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Downtime is invaluable for university students in clearing their minds for the next task, but there are better forms of downtime activities than others, making it imperative for college officials to consider installing new profit centers in the form of student recreational facilities. The benefits are great, the costs equally great. The alternative to sports recreation are activities involving drugs, alcohol and sex. As Robert D. Putnam says, lack of recreational facilities is the main reason for the noticeable downslide of “social capital” in America. University campuses should not contribute to that downslide through lack of recreational opportunities. Rationale and research. 11 sources. jvCampusR.rtf
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college officials to consider installing new profit centers in the form of student recreational facilities. The benefits are great, the costs equally great. The alternative to sports recreation are activities
involving drugs, alcohol and sex. As Robert D. Putnam says, lack of recreational facilities is the main reason for the noticeable downslide of "social capital" in America. University campuses should
not contribute to that downslide through lack of recreational opportunities. According to Presley, Meilman and Lyerla, alcohol abuse is recognized by many to
be a major contributing factor to individual and social problems on college campuses. "Alcohol abuse is considered by college presidents and administrators to be the number one health problem on
campuses," write Prochaska, Prochaska, Cohen, and Gomes, Et al. as an opening to the results of their research study. Among the problems associated with "heavy drinking by college students" are
"higher rates of property damage, driving under influence, injury, behaviors that are regretted, missed classes, interpersonal relationship difficulties, and unprotected or unplanned sex" (Prochaska, Et al. 34).
The student will note that this is a matter of declining social capital, according to Robert D. Putnam who argues that "social capital gained as
the result of our communal activity and community sharing has been shrinking over the past forty years and this shrinkage poses a serious threat to our civic and personal health"
(Jarvi and Wegner 23). Personal health is at least true for women. A 2003 McMurray, Harrell, Bradley, Deng & Bangdiwala longitudinal study on fitness in relationship to work capacity found
that girls capacity to work and study is substantially reduced by an increase in body weight. Though the study did not find the same to be true of African American
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