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Date: May 25, 2005

RE: rooms

Date: May 25, 2005

My office is only 10X10. Will Amy fix that for me?

Date: May 25, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: JoJO
"My office is only 10X10. Will Amy fix that for me?"

STOP! STOP! STOP IN YOUR TRACKS, POSTERS. Do not feed the troll. Make no comments. Ignore him. He will go away.

Date: May 26, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Amy Young
"I am absolutely astounded and sickened by yet another expensive mistake. Amy Young"

I would not be so quick to assume this is a mistake. Knowing the M.O. of the person in charge, I imagine her snickering at the faculty who will be negatively impacted. Negative impact on students has never been of any importance to her. This whole scene has many of the characteristics of the faculty and even department changes that have been ordered in the past couple of years. Sometimes people do things because they can and they want you to know they can. What happened to James Hollandsworth is just another example of that kind of management style.

Date: May 26, 2005

What is going on with room assignments? Yesterday I had 2 of my classes assigned to rooms and one not assigned. When I called they said there was a glitch and that it would be assigned by Friday if not report to my department. Now my other room assignments have been taken down and none of my classes are assigned. Tuesday morning is going to be a nightmare.

Date: May 26, 2005

If posters on this board can fill me in on some details--examples of cross-campus shleps to unequipped classrooms that were assigned at the 11th hour--I'll run an L and P entry on the room assignment issue next Tuesday.

Robert Campbell

Date: May 26, 2005

Am curious. As a scenario, are shifts like this one happening: a room has always been used for music classes. It is in the Peforming Arts center. How it has been reassigned to history or sociology? Or the so-called smart classrooms that departments applied for? Have they been reassigned?

Date: May 26, 2005

I can remember back during the 2001 year where I taught 2 sections of a class that always had at least 35 - 50 students in it. My inept chair - who wanted me far away from my bldg. - assigned me classrooms across campus with room for only 20 - 25. No genius at math, only vengeance.

Date: May 26, 2005

NM: What has that got to do with room assignments for Tuesday? This is a serious situation. We only have five weeks of study and it sounds like one of them is going to be wasted on trying to find out where the class meets.

Date: May 26, 2005

Vengeance

Date: May 26, 2005

Let me add that vengeance directed at faculty is blind to the plight of students. That's the saddest part.

Date: May 26, 2005

Even though I am not taking summer classes I was curious and logged onto SOAR to check out the new class room assignments. I only used the history courses as a reference point but it would appear,for example, that some upper level classes that are normally in the LAB are now in Cook Library and/or in College Hall. I am not familiar with the set up of these buildings as far as instructional aids etc., so I dont know if it will present a problem or not. I would have to assume that the library should have what is needed though. Also, some of the core history classes are in Green Hall.

Date: May 26, 2005

Meeting tomorrow morning will occur with registrar's office and departmental representatives. Some rooms have been re-assigned already. If you got a really weird room assignment, communicate with your dept chair/dean's office for changes.

Date: May 26, 2005

Amy Young rightly noted (well above) that she did not believe the old system of classroom assignments was broken. That is, departments "owned" a number of rooms (some all day, some for select hours) and negotiated the rest in times of peril.

The question naturally arises: Why are we spending some substantial change on this here software? The answer -- CEM. She always believed that her dean (Boudreaux) and chair put her in small or crappy rooms as a form of punishment for her being. Solution: she takes over scheduling for the entire U -- much like the reorganization, which bears the plain mark of her influence. She's little and sweet as honey, but she wields malevolent power. Here, again, we have the politics of personality interfering with the ability of the university to conduct it's primary purpose -- learnin'. Can I get an Amen?

Date: May 26, 2005

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!

Date: May 27, 2005

does anyone know where MHB/mississippi hall basement is? i can't find it on the map...

Date: May 27, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: student x
"does anyone know where MHB/mississippi hall basement is? i can't find it on the map..."

Go to the building named Mississippi Hall. Then procede to the basement.

Date: May 27, 2005

It's apparently a dorm, across from Danforth Chapel. It was a bit challenging to find and read the map online.

Date: May 27, 2005

Corner of College Drive and East Memorial Drive behind Danforth like LVN said.

Date: May 27, 2005

i've looked there as well and had the same difficulty. but this is a BSC103 lab class that is supposed to be there. i am wondering if it even exists.

Date: May 27, 2005

Heaven forbid you show up for class the first day and find out its been cancelled. Been there,done that and it sucks. Hopefully it will be there. Ad Astra is assigning classes all over campus where you would never in a million years think they would be.

Date: May 27, 2005

that is such an odd place to have lab, if it's correct. but atleast it's not too far away from the class that it goes with.

Date: May 27, 2005

Isn't the Miss. Hall basement where the little bio/geo/anthro museum used to be? It was a big draw for local school kids.

Date: May 28, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: student x
"i've looked there as well and had the same difficulty. but this is a BSC103 lab class that is supposed to be there. i am wondering if it even exists."

MHB = Mississippi Hall Basement. The Biology 103 labs meet in the Frazer Museum, which is in the basement of Mississippi Hall dormitory. Mississippi Hall is the dorm closest to the Hub, and the basement entrance is half-way down the hill, almost directly in front of the "open end" of the stadium.

Date: May 28, 2005

If the timetable of classes says its to be held in the Mississippi Hall basement, I'd read that to mean that it is to be held in the basement of Mississippi Hall.

I'll bet that's easier to understand that some of the required reading material in the course.

Date: May 28, 2005

you people should quit whining about the new system. it worked perfectly in COB. Some classes are already closed for lack of seats and a class with less than twenty students is in a room with 150 seats. everyone is delighted with the new system.

Date: May 28, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Lost
"If the timetable of classes says its to be held in the Mississippi Hall basement, I'd read that to mean that it is to be held in the basement of Mississippi Hall.
I'll bet that's easier to understand that some of the required reading material in the course. "

i didn't understand why the lab would be held in a dormitory, much less having a museum either. mississippi hall is simply not a place i would normally go to.

Date: May 28, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: lost indeed
" i didn't understand why the lab would be held in a dormitory......"

It is our student-friendly way of making it convenient for the students who live in that dorimitory.

Date: May 28, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Scheduler
"It is our student-friendly way of making it convenient for the students who live in that dorimitory. "

always thinking of students first. i knew there had to be a logical explanation for this.

Date: May 30, 2005

How did the first day of the first summer session go?

Were the room assignments as crazy as anticipated?

Robert Campbell