Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Have you been to the Student Recreaction Fitness Center lately? Have you seen the new televisions on the exercise machines? Did you read that great quote in the Kansan last week about how students love the televisions mounted on the elliptical machines?
Rachelle Saathoff, Lawrence sophomore said, “I’d rather just listen to music. For me, it’s too hard to concentrate on TV when you’re working out,” in the Aug. 24, 2005 edition of the Kansan.
Apparently while working out, people were complaining that they were being forced to watch a channel they didn’t like, said Mary Chappell, director of Recreation Services.
I’m glad with all the budget cuts, we still have enough money to fix the leaky roof and add televisions to the exercise equipment.
We must have the best Student Recreation Fitness Center around if the only thing we can do to improve it is put televisions on the machines.
Maybe next week we could buy more fancy, cool and expensive equipment or maybe we could just buy two more bench presses so we don’t have to wait in line for 45 minutes to use one.
After thinking about it, however, I decided the televisions sound much cooler. Next week, I’ll bring my Xbox and play Halo 2 while using the treadmill. That would be cool!
Or next year, let’s just get the University to pay to have an Xbox mounted onto the treadmill.
That would be even better! Maybe we can get them to option for old school Nintendos, and then we can play Track and Field right on the treadmill! It’d be like running virtually and physically.
Or maybe we could get some Dance Dance Revolution’s in the recreation center!
That’s sort of like exercising, right?
I don’t watch much TV but I do play a lot of video games and I think that would be a cool way to spend several hundred dollars.
Spending that money would be easily worth it. After all, it’d be a cosmic tragedy if I had to do an entire workout and not watch the latest episode of, The Biggest Loser on MTV.
I would just die if I wasn’t entertained for an hour or so while I rode a stationary bicycle.
OK. Now, I’ll be serious. These are all dumb ideas. I can’t ever imagine having so much money that I would buy an elliptical machine with a television mounted on it. Why does the recreation center seem to think we need, not just one, but several television-mounted treadmills? I want another bench press.
It takes a good 45 minutes to get on one of those and I bet they could buy three new bench presses for the price of one of those unnecessary televisions.
Instead of using that money maybe the rec center could have saved the it for something it could use later when it’s adding onto the building.
Last year, an article ran on the opinion page about the University using Band-Aid solutions to fix problems like overcrowding in the recreation center and at the Wescoe Underground.
But, even in Wescoe Underground, there is a nice, big, LCD flat screen television hanging off a pillar.
Only a small number of people can see the television, and they don’t pay attention to it.
Why did it have to be such a nice television? Why couldn’t we get a used television if it was going to be in such a useless place?
I’d bet that most of you didn’t know there was a television in the Wescoe Underground.
All I’m asking is that we don’t buy dumb, unnecessary things when we have better places to spend money.
I just want the people making the decisions about what to do with our money to consider if what they are buying is necessary or a waste of money.
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