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Monday October 14th 2013 | freeword | Issue 1010
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Medics to be reinstated as BUCS make U-turn Arthur Russell Sport Editor In a remarkable turn of events, BUCS have altered their stance and allowed Cardiff ’s healthcare sides to be reinstated into all BUCS competitions from the 2014/15 season onwards. To re-cap, after Cardiff University and the Wales College of Medicine merged back in 2004, BUCS claimed that it wanted to remove any potential for students to compete for two registrations under one university name. Cardiff University was given two options to comply with for the 2013/14 season. Option 1 was to have both Cardiff University and Cardiff medical individuals and teams operate as one unified single member. Option 2 presented both the University and Medical sides
with the chance to compete as entirely separate members, but with limitations on which institution they can compete for depending on degree choice. The saga now has a provisional solution that suits all parties, something that, up until now, has remained elusive since negotiations began back in 2011. Last week, Vice President Sport & Athletic Union President Edore Evuarherhe and healthcare students representative Michael Cooper, captain of Cardiff Medics RFC, issued a joint statement on Thursday. The statement read: “For the last two years, both Cardiff University and Cardiff University Students’ Union and the medical sports clubs have insisted that neither of these two options were suitable for us and, up until recently, BUCS had remained adamant that we only had the two options to choose from.
“However, after a meeting between all parties, we feel that we have finally arrived at a solution that is best for Cardiff medical sports, Cardiff University, the Students’ Union and BUCS.” For the 2014/15 season, BUCS have indicated that Cardiff University will have to enter as a single member, but are allowed to include an umbrella that can designate teams as ‘Cardiff University Medics’, for example ‘Cardiff University Men’s Hockey 1sts’ and ‘Cardiff University Men’s Hockey Medics 1sts’. Separation of University sides will mean “a healthcare student can register as a Cardiff medic if they wish to on a yearby-year basis (in football, hockey, netball and/or rugby) and still be able to compete for Cardiff University in a sport that does not have any such medic designation.”
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