The gym floors are so dirty it doesn't matter if you wear nice gym shoes, you won't get any traction and you'll just have to clean your shoes every time you use the gym. My idea is pretty simple: SRC employees stay for an hour after close (once or twice a week) and sweep and mop the gym floors. The SRC at Mines has the cost of a nice gym, but delivers the quality and service of a shoddy gym at a large middle school. Half of the SRC employees are being paid to watch tv behind the desk, or do homework. Meanwhile, the volleyballs and basketballs are flat, they close down so early, and the floors are always extremely dirty. The upstairs gym is packed full, and students planning on playing basketball, badminton, volleyball, or indoor soccer frequently drive to the school and have to turn back to go home because there is no room. Meanwhile, the downstairs gym is completely empty, but employees won't allow us to use it because "they don't want to deal with it." How is our money being spent and who is hiring these employees? If the fee wasn't mandatory this gym wouldn't be worth the rate. Because the fees are mandatory, there needs to be some form of accountability for the gym's management. I understand if the management doesn't think it's worth it to stay open 24 hours. They're probably right. It's not economical for any gym to be open 24 hours; the reason many gyms do it is because it's a selling point. The CSM gym doesn't have to worry about sales because their customers have no choice but to pay. At any rate, the least they can do is clean the gym floors weekly. It takes less than an hour ($12.56 a week at minimum wage), it costs next to nothing in supplies, and the employees are already being paid to sit there.