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No ice hockey on the new rink; liability a concern
Cody Ewers
Issue date: 11/12/09 Section: News
Student Federation recently approved a motion to flood the quad and allow it to freeze into an ice rink that will be finished and ready for use when students return to campus next semester.
Students will be able to skate on it and enjoy the outdoors, even in the dead of winter. What they will not be able to do, however, is use the ice for Michigan's native sport - ice hockey.
Student Activities Director Rebekah Dell said that the rink will not be available for ice hockey because of the risk involved with potentially stray pucks flying so close to students using the walkway between the Grewcock Student Union and the Knorr Student Center. Also, the glass windows looking out from the Wiegand Computer Lab would be in jeopardy because the rink would be situated perpendicular to Strosacker Science Center and longways between Grewcock and Knorr.
The cost of setting up a net to keep the pucks within the rink would be too great, Dell said, and unless something cheaper can be thought of, the rink will be for skating only.
Students will be able to skate on it and enjoy the outdoors, even in the dead of winter. What they will not be able to do, however, is use the ice for Michigan's native sport - ice hockey.
Student Activities Director Rebekah Dell said that the rink will not be available for ice hockey because of the risk involved with potentially stray pucks flying so close to students using the walkway between the Grewcock Student Union and the Knorr Student Center. Also, the glass windows looking out from the Wiegand Computer Lab would be in jeopardy because the rink would be situated perpendicular to Strosacker Science Center and longways between Grewcock and Knorr.
The cost of setting up a net to keep the pucks within the rink would be too great, Dell said, and unless something cheaper can be thought of, the rink will be for skating only.
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