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A quick word on the UM students who are/were staging a sit-in in the school’s administrative building, in protest of the newly introduced e-voting system.

Reminds me of an incident from my uni days (the guy in the picture was a housemate of mine, I’m proud to say).

There’s long been a need for cleaner [...]

This post comes a bit late, but around 10.30pm Saturday night, after dinner following the SABM forum, I stopped by my old ‘stomping grounds’ at the Dang Wangi police station.

There I met friends and rakan seperjuangan of the 9 people who were arrested that morning during a march to uphold democracy at Malaysian universities. They [...]

A quick plug for a project led by some intelligent young friends of mine :) Click image for details!

Once again, severe violence was visited upon people who gathered to make their feelings felt.

Every time something like this happens, it makes me cringe so deeply inside.

How many times have the rakyat proven that if you allow us to gather peacefully, events always finish without incident.

While those pandering to the other side of the fence [...]

Yet another student to be charged under the UUCA >:( He wasn’t trying to topple the government. All he was doing was trying to get lower bus fares for students already facing a tough time :(

When will these people get it? As long as you have repressed and oppressed universities, you can forget about ever [...]

Obama = President Elect, Najib = PM Designate?

What does the gentleman have for us today?

There should be an intellectual renaissance to open up and liberate the minds of students, and this should start in the universities, said Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

“Our education system must chan­ge. Our children are just not curious enough. They must [...]

I’ll be speaking briefly at a little panel on tertiary education in America this weekend. Drop by if you want to study in America, if you already are, if you’re interested for whatever reason, and most of all: to say hello :D

Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008
Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: Descartes Center, 55-1 Jalan SS21/1A, Damansara Utama, Petaling [...]

Disgusting.

Malaysiakini provides the background:

On Aug 22, Lee was stopped by security guards at the university’s exit and his notebook was seized on grounds that he was being investigated for being a member of an illegal student organisation.

The student initially refused to cooperate because the campus officers were not in their uniforms which led to the [...]