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after a week drowning under the sheets with a nasty fever and the snow lightly drizzling outside, i came back to a ucl that was heavily vandalized, albeit by (what-appeared-like-"just") chalk. i was genuinely fascinated at first, because you'd never see this in nus, not in my lifetime at least, and i slowed down my pace just so i could read what was scribbled all over the walls.
it was about the education budget cuts and the potential raise in tuition fees for the british students. and i tried my best to interpret what each of them meant in their own capacity, and i tried to sympathize. with a couple i did, but many others i couldn't bring myself to.
if school property has to be vandalized to get a message across, well then the message should be clear, understandable and coherent shouldn't it? i haven't seen public reaction as blatant as this, but i genuinely felt quite sad when an opportunity to speak out like that (if one would even call it an opportunity), is undermined by a great deal of pointless and barbaric remarks.
there were a couple that were said rather ambiguously, like "WE OWN TONIGHT", "DOMINATE" and "NO CUTS NO". and then there was a pretty artistically written stanza/poem/whatever that was that i basically had to stop in my tracks to decipher and understand. i thought that "what would happen to my edjsaoghcion?" with the "education" misspelt was pretty intelligent in itself too.
i sympathize with the worries that some of these genuine students are having, and i fear too that the tuition fees for international students might be raised even higher than how outrageous it already is (as compared to the local students with all respect). that the education loan i had taken wouldn't be sufficient to finance my ucl education too. and really, what would happen to my edjsaoghcion? i do think that it is every child's right to have an education, even a university one, if he/she yearns of it. but vandalizing the very institution that gives him this education might not exactly be the most educated way of getting his messages across.
i cannot offer another remedy that i am absolutely confident would work, but i plead that if school property has to be vandalized, at least do it with some thought and some genuine intent to achieve a purpose, because thousands of other students who may not share as volatile a stance may feel downtrodden and disappointed as i have upon seeing these signs. i wouldn't tell the person sitting next to me how i am affected by these signs for many reasons i wouldn't need to explain, but it doesn't mean i'm not affected by it.
ucl is my school. it has been for the past month and a half. and even as i have missed freshman orientation and do not have as many friends here as i would long to have, i still feel like i have been vandalized on. and i pray that the next time i'm to be written on, at least write or draw something meaningful.
it was about the education budget cuts and the potential raise in tuition fees for the british students. and i tried my best to interpret what each of them meant in their own capacity, and i tried to sympathize. with a couple i did, but many others i couldn't bring myself to.
if school property has to be vandalized to get a message across, well then the message should be clear, understandable and coherent shouldn't it? i haven't seen public reaction as blatant as this, but i genuinely felt quite sad when an opportunity to speak out like that (if one would even call it an opportunity), is undermined by a great deal of pointless and barbaric remarks.
there were a couple that were said rather ambiguously, like "WE OWN TONIGHT", "DOMINATE" and "NO CUTS NO". and then there was a pretty artistically written stanza/poem/whatever that was that i basically had to stop in my tracks to decipher and understand. i thought that "what would happen to my edjsaoghcion?" with the "education" misspelt was pretty intelligent in itself too.
i sympathize with the worries that some of these genuine students are having, and i fear too that the tuition fees for international students might be raised even higher than how outrageous it already is (as compared to the local students with all respect). that the education loan i had taken wouldn't be sufficient to finance my ucl education too. and really, what would happen to my edjsaoghcion? i do think that it is every child's right to have an education, even a university one, if he/she yearns of it. but vandalizing the very institution that gives him this education might not exactly be the most educated way of getting his messages across.
i cannot offer another remedy that i am absolutely confident would work, but i plead that if school property has to be vandalized, at least do it with some thought and some genuine intent to achieve a purpose, because thousands of other students who may not share as volatile a stance may feel downtrodden and disappointed as i have upon seeing these signs. i wouldn't tell the person sitting next to me how i am affected by these signs for many reasons i wouldn't need to explain, but it doesn't mean i'm not affected by it.
ucl is my school. it has been for the past month and a half. and even as i have missed freshman orientation and do not have as many friends here as i would long to have, i still feel like i have been vandalized on. and i pray that the next time i'm to be written on, at least write or draw something meaningful.