From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Sat Nov 21 22:51:42 1998 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA28397 for britdisc-outgoing; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:38:18 GMT Received: from mail-gw1.webleicester.net (mailgate.webleicester.co.uk [195.146.160.12]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA28391 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:38:16 GMT Received: from pii266 (pool-pri1-003.webleicester.co.uk [195.146.164.3]) by mail-gw1.webleicester.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA15808 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:33:16 GMT Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:43:36 -0000 Message-ID: <01BE15A0.601FCCC0.bravil@webleicester.co.uk> From: Ben Ravilious <bravil@webleicester.co.uk> Reply-To: "bravil@webleicester.co.uk" <bravil@webleicester.co.uk> To: "britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: BUSA Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:42:45 -0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Any official recognition is a good thing. Once we've sorted the World Clubs stuff out I'm sure the BUF committee will want to discuss BUSA. Any further information which players have would be useful but please don't go making any formal approaches to BUSA until the BUF committee has had time to think about it. Cheers Ben Ravilious BUF Secretary "Your email is in a queueing system and will be answered when one of our operatives becomes available.........." -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Retter [SMTP:wayne@phidelta.demon.co.uk] Sent: 21 November 1998 19:58 To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Re: BUSA Phil, and others A long time ago, I was a student type and tried what you're suggesting. Back then the seperate Uni and Poly sytems were beginning their combination and BUSA was just off the drawing board. The basic rejection was due to 'not enough interest'. This conclusion was formed on the results of a questionnaire sent to all (BSSF, ie Unis, I think) member establishments and having only X% return the questionnaire, of which only Y% actually had a team established and Z% were interested in hearing more. X, Y and Z were deemed insignificant numbers at the time. Part of my reason for approaching BSSF at the time was that if we could get the 'student' part of Ultimate recognised, events like the Student Regionals/Nationals and further things like Student Leagues would have the additional site/administration resources and maybe funding and seem more 'serious'. The other part was that if we could go to the Sports Council and say "the students are taken seriously" we might have an extra foot on the ladder. I'd suggest that you contact the necessary BUF personnel (Student Coordinator [Dave Barnard], BUF Secretary [Ben Ravillious - a man who must have inherited lots of informative files], Publicity Officer [Jon Hope], and maybe Dave 'Sammy' Neilson and Ian 'Scott' Scotland) to get as much background and progress detail as possible. All the best Wayne Phil Cooper <Philip.Cooper@teaching.earth.ox.ac.uk> writes >OK let's open yet another can of worms on Britdisc but this one's mainly >for you student types out there: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Retter at home: 0181-663-4856 wayne@phidelta.demon.co.uk mobile: 07970-903420 at work: 01737-273611 wayne_retter@watsonwyatt.co.uk