AMU Old Boys to launch a campaign against the opening of the special centres

http://twocircles.net/2010jun22/amu_old_boys_launch_campaign_against_special_centres.html


By Kulsum Mustafa, TwoCircles.net,



Aligarh: It is not very common for any alumni association to declare war against its own parent body. Certainly not when the institution enjoys enviable popularity and is as old as 110 years. But the Aligarh Muslim University Old Boys Association, comprising nearly 5,000 registered former students of the University are up in arms against what they are terming as a well designed move of the university administration to dilute the residential status of the AMU.

These old boys are led by veterans like former Rajya Sabha MP and visitor's nominee to the Executive Council of AMU, Wasim Ahmed and former tourism minister in Uttar Pradesh, Kawkab Hameed, just to name a few. They assert that these protests and agitations are their way of expressing their deep love for their Alma Mater. They assert that their chief concern is that if these centers are opened outside the AMU, students will flock to them as they will be closer home. AMU, they fear, will then lose much of its sheen that it has enjoyed in the last over one century.
By Kulsum Mustafa, TwoCircles.net,

Aligarh: It is not very common for any alumni association to declare war against its own parent body. Certainly not when the institution enjoys enviable popularity and is as old as 110 years. But the Aligarh Muslim University Old Boys Association, comprising nearly 5,000 registered former students of the University are up in arms against what they are terming as a well designed move of the university administration to dilute the residential status of the AMU.

These old boys are led by veterans like former Rajya Sabha MP and visitor's nominee to the Executive Council of AMU, Wasim Ahmed and former tourism minister in Uttar Pradesh, Kawkab Hameed, just to name a few. They assert that these protests and agitations are their way of expressing their deep love for their Alma Mater. They assert that their chief concern is that if these centers are opened outside the AMU, students will flock to them as they will be closer home. AMU, they fear, will then lose much of its sheen that it has enjoyed in the last over one century.