Hey gamers. It’s me, your International Rep, Buki. Critic’s foolishly given me this little box to write in. Like, I could say anything right now. But I’ll be nice. There are many things I wanna to tell you, but I’ll save those for another time because I am here for one reason and one reason only:
***FILL IN THOSE LECTURE RECORDING CONSULTATION EMAILS*** (Please).
The Exec have been working legit all year on this policy and I think it’ll be an absolute game-changer for students. It’ll be helpful for neurodivergence, disability, cost of living (sometimes you need to pick up a shift), language barriers, sickness, safety and even more of that nerdy yet important stuff. We just need 6000 responses and that’ll help us get the policy over the line, and hopefully in place by next year!
To fill you in on what’s happening, we’re getting a lot of staff pushback on this from those who are worried about attendance and educational outcomes. But I think, if anything, if every lecture is recorded it creates an incentive for these professors to work harder and make their lectures more interesting/engaging/interactive so that they are worth going to in person.
For instance, in the past I’ve had lecturers who played games with the whole theater; some lecturers sprinting around the room to prove a point; and also some lecturers just being genuinely cool and down to earth people that you can't help but go talk to them afterwards to hear how they got so smart. Why would anyone miss sick lectures like that unless they had a valid reason? You’re literally paying to be here and take these classes, and we’re all passionate about our degrees at the end of the day, otherwise why would we be here? But sometimes other shit just comes up, and that’s life.
Right now, a lot of lectures in person are unfortunately basically video recordings the way they are so one-way and stale. So let's get this policy over the line, and let’s hit play on this teaching style that has been frozen in time for so long. Or at least 2x speed this part since it’s kinda lame. Respond to those emails, pretty please?