Students shine in youth festival - GU team bags prizes at Kalyani University

Students of Gauhati University shone in a national-level inter-university youth festival organised in Calcutta recently. Representing the state in the festival they bagged three prizes in different categories.

A 23-member student team, under the leadership of Radha Charan Rabha, director of students’ welfare of the university, participated at the 28th Inter University National Youth Festival 2012-13 at Kalyani University in Calcutta and bagged three prizes.

The team bagged the third prize in the cultural procession, fourth in folk music orchestra and third in theatrical-mimicry.

Altogether 1,000 students from 71 universities from across the country participated in the festival where Bombay University emerged as the best team and the Guru Nanak University as the second best.

Ragging slur on senior boarders - Varsity asks hostel girls to keep mum

Gauhati University today shrugged off its responsibility of conducting a proper inquiry into a complaint of “mental torture” by some boarders of a girls’ hostel, dubbing the complaint as an “internal matter” of the university.

Sources in the university said 15 boarders of AT 2 Law College Girls’ Hostel on Saturday filed a complaint to the association of the hotel wardens of the university alleging that their seniors had tortured them mentally the previous night.

A source said the victims were reprimanded by their seniors for not giving enough time in organising Saraswati puja. They were asked to keep standing for hours as punishment. The victims had refused to participate in organising the puja as they needed to prepare for their examinations.

Gauhati University sets 2015 as syllabus deadline

Gauhati University plans to introduce its new curriculum for undergraduate courses by 2015.

The deferment comes in the wake of affiliated colleges opposing the alleged “hush-hush” manner in which the university was trying to implement the new syllabus from the next academic session.

Sources in GU said a meeting of the university’s academic council held yesterday had decided to constitute a high-powered committee to consider suggestions from stakeholders to bring about necessary changes in the existing system to effectively implement the proposed syllabus.

“There was no opposition or reservations against the changes or introduction of new subjects, because that is being done according to the changing global market scenario. College teachers were against the inadequacies of the existing system to cope with the revised curriculum,” a source said.

Dr Hazarika’s lyrics in digital archive

A digital archive of the lyrics of Dr Bhupen Hazarika stored in Unicode format along with the songs was formally inaugurated by Meghalaya Governor RS Mooshahary at the Dept of Information Technology, Gauhati University today.

The archive has the lyrics and songs in alphabetical order, and one can access those at the website www. bhupenhazarikadigitalarchives.org.

Addressing the function, Mooshahary said that there was an urgent need to expand and promote the timeless compositions of the legendary singer-musician, and that the digital archive would serve that purpose to a great extent.

Lauding the role of the IT dept of GU, Mooshahary said that storing the lyrics in Unicode format would facilitate flexibility and availability of the resources in a universal format so that those could be used, disseminated and analysed by anyone anywhere.