By Jeannette Sevilla
Reporter
As students at CSU Bakersfield, tuition pays for multiple programs and services provided such as The Student Recreation Center. The money is being used to build more programs in the SRC, to have more intramurals, and for REC adventures.
“The SRC just got new floors in the basketball gym, bikes are being ordered for people to rent out, their money goes to good use,” said Morgan Carvalho, manager on duty at the SRC.
With multiple students on staff, their job is to keep an eye on the equipment, make sure it’s clean and up and running for them to be used by students. If anything is noticed broken, staff is aware and a damage report is written to get fixed by facility within the week. But SRC gym rat Kristian Iniguez disagrees.
“It takes so long for anything to get fixed there. I’ve seen machines out for a good two weeks,” said Iniguez.
Currently there are no machines that are unavailable to be used. Anything broken is the facilities ground and they have to take care of everything else on campus as well.
“As soon as we notice a problem we get to it as quick as possible, full time staff cannot do that, it is the facilities job, they will get called in. Its not us, we have to put in a work order and then they make time. Not everything can get done immediately. We want it to be done as fast as possible, obviously, but if there is something going on somewhere else on campus that is more important then that is going to get fixed first,” replied Carvalho.
The SRC tries to offer the best experience. They greet, there are people on the floor that can teach you how to use the equipment, free group x classes, free personal training, towel service, and it is sterile because this is what you pay for.
“Its not sanitary, its not cleaned as often as it should be. The shower floors are gross. I’ll get into a shower and the floor is black. You can tell that it hasn’t been cleaned in awhile. The floors are falling apart, and the weights are hardly re-racked.
The SRC has way too many rules. They ask you to leave if you slam the weights, the dress code is too strict, you cannot carry your bag with you, and yet there is always stuff getting stolen. The gym floors haven’t been fixed, there is bubbles you can trip over,” said Iniguez.
“If students have a problem, they are more than encouraged to put a comment in the comment box, so that we can use that to work on and to benefit the SRC because our main concern are the students and participants. If they think something needs to change, students need to let us know so we can work on it. We don’t know if something is wrong if students don’t tell us.
People need to use the comment and suggestion boxes. They are gone over every Monday of every week by management. We work as a team to give the students what they want and what they want to see,” responded Carvalho.
