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There’s a brand new gym on campus. It is very expensive, very beautiful, but oddly, very quiet.
Kristy Richman reports:
Its 5'oclock on a Tuesday evening and there are only four people in Kean University’s new gym but just across the track, the D’Angola gym is packed with lines waiting for the treadmills and lifting machines.
The new building is called the Carol Hynes Field House. The building is mostly for athletes but during few hours it is open to the student population. The question is why is this brand new facility not being used? And why was it built in the first place.
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It’s silly reasons that the athletes do not use the gym. Brandon Bujnowski, a pitcher on Kean’s Baseball Team, has yet to use the Athletic Building.
Bujnowski- “It’s too cold to walk there across the track in my shorts, that’s the only thing that I can think of.
Student Sarah Anderson is confused when asked about the brand new gym. She believes that it’s not even built for female athletes but more geared toward the football team.
Anderson- “I think it’s for athletes I only went there once or twice but when I did go it was empty. It seems like it’s more for the football team, not equip for girls.It’s kind of annoying I’d say because I want my own space and if they have their own gym they should go there and be with all the other athletes working out.”
Majority of the athletes do not use The Carol Hynes Field House and that aggravates lots of students that attend the school as well as D’Angola Gym. Danielle Bonnani, a student at the University expresses her aggravation.
Bonnani- “I feel the purpose for the new gym is for the athletes to be in there and the other students to be in their new gym.”
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With multiple tax cuts and more to come, you would think that the school would be more focused on education but the focus has seemed to turn onto the athletics. The money should be invested in the academic side of the school not put towards Division Three athletics. The reason behind the student aggravation is due to the fact that the athletes usually come first within the university.
Patrick Clark was a student enrolled in the music program. He was forced to change is major because of the lack of school funds. He too believes that money should be put towards education...
Clark- "The arts, specifically the music program, here, it’s pretty weak, but usually the arts is like the first thing to go anyway, so I guess you can’t expect anything else right?.”
Carol Hynes Athletic building has a main use, and it’s for athletes, except, no one uses the gym. Athletic Director, Jay Sgaramella thinks differently...
Sgaramella- “I mean our athletes use it every day and it’s slowly becoming more popular with the student. We could get more use out of it but it’s good right now”
Many are curious as the why and when it was built…
Sgaramella-
“It was just built, just finished at the beginning of this semester. It was built because we needed more bathrooms for the stadium capacity and athletics decided to have a weight room built on top.”
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It’s true that some of the building was donated by Jim Hynes. A baseball player and graduate from Kean University in the class at 1963, but he and his family only donated the bathrooms.
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If one were to look at the University’s athletic fields, there no doubt that they are beautiful. There are new heaters in the dug outs, turf fields for baseball, gorgeous football fields, and now, a state of the art gym that still smells brand new. There are plans in the near future to add more work out equipment in the Field House.
But, if you were to go into the classrooms and computer labs, they would see broken computers and rain stained ceilings.
This question still stands…Should money be spent towards educational needs or towards athletic ability?
I’m Kristy Richman, reporting for WKNJ.
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