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Although it took three years to get it started we
are glad the jogging trail is finally becoming a
reality.
The population of the United States is now more
sedentary than any population in history due to the
substitution of machines for man power to do
most of its labor.
According to the proposal for the jogging trail
that was submitted to the College's Board of Edu
cation, recent physiological evidence indicates that
for the average American, middle age begins at 26.
However, continued the report, persons who
have exercised habitually over the years are func
tionally equivalent to a much younger group.
Nearly all medical men now agree that a regular
program of exercise continued throughout life, is
an important factor in retarding the development
of cardiovascular disease.
It is laudable that the College has seen fit to
provide the community with a safe, interesting
and versatile place in which to carry on much
needed exercise programs.
Our one concern is that it took so long to do it.
Even after everyone agreed, it was nearly two
years before plans became a reality and even now
construction hasn't begun.
How long will it take for the trail to be
completed? If it takes another three years for the
exercise stations to be funded and more time for
them to be built then many of those students
who could have benefited will have left this
institution.
If the college is going to provide leadership in
promoting physical fitness then it should not be so
slow to do it.
Although $13,500 seems like a lot of money to
those of us who don't make that in a year it isn't
too great a price to pay for physical fitness.
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SICM to eliminate energy pigs
Editor's note: This article was
an editorial in the Feb. 7 issue
of the Daily Barometer, the stu
dent newspaper at Oregon State
University in Corvallis.
You may know an energy pig.
In fact, you may know several
or several hundred energy pigs
because they're everywhere, gob
bling up
the world's energy
supplies.
Energy pigs are easy to spot.
It may be your roommate who
always "forgets" to turn off the
lights, or maybe it's the next
door-neighbor who gets a charge
out of driving up and down steep
hills in his heavy-duty, souped-up
four-wheel-drive pickup.
If you know this breed of
human, then you might be re-
lieved to find out there is a
group of people interested in
eliminating energy pigs.
The
group is formally entitled the
Self-Initiated Conservation Move
ment, but members prefer to use
the acronym SICM (pronounced
"sick 'em").
Through a campaign of per
sonal contact and mailings to
producers,
directors, writers,
composers, performers and ag
ents, SICM hopes to persuade
opinion leaders in the entertain
ment industry that energy is a
real problem. Members of the
group also hope that awareness
of energy conservation will be
incorporated into soap opei
movies, radio programs andJp
ular songs.
Americans, in genera si
find talk of an energy cr
hard to believe because gasol
still costs less than a buck land
appliances still work | wh
they're plugged in.
This is why a campaign id’
entertainment
industry«
work.
Television, radio and the cl
ema have tremendous ability!
influencing the masses. IfenT
conservatism is portrayed as bi
ing fashionable, then we migh
see some real self-initiated Al
¡can conservatism. R.S. I
Clackamas Community!