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In a bid to strike a balance between managing students and ensuring their adequate welfare, the Management purposely has proscribed the Students’ Union Government relating to the fact that the Students’ Union Government are lacking in their responsibilities in providing and maintaining adequate security during their social gatherings. Now, does the proscription of the Students’ Union the way to get adequate peace and security on campus?

Amid the discrepancies and the irregularities concerning the academic activities on campus, some problems are inherent of which the paramount is security. This security threat may differ in various ways, some may be a case of theft like that of the reported case in the Orisun Hall, and that of the burgling of the Press Council Secretariat few weeks back. Other case of this security threat which is the genesis of every chaos on the campus, is the parasitic coexistence between the students.

Without futile argument, it is agreeable that the Students’ Union Government gatherings have always been prone to violence, and therein bring up security concerns. But what if the focus is deepened beyond the relation of Students’ Union gatherings to violence to the focal point that there is little or no love lost between the students concerned. Or how do we explain the situation where students interrelations come with wilfulness to attack?

If the Students’ Union is proscribed because of violence breakout, is it right as well to proscribe the committee behind the last session’s matriculation and orientation days of the school because of the violence breakout? The answer is an unequivocal No. Though, this session’s orientation and matriculation days were peaceful, but it can be conjured that the adequate security employed during this period facilitated that.

In a system where the coexistence of students is parasitic, though the Students’ Union proscription might have been appropriately seemed by the management to curb the tentacles of insecurity on campus, but that may not be the technical solution. In this situation, what’s paramount as a way to prevent further uncalled and uncouth chaos among students is creating a symbiotic relationship among students, and most importantly, bridging the gap of thought of inferiority complex already seated in the minds of generalised students, and also bridging the gap between the two factions the students have been divided into – the North and the South.

Away from these inadequacies in the responsibilities of the Students’ Union Government towards students welfare, can it then be said that the aftermath of the riot on campus justifies the proscription of the Students’ Union?

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