Student Federation approved $600 for Campus Health and Recreation to move a warming hut down to the ice skating rink across from Broadlawn on Hillsdale Street. Previously, the ice rink was located on the Quad.
“They moved it to the new place, across from Broadlawn, and that’s replacing the one that was out on the Quad,” said Student Fed President and junior Arielle Mueller. “Usually there wasn’t a warming hut, because last year all the skates were in the Union. So that’s the reason we need a warming hut – so people don’t have to go from the Union all the way to Broadlawn and then come back with the skates and hockey equipment. It just makes it more convenient for everyone.”
Junior representative Andy Reuss explained why the ice rink was moved this year.
“I think it has to do with the Quad, with how it’s structured,” Reuss said. “It gets flooded very easily. A lot of times they have to redo all the grass. So do we want that to happen in the middle of the campus or a little bit further away?”
Not all the Student Fed members agreed about funding the warming hut. Junior representatives Andy Reuss and Garrett West said Student Fed shouldn’t be giving campus health and rec $600 every year to move a warming hut.
“I think we should fund the move there, but not the move back,” West said.
Reuss and West plan to collaborate with senior Cody Eldredge, director of campus health and rec, to write a letter to the college administration with the intent of creating a more permanent solution for the warming hut.
“I definitely see the utility of the ice skating rink. I think, in the future, Student Fed could definitely justify continuing to fund it, but at the same time, that’s a lot of money that we could spend elsewhere,” Reuss said.
Eldredge said he plans to write a letter to the administration to ask for an increased budget, so campus health and rec won’t have to come to Student Fed every year.
“Campus health and rec has a budget, so basically we’re just going to ask for an increase to cover this cost,” Eldredge said.
