Are they listening?

by Perri Lewis     Issue 832

The message is loud and clear: Cardiff University students want better sports facilities. They’ve been wearing stickers and t-shirts and signing an online petition. On February 17 they’ll also be running around Bute Park to show how dedicated they are to sport and fitness. The Invest in Sport campaign has taken off in a big way, despite being only a week old.

But the surge of support is not surprising: compared to the other Russell Group institutions Cardiff offers a poor sporting service to students and we have the right to be annoyed. A gym which fits around 40 people in it and a sports centre designed for a university population of 8,000: this is just not good enough for us. If Bath and Bristol and Birmingham can have decent facilities, why can’t we?

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