A teaching case from the School of Emergent Priorities binds community-sport partners to a kettle-first tea call, with no override for a batter still in.
A suburban cricket Saturday in which the opener was 94 not out is now a hurdle in the Master of Priority Studies
The kettle had been at a rolling boil for two minutes. The opener was 94 not out. Tea waited until he was caught on 97, and the sandwiches had already been unwrapped. That Saturday is the teaching case the School of Emergent Priorities releases today, and the standing order it produced.
The paper, by Sunniva Balogun, Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist and Dr Anneke Tolan, follows one suburban first-grade club through a season of tea-duty logs and a full afternoon in the pavilion kitchen. The inherited rule — tea at three, or at the fall of the last wicket, whichever came first — had never had to choose. On this Saturday it chose late. Affiliated clubs in the University’s community-sport partnership are now required to call tea from the urn, with no override for a batter still in.
The release records a Saturday the University is now prepared to govern from a kettle.
Two clocks can both be right, and the sandwiches still dry. The interesting case is the afternoon that asks which one the club is allowed to keep.
— Dr Anneke Tolan, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Convenor, Futures in Committee
Ms Balogun, Doctoral Candidate in the School, said the steward had signed the duty log at 14:58 and had not thought she could call tea herself. “The urn was ready. That was her sentence. The rest of the afternoon was other people’s.”
Associate Professor Lindqvist, Director of the Master of Priority Studies, said the case is now a hurdle in the programme: candidates write a standing order for a club Saturday of their own, and a draft that waits for a wicket does not pass.
The full paper is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.djh8zk.