The Insider awards for 2009

With the students' cross campus variety show taking place this evening, we at the the Insiders view thought we would present a few awards of our own.

First off is our award for the best running joke of the year.

This goes  Scientia, for the joke that is the staff timetable.

Scientias'   resource scheduling solution, "Syllabus Plus" was to be the panacea to the university's timetabling problems. Instead of mitigating the problems it only served to augment them!

Staff are frequently heard asking their students which room their tutorials are in today. If you see a spare slot on the timetable for the room you wish to use, send Timetabling a email, wait for the confirmation then check the timetable and you will see nothing showing. You will continue to make plans for your use of the room safe in the knowledge that you have the confirmation email.Only when you get to the room you find that it's been double or even triple booked!

It's a bad joke and if it wasn't so serious we'd all be laughing, never the less it's the longest running joke so it wins the award.

The next Award is for services to the disadvantaged.
The sport and recreation department. ASC earn this award for their continued support to a refugee from the film "Deliverance", yes that refugee is Miguel Rice who is allowed to feel at home in wide open sports fields of the university. Well done all at ASC.

Miguel himself also wins an award, this one is for services to information.
As the university's resident old woman and gossip Miguel provides a invaluable service ensuring staff get the latest in news and gossip. Without Miguel we would be lost.
One of Miguel's favourite saying, being a country boy is, "I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee!



The next award is for major contribution to covering your arse under the auspices of health and safety and also the promotion of unnecessary training programs.
Yes step forward Annie Closh. Annie who is health and safety advisor based at Unfairview house has single handedly brought the private sector training companies out of the recession by arranging over (according to Miguel Rice!) 230 training sessions at the university in 2009 alone. Money well spent?