Volume 7, Number 20

The Student Voice of University of Prince Edward Island

Alumni Gym Houses Happy Memories

As I stood in the middle pf the ancient hall and pre- bared to begin what would be my final appearance, omething compelled me to eave. I was drawn from hat scene and placed in he same environment three ears earlier. The experi- nce seemed to mirror Dick- ns as I reviewed the past m a sort of dream; invis- ble to the people around e. I could feel the presence f ghosts as they watched s complete the task they ad begun. Unlike Dick- ns, however, the dream was jithout a lesson, yet it did nd happily. the vision I uw before me was of the tst championship the Great fall housed. It was full ) the eaves, and applause, heering, and chanting rang ut and filled me with tears nd pride. It does the same pb me now as I remember

at great moment, perhaps le greatest the old hall ever itnessed. I saw myself

the middle of the floor, ry arms in the air, fists enched. Next I saw my ster and myself embracing \d crying, our tears mixing ith the hard work of the tty previous minutes.

The pounding of my Fart brought me back to te reality of the task I now ced. And as the ball went P for the final time a smile ime to my lips.

lay sadness and triumph. nd I played in the Great all for the last time.

The eve of basketball odernization brings reflec- Pn for this five year vet- ‘n. Reflection not on past ‘omplishes, but on past Periences, and more im- tantly on Alumni Gym. thaps only an athlete who * spent most of their uni-

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versity life in a brick build- ing that is either too hot or too cold, falling apart, has 19th century lighting, and a stage where if you’re run- ning too fast becomes life threatening, can understand how many of us must feel leaving it all behind. The normal reaction would be one of excitement and an- ticipation because we now have an opportunity to play in a facility that does jus- tice to the basketball pro- gram. I fell this way to a cer- tain extent, but for the most part I’m sad about leaving Alumni. It’s been a place of success, and a few fail- ures, and where you could always find friends. There is no reason why the new place should change all this, and I’m sure it won’t, but

is the place where all the firsts happened. I guess it all boils down to being ner- vous of the unknown. At Alumni you always knew who would catch you when

_ you fell into the crowd. You

could tell who was sitting on the stage from the other

end of the gym, and you al- ways knew you were going to win. The new place has all the uncertainties that come with something unfamiliar. With time we will all be- come more comfortable with our new athletic home, the sauna in the women’s locker

the one thing we can’t take

with us when we leave is the history. Sure we can make new history, and we will, but not the history that was made at Alumni. That

Professor Forgets Final Exam

The

Reprinted from

Brunswickan

By Richard Renaud

Every student's fantasy turned into thirty-one students nightmare last December 18th, when Prof. Barry Davies of the English Department failed to show up for the final exam of

. English 2803, Literature of Atlantic Canada. Claiming he forgot that the exam was scheduled for that day, Davies was apparently otherwise occupied. The students waited

. for about an hour before

leaving to officially register a complaint with the department. Once the complaint was in, Prof. Ploude (chair. of the dept.) and Dean of Arts Peter

Kent were then involved. As it was time for Christmas

- vacation, the students were left

to wonder their fate for several weeks.

In their complaint, the students mentioned that Davies had been absent from class seven and a half times and therefore they had missed about twenty-five percent of the class material. Also worth noting is that he had a graduate student correct their essays. His

‘comments seemed to have been

unreasonably sarcastic. Finally, Davies had not given out a syllabus for the course at the start of the term.

When they returned to classes on January 8th, the students learned that they were to sit the exam the following

Saturday. The students felt that this was totally unfair as they had now been away from the course for a full month, and now they were expected to prepare for a final while preparing for the start of a new term. Feeling they had no alternative they approached Prof. Ploude, Dean Kent and Tom Austin (Dean. of Students).-A meeting was then called for with the entire class and these three administrators. The main concern at this meeting would be to decide how to assign marks for the course, the students were also concerned with the disciplinary action that should be taken against Prof. Davies.

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Thursday, February 8, 1990

room will undoubtedly help, and as long as the window in that locker room contin- ues to face old Alumni Gym- nasium we can draw from it as a reminder that the tradi- tion must continue. The old place has bee good to us, its the least we can do for it. »

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