Students take note

Students take note

Watching a news broadcast on ANteve on May 15, 2000, at 5
p.m., I was shocked to see two groups of university students from
the engineering and polytechnic departments of North Sumatra
University involved in a brawl that caused enormous damage,
including to a laboratory funded by the Japanese government.

Such irresponsible conduct by members of the academic society
is shameful, given the fact that education is an on-going process
of improving knowledge and skills. It is also primarily an
exceptional means of bringing about personal development and
building relationship among individuals, groups and nations
(Jacques Delors).

Hence, brawling among university students can no longer be
classified as juvenile delinquency needing to be handled by
teachers or lecturers. But, rather, it is a kind of serious
violent act of undermining the prestige of the students
themselves as privileged members of society (Kas Marzurek et al.
2000).

Students, instead of testing your brute power, you would be
better off testing your brainpower and prepare yourselves to
challenge the twenty-first century accelerating learning era
(Colin Rose 1997). Or why don't you develop your multiple
intelligence skills beyond engineering, such as sports, arts and
music?

ODO FADLOELI

Bandung