The Keystone Newspaper: "Plan for infilling Keystone Hall pool invokes opposition in KU. Page 3. January 22, 2015.

This article talks about the possibility that the diving well that is located in Keystone Hall may get filled in to make more space for women’s lacrosse and field hockey locker rooms. This obviously causes issues for the swim team, and for other sports teams who use the diving well during practices and workouts. The article also talks about how the sports medicine faculty uses the diving well for athletes who have injuries as a part of their rehab process. The article goes on to list more reasons why the diving well is useful. It is used for educational purposes, like aquatics and life-guarding classes, and the Tri Valley YMCA swim team also uses the well during their practices.

The article then goes on to talk about how the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) requires all of the universities in the system to develop a master plan every 10 years. PASSHE currently prohibits adding new space while the enrollment of the university is dropping though so that’s why Kutztown can’t actually add the locker rooms on as a new addition to Keystone.

The article quotes Assistant Vice President of Facilities, Jeff Grimm as saying that the project of filling in the diving well may not actually happen. The article then goes on to explain that Keystone is outlined in the master plan for an entire renovation , but it would first depend if Risley Hall can get reformed for the wrestling and football teams. The article then ends by saying that there is no actual time line for when or if a decision will actually be made. This makes me think that this will definitely have to be a story that I would have to keep following in the next couple of years to see if anything actually happens.

Overall I thought that the article was very descriptive and gave me a good idea of what exactly was possibly going to happen in the future for Keystone Hall. I would have liked for this article to have quotes from girls on the lacrosse or field hockey teams to see if they would think that they would benefit from having their own locker rooms.