PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2013 ID-36744
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JNUSU In continuation with our efforts to ensure a transparent process for the setting up of.
the JNU Press and defining a democratic model for its functioning.
.
16.10.13 Join OPEN HOUSE II Prof. B.S. Chimni, SIS, JNU.
Prof. A.K. Attri, SIS, JNU.
JNU Press: Issues of Autonomy Prof. Deepak Kumar, ZHCES and CMS, JNU.
Dr. Parnal Chirmuley, CGS, JNU.
and Viability for Democratic Access and Dr. Saradindu Bhaduri, CSSP, JNU.
Dissemination of Knowledge Dr. G. Ajay, CPS, JNU.
.
17 Oct Tomorrow, SIS Room No. 103, 2.30pm.
.
Onwards to the Upcoming Academic Council Meeting: Strengthen the.
Struggle for Social Inclusion, Democratisation and Gender Justice.
.
We live in times when there are concerted attempts to deny students and youth their basic rights of education and.
employment. Reports of massive scams, corporate loot of resources and the nexus between politicians, bureaucrats and.
business houses continue to pour in each day - even as governments preach `austerity' to the common people of the.
country. Our courts tell us that they `don't know' who murdered hundreds of Dalit men, women and children. Students and.
youth are being told that if they want `development' (or rather a euphemism for pro-corporate, anti-poor, anti-worker policies).
they should forget about basic democratic rights, and if they want to stand against an openly communal fascist regime,.
they should accept the regime of neo-liberal corruption and corporate loot..
.
It is in these times that the current JNUSU was elected - in the backdrop of the orchestrated Muzaffarnagar riots, at.
a time when the UPSC was implementing policies to exclude candidates from non-elite and deprived backgrounds, at a.
time when students were being denied basic rights of hostels and financial assistance. In the past one month, JNUSU and.
the student community has been at the forefront of struggles to defend ideals of secularism, against elitist policies of.
exclusion. Students of JNU have stood in solidarity with the victims of the Muzaffarnagar, at a time when the mastermind.
of the Gujarat genocide is being aggressively promoted as the next Prime Minister of the country, JNU students along with.
teachers and citizens of Delhi organised a `March for Secularism' against attempts to polarise society and foment communal.
tensions. They participated in a Students' Referendum against delinking, asserting that students' voices will have to be.
heard while designing policy decisions that affect them. They protested against the elitist and discriminatory policies of the.
UPSC to exclude foreign languages from UPSC and implemented the CSAT pattern which discriminates against students.
from non-English speaking students from Social Science backgrounds..
.
On 25 October 2013, an Academic Council (AC) meeting is scheduled to take place - and it is important that at.
this meeting, several crucial policy-level concerns are addressed. JNU remains one of the few institutions in the.
country where affordable and quality education for students from deprived backgrounds has been ensured by proactive.
policies of inclusion through consistent interventions of students and democratic voices within the teaching community. If.
we want to defend this vision of JNU, especially at a time when there is a concerted move by the powers-that-be to convert.
higher educational institutions into exclusive enclaves of the rich and the privileged, several pressing issues will have to be.
resolved at the upcoming AC meeting:.
.
Delinking of the BA/MA Programme in SLL&CS: The cherished integrated BA/MA programme in SL was.
forcibly delinked, even though its proponents had no rationale to offer against the facts and logic put forward by.
JNUSU and student community. The recent Students' Referendum, where an overwhelming 82% voted against delinking,.
raises a fundamental question for the functioning of JNU: can an exclusionary, illogical and anti-student policy be.
forcibly implemented by the university? Can the JNU administration be allowed replicate Delhi-University's FYUP-.
style high-handed impositions in JNU?.
.
Reduction of Weightage of Viva Voce Marks: It is a well-established fact that the high weightage of viva voce.
.
in JNU's entrance exam remains a structural obstacle preventing social inclusion. The viva committee set up by the.
.
JNU administration in March 2012 after a protracted struggle by JNUSU has highlighted without any doubt the.
.
discriminatory trends and patterns in the viva voce. At the AC meeting held last October, the JNU administration.
.
refused to address the structural problem of high viva weightage. Though the administration was forced to accept the.
.
discriminatory trends, in order to undermine and underplay the viva committee's findings, it set up a new committee.
.
which it claimed would come up with some `recommendations'. The administration, however, made it clear that.
.
reducing the weightage of viva voce would not be on the agenda of this new committee. So JNUSU boycotted the.
.
committee from the very beginning. One year has passed and one batch of admission had already happened,.
.
but neither the administration nor its chosen `committee' showed any interest to bring in any transparency.
.
in the viva process as per its claimed mandate! The 2013 admission process continues to display the earlier.
.
trends of biases and discrimination. This approach of the administration has proved once again what the JNUSU.
.
and the student community had predicted last year itself, that the `new committee' was only a diversionary tactics to.
.
undermine the hard and damning findings of the earlier data analysis committee! P.T.O..
..
PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2013 ID-36744
.
JNUSU In continuation with our efforts to ensure a transparent process for the setting up of.
the JNU Press and defining a democratic model for its functioning.
.
16.10.13 Join OPEN HOUSE II Prof. B.S. Chimni, SIS, JNU.
Prof. A.K. Attri, SIS, JNU.
JNU Press: Issues of Autonomy Prof. Deepak Kumar, ZHCES and CMS, JNU.
Dr. Parnal Chirmuley, CGS, JNU.
and Viability for Democratic Access and Dr. Saradindu Bhaduri, CSSP, JNU.
Dissemination of Knowledge Dr. G. Ajay, CPS, JNU.
.
17 Oct Tomorrow, SIS Room No. 103, 2.30pm.
.
Onwards to the Upcoming Academic Council Meeting: Strengthen the.
Struggle for Social Inclusion, Democratisation and Gender Justice.
.
We live in times when there are concerted attempts to deny students and youth their basic rights of education and.
employment. Reports of massive scams, corporate loot of resources and the nexus between politicians, bureaucrats and.
business houses continue to pour in each day - even as governments preach `austerity' to the common people of the.
country. Our courts tell us that they `don't know' who murdered hundreds of Dalit men, women and children. Students and.
youth are being told that if they want `development' (or rather a euphemism for pro-corporate, anti-poor, anti-worker policies).
they should forget about basic democratic rights, and if they want to stand against an openly communal fascist regime,.
they should accept the regime of neo-liberal corruption and corporate loot..
.
It is in these times that the current JNUSU was elected - in the backdrop of the orchestrated Muzaffarnagar riots, at.
a time when the UPSC was implementing policies to exclude candidates from non-elite and deprived backgrounds, at a.
time when students were being denied basic rights of hostels and financial assistance. In the past one month, JNUSU and.
the student community has been at the forefront of struggles to defend ideals of secularism, against elitist policies of.
exclusion. Students of JNU have stood in solidarity with the victims of the Muzaffarnagar, at a time when the mastermind.
of the Gujarat genocide is being aggressively promoted as the next Prime Minister of the country, JNU students along with.
teachers and citizens of Delhi organised a `March for Secularism' against attempts to polarise society and foment communal.
tensions. They participated in a Students' Referendum against delinking, asserting that students' voices will have to be.
heard while designing policy decisions that affect them. They protested against the elitist and discriminatory policies of the.
UPSC to exclude foreign languages from UPSC and implemented the CSAT pattern which discriminates against students.
from non-English speaking students from Social Science backgrounds..
.
On 25 October 2013, an Academic Council (AC) meeting is scheduled to take place - and it is important that at.
this meeting, several crucial policy-level concerns are addressed. JNU remains one of the few institutions in the.
country where affordable and quality education for students from deprived backgrounds has been ensured by proactive.
policies of inclusion through consistent interventions of students and democratic voices within the teaching community. If.
we want to defend this vision of JNU, especially at a time when there is a concerted move by the powers-that-be to convert.
higher educational institutions into exclusive enclaves of the rich and the privileged, several pressing issues will have to be.
resolved at the upcoming AC meeting:.
.
Delinking of the BA/MA Programme in SLL&CS: The cherished integrated BA/MA programme in SL was.
forcibly delinked, even though its proponents had no rationale to offer against the facts and logic put forward by.
JNUSU and student community. The recent Students' Referendum, where an overwhelming 82% voted against delinking,.
raises a fundamental question for the functioning of JNU: can an exclusionary, illogical and anti-student policy be.
forcibly implemented by the university? Can the JNU administration be allowed replicate Delhi-University's FYUP-.
style high-handed impositions in JNU?.
.
Reduction of Weightage of Viva Voce Marks: It is a well-established fact that the high weightage of viva voce.
.
in JNU's entrance exam remains a structural obstacle preventing social inclusion. The viva committee set up by the.
.
JNU administration in March 2012 after a protracted struggle by JNUSU has highlighted without any doubt the.
.
discriminatory trends and patterns in the viva voce. At the AC meeting held last October, the JNU administration.
.
refused to address the structural problem of high viva weightage. Though the administration was forced to accept the.
.
discriminatory trends, in order to undermine and underplay the viva committee's findings, it set up a new committee.
.
which it claimed would come up with some `recommendations'. The administration, however, made it clear that.
.
reducing the weightage of viva voce would not be on the agenda of this new committee. So JNUSU boycotted the.
.
committee from the very beginning. One year has passed and one batch of admission had already happened,.
.
but neither the administration nor its chosen `committee' showed any interest to bring in any transparency.
.
in the viva process as per its claimed mandate! The 2013 admission process continues to display the earlier.
.
trends of biases and discrimination. This approach of the administration has proved once again what the JNUSU.
.
and the student community had predicted last year itself, that the `new committee' was only a diversionary tactics to.
.
undermine the hard and damning findings of the earlier data analysis committee! P.T.O..
..