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Apr 14, 2010 Peeping Tom
…as UG students gear to boycott key meeting
Students of the University of Guyana (UG) are set to take protest action during the next few days over conditions at the campus, but a $200,000 request to offset expenses during the exercises has raised eyebrows.
According to a letter released to Kaieteur News, the University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) wants the emergency release of funds from the university and has written the Internal Auditor to this end.
The letter dated April 12, requesting the sum, explained that the money will be used to cover costs during the protests.
However, UG officials said that they are puzzled by this unusual request since it is a large sum and it is unclear how the money will be spent.
Calls to UGSS officials were unanswered yesterday.
According to the letter to UG, signed by President, Sherod Duncan, requesting the funds, UGSS said it will be proceeding on actions of “civil disobedience” to bring attention to the several outstanding issues that are of concern to students.
Today, the society will be boycotting an Academic Board Meeting.
“It is our belief that after raising the issues of the students we represent both at the Academic Board and Council levels to no avail, we are left with no alternative but to demand attention to these issues.”
Tomorrow (Thursday), UGSS said, the student population will be asked to boycott all economic activities on the campus.
“We believe that the time has come for the administration to not only articulate the solutions, but for serious action to commence on the remedying of the issues. We will continue with this process until we ascertain that the students’ rights are being acknowledged in keeping with an institution of its kind.”
A release earlier this week said that the course of action is intended to bring attention and force action “to the litany of woes which face the student population at Turkeyen and Tain Campuses and the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education (IDCE).”
According to the statement issued by Duncan, the issues range from non-marked scripts, and outstanding grades from first semester to “negative attitudes of some lecturers towards the student population, the need for a stationary state-of-the-art Multimedia Projector and Screen and the Public Address System for the lecture theaters, the need for lecturers for courses that were to commence with the second semester, better food and library facilities, wireless internet access and seating accommodations.”
According to Duncan, these are just a few of the ills that beset the student population, issues that have been raised at both the Academic Board and the Council to no avail and which has left students with no alternative but to act in a way that safeguards the interest of the students.
“It is the Society’s studied opinion that the catalogue of conditions that presently plague the University, cannot be allowed to run their course and needs immediate and urgent intervention by the University’s administration and other stakeholders.”
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