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Issue date: 10/18/06 Section: Health and Wellness

You're stuck on campus. You've got the tightest, most convoluted schedule in the history of mankind. Between classes you eat lunch or dinner and perform all the regular duties of a student. To stay healthy during all of this, what better way can you find than to take a half-hour of your busy schedule to workout on campus.

Perhaps, you think, I can take a jog down by the Museum of Glass or into downtown Tacoma? These are great ideas, but then the reality of personal hygiene slaps your ingenious head and you decide that putting on the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior forty pounds is not nearly as bad in comparison to your stinky body chasing off classmates.

Fret no more. If you need a shower because you're training for a marathon or a skunk sprays you while you're walking around campus (it could happen, I've seen stranger things), don't despair, we've found the secret showers on campus that rumors have long proclaimed to exist.

Unlike the mythical fountain of youth, these water wonderlands can be found if your filthy soul desires a cleansing. On the third floor of GWP besides the multitude of administrative offices, you'll find two restrooms with attached showers. Don't be concerned that you'll be monopolizing the water closet. If someone really needs to use a restroom on the third floor, there are four individual unisex bathrooms in addition to the two shower bathrooms.

A shower can also be found on the first floor of the science building adjacent to the restrooms. It's a single shower with a large changing area and a bank of lockers. The shower stall itself may be a little smaller than those in GWP, but the large changing area and lockers more than make up for its modest size.

Finally, for the more daring individuals and the honest to goodness exhibitionists, the second floor of the science building also has two separate showers accompanying the eyewash stations outside the labs. We don't really suggest you use these showers after a workout as they are actually emergency chemical showers, but they are there.

So there you have it. Grab your bar of soap, your shampoo and conditioner, your trusty shower sandals and a towel and enjoy your classes refreshed and squeaky clean.

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