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DU in disorder

28 June 2005, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Molla Mohammad Shaheen Dept of English, DU
28 June 2005, 18:00 PM
Dhaka University, once known as the Oxford of the East has been crippled by nasty politics. It was a prominent seat of learning in Asia, but at present it has lost its old glory and reputation. It is a now a grazing field of petty politicians. It is politically so polarised that the basic organ of the university has been paralysed. The existing environment is really suffocating for the genuine students to pursue their studies. The academic atmosphere is very sluggish while the administration is callous. Most of the faculty members are lukewarm about the progress of the students. They need minimum four months to give a course final test and eight months to publish the result. They take tutorial even after the course final examination. Most of the teachers are politicised, and their filthy politics is preventing the smooth functioning of the university.

Student politics is the mother of all the problems. It hampers every aspect of the university. Those who are involved in politics are not regular students. Some of them are not students at all. They are nothing but a nuisance for the general students. They bother the general bona fide students in the dormitory. Our classes are seriously disturbed by the cacophonous political processions, slogans and shouting. They try to capitalise any trouble for political gains. They do not have the welfare of the students at heart. Their approach is bad and their activities harmful. They have destroyed the social environment of the university.

I hope the authority will wake up to salvage the university from the grip of the horrible politics.

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