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Tired of waiting for treadmills at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC)? You’re going to have to wait a lot longer. Though a review is underway for the overcrowded, under-equipped athletic space, big changes are a long way away. By the time the University makes any real renovations, most of us who need a place to work out now will be long gone, retiring to trendy, fluorescent lit gyms run by overly creatine-ed young men in skimpy bike shorts and ripped muscle tanks. Yet where to work out in the short...
There are athletic facilities in every House, though they aren’t always adequate. Some houses, such as Leverett House, provide their residents with a good alternative to trudging over to the MAC with exercise bikes, treadmills and weight sets. I, however, recently stumbled upon the Winthrop House “gym,” which sadly consists of a forlorn and forgotten dumbbell in the corner of a basement used for student storage...
...MAC renovations will require large-scale planning, construction and inconveniences. For their part, Houses need to do more than maintain aging and unsatisfactory equipment in their athletic facilities. If they replace the rusted weights and gasping treadmills with some elliptical machines and multi-purpose weight benches, empty House gyms would no longer be so pathetic...
...Minutes Clare Kimmerle, 79, has gone without eating a Big Mac...
Just a few hours after late night party crawlers crash in bed, the varying breeds of health nuts vie for first dibs at MAC machinery. “You have to be waiting outside the door for a chance to get one of the machines,” says Kennedy School student Gloriana Echeverria. On early February mornings, it’s everyone for themselves. “It started to get bad this month,” says staff member Lisa Tingley. “People are getting ready for spring break and trying to keep New Year?...