#SFatPauley: Bruin Students/Alum Target UCLA AD - Launch Petition to Restore Students' Sideline Seats
by MexiBruin on Apr 27, 2011 12:50 PM PDT
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UPDATE II (HM): We have reached 700 signatures! Keep them coming Bruins! Keep reaching out to your classmates, people you may know at work. I'm finding that people I talk to, STILL know little to nothing about this. Yet, when they learn they cannot help but feel strongly about this. Keep spreading the word!
UPDATE (BN): The petition is catching fire now. Over 250 signatures in already today. If you have not done it yet, Sign the petition today and pass it on to everyone else.
In the past week a small number of students and myself embarked on an ambitious plan to collect signatures of those opposed to the Morgan Center's decision to remove the student section from the Pauley Pavilion sideline.
To be clear; our goal is to restore the Student Section to Pauley Pavilion as it was described in the original Campaign of Champions seating guide. It illustrates a student section that stretches the length of an entire sideline and behind one basket forming an "L" shape.
We further believe the student section should be placed opposite the Television Cameras so that we may "enhance visitor and student amenities" and directly "impact recruiting." (Quotes are taken from the COC Seating Guide).
Sign the petition today. You can sign by going here. Please help get the word out by linking this on Facebook or Tweeting using the buttons at the bottom of this post.
Follow me after the jump to learn more onhow you can help.
The first step is obvious: if you agree with us, sign the petition; then do everything you can to gather signatures. This is one of those opportunities where everyone of us can do something for the greater good. Everyone of us can reach out to old classmates and encourage them to get on board. If they know nothing about this; this is your opportunity to inform them about what's going on. There is an email function that will allow you to email up to five friends at once. You also have the ability to 'like' it on facebook. Do not rest once you have informed your friends and classmates. Check in with them later, remind them it will only take 30 seconds of their time but it directly impact UCLA students, alumni, and our cherished Athletics program for years to come.
Don't forget to put the link up on your facebook or myspace pages and/or Tweet this to all of your friends.
If you prefer the cut and paste method, the full URL is: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/enduclastudentsbanishment/
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Select-a-Seat this weekend at the Rose Bowl
I cant collect signatures because of other commitments…I hope someone can.
by Bruin Dad and Grad on Apr 26, 2011 1:05 PM PDT reply actions
i am working the NFL draft this weekend, and won't make it out to the RB
If anybody would like to take up the mantle of leadership this weekend, please feel free to email me: hectorcam01@gmail.com
The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden
I signed the petition
and I hope it causes Morgan Off-Center to change it’s collective mind.
Having said that, I think this should only be the first step. The students should be taken off the endline and put on the sidelines, where they belong, and where they were when I was a student.
This should be a no-brainer for Morgan Off-Center. They are convinced that the students really wanted to be along the endline because its a better experience. Well, guys, can’t you sell that to the people on the sidelines whose seats are going to be given back to the students? If it was a better deal for students, it should also be a better deal for the general public. Really, Morgan Off-Center, you can’t have it both ways.
This can't be Fox
Did one of your surfer nephews hack into your computer?
Surely, the chancellor of Apostrophe University would never write “it’s collective mind”…say it ain’t so, Fox, say it ain’t so. Has the darkness gotten to you, in the end?
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
I Signed and Here's the Message I Sent
In a building that honors tradition and Nell and John Wooden, on a campus in which maximizing the student experience should be the touchstone of decisions like this, it is important to honor the principles and legacy of Coach by respecting the students as we know he would have wanted done.
When Pauley opened, the students had the sideline seats and the section extended to the upper decks.
The process taking the students’ prime seats and relocating them in less desirable areas is the shameful equivalent of the policy that removed Native Americans from their lands and put them on reservation land no one wanted.
sjh
I wish I'd said that
+1. They are, indeed, disrespecting Coach with this move. Not to mention, crapping all over students.
My message:
Pauley must be for students, first. In my day, I had sideline seats at both Pauley Pavilion and the L.A. Coliseum. Experiencing high-level UCLA sports up close is probably 75% of what made me a lifelong Bruin. Students today deserve the same, rich experience.
Students and team are one and the same. They BELONG together. Banishing students to the endline, away from the team, diminishes the student experience tremendously, insulates the team from their fellow students, and diminishes overall enthusiasm in Pauley.
You cannot do this. You must not do this.
Donation
Hector,
Does the donation go to you and the forces of reason or does it go to the company that handles the petition?
I want to make sure it goes to underwriting this effort.
sjh
I have not asked for any donations.
The petition is hosted free of cost, so there is no need to fund it’s continued presence.
The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden
Signed, rec'd, emailed!
Thank you again Mexi and student affiliates!
I signed and here's my message:
Goodness gracious, sakes alive. The athletic department has trampled on the legacy of John Wooden, stifled dissent, attempted to deceive students and alumni and misrepresented a student opinion poll.
Not only do I demand that the student section be restored to the sidelines, I demand that Dan Guerrero and his whole crew of second-rate, dishonest, incompetent hacks be summarily fired and escorted from campus. No one who had a hand in the decision to move the student section behind the basket should spend one more day representing the university in any capacity. It was a shameless, greedy, mocking sell-out of the whole concept of student athletics. It was indecent and unforgivable.
UCLA will not get one penny of my money, not ever, not when I am alive and not even over my dead body in my estate unless the student section is restored to the sidelines as it was originally depicted on the Campaign of Champions fund raising pamphlet.
Yeah, Seth. If you have strong feelings about something, you should go ahead and let them out.
by Fox 71 on Apr 27, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yes, I will try to be clearer next time.
I probably softened my language a little too much.
by Seth Chandler on Apr 27, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Great to see
it’s a broad spectrum of students and alums signing. Here’s my count of the first 187 signees by decade of graduation:
2010’s: 47
2000’s: 80
1990’s: 28
1980’s: 10
1970’s: 8
1960’s: 6
1950’s: 3
blank: 10
Also, in the time it took me to tally, the count went from 180 to 187. Onward!
Roses are red, violets are blue...f*** $C.
Way to go, young alumni!
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
by OswegoBruin on Apr 27, 2011 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Love the trend
More than 50% of those graduating in the ten years of the 2000s graduated in the two years of the 2010s. In general, the younger the students/alumni, the more numerous the protesters.
(Please, no cracks about us geezers dying off)
collective "minds"
Doesn’t the word mind indicate somekind of brain working? I do not think there is any at Moron Center. So the students were deceived but the petition shows there is life out here.
It seems with the lies, fabricatiobns, and general misinformation that maybe Bernie Madoff trained others. Oust Dan now.
Signed and shared
Also, UCLA Alumni Day is coming up. I won’t be able to attend it, but it may an event to get the word out.
I just posted this on BruinGold
And someone has posted it on Bruinzone as well. We should get this up on BRO.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
Haven't accessed it yet
because of web filters at work. Will have to wait til I get home. One question though, Is this meant for Students/Alumni only?
This is what the petitions says -- sounds like its for everyone
We the students, alumni, and fans of UCLA Athletics do not approve of the new student seating arrangement, and demand that the Morgan Center return the student section for UCLA Men’s Basketball games to the sidelines as it was originally depicted on the Campaign of Champions fund raising pamphlet.
Up to 385 now
Copy the link and send it to all of your UCLA family and friends in your e-mail contacts.
444 signatures as of this posting.
Keep it up, and forward this to EVERYONE.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
645 signatures as as right now
Keep it going, Bruins. Email, Facebook, Tweet, telephone (OMG how ancient is that?). Spread the word.
This doesn’t call for firings or anything controversial or drastic – just to put the students back on the sidelines. We can all agree on that.
greg in denver, UCLA guy for life - BruinsNation.com
700 signatures.
Keep it up, forward it to everyone you know!
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
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