By Kanwal Naz
I am tired of writing negative views about my varsity, but whenever I set out on a mission to find positive points, I find something rather irritating and then I am forced to write about it. For instance last week I decided that I will not write a post unless and until I find something interesting to share. I entered my International Relations classroom, while discussing these plans, where I saw something really annoying.
All my plans of writing “happy-happy” views about my beloved KU vanished when I saw that absolutely pathetic teacher’s desk facing the class. International relations is one of the best departments we have at our university, often where foreign delegates give lectures. It is frustrating to see how the administration is neglecting its duties. Okay, we are well aware of the fact that the university is not getting funds and blah blah…but is there not enough money to buy decent furniture for the teachers? That table, for a whole week now, is standing in the same terrible position. My requests to that irritable receptionist have had no effect. And this is not the only table that needs to be replaced; there are hundreds of chairs, fans and tube lights that need to be thrown away.
But my focus is this desk. Just take a look at it if you ever visit KU these days. Room no.5 ‘International Relations’ department. This table is a masterpiece of its own kind and the best part about it is that you will find it in the same pose every time you visit it. It is a sign of creativity on the students’ part, because I am sure of the fact that its stability up till now has been maintained by the I.R. students. It’s a regular teacher’s desk which should have, like any other desk, four legs. Unfortunately, it lost its two left legs (God knows how and when) and now, after two whole weeks, someone was kind enough to take out its drawers and place them under the “deprived-of-legs-side”. (It reminds me of those pirates with wooden legs)All said, that table and her sisters are older than the Victorian desk present in the White House. Please I.R. authorities. Wake up! Change this table before it loses all its legs and the teacher will have to carry it in his lap. Wake up!!!
