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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 |
PAGE 5 OF:ARTICLES AND NEWS REPORTS DOCUMENTING THE RECENT HISTORY OF OHIO UNIVERSITY'S DECISION TO DROP THREE VARSITY SPORTS TEAMSAthens Messenger - February 16, 2007http://www.athensmessenger.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=273&ArticleID=2613
From "The Post Online," Friday, February 16, 2007[Might this mean that the Board of Trustees is just as alarmed at OU's financial condition and consequences of financial problems that prompted OU to cut our teams? Let's hope they use the money not to be spent as described below to honor the commitment OU made to our student athletes when they recruited them.]JUST IN: Trustees delay Porter renovationsDavid Hendricks / Staff Writer / dh100006@ohiou.eduOhio University’s Board of Trustees unanimously tabled a $5.7 million dollar expansion to Porter Hall and the demolition of Anderson Laboratory to make way for improved access to the new Baker University Center because of budget concerns. Approximately $3.7 million from the state of Ohio and $3.6 million of university funding were earmarked for the $7.2 million project. The university is not sure how the money from the project will be reshuffled, if at all, but the decision will be made in time for the next board meeting in April, said George Mauzy, OU media specialist. The board tabled the project, which has been planned since November 2002, at their meeting in Chillicothe yesterday. Trustees cited concerns over an expected budget shortfall of $6 million to $11 million, first announced at a university news conference last week. Construction was to begin on the Porter Hall addition in June, and would be completed before the demolition of Anderson Laboratory. Improved access to the new Baker University center from Richland Avenue requires the destruction of Anderson, which is used by the psychology department. The laboratory space in Anderson will be replaced by the Porter Hall addition. The psychology department was looking at carpet swatches for the addition today, said Margret Appel, the psychology department’s assistant chair for undergraduate studies. She hadn’t heard about the board’s decision until this afternoon, but laughed as she reflected on the morning’s preoccupation with carpet color, comparing it to “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.” Oxbow Trail is the only road to Baker’s first floor. A heavy-duty road capable of supporting truck and bus traffic would be built from Richland Avenue to Baker over the Anderson lab site. The combined cost of the destruction of Anderson lab, work on the Bird Arena parking lot and heavy-duty road construction is $730,000. Anderson Lab was built in 1973 for animal testing by the psychology department. The lab received a $200,000 addition in 2002, one month before the decision was made to demolish the building. University Funding of the Porter/Anderson Project Total: $3,523,716 College of Arts and Sciences: $2,002,443 Baker University Center: $700,000 Office of the Provost: $571,273 Department of Psychology: $250,000 |
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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