Friday, November 30, 2012

WILL BBM GET RESULTS SOON?

By William Dekker

The 908 fourth-year students pursuing Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) will be issued their delayed results next week, the Moi University Press Club, The 3rd Eye has learnt. According to the Administrator, School of Business and Economics, Mr. Silas K. Chirchir, students who have not yet obtained their pending 3rd year provisional results would get them in the coming days.

Speaking to The 3rd Eye reporter yesterday in his office, Mr. Chirchir said the delay had been due to late submission of examinations papers by respective lecturers to the concerned office. He added that the “hold-up” of the results was due to the fact that a majority of the lecturers, handle an overwhelming number of students within the various Campuses of Moi University. Consequently, they are compelled to add an extra effort in order to deliver within the time frame.

“We are hastily working on the issue and possibly by next week they shall be finally sorted out”, assured the Administrator. He further urged the affected group to remain calm as the issue was being sought . With the exception of other campus, nine hundred and eight affected students who hail from Main Campus & West Campus can now rest assured that their anxiety would be quelled any time soon.

This comes barely weeks after the Academic Director Mr Titus Mururu had told this Club that the students with missing marks, would get them in 2 weeks time. We have also established that all schools except BBM have received their results in the 1st week of reporting. It is now a wait-see situation as comrades hope that their long-awaited marks will be released.

Fix electric faults, Hostel F residents demand

Hostel F residents have decried the electrical circuits situation. The comrades have said that they experienced the problem for 3-weeks. They claim that most circuits don’t work, which has worsen their economic situation.


“Manze inabidi tumeenda stage kununua food, "said one irate student. Most students called for immediate action.

FRESHAZ NIGHT

By Stanley Kimuge

Tom is a BBM 1st year.
This will be his 1st kadunda.
He will be 20years 10days, 5hrs and 6 seconds.
By the time it dawns, Tom will . . .

1. Witness 427 bottles of in Keg being smashed. 201 of which will be deformed recognition. 50 of them will be “re-branded”.

2. Will have seen 123 fresh freshaz chics being ngurumishad by continuing dudes. Another 77 by his collegues’(fresher dudes will bonyeshad shindad at same time) . 40 of who will be dumped the following day.

3. Tom will have requested the Dee Jay to play “Toklezea” 15 times before giving up.

4. He will have danced Katumbo style all night. An hour in the middle of the crowd. Four hours in the middle of the nowhere.

5. He will be astonished for 53 minutes 2 seconds waiting for food to be served but amused for 20 minutes before the bash.

6. He will have slept in the cold outside Frustration Square cursing the gods after his room-mate made an impromptu exile.

7. He will have smelled 70kg of tobacco and 5 litres of busaa during the night. 55 kg of which he inhales. He will sip 0.3ml of naps reluctantly after being offered by a classmate whom he photocopied 7 bouncing time-tables.

8. He will have given Red Cross service to 12 staggering strangers. 5 of who will throw “bad mouth” on him. He will also save his friend Davy from brewing fight over his new catch Juliette.

9. Tom will have tried four times pestering vibes on a chic. All of which will be turned down.

10. Tom will have blushed thrice after being approached by a fourth year lady.

11. He will have had 51 missed calls. 40 by her village girl (his last voice mail message will read: I read calling you 40 times most recently 4.30am). 5 by his room-mate (wanting to inquire about his whereabouts). Te remaining by his mother.

12. Will have snatched a lady towards his room at around 5am. He will have been the last man standing in the floor. The security will have forced him to leave . . .

13. He will have spent ksh 85.50 informing his friends that kadunda imeanza. Total of Ksh 10 will be swallowed by convincing her classmate to come. 20 of the amount will have been safaricom sponsored.

14. The Hostel D Resident will have noticed 8 new Frakaz members sleeping in Student Centre loos. 2 of who will be ladies.

HOW MUSO FAILs COMRADES

By Lau Lawi

“There comes a time when the main actor has to leave the stage”. These are words that have always decorated these walls advocating for the liberation of student politics. As it was witnessed with the 2nd years, they had no one to forward their cries because our politics are dead and buried. We look upon the MUSO officials like our Biblical Moses or Davids. In real sense they are Absalom and betrayers of comradeship.

They own shops and exploit the comrades; the same comrades they promised to fight for during their campaigns. They have defiled the student constitution which they promised to abide in. They have no difference with the politicians we have in the tenth parliament. But what do we say! We chose them . . .

With the activism witnessed during Dikembe and Doghanas time as writers and crusaders of Student’s liberation from the strong yoke of administrative injustices. We thought that student politics had come of age. This was a misconstrued belief conjured by our naïve procastinative brains. We were condemned through hoodwinking ideologies and manifestos of political blasphemy.

We expected these leaders who promised us heaven to at least deliver us from administrative inconveniences, if not take us to political Canaan. We appreciate what they have done so far but it’s not their best. They promised us a New Constitution which up to now has been buried in the dusty filing cabinets of student affairs as the draft gathers dust. I believe that a rolling stone gathers no moss but our politics and positive activism will develop algae and fungi if nothing is done in the meantime.

We have sat and watched as the 2nd years cry foul of administrative inconveniences as if we are not concerned. We have forgotten that tomorrow our brothers and sisters or sons and daughters will come here and suffer the consequential inconveniences which we failed to act on.

Student Finance office continues to claim that there is no money for MUSO bursary while we continue holding kadundas. I wonder whether we are getting our priorities right. What is the need of enjoying ourselves at the expense of helping a comrade fulfil his/her academic dream!

I believe that demonstrations and picketing will never yield anything positive. What will liberate us is holding consultative talks. That will lay down a platform for students to air their grievances and for the administration to act on those issues that have been ailing our institution for long. We need to show that we have informed brains that can make decisions and not act in the same manner hawkers and touts react to challenges encroaching their environment.

We are the crème de la crème of the society but have so far not realized our role in moulding a better society and advocate for positive change in our fields and professions. We have harboured great ideas on development and resolutions but have never gotten the audacity to share them.

We will never be remembered and classed among heroes if we go down to our graves with ideas that could have liberated our society from diverse yokes of modern day slavery and neo-colonialism.

Monday, November 26, 2012

HUMOUR: WHY THIS CAMPO NEEDS SECOND YEARS

By William Dekker

Its barely three weeks now and freshaz might be wondering why they haven’t seen these “things” , which they were told about campo. The compound seems to be so docile and perhaps that huge expectation hasn’t been satisfied. That campo fire, rush and super-mchanuko seems not to be a reality. I think I have a good answer to that.

To begin with, this place is full of generation “W” or rather “Generation Wazee”-the fourth years. These are old guards who see no life in a lot of things. They have very little excitement or their interest is extremely limited on anything. Meet them across the pathways with long-wrinkled faces. You will not be surprised by “move out of the way” expressions. These guys look like they are just out to box someone big-time.

I once dared the scary to one sura ya kazi look and said “hi” along the Academic Highway. I have never liked the reply till to-date; “Thesis! Project! Research! Report! Blah . . . etc”. For a moment, I thought this chap was raping to me about all his woes in response to a mere greeting; of course he was! I tell you, seniors takes away all the fan you desire in campo. It’s like a den of torment, pressure and frustrations, si project si report! Everyone of them seems to be caught up in deadlines, no wonder they have no time for any other crap (except PICNICs).

And then there is this group, that of just-fill-the compound. They are there to be hardly seen and never to be heard. Apologies in advance before I incriminate “the engineers”. These are pure academicians whose brains are occupied by 97% Arithmetics, Formulas and “crammed stuff”, 2% Massive confusion and 1% Misinformation . They are always idealess of what happens outside the Mackay building. In fact, uninformed of the happenings within the campus realm as a whole. As much as graduation takes place next to their dwelling, you will be surprised they only know after it took place “two weeks ago”. Engineers, no offence please, just business!


Evidently, there is no one around to give the freshaz a run for their money. Someone has to take life at the fastest pace and “bring them to birth”, of what it means being in campus. Let me just be frank, 2nd years wanarudi hapa na mioto, mtashangaa! This group is an equivalent of an Al-Shabab’s grenade that has been unwontedly buried in the sands of Kismayu with no agenda to carry out. Now that they have been freed from that bondage they were in, they are here to explode with a bang! Bondage? Yeah! The bondage of not seeing these new faces they desired so much while ageing at home for three weeks. 2nd years wametamani sana mafresha. At least now they’ve got juniors to look up to and I guess they might just make “perfect” mentors for these “juniors” in 1st year. Perhaps they’ll just be here to put the house in order and make things get back to its feet.

Warning! Be prepared for real craze around; agenda less noisemaking, competitive clad-wear, unparalleled fashion and groom, virtual hyperness and imaginary hotness, exiles, pirating reloaded! Wait a minute . . . have we had the freshaz nyt yet? Oops! I wonder why it was given that name coz according to my understanding; it is a thing of another group all together. May be the dress-code, the dance, the deeds for that night and the aftermath of it all will prove my point. Here is a private whisper to my beloved fresha chiqs “after Friday’s freshaz nyt, hizo skirts zenu mtazipeleka kwa fundi zikatwe mara tatu so as to fit to the standards of the mini-skirts we have here.”

Let’s just call it campo has just began; mioto reloaded!!!. If you’ve never believed that Hostel J is a den of more male occupants than female residents then hang on for even more surprises. Tick…tock! The clock is ticking; let the games begin!!!

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