Word: qrac
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...told them, “—and it’s really a non-issue.” They were shocked—after all, they had read about the six-hour-a-week closure of the Quad Recreational Athletics Center (QRAC) in The New York Times and The Washington Post, two arbiters of the important and newsworthy. “Doesn’t that mean this is an important issue for students?” they asked...
...answer, on the whole, is no. On a practical level, only a quarter of students live near the QRAC, and there are other, nicer gyms that are perhaps a bit further away. Students here are for the most part extremely tolerant, and they were likely just as angry about how the situation was handled—for instance the particular hours selected for the closure,or the lack of prior notification—as they were about the closure itself. While the QRAC closure is certainly a campus story worthy of the front page of this newspaper...
...national media has combined the QRAC story with “controversy” surrounding students performing the Muslim call to prayer from the steps of Widener Library during Islamic Awareness week. Thanks to an op-ed written in this newspaper by student organizers about their right to use a loudspeaker to amplify the prayer call in a public forum, the national media is convinced there is tangible frustration among Harvard students about the presence of Islam and religious life on campus...
Still, some were upset by the new regulations, which exclude men from the QRAC on Mondays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from...
...Aljawhary ’09, the media attention surrounding the Harvard administration’s decision to implement a trial run for women-only gym hours at the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) has her both surprised and stressed...