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National Situation .
The year 1996 has been a crucial and controversial one in Indian history. The formation of the UF govt. even though it marked a significant elec1oral victory of the left-led democratic forces against .
the communal and casteist forces of the Sangh Parivar, has only .
proved to be a tentative step away from the corruption and bigotry of the Gong. I and the BJP. The UF govt's continuation of the anti-people liberalisation -globalisation path charted for the country by the Gong -I and tacitly supported by the BJP has resulted not only in spiraling inflation and shrinkjng employment but also in the growth of regressive social trends and alliances. .
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The Impact on Students .
The implications of the policies of disnvestment, privatization and retrenchment for the quality of, and access to, education are ominous. To begin with, the rising mess bills and transport costs cumulatively increase the cost of education. Add to this the stagnant oU11ay on education, cuts in University budgets and the bid to privatize higher education, and it becomes clear that these policies aim to remove education and employment from the grasp of all but a fortunate few. Now the government is trying to reintroduce the Private .
Universities' bill. which is meant to ruin higher education in our country. In JNU, the effect of these policies have been felt most immediately in the lack of hostel, transport and library facilities. Over 500 students are denied hostels to this date, SC/ST/OBC quotas remain unfulfilled. intake capacities and MCMs have been radically .
reduced, and all attempts to restore the policies of provisional admission involvement of the SFCs in admissions and the restoration of social deprivation index here been stonewalled. Moreover, repeated attempts have been made by the University aU1horities to make official the ritual of privatization in JNU. .
The State of the Campus The struggle for the rights snatched away from the students of JNU has always been charted by the political leadership of the .
JNUSU. In the present scenario, however, this leadership has been distinguished by its complete insensitivity to the needs of students. The fac! that the AISA JNUSU President was away for the most part of hiS tenure f~omthe campus, and that many councillors, mainly from the ABVP, fa1led to attend Council meetings, has resulted in a situation where the functioning and legitimacy of JNUSU has been undermined. This mockery of the mandate given to the JNUSU has resutted in a sharp deterioration of the democratic culture of the campus, exposing it to the communal casteist and patriarchal ji~goismof the ABVP. Instances of sexual harassment and physical Vlol.ence abound, democratic insHtutions have been perverted, not1ons of a shared community have been abandoned, with the co~~equen~e. that .a larg~ .section of students have come to equate poht1cal act1v1ty With polrt1cking. The SFI reiterates rts faith in a .
JNUSU that is responsive to the needs of the students for it is only .
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the JNUSU that can provide the forum for debate and the leadership necessary to fight for the day-to-day and outstanding demands of the students. .
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The Tasks Ahead .
Towards A Progressive Admission Policy .
The SFI perceives the struggle for the restoration of the progressive aspects of the OAP as constituting the central agenda of the left student movement on the campus today. JNU had pioneered the historic struggle against education as reproduction of social inequality and had provided an inspiring example of blending .
academic excellence with social justice through the weapon of the Old Admission Policy. The OAP's relevance increases manifold in today's contex1 where charges of victimisation during the process .
of admission abound. The OAP ens12red not only a 20 point deprivation programme to redress social injustices but also ensure students' involvement at every stage of the admission process to guarantee optimum transparency. SFC participation was actively encouraged in ensuring the elimination of all anamolies in the granting .
of deprivation points and even at M.Phil interviews to ensure that no under, ex1ra academic pressure was brought to bear on students. The restoration of the progressive features of the OAP is imperative to usher in a decentralised, democratised and transparent admission policy. The SFI stands for the incorporation of deprivation points on the category of gender and the full restoration of social economic and regional deprivation points. Statistics released by the administration for the academic years 1995-96, show that OBC representation stands at 9.8%, SC/ST at 17.8% and the representation of back ward regions at 11 . 7% (far below the consHtutional requirements}. The proportion of rural students admitted is only half of that of urban students. Such figures show how meager our gains have actually been and how far we need to go. SFI is committed to a mission of struggle for the purpose. .
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Sexual Harassment: Towards its Remedies .
The progressive consciousness fostered by a left and democratic political assertion on the campus has permitted healthy gender relations and the full participation of women in the various .
public fora, whether political, cultural or intellectual. Unfortunately, JNU has increasingly become vulnerale to the most ugly manifestations of representative character of the proctoral inquiry and to inject it with a gender sensitive perspective cannot happen by bypassing the students union. Representatives of the student, teacher and Karmachari community must find adequate place in any Enquiry Committee. While the SFI calls for stringent measures to rehaul the campus security system, it also reaffirms the need to forge close links with women's organisations to draw on the strength of their rich legacy of struggle against the multiple forms of patriarchal .
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Hostels for all Outstation Students The SFI asserts that no attempt to involve students in wider struggles for social and economic equality will bear fruit unless the .
confidence of students is won over by fighting for the long standing .
and legitimate demands of the student community, particularly the .
construction of new hostels. The SFI through the JNUSU has exerted .
consistent pressure on the administration to accept the responsibility .
of guaranteeing hostel accomodation in the prospectus and of .
providing temporary accommodation to students without hostels. .
The administrations blunt refusal to do so must also be seen as .
reflective of the era liberalisation which dispenses with social sector .
spending as irrelevant. The SFI's reiteration of the need for structural .
transformation to replace structural adjustment and the nation wide .
struggles that it has led under the same slogan, demonstrate that it .
is the only organisation capable of providing the direction to the .
student movement. .
Better Transport Facilities .
The immense diff'iculty of students regarding the transport .
communication from campus is accentuating day by day. The .
irresponsibility of the administration, the arbitrariness of the private .
bus owners and above all the systematic destruction of the DTC by .
the Union and Delhi State Govt. have come down heavily on the. .
university students, especially the day scholars. Af1er sustained .
pressure and a militant demonstration led by the JNUSU, a few .
buses in 603 and 608 routes have started plying. The new JNU bus .
is also on the road. It was the Transport Convenor from SFI who .
took the ini1iative to launch a struggle for better transport facilities. .
We are committed to carry forward the struggle for more buses in .
615, 603, 666 and 507 routes and more U-specials. Student bus .
passes should be allowed in all these buses. .
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Contending Platforms .
ABVP: ISOLATE AND INDICT COMMUNAL FORCES! .
The ABVP remains the principal enemy of any form of democratic, secular and progressive student assertion on the campus. Their attempt to negate the pluralistic, composite cultural others of the n·ation and to recruit ~s history by imposing their fascistic .
agenda of a monolithic, homogenous, Pan-Hindu identity ruthlessly suppressing all other oppressed identities, whether of class, caste or gender has led to the political ostracism of the BJP by every other political configuration in the country. The saffron brother hood, of which BJP's parliamentary, constitutional facade is an integral component, continues to terrorize Muslims across the country and Dalits particularly so in Maharashtra in collusion with the Shiv Sena. On the campus the ABVP in the last year has gone on a rampage and tried to subvert democratic institutions that guarantee the right to debate and discussion. Today, underthe garb. of raising students issues, they are trying to subvert and deligitimize the JNUSU. .
The SFI appeals to the student community to support its in its endeavour to smash the reactionaries by politically eliminating the ABVP. .
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Little League Tournament at the Baker Sports Complex Baker City Oregon
Caught a few games of the Oregon District 7 Little League Championships at the Baker Sports Complex. Congratulations Pendleton, 2018 District 7 Champions.
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