My favorite phdcomic of all time is, of course, Seminar Bingo.
I actually played it several times while a grad student at Large U. With squares on the card like "there's a grad student wearing same clothes as yesterday," it's impossible to lose.
Clearly, the next step is faculty meeting bingo. I know that one square would be "someone pulls out grading." Another sure thing would be "someone walks in late."
What are other must-haves for a faculty meeting bingo card? What about the free square? (For grad seminar bingo, it is "speaker runs out of time.")
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I get the impression that, at least for some departments, the "free square" could be "Meeting starts late".
BB, I suspect that will be a popular choice. Anyone else agree?
Someone is working a crossword or sudoku puzzle.
(I knew one prof who always brought a notepad like he was going to take notes, but had the crossword puzzle under the top page.)
People leave when meeting runs long without getting to the most important item on the agenda.
Someone is reading e-mail on a Blackberry or iPhone.
Some of the ones from the PhD Comics grad version could easily transition to faculty meetings: someone nods head while falling asleep, cell phone goes off, etc.
Sadly, my department meetings often have arguments break out. So, "heated argument breaks out over hiring decision" is an option, though we aren't always in the midst of a search. "Heated argument breaks out over curriculum changes" might be another option. Yelling has been known to happen.
How about: Heated argument just for the sake of arguing. No real reason other than to hear themselves speak passionately about something
Right on, last Anonymous!
Someone makes the exact same objection they made last year.
Someone raises their hand and speaks at length about a decision that has already been voted on.
Endless discussion of high-level institutional administrative decision faculty have no power to alter.
Minimal discussion of departmental administrative decision faculty must make ourselves.
Confusion over robert's rules of order.
Meeting starts late = definite free square.
How about "passive-aggressive allusion to turf war between faculty"?
You've inspired me, and we played lab meeting bingo today. It was pretty hilarious! I've already gotten suggestions for next week's edition.
Used this website to generate the sheets: http://www.saksena.net/partygames/bingo/
Argument over whether a rule imposed by the university is a good rule (even though we can have no effect on said rule)
Professor has netbook out and laughs at things seen on the screen
Private conversation continues for more than 10 minutes without the chair doing anything
Chair says 'shall we have a vote on whether to vote on this issue?'
Nutty colleague brings up their favourite topic (so here the square would read something like 'colleague asks rhetorically whether the person or situation being discussed might involve mental illness and mentions the role of marajuana use in later development of psycotic illness' (which is totally not related to Beach Studies or to their research)).
Meeting starts late
Cynical noises are made after certain names are read out as having 'apologised absences'
Someone has brought pens in three or more colours, and uses them all to colour in the agenda or draw an elaborate doodle (one guy draws teddy bears flying biplanes...)
Someone is knitting
Someone is practising writing with their non-dominant hand/doing mirror writing/writing non-Latin alphabets or verb forms out.
Those last two are both me.
My favorite..."When I was department chair..." from faculty member who has not been chair in 10+ years. The same person who makes this statement just displaced our less-than-fancy but serviceable modern microwave with a 1978 Amana Radarange that, at first glance, I didn't even recognize was a microwave (looks more like a convection oven). And he thinks he did the department a favor by bringing us a better microwave.
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