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Review of UO Student Recreation Center

As a place offering a multitude of sports and game...

As a place offering a multitude of sports and games options, it is pretty cool. However, if you only come here to workout and exercise then it just looks pretty and lacks a lot of functional equipment. It doesn't make sense but they have like 30 gyms and lack a lot of functional machines. You can tell where they tried to save money with a lot of the multi-purpose machines but slow these machines don't adapt to the human body will it actually wind up hurting you, they're just not good machines. Also to add on to other reviews, this place is pretty bad about inconsistently enforcing rules and not others. I did see a guy set his cell phone on top of his water bottle out in the open and nobody said anything. On the wall it says to put all of your stuff away but nobody seems to care about anything other than bags for some weird reason. I'm not talking about giant duffle bags, I'm talking about a normal drawstring bag that any serious lifter might have, they always make sure to come over and say something about it. I'm pretty sure that a cell phone breaking into multiple pieces across the floor is more dangerous than a small bag that everybody can noticeably see. When I confronted a staff member about this, he said that their management actually told them to lay off people about the cell phones but they want them to enforce the bags, and that doesn't make sense to me. Another noticeable thing that they have done is that they have taken away the comment cards, probably because other people were complaining about the same issues and they didn't want to deal with it. Otherwise this place could really use an increase in hours, because tuition is actually pretty expensive and if we have this much taken out intuition to use the facility and it should be open longer than it is preferably 24 hours