From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Nov 24 11:59:24 1998 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA28558 for britdisc-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:41:51 GMT Received: from euler.central.cranfield.ac.uk (euler.central.cranfield.ac.uk [138.250.48.9]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA28489 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:41:44 GMT Received: from cant006f.coa.cranfield.ac.uk ([138.250.72.6]) by euler.central.cranfield.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.92 #2) for britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk id 0ziGql-0007DA-00; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:41:43 +0000 From: aaron altman <A.Altman@cranfield.ac.uk> Reply-To: A.Altman@cranfield.ac.uk To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Re: BUSA In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.981121131849.24221D-100000@teachserv> Message-ID: <SIMEON.9811241140.F@cant006f.ecs.pc.cranfield.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:41:40 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: Simeon for Win32 Version 4.1.2 Build (32) X-Authentication: none MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Been away for a few days..... I am not sure where some of this previously mentioned information comes from, but I will add my own personal experience. Having been a Student Union President, and having a strong position to influence my Sports and Societies officer, I managed to learn some of the details of what it would take to get our sport added to BUSA. There are many ways into BUSA, but in the end, the Annual General meeting is the place that it can all happen. If you get support within a region to take an issue to the National AGM (as we tried two years ago), that issue is raised in front of the National AGM. If the collection of elected National Sports and Societies officers sees it appropriate, they can pass it on to the BUSA Exec (mostly elected), who then make a decision. As far as I was led to believe, there is no FORMULA for what they do and don't accept (meaning, Sports Council recognition is not a necessary condition, at least not via this avenue). The difficulty, therefore, lies with getting enough SU sports and societies officers to support the motion to make it a BUSA sport. To get it taken to the national BUSA conference as a motion, and to have it brought before the BUSA exec for approval, and of course, the necessary lobbying/educating of BUSA exec members That was the procedure as I understood it. The year that we considered drumming up interest was the second year of a BUSA re-organization in which they were not accepting any new sports. That has been over for 2 years now. So, drop it of you'd like, but don't say impossible. I refuse to believe that one. But then, my experience with these types of organizations over here has led me to ask a different kind of question when someone says, "it can't be done" Aaron ---------------------- aaron altman Cranfield University A.Altman@Cranfield.ac.uk