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UG – an evolving malaise

Oct 30, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
It remains the highest academic institution in the country, but the rapid decadence is so pungent and chronic, that it seems that this emerging malaise is now the mores of the Turkeyen Campus. So what am I talking about?
First, there is the emerging culture of music across the lawns and along the catwalk throughout the day. I am generous in saying music, which serves as a euphonious substitute for noise.
The roughness of the pieces, combined with the puerile and prurient nature of the lyrics betrays the listenership: a group of dilettante, mere callow paraders, who have become quite otiose.
These excuses for students make life unpleasant for the real and serious budding academics.
They disrupt classes, annoy lecturers and stimulate puking in general. Something must be done, and I have a few suggestions.
The Social Science can do field work right on campus. Who are these seeming vagrants (for they have a noxious kind of ubiquity and are irritatingly conspicuous)? What are they studying? How come they have so much time to dawdle away?
Why be so disruptive? What are they seeking to compensate for? I think this is a good starting point. This deliberate show of pretentiousness is a veneer that needs a quick paring, and I hope the authorities establish and enforce a proper university code of conduct for students.
This will make campus life very salubrious and challenging.
However, I have a second grouse. Currently, there is the semblance of a campaign for the UG students’ presidency, and it leaves so much to be desired.
The morbidity of this culture is quite poignant – there is an absence of the fever and fervor which characterize these events.
One hardly knows the candidates, and I guess it is because they are not worth knowing.
The few faces on the notice boards on campus reflect the flippancy of the whole event. I ask a few simple questions – does anyone of the candidates have something akin to a manifesto?
Does anyone have the capability to be engaged in live debates, which are devoid of any kind of persiflage?
The very foppish nature of these few unknown candidates reflects the need for a death to this institution at the Turkeyen Campus.
Student

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