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PETITIONPlease sign our petition to save dropped OU sports. Click here. If your current circumstances or position with Ohio University do not require anonymity, we request that you sign with your name rather than as "Anonymous" as some have. Thank you and thanks to the Women's Lacrosse blog for setting up this petition.MORE LINKSBobcat Attack Message BoardOhio University Alumni AssociationOU Students have an active discussion going on in FaceBook.Com. Click here to go to FaceBook.Com and join in.OU Student Newspaper "The Post Online"www.EquityinAthletics.orgSave James Madison University Sports.orgTaking Inside Higher Ed to the MatEMAIL CONTACT FOR THIS SITE: SaveOUSports ATgmailDOTcom |
Read the Latest About Our Campaign to Reinstate Sports at Ohio UniversityMost Recent Site UpdatesOU Lacrosse Alum Megan Sanders's Letter to OU AD Kirby Hocutt in "The Athens News," Thursday, March 15, 2007. Megan played lacrosse for OU from 1999-2002 and was a captain of the team.Letter from OU's Board of Trustees"Continued contact requesting a change in the decision will not be considered."A pdf fileNote the reaction to questions about OU leadership's integrity. Do people of integrity handle such an important decision process in secret? We don't think so.ELOQUENT WORDS FROM UNITED SWIM PARENTS
OU should honor commitment to athletes with phase-outNew Jersey Legislative Committee Unanimously Passes Resolution Urging Rutgers to Reinstate Cut SportsWork Underway to Save TeamsPlan to Save Track and FieldStudent Senate information session continues dialogue between students and universityCorrespondence with OU officials, local, state, and national officials and news ArticlesOpen Letter to the Ohio University Board of Trustees From All Three Team CoordinatorsLetters being emailed to Governor Strickland, Ohio State legislators, and U.S. Senators and Congressional RepresentativesSports OrganizationsNCAA SITS UP AND TAKES NOTICENCAA President Dr. Myles Brand discussed the OU decision to cut varsity sports teams on his weekly podcast Monday, March 5, on "Mondays With Myles." Listen here to Dr. Brand's condemnation of universities that cut "minor" sports programs so they can reallocate their funding to already well-funded "major" sports programs.NCAA'S OFFICIAL BLOG: THE DOUBLE-A ZONEStrong words from the College Sports Council about the Title IX consultant used by OURead the full article here
Think this decision was wrong? Links below have easy-to-use already written letters and links to send emails.TAKE ACTION NOW! Link to our page with all Ohio's U.S. and State political leadership email addressesCONTACT WOMEN IN THE U.S. SENATEDo you think the women in the U.S. Senate would approve of how Title IX is being used in this way to hurt collegiate athletics, contrary to its original intent?We don't think so either. Click here to go to a new page with the web mail forms for all 15 women in the U.S. Senate and ask them to look into this misuse of civil rights law.REPORTS ON COMMUNICATIONS WITH OU OFFICIALSSaturday, February 17, 2007 - 7:14 PM - The OU Board of Trustees met an extra day and they chose not to overturn OU's decision to cut the teams. Click on this link to read the full "Athens Messenger" article.February 15 - 16, 2007 - Representatives of the dropped teams attended the OU Board of Trustees meeting and presented letters explaining our side of this story and a formal study of OU's finances that highlights serious financial problems about which the Board may not be aware. Links to these documents are immediately below.Friday, February 16, 2007: Click here for Athens Messenger and OU's "The Post Online" reports on Team Coordinators' requests to reverse the decision at the Board of Trustees meeting.OU Athletic Director and Chief Financial Officer Meet with Student SenateLinks to analyses of official OU documents and other material performed and underway"Institutional Incompetence and Mismanagement""An Examination of the Financial Affairs of the Ohio University Athletic Department and the Impact on Title IX Compliance"(A pdf file)NOTE: This document is being formatted for presentation on this website and will be available soon.A document presented to the Ohio University Board of Trustees on February 15, 2007, supporting sports teams eliminated by OU, and subsequently modified with ongoing research. It was compiled, and is being added to, by student-athletes, alumni, and parents.Updates to the document are underway using the full Internal Audit. The copy OU originally sent us contained only odd-numbered pages that prevented us from analyzing it properly. We are remedying that now.Keep checking back. We expect this document to grow with new information. Addenda will be added as we progress through our research.Other CommunicationsOU Excluded Official University Representatives from Covert Decision ProcessExcerpt from an email sent by an OU student government official:"The mission of the Inter Collegiate Athletic Committee (IAC) of the Faculty Senate is to meet with the Athletic Director and Assistant Athletic Director to ensure that the Athletic Department is doing its job."There was no student involvement in the decision process. A sitting member on that committee since the beginning of the year informs us "that at no time was the decision process that might result in cutting teams brought up to the general body meeting of IAC or in any Faculty Senate meeting by any member: student, grad student, faculty, classified, or administrative."The student government official goes on to say:"This was completely closed door! We, as students, pay their salaries and what do we get? Our sports cut! In our experience, this behavior is not characteristic of Ohio University, but rather what many of us who work closely with the University, the horrible administrative staff put in place. Our impression is that AD Hocutt is being used and the President and the VP of Finance are the ones behind this."See page on "OU Violates Own Policy" for official OU policy this secret process violated.Some of our correspondence with national mediaOU In National NewsUnder ConstructionSee how OU is perceived by national news media. Time for a leadership change? |
DROPPED TEAMS
2006 Women's Lacrosse Team
Women's Save Ohio Lacrosse Blog
LaxPower.com message board discussion on OU LAX
Women's Lacrosse web page at OU website
Swimming and Diving
Save Ohio Swimming and DivingandSave Ohio Swimming
Swimming and Diving web page at OU website
Save Ohio University Swimming Discussion Forum
Track and Field
Bringing Back Ohio Track Blog
Track and Field web page at OU website
YouTube video put together for the Track and Field Team
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