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Jul 23, 2008

Topic 11

11. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Universities should give the same amount of money to their students' sports activities as they give to their university libraries. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

DECISION DEPENDS ON SPECIAL NEEDS

Whether universities should spend equal money on students' sports and their libraries depends on the primary goal of the universities. With respect to sports universities, faculty should accentuate kinetics more than libraries. On the other hand, leaders of universities ought to place more emphasis on libraries than sports activities. Universities' properties determine the financial support.

First, if students who attend a specific sports university or college are eager to pursue high quality of kinetics education and want to live a career of athlete, university should give a higher priority to developing sports facilities. Under this circumstance, libraries may be placed on a secondary place. Students of that university spend more time on kinetics than reading in a library; thus, first-class sports facilities are among their crucial desires.

Second, enhancement of libraries should be firstly taken into account when a university focuses on academic researches. For instance, my university mainly pays attention to scientific fields, instead of sports, and our university leaders spend more human resources, material resources and financial resources on construction of laboratories and libraries. As a positive result, graduates from our campus possess a relatively higher scientific trait than those graduate from sports ones.

Third, although it is not of wisdom to place commensurate resources on sports and libraries, omitting either of both is neither advocated. Neither should sports overwhelm libraries, nor should libraries. The reason of this is simple: a university or a college will no doubt be harmed on condition that only one field is their advantage. Furthermore, students who study in that university cannot receive wholesome education which will work a propulsion function when they find a job and live a lifetime career.

In summary, the decision on the emphasis between sports and academic libraries primarily is related to properties of a university or a college. Besides, myriad factors must be taken into account and there is no easy answer.

1 comment:

Haure said...

DECISION DEPENDS ON SPECIAL NEEDS

Whether universities should spend equal money on students' sports and their libraries depends on primary teaching goal of the universities. With respect to sports universities, faculty should accentuate students’ kinetics more than libraries. Nevertheless, with regard to colleges that aim to devote to scientific or sociological researches, leaders ought to place more emphasis on special libraries than sports activities. Thus, universities' properties determine the former or the latter should be considered first.

First of all, in a sports university or college, students who attend that school are surely eager to pursue high quality of kinetics education and want to live an athletic career after they graduate. Then, sports activities will doubtlessly be invested preferentially upon other kinds of campus ones. For instance, faculty should construct top-quality playground, gymnasium, and so forth. More over, extracurricular activities, such as basketball team, volleyball team, etc, must be emphasized. Under this circumstance, libraries may be placed on a secondary place, because students of that university perhaps spend more time on engaging in various sports rather than reading in a library.

Second, however, considerable enhancement of libraries should be firstly taken into account in the event that a university focuses on academic subjects. For instance, my university mainly pays attention to scientific fields, including physics, computer science and sociology instead of sports and our university principal spends quite more human resources, material resources and financial resources on construction of laboratories and libraries. As a positive result, graduates from our campus possess a relatively higher scientific trait than those graduates from sports ones.

Third, although it is of no wisdom to place commensurate resources on sports and libraries, completely omitting either of both is neither advocated. Neither should sports be concerned exclusively, nor should libraries. The reason of this is simple: a university or a college will of course be harmed on condition that it only develops one single realm. Furthermore, students who study in that university cannot receive comprehensive education which will work a positive function when they find a job and live a lifetime career.

In summary, decision on the emphasis between students’ activities and academic libraries primarily is related to properties of a university or a college. Besides, myriad factors, for example, available resources, imperative demands and external pressure, must be put into consideration; and there is no easy answer to this question.