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Sacred Heart University's Department of Government, the Pre-Law Club and the Human Journey Colloquia Series hosted Constitution Week on September 17, 2018, in University Commons featuring guest speaker Carol Platt Liebau, president of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. Her talk was titled “Janus and the First Amendment Right to Silence.” Photo by Tracy Deer-Mirek
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Will the AISA e~ain to the students why did the ML Uberation see a complete rout in Bihar. the any place wherejt had some .
presence? .
In yet another show of sectarianismand desperation the AISA is trying to claim the entire legacy ofJNUSU led struggles as its organizational achievements. One can only hope that the AISA leadership has not stooped to such low levels that it is trying to suggest that since 1973, the JNU student movement only .
The AJSA wants us to believe that significant struggles.
waged struggles for fiVe-six odd years when AISA .
have only been waged for 5-6 years when A/SA.
representatives were in the JNUSU. To make such a daim is the most shameless effort to belittle the four decade old representatives were in the JNUSU. So the four decade legacy of struggles led by generations of students in JNU. old legacy ofthe JNUSU is nothing. How sectarian! .
Instead of making such absurd claims the AISA should .
answer for the performance of Its JNUSU in 2007-08 where the AISA Office--Bearers enjoyed an extended tenure till February .
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);> Compromise with Reservations and Seat Cuts: The AJSA led JNUSU was elected on the basis of a pro-reservation agenda. .
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2008 was the first time OBG reservations and seat increase was implemented in JNU. The AISA led JNUSU backtracked on a written agreement of implementing 27% OBG reservations in one go which the previous JNUSU had forced the administration to agree to and agreed to only 12% OBG reservation. The AISA led JNUSU also accepted a shift from offer system of admissions to a wait nst system which led to seat cuts instead of a seat increase and fall in SGJST and PH reservation as well. The figures for .
JNU admissions prove this point In MPhiVPh 0 Courses there was afall in the number of.
Category 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 .
admissions from 680 In 2007-08 to 635 in 2008~9 because of .
SCJST 23.73 24.13 23.86 27.09 22.99 26.02 .
the implementation of Waiting Ust system. The AISA refuses PH 2.87 2.48 2.99 2.92 2.43 to accept seat cuts under the tenured the AISA led JNUSU till date. The SFI-AISF representatives in the 2007-08 JNUSU.
OBC 18.3 21.02 19.44 23.96 23.19 1 .
enous .MJ, " started an agitation against the improprieties in the admission .
OR mltmn i!: A/SA l9d J/>11 .
process, which was later led by AISA Office-Bearers. The AISA.
Repo!ts .
led JNUSU failed to dinch this struggle. The performance audit by .
GAG nruled AJSA's lies when it acknowledged seat cuts in JNU. The performance audit says that 2112 rrore students could have studied in the University during 2005-09, but were denied admissions. .
);> Diversion of funds meant for OBC reservation and lnfrastructural expansion during AISA led JNUSU's tenure: The GAG Performance Audit indicted the University for Inadmissible Expenditure out of OBG recurring grari. It says, '\JGG Why did the proportion ofSCIST and PH students Released (June 2008) an amount of Rs 24.29 crore as first decrease in the tenure of the AJSA led JNUSV in .
instalment for recurring expenditure for Implementation of 2007-08? Why didn't the A/SA led JNUSU oppose the illegal.
OBG reservation. The recurring grant induded 5. years .
expenditure on salary of teachers, non-teaching posts and diversion ofOBCfunds in August 2008? .
non-salary/ other expenditure. The University, in tum, .
allocated (August 2008) Rs 21.80 crore under recurring grant@ Rs 10 lakh each to 110 faculty members of science schools and .
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Rs 3lakh each to 360 faculty members of non-sdence schools for expenditure on consumables, research materials." .
All this was doneduring the AISA led JNUSU's tenure, but no effort was made by theJNUSU Office Bearers from AISA to .
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fight against such improper practices. .
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The JNUSU under AISA failed to ensure punishment to ABVP goons who unleashed large scale violence dlling the Presidential.
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Debate in the 2007-08 JNUSU Elections. );> The JNUSU Office-Bearers from AISA failed to force the administration to roll back the hike in Prospectus Fee in 2009 despite a .
massive student mobitization. Like its refusal to answer for the absence of AISA's JNUSU Office-Bearers in the struggle for restoration of JNUSU elections, the AISA does not want to be held accountable for these failures in the tenure .
Wulthe newly elected JNUSU fight for student .
of its JNUSU. .
Repeated attacks on the SFI-AISF and the Left by the AISA is nothing issues and restoration ofthe JNUSU constitution .
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but a. ploy to hide its own failures in the JNUSU and struggle for or only rave and rant against the Left? llow is .
restoration of JNUSU elections. and divert the debate in the run up to this going to help the JNU student movement? .
forthcoming JNUSU elections from genuine student issues to hollow .
anti-left rhetoric. This can further AJSA's sectarian politics but does not serve the interests of the student community. .
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Will the newly elected JNUSU fight for student issues and restoration of the JNUSU constitution or only rave and rant against the Left? .
How is this going to help the JNU studert movement? .
We appeal to the student communrty to reject such bankrupt forces and rally behind theSFI-AISF In the forthcoming polls for .
aJNUSU which would fight for students' rights and carry forward the glorious legacy of the JNU student movement .
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For aVIbrant and llghUng JNUSU rallv behind the Sd/-Zico Oasgupta, Vice President SFI-JNU SH-AISF In the lonhcomlng JNUSU elecUons Sd/· ~urgesh, Secretary AISF-JNU .
Wnte to us at sflalsfln/nusu@gmall.com Visit SFI-AISF IN JNUSU on facebook.com .
Onwards to the JNUSU Elecuons 2012 .
The JNU student commuhity would be voting to elect a new JNUSU on March 1' after a gap of more than four years. The SFI-AISF appeals to the students to enthusiastically participate in the debate before the forthcoming pdls and exercise their franchise in large numbers. .
The Stru lefor Restoration of JNUSU .
The students of JNU have waged an arduous struggle for the restoration of JNUSU since 2008. It is only because of a unied struggl~ that the JNUSU elections have been restored. The Youth for (In) Equality has made all possble efforts to saJttle the restoration of JNUSU Elections. The restoration of JNUSU Elections is afitting rebuff to the politics of YFE and its allies. .
When the Supreme Court stayed the JNUSU elections the incumbent JNUSU (2007-08) and the Joint Struggle Committee was entrusted with the responsibility of leading the struggle for restoration of JNUSU. The AISA had all four JNUSU Office-Bearers In the 2007·08 JNUSU. None of the AISA led JNUSU Office--Bearers have . delivered on the mandate given to them for restoration of the JNUSU xnltu t~;;us~ Offic;~~~e;; extended stint in the JNUSU Ull February rom . . t e.
Elections. After enjoying an 2010, the JNUSU Office Bearers from AISA proposed that there should be leadershtp dtd not run away from elections to the Academic Council and Board of Studies Instead of JNUSU ~t s~ruggle to restore the JNUSU .
elections. If theAISA had its way, the student community would be having ethctioAnsL.S',. h d . uld .
· · 1lf e /t a tis way we wo.
Ac'B oSand not JNUSU elect1ons today. Even till the last semester the AISA b h . -AC/B S El . .d .
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was trying to prevent JNUSU elections and m1slead the students by propoSing .
elections to some "shadow body" (option C). Organizations like the NSUI and ABVP have not made any contribution for restcring the JNUSU. They showed their true colours by opposing last month's indefmtle hunger strike which forced the administration to hold JNUSU elections in this semester. .
On the other hand the SFI-AISF has provided leadership to the struggle for restoration of the JNUSU and ensured that focus was never lost from the central challenge which faced the student community. Unlike the JNUSU Office Bearers from the AISA who ran away, the SFI-AISF leadership dug tls feet and stayed back to lead the struggle for restoration of the JNUSU. .
After the AISA led JNUSU Office-Bearers abdicated their responsibilities; the SHAISF suggested that the JSC should enter into adialogue with the Amicus-Curiae for maximum possible relaxations. It was the SFt-AISF leadership which persisted with the dialogue process with Amicus-Curiae and ensured that he tiled his petition with exemptions In the Supreme Court The consistent efforts by the SFI-AJSF ensured that a broad based unity could be built among the students for the restoration of JNUSU elections. .
Issues before the forthcoming JNUSU .
In the absence of an elected JNUSU, the student movement In our university has suffered many setbacks. It Is Important that the newly elected JNUSU lives up to the challenge of fightlng for both student rights as well as carrying forward the struggle for restoration of the JNUSU constitution. The forthcoming polls must debate the vision which the newly elected JNUSU .
would have. To Initiate this debate the SFI-AISF Is putting forward some of the issues which are pertinent for the student community today. .
Increase Scholarships, ensure timely disbursal of scholarships and stop fee hikes: Our country has seen very high inflation in the recent past Mess Bills which were around Rs 75~800 have increased to Rs 130~1500 today. The inflationary situation has also affected students in other aspects. There has not been any increase in the MGM scholarship or Rs 3000/5000 MC'M d TlGC h ·.
scholarship forM Phil/PhD students givenby the UGG. 1ncrease · an v scho1ars tp .
);> The new JNUSU should fight for an increase in M Phil/PhD scholarships from and number of RGNF and /Jtfaulana Rs 3000/5000 to Rs 5000/8000, which was recommended by the UGG in Azad Nationalfellowships in JNU. January 2009 itself, but has not been approved by the government. Mau scholarship disbursal time .
);> The amount of MGM scholarship should be increased. The last time MCM bound. .
scholarship was increased from Rs 600 toRs 1500, a survey was conducted ......_____________ ____. .
by the SFI-AISF representatives in 2005-06 JNUSU to arrive at a concrete demand for increase in MGM. A similar survey should .
be conducted to fix an amount and then start a struggle for increase in MGM. );> AJI SC/ST research students in JNU should be given Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship. ) The number of Maulana Azad Scholarships being offered to JNU sludents must be increased. At present only 42 students get this .
scholarship In JNU. The process of its disbursal must also be made simple. .
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Edited United States Navy image of the USS Constitution in Boston Harbor. Color/processing variant.
Original caption: BOSTON (Sept. 21, 2018) USS Constitution is tugged through Boston Harbor to the Charlestown Navy Yard during "Old Ironsides" underway honoring Gold Star families and state educators for their support of the U.S. armed services, veterans, and the nation. (U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Tiana Coots/Released) 180921-N-YC286-0109
USS Constitution, launched in 1797, vanquished the HMS Guerrere in 1812. 204 feet, crew of 450 seamen. Charlestown Navy Yard. || Photo info: Taken 2021-08-01 with Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM, ¹⁄₁₀ sec at f/6.3, focal length 35 mm, ISO 500. Copyright 2021.
The St. Mary's American Constitution Society was named chapter of the week by the national society for the week of March 5. From left to right, students: Amanda Finn, Rachel Ambler, Afton Cavanaugh, and Cesar De Leon.
Residential building in Phase I of Constitution Square development by StonebridgeCarras and Walton Street Capital. Located at First and M Streets, N.E. in the NoMa neighborhood of Washington, D.C., the building will have 440 apartments and 80,000 SF of retail space including a 50,000 SF Harris Teeter grocery store, with entrance seen at the corner of the building. The building will deliver in 2010-11.
The male prison was build to hold 972 people, for long periods there were over 2000 prisoners. Quotes on the kitchen wall state that prisoners would stave themselves before eating, seemingly the only way to stomach the food.
The 2000 were given the opportunity all at once to shower once a week in cold water within an hour period.
USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat. Launched in 1797, Constitution was one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed.
Seen here in Boston Navy Yard.
Plazoleta Héroes de Malvinas with its Monumento Heroes de Malvinas that remembers those killed in the Falklands war and honors the survivors. The monument was conceived by Argentine artist Mauro Stefanazzi with Freedom being represented by the image of a woman with indigenous features, holding in one hand the national constitution and in the other, a spear / We return to El Calafate mid-afternoon after visiting Glaciar Perito Moreno located in the Los Glaciares National Park (South). We now have an opportunity to see the sights in downtown El Calafate before meeting up with the reset of our tour for an Argentine-style dinner; next morning we fly to Buenos Aires.
From Trey Ratcliff:
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I went down on Saturday evening to do some shooting around Austin and caught the capitol around sunset. There are all kinds of interesting things about the Texas capitol, like this cool underground Illuminati chamber you can see here, but the one thing that all Texans seem to know is that our capitol is 14 feet taller than the one in D.C. This is a source of pride for Texans, along with the cool and trivial fact that we maintain, in our state constitution, the right to secede from the Union.
The capitol is made out of this pink granite, and it gets a little pinker at night at soon as they turn on the lights, especially against the blue sky.
from the blog at www.stuckincustoms.com