Opinions vary whether university should invest its resources on sports activity more than the university library. Personally, I believe that spending their money on the sports activity is better for student for the following reasons. First, students relieve their stress by doing sports activity, and it leads students’ academic improvement. Second, students’ sports activity in university helps them build desirable human relationship helpful their successful lives.
First, university’s investment on sports activity is of great benefit to relieve students’ stress, and to enhance their academic performance. These days, university students are bound and driven by hectic academic schedules, and thus they receive considerable amount of stress. Even worse, these stresses sometimes hinder students from focusing on their academic activities. In this regard, they need an exit to relieve the stress. Personally, I believe that sports activity is one of the best solutions for this problem. In fact, according to a study recently released by the Korean National Research Center, more than two thirds of surveyed university students mentioned that they release stress by doing sports activities such as soccer, baseball and tennis. As this study shows, sports activities play a significant role in university students’ lives. Therefore, university administrator should not ignore the essentialness on sports activity to solve students’ stress problem, and academic problem.
Second, sports activity in university helps students make a desirable human relationship essential for their successful lives. As our society has been complex, the importance of social relationship is more underlined. I think the university is the best place to build and widen students’ human relationship. Personally, I joined a university soccer team, and got along with a variety of team mates including professors, seniors, university staffs and students. When I prepared my job, I could listen helpful advises from them. Especially, one of professors gave me a recommendation letter, and I could have a fine job better than I expected. In this context, to spend university’s resource on sports activity is beneficial to students’ social relationship.
In conclusion, I know that it is difficult to make university’s decision where the limited resources should been invested on. Nevertheless, I believe that investment on sports activity is valuable because it makes students relieve their stress, improve academic ability and build social relationship. |