A student's college experience includes athletics, hands down. Unless you're at some special technological school, athletics is part of the deal. We're on the O-Zone Board and get a ton of e-mails every single day about upcoming athletic events, so we know and see firsthand that students really do care about Intercollegiate Athletics and that it's important to them. Students don't want to wake up on Saturdays and go watch an intramural sports game. No one tunes in to ESPN every weekend to see what highly anticipated intramural football game is going to be on. Students go to sporting events to cheer on the players and support their school and feel a sense of belonging. We love looking up at the games and seeing everyone in their green and white. It's what school spirit is all about and it's what athletics brings. By taking away these athletic events, you are taking away an outlet for students.
For those who don't wish to spend a weekend afternoon day drinking, school sporting events are a great alternative. Sure, there are plenty of things to do around campus, but the more you take away from us, the less we have to do and the more likely Ohio University will resort back to creating the party school image, the one the administration is desperately trying to get rid of.
Courtney Cohen is a junior studying journalism and former columnist for The Post and Samantha Moline is a junior studying psychology and human biology.
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