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To the Editor...
BUETs session jam
Sir, With reference to your editorial of August 23 (Session Jam Saga), may I add a few points: The situation of session Jam is aggravated by a peculiar and unbelievable custom of giving a month's study leave prior to the annpal exam and additionally providing about a week's gap between each paper during the exam Itself. Previously the exam used to commence after a weekend and be finished before the following one. Thus while the whole prpeess used to take a week the same takes more than two months and a half now. Reverting back to the semester system, as practiced earlier, the situation can be eased to a great extent. The present system encourages cramming prior to the final exam.
Elimination of political favouritism in the hierarchy of BUET administration can retain the discipline which is the hallmark of this institution. It is rumoured that a recent selection for a top position from an academically brilliant panel has the stigma of political interference. The indirect consequence was the dislocation of the date of exam for the last paper recently.
Lastly, I endorse your concluding recommendation to
introduce an clement of com petition in the running of various faculties.
An ex-student
Senile ramblings and statistics
Sir, We take a lot of things for granted: our land, air and water to name Just a few. To those of us who live near the sea. water seems limitless and Bangladeshis are apt to consider it as a nuisance, especially during cyclones and floods and give no thought to the drought stricken areas of Asia, Africa. Australia and the Americas, who would gladly take our excess off our hands if they equid.
Assume that all the water on planet Earth totals 1,000 litres. Now please subtract 970 litres, which comprises the Oceans apd Seas, which Is salt and thus useless for almost all our purposes. That leaves Just 30 litres of fresh and sweet water. Now take away 20 litres out of this, since It is trapped In the Antarctic Ice cap, and out of our reach. Only 10 litres left and now we find that 4 litres are In our underground aquifers and another 3 litres frozen in glaciers and as eternal Ice and snow on mountain tops.
Just 3 litres left and we get the bombshell that almost one
litre is in Lake Baikal alone (good luck to the Siberians): leaving only 2 litres to make up all the rivers. lakes, ponds and surface water all over the world! And In our stupidity, we arc busy polluting this, by now scarce commodity, with our garbage, our pesticides, our sewage and our wastes. Just this trickle has to suffice for all the needs of almost 6 billion people and the billions of living things with whom we share the Earth. So next time you keep the .bathroom tap on full while shaving or brushing your teeth, bear this In mind.
For some years now,- our dally news regularly gives us detailed statistics on. amongst other things. Ithe number of miscreants caught; amount'of arms and ammunition seized; kilometres of canals dug and the resultant tons of foodgrains which will be produced. If all this is added up, and surely somebody, somewhere muni be keeping the accounts, .we should be Informed that our country is now (1) one big prison: (2) most heavily armed; (3) all canals with no land area; and (4) the biggest exporter of foodgrains!
Verily it is stated that statistics In the modern world are used, as a drunk uses a lamp-post.
Quazi Akhlaqueuz Azeem. Anderktlla, Chittagong