| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 2651 | Lynsie Farrel | |
| 2652 | judy melillo | |
| 2653 | Elizabeth | |
| 2654 | Chris Shaker, Esq | |
| 2655 | Kathryn Heffernan | Lacrosse is an up and coming sport, and everyday the participation in this sport grows all over the country. OU has put itself into a compromising situation if it was hoping to be competitive for perspective college students in the future. |
| 2656 | Anonymous | Please reconsider. It's disappointing that only income generating sports seem to be supported. This is a bad trend in college sports, and a worse trend in trimming of academic departments |
| 2657 | Evan Shaw | |
| 2658 | William Empson | I feel that the aproach and reason, provided by those involved, to cancel the various programs displays to the world a shortsightedness, selfishness and failure in fulfilling their duty to the men and women who attend this university. |
| 2659 | stan huntsman | |
| 2660 | Donna Ellis | |
| 2661 | Daniel Reed | I'm ashamed that this could happen at such a reputable school.......... |
| 2662 | Anonymous | Very disappointing news! I have a son who was looking forward to going to OU and so was I since it is only 2 hours away from home. Now that the men's swim team will not exist, we are looking at other Universities. Please reconsider reinstating the men's swim program. |
| 2663 | Dayna McCormick | I just found this petition...The decision to drop the men's team has affected Ohio University in a negative way....all last Spring and Summer, I heard nothing but negative comments when I went back to the Cincinnati and Oxford area...OU Alums by the way, who will no longer be giving their school money.....This is the first I have commented on it.......The list of teams that were cut is appalling...I truly don't understand how you can justify having the staff you have for football and cutting these sports to support it.....;photographers, aides, etc....gimme a break.....and the dinners that football players get on game day, while the swimmers have to eat takeout pizza the days of their meets.....has disgusted me for years, yet it goes on......and now you are cutting them out completely.....athletic directors truly don't get athletes, and which ones are in it for the sport, and not the perks.....OU has now refined itself as another kind of institution, but I guess that was the point.....not an institution I will support. |
| 2664 | Bob Clifford | |
| 2665 | Anonymous | |
| 2666 | Patty Canfield | My son is a sophmore High School swimmer in Florida. We have been very interested in OU as a college for him yet this news of dropping the swim team is very disturbing since this is his sport. How can we help in bringing it back? |
| 2667 | Dianne Villarreal | Is it 2007 or is it 1957? Cutting these programs will only weaken Ohio University's future in sports and here's why...since Title IX was enacted 34 years ago, female h.s. athletic participation has increased by 904%!!! Girls participation in 2006 marked an all-time high: 1 in 2 h.s. girls play sports! Girls represent 41.4% of all h.s. participants. Where will they go now? Not to OU. There are many and they want to play, let them or lose them, 1 in 2 of them. Enough said. |
| 2668 | Ed Mont | |
| 2669 | Scott Leeseberg | These are activities that make up a part of the college experience and eliminating them will in all probability cause a loss of enrollment by good students, good athletes and good people. |
| 2670 | maggie | |
| 2671 | Max Kaplan | |
| 2672 | Mike Foley | |
| 2673 | David C. Prim | The OU Administration is a joke. Dropping men's sports so that you can get into compliance with Title IX is a joke. They took the easy way out. Why don't they step up to the plate and try other alternatives. |
| 2674 | Craig Prim | As a varsity, track student-athlete at the University of Cincinnati I always enjoyed competing against OU. I am sadden by the Universities' decision and I am disappointed for the student-athletes still attending OU, the alumni and the NCAA as a whole. |
| 2675 | Mickey Finn | |
| 2676 | Anonymous | Bad mistake. Awful decision! |
| 2677 | David E. Durham | |
| 2678 | Stephanie Stark | |
| 2679 | Richard Fulmer | |
| 2680 | Victoria Anderko McCabe | I was an Athletic Training major from 1997-2002 and worked specifically with Track & Field and Swimming & Diving. They were amazing to work with and I had some of my best memories with those teams. Please keep the tradition alive. |
| 2681 | Frank Killeavy | This just boggles the mind. Women's lacrosse may be the fastest growing sport in the United States. My daughter is entering her HS Senior year as a top offensive player and is currently scouting colleges to attend. This is the first time I've come across a university or college actually dropping lacrosse. Most other schools seem to be adding it as a club sport and then trying to move up into division III and beyond. You folks have my sympathy. Women's lacrosse players tend to be good students. You will lose a number of potential students who are looking for the opportunity to continue their playing at the college level...very shortsighted in my opinion. |
| 2682 | Christen Marie | |
| 2683 | Hunter Schwind | |
| 2684 | Terri Hood-Brown | I am an Alumni of Ohio University and would hate to see any of the sports cut from the schools athletic teams |
| 2685 | Doug Brown | |
| 2686 | Gregory Zuleger | There is no peace without justice. Your athletics will be in turmoil until you apply just policies in your athletic program. Ohio will never be a national power in football or basketball, so let's focus on being the best all-around athletic program in the MAC. Let's give the greatest opportunity to the greatest number of student athletes possible. Wasn't it Athens that began athletics and wasn't track & field the corner stone of the first olympics? And don't we live in Athens? |
| 2687 | Shaun Williams |
| 2688 | Karen Markley |
| 2689 | Sean Kelley | |
| 2690 | Anonymous | none |
| 2691 | Bill Wilcoxson | |
| 2692 | Kyle | |
| 2693 | Michael Kerns | |
| 2694 | Tyler | |