n The Fitness and Recreation Center is really trying to uphold the law in recent days (“FitRec fee unnecessary,” April 20, p. 8). It wants to be fair and efficient. It’s not.

In early November, my younger brother happened to be visiting me. I had to work at my Boston University job just like the employees at FitRec. So somehow, my brother wound up using my Terrier Card along with a friend of mine to kill time. The transaction was denied. Apparently family members have to pay $20 to go to the gym. Ok, so perhaps the people at FitRec were merely doing their job, while fairly treating me and my family. But, they were not.

After a week of trying to simply get my ID back, the employees at FitRec harassed me about the situation. They said they would have to notify the BU Police Department for a full investigation.

I was never contacted by the BUPD or anyone at BU. I received no fine. As a matter of fact, I received nothing at all. But I was still not allowed to go back to FitRec.

It has been five months, and I am still restricted from FitRec. Apparently its plan for efficiency and fairness did not count when it failed to contact BUPD or the Office of Judicial Affairs. In my opinion, its workers should stick to their jobs of pushing paper and wiping machines and give the students whose families pay their paychecks a break.

Erin Penha

COM ’08