage of body fat for the gen
eral population is around 15 percent
for males and 18-22 percent for fe
males.
Another unique asset to the new
laboratory is the construction of an
environmental chamber.
This is a room in which tempera
ture and humidity can be controlled
on a wide range.
Crouse says the chamber will be
able to test an athlete’s performance
in varying degrees of temperature
and humidity.
The lab also will allow health and
physical education students to per
form new kinds of research, he says.
Essentially, researchers will be
studying how exercise can influence
cardiovascular risk factors, how
body weight can be changed with
exercise, and the effects of different
diets on the body’s cholesterol and
liquid protein content, he says.
“We’ll be doing research of an ap
plied nature that will benefit both
the Texas A&M community and the
athletic community,” Crouse says.
technician says nude scene
p tape not legislator’s fault
Associated Press
AIRD — A state technician says
||<' scene attached to the end of a
aped program on drug abuse
lot the fault of the lawmaker
rovided the tape to a surprised
chool audience.
lie scene depicting a nude cou-
|i bed was inadvertently at-
Id to a taped drug program sent
Ite Rep. Rick Perry, D-Haskell,
e 26 schools in his district,
ciscovery Monday prompted
to recall all the tapes.
|mmy Varner, an assistant
I at Baird High School, said he
felling his freshman health class
[would be on a test when the
flashed on the screen 30 sec-
[after the drug awareness pro-
ended.
II of them were bug-eyed and
ing up there,” he said. “There
JiimnN
were these two people in bed. I
turned the machine off and tried to
drop it and go on.
“It wasn’t easy with 30 kids chuck
ling and giggling,” he said.
Dusty Garrison, Perry’s legislative
aide, said the 45-minute drug tape
features noted toxicologist Dr.
Harry Edwards discussing his expe
riences in dealing with drug abusers
and rehabilitation.
Garrison said Perry saw the tape
— without the added attraction —
and wanted schools in his district to
benefit from the “excellent pro
gram.”
After giving 30 blank tapes to the
House Technical Services depart
ment to be duplicated. Perry sent
copies to schools in Callahan, Has
kell, Throckmorton, Young, Shack
elford, Stephens, Palo Pinto and
Hood counties.
Mike Fickel, director of House
Technical Services, said the nude
scene was from his personal copy of
a movie.
“The scene is from the movie
T984,’ which we used by mistake,”
Fickel said in Austin. “We used it to
tape his (Perry’s) master of the drug
abuse program.
“It was very unfortunate because
Rick Perry is the injured party and
he had nothing to do with this at all,”
Fickelsaid.
Perry said he was shocked to learn
of the scene on the tape he sent to
Baird High School. After checking
his copy and finding the same scene,
Perry said he was convinced all 26
copies had the “embarrassing” scene
and he asked that all copies be re
turned.
“We were doing it for public serv
ice, and it backfired on us to a de
gree,” he said. “We were trying to
help kids with drug problems, and
now it’s totally ineffective with this
five-second skin shot.”
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