Over The Edge Page 10 | February 9, 1998

What’s Up With The Gym????

By Jeremy Fung

As the student population at
UNBC continues to grow, the
ratio to gym space continues
to shrink. Students are
becoming frustrated with the
staff of the fitness center,
however, they are not
responsible for the lack of

space.
Jim O'Meara, the UNBC
Sports Intramural

Coordinator, is responsible
for setting the budget within
the fitness center, but this
budget is not the multi-million
dollar budget necessary to
build a new building. The
budget he is working with is
much smaller, it goes towards
maintenance of the equip-
ment, paying staff, putting on
classes, and supporting the
basketball teams. O’Meara
says that for the past few
years they have been saving
a part of their budget to sup-
port some clubs as they
struggle to become recog-
nized teams.

Another part of this fund
went to the purchase of the
brand new treadmill. This

$8000.00 piece of equipment
is set up near the weight
room, and users can book
times for the treadmill in the
same way they book any
equipment there.
Unfortunately, within the cur-
rent space there is only room
to add one more treadmill. If
this first one is put to heavy
use a second will be pur-
chased during the summer.
According to Godfrey
Medhurst, director of facili-
ties, the original plan for the
University included no gym at
all. He says that the current
plan includes three phases
and a “bonus” stage. Of the
three stages, the addition of a
gym is the first step. The new
gym will be located where the
volleyball courts currently
are. After the new gym is
built, the current fitness cen-
ter will move into its own
building. Phase two regards
changing the current fitness
center into classrooms, and
moving all the furnishings
from the first floor of the
library building to where the

Protest March from page 3...

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Other important issues were
brought to public attention in
addition to the ICLR though.
Students fought for the elimi-
nation of student user fees
which include computer fees
and daycare. Canada’s
refusal to join the
Organization for Economic
Cooperation and
Development (OECD), which
_ is a union of more then 20
countries from all over the
world that do not charge their
students any tuition whatso-
ever; was brought into public
attention as well.

The Canadian Federation of
Students has done a great
deal of research into this pro-
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very important it is that you
as students become
informed because it is only
you who can help make the
difference to your education.
All the relevant information
can be found at the Canadian
Federation of Students web
page at www.cfs-fcee.ca_ or
by contacting your local CFS
representative through :

The Canadian Federation of
Students

British Columbia and Yukon
Office

2344 Spruce Street
Vancouver BC

V6H 2P2

Tel: (604) 733-1852

Fax: (604) 733- 1852

E-mail: cfs-bc@ultranet.ca

fitness centre is currently.
Phase three will knock down
all the walls in the bottom
floor of the library. It was
designed with this in mind
and the walls there are easily
removed. Once this is com-
pleted the library stacks will
expand down to include the
first floor.

When the project for the
new gym was being created,
the. University Planning
Committee projected a bud-
get. This 16 million dollar pro-
posal included: three full bas-
ketball courts, spectator seat-
ing for between 1200 and
2000 people, a climbing wall,
and even an enclosed jog-
ging track on the second

floor.

The bonus stage mentioned
earlier is the addition of anew
lab building. This building
would attach to the current
lab building. It would either be
touching the current building
or across the road beside the
first residence. In addition,
there are plans to expand the
parking lot to double the cur-
rent parking capacity. 2.6 mil-
lion dollars will need to be
spent for this also.

According to President
Jago, this expansion project
remains top priority. The next
step is to get an-“amber light”
from the government. Jago
suggests that this “light” will
come in the form of planning

money. He has been strongly
fighting the freeze on building
capital imposed by the gov-
ernment. He is going to make
a proposal to the government
for more funding. Other fund-
ing will come from corporate
sponsors.

Once the government has
committed, Jago believes the
building will be completed
within three years.
Unfortunately for most cur-
rent students this means the
earliest the gym could be
completed will be the year
2001. Jago did point out that
it will be an excellent turn of
the century project for this
university.

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