1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? University athletic departments should receive the same amount of funding as university libraries. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. |
There has been an argument about whether university athletics departments have a right to be given the same amount of funding as libraries. Some think that every part of the university has a similar effect on student. However, I strongly believe that the importance of each part is not the same especially library because library is the most fundamental in university and represent the status of university. To begin with, there are many books about all major in library. Therefore, library is the place where students drop by everyday. In contrast, students do not go athletic department everyday because the people who major in athletics are less than the people who do not. Moreover, although students have an experience to go there, the people who do not like sports are always exist. It is desirable to say that library is more fundamental and essential place than athletic department. For these reason, the funding which is given to library must be much more than athletic department. Secondly, library can represent all of university. Radically speaking, library is the symbol of university. I do not contradict the importance of athletic department. However, except people majoring in athletics, general students hardly use there. I think if the standard facilities such as play ground or health instrument are in university, there is no necessity about raising fund for there. Rather, it is more important for university buy many books related to various major because students can study more comfortably. In my experience, when going other universities, I visit the library first. I think everyone would go there first because the improvement of university is derived from library. Therefore, university needs to invest to library more than athletic department. To sum up, I would like to say that it is more reasonable to give more funding to library than to athletic department. The first reason is library is fundamental and essential place in university. Moreover, library is the place university represents the first. As the old saying goes, Knowledge is the energy. |