“O-days” is now the new O-week

Despite many outcries, heated debate, and the general discontent of the student body, the Senate still went ahead and put the first day of class on the Thursday of the new o-week as mentioned previously.

The proposal passed 53-49, and well, let’s see what happens to good o’l Guelph when no one wants to volunteer for O-week, when traffic jams up like crazy on the weekend before O-week, and just about everyone look dreaded, tired, and disgusted on that particular Thursday in September of 2008.

I still can’t believe that my very own university in which I trusted would go ahead and ignore the outcries of the student body. Nevertheless, I thank the student Senates that worked very hard in coming up with defenses and arguments for the safeguard of the current schedule, too bad it was in vain.

Say “No” to starting classes two days early.

The University of Guelph board of undergraduate studies are sure causing quite a stir on campus with their recent proposal to start classes two days early. The proposed schedule would have school start on the Thursday of the Orientation week, and leaving two “reading days” for student at the end of the fall semester to study before the commencement of exams on the following Monday. This change has been proposed to address the lost classes on Thanksgiving Monday (currently 3000 students are registered in Monday Night classes). Starting earlier would allow these classes to be made up on the final Thursday of the semester and also give Friday as an additional study day for all students.

Several pros has been mentioned about the proposed schedule — More time to study for finals, and the ability for upper year students to get some administrative chores that presents itself at the beginning of the semester out of the way — but that’s the extent of the pros.
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