The End is Near...
As of the first week of April, the strike ended. After talks broke off for a second time, students were concerned about their year. Fortunately, both sides of the argument agreed to participated in binding arbitration, where they call in an independent third party to look at the final offers and pick the best offer or make his own; both sides have to abide by it.
We resumed class the following tuesday. In each class, "semester completion" strategies were laid out for the students. For the most part at St. L, most students will be finishing on time. Non-graduating students have had a good chunk of their learning material pushed back into the fall term; others are extending their semester by another week. The college has offered students an extra month in residence if their classes have been extended. They are also offering free rez to students who've been living off campus and are nearing the end of their housing rental contract.
As for me and other graduating students the answer is compression: We will be finishing on time...only not with all the material that we shoudl have learned in a non-compressed schedule. There are no extra classes scheduled; only course material cut out and restricted to items considered critical to the course learning outcomes.
So what do the next 2 months hold for me? Honestly, I don't know. Currently, Kingston is taking part of a CBC Reality show called Hockeyville Canada, in which the CBC tries to find out which city is the most Hockey charged city. The city that is decided to be Hockeyville will receive a large cheque of money, and a good amount of hockey equipment. The city will also play host to an exhibition NHL game. This afternoon, between 1600 and 1630hrs, the city is planning a city-wide street hockey game, hoping to get as many Kingstonians to play hockey as possible in the streets. The goal is to show 30,000 people playing hockey.
Another thing I noticed in my travels was that most of the Kingston Transit bus drivers were wearing hockey jerseys. But yesterday I made a short trip to the mall before heading to the library to study. The only other hockey jerseys that I saw other than mine were on the bus drivers. I didn't notice one person in the mall wearing one (I passed through the busy food court). Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. I didn't notice anyone at the College either. But Kingston did make it into the next round of 50 cities (1 of 10 cities in its region) out of close to 900 cities who originally competed. So does K-town deserve to be Hockeyville? I don't know. The only Hockey celebrities I can think of that come from Kingston are Doug Gilmour and Don Cherry. We'll see what happens.
EDIT: I've just learned that Kirk Muller, the Cook Brothers, Jayna Hefford and Jim Dorey live here now. (thanks to gurr8, who is more hockey inclined than I am :) )
The RabbitHole Feature:
What would happen if, for the time between two blinks, everyone could see the world as God does?
We resumed class the following tuesday. In each class, "semester completion" strategies were laid out for the students. For the most part at St. L, most students will be finishing on time. Non-graduating students have had a good chunk of their learning material pushed back into the fall term; others are extending their semester by another week. The college has offered students an extra month in residence if their classes have been extended. They are also offering free rez to students who've been living off campus and are nearing the end of their housing rental contract.
As for me and other graduating students the answer is compression: We will be finishing on time...only not with all the material that we shoudl have learned in a non-compressed schedule. There are no extra classes scheduled; only course material cut out and restricted to items considered critical to the course learning outcomes.
So what do the next 2 months hold for me? Honestly, I don't know. Currently, Kingston is taking part of a CBC Reality show called Hockeyville Canada, in which the CBC tries to find out which city is the most Hockey charged city. The city that is decided to be Hockeyville will receive a large cheque of money, and a good amount of hockey equipment. The city will also play host to an exhibition NHL game. This afternoon, between 1600 and 1630hrs, the city is planning a city-wide street hockey game, hoping to get as many Kingstonians to play hockey as possible in the streets. The goal is to show 30,000 people playing hockey.
Another thing I noticed in my travels was that most of the Kingston Transit bus drivers were wearing hockey jerseys. But yesterday I made a short trip to the mall before heading to the library to study. The only other hockey jerseys that I saw other than mine were on the bus drivers. I didn't notice one person in the mall wearing one (I passed through the busy food court). Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. I didn't notice anyone at the College either. But Kingston did make it into the next round of 50 cities (1 of 10 cities in its region) out of close to 900 cities who originally competed. So does K-town deserve to be Hockeyville? I don't know. The only Hockey celebrities I can think of that come from Kingston are Doug Gilmour and Don Cherry. We'll see what happens.
EDIT: I've just learned that Kirk Muller, the Cook Brothers, Jayna Hefford and Jim Dorey live here now. (thanks to gurr8, who is more hockey inclined than I am :) )
The RabbitHole Feature:
What would happen if, for the time between two blinks, everyone could see the world as God does?
