Leading article: Fit for nothing

Thursday 13 January 2005 01:00 GMT

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How to make sport cool at university? The question arises because so many students are so uninterested in taking exercise.

How to make sport cool at university? The question arises because so many students are so uninterested in taking exercise. Eight out of 10 say that they never, or only occasionally, take part in sport on the weekday afternoons given over to team games at university. This must explain why so many - one in four students - think that they are overweight. The quality of campus sports facilities doesn't seem to matter. Isn't it time that the National Union of Students launched a keep- fit campaign to get students out of bed and into the gym or onto the football pitch?

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