Five undergraduates of the Peradeniya
University have been served with a five-year suspension by the University’s
Disciplinary Committee for having assaulted the hockey coach.
The agitation between the students and the
coach allegedly took place over three months ago. However, the decision of the
university authorities’ investigations were concluded recently, resulting in
the extended suspension of the students involved in the fracas.
The suspension was extended to two of the
students from the Science Faculty, two from the Arts Faculty and one student
from the Management Faculty. All five of them are final year undergraduates.
Speaking to Ceylon Today, the Peradeniya University
Students’ Union claimed the punishment was unjust as it is for an extremely
long period of time.
“The decision was made by the Disciplinary
Committee, and though there was a ruckus between the students and the coach,
the punishment meted out is too severe. All the suspended students are in their
final year and were due to graduate in a few months. Now their lives are at a
standstill and their future disrupted for the next five years,” Union
Secretary, Dimuthu Gunasekara, told Ceylon Today.
He also alleged that on a previous occasion,
the hockey coach had threatened the students. Though the students had lodged
complaints against him with the security officers of the university, their
complaints had not been registered, he claimed.
When Ceylon Today contacted the university
authorities for clarification regarding the reasons for such a term of
suspension, none of the authorities or officials was available for comment.
Meanwhile, the Federation of University
Teachers’ Association (FUTA) stated that such measures could be taken by the
Disciplinary Council depending on the nature of the issue. - Ceylon Today
www.lankauniversity-news.com
Just because undergraduates are in their final year they have no power to attack a coach or even another junior undergraduate. Students of the like mentioned above should be barred for life from entering universities. If they are pardoned, after completing the degree when they start doing a job and when there are disagreements they will go on a rampage hitting the bosses and fellow workers. That type of undergraduates only become human abusers later in life. I think the punishment met by the university authorities is too lenient as such problems should be nipped off from the bud itself.
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