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Petition to GBRA
On Monday, January 27th, Georgia Bicycle Racing Association held a special board of directors meeting to discuss and vote on the issue of junior categories at Georgia State Championship races.
GBRA voted to reinstate the USAC National Championship Junior Age Categories for the Georgia State Championship races. Junior girls and boys will be scored separately within their respective 2 year age categories. (minutes from GBRA meetings can be found on the gacycling.org website)
In an effort to grow junior cycling, we call on all cyclists to promote cycling whenever possible. Please stay informed by liking the Georgia Bicycle Racing Association Facebook page. Sign up to receive news on the gacycling.org website. Take the opportunity to introduce road cycling to juniors from other sports such as triathlons, swimming, running, skating, BMX racing, mountain biking, and recreational cycling. Make an effort to help promote races through your social media outlets. And please VOLUNTEER at some races this season.
Thank you to all for your support.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS, 1/24/2014 Today is the last day to Submit Proposals
Calling All Licensed Cyclists Who Support the Sport of Cycling to click on the link below and submit a formal proposal to GBRA by Friday January 24th.
Thank you for taking the time to sign the petition last week in support of Junior Girls Bicycle Racing. Georgia Bicycle Racing Association will hold a special meeting on Monday January 27th, to discuss the boys and girls junior categories for State Championship Races. GBRA has made a request for proposals to consider for junior categories in state championship races. Following is a collaborative proposal that we wish to submit to Georgia Bicycle Racing Association. If you are in agreement, please click on the following link: www.gacycling.org/articles/86 You may submit the same proposal if you wish, by simply cutting and pasting the appropriate sections of this document into the respective boxes on the link. Your help is greatly appreciated.
GBRA requires that all submitted proposals list a USAC License number. If you are a parent, and do not have a racing license, then please use your child’s USAC license number. If you are just a fan and supporter, but do not have a license number, then perhaps you have a friend or family member who does race and is willing to support all junior cyclists, both boys and girls.
Categories Proposed:
Use the same categories as National Championships. Combine age group race fields if necessary, but do not eliminate any junior categories. Each category should be individually scored and state championship jerseys awarded in all age groups, girls and boys (even in a case where potentially only 1 nine year old girl shows up to race in the 9-10 girls category). Combine categories with appropriate staggered starts to help ensure that accurate results are provided for all riders. Example: Criteriums could have 2 start lines a few yards apart. Line up boys age 9-14 on first line and girls age 9-14 on second start line just a few yards back. This makes it possible to start the boys 20 seconds ahead of the girls. Apply the same starting method to the 15-18 age groups. Distinguish between age groups with color coding on race number backgrounds. Road Races could be staggered 2 minutes apart. Score the cyclists as follows:
9-10 boys
11-12 boys
13-14 boys
9-10 girls Delay start of girls 9-14
11-12 girls
13-14 girls
15-16 boys
17-18 boys
15-16 girls Delay start of girls 15-18
17-18 girls
Proposal Explanation:
USA Cycling encourages State Championships to follow the same formats for disciplines and age groups as are used for National Championships. Girls and boys must be scored separately. Under no circumstances should girls and boys be combined into the same scoring category for State Championships.
Staggering the start would help alleviate some of the issues for both the scorers and the racers.
Use of different colored backgrounds of race numbers (or at minimum, marking the numbers with colored dots, colored duck tape or a sharpie) will help distinguish between the different junior categories.
Competitors will be able to determine who they are racing against, with the help of the staggered start and the use of varied colored race numbers.
Combined scoring in the State Championships poses tremendous risks to the future of women's cycling:
-Robs all junior female cyclists in the state of Georgia of the opportunity to become state champions.
-Shrinks the sport of women's cycling. Junior girls who are the future of the sport will be discouraged from racing if they have no chance of winning.
-Sets a precedent for all races in Georgia to score junior females with junior males.
-Eliminates the possibility for a Georgia female cyclist to get a call-up at the National Championships. State Champions receive points on the USA Cycling point system and only the top 10 point recipients in the country receive this privilege. Georgia has produced many of these top 10 girls in recent years. Why would we stop now?
UPDATE, 1/17/2014. In 2 shorts days, we collected over 500 signatures in support of junior female cycling in Georgia. The support has validated in the greater cycling community our local belief that GBRA’s changes to the junior categories unfairly and asymmetrically affected females.
While we have received no official response from GBRA, it is our present understanding that the Board intends to revisit the junior category issue in its next meeting, scheduled for early February.
At this point, junior cycling and women’s cycling in Georgia still needs your help. Please focus your time and resources on how YOU can make a positive difference. Contact the GBRA (info@gacycling.org) and offer your suggestions, encouragement and support (time, financial or otherwise). Georgia presently has a bright and vibrant future in junior female cycling. Georgia ranks 5th nationally in licensed junior female cyclists, and in 2013 4 junior females won medals at the USA Cycling National Championships.
In the meantime, below is my best understanding to date of the situation and my best effort at an amicable solution that attempts to incorporate all the interests involved. Thank you to all the civil and constructive comments on Facebook, which helped formulate these ideas.
GBRA’S CONCERN. Their present justification for the change is to ensure adequate competition and to avoid giving a "participation title" to a lone girl, a reaction to recent low turnout numbers in some categories for some Championship races. Their thinking: combine the categories to bolster the numbers in each category and thus increase the quality of the competition.
PROBLEM #1. They have combined boys with girls, instead of boys with boys and girls with girls. Boys racing with girls doesn't increase the quality of the competition; it does increase the numbers, but the girls are generally not competitive against the boys. The result is that girls will be winning few, if any, state championships and thus exclusively shoulder the entire burden of lack of junior participation.
PROBLEM#2. Combining the categories won't increase participation, but may in fact serve to discourage female riders from staying in the sport.
PROBLEM#3. Static, predetermined combining of the categories still does not ensure adequate participation in a given category. Their solution doesn't even solve the problem!
A BETTER SOLUTION. Offer a complete line-up of State Championship categories (10 categories: 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-16, 17-18, boys AND girls). If, and only if, a minimum of 3 riders in each category are not registered for a Championship race, then combine the categories upwards, within a given gender, until you have your 3 riders. This solution restores gender equality, ensures quality competition in all categories with no preconceived notion of attendance AND actually encourages juniors to recruit other junior cyclists or risk combination of their category.
ORIGINAL PETITION, 1/14/2014. The Georgia Bicycle Racing Association (GBRA) has eliminated three female junior categories from the 2014 State Championships (http://gacycling.org/pages/statechamps). While boys and girls have always raced along side each other, this year they will be racing against each other. Analysis of 20 years worth of junior cycling time trial data shows that on average 12 year old boys are 2.5 MPH faster than 12 year old girls. The difference is 4 MPH at 14 years old. GBRA's change effectively eliminates all young girls from competition.
The changes are even more discriminatory for the older juniors: there will be a 15-16 boys and 17-18 boys category, but only one 15-18 girls category. Thus, a 10 year old girl new to cycling in 2014 will effectively have to patiently be trounced in all State Championships for her first 6 or so years of cycling, until she is old enough to compete with 18 year old Category 2 women cyclists.
These changes are not good for the future of women's cycling or junior cycling.
We have expressed our concern directly to the GBRA Board of Directors, but they have ignored our concerns. We have offered to pay for the extra state jerseys, thus eliminating any financial burden that may be caused by the young women. We have offered to champion efforts to increase female ridership, but those offers have been rejected.
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Edie HaneyAtlanta, GA, United States
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Created Jan 15, 2014
Jamie CostelloUnited Kingdom
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Created Jun 8, 2016
Petition to Schools, Teachers, Students
We need Candy Grams. We miss them a whole bunch. If we do get them, we could make it a fundraiser and help pay for anything needed. We could start a fundraiser to pay for some sort of Christmas party or a good cause of any kind. I decided to create this because it is currently the Christmas season, and we were discussing this idea during my 7th period. I think I can get a good amount of people on board with this idea due to the amount of desire I saw in my 7th period class. I am unsure who I will have to contact to set this in place, but it would be greatly appreciated if I could find out sooner or later. I will put my email and name below so if you need to contact me, you may.
Much love,
Alex Vulgamore (vulgamorea27@redstreaks.org)Read more
Alex VulgamoreUnited States
26 supporters
Created Dec 3, 2021
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Petition to University of California
PETITION CLOSED 12/14/2012 11:00 AM http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28817
From Jason Simon, UC Director, Marketing Communications
"UC Community, Over the past week it has become clear that the University of California systemwide monogram recently created is a source for great debate, dialogue, and division. In short, it's too much of a distraction from our broader effort to communicate UC's value and vital contributions to Californians, and so we intend to suspend use of the new monogram. We will begin to take the steps required to do so. This will not happen overnight in all case, but we are committed to doing so.
Without diving too deep into the commentary of the past week, there are a few things that remain clear—the UC community is passionate in its support of the system as a whole, believes any new directions should reflect the tradition, prestige and import of both higher education broadly and UC specifically, and wants want to be engaged in an open, collaborative dialogue and process. We commit to respecting that feedback in determining a path forward as these issues are revisited.
It's my hope that some of the passion displayed through this site and other social channels can be turned to adding important voices to the cause of sharing stories of success and breakthrough that the students, alumni, faculty, staff, and broad UC community have every day in making California (and the world) better. It's a way for us to stay engaged and honor the dialogue you have requested. If you're willing, please join us by following UC on Facebook or by joining the UC for California advocacy network.
Best,
Jason Simon Director, Marketing Communications
University of California | Office of the President"
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THIS AFFECTS ALL UC CAMPUSES! The newly designed monogram of the University of California, while attempting to be modern, loses the prestige and elegance of the current seal.
So far complacent and dismissive response of UCOP is essentially just telling us we just don't understand. We DO understand the new logo is not replacing the seal on formal communications, however it will be used to identify the UC system on a broad scale, and this new logo is not acceptable.
Please let your voice be heard and sign this petition to stop the identification of the University of California with the new monogram, and ask the Regents, Director of UC Marketing Jason Simon, and President Mark Yudof for an alternative solution.
Read the article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/12/critics-say-new-uc-logo-is-not-dignified-enough-.html
Example of new logo ALREADY in use: http://www.ucop.edu
http://vimeo.com/53530934#at=0
Check our facebook page for updates!http://www.facebook.com/StopTheUCLogoChange
Thank you everyone. You have shown so much passion and our voices are being heard. I would also like to remind all of us to please be respectful of each others opinions. The vitriol and personal attacks being sent to some of the team that helped to design the new monogram is not okay. They care deeply about the university and are greatly invested in ensuring its success. They don’t deserve anger, threats and insults directed at them.
Let us all strive to be positive in our discourse and continue to hold fruitful constructive discussions.- Reaz Rahman
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UPDATE 12/8/2012 6:33 PMFrom Jason Simon, the University of California Director, Marketing Communications
"First and foremost, we are gratified to see so many people who care passionately about the University of California. Feedback, and dialogue, are essential in a university setting and we are paying attention. While doing so, it's important that we provide some more context to people who are coming to this issue completely cold. This is not an either/or situation — we are not trading in the seal for the new mark. The seal will continue to be used to represent the UC system. Additionally, this does not replace or take the place of any campus identities.
The new mark was created as a part of our broader efforts to build awareness and support for all the things that UC does to make California (and by extension the world) better. What we have tried to do is to create a mark that is iconic, flexible, and solid enough that it works to represent the UC system as a whole. The mark can be used in a combination of the various UC blues and golds as well as in a multitude of applications. Seals are wonderful and carry a legacy and tradition. They also signify bureaucracy, staidness, and other not-so-great characteristics. Much of this was evident in the testing and discussion we did as part of the process.
Our challenge is to represent not only the work done on our campuses but also in UC medical centers, agriculture and natural resources efforts, research centers, K-12 preparation and outreach efforts, and even things such as overseeing the state’s 4H program or the University of California Press. And, of course, the longstanding impact of our alumni. People experience the results of these efforts every day but the University receives little recognition for them. This is the message of our Onward California campaign. Much of that is visible if people want to visit http://www.onwardcalifornia.com. There are amazing examples of the ways that UC touches people’s lives every day and we are proud that so many people have visited the site or taken part in outreach efforts over the last several months.
Our students, alumni, faculty and staff have all done a terrific job in raisingtheir voices in support of UC and higher education. We know that we share a common goal of ensuring that the great work UC does is valued by as many people as possible.
We sincerely intend to listen to this feedback and respect what we are hearing."
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UPDATE 12/11/2012From Gavin Newsom Lieutenant Governor, Member of UC Board of Regents
"Dear President Yudof,
The overwhelmingly negative response to the recent change to the University of California logo demands immediate attention. In the materials posted on the University of California, Office of the President website about the recent rebranding effort speaks about improving communications and better connecting to the University of California audience.
Clearly the new logo for the University, even in its limited use, has backfired. [ suspect that, had the team leading this project reached out in the spirit of communication and audience building this unfortunate gaffe could have been avoided.
I applaud the attempts to "relatinch(ed) the online home for the University of California Office of the President with a new design, improved search, consistent navigation and a clearer picture of how the Office of the President is organized." However, it appears the new logo fails to respect the history and the prestige of University of California En only a few days, almost 50,000 students, alumni and Californians across the state believe so strongly that the logo fails to represent the institution they are so proud of, they have signed a petition calling for its removal.
It bears noting that tuition at the University of California has more than doubled in recent years, access is being limited and students are incurring more debt than any other time in history. Perhaps now is the time to return to the use of the old logo and allow the University community a cooling off period to concentrate on the long-term health of the University.
Instead of being creative with the University of California logo, we should be searching for creative solutions for funding the University of California.
Respectfully,
GAVIN NEWSOM Lieutenant Governor"
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Reaz RahmanIrvine, CA, United States
54,043 supporters
Created Dec 8, 2012
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