"All is NOT well" with Davamani's Appointment!

Yesterday 20-03-2012, hundreds of Students, faculty and non-teaching staff had been to Madurai Kamaraj University. They all assembled in front of Mu. Va. Arangu - the venue where the Academic Counsil meeting of the Madurai Kamaraj University took place. They made a 'silent protest' demanding the MKU to conduct pending semester exams (Nov 2011), make arrangements to issue mark statements for students who completed their courses in April 2011. There was a poster that asked certain vested interests to refrain themselves from getting an illegal approval to Late Bishop's son-in-law as the Principal & Secretary of the college, instead they should help student community by conducting semester exams.
The protest was highly successful. Many members of the Academic Council outside the American College raised their voice in support of the demands. Many news papers extensively covered the 'protest news'.
One of the council member even indicated at the floor that the appointment of Davamani as Principal by his own father-in-law the late Bishop Asir is NOT proper.
Here I have published the news items that appeared in The Hindu, The New Indian Express and the Tamil daily Thinamani.

- peakay

MKU to conduct exams in American College

THE HINDU | 21-03-2012 | PAGE 1

    Madurai Kamaraj University, on Tuesday, came forward to conduct semester

examinations for students of American College here. The decision was taken at

the Academic Council meeting. 

   The college issue was the first adjournment motion taken up for discussion at the meeting chaired by Syndicate member P. Gunasekaran (in the absence of Vice-Chancellor) .

    R. K. Alagesan, member, moved a resolution demanding the university to take

steps for conducting the November-2011 semester examinations which could not be conducted owing to conflict between two factions of the college. 

    Dr.Alagesan said that the university could not keep away from American College crisis by saying that it was an autonomous/minority institution. 

    R. Murali, Principal, Madura College, said that even though the college was an autonomous institution, the university was the supreme authority and hence it could give a direction.

   The members said that university could supervise the entire process through its observers like the way it did in April last year.

    S. Perurnal, university nominee in the college governing council earlier, indicated that all was not well in the issue of Principal (DAVAMANI'S)  appointment in the college.