University athletic department should receive the same amount of fundind as university libraries. |
Which one is more important thing for university students? Having lots of subject based knowlege or having good health conditions? Can you respond easily for this question? In my case, I could not simply answer this question. Because I think that both knowledge and physical health are important for students. From this point of view, university athletic departments can be treated by same value with university libraries.
Most of all, think about this problem in the position of students. Getting variety resources and spaces to study from libraries, of course, are main issues of students. However, many students are also concenturated on school's sports ranks or conditions of athletic facilitations such as gyms. So university should support for athletic departments to satisfy students' needs and concerns making more convinient systems and facilitations.
Second, studing without health isn't meaningful for students. Therefore, university has to suggest students that they do appropriate excercises in th e balance of studing. For example, provide students with rules or advices like "Stay in the library and study for four hours for your GPA and then, go to the gym and excercise for one hours for your physical health." An athletic departments have important responsibility for students' health.
At last, having a good sport team is also very beneficial for university. From good scores or ranks in an annual sport season, univesity can make great amount of money and manage school effectively with that money. School also make their name value higher than before, then more high school students will apply on the next semester. Sports can make university be more great one.
To summarize, I belive that univeristy athletic departements have to receive the funding as much as university libraries. Moreover, university has to emphasize that athletic departement do more important roles for students' health and school's reputation.
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