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The Daily OrangeHits the spot: With its prime location and brand new equipment, this M-Street gym is making waves with SU students, recreation officials
By Catherine Basham
Posted: 8/30/07, 11:47 PM EST Section: News
Another focus for the new gym was to make it as accessible as possible to students and faculty with handicaps. Working closely with the Beyond Compliance Coordination Committee on campus, lots of attention was paid to facility details regarding handicap accessibility.
"We've been proactive instead of reactive," Lore said. There are Braille overlays on all of the treadmills and four total-access weight machines for students in wheelchairs.
A student recently contacted SU Recreation Services about an upper-body cardio machine that is handicapped accessible. The machine was ordered for the student and will be placed in the Marshall Square Mall gym.
"I don't think meeting expectations is what we want to do," Lore said. "We want to exceed them."
Freshman Anjali Chakravarty visited the gym for the first time this week and was mostly pleased with what it had to offer.
"It's nice. The only thing I don't like is that there are no free weights," Chakravarty said.
While the gym is equipped with new machines, there is little room to spare or to add other equipment such as free weights. But other students found a place to work out that is a more convenient alternative to the often overcrowded Archbold Gymnasium.
"I'm in Newhouse and Whitman all the time. It's so convenient. And when it gets cold out, it's right here," said Andrea Senderoff, a sophomore television-radio-film major.
Senderoff said older, cramped recreation facilities leave many students feeling unhappy about working out and may cause them to avoid going to a gym.
"But here they're giving you a great location with convenience and space," she said. "What's your excuse?"
Other "distributed recreation facilities," smaller gyms located on or near campus, have also received new equipment this year, Lore said. This includes fitness centers in Goldstein Student Center, Marion Hall and Brockway Hall. Nineteen new machines were added to Archbold.
"We've been proactive instead of reactive," Lore said. There are Braille overlays on all of the treadmills and four total-access weight machines for students in wheelchairs.
A student recently contacted SU Recreation Services about an upper-body cardio machine that is handicapped accessible. The machine was ordered for the student and will be placed in the Marshall Square Mall gym.
"I don't think meeting expectations is what we want to do," Lore said. "We want to exceed them."
Freshman Anjali Chakravarty visited the gym for the first time this week and was mostly pleased with what it had to offer.
"It's nice. The only thing I don't like is that there are no free weights," Chakravarty said.
While the gym is equipped with new machines, there is little room to spare or to add other equipment such as free weights. But other students found a place to work out that is a more convenient alternative to the often overcrowded Archbold Gymnasium.
"I'm in Newhouse and Whitman all the time. It's so convenient. And when it gets cold out, it's right here," said Andrea Senderoff, a sophomore television-radio-film major.
Senderoff said older, cramped recreation facilities leave many students feeling unhappy about working out and may cause them to avoid going to a gym.
"But here they're giving you a great location with convenience and space," she said. "What's your excuse?"
Other "distributed recreation facilities," smaller gyms located on or near campus, have also received new equipment this year, Lore said. This includes fitness centers in Goldstein Student Center, Marion Hall and Brockway Hall. Nineteen new machines were added to Archbold.
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