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...courts, bigger weight rooms, etc, are needed. We don't need a random housing lottery or a ritzy hotel; we need adequate gyms in which we can fortify our bodies as we tone our minds. Right now, we have just the over-crowded, undersized Malkin and the distant, busy QRAC. Of course, the Law School graciously offers undergrads use of Hemenway Gym. But then again, Hemenway isn't a gym, it's an architectural nightmare--a large closet with two backboards...
...QRAC, home of the Quad's athletic scene, offers two basketball courts, four tennis courts, several racquetball and squash courts, Nautilus and even a ping pong table...
...around from library to library, while we can find all of our reserve readings in Hilles (which has its own grille along with free juice, candy, and xerox machines). And River residents must trek to Hemenway Gym to play squash, while we can just cross the street to the QRAC. No wonder they're envious...
While recognizing Radcliffe's actual status would doubtlessly entail working through a century and a half's bureaucratic entanglements, such entanglements exist to be worked through. And Radcliffe's vestigial hierarchy at times presents very real problems. For example, when leaks began plaguing the QRAC several years ago, the Quad's athletic facility remained closed for six months while Radcliffe and Harvard officials quarrelled over how repairs should proceed...
Rosenberg, who lured Walton to Cabot, said he had seen Walton riding his bike around the Quad neighborhood at the beginning of the school year. After he saw Walton speaking with a desk guard at the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC), Rosenberg explained to Walton that Senior Common Room membership allowed access to the QRAC, and he invited Walton to join...