Rosenthal says students, as long as they don't have physical disabilities, should be engaged in some form of exercise for 30 minutes at least three times a week.
The Loss of the Team
"[Intramurals] are a pleasant retreat from the daily grind," Watson says. "And I'm not pressured into doing it, which is what makes it kind of therapeutic."
Yet Tao argues that very few students get together to play team sports on an informal basis.
"Other than intramurals, there are no opportunities to get together and just play a sport casually," she says. "At other schools I feel like people get together randomly to go play football or other sports."
Strucker thinks the ultimate solution to students' fitness woes lies in the reintroduction of mandatory physical activity, for even just an hour a week.
"There would be some resistance, but if you had a lot of fun classes, like archery, people would enjoy it," she says. " If they're going to make us do [Quantitative Reasoning], I don't think gym's a big deal."