Tuesday, October 18,1988
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Toning tables help patrons
lose extra inches, not weight
By Jodi Drake
Reporter
Inch by Inch Tan and Tone has
brought new meaning to the word “exer
cise.”
Inches, not weight, can be lost on ton
ing tables, receptionist Tracy Dean, a ju
nior physical education major, said.
Inch by Inch uses isometric toning ta
bles that are similar to Nautilus equip
ment, but they work in reverse, she said.
“With Nautilus, you do the pushing
and pulling, but on isometric tables, it
does the pushing and pulling and you re
sist,” Dean said. “And the more you put
into the machines by resisting, the more
you get out of them.”
The resistance-exercise concept was
developed in the 1940s by Dr. Bernard
Stauffer as a treatment for a polio-
stricken family member.
The treatment was used for polio vic
tims and those suffering from arthritis
and muscular diseases.
When inch reduction became evident
after treatment on the machines, Stauffer
opened “vanity salons” around the coun
try, she said.
The isometric toning tables help to
tone and firm the muscles — not build
them — by isolating and exercising all
the major muscle groups with 500 to
1,000 repetitions per table per session,
Dean said. The exercises also help to
break down cellulite.
Dean said that customers are invited to
come in for free four-minute demonstra
tions on all seven exercise tables. Cus
tomers who decide to start the program
are measured (around the waist, abdo
men, bust, upper and lower thighs, and
arms) and goals are set for them accord
ing to a height/weight chart.
“At first, we want them to come in
about two or three times a week,” she
said. “One session of eight minutes on
each of the seven different machines
equals one hour of calisthenics.”
The table names are: the leg-lift table,
stretch table, sand bag table, leg table,
circulation table; waist, tummy and hip
table and side bend table.
“After the seventh visit, we measure
them again to see if any inches have been
lost,” Dean said. “Everybody I’ve mea
sured is losing inches and they keep
coming back. One lady has lost seven
(inches).”
After the customers’ goals are
achieved, they can cut down the number
of visits and just maintain what they’ve
lost, she said.
Dean said that much of Inch by Inch’s
clientele is in the 30-45 age group, but
that more college students are beginning
to try the exercises.
“It’s a great place for people to come
that don’t enjoy running or can’t (run),”
Dean said. “It’s a nice, quiet, relaxing at
mosphere.”
One toning session costs $8.
A&M engineers make
concrete racing canoes
By Jeffrey L. Jones
Reporter
Everyone knows concrete cannot float, right? However,
Dale Roberts and the Texas A&M concrete canoe team do not
subscribe to that belief.
Roberts, a senior civil engineering major, is chairman of
the team that not only builds concrete canoes, but races them
at least twice a year.
“The military has many multi-ton battleships that float,”
Roberts said. “So, why shouldn’t a concrete canoe float?”
It’s not a matter of weight, but how much water the boat
can displace, Roberts said.
The canoes are built with cement that has been mixed to a
specific weight and formed into a canoe shape. Each canoe
costs about $200 and is funded by the American Society of
Civil Engineers.
After the canoes have been constructed, they are tested to
ensure they will float. If the canoes do not float well enough,
Roberts said, foam may be added to make them more buoy
ant.
Many schools around the state make and race the concrete
canoes.
“We compete with other schools like the University of
Texas, University of Houston, Texas Tech,” Roberts said.
“Almost any school with a civil engineering department and a
registered chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers
has a concrete canoe team.”
Roberts said the team participates in one official competi
tion each semester. Texas teams met for the fall competition
earlier this month in Bryan. The women’s team finished in
first place. The men’s and the coed team finished third in their
competitions.
Roberts said the canoes are judged on appearance, a con
struction report and the race.
“The fall competition is like a warm-up for the spring,”
Roberts said. “In the spring the first place winner of the Texas
section goes on to a national competition sponsored by Mas-
terbuild Corporation.”
Roberts said that the winners of the national competition
win a $5,000 scholarship for their school. The second place
wins $2,500 and third place wins $1,500.
The races are for two-person teams. In the Texas competi
tion, the teams race less than one-half of a mile, Roberts said.
He said the national competition consists of a sprint race
with obstacles and a separate distance race.
In addition to the official races, the teams can participate in
open competitions like this summer’s “Anything Can Float”
contest.
The team has about 30 members, all of whom are civil engi
neering majors and ASCE (American Society of Civil Engi
neers) members, Roberts said.
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Cadet escort service
helps protect women
By Patti Easterling
Reporter
Providing escorts for Texas A&M
women has been a long-standing tradi
tion of the Corps of Cadets.
With an increasing number of escorts
being requested, the Guard Room escort
service has asked junior and senior mem
bers of the Corps to volunteer their time
when additional escorts are needed.
According to Steve Robertson, a se
nior aerospace engineering major from
Houston and Corps operations officer,
the program was established to help meet
the increasing demand for escorts.
“The demand for escorts has in
creased, mostly out of concern for the in
creasing number of rapes,” Robertson
said.
The program is limited to junior and
senior members of the Corps primarily to
give the underclassmen more time to
study, he said.
Robertson said volunteers submit their
name and telephone number and the list
is kept in the Guard Room.
Members of the Corps working in the
Guard Room refer to the list when addi-
“The demand for escorts
has increased, mostly out
of concern for the in
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pes.”
— Steve Robertson
tional escorts are needed.
“Since it works on a voluntary basis,
we have had only good responses be
cause these are the people that want to do
it,” Robertson said.
People who are currently using the es
cort service should not notice a change in
the system.
“The guys still wear uniforms so that
they can be easily identified and hope
fully the only change will be that the es
corts will be more readily available,”
Robertson said.
John Calahan, a senior agricultural
economics major from Nacogdoches and
commander of Company B-2, said that
adding more volunteers was a much-
needed addition to the escort service.
“I think it’s a good idea because when
my company was working the Guard
Room, we spent the majority of the time
running escorts when we also had a lot of
other things to do,” he said.
“When the Guard Room is completely
staffed it only has five people who have
to answer the phone, make sure all the
doors are locked, run the escort service
and still do other things,” Calahan said.
“It was just too much for five people to
handle.”
Students who use the escort service
say that they also think the additional es
corts will be beneficial.
Becky Carwile, a junior secondary ed
ucation major from Houston, said the es
cort service is impressive.
“These guys are volunteering their
own time and that shows that they’re
really concerned about us,” Carwile
said. “That says a lot about the Corps
and about Aggie spirit.”
The Guard Room operates the escort
service 24 hours a day, seven days a
week and can be reached at 260-6471.
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Kidnapping spree ends
with Texas man’s death
EUFAULA, Okla. (AP) — Jailers de
livering breakfast to prisoners Monday
found a Texas man, arrested in a kidnap
ping spree, dead in his cell, McIntosh
County Sheriff Bobby Gray said.
Oklahoma authorities arrested Harvey
Dale Webb, 41, of Balch Springs,
Texas, and his sister, Joyce Webb, Sun
day night on aggravated robbery and ag
gravated kidnapping warrants from
Texas.
Police say the two kidnapped four
people during a 32-hour crime spree in
three Dallas suburbs. One of the kidnap
| victims was released Sunday night after
having been held for 27 hours.
Gray said Webb hanged himself with
his socks tied to cell bars. An investiga
tion of the death continued Monday af
ternoon. Gray said Webb’s body would
be sent to the state medical examiner’s
I office in Tulsa for an autopsy.
Gray said his officers had no reason to
jbelieve when they jailed Webb in a cell
)y himself that he would kill himself.
on charges against Joyce Webb, who is
from Ward, Ark. He said she probably
would go before a judge in McIntosh
County on Tuesday.
Police in the Texas cities of Garland
and Plano named Webb and his sister in
warrants on aggravated robbery and ag
gravated kidnapping charges. Richard
son police issued a warrant against the
two on an aggravated kidnapping charge.
Police said Sunday that Webb was on
parole for aggravated kidnapping.
Jason May, 20, of Duncanville, was
abducted at a Richardson park Saturday
afternoon and held for 27 hours. May
was freed unharmed when police ar
rested the Webbs on a highway in rural
eastern Oklahoma.
Police said they think the crime spree
began around noon Saturday in Garland.
A Garland woman and her child were ab
ducted from a car wash, and the victim’s
car was taken. The mother and child
were freed unharmed just outside of Gar
land, police said.
Next, a woman was kidnapped and
robbed at gunpoint at a Plano shopping
center, police said.
“I don’t know what happened,
whether something went wrong during
the robbery or they got spooked, but they
forced the woman into her car and drove
off,” Capt. Larry Zacharias of the Rich
ardson Police Department said.
The abductors drove to a Richardson
park, where they told the woman to lie
down in the car and keep quiet, Zacha
rias said. They left the car, and came
upon May, who was reading a book in
his car.
May was waiting for his girlfriend,
who lives near the park, when he was ab
ducted, police said.
McIntosh County sheriff’s deputies
and Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers
arrested the brother and sister a short
time after a gas station attendent, who
had been alerted by police to watch for
May’s credit card number, notified po
lice that the two had used May’s gas
credit card.
Police said the FBI traced the second
of two calls May placed Sunday to his fa
ther to a phone outside Henryetta, Okla.
May had called earlier to say he was
going out of town on a trip and would be
home soon, police said.
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