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From: "Frisbee, Frisbee" <Frisbee@uwe.ac.uk>
To: rjdesai <theraj@supaman.com>
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Subject: Re: Midland's Student Qualifier: GBH Decision
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A few questions need to be asked here: one being what 
constitutes as a student? The answer to this can be solved 
as follows - a student is a person who studies at or is 
affiliated to an academic institute.  For convenience sake 
you can classify a student as one with an NUS card.  Part 
time students are members of the NUS and therefore 
constitute as students.  There are no shades of gray with 
this classification and so all students are eligible to 
play in student tournaments.  

"not sufficiently 'full time' a student" - this description 
is (to be quite frank) a load of bollocks.  A full time 
course (such as psychology) could only have as little as 2 
hours a week time allocated to study at an institute where 
as a part time course (such as mechanical engineering) 
could have as much as 9 hours a week - so which is 
"sufficiently 'full time'" enough for student ultimate?

UWE as a university has over 24 000 students around 10 000 
of which are part time.  For the last 3 years UWE (ultimate 
frisbee) have had part time students playing for us as if 
we didn't we would be openly discriminating against them. 
Never once have we been asked if we've got any part time 
students playing for us.  This is probably because we have 
normally played against times with good spirit who care more 
about enjoying the sport rather than beurocrasy.  The South 
West Student Qualifiers are run with good spirit so it 
seems rather a shame that other student qualifiers are not 
run to the same level as the South West.

Good luck Raj,
Stuart.
 
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Frisbee, Frisbee
Email: Frisbee@uwe.ac.uk
"University of the West of England"