The Burlap Sack — Dodgeball scheduling
Nathan Chu
Gateway Writer
Feb 01, 2012
I’m sorry Colten Yamagishi, but you’ve really dropped the ball on scheduling Break the Record 2012. Unless you haven’t heard, the University of Alberta is attempting to take back the Guinness World Record for largest dodgeball game from UC Irvine this Friday at noon in the Butterdome. And the problem is that it’s this Friday at noon.
According to a scan through Bear Tracks, there are about 500 undergraduate lectures, labs, or seminars occurring from 10 a.m. (when registration opens) to 1 p.m. (the approximate ending time). That’s more than 25,000 undergrads out of the 31,000 or so who may have class at that time, which means that scheduling alone excludes about 80 per cent of the main population of students who we are relying on to fuel this event.
Skip your classes, you say?
Unfortunately for some students — myself and 350 of my classmates included — we’re nearing midterm season once again, and some may actually have one during that time.
The game should have been scheduled weeks earlier at 2 p.m. during the first Friday of winter t-erm. That way there would be no midterms, no labs, and it wouldn’t interfere with people who work evenings. Also, if there is a more ideal time to skip a class than the first week when you haven’t learned anything, then I don’t know it.
And for those worried about Antifreeze, consider this. The interests of 250 people, or the pride of an entire university?
If our attempt fails, we can blame the problem on terrible scheduling so very deserving of being thrown in the burlap sack.
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