| I can commiserate with you. I am from India and my college, a govt. college, had roads in college dug out twice every year and had it rebuilt. Later I figured they cited the reason "rain ruined the pathways" :P My college, being an engineering college, ran its server through some 1 room it firm from the city. I cannot post the link to my college website(It's a shame in the name of websites. I am already ashamed) and that firm doesn't have one. Later I figured that firm's owner(only employee of the firm) was director's relative. Tender was 27 lakh(1 lakh INR is roughly $2000) INR an year. We didn't have campus wide wired Internet, just a few wireless access points(total 3-4) and nothing in hostel. Later I figured the tender ran in lakhs annually. There were few permanent faculty members. There was an open rate going for temporary faculty. You pay 30-40% your per diem(or per class) that is approved by Central Govt of India(yes, it was not a state govt college), to college bosses - directors, HOD etc. Later I came to know that the commission went up the ladder till Delhi. We agitated, we went to the press. Press came to out college. You know what was the news next day - "* college students ran amok".."property damaged".... "They were demonstrating against exam results". Ever damn news paper that came and every damn TV channel that came that day. And nothing bloody else.
(Yes, in EEE branch 21 students were failed and everyone of them deserved the fail grade and we never ever fg talk about it during entire day). Some seniors(we were in first year at that time) even went till Delhi and they couldn't meet anyone. They left the memo with the peon of PMO. Of course no one heard anything. There's no press, no judiciary here. It's a system that just runs and will be a catastrophe it tempered from either darker side or the brighter side. But it seems, that's al right because over the time I mellowed down too and the time police asks for some money to lodge a FIR I don't hesitate. Fortunately I have gelled with the system real well. |