Attendance saga. . .

By Nadia Zarif

I still remember the orientation day when our chairman, with so many other things, announced that our daily presence is required in the class or at least we should have a 75% attendance or else we would have to pay a fine to sit in the examination and if the attendance is below 50% we will not be able to attempt the paper at all.

But like so many other rules of our prestigious university this rule is also ignored or it would be right to say that our chairman at that time forgot to mention that those who have affiliation with any of the political parties and those who have good PRs with varsity officials are exempted from this rule.

We all who tried to make our presence sure in every class, in any circumstances had a great shock to see all those people taking exams who didn’t even attend a single class throughout semester. That day we came to know that these students bunked classes the whole semester and in the end they come to the teachers, very sweetly offer ‘salaam’ to them, inform them about their connections with some officials and very bravely attempt the paper without any hesitation. WOW! What a benefit of having friends in high places.

Also, if you are a bunker and unfortunately you neither are a political worker nor have any of the officials as your ‘chacha’ and ‘mama’,  then don’t worry, you just need to make good links with the above mention students, they will definitely help you in your bad times...for sure.

Then the most interesting part of the story is that those who are not blessed with such status and their names are in the short attendance list then they should prepare themselves for total BHEJA FRY in the process of the submission of fine (several long walks for several times), and don’t dare to expect any kindness from the teachers because you might get this answer: “We can’t do  injustice to those who are regular (as one of our subsidiary teacher said to us) but no one told her that she did HALF JUSTICE by not charging fine to those who came up with a “parchee” (source).

In the end I just want to say that although it is the prime duty of our administration to make the students follow the rules still they prove to be a failure since the growing influence of political parties in the varsity does not let any rule to do well. They not only stand against every regulation but also encourage others to do so.