Word: qrac
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard College administration’s recent announcements of their decisions to make major structural and usage changes in the Quad Recreational and Athletic Center (QRAC) and Hilles Library have been met with strong resistance from Quad students who fear that they will essentially lose these important resources...
...with respect to the proposed location of the dance space, the underutilization of the QRAC’s weights and cardiovascular equipment is simply not germane. Teeming with flawed logic, the administration’s argument also ignores that the QRAC area most heavily utilized by students—the basketball courts—is the area that will be reduced by the renovation...
...QRAC is only underutilized because the College has invested too little in its upkeep. Out of date exercise machines make the QRAC’s lower floor resemble more of a torture chamber than a modern weight room. This state of disrepair has forced most of the exercise traffic on the Quad to the House gyms, which, though not particularly well funded, are superior to the QRAC in quality...
...College owes it to Quad residents, now more than ever, to improve the space available for recreational athletics. First, the College should provide money for the improvement of the House gyms and for new equipment for the renovated QRAC. Second, the College should ask the Law School to extend the hours of Hemenway Gymnasium, especially during the projected two-year period during which at least a part of the QRAC will be closed for renovations. Third, student involvement in creating the vision for the redesigned QRAC is necessary and admirable, but Quad residents—not just dancers?...
Harvard’s dance programs desperately need space in the QRAC. However, Quad residents, who do not have easy access to the facilities at the Malkin Athletic Center, also deserve decent facilities for individual and team athletics that can be used throughout the long, Cambridge winter. Because of the College’s failures, one of these can no longer be achieved, and no amount of spin on the College’s part can change that...