We played our first match of the term on Wednesday. We had a dozen players out.

During the warmup I bananaed a shot into the top right corner of the net from the lower right corner of the field. unfortunately that was worth 0 points. We won 2-0 against SNWA. Darell and Trav scored.

In the league they have a sportsmanship (called spirit of competition) rating. The referees and the opposing captain give a rating from -2 to 2, which are added to produce a rating from -4 to 4. We received a 0 and the opposing team got a -3. There are five ways to make a 0 but only two ways to make a -3. I expect that the other team gave us a negative, they can be certain that we did, mathematically that is.

They were a source of complaints throughout the match. At half-time the referee even called all the players together to make sure that they understood the rule on hand balls (the difference between ball to hand and hand to ball). At one point in the match one of them told my teammate to f’-off.

We had a good time and it was good to have Nigel from Newfoundland to join the team. I met Nigel a week earlier when we were scrimmaging and he said he was looking for a good team. People he new had a team in Advanced (b league) and he said he’d prefer an all-star team (a league).

Food Services is trying to shorten the hours of the SLC Tim Hortons at the advisory board meeting on Wednesday.

Food Services proposes shorter summer hours for SLC Tim Hortons uws 18 May 2006

Food Services hadn’t posted the agenda to its FAB website by the day before the meeting.

Here is a photo of a document showing the proposed changes:

The agreement says that it will be open “Tim Hortons SLC will be open on a 24 hour basis from the first day of classes until the last day of exams each term.”

It also says that “Any change in the operating hours, [...] will require the approval of the Food Advisory Board before those changes are implemented.”

The agreement requires FAB approval for changes, but doesn’t say that approval is sufficient. Clearly to contrary to the agreement requires approval from both parties to the agreement Food Services and Feds.

Today around noon Aho sent an e-mail to the council list saying: “As many of you know from the Imprint, the SLC Tim Hortons may be undergoing some operating hour changes.”

It is a little naf that he disregards the uws story that had been up since Wednesday and whose link I sent to the same list about 24 hours earlier.

Since he sent it to the list Rajat, JeffH, Randy, and Eric have responded.

The whole thing is that they reduced the hours last year too, the first summer the SLiCe TH was open.

Hiro says about uws: “The site has finally gone live again after months of being offline.”

uwstudent.org is back in action

My friends Mark and Lesley training to run the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Half Marathon on 24 September 2006 for the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. They hope to raise $1,000.

Here is their website:

http://www.active.com/donate/tnttor/LesleyCesana

They both had close friends die of cancer. Donate to their efforts and you will help fight cancer and encourage some good people.