Having read a rather interesting post i also decided to get my hands dirty and have a go at the way sports is run and looked at in IIIT. In this post i'll write about some things that may be rather embaressing for some people...but please note, i mean no insults to anybody. The faculty are fine people and i'm sure they try to do what they think is the best for us not that it always is :)
The first part is about general sp0rts and games in IIIT meant even for those who are not into sports on a regular basis.
On IIIT's web page they try to make it look as if they work hard to encourage sports. (they are supposed to do that it's their job :P ) They have made P.T. compulsory. Now i personally think that p.t. at six in the morning is dumb especially when you have to submit assignments at 12 in the night almost every other day(ug1 people have to do it.....remember DSA my friends :O ) Many people come here with the view that sports and games are useless. I belive most people coming here wouldn't have hade these many playing facilities ever before. But the way P.T. is imposed on them makes them revolt at the thought of sports. Instead of introducing sports as a recreation the institute has turned into a forcible boot camp. But the main motive behind P.T. as told by the dean is to make people get up early in the morning.....that was a poor excuse by any standards. When our batch got really fed up of P.T. the faculty agreed to shift the P.T. to the evenings. This was really good as a lot of people even from other batches turned out in large numbers to play. This was a great positive move from the faculty but god knows why that idea was discarded(plzz no wake up early argument......it is ridiculous) So the institute needs to have a better and more thoughtful policy to introduce many people to sports in a positive way.
The second part concerns sports played regularly
When it comes to sports at a slightly competitive level the institute tries to encourage students to participate in inter house/batch competitions. This is where the conflict starts. How do you fit in time to play regular events with the academic shedule? One thing i could never figure out is why classes go on even at 7:30. I think 5 is a good time to wrap up classes for the day. Finishing as late as 7-8 pm leaves the student no time to relax or to even to take part in activities. In this regard i feel the institute is very indisciplined and illogical with regard to the timings of classes and tutes. We even have tutes at 11 pm. This is wrong. The institute urges students to be professional but they should start with themselves. These randomized class timings make inter house/batch competitions hard to conduct(sunday is not the answer to all queries. How much can you play in one day? and is that what you are going to do every sunday....just play and play and play....) The institute has provisions for sport but has no mechanism for this to be feasible. This in my view is the hipocriscy of the mangement at it's very best and surely this reflects poorly on the institute.
Part three of this post deals with going out for competitions.
Before i deal with this issue let me tell you that i will not consider anything regarding the dean here. Understanding his ideas, his concepts and his visions is beyond the scope of this blog(or for that matter any blog :P ) but he is a nice guy and will get the limelight in future posts.
I have learnt that the faculty has strongly discouraged the physical directors to send students to participate in competitions outside the college. According to the unofficial directive sports is for recreation only and not meant to be played at a competitive level. The faculty will deny it but this is the truth. I was sad but not surprised to hear this. It is sad to see the institute stifling the talents of it's own students for what i belive is no good reason. They must realise that this is not a research institute or a software company. I have a theory as to why the faculty loo down upon sports. All the faculty members have been brilliant students in their academic lives. It is unlikely that anyone of them would have ever played any sport at any level. They think that they never needed to have any sport so why should we need it. Further they belong to a generation that look down upon sports as something that is meant for those who are not good at studies. Times have changed but their mindsets have not changed. And the sad thinng is that the faculty does not and in my view will never appreciate the beauty of sport. This is not just a problem in IIIT but in all "good" colleges like IIT's NIT's etc. I hope the faculty will realise that sport is not bad. I hope i see that change or atleast the winds of change in my time in IIIT
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