Walls that wail…

By Summya Khan.

One of my fellow bloggers wrote a post on how some students from the English department painted their walls and decorated their long-time ugly walls. It was good to know that at least some of the students are concerned about their atmosphere. But there is one department, where the students are, well, “over” concerned about the environment of their department. They are none other than our own, mass communication students a.k.a. MCDians.

I am certainly not going to criticize my fellows here. It’s just that, their intentions are pure, but they fail to realize that their efforts are damaging the look of the department. For instance, while celebrating “Earth Day”, several pictures of trees and plants were made with the help of newspapers and were pasted onto the walls of the department. The message was clear: keep your environment healthy. Everybody at the department praised the efforts of the students. I, myself, watered plants that day. And after doing that I took pictures of the walls and showed it to my friends from the other departments, proudly, telling them how much we cared.

Few days back, a friend from General History came to visit my department’s building. She instantly spotted the walls and cried out, “what have you done to the walls?” I was startled. When she left, I took a closer look at the walls and noticed that she certainly was right.

All those posters, pictures, pamphlets etc. that were once put on for a purpose (which looked attractive then) were tearing down. All those posters pasted directly onto the walls, carelessly with countless scotch tapes, were now looking old and untidy. As a result, the walls of my department are giving an ugly and messy impression to the eyes.

Since, mass communication is my department; it is my solemn duty to make it look better. But this also goes out to all those students, who like painting walls and putting on posters, that not to paste any pamphlet or poster ‘directly’ onto the walls for it will damage the paint. It’s better to put this stuff on the soft boards provided by the administration.

In the end, I would like to mention that there are some other students, whom I like to call, ‘the troublemakers’. They are the ones who spoil the walls on purpose: mostly by scribbling and by spitting betel nut. My request to these troublemakers is that please do not harm the department’s look by your shameful acts. It not only creates an untidy look but also shows what kind of students resides at this department.