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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Wednesday, January Page Two Slime may help Olympics suffer from myths about women, director says by Shauna Bona Staff writer Female participation in the Olympic games has been steadily increasing sine World War II. But University of Utah Professor O.K. Hunter sap sexual discrimination and myths about women athletes still exist. During a Sack Lunch Seminar at the Women's Resource Center Tuesday, Hunter told a small audience that the history of the Olympic games is full of discrimination against female athletes. For instance, when Baron de Coubertain of France reinstated the Olympic games in 1896, he modeled them after ancient games which did not allow female participants. Hunter said Coubertain did not like women in athletics, or in any other role. As a result, he vehemently opposed competitive participation by females while serving 25 years as the first president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). "To Coubertain, the purpose of the Olympics was for the exhaltation of the male athlete, with female applause as the reward for male performance,,, Hunter said. The Olympic code established under Coubertain contained a statement preventing racial, religious, or political discrimination, but did not include protection against sexual discrimination. To this day, the code has never been altered to protect the rights of female athletes, Hunter said. Another problem is that women aren't represented on the IOC Hunter said the committee, which is made up of one representative from each participating country, is Soaps are a lunch-hou- responsible for determining the role of women in the Olympics but no woman has ever been chosen as a member. Hunter said Olympic discrimination also stems from the fact that people in different parts of the world view women differently. "Women aren't accepted in competition by some cultures and are desired in competition by others," he said. Opportunities for women athletes have also been limited by the myths of society and medicine. Hunter said that throughout the years people have contended that athletic activity .would cause women to lose their femininity and prevent them from fulfilling their roles as wives and mothers. Others argued that because the Olympic games were modeled after combat, men were inherently prepared for participation in them while women were not, he said. People continue to argue that strenuous activity is dangerous for women, but Hunter, who directs graduate education in the U. health educationis department, said research shows that just the opposite true. answers for Hunter says he doesn't have any clear-cfemale available the to Olympic opportunities improving athletes, but he does offer some suggestions to the IOC: ut The committee should examine the influences of Coubertain, review and rewrite the Olympic code, and examine the reasons why no women have been committee members, Hunter said. Hunter says that female athletes have been aided in recent years by federal legislation and increased money, time and coaching. Although myths about women athletes continue, he says they are being overcome. staple at U. r from page one academy, was in the hall daydreaming of Felicia. Rick was having his own crisis as he was short on nurses and a flu epidemic was upon them. During the commercial break, an anthropology freshman, Katherinc Limb, said she didn't know what was going on. "It's the only one I watch," she said. "But I watch it off and on." A computer science sophomore, who asked to be nameless because his friends would never let him live it down, he said he has been watching for about two months. " I like them all pretty much," he said, "and I can either watch them or not." Some people, he continued, are here every day fighting for seats. For people who are just as interested in daytime drama as the stalwart viewers, but really don't have time to tune in, there is an alternative. is a soap opera update service where a voice woman's comes through the receiver and in dramatic Dial-A-So- ap tones describes the most recent happenings. Every soap opera shown in the Salt Lake City area has its own access number and can be reached by calling ... J) 1 Xstnce y .. ,IJ CHART YOUR COURSE FOB A II 1947 I 15, 19S6 Or1). II 1 M J. OF SAVINGS! scientists discover secret of the cell Despite a recent knowledge explosion in molecular and developmental biology, the answer to a fundamental does diversity of cells, question still eludes scientists. How different 100 some types in human beings, encompassing emerge from just a single cell? creature Within the next decade, analysis of a a slime mold discoideum called Dicryolstelium may from result Such the may clues. insights provide said of Hans biological systems, mathematical modeling G. Othmer, professor of mathematics at the University of one-cell- ed Utah. . Slime molds each about the size of a white blood amoeba whose cell begin life as a solitary, single-celle- d divide. and is Slightly higher on the only function to eat evolutionary scale than the bacteria it eats, the slime mold undergoes remarkable changes when its food supply vanishes. With survival threatened, they stream toward one another, collect together and form a clump resembling a slug. After a period of migration, the "slug" forms a sulk that supports a ball of spores. Each contains one cell. When environmental conditions improve, chance encounters with insects or the w ind break open the pore and the cycle begins anew. "In going from an isolated cell to a socialized collection, intermediate processes take place that are very similar to occurrences in higher organisms," said Othmer. "From experimental and theoretical standpoints, this is a model system for biological development." Human beings, for example, develop from one cell that divides into millions. And roughly 100 different types of cells, such as skin, hair or bone, make up the body, he said. How such diversity derives from a single cell is a perplexing question. Biologists, biochemists and geneticists work with living systems. But to mathematicians this is a theoretical problem. They use equations to describe cell behavior and to analyze intrinsic mechanisms that form and regulate patterns in collections of cells. "Mathematical models extract essential features in a system and ignore the rest," said Othmer. "This allows you to see whether you understand the whole behavior from a select group of features." Mathematics is a code language, a shorthand that allows the mind to comprehend important points without getting bogged down in frills, he said. The language is precise, so it conveys much information in a compact form. The art is to decide what's important and what can be ignored. 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