University athletic department should receive the same amout of funding as university libraries. |
In this semester, since I am majoriing in lingustics in graduate school, I need many reference books. But I always find it hard to refer to some books because most of the ligustic books come from abroad such as United States. When I asked the reaon why libraries do not carry enough books to librarians and academic advisors, the answer was always" We have to disbusre the small amount of budget to the thousands of stuffs". So I feel really frustrated at the idea that I have no more professional books to refer to. Therefore, I definitely object to the idea that athletic deparment should receive the same amount of funding as university libraries for several reasons.
First, we need to think over the fact that most universities are for acdemic success, not success of athletic stuffs. Although I admit that athletic department needs a certain amount of funding to encourage sports activities in university,however, if we consider the purpose of university-the academic success-, it will be more apprpriate to consider everything base on academic one than athletic one. If the athletic department receives same amount of money as libraries, the university is not "school" any longer.
Second, like I mentioned above, if a library lack of funding to continue replenish books, this will lead to incovenience to the students and finally will prove that the students can not continue doing the research at the right time. In addition, the incoveniecne will be a serious problems in a university and thus the university and students will fall beind in a highly competitive environmemt. Everybody knows that it is so annoying that they have to be on waiting list for the one book that is due for term paper. On the other hand, athletic activities are not more impending problem that a term paper. We can do any physical actities at any time without checking out something. Probably, a single football itself will be enough to play football. Therefore, sport is a matter of choice but libraries are not.
Last but not least, when libraries spend a lot of funding on purchasing new issues, it will encourage many professors and writers to do their reseach. If libraries stop or reducing the amount money of buying the new books, That means the overall shrink in new book market. Now, as you may know, because of the development of Internet and digital media, the conventional paper book markets are already suffering from financial crisis and those medias are eroding the traditional market share. I am really concerned the current situation will cause the whole publishing companies to be out of business.
To sum up, libararies are the most important facilities for students to rely on. So it is natural that they shoud be first consideration in university policies. It is self-evident that if the same amount of money will be spent of athletic department, this will have a undesirable effect on the whole students' academic lives since the libraries can not give appropriate support for them. |