I was excited about Hallie Lehman’s letter to the editor about “The W.” However my friends, I realized that a few letters would not get us back in the locker rooms. We need to be treated as though we pay a non-refundable $200 a semester…which we do! I heard they ‘questioned’ students on the locker matter and obviously they had the wrong student opinion. Everyone I’ve talked to wants locker rooms they don’t get kicked out of. For example, when the visitor locker rooms are closed, students, male and female, are expected to change together in the family changing room.

Some students only have time to work out between classes and are cutting their workouts short to shower and change in their dorm because of the community shower. Cutting workouts short eventually will add up health wise. There’s plenty of room in the member locker rooms. Before the lockout every Tuesday and Thursday I went, there would maybe be five people there.

Students, my plan is simple. Every time you work out, send an e-mail to director Jim Langel (jim.langel@wartburg.edu) to politely inform and remind him: 1. We pay just as much as members and should be treated as such and 2. What troubles you at “The W”...be it being late to class because you couldn’t shower or having to change with men in the family changing room, or having the embarrassing wet walk from the pool to the locker rooms. Maybe then, something might change. We can only be ignored for so long.