After students who work in University dining halls complained about not being allowed to play as a team in tonight's dodgeball tournament, the event's organizers have decided to allow them to play.
A group of about 20 students employed by Princeton University Dining Services (PUDS) in Rockefeller and Mathey Colleges will be competing in the event.
Initially, the students were ineligible to form a team because they were not an officially recognized student group and did not have a unique student account with the University, tournament organizer Freddy Flaxman '07 said. Employees of the University were also ineligible for the tournament.
But the student dining hall employees who lodged the complaint said they were motivated by what they saw as a double standard in the tournament rules: non-student Public Safety officers had formed a team and were scheduled to play in the tournament.
"Basically our [problem] was that Public Safety was allowed to play," PUDS worker Alicia Bray '08 said. "Why, if they were allowed to play, were we excluded?"
The Public Safety team was "included at the request of the administrators funding the event," Flaxman said, adding that Public Safety does have an account with the University. Coordinators of the student-run tournament include members of the USG, working in conjunction with the Intramurals Office, which also provides funding.
Roxy Schneider '08, another PUDS employee, said she initially responded to the Princeton Dodgeball Tournament organizers' March 14 email to the student body — which announced this year's tournament and solicited team registrations — and received a reply email from the group that she took to mean her team's registration had been successful.
But when she received another campus-wide email that included the tournament bracket and didn't see her team listed, she contacted the tournament coordinators. They told her the PUDS team was not eligible for the tournament.
Flaxman said he and the three other organizers — John Boscia '07, Steven Slovenski '09 and Mark Stefanski '09 — "want to include everybody" in the tournament. "I can understand the enthusiasm of these students [employed by PUDS]," he said.
Flaxman added that the students who expressed interest in forming a team were a subsection of PUDS, since they only encompassed Rocky/Mathey employees. "It would have been a different story if all of PUDS were involved because they're involved in intramurals all the time," he said. "[You're] not allowed to make your own team — it has to fall under some group."
Nevertheless, he said, the Rocky/Mathey PUDS team was allowed to play in the tournament after a space in the competition opened up. "A spot became available, so I thought if anyone deserved that spot, it should be them."
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