Salam, today I'd like to bring to the fore the matter of studies periods which is really funny and peculiar to our university in Fes. In my article (below) written on Tuesday-3 weeks ago-I said that most of the presenters who used data show still need computer skills to deliver their talks coherently.I also said that the week after would be my turn to present my talk about Rupert's Murdoch News Corporation. Now you can imagine that since then I've not presented my talk yet !! not because of an official holiday, no. Not because, God forbids, of an earthquake or some other sorts of 'Nature fury' and it is surely not because of teachers' absence. The reason why I haven't yet said STH about Rupert Myrdoch in my class is really complicated. May be the fact that am studying at S.M.B.A.U could already help understand the reason behind this delay. The university is notorious for being the pioneer in Morocco to hold violent protests, bringing about complete standstill in studies, against 'reforms' in the Moroccan higher educational system especially the last one which has been executed nearly 5 yrs ago!. Add to this, the weekly skirmishes and violence taking place b/w 2 major students factions in extreme and a wayout opposition to each other : the so called progressives and conservatives. No matter how pertinent dictions I may use to describe the tensity of brawls and its by-products b/w these 2 factions, I really can't crystalize the amount of horror and violence taking place at the university once one side or the other instigate the showdown. Thanks God I've never witnessed or happened to be present in such bloody showdons, but I did see images the 2 factions display later to smear each other's reputation ! swords, knives, stones...are arms used to cripple sometimes innocent students. One thing I will never forget is the severe wounds in sensitive spots these images document from both factions casualties. What I want to say from all this is that we the independent students are the victims of protests and bloody confrontations between the 'progressives' & the 'conservatives'; that is more days off and less lessons taught and this semester is par excellence a case in point for the latter. May be neither factions are completely responsible for what is happening; May be there are some other people orchestrating this behind the curtain, but surely there is only one side losing : it's we the non partisan students who represent the majority, the future of Morocco.
I forget to say that university next week will be off for Monday & Tuesday. This time it is an official holiday-the new year. So you can now see that other students and me should wait a whole month just to deliver our talks in the media class !!! To sum up, it is said that 1 Japanese visited Morocco and stated : " Studies in Morocco is intermissions preceeded and followed by holidays." !
God Bless You ):
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There is a proverb which says:" A cow which is dragged to Beijing is still a cow".
Since there no sense of either mentality or conscience,be sure there will be no progress,no fairness,no equity,......
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