By Title Sakulborrirug (Student Coordinator),
Monday 6th June 2016
On the week of March 28th - April 1st, DWBI hosted our annual dodgeball tournament, now rebranded as Dodge for Dreams to increase the connection between the event and our group. Over the past years various issues about our event arose amongst the events approval team, making getting the event approved a difficult task. The issues regarded the violent nature of dodgeball and that it was only inclusive of 50% of the school population (girls don't like to play). To combat this issue, we came to an agreement with the EAT that this year, a team would need to have at least 2 out of 7 players be of a specific gender. This was difficult to advertise to the community, but there were still a number of teams that entered. It was interesting to see more females be involved in the game which made it look more like a whole school event. Understandably, there were still some teams who played with a team that did not follow the gender rule, but this issue was fixed with a short discussion with the teams.
Some major issues came up in the 3rd and 4th days of the tournament where a few seniors were not allowed to play in the tournament because they were late to class and a several teams being removed from the tournament because of having inappropriate team names. This caused a huge rift between the student body and the secondary leadership team. Fortunately the tournament was nearly over, bringing the issue to a close.
This year's tournament received negative reception from the faculty although the enthusiasm amongst students remained, making me unsure whether the EAT will allow this event to be hosted again next year.
Monday 6th June 2016
On the week of March 28th - April 1st, DWBI hosted our annual dodgeball tournament, now rebranded as Dodge for Dreams to increase the connection between the event and our group. Over the past years various issues about our event arose amongst the events approval team, making getting the event approved a difficult task. The issues regarded the violent nature of dodgeball and that it was only inclusive of 50% of the school population (girls don't like to play). To combat this issue, we came to an agreement with the EAT that this year, a team would need to have at least 2 out of 7 players be of a specific gender. This was difficult to advertise to the community, but there were still a number of teams that entered. It was interesting to see more females be involved in the game which made it look more like a whole school event. Understandably, there were still some teams who played with a team that did not follow the gender rule, but this issue was fixed with a short discussion with the teams.
Some major issues came up in the 3rd and 4th days of the tournament where a few seniors were not allowed to play in the tournament because they were late to class and a several teams being removed from the tournament because of having inappropriate team names. This caused a huge rift between the student body and the secondary leadership team. Fortunately the tournament was nearly over, bringing the issue to a close.
This year's tournament received negative reception from the faculty although the enthusiasm amongst students remained, making me unsure whether the EAT will allow this event to be hosted again next year.