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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1976)
Foot stress study: Joints and ligaments get close check by PE professors in a special project By SUSAN SCHLANGEN Of the Emerald A skier or jogger hobbling around campus is hardly an un familiar sight nowadays. If you are one of these people, you may be nefit from current research being conducted at the University on foot stress injury. Two University assistant pro fessors of physical education, Louis Ostemig and Barry Bates, are working with adjunct professor Stanley James, M.D. and Donald Slocum, M.D., of the Eugene Or thopedic and Fracture Clinic, on lower extremity injuries. Even if you are not one of Eugene s many injured recreationalists, you're still included." We re concerned about the population in general," Bates says. The University's physical edu cation department was recently awarded $60,000 by the North west Area Foundation of St. Paul, Minn., to continue research on foot stress injury. One of the main purposes of the study is to de velop dynamic objective tests for the evaluation of joint function dur ing normal and abnormal walking and running. Areas of study include running gait analysis, cruciate ligament repair, muscle function and func tional rehabilitative techniques. Bates is interested in "how these things may or may not attribute to problems individuals are having in lower extremities." The study integrates medical and experimental technology, biomechanics, sports medicine and adaptive corrective physical education. Bates and Osternig consider the interdependence be tween medicine and the develop ment cf objective experiments an asset to the research. The team is pleased because until now most of this type of research has been directed toward foot stress injury under normal walking conditions rather than the more complex and diverse injuries of lower ex tremities. "We’ve been talking about it for years but nothing has been done,” Bates explains. Bates and Ostemig are now in the process of completing exten sive film used to identify specific areas of stress in the leg. Over 40 subjects have participated in the study. Ostemig, who advises all the University’s pre-physical therapy students, works closely with the clinic. He is especially interested in the clinic's experiments with artificial ligaments and the func tional capabilities of ligaments be fore and after surgery. Since the study lasts until June 1978, the team hopes their work will open and expand other areas of research. "Ultimately we'd like to further develop a biomechanic sports medicine lab for teaching purposes, student research and the continuance of our research," Osternig says. Suds may not flow on campus By KATHRYN SLADE Of the Emerald The controversial proposal for a tavern in the EMU appears to have a cfoudy future, in light of the ASUO's altered stance and the administration’s unwillingness to "push beer on campus. Jamie Burns, ASUO vice president, summed up the present ASUO attitude towards the prop osal: “We haven't determined our specific goals yet. But it's safe to assume the tavern proposal will be one goal of the ASUO because of the finandal benefits it offers." Gerald Bogen, University vice pres. for student services, and the administrator who first reviews such proposals, said, "I do not mourn the possibility I will never see it." At the height of its momentum last year, the proposal created widespread student interest arid enthusiasm. However, the ASUO, then headed by Jim Bemau, en countered opposition from Uni versity Pres. Boyd early in the year regarding the proposal. ASUO responded by expending considerable amounts of time and student funds to prove to Boyd an EMU tavern could benefit the campus community. The ASUO hired, for a fee of $500, a consulting firm composed of University graduate business students, which conducted a feasibility study of the proposal. That study, based on four Eugene taverns, indicated an EMU tavern operated either by students or an PSU students explore tavern A student committee at Port land State University (PSU) will investigate the possibility of es tablishing an on-campus tavern in the Smith Memorial Center, says ASPSU Pres. Craig Nichols. There are currently no taverns on any of the state operated campuses, although students at Oregon State and the University (see accom panying story) have proposed such operations. PSU Pres. Joseph Blumel said he will consider the idea, but is not convinced of any real need for such an establish ment because of the availabil ity of beer and wine near the PSU campus. outside firm would definitely be profitable. The ASUO also conducted information-gathering surveys with University faculty and outside businesspersons, and set a team of ASUO officials on a tour of col leges with on-campus taverns to evaluate the relative successs of these operations. “By last winter, we had done all the research," explained Jim Rtz henry, chairer of the ASUO Ad Hoc Tavern Committee. “All that remained was for a proposal to be written up.” But the proposal was never writ ten. In explanation, Jim Bemau in formed the Emerald last week that the Ad-Hoc Tavern Committee met with Boyd near the end of the winter term. By the meeting’s end, Bemau said, it was clear Boyd remained unconvinced of the proposal's merits. "There was no reason to send it over just to get a ‘no’.’’ Bemau continued. “We thought it best to wait for a better climate.” Accordingly, the ASUO shelved the proposal and decided to de vote the remainder of the school year and dwindling funds to issues showing a greater likelihood of success. 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