<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div><div>The University is planning to ax Men's Tennis and replace the tennis courts with sand volleyball courts. The <span style="line-height:18px">Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Brian Wickstrom, recently told the Press Enterprise, "</span><span style="line-height:20px;text-align:left;white-space:nowrap;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Those tennis courts at the Rec Center get no use unless our men’s tennis team is playing there. There’s no demand for tennis." (!?!) </span></div>
<div><br></div><div>If you take issue with this, please send an email to<span style="line-height:18px"> </span><a href="mailto:AthleticsRFPC@ucr.edu?subject=Request%20For%20Public%20Comment" style="line-height:18px" target="_blank">AthleticsRFPC@ucr.edu</a>. Wickstrom <span style="line-height:18px">will be accepting written public opinions until<b> 5 pm</b> on <b>Monday, March 28 </b>and make a decision about UCR tennis in June.</span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:18px">For more information on this topic, see the <a href="http://www.gohighlanders.com/sports/2012/5/17/GEN_0517120855.aspx" target="_blank">UCR Athletics page</a> and the <a href="http://blog.pe.com/jim-alexander/2012/05/18/ucr-mens-tennis-out-sand-volleyball-in/#more-611" target="_blank">Press-Enterprise</a> story.</span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:18px">Thanks,</span></div><div><span style="line-height:18px">Corrie Neighbors</span></div><div><span style="line-height:18px">Ph.D. student in Earth Sciences</span></div>
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Corrie Neighbors<br><span><b style="font-weight:normal"><span>University of California, Riverside</span></b><br>
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