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Craig Enc 1145 Florida State University 17 March 17, 2014 University Recreation Center Life and Culture "Fitness Often Not a Priority for College Students." Fox News . Fox News Network, 3 January 2012. Web. 17 Mar 2014. <http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/01/03/fitness-often-not-priority-forcollege-students/>. This news article explains how as youth get older their involvement in physical activity declines. It tells how fitness is often not a priority for college students. The decline is the worst among young men entering college. It then begs the question of how a colleges athletic facilities play into the students involvement in exercise. This source while I do believe it may be correct does raise questions. Most students in college, at least at FSU want to go to the gym and improve themselves. I hope to address this and better show how the schools available facilities influence students decisions. "Florida State University Leach Center and Fitness & Movement Clinic." FSU Campus Recreation. Florida State University Campus Recreation and Division of Student Affairs. Web. 17 Mar 2014. <http://campusrec.fsu.edu/leach/>. This source is more of an informative one to what is relevant in the current time at the leach. It is the home page of the FSUs Leach fitness center. This is a page students can go to learn more about what is going on at the Leach and what they offer. I think the tone of the page can contribute to my project. It

2 is encouraging and friendly and aims to wrap students into using the schools recreation center. I would like to address if maybe the website contributes to students desire to get more active and also possibly compare it to other university campus recreation pages to see their differences and different effects on students. PAULINE, JEFFREY S. "Physical Activity Behaviors, Motivation, and Self-Efficacy among College Students." College Student Journal 47.1 (2013): 64-74. Print. This study was to find out the base level of physical activity in young adults on college campuses and the factors that contribute. These factors include motivation and efficiency factors. The purpose was how to use this information to develop programs targeted at these young adults. I think this source will be very beneficial in answering questions pertaining to gender. It has many statistics and survey results that are relevant to college fitness and may provide answers to why men and women sometimes go about things so differently in a fitness setting. Reed, Julian A., and D. A. Phillips. "Relationships between Physical Activity and the Proximity of Exercise Facilities and Home Exercise Equipment used by Undergraduate University Students." Journal of American College Health 53.6 (2005): 285-90. Print. The article aims to show the relationships between physical activity and how it is related to proximity of fitness facilities. The survey also took into account the effects of having a home gym environment. This source will be useful in that it

3 can give us a better idea of what factors contribute to students deciding how much to participate in fitness around campus. I hope this source will give a better insight into why there is a decline as students age. Though they may live farther from the gym is this the only factor contributing to their lack of involvement or is there more? Salvatore, Jessica, and Jeanne Marecek. "Gender in the Gym: Evaluation Concerns as Barriers to Womens Weight Lifting." Sex Roles 63.7 (2010): 556-67. Print. This article examines gender in the gym, specifically the role of womens weightlifting. The article gives information regarding why women exercise differently than men and why theyre less likely to lift weights. The article covers four different studies that tell how women exercise in the gym and why they choose to do what they do also while disregarding benefits from weight lifting. This page will be important because it can help facilitate the translation of the culture of a university gym and answer questions people may have concerning the differences between men and women and their goals and how they typically go about reaching them. "The 25 Most Amazing Campus Student Recreation Centers." Best College Reviews. Best College Reviews. Web. 17 Mar 2014. <http://www.bestcollegereviews.org/features/the-25-most-amazing-campusstudent-recreation-centers/>.

4 This source aims to show the top twenty-five college recreation centers in the country. The purpose of this list is to show how universities are evolving and helps to answer the question of what attracts a student to a school. Universities are constantly competing and having the best facilities can play a big factor in a future students decision to attend. Although subjective, this list does have value in that all of the rec centers described are the top of the line. This page describes their differences and what sets them apart from each other as well as it gives a physical sense of the facility to compare.