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Exercising in hot, muggy weather is ill-advised. It could lead to heat exhaus- tion or heat stroke, and subsequently, to death. Heat exhaustion, the result of exercis- ing in hot, humid weather (specifically for the unfit or aggressive athlete) can he diagnosed from a long list of' symptoms. Nausea, fatigue, heart palpi- tations, breathlessness, blurring vision, dizziness, chills or goose bumps, profuse sweating, rapid pulse, low blood pres- sure and stupor or shock are among the most common. Put together in a long list like this, heat exhaustion looks like serious busi- ness. However. many people ignore the early warning symptoms such as the breathlessness and profuse sweating as being problems associated with exercise itself. This may be true if you have been sedentary for awhile and are getting back into shape. If however, you experience these symptoms on a hot, muggy day, it would be best to get out of the sun. and rest with a few glasses of cold water. If this is not done, and it is heat exhaustion, rather than over-exercising, heat stroke could result. Eighty percent of the people who suffer heat stroke die, The rest usually suffer permanent damage. Heat stroke can be more easily identified by rapid, weak and diminish- ing pulse. mental confusion or anger, and even a snoring sound while breath- ing, along with the symptoms listed for f if by TWMilatt; 2rsergtigztideCrtW. (7nmiNer, soeller Wig/avg "iF2jir, are e+ avtrueitt, zaosepzsreg tttti J'esteystt2) sfrachmsiitrteS 1/ yaw may? magi” my /t;pi; 2sr1aetsetfcii"str,>sesarur"'a'se'r 'erferisl, _ Fitness Forum Kathy Hammond Fitness Instructor Peter Etril Snyder 'l heat exhaustion. This happens as a result of overheating your body, without a means to cool it down effectively. Your body tries to get rid of excess heat by sweating. However, if the air is already saturat- ed with water vapor, it won't be able to absorb enough of your sweat to cool your skin down. Your heart will pump faster and harder in an attempt to carry more blood to the skin for cooling. You will sweat profusely, and lose so much water your blood will become concentrated. Your heart will become strained and your tissues and internal organs will not receive proper nourishment. The heavy sweating will deprive your body of so much water, it will not be able to get rid of the wastes your muscles churn out while exercising. Your internal temper- ature will rise, cooking your heart and your brain, which unfortunately cannot be "uncooked". In order to avoid heat exhaustion or heat stroke you should be fit and acclimatized to the outdoor weather as early as spring. You should also realize that a balmy, mild day can be dangerous considering other factors; I. Add 10-20 degrees to the air temperature if the humidity is high. 2. Add another I0-20 degrees if the sky is bright and cloud, less. 3. Add another rio degrees if there is no wind to evaporate the sweat from your skin. Therefore a calm, bright, humid 70 degree day has an effective temperature of at least 95 degrees. _ v“ 'e/,7,'7, nd a. TEiiEiiiEEE St. Mary's workers crying foul As employees oi St, Mary's General Hospital we feel we must try to make the public aware pl the length ol time it takes us to acquire contracts and especially an increase in pay The service employees here have been without a contract since January 1.9trt The full-time clerical have been without a contract since June 19M. The part-tinte clerical became a cor tified unit on December 23, 19tl2, In July was Ken P Swan, an arbitrator for the labor board handed down his award. The hospital has chosen to take Fiwan's award to a higher judicial court. This will mean still no raises or benefits tor this unit and will cost the hospital thousands of dollars in legal costs. This money could easily be put towards salaries Meanwhile manage ment refuses to negotiate the next contract and our people go without. Every year our government allots the hospital a sum of money. A portion of this is usually spent on salaries. The money the government allotted for 1984 and 1985 has not yet reached our pockets but is most certainly earning interest for the hospital. I'm sure management at St. Mary's has received their raises for ISM and 1985. As hospital staff we are unable to strike and if negotiations fail we are compelled by law to go to binding arbitration. This process is far too lengthy and our oeople would like to see time limits applied to this process. Like most other people, I don't always appreciate getting advice that isn't asked for. For instance. if my golf game has gone sour, I don't want to hear from a guy who shoots 109 what is wrong with my swing. And if I'm having a bad day at the office, I don't need someone to say I need to relax a bit. that troubles aren't ever as bad as they appear to be. If they weren't, I wouldn’t be having a bad day... But every so often, a piece of unsorr. cited advice can often go a long way and I hope that's the case right here because I'm going to offer some, and I hope the merchants of Uptown Waterloo are lis- tening. In less than two weeks, the campuses of our two universities and Conestoga College Waterloo will be spilling over with fresh new faces. faces that have never seen our city before and are liable to react according to first impressions. And those fresh new faces, when they aren't buying books in the bookstore, attending frosh events and making new friends, will be out exploring our city, checking out the sights and sounds, and - speiiding money. My advice to Uptown Waterloo? Be ready, with open arms. I remember well the first few days of my university career some - say it isn't so - dozen years ago. Within the first week, I had l) bought magazines at Art's Recreation; 2) bought breakfast at the site of the old Garden restaurant; 3) taken my parents to dinner (nah, they took me) to the old Longhorn restaurant at Waterloo Square: 4) gone with my roommate to purchase some goods at Ontario Seed; 5) attended a show at Waterloo Theatre; and of course, 6) visited every bar the core had to offer. I am a strong supporter of our Uptown Core, though l admit at times its actions leave me somewhat bewildered. In my opinion. and here it is even if you didn't ask for it, far too many of the traditional stores in Uptown rest too much on their laurels, don't make enough of an at tempt to lure these new consumers, or worse. don't view them a viable entity. And runnersely. some of the newer stores. without getting into any names, appear too fly bymightish. too hapha, ard in their' approach. Whether those are fair or unfair profiles, I feel the situation remains the same today as it did a couple years ago when a WLU' study revealed merchants We are appealing to the general public to WATERLOO CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21. 1985 - PAGE , Rick Campbell Fresh faces Chronicle Editor should make a more conscientious effort to tap the valuable student market. I offer this statement constructively, be- cause I'd like nothing better than to see our core grow in popularity and profile. The ingredients are there, a mail, a traditional main drag, free parking, a blossoming boutique strip. But the call still has to be put out to not only make fresh faces aware of what Uptown has to offer, but to out-and-out encourage that paths be beaten to downtown doors. The Uptown BIA, as it usually does, has encouraged the trend for several years now by distributing student grab bags offering couple discounts, small useable student-related items, and more intangibly. a goodwill gesture. Other suggestions? Sure. Why not plan and publicize a walking tour/picnic each September for university students, held concurrently with super one-day sales. Put up signs in windows welcoming students to Waterloo. Hold special (and meaningful) sales, geared to the univer- sity (card-carrying) crowd. Sponsor token prizes at fund-raising or campus- sponsored events. Welcome with open arms the shoe-shining Shinerama types who set up shop just outside your door. Continue your commitment to aid uni- versity fundraising, as a gesture of faith, in hopes that students will recipro- cate. Keep in mind, please. this advice is offered neither blindly nor naively. I am well aware that in the past, a few/some/ many merchants have been burned by students writing bad cheques, shoplift- ing, or causing disturbances. But I have to believe that those cases are increas- ingly insignificant in view of the poten- tial market the university population comprises. Students today are much more discriminating in their tastes, moderate in behaviour and affluent of pocketbook than they were even a dozen years ago. and merchants would be doing both themselves and the fresh faces a grave disservice by perpetuating outdated Animal-House stereotypes of students. If I'm wrong about all this. write me a letter telling me to chase a cat until it sweats. But if I'm right, please accept the adCice tree of charge as a mmmuni ty spirited gesture. The fresh faces are coming in less than two weeks It's neither too soon, nor too late. to get ready for them write letters and make phone calls to your member of parliament, We need some support in gaining back wages and bene fits, As the hospital appeals to you for help with their building fund. we also appeal to you for help in obtaining better working conditions, Barb Schippanoslti Brenda Rehkopt Kitchener. Ont. Bill Smiley's comments crass Unbelievable'. In a recent column "fitalvmatv" (Wednesday. Aug. It) Bill Smiley provid cd us with this unbelievable quote “Spo cial Education is educational jargon for teaching stupid kids." Since I "assume" Mr. Smiley wishes to write accurately and honestly. I will provide him with the Ministry of Edura, tion definition for which students are considered for a special education pro- gram: "pupils who have behavioural. communicational. intellectual (including the intellectually gifted). physical or multiple exceptilmalities." How Mr. Smimy can equate a child with a physical excepiionality with the term "stupid," for instance. is totally beyond belief. Mr. Smiley owes a public apology to all those children in our province who benefit from special education programs in our schools. Yes, these children do have various exceptionalities. but they certain- ly are not "stupid." G. Sulllvan Waterloo. Ont.