College can be very stressful for students. The heavy work load from classes, the independence, and teaching styles not seen in high school can really cause a student to stress and shut down. Colleges can't really help students by taking away work and independence, so to combat stress they go down a different road. They offer fun activities to the student body to keep their minds from always being on work. One of the largest activities to advertised to us students are school sports. Often as students we are bombarded with email after email telling us to go to the upcoming game, to "Support our fellow Niners as they take on..."which when thinking about it is a very clever way to get our minds off ourself and destress.
It also servers another function, it attempts to make us as students more opinionated and passionate about something. In the article "the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students" by Mark Edmundson, he complaines about students lack of passion and how they are scared to actually speak their mind and show their opinions. This is very true, they way our culture has raised us, we are scared to say what we think because we fear it may offend someone. Edmundson's solution is liberal study classes but I feel sports may work just as well. In college sports their is only one side a students can really be on, thats the side of his school. So by attending a sports game students combine their views of the school and come together to "attack" the opposing school. Their is no lack of passion at a college football game, even Edmundson would have to agree with me on that.
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