Intramural Hockey Features Alpine ~ Tournament

The last week of In- tramural Hockey before the Christmas break will feature a pre-Christmas tournament. The tournament sponsored by Moosehead Breweries will feature two divisions of play with the winners of each di- vision meeting in the cham- pionship. game on Dec. 1 at 8:30 pm. The Alpine Divi- sion of the tournament will include Blanchard, Soccer,. Vets and Engineers; while the Golden Light Division teams will be Marian, Arts, Rulers and Business.

Play begins November 24 when Blanchard plays Soccer at 7:15, and at 8:30 Marian meets Arts. On Thursday, November 26, the four remaining teams _ get into action with the 7:15 game featuring Rulers vs. Business; while Vets take on Engineers at 8:30. The game winners in each division meet each other to determine di- vision winners on Monday, November 30, and the cham- pionship game goes Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 8:30 pm.

Officer

Bob says

Policy. in the making A guide to that hated word

by Don Lane

Every year at this time, the campus rings with talk ‘of exhausted senior business students. There is a good

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reason for this: “Policy”!

Officially known as “Business Admin- istration 491 - Management Policy” and locally known as “The ‘P’ Word”, this course is the culmination of all pre- vious business courses that integrates what you have al- ready learned into something that makes practical sense - your own firm. ~ Students must create from scratch a business that has practical applications on the Island. Working in groups of four, they must study all aspects of the firm from the initial creation through the market- ing strategy, accounting and financial forcasting, manage- ment and production details and so on. They then re- port back on the feasibility of their operation before a panel of judges in a public fo- rum.

Sophomore and Junior busi- ness students definitely def- initely should attend, while business frosh are strongly urged to attend. You can get a lot out of these pre- sentations besides examples of good and bad presentation styles. You might even pick up an idea from some of the seniors about policy ideas for next year.. A mini fash- ion show was held during a presentation last year, while another group passed out

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food samples of their prod- uct. I learned to like snails... excuse me ‘escargots’ from that group. This year of- fers a wide range of food delights, including seafood dips, potato ice cream, baby food, smoked meat and rock crab. You will have to go to their presentation to find out if you can get free food. Most groups enjoy large audiences, so if you are an entrepreneur at heart, want to see your friends or you are simply in-

terested in the topic, drop’

down to room 237 in Kel- ley Building ten minutes be- fore the scheduled start time. Once the formal presentation starts, no one is allowed to enter the room, but you can watch them on a monitor in the School of Business Board Room (beside the secretary’s office) if you are late.

In the past, projects have ranged from under fifty pages in length to over one hundred and fifty pages. Quantity is not always qual- ity though, and thus the Dean of Business has said that he would like to keep the length of future projects to a maximum of fifty qual- ity filled pages. The entire mark of the course is based on the project, with 80% of the mark going towards the written work. There is more emphasis now than ever be- fore on the formal presenta- tion. It has grown in im- portance from 10% two years ago to 15% last year to 20% of the final mark for this

years class. This is a good idea as presentations in the real world are often given more weight than the actual report. The

presentations will be judged by three faculty advisors, Dr. Ron Collins, Professor Debra Good and Professor Roberta MacDonald as well as Jamie Ballem, a former graduate of the Business Administration program here at U.P.E.I., and Gary Petipas from the P.E.I. Department of Indus- try. This department funds all projects with $250 for expenses incurred while re- searching. This does not nearly cover all the money

the groups spend, but it is very much appreciated. The Dept. of Industry keeps a copy of all projects and will let private entrepreneurs re- view them for possible ven- tures. However the group of students who wrote the report are given a period of grace during which time they can exclusively follow through on developping the project into an actual firm is they so wish. Prizes will be awarded for the top three projects and for the best pre- sentation, with $500 going to the team with the best project, $300 for second and $200 for third best project and a $100 prize awarded for the best presentation. The project award money comes from the Dept. of Industry and the Presentation Award

Here is the schedule for press time, Thursday the 26th

and for Friday the 27th:

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26th

3:15 - 3:45 P.M. BABY FOOD - (Eddie Curran, Rick Newson, Tony Sauer, James Toombs)

4:00 - 4:30 P.M.. STRAW LOGS - (John Handrahan, Rhonda McInnis, Don Poole, Mike Whelan)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27th

9:00 - 9:30 A.M. SURGICAL EQUIPMENT - (Carla Hanson, Connie Ramsay, Lori Toombs, Debbie Willis)

9:45 - 10:15 A.M. UTILITY - MAINTENANCE RE- PAIR - (Kent Kaufield, Malcolm MacBeath, Phillip

Watts, Jeff Willis)

10:30 - 11:00 A.M. SMOKED MEAT - -(Audrius Eimantas, Drew LeClair, Phil Muise, Shelley Rector)

11:15 - 11:45 A.M. CONDOMINIUM

(Carol Aune

Duffy, Darlene Ford, Marjorie Pound. Janice Revell) 1:00 - 1:30 P.M. ROCK CRAB - (Steven Birt, Ron Klein, Doug MacDonald, Gordie MacFadyen)

1:45 -

2:15 P.M. WORM FARM -

(Kristina

MacArthur, Linda McKenna, Stephen Mellish, David

Perry)

2:30 - 3:00 P.M. RECORD RENTALS - (Beth Hender- son, Carolyn MacDougall, Doris Murphy, Sandra Ramsay)

3:15 - 3:45 P.M. CASINO - (Bill Banks, Kevin Cham- pion, Bill Dow, Paul Hughes, Anne Partridge) __

4:00 - 4:30 P.M. RETIREMENT COUNSELLING -

Lesley Cox, VanOmme)

comes form the School of Business Administration. Last years best project was titled “Fish Waste For Bait”. Second best project and the winning presentation went to “Tranquil Gardens Crematorium”, while a mall- based Dental Center came in third and “P.E.I. Sur- vival Country”, a war gam-

Brian Howard, Pam MacEwen,

Melody

ing tourist attraction was next. Iam sure that some of this years presentations will be just as entertaining, hu- mourous and informative as were last years. Remember - don’t use The ‘P’ Word in front of Business Juniors - it makes them nervous! Best of luck to all groups, and I will see you there!