Word: quaded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...designating specific gym space for them, it would do so by mandating hours and location in a way that were actually practical. But rightfully seeing that inconveniencing a significant portion of its campus was not a viable option, Harvard has instead decided to burden a minority in the Quad...
...Harvard’s new policy of having women-only hours is unfair to those who live in the Quad, where a fifth of Harvard’s undergraduate population has access to only one nearby gym—the QRAC. Other students at Harvard have access to at least two—Hemenway and the Malkin Athletic Center—both of which are far superior to the QRAC. Yet, Harvard decided three weeks ago, in a process that was utterly lacking in transparency, to limit what little Quadlings have by mandating that men not be allowed...
...especially the morning hours from eight to ten that are so crucial to those who live in the Quad. The whole reason for having a nearby gym is that you can use it whenever you are home. Morning hours, like evening hours, are important because those are times when students who live in the Quad are actually there. Morning hours are also the least convenient hours in the day to draw women and religious minorities from river houses that the new policy is supposedly aimed at benefiting. Why make a trek at eight in the morning when there?...
...only are Harvard’s policies harsh on those who live in the Quad, they are unfair to men. It might be possible to make a case for these hours were they actually advantageous for anyone. However, seeing how the policies are of effectively little use to anyone their only real effect is to discriminate against men who keep regular morning or afternoon workout hours. This seems fundamentally unfair...
...women and religious minorities who feel uneasy or intimidated working out around men are deterred from going to the gym, or Quadlings face restricted hours when they can work out. The policy as it now stands, however, is lose-lose. It’s all downsides. Men in the Quad have to deal with restricted hours, and the women only hours are so impractical that they don’t actually encourage anyone to work out who wouldn’t otherwise...