Livestrong For All

The Freshmen Fifteen: a phrase commonly understood to be a connotation of the average weight gain of incoming college freshman. Brigham Young University’s The Daily Universe newspaper recently presented an article on how to “Beat the ‘Freshman Fifteen’ ” which contained two major suggestions: To stay away from junk food and to exercise regularly. For exercising often the article suggested either purchasing a gym membership or regular use of the Richards Building facilities. Myself being an avid player of the sport Racquetball was ecstatic to have the opportunity to use the facilities and play racquetball several times a week if not every single non-Sabbath day. I was however disappointed to find that we had to acquire day use wrist bands for each and every day that we desired to use the facilities. Not an extreme inconvenience, rather a rather large annoyance. When the opportunity arose to buy a permanent, one semester use, latex wristband similar to the Livestrong bands which could only be acquired with the purchase of a locker I took it. Currently the way to purchase a permanent wristband is to buy a locker. There are approximately one thousand lockers in the male locker rooms at the Richards Building, I have never visited the Woman’s locker rooms but I am taking an educated guess that there are around one thousand lockers in that area also. In a school of BYU’s proportions two thousand wristbands doest cover much area. Instead of dispersing wristbands along with lockers BYU should provide semester use wristbands for students who desire them, and register for them.