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What gall. If I had a nickel for every time I've paced the gym floor sidelines at the Malkin Athletic Center (Three basketball/volleyball courts for 5500 non-Quad undergraduates) while waiting for balding, middle-aged, brick-shooting B-School b-ball players to clear the courts and get back to their banking, I'd have $18 million of my own to spend on a new gym...
...Instead, I am left with an injured sense of fair play and the bitter realization that I am being cheated by the B-School. While they have the right to play in my gym, all I'm allowed to do is insult them...
Unfortunately, the Business School is not the only problem. Harvard College's athletic facilities are pathetically inadequate. More 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...
...children loved to jump around Widener," says Jana M. Kiely, co-master of Adams and mother of four. "The bench around it was like a gym for them...
...there and give it a shot--for us. Scrap everyone else--school pride and all that garbage. Let's just try to play one game one time for us, just like the old days prior to the start of the season when we used to go down to the gym and play...