Preferential Treatment of Student Athletes.
The athletics are what brings in the money for the major universities and the athletes deserve to reap of benefits or preferential treatment that may come with this. The student athletes put in up to up to ten hours a day, Monday through Saturday, including Sundays, depending on the sport. Along with the practices, the students also participate in games. From my own personal experience, the baseball players can miss up to four days of class a week due to playing games at other colleges. Missing classes is tough enough to do and still be successful for the regular student, but missing a number of classes not bye choice, and keeping up your grades is very hard. Because of this, student athletes should have and deserve to have a separate dorm and should be offered more opportunities to be successful in the classroom than the average student. .
Student athletes should be in the same dorm because they can relate to each other and share their experiences with one another. They all have the same thing in common; the fact that they are athletic and they are at their college to participate in their sport. Their own dorm also gives a since of security where the regular dorms do not have. At Georgia Southern, there are three to four doors that one must go through to get to their room, where the regular dorms may have two at the most. This is necessary because there are people out there that want to mess with them simply because of the fact that they are athletes. By saying this, I mean other students who do not like athletes or feel like they are receiving things that he or she is not, might try to lash out and find anything they can to get the person in trouble.
A few other reasons for athletes receiving their own facilities and other special privileges. Athletes give up to half or even three fourths of their day participating in their sport.