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Dma Junior Artist Username: Dma Post Number: 278 Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 63.226.59.105 Rating: N/A |
OU students andaru velli KCR gaadidi naakandi. Tiyyagaa vuntundi. I hope they at least realize these politician's dirty tricks/games. I really feel sorry for them. OU students will have to siffer for years to come. | ||
Iamim Side Hero Username: Iamim Post Number: 3473 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 119.235.54.170 Rating: N/A |
T-effect: Stress level peaks in OU Nikhila Henry, TNN, Feb 26, 2010, 05.45am IST HYDERABAD: Students of Osmania University are struggling, and this time not with the lathi-charging police but with their own disturbed minds. With the campus turning into a âTâ bastion, the average OU student has ended up as a nervous wreck. With the Telangana struggle on campus completing three months, many students are queuing up for psychological counselling sessions. Students are undergoing post-traumatic stress leading to insomnia (sleeplessness), behavioural changes and even suicidal tendency. And recording this disturbing trend on campus is 15-day-old Sahayam, a counselling centre started by psychology department of the university. Counsellors at Sahayam say that students are approaching them with varying problems, all related to the âTâ agitation. In a recent case, a IInd year student of Geophysics department of OU had to be taken to a psychiatrist for treatment as he was troubled by the tension on campus. The police presence on campus, exams getting postponed repeatedly and suicide attempts on the university premises are factors causing depression. Take for instance a PG student who sought psychiatric treatment as he was disturbed by âTâ suicides. The student complained that he had trouble sleeping after he saw images of self-immolation on television. Adding to this trauma was his own worry about getting a job after completion of the course. | ||
Iamim Side Hero Username: Iamim Post Number: 3467 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 119.235.54.170 Rating: N/A |
âMaoist denâ tag dents OU image âMaoist denâ tag dents OU image It will affect job, education opportunities, fear students It is a propaganda to blame the movement spearheaded by students, feel senior teachers State claim of Maoists fuelling the agitation has caught national attention for the wrong reasons HYDERABAD: The dichotomous claims of the State government and Osmania University Vice-Chancellor T. Tirupati Rao on the presence of Maoists on OU campus, has put the universityâs image in a quandary. With the Supreme Court seeking evidence in support of the State governmentâs claim of Maoistsâ presence on the campus and their alleged role in fuelling the agitation has caught the national attention for wrong reasons. And this is hurting the teachers and the students, who feel the State government, cannot risk the image of the institution and its credentials for suppressing an agitation launched for a totally different purpose. Interestingly, the Vice-Chancellor himself had made it clear that there was no evidence of Maoistsâ presence on the campus or in the agitation launched from the campus. âIt is a propaganda to blame the movement spearheaded by the students without understanding the damage they are doing to the universityâs image,â feel several senior teachers. âNo groups associated with Maoists are present on the campus and students too have made it clear several times,â points out P. L. Vishweshwer Rao, Dean, Faculty of Arts and a member of the government initiated peace committee. Some teachers, however, admit the presence of some outsiders provoking students with their rabble-rousing speeches. âRubbishâ âBut to say that militants are actively participating in the agitation is rubbish,â says P. Praveen Reddy, a member of Students JAC. âMere participation of some Maoist sympathisers in meetings conducted at Arts College is no way an indication of their active role. If sympathy is the only evidence then majority universities in the country can be termed as Maoist affected,â says Marri Anil, another JAC leader. Discrediting Accusing the government of discrediting the agitation, a senior professor reminds that Maoists adopt a different strategy and those connected with the naxalite movement or their actions can easily make out the difference, including the police. Moreover, the police has so far neither caught any sympathiser nor confiscated any supporting material from the campus. Genuine students are more worried over the dented image of the university among the prospective employers. âThis is totally unnecessary and unfortunately it is the government that is discrediting its own institution. It will affect our employment, and also education opportunities,â says Rudra Reddy, a research scholar. |