Undergraduate Council (UC) President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 wrote in an e-mail that despite student complaints, the UC had no plans to pursue any legislation on the matter.

“I’m not happy that students are being inconvenienced but I think the renovations will benefit students in the Quad. The QRAC is regularly closed during the summer anyway and renovation needs to begin so that the facilities are ready in the fall,” Glazer said.

The cardiovascular equipment will be moved to smaller House gyms and makeshift exercise rooms in the Quad while the construction is underway.

But Quad students will temporarily lose the squash courts and both basketball courts, leaving them with the option of using Hemenway Gym at Harvard Law School, the Squash facilities across in the Muir Center in Allston, or the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) by the River Houses.

Associate Dean of Harvard College Thomas Dingman ’67 suggested that because Hemenway is already crowded, people should plan ahead.

“If people are able to schedule their work out in those moments when the building isn’t overtaxed, I think things should be OK. They should be able to find out from monitors at the front desk what the timing is, and of course there is always Muir for squash and the MAC also,” Dingman wrote in an e-mail.

But some students were not happy with that solution.

“Honestly this is ridiculous.” said Faraz Munaim ’06, Munaim, who is also a UC representative from Cabot House, plays squash regularly with his blockmates at the QRAC.

Munaim said that he is upset about now having to schedule time in advance when they are all free.

“We will have to go to Hemenway. We don’t have a choice, but won’t go everyday,” Munaim said, adding that he felt that QRAC closing was symptomatic of a larger University insensitivity to Quad residents.

—Crimson staff writer Jessica E. Schumer can be reached at schumer@fas.harvard.edu.