[CUCBC Captains] Captains' meeting reminder and message from CUCBC chair

[Wilfried Genest]

Dear all,

May I remind you first that an extraordinary Captains' meeting will take
place this evening (11 February) from 18:00 to 19:00 in the Large Lecture
Theatre in the School of Divinity at St John's. Please be on time.


The meeting this evening was called in response to the letter copied below
, and the agenda therefore consists of one item, namely consideration of
the issues raised. Also attached is a response from the committees. May I
remind you that Captains' meetings are not an open forum but attendance and
voting (two votes per club) is limited to current captains according to the
list held by CUCBC, and CUCBC committee members. I look forward to a useful
and I hope fruitful meeting.



With my best wishes,

Dr D J Munday, Chair CUCBC.



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"Dear Chairman of CUCBC,



We, the undersigned, call upon you to hold a Captains' Meeting to discuss
the reduction in the number of divisions in the Lent Bumps 2015.



The decision from the CUCBC senior committee to reduce the number of
divisions and cut one day of racing has led to a frankly ridiculous
situation, with every single second women's boat having to qualify, and
over 400 people who want to row being prevented from racing.



The reasoning that was supplied to us to explain this change is flawed and
short-sighted. More importantly, as recorded in the minutes, the change was
not debated with the captains or even voted on!



It seems obvious that CUCBC has failed its own purpose, which is to "take
into account the wishes of the college clubs", represented by their elected
captains, and hence we wish to call a meeting to go back to AT LEAST 4
men's and 3 women's divisions.



It is essential to the development of college and university rowing that
the hundreds of rowers in lower boats do not become dissatisfied with
rowing and decide to drop out. If going back to the original number of
divisions requires that the racing take place over five days, then we
demand our representatives and CUCBC to use the resources available to them
and make this possible.



Best Regards,

The Captains of College Boat Clubs in the attached email thread"
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