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LETTERS _fFeedback Fraternity to help combat ALS disease The members of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity colony at the University of Waterloo are joining their fraternity brothers in a walk between Toronto and London Saturday, April 11 to bring attention to A.L.S. (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). ALS affects healthy people over 20 years of age and causes motor nerves of the body to wither and die. Life expecâ€" tancy is 2â€"3 years. The members of Phi Delta Theta are looking for sponsors so they can raise money for research into A.L.S. Contribuâ€" tions in the form of a cheque payable to Last week I suggested taking shoes off week I‘m going to suggest ‘we may be excessively pelvic tilting as we exercise and not extending our backs enough. The pelvic tilt. The be all and the end all of exercises, especially with women. Not a day passes after childbirth when the nurses aren‘t pushing the pelvic tilt. It‘s a simple, yet effective movement tilting the pelvic region forward, while pushing the lower back into the surface below it. Forming a tight fist in the abdominal area, this exercise can help to strengthen muscles and, particularly after childbirth, tone them as well. If you have been a participant in an exercise program you‘ll also be familiar with the pelvic tilt. You may have executed this movement lying on the floor, knees bent, with the small of the back pressed down. Or you may have done it standing while doing a weight bearing exercise, or against the wall. A local chiropractor, Dr. Ted Gaill, indicated to our group of potential fitness instructors that the pelvic tilt is indeed a beneficial exercise to strengthâ€" en the abdominal muscles and stretch the lower back, but prefers the exercise to be done lying down, reducing the gravity against the spine. (Gall did advocate an exercise similar to the standing pelvic tilt yet rather than tilt, he suggested a flattening of the lower back followed by moving away from the wall. This is done more for posture than strength.) Gall also expressed some concerns that we are zeroing in on only a portion of the back â€" the lower back â€" -l Kathy Hammond â€" megt ,:» ~‘ J s eiw * % C \ ."t s | C PP «ir ' | / . ‘ # ‘~‘ s | % > y 4 i u. %.. "I think so. It‘s something that could affect everybody and people should be educated about it," "~__| Fitness Forum Rob Jordan with our exercise precautions. The mid pougk o oi pulcen s baebagdes ons i ut s ned as well.. ; One exercise used for back strengthâ€" ening is one which involves hyperâ€"extenâ€" sion of the lower back. Lying on the floor on your stomach with hands behind your head, push your feet into the floor, squeeze your buttocks and raise your upper body off the floor and hold. I can just hear the screams of fitness leaders who have been telling their instructors to avoid this type of exercise at all cost! Avoid this method if you have any back trouble or if you detect pain upon executing this move. However, not everyone in an exercise class needs to be overâ€"cautious of their backs, particularly those who have good strong spines and back muscles: The only way to maintain the strength is by doing strength moves. Flexibility exerâ€" cises like the pelvic tilt are great for stretching but do not strengthen the spine. At a recent dance seminar I discovâ€" ered that a growing group of fitness leaders, after reviewing medical statisâ€" tics, are asking for a lessening of the pelvic tilt for every move performed in the course of a fitness class. Our bodies do not naturally move in a pelvic tilt position. Try it. Stand in a pelvic tilt position and try to walk maintaining the hold. Impossible for more than a few moments. Our natural stance includes a curvature of the spine. Strengthening that curvature rather than trying to get rid of it should be the goal. VON Board appreciated article "Run for A.LS."" (forwarded to Myra Rosenfeld, ALS Society, 573 Oriole Parkâ€" way, Toronto, Ontario, M4R 2B9 or to Ken Purdy, Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, 15 High St. Apt. #3, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3X4) would be greatly appreciated. On behalf of the Board of Directors of the VON, I would like to thank you for the _ For further information or to help this worthy endeavour, please call the underâ€" signed 746â€"7529. "I think they should. A lot of people don‘t believe it‘s as big a threat as it is," x Steve Poxon Ken Purdy Waterioo, Ont. Should advertisements warning people about the danger of AIDS be on television? article about the VON Jan. 21, 1987. . VON week and your continued interest in Rodney Gilchrist did a very fine job and the VON. we were pleased with his approach. â€" Lynne Roden There is an old African proverb that goes "Ukaipa tnmdzlvu nyimbo" (If your face lo'&'.. rn to sing). The folk of all pa::fe is full of such truth, The complexity of Western life, with its psychological tangles and contradictions and absurdities, needs these breaths of fresh air. If your face is ugly, learn to sing is the kind of advice that tells every boy and girl and every adult that there is just as much for him or her as there is for anybody else. It‘s a matter of building on one‘s strengths, instead of decrying and wailing over our weaknesses. . It has always been the tendency of the human being to mistake the obvious for the truth, to see only the surface, and miss entirely that which lies below. It seems that, in our age, we are concerned more with what a person, or a thing, looktsh like than what is really underâ€" neath. Unfortunately, this is something we learn from our undiscerning elders. The object lesson in Spielberg‘s "E.T." was that while the adults hated and feared the repulsive appearance of E.T., the children were not fazed by this and saw just another kid inside, one who was lost and away from home. And this superficial attitude is as absurd as that of the ancients, who held that the sun travelled around the earth because that is what it appeared to do. Whether it‘s an automobile, a home, a business or a person, that which makes it good, or even great, is always hidden from our view. Whatever causes anyâ€" thing in creation to be what it is, is that which we cannot see by looking at it. But we place importance on the ridiculous, how it appears to us, which, in the case of people, is the only thing We apbreciate your contributions to good for young people to see,"‘ No I don‘t think so. I doubt if it will help much and it might not be It will be an evening of enterâ€" tainment elegance for our six lucky winners from our Februâ€" ary Voluntary Paid subscription drawâ€"â€"each will receivedinner for two at Chances R restaurant and tickets to see Pump Boys and Dinette at UW Humanities Theatre. Winners are P. Dankowsky of Hemingway PI., A. Eton of Voluntary winners WATERLOO CHARONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1987 â€" over which we can exercise little or no control. Whatever our physique happens to look like is an accident, since we could not choose the bodybuild and appearâ€" ance of our parents and ancestors. But what we are and what we become, the structure and quality of our lives, the meaningfuiness, or lack of it, all this is in our hands, particularly after we have left the.parental nest. This is the sort of information that we should remind our children, and ourâ€" selves â€" that if they don‘t happen to look like the pictures in the ads in magazines and on television, it is the beauty of their personalities that will shine through all else. if their good looks are such that they find things coming easily to them, and they are admired and exclaimed over, and sought after for dates and dances, they need to be reminded, too. For they are vulnerable in that they may be deluded into thinking that they already have all that is necessary for a happy and rewarding life. They may not realize that what happens to us, whether we are happy or unhappy, successful or unsuccessful, all the years of our lives â€" particularly after the bright sheen of youth has fled â€" will depend on how well we build upon the 99 per cent that is invisible, until it finds outward expresâ€" sion in our countenance. As Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet: "God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." (Mr. Fellows is the founder of the Human Resource Development Instiâ€" tute, P.O. Box 642, Cambridge, NIR 5W1) Sandowne Dr., M. Minke of Sunnydale PIl. G. Rodych of Keats Way, L. Stockie of Oriole St. and W.D. Vetter of Parkwood Ct. Readers are reminded carriers will begin their March subscripâ€" tion collections beginning toâ€" night. Six winners will each receive a $50 voucher from M and M Meats. If they do happen to look like the ads, ‘‘Definitely. Anything as draâ€" matic as that should be publiâ€" cized. Especially for young peoâ€" ple," Lynne Roden Executive Director Waterioo ib