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Inexcusable Incident and Inaction
An extraordinary incident was reported in the f»ress last week. A student of Dhaka University elt he had received a raw deal in his Master's degree examinations and decided to go and physically assault the teacher concerned in the latter's office. The Dhaka University Teachers Association (DUTA) .was incensed, not only by the Incidence of assault, but perhaps even more so by the fact that the university authorities did not see it fit to take immediate disciplinary action against the offending student
It is not tne purpose of this paper to discuss what kinds of grievances that student might have had. nor whether those complaints were credible or not. By assaulting the teacher, the student had crossed the furthest limit of decency and norm of behaviour acceptable In any educational institution in this or any other country. The question of a sympathetic hearing for the student, which would nave been the course taken by this paper under any other circumstance, does not now arise because of the utterly inexcusable nature of the boy's actions. The outcry among the teachers over the incident is an understandable and Justified one. but what is certainly not comprehensible Is the inaction of the university authorities.
Given the nature of the crime — for it was a crime and a case has also been registered with the Ramna police station, we understand — one would have thought that stern disciplinary actions would have been taken by the authorities as a matter of course. Instead, we have the unhappy spectacle of teachers having to take strike action to force the university to aeal with the offender In an appropriate manner. The university's inaction may well be interpreted as a sign of weakness and a woeful lack of any sense of its own place in society or of the place of teachers within the academic community. Such a deficiency Is not only dangerous for the future growth of the university as an academic Institution, but It is also an unforgivable display of spinelessness on the part of the authorities. The teachers have taken a stand that will earn them greater respect among the student community, especially considering that incidences of disrespectful or even violent behaviour with teachers have been increasing in frequency over the years. The latest incident only received such media prominence because the teacher involved swallowed great deal of personal pride to make it public and file a case with police.
All students are aware that if such tactics of "terror" continue to be practised by what is admittedly a handful of students, the whole atmosphere of student-teacher relation will become a poisoned one. This cannot but retard the growth of intellectual interaction between teachers and students, ultimately leading to a general impoverishment of academic attainment at the country's highest seat of learning.
It is evident that teachers are determined to use this latest incident to tackle the whole issue of their safety and position on the campus, and the authorities should take due note of that. The latter should try to understand that any further inaction over the matter would look like an effort to shirk responsibility. In that case, the burden of Silt on the shoulder of the university adminls-
itlon would be even greater, with the acting Vice Chancellor and the Proctor themselves being accused of an inexcusable failure to discharge their duties.