Rachel Nissim

The Whetstone/Rachael Nissim

By Kelly Morgan (Whetstone Staff Writer)

Students do not like Malmberg fitness center’s morning hours.

Although the center is open from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., it’s not again until 1 p.m.

“I think it’s very inconvenient,” said freshman Siara Vaughn, who also works in the gym. “There are students that would like to work out in the morning but they can’t.”

Vaughn is one of these students.

“Not everybody has morning classes,” she said.

Sophomore Gabriella Wisher, who also works in the gym, said that having the gym open before 1 p.m. would be inconvenient to staff members.

“A lot of us have morning classes and we can’t work,” she said. “[Amanda Kinkade] wants the staff members to be on duty because it’s a new gym with new equipment.”

There are also more students who use the gym in the afternoon rather than the morning, Vaughn said. That is one reason it is not open earlier.

“We made a commitment to the SGA for staffing to cover the majority of our students and that the fitness center would be supervised at all times,” said Amanda Kinkade, who supervises the staff of the gym.

For this semester, the gym will not be open before 1 p.m., but they are open for suggestions, she said.

“I think the hours for the Malmberg gym are inconvenient,” said junior Michael Kagan.

Kagan has a membership at 24-Hour Fitness in Dover.

He said that it is also not big enough to fit all of the students who want to work out.

“It should be relocated at a bigger space,” Kagan said.

Tanner Polce, president of SGA, has heard complaints about the small size of the Malmberg gym.

“SGA and [Wesley’s] administration’s plan to move the gym to where the pool is now,” he said. “When we get a lot of money, the students will get the gym they want.”