To the Editors:

Last Thanksgiving a fire at Philips Gym badly damaged the sauna and the men’s locker room. The locker room repairs are almost finished, but the sauna is not going to be fixed or replaced. It’s not coming back.

I think the loss of the sauna is a terrible loss for the Oberlin college and town community. The sauna brought all kinds of people to the gym.

This campus is always moaning about its own awkwardness — but our sauna was the realest place in town, with athletes, Connies, LARPers, hippies, hipsters, professors, townies, etc.... every stupid category sweating it out together.

Winter is coming, and we need a place to sweat! Bring back the sauna!

–Lizzie Harper

College senior