LAW VERSUS ENGLISH OR THE SYSTEM VERSUS ALL-OF-US?

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LAW VERSUS ENGLISH OR THE SYSTEM VERSUS ALL-OF-US?

I have heard the stories making rounds about a fight between Law students and English students. A fight tagged "for supremacy". Before I write anything further, I want to promptly take a jive at the leadership of the LSS and the PRO of NASELS alongside the President of FASA. I want to say what they have written on this issue indicates their shell-thinking and their boxed reasoning on an issue of more serious complexity.

What happened yesterday was a fight for limited resources and not a fight between Law and English. It could have happened between Education and Tech. It could have happened between Sciences and Agric. It could have happened anywhere.

Students were leaving a class. Students were entering a class. The facilities are not sufficient. 8,000 students were admitted at the last exercise.  English department has about 600 in a class and a Law class has about 400. When 1,000 people try to use 350 seats or so in BOOC lecture theater. There will be a clash.

I am writing to indicate my displeasure at the leadership of both faculties taking sides with their members rather than analysing the bigger problem causing the smaller problem.

I am a law student and my best friends are either in English or Faculty of Art. Oluwalade Babatunde BabaTee, Ope Balogun, Joshua Jenrade and a very long list of people we have stood together on several issues. They are still my friends and what happened yesterday should not be seen as a fight for supremacy but rather a failure of the system.

If you are trying to enter a class early so you find a  place to seat and another is trying to leave and rush to another class. There will be conflict.

Right now, what has happened has happened and what we must work towards is ensuring we continue to raise pressure for better teaching facilities acting as Law students and as English students and as Great Ife Students.

I use this occassion to urge anyone who recorded on video the shameful events of yesterday not to release any such recording as it may affect the studentship of those involved. We dont want to put ourselves in trouble.

I have heard all versions of the story and I think it is a facility problem. The same thing can happen at the busstop, it happens often at various classes. This is just getting attention because it is Law and English. The media chose to hype it.

Law, English, Agric, Education. Anywhere you are. The system is what is failing.

Urgent efforts must be made to bring everyone together and we should try to do what we can to ensure this issue does not lead to heavy disciplinary action.

This is an opportunity to address the issue of overcrowded lecture theatres, poorly planned time table, overadmission of students into Faculties(things like this dont happen in University of Ibadan where they admit strictly what they can serve).

Greatest Ife, Articulate Ife.

It is not Law versus English. It is the system of mismanagement and epic corruption in the University system everywhere and the underfunding of tertiary education.

It is not Law versus English. It could have happened between any group leaving a class and any group entering a small class.

It is the system versus us.

Koye-Ladele Mofehintoluwa,
Parliamentarian, 2016/17    parliamentary year
Great Ife Students Union Representative Council
Faculty of Law.

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