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--- SHARK <news wrote:

> Sun, 26 May 2002 13:01:07 -0700 (PDT)

> SHARK <news

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> [sharkonline] US Olympic president gets

> just deserts

>

> From Colleen Gardner, Regional Director-SHARK Rocky

> Mountain

> To all Friends and Supporters of SHARK:

>

> I believe in Karma, and today was the perfect

> example of " what you put out in

> the universe will come back to you " .

>

> You probably remember that during the Olympic rodeo

> campaign, thousands of

> concerned people wrote to Sandra Baldwin, president

> of the USOC regarding our

> concerns for the animals in the Olympic rodeo.

>

> Sandra sent this response to one of the concerned

> animal protectors from

> Australia: " This is a program that the Salt Lake

> Olympic Organizing

> Committee has approved, is not a USOC program, and

> assuredly is not a program

> we would have approved. "

>

> This was confusing to me, as Sandra was also a

> member of the SLOC, and I had

> heard nothing regarding her opposition, which was so

> clearly stated in her

> email response.

>

> I spent several days trying to contact Sandra, and

> she would not talk with

> me, and so in our next press conference, I provided

> a copy of her email to

> the press. When the press contacted her, she lied

> and told them that we had

> " taken her words out of context " and that she

> supported the rodeo.

>

> It seems as though this is not the only lie that

> Sandra Baldwin has told. On

> May 24,2002, she resigned her position in disgrace.

> It seems, according to

> press reports, that she falsified her resume,

> claiming educational

> credentials she does not have!

>

> OOPS, Sandra, you got caught in this lie!

>

> Here are some exerts from an article in the Chicago

> Tribune on May 23rd:

>

> U.S. Olympic Committee president under fire

>

> By Philip Hersh

> Tribune Olympic sports writer

> Published May 23, 2002, 6:26 PM CDT

>

> The president of the United States Olympic Committee

> is fighting to keep her

> position amid revelations about inaccuracies on her

> resume.

>

> Sandra Baldwin, the first woman president of the

> USOC, admitted Thursday she

> had failed to correct biographical entries that show

> her having received a

> Ph.D. from Arizona State University and an

> undergraduate degree from the

> University of Colorado.

>

> Both are false.

>

> " There are some things on my resume that I should

> have corrected, and I

> didn’t, " said Baldwin, who was elected to a

> four-year term in the volunteer

> position in December, 2000.

>

> Baldwin said she left Colorado before graduating and

> never finished her Ph.D.

> dissertation. She said she received an undergraduate

> degree and a master’s

> degree from Arizona State.

>

> Her biography in the current USOC fact book says she

> received an 1962

> Colorado undergraduate degree in English from

> Colorado in 1962 and a Ph.D. in

> American literature from Arizona State in 1967, with

> a dissertation entitled

> " Neo-Classical Backgrounds of Nathaniel

> Hawthorne’s Aesthetics. "

>

> Baldwin said she spent Thursday discussing the

> situation with members of the

> USOC executive board.

>

> " I never used the term 'doctor' (of philosophy)

> anywhere. I never used it on

> my record. But I should have taken it out. To me,

> it’s monumental.

>

> " For years, people have told me I was the conscience

> of the USOC. I don’t

> want to do anything to hurt them. "

>

> Baldwin, 62, said she became aware the discrepancies

> would be made public

> last week when a writer from a University of

> Colorado alumni publication

> called her in China to check some facts for a

> profile.

>

> Upon reaching Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she was

> to attend a meeting of

> the Association of National Olympic Committees,

> Baldwin decided to return to

> the United States to deal with the issue. Lloyd

> Ward, the USOC’s chief

> executive, returned with Baldwin Monday.

>

> " It would break my heart to resign, " Baldwin said.

> " We’ve made so much

> progress that would be undone. It is a terrible

> personal dilemma for me. "

>

> The USOC’s 23-member executive committee could ask

> Baldwin to resign. Baldwin

> faxed each executive committee member a letter

> Thursday in which she made her

> case to be allowed to remain. Baldwin said she had

> done the work for the Ph.D

> but not received the degree.

>

> Baldwin was elected an IOC member at the 2002

> Olympics.

>

> " The questions always are, `Do you judge someone on

> what they have done over

> the past 25 years or on what was written down 25

> years ago? Did you intend to

> deceive, and are you worthy of the job now? " said

> USOC board of directors

> member Mike McManus, ironically a Notre Dame

> graduate.

>

> " No matter how you answer those questions, the

> credibility of the institution

> is at stake. In this day and age and at a time when

> the USOC has a number of

> issues on its plate, these revelations are probably

> fatal. "

>

> Baldwin, a Phoenix real estate agent, had been the

> USOC treasurer and a

> vice-president and has been involved in Olympic

> sports for more than 30

> years, including a term as president of USA

> Swimming.

>

> Baldwin said marital problems led to her unfinished

> academic work.

>

> " I had a lot of tumultuous years, with two rotten

> marriages, " Baldwin said.

> Copyright © 2002, Chicago Tribune

>

____________________

> It was truly ironic to imagine Sandra Baldwin,

> faxing letters to the 23

> members executive committee of the USOC, begging for

> mercy with her

> " political life " , and remembering that she showed

> absolutely NO MERCY or

> concern for the lives of the animals.

>

> Now Sandra Baldwin knows how those baby calves feel

> being choked in the rodeo

> arena, and no one in the Olympic Movement willing to

> help.

>

> Colleen Gardner

> Regional Director-SHARK Rocky Mountain

>

> For those of you who would like to send your

> " condolences " to Sandra, here is

> her contact info:

>

> Mary Alexandra (Sandra) Baldwin

> sandra

> http://www.sandrabaldwin.com

>

> Sandra's real estate office info:

> 3113 E. Lincoln Drive

> Phoenix, AZ 85016

> Phone 602-954-6888

> FAX 602-955-2286

> 1-800-237-9316

 

 

 

 

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