The SAC - CMU

The hours are all over the place and the parking lot is often closed to students for events… Students who pay a lot to park here. No reason why we shouldn’t be able to park in our own damn lot, because of some stupid event that no one’s even attending. On the bright side, the pool is nice and clean. Some of the machines and free weight equipment is out of service. We miss the sauna too- I know it’s hard w/Covid requirements, but they could let people make appointments to use it. We’re still paying for it.

I love the sac, I have used it 5-7 days a week for the entire time it was available to me as an undergrad and graduate student. I have been using it since 2017. I used the weight center, the weightlifting room, and the spa very often. I come to the spa to relax, and I usually am able to do that. However, over the past year, it has become less relaxing and more of an annoyance. After talking with other members, including community members who pay out of pocket and not in their tuition to use the facilities, they have agreed upon that. Sadly, when I come to the spa to relax, it is not uncommon to having to deal with being splashed by children who are and are not accompanied by adults while in the spa. For some reason, the lifeguards just seem to let it happen. Children come in the spa and swim laps back and forth underwater and jump into the water when the rules say not to. They also purposely splash, which is extremely annoying and rude to others using the spa who are getting splashed and came to the spa to relax. One time when I asked them to stop, a father got in my face yelling ready to splash me in the face with water and told his children “don’t let him me take your splashing rights from you his children”. It was my understanding children needed to be accompanied by an adult the entire time they are in the hottub and I assume splashing purposely and swimming laps in the hottub is not what the spa is for. Hopefully things change soon, because members are pretty fed up and annoyed with the way children and some adults behave in the hottub. In my opinion and others who I have talked to, if the children would like to splash, they can find a spot in the wide open pool or go to the nearby water park, because the spa is meant for adults to come to relax in. Maybe I am wrong, but if I am not, hopefully things change soon.

If some equipment is out of service, it takes a long time to be fixed and usable again. Here also lacks some equipment and attachments. For example, you can only find 1 tricep rope in the fitness center! On the other hand, the quality of equipment, ventilation, and hygiene are good.

The hours of the weight room vary widely making it difficult to fit into many peoples' schedules. On top of the bad hours, the weight room looks like it hasn't been renovated since 1980. CMU does not offer a quality gym for its students.

I normally enjoy the SAC, and that is why I went to run for a bit to get some exercise tonight. However, the staff would not let me in even when I gave them my student ID, one woman in particular was very rude and told me to leave and buy a new ID. Thanks a lot, CMU!! Talk to your staff.

It's very important place for the students. I wish we had space for hijabes to benefit of it in privacy

It specifically says on Google that it closes at 11. However, after driving 45 minutes there, I was told they were going to close at 8PM. Garbage.

Great asset to the college community.

Needs new weights very disappointing

Good time lol