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SFU’s fitness centre should remove its women-only hours

EIC March 16, 2015

[caption id="attachment_1161" align="alignnone" width="750"] Photo Credit: Fast + Epp[/caption] Two law students at McGill, Soumia Allalou and Raymond Grafton, recently approached their university student union about creating women-only hours at McGill’s fitness center. Their proposal was met with widespread criticism, and rightly so. In fact, an online petition opposing women-only fitness hours was created soon afterwards, and I fully support it. It’s upsetting that in a society striving for equality and inclusiveness, a public gym funded by both sexes should shun away one sex at certain times of the week. What’s further upsetting is that this problem already exists at…

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