From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed May 14 17:06:01 1997 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk id QAA03710; Wed, 14 May 1997 16:43:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from venus.le.ac.uk by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id QAA03687; Wed, 14 May 1997 16:43:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from hawk.le.ac.uk by venus.le.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 14 May 1997 16:39:54 +0100 Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:39:41 +0100 (BST) From: Scott <iws1@leicester.ac.uk> X-Sender: iws1@hawk To: britdisc <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Sports Council. In-Reply-To: <2408BCB7520@mcg1.mcg.gla.ac.uk> Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.970514162611.18647B-100000@hawk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk David wrote: > Kevin touched on the point that occured to me. Why did we apply as > disc sports? > > Surely an argument for a sport to be included is to apply as a sport > - not several all lumped together. Once one disc based sport is > recognised then a huge obstacle (namely the "frisbee" stuff) will be > removed from all the others. When the Sports Council were initially approached back almost two years ago now, the advice from our case officer Phil Collier was that the application would be viewed more favourably if the family of disc sports were presented in one package. Maybe he lied! Sam asked, what should we do next... My personal view is that we shouldn't give up! I would be very much in favour of lobbying Tony Banks, but all the approaches Sam identified at once would work even better. My usual fear is that everyone is full of good intention and gusto but short on actual time to commit to furthering our collective cause. >From my experience of public institutions if you pester them enough they eventually give in just to shut you up, but this kind of approach takes (wo)manpower. So keep the idea's coming, but more importantly, anyone who is prepared to give and hour a week to the cause and has access to a telephone or computer or photocopier, please let yourself be known. This more than anything else will be to key to our successful recognition by the Sports Council. Scott /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ SCOTT: Ian Scotland Tel: 0116 2525824 Fax: 0116 2523154 E-mail: iws1@le.ac.uk http://wol.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk/buf/ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\