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...Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) is a virtual Mecca for athletes and fitness gurus alike—Harvard’s Adonis-like men, health-conscious freshman girls and many in between are regular patrons of the MAC??s multiple weight rooms and coveted “Cardio Room.” But when demand for fitness equipment far exceeds the building’s supply, Harvard students can get a little too competitive...
Those who have visited the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) recently have seen that Harvard’s commitment to the majority of athletics-minded undergraduates is sorely lacking. Walking through the MAC??s doors, one enters a crowded, antiquated space that often has the ambiance of a dungeon. Students who want to use the “cardio room”—lined with treadmills, elliptical machines and bikes—find themselves cramming into a sweaty sardine-box where they often face lines of an hour or more. The present design hinders spontaneous, between-classes...
Students’ alternatives to the MAC are no better. Those deterred by the MAC??s dingy environment and chronic overcrowding might take their pick of House gyms, if they were not in a state of such disrepair—some with squash courts that accommodate a form of the sport that is only of interest to historians. Quadlings, and others willing to make the trip, might prefer the tiny, dilapidated Quadrangle Recreational and Athletic Center, if it were not so poorly equipped...
...shoes, one of the more universal, though apparently needless, trappings of modern life. Teddy has become somewhat of a spectacle to many on campus as he walks from his room in Kirkland to class, takes his meals in the dining hall and even works out at the MAC??all without shoes...
Knowles originally commissioned the space analysis and report last year amid unanimous agreement among students and College administrators that the MAC??s facilities were inadequate...