Friday, June 21, 2013

CAMPUS DATING GAME

By Purity Museo

Unknown to many, the average university girl no longer has time to date the young guy in her IRD class. Many wish to hook up with top CEOs, politicians, business men and anyone else in the public eye willing to bankroll their lives and make their lofty dreams cross from fantasy into reality. Men on the other hand have their fat wallets out for a little passionate presence. Campus guys on the other hand prefer sugar mummies.

The major reason behind all this is the dating games in campus. Most students are usually advised by their parents and friends not to associate with campus men and women because they are heart-breakers. This advice is normally broken the first two weeks of stay in campus.

The campus experience is just as much about experiences outside of the classroom as it is inside. The innocent age is mostly in the first year of campus. The girls are at their most naïve stage, of course, in spite of themselves thinking otherwise. They have all kinds of set values and high standards. He must be smart, well dressed, kind, polite, a Muslim or Christian preferably of the same denomination. Guys in campus understand this well so they act as expected.

The first day she meets ‘Mr. Right’, she is invited for coffee. The girl gets excited after seeing a carpeted room with a music system and TV, which she does not have. She becomes a frequent visitor and slowly but sure, she is entrapped. She gets used to being taken out for supper and dinner and so she cannot cook any more. She is introduced to drinking and sex (the man assuming that the pot-belly doesn’t get in the way). When she is in her second year, all she thinks about is going out to have fun. 

The guy plans to dump her because of her behaviour. She is now described as a drunkard who does not know how to cook, unworthy to be introduced to ones’ parents because of her indecency and now a gold digger who is after men’s money. The spare key to the guy’s room is taken back and the guy becomes busy with assignments which never existed when they met.

The cycle repeats as he waits for the next group of freshers with his headphones stuck in place as head bops to the music. Since she’s used to the life of plenty, when the guy’s pockets ‘narrow’, she clings to an old man without giving a hoot that the man is married, and has no remorse for the poor woman who’s old enough to be her mother with whom she is brazenly competing for ‘love’.

In his fourth year, the guy realizes that he is late and desperately starts chasing after older ladies.
At your tender age, you end up contracting AIDS and other STDs. Remember that being single is not a death sentence hence it is important to be patient and wait for the right person. You might destroy your body when you think you are satisfying it.

WILL THEY CONSIDER THEIR FAULT?

By Kinyua Njeri

As we approach the long awaited exams,
Exam the nightmare,
Is here with us to dare,
I wonder whether we will fare,
With moods in the air’
But will they consider their fault?


April we came,
Luggage made us claim,
And wish our campus was like them,
Who defend health, life and justice when trained,
But will they consider their fault?


Nights pirated for accommodation,
Therefore creating havoc, stress and commotion
Rooms that we in vain sought sanitation,
And never found it even after negotiation,
But will they consider their fault?


Blackouts that never paved us to read,
Or even cook our hunger and stress to get rid,
Lectures that constantly bounced,
And inaudibility that was pronounced,
But will they consider their fault?


And now that the exam is here,
I wish they admit their fault and hear,
What we have to make clear,
They ought to think of us as we fear,
But will they consider their fault?

EXAM PREPARATIONS AMIDST CONFUSION

Over 500 students are at a risk of missing this semester's examinations which begin on Monday next week. This follows the delay in the disbursement of HELB funds. 

The University's stand that students ought to have cleared fees before issuance of exams cards has left needy students in a precarious position. Already, some students are mauling over deferring the examinations.

However, we have established that a group of students will today hold a discussion with the DVC in charge of student affairs, Prof. Nathan Ogechi, over the matter. Sources intimate that the group will petition the administration to allow those with outstanding balances to sit for the examinations. 

Changes in the calendar seem to have caught the lending body, HELB, off guard. The most affected group is the current third years, who reported in April after the long holiday. Normally, students receive the funds from August.

An official communication regarding the matter will be released at 3 pm.

THE AVERAGE FOURTH-YEAR...

By Shiku Ngigi

- Is on his last semester of his 8-4-4 and age is catching up. Either that or he has thrown caution to the wind. He has no idea what courses he’s taking. If he has, he has no knowledge of their titles, leave alone their codes. He never missed classes in earlier years but today, attending lectures is the exception, not the rule.

-Will remember that registration forms are filled on the day before exams, she will then scribble on some course registration form very fast, forge the signatures then fill in an examination course form. It will then hit her that she has not paid her fee yet. She’ll rush to that tiny National Bank and stand in an endless line. Back in the day, she paid her fee a month before the opening date, a good faithful freshman.

-Does not study for CATs. There is a reason they are Continuous Assessment Tests, right? You walk in there like a man (woman) and fill the paper with that massive knowledge that cannot be attained from books. With age comes great confidence and a full disk space up in your head. Also, the rumour that lecturers don’t mark papers but play the ‘picky picky ponky’ game to grade papers has got to his head. Therefore, whether he reads or not, he’ll likely get the same marks (bad move).

-Is a wealth of knowledge stored in cartons of hand-outs and disks of soft copies; a walking repository. If I were you, I’d grab the nearest senior’s hand and request her to unload all these printouts and files into your flash disks and files.

-Will have spent an average of 6000/- on the electric contraptions commonly known as coils in campus. She has also acquired the skills to tap electricity from naked wires and steal fluorescent tubes from the kitchens and washrooms when the one in her room is burnt out.

-Was here during the infamous 2009 strike, the Mashoka era and the invention of long holidays which redefined the very age-old meaning of long. The pseudo-fourth years out there have gone on a longer one. Let’s just say their successors may go on one that will clock 12 months. And Moi University will once again break its own record!

-Remembers with nostalgia the days she could walk into the library with her laptop bag so that it would not get stolen by some nitwit at the entrance. Better still, her laptop would not find its way to the hard floor after dropping from her hands while she walked up those flights of stairs.

-Has a whole new wardrobe. Her skirts are shorter, her pants tighter and her shoes higher. Show her a picture of herself back in 2009, she will laugh and say that she was “innocent” and “naïve”. Ask me what she was, I will tell you. She was herself.

-Has been rejected by enough ladies, he is now immune. In fact, he just chats them up for fun nowadays. If she says yes, he might just be shocked into a cardiac arrest!

-Just recently learnt how it feels to be inside a Moi University bus. Destination, Mombasa (I wonder how no other destination tickles students’ fancy as much as this place). He came back darker and relaxed only to scowl at the ‘Karibu Umefika’ signpost. Life has to go on.

-Is staring at his research project wondering how time flew so fast. Part of him wants to be out of here, the other wants to hang around a bit. He needs to have a bit more fun before he gets out there to give the world what he’s got. All the same, he’s already got his clearance form and gathered half the signatures required. And no, he will not tarmac. Opportunities galore out there, he has it all figured out. Wait and see.

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