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UDSM opens doors minus students` leaders
2007-05-15 09:48:54
By Pastory Nguvu
As Dar es Salaam University opens door today to the student community, the fate of about 56 students who are still in suspension hangs in the balance.
The university yesterday was a beehive of activity as hundreds of students streamed back to fill readmission forms, ready to start classes this morning.
And as the students, were happily doing the paper work for readmission, a section of Dar es Salaam University Students Organisation (DARUSO)leadership was meeting secretly in the city to chart the way forward after the entire Daruso leadership was shut out of the compus.
The entire students’ community has been away for weeks, after they boycotted classes demanding 100 per cent education loans for higher education learning and the varsity sent them packing.
The entire DARUSO leadership is among the 56 students the university has accused of masterminding the class boycott.
Interviewed students’ leaders appealed to their colleagues to pressurise the university to readmit them.
“Our fate will be determined by other students, that is if they will stand up for us,” said a leader who preferred anonymity.
Their meeting sought to lay out strategies to find their way back to the college.
Leaders said DARUSO would continue to struggle for students’ rights even in their absence.
The students reporting today will have signed a declaration that they will not involve themselves in any activity likely to disrupt learning environment.
UDSM management was mum yesterday about the fate of the students who were not readmitted.
“I have nothing to say to the media about this matter” UDSM Vice-Chancellor Rwekaza Mukandala said.
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