Pelajar-pelajar UPM yang Melampau

MCA calls for action against group that roughed up seven

PETALING JAYA: MCA Youth has called for urgent action to be taken concerning the rowdy behaviour of two groups of undergraduates at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM).

Its chief Datuk Liow Tiong Lai said the youth wing took the episode seriously and had asked the Higher Education Ministry and UPM to conduct an inquiry into the incident.

The movement also wanted to know the status of security in the university on that day.

It was reported that a group of about 50 students surrounded and pushed seven members of the UPM Gerakan Mahasiswa Maju (Student Progressive Front) at their campus cafeteria on Monday.

A video clip being circulated on the Internet shows a large group of students surrounding and pushing seven SPF members at the canteen.

Liow said the students should not be allowed to take matters into their own hands and that action should be taken against them.

“Students should learn to accept differences of opinion and be participative in healthy discourses, rather than jeer and boo. It is intimidating,” he said.

Liow said the MCA would lend its support in any way to deal with the problem and to handle it in a rational manner.

The MCA, he said, had been in touch with the Higher Education Ministry “to get to the bottom of the matter”.

The MCA, he said, wanted justice done and would work closely with the ministry to make sure that ties between the youths were more cohesive in the future.

MCA Youth secretary-general Dr Wee Ka Siong urged students and parents to remain calm and let the authorities deal with those involved.

He said the people should not speculate on what had motivated the youths in the first place, noting that the authorities were expected to report on what had actually happened before the next course of action was taken.

“We are saddened by the case which should not have happened in the first place because the university is a place to acquire knowledge,” he said.

IS THIS WHY WE SENDING OUR CHILIDREN TO THE UNIVERSITY? TO GET THEMSELF EXPOSED WITH THE REALITY OF THE WORLD? TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE NO SUCH THING AS UNITY? HOPE THE RELEVANT AUTHORITES WILL NOT JUST SWEPT IT UNDER THE CARPET.

I dun intend to rewrite what is really happening there, Hoswsy has done a good job in listing out the background of the whole event.

http://howsy.blogspot.com/2006/07/your-one-stop-guide-to-universiti.html