Professor Oglesby:

I agree with you and support you. How can we maintain a healthy mind without
a healthy body?  PE is just as important as any other type of education!
 Professor Geevarghese

At 02:16 PM 2/26/04 -0500, Burch Oglesby wrote:
>It is unfortunate that we are having to make these difficult choices. It is
>truly a no win situation. As you might well expect based on my position in
>EHLS, I am an advocate of the physical education requirement. We as a
>campus have already made a statement concerning our individuality by
>keeping the statistics class in general education as this is not part of
>the TBR 41. I would ask that we make another statement by keeping the
>physical education requirement. I am under the impression that programs
>which cannot meet the 120 hour rule due to accreditation standards will be
>allowed to require additional hours. Additionally, many programs have
>integrated several hours of general education or university requirements
>within their degrees. We have used this approach. If a program such as
>nursing feels that they meet either or both the knowledge and activity
>components for the physical education requirement then they should be
>allowed to petition for an exemption. Will requiring this course save the
>state from a TennCare bankruptcy, probably not? However, it does have the
>possibility of helping a student live a long healthy life. The solutions to
>problems such as health and health care are done one step at a time. It is
>my hope we will take a step forward and not a step backward. Thank you for
>your consideration of this important issue.
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>Sincerely
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>Burch Oglesby
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>Burch Oglesby, Jr. Ph.D.
>Dept. of Exercise Science, Health, and Leisure Studies
>Arena 212 - Dept. #6606
>Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga
>615 McCallie Ave.
>Chattanooga, TN  37403
>423-425-5214
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