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From: clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke)
Subject: Re: DATA STRUCTURING SEMINAR
Message-ID: <8904132012.AA25386@gerrard.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 16:12:33 EDT

In article <13289@watdragon.waterloo.edu> rabaeza@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates) writes:
>In article <151@sickkids.UUCP> mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt) writes:
>  >...
>  >Also, do they tend to start at the advertised time?  UofT has a curious
>  >tradition of beginning at least five (and usually ten (or more)) minutes
>  >after the posted time....
>
>  >Does UW do the same thing, or do things begin when they're alleged to begin?
>
>I would say that at UW we try to start on time, or at most 5 minutes late.

We actually start at 10 minutes after the hour, not 5.  Every university
I've been at has 50-minute lectures, but they seem to use different
displacements from the 0-minute point.  UofT's is +10.  This is a poor
choice because reminds everyone that we're just lazy academics, out of
touch with the world.

What's *really* curious is that (1) though classes begin at :10, seminars
and colloquia often start early, at :08, or wait until more like :15.
Also (2) you can't persuade UofT people to say "3 p.m." instead of "3:00"
when they mean "3:10".  In order to mean "3:00" you have to say "3:00
sharp" here.

(I plead guilty to that last one myself, in my postings in this newsgroup.
But, as I said before, I just process what someone else types.)
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