Do you need a student ID to use the rec center?

**larry** · 10-16-2009, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by mred

Lied Recreation Athletic Center : Rec Services

Day Pass is $6, but you must be over 18 and accompanied by an "eligible user" (student/faculty/staff/etc).

I spent four years paying to build this facility, risked my knees and ankles for 3 months breaking in the rubber floors after it opened(always left with the shoes covered in red dust--kinda like playing tennis on a clay court, you slid to a stop), then I had to keep my student ID in my wallet 2 years after graduating so that I could get in the building any time I came back to visit friends.

Rant over.

**psycln11** · 10-16-2009, 10:24 AM

set-up a recruiting visit with Coach Ihmels and you can get into the facilities for free.

There are links to X-Country Course maps here...5K, 6K, and 8K

http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle....&ATCLID=541521

**superman_101680** · 10-16-2009, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by psycln11

set-up a recruiting visit with Coach Ihmels and you can get into the facilities for free.

There are links to X-Country Course maps here...5K, 6K, and 8K

Cross Country Course - Iowa State University Athletics Official Web Site - www.CYCLONES.com - The home of Iowa State Cyclone Sports

I'm not sure if they can contact the coach given her age.

**JP4CY** · 10-16-2009, 10:33 AM

Do you just show the ISU card or scan it?

**hurdleisu24** · 10-16-2009, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by johnpkelly81

Do you just show the ISU card or scan it?

Scan it

**JP4CY** · 10-16-2009, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by hurdleisu24

Scan it

Dang. I figured that. Once taco johns does that, I'll be uber depressed.

**Cyznutz** · 10-16-2009, 02:30 PM

The Rec has become huge D-bags about the cards and scanning!! I remember coming back to visit and just flashing my card after graduation, then sometime in '06 I think they started this whole scanning deal! ******* jag offs!!

**brianhos** · 10-16-2009, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Cyznutz

The Rec has become huge D-bags about the cards and scanning!! I remember coming back to visit and just flashing my card after graduation, then sometime in '06 I think they started this whole scanning deal! ******* jag offs!!

Yeah it is really horrible for them to actually try to enforce the rules. How dare they only allow people that are paying for the facility to use it!

**wesley_w** · 10-16-2009, 02:41 PM

If you park at the SW Athletic Complex you can get to the CC course from there and also there is an outdoor 400 meter track.

**Cyznutz** · 10-16-2009, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by brianhos

Yeah it is really horrible for them to actually try to enforce the rules. How dare they only allow people that are paying for the facility to use it!

As long as you kept your ISU card you were allowed in....now you have to have it scanned, and if your not a student (even if your an alumni) you have to pay. Didn't I pay enough when I was there? Hell, if you live in the state of Iowa and pay taxes, you pay for the rec because it's a public institution.

**cycopath25** · 10-16-2009, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by brianhos

Google Maps

Google Maps needs to be updated. They still have Knapp and Storms towers standing.

**heshwar** · 10-16-2009, 03:25 PM

I can't find the exact number, but the only part of your tuition that paid for the use of the rec and the other Rec Services sponsored activities--namely, intramurals, among other things--was something like $106 a semester. Not a lot for a facility you can use from 5AM-Midnight during Fall and Spring semester, if you ask me. And for full disclosure, I was a student employee for rec services during my time at ISU, and had some people be very, very horrible to me in regards to the cards, which is why I am posting. Adding a little perspective! :-)

**Tornado man** · 10-16-2009, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by Cyznutz

Hell, if you live in the state of Iowa and pay taxes, you pay for the rec because it's a public institution.

Gee, I pay taxes in Iowa, went to ISU, so does that mean I can walk into any lab on campus and conduct experiments, or use the vet clinic for my dog free of charge?
No.

**JP4CY** · 10-16-2009, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by Tornado man

Gee, I pay taxes in Iowa, went to ISU, so does that mean I can walk into any lab on campus and conduct experiments, or use the vet clinic for my dog free of charge?
No.

What no Hawkeye joke about paying taxes and using jails?

**psycln11** · 10-16-2009, 03:30 PM

Originally Posted by Tornado man

Gee, I pay taxes in Iowa, went to ISU, so does that mean I can walk into any lab on campus and conduct experiments, or use the vet clinic for my dog free of charge?
No.

I pay taxes in Iowa, went to ISU, etc...

Can I walk into Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday evening, say around 6 PM, for free?