JU's endless tryst with problems

While the JUTA is calling for VC's resignation, agitating students demanded immediate removal of Prithyila Naynin Neelima, provost of Jahanara Imam Hall and action against Prof Golam Hossain, Deptt. of Government and Politics and ex-proctor of the university who had allegedly abused agitating women students at one point. A whole series of protest waves has thus rocked the campus with the result that the two-month long sessions back-log seems set for further jamming. The other fall-out is going to be an additional diet to divisiveness and feuding in the campus.

It defies understanding as to how such a basic amenity like water supply to the dormitories failed to receive timely attention of the authorities for such a long time. The mismanagement was unpardonable. Even an alternative arrangement for reaching water to the hall failed to work which triggered a fresh spate of protests. The students are saying that the university authorities did not sit down for talks earlier on. If true, nothing could be more regrettable.

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We wonder why the students went to the length they did to register their protests bringing the university to a standstill. The teachers' indefinite strike compounded the situation, because it is they who could have cooled the atmosphere and nipped the crisis in the bud. The point that must not be lost on all concerned is the absolute necessity for a grievance mitigation set-up to be in place at each residential hall of the university insofar as the utilities go. And no extraneous element should be allowed to intrude into what precisely is a matter for student welfare.