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Ramjas students protest against Principal, demand transparency of funds

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The students of Ramjas College stood their ground in a strike organised by the Students Union of the college on Tuesday, 28th January 2014. Over 800 students turned up for the strike in a direct attack on the College Principal, Dr. Rajendra Prasad.

The protest demanded a financial enquiry and transparency of college funds. “They get 2 crore rupees and all they make is a staff room, this is not the college’s money, it’s ours!” said a participant of the strike. We weren’t able to confirm the allegation independently.

Bisham Swami, President of Ramjas College says, “They get Rs. 20,000 from the college canteen as rent, yet they don’t provide us any funds for our college fest, where does all this money go? When asked for more information about this money all the principal gives us is a balance sheet which is just not enough.”

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All students crowded the front gate of the college shouting slogans and asking for their demands to be fulfilled. Students were also seen trying to climb the college gate to get inside. All this also effected classes, as most batches suspended classes for the day. However, classes were commenced soon outside the college at tea stalls and Delhi School of Economics for some of the departments.

Demands that the students put up were proper funds for fests, transparency of funds, a financial enquiry into this matter and equal representation to be given to students of the college in all committees being made. After hours of standing outside the college and serious discussions with the college principal the students union emerged successful when the principal succumbed to their demands and accepted them. The President said, “We have broken down a 27 year old tyranny; 29th January will see Ramjas’ first General Body Meeting”.

The college authority remained unavailable for comment on this matter.

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Students of Law Fac Organise Protest March Against University Authorities

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The students of the Faculty of Law, as well as the students who are trying to take admission in the Faculty of Law, organized a huge protest march starting from the main gate of the Arts Faculty and it culminated inside the Faculty of Law. The main reason for organising this protest march was to make the University authorities aware of the malpractices that are going on with total support from the admission committee and with full guidance and support from the Dean, Faculty of Law.

There have been several cases of mental harassment as well as vulgar abuses against the existing students who have been detained due to personal biases and also against girl students who are trying to seek admission in the Faculty of Law. Several cases of students seeking admission in the Law Faculty being booed with filthy abuses have been reported. There have been several complaints regarding this from the students to DUSU. Students seeking fresh admission to the Faculty, as well as those currently enrolled, came out and joined hands, expressing their solidarity against the Dean in what has been described by some students as a “tyrannical” rule.

Current students of the Faculty have been facing constant harassment at the hands of the Dean as they have been detained on account of shortage of attendance, the stipulated requirement of which is 66%. These students spread out overall three years of the LL.B. course found themselves in these unfortunate circumstances only 4 days before the start of their end-semester examinations. When they approached the Dean and other members of the Faculty, they were humiliated, verbally abused and made to run from pillar to post. They allege that they have been detained without warning and have fallen victim to the rivalry between the Faculty and the administration. As if the testimonies of the current students did not disincentivise an admission seeker from applying to the Faculty of Law, students have been made to wait for hours on end to be able to procure and submit their LL.B. Entrance Forms in the sweltering heat. The counter to submit the forms opens an hour late and the lunch hours are flexible to the whims and fancies of the staff. Upon making a complaint, students were abused verbally and the staff did not even heed to the presence of female students and continued to use filthy language which is not expected from a faculty of their caliber.

Students, fed up with the situation, approached the DUSU Office and through its President, Shri Arun Hooda, a complaint was made. Instead of readdressing the grievances of the students, the faculty, hand in glove with the college administration, falsely framed the student leader of misconduct. The Dean’s attitude and approach has made many a student regretful of their association with the Faculty and fresh admission seekers are thinking twice before applying for admission on account of the harassment meted out to them. The protest was carried out in the Faculty premises and the students marched near Gate No.4 and a memorandum of their grievances was submitted to the University authorities. Appeal has been made by these angered student community for stringent action against the Dean and an enquiry into the issue at hand.

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JMC’s Administrative Block

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The administrative block of JMC is unlike any other found in the university colleges. Located within the corridors of the main JMC building, the administrative block has the look of a well-established private office. As you enter the office you will definitely stop to admire the false ceiling, sophisticated wooden cabinets and the working desks. The room temperature, because of the air conditioning, is so comfortable that it makes you want to stay longer in the office.

The administrative clerical in JMC is definitely a pampered lot and remarkably this is not accompanied by any slack in work. The proceedings are carried out in a very organised and systematic manner. Chaos and long queues are a rare sight. Most often, happy faces can be seen coming out of the office doors. Students remain contended as their work gets done quickly and efficiently. A third year student, Shinny exclaimed, “The staff is very friendly and helpful, and I have always had a good experience while getting my work done.”

The work environment here in JMC is very conducive and healthy. Nevertheless, some students do feel differently and commented, “We admit that our work gets done proficiently, but the clerks have an immense attitude problem, they rebuke us and always bring us down complaining against our casualness”. However, the atmosphere that is very typical of a college administrative office is to a very significant degree absent here. The head clerk sincerely expressed, “It is our duty to ensure the timely completion of accounts and it gives us great satisfaction to resourcefully assist the students”. She further added on by saying, “Our attitude is very straight forward. We tackle different students according to their varied requirements, and we appreciate the fact that everybody’s time is precious”.

It is very evident that JMC’S administration block is a composed place where students and officials voluntarily cooperate and co-exist.

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JMC's Administrative Block

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The administrative block of JMC is unlike any other found in the university colleges. Located within the corridors of the main JMC building, the administrative block has the look of a well-established private office. As you enter the office you will definitely stop to admire the false ceiling, sophisticated wooden cabinets and the working desks. The room temperature, because of the air conditioning, is so comfortable that it makes you want to stay longer in the office. The administrative clerical in JMC is definitely a pampered lot and remarkably this is not accompanied by any slack in work. The proceedings are carried out in a very organised and systematic manner. Chaos and long queues are a rare sight. Most often, happy faces can be seen coming out of the office doors. Students remain contended as their work gets done quickly and efficiently. A third year student, Shinny exclaimed, “The staff is very friendly and helpful, and I have always had a good experience while getting my work done.” The work environment here in JMC is very conducive and healthy. Nevertheless, some students do feel differently and commented, “We admit that our work gets done proficiently, but the clerks have an immense attitude problem, they rebuke us and always bring us down complaining against our casualness”. However, the atmosphere that is very typical of a college administrative office is to a very significant degree absent here. The head clerk sincerely expressed, “It is our duty to ensure the timely completion of accounts and it gives us great satisfaction to resourcefully assist the students”. She further added on by saying, “Our attitude is very straight forward. We tackle different students according to their varied requirements, and we appreciate the fact that everybody’s time is precious”. It is very evident that JMC’S administration block is a composed place where students and officials voluntarily cooperate and co-exist.]]>

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Approach at your own risk: Venky Administration

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One sentiment that is universal in the corridors of Sri Venkateswara College is that the college administration is completely “f****d up”. Anyone who has studied in Venky could tell you stories about days spent wasted outside the office, waiting for the people inside to awake from their slumber and pretend to be granting you forbidden favours. The number of classes that are let by every time you need to get something done from the office would alone suffice to push up your attendance by a considerable margin. The utter chaos that reigns on days of fees submission makes you want to pull your hair out. “They are rude and arrogant and do not reply to our queries”, said a 1st year student of the college. Multiple complaints have been made directly to the Principle who assures us every time that adequate action would be taken and that next time, students would face no such problem. However, nothing seems to have changed and students are still subjected to the same treatment. “When I went to get the revaluation form signed, Mishra ji asked me to wait so he could yawn and stretch and then told me that it would take two weeks to get a signature. He wouldn’t respond properly when asked why it would take two weeks”, says a 3rd year student from Venky. Clearly, the administration in Venky does not seem to have a lot of fans. It’s about time that they went in for a complete facelift.   Surya Raju [email protected] Image credits: Sapna Mathur]]>

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The Politician in Us

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Politics and politicians- we all love to hate them. Be it at the national level or the Delhi University Students’ Union or our respective college student unions- we love to heap scorn on the nature of politics and raise our noses in disdain. The politicians don’t care about us, they are all just driven by their own personal agenda and just further them under the garb of doing acts for public welfare, we say. And an obvious consequence of this derision is considering our selves above this very popularly considered immoral, ignoble and unscrupulous activity. However, it is extremely hypocritical of us as we politicize almost every aspect of our own lives.

Basically the popular perception of a politician is a person who influences group opinion in his or her favor, irrespective of whether it will be beneficial for the group as a whole. Now, don’t we all do that? Except for the few people who are the epitomes of selflessness or are exceptionally blunt, we all engage in the very act that we all deride. Of course it is at a personal level. Various examples can be given on this count. Like scheduling a mass bunk on a day you really can’t come to college. Now why should everyone else not come if one person cannot? Why should everybody else suffer the missed attendances and the unfinished syllabus? But many a time we try really hard for this to happen. Of course to do this, you wouldn’t go about telling your classmates not to come because you have to get your hair dyed. You would go about lying, trying to give them to reason to not come when there really isn’t a reason. It would involve cooking up a story, which could be anything from a terrorist threat to calling an innocuous sneeze a definite symptom of impending death, depending upon the gullibility of your classmates, of course. Now, isn’t this wrong, immoral and unscrupulous in the very way politicians are infamous of being?

Another thing politicians are notorious for is doing whatever is possible and being in the good books of the people who can pull a few strings here and there, or somebody who could help you out. Well don’t we like to appease the people in the administrative offices of our colleges? Don’t we try very hard not to miff the person who makes really good notes? Don’t we all suck up to our teachers because they control our internals’ marks? Of course we will be bitching about them behind their backs, but as long as the sugary sweet façade is in place, the show goes on.

So, on the whole, we shouldn’t really just blame our politicians for being politicians. We all have a Machiavelli in us too and I think that’s what spices up our otherwise mundane routine. Acknowledge that politician in you and keep up the politics!

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