What the papers say

News on the campus elections:

Varsity student polls prove a damp affair. -The Star

Campus polls: A tame affair but irregularities abound -malaysiakini

Boycott of polls in five varsities -malaysiakini

Undergrad seeks judicial review -New Straits Times

MPP: Proaspirasi kuasai semua 17 IPTA -Utusan Malaysia

a dinner and prayer break from counting the votes. counting resumed at 8pm. vote counting is carried out in every college. the votes of students staying outside the campus are counted in Auditorium Perdanasiswa (pic).

college students lining up to vote in Second College. rumours circulated among the freshies that they will be kicked out of college in the second semester if they do not vote accordingly (i.e. for Aspirasi candidates). such veiled 'threats' are also circulated in other colleges.

Local varsity student council elections not ready to be monitored?

Complaints over campus polls KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.

Suhakam has received complaints that student-body elections carried out on campuses across the country are not being conducted fairly, Suhakam commissioner Datuk Mohd Hamdan Adnan said today.
The complaints include intimidation and other transgressions.He said there were also complaints of high-handedness by university authorities in the 2005/2006 campus elections."The students are requesting the elections be organised by an independent committee in a fair and just manner," Hamdan added.He cited several charges listed by the students against the officials in University Malaya, UiTM and Universiti Utara Malaysia.Hamdan said that Suhakam had held discussions with all the deputy vice-chancellors of public universities last month."All they said was that the issue would be brought to their respective vice-chancellors’ attention because they were the ones with the proper authority to make decisions regarding this matter," he said.On Sept 13, Suhakam also requested permission from 17 universities and colleges to monitor the process of their campus elections. To date, only five universities have replied, referring Suhakam to the Higher Education Ministry for permission.The ministry had yet to provide an official reply to Suhakam, Hamdan said.
(As reported in NST on the 29th of September)

Forced to vote

News on local campuses elections

Does this picture look familiar? Hehe... MALVU expressing their concern on local campuses elections. More info here.


USM VC - Elections in other campuses below standards!
"We want to maintain a clean sheet as reported by the Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) last year that the elections at USM were above board compared to other universities," he (USM VC Zulkifli) said...

Read more here.

Leaflet from Abang Conteng

This leaflet was found in the campus and the author of this leaflet is Abang Conteng.

We don't know who is Abang Conteng

But according to Abang Conteng, he stated that GAGASAN says that the campus fees are raised so he invstigated whether it is true or not. Eventually Abang Conteng found out that it is because this semester is longer than the previous semester so students are required to pay more.

In the last 2 paraghraph, Abg Conteng said:

...Kerajaan kita dah membiayai setiap daripada kita ni. ASPIRASI atau MGMUM yang ada ni menyokong kerajaan di bawah pimpinan Pak Lah sepenuhya! Bukan macam Gagasan yang buat fitnah merata-rata.

Abang Conteng percaya MGMUM atpu ASPIRASI mampu untuk menjadi platform yang terbaik kat UM untuk mewakili kita semua sebagi mahasiswa berintelektual.

p/s: SOKONG GABUNGAN(aspirasi) dan TOLAK GAGASAN.

(Look at the first picture)

Atmosphere in Faculty of Arts and Social Science

Pictures are taken from Arts Faculty, UM

Candidates are busy drawing votes. One can easily see them around dataran sastera and in the cafeteria. Highlighted posters are everywhere.

Boycott in five varsities : Indictment against unfair campus elections

As we all know, 3lang has received news that the anti-establishment faction from five local varsities, UIA, UPM, UTM, USM and UPSI decided to boycott this year's campus elections by refusing to put up any candidates during the nomination day. More info here.

Also, a politician's denial of interfering with local campus polls here.

Ten Unopposed Seats

Menang tanpa bertanding (two seats for each faculty):

-Perubatan
-Undang-undang
-Pusat Sukan
-Pusat Kebudayaan
-Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat

Notis Pemilihan Majlis Perwakilan Mahasiswa Sesi 2005/2006

This notice was issued on 22 September 2005 (see top right hand corner).
Nomination day is on 26 September.
Elections will be on 29 September.
All this within one week.

Sufficient notice?

Assertions from SMM on 21st Sept 2005

Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia (SMM) had submitted a memorandum to the parliament for a free and fair campus election and there are 6 assertions that they have made in the memorandum.

They are basically asking for the candidates to have more time to draw votes, to insist upon HEP to stop threathening students to vote which particular candidates, to abolish electronic votings and serial numbers voting forms, to allow observer outside campus, e.g SUHAKAM to monitor the process of the campus election, and the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Students Affair shouldn't be involve in the Urusetia Pilihanraya.

'I don't know,i don't know,i don't know'

[3lang has been noted dat some ppl have been misled by this article thinking dat the nomination for UM campus election was on the 19th Sep. We want to clarify here dat the nomination date on the 19th was a rumour. HEP has yet to put up any specific dates for nomination and voting. We apologize for any inconveniences caused]

Today is the day when every 'wanna be' student representative reporting themself to the authority in charge of the coming student council election.Every one of them no matter which side or background they are from,they are to submit up their nomination form today in order for them to run for the election.All come with great ambitions and dreams hoping to secure a seat in the student council to represent the whole student population in the campus.Is it for a better cause which they hold on to, just to grab some fame for themselves or acting as a puppet for others controlling from behind scenes?We shall wait and see.There are many things which are happening now in campus but one interesting statement by our respectful Minister of Higher Education Dr Shafie Salleh which says 'I don't know,i don't know,i don't know'.It was reported in malaysiakini by Beh Lih Yi on the 17th of September 2005-- [ Higher Education Minister Dr Shafie Salleh has claimed that he has no knowledge of matters related to the upcoming campus elections which has been tainted with allegations of scare tactics and biased rules.] Perhaps he really wasn't briefed on this by his assistant or he is too busy for petty matters like this?Let's wait and observe for more to come.By the way, all the best to all those future candidates which are running for elections!Don't allow yourself to be disqualified by not following the paper instructions.

The Meaning of Democracy

Scene: At a residential college in UM
Actors: The Pengetua, students (in their 3rd, 4th, 5th etc year)


Pengetua: Memandangkan pilihan raya akan datang, kita perlu buat keputusan untuk mengundi dengan baik. Kolej ini sentiasa dipandang sebagai pembangkang. Walaupun kita telah mendapat banyak undi pada tahun lepas untuk universiti, saya berharap tahun ini kita boleh capai 100% undi untuk calon universiti. Jadi undilah untuk universiti yang telah memberi banyak manfaat kepada pelajar semua.

Student: Kalau macam ni, mana ada demokrasi?

Pengetua: Saya beri contoh. Bila hari raya, perayaan besar, bukan? Jalan raya, jalan pun besar. Pilihan raya, mestilah pilih yang besar. Macam inilah baru ada demokrasi.

NOTIS PERINGATAN HEP

This poster says that any activities which are not approved by the HEP are prohibited. This notice is mainly for residents staying in colleges especially those who are studying at the Academy of Islamic Studies (API).

Contents :
PENGANJURAN/MENGIKUTI AKTIVITI YANG TIDAK DILULUSKAN OLEH PIHAK HEP
DIDAPATI BAHAWA RAMAI PENGHUNI KOLEJ TERUTAMA PELAJAR AKADEMIK PENGAJIAN ISLAM MENYERTAI AKTIVITI YANG TIDAK MENDAPAT KELULUSAN PIHAK HEP. DIINGATKAN BAHAWA MENGANJURKAN DAN MENGIKUTI AKTIVITI TERSEBUT MELANGGAR PERATURAN DAN TINDAKAN DISIPLIN AKAN DIAMBIL KEPADA MEREKA YANG TERLIBAT.

Buletin (We love UM)

Our team found this Buletin UM with the line WE LOVE UM on top.

From the comic... refer to the first picture

(1st part from the first picture)
(Sebagai pemimpim mahasiswa)
Sebagai pemimpim kita perlu ada ciri-ciri pemimpim yang baik, penampilan yang berkualiti barulah menjadi role model kepada yang lain. Dan apa yang penting adalah kita perlu mencorakkan kepimpinan mahasiswa yang cemerlang, gemilang dan terbilang.

(2nd part from the first picture)
(Tapi jika di luar)
Inikah pemimpim mahasiswa??? Role Model???

Some comments from students :
(2nd picture)

Mahasiswa adalah aset penting negara dan mereka 'berhak' menetukan agenda masa depan mereka.

Universiti sendiri adalah gudang untuk melahirkan pemimpin-pemimpin pada masa depan. Bakat dan potensi diri diasuh agar mahasiswa tersebut lebih berprestatif dalam kepimpinan. Namun, kemunculan Akta Universiti dan Kolej Universiti (AUKU) pada 1971 telah melesukannya.

Nomination day of campus election

According to reliable sources, nomination of campus election will be at 19 September 2005 and voting day will be a few days after nomination day. Please prepare to fight for a free and fair campus election.

Lim Kit Siang's response - Lightning varsity student polls?

Meddlings in local campus elections!

UMNO's plan to meddle in local campus elections EXPOSED!

Read more about it at http://malvu.org/index.php/articles/2176

Selamat Hari Merdeka, Malaysia!

The word ‘kemerdekaan’ or 'independence' seem to be such a popular word on everyone’s’ lips when 31st August is around the corner and we hear endless calls by leaders to ‘raise our national flag’.

Long gone are the days when we see flags being hung out by office windows or cars having their own little Jalur Gemilang stuck on them without the need of leaders calling us to do our part in showing our patriotism.

Is patriotism all about raising our national flag, or having competitions to see how long we can make our Jalur Gemilang and have it in record books? Is it just another public holiday for us? If that is the case, then we are a sad bunch of citizens.

The meaning of being an independent country probably doesn’t mean much to many. We don’t remember or don’t even know what the struggles were to achieve independence. We are too comfortable, too complacent with the freedom we have.

We should…we must be thankful and be appreciative that we have been so tremendously blessed.

Selamat Hari Merdeka, Malaysia!

Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!
Mari kita sambut Merdeka!
A chant we always here from afar
Cum 31st August every year
Malaysia's 48th Independence Day is here!

Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!
We shout to show how united and free we are
To all ye nations near and far
United hmm... probably, but are we really free?
A question we ought to ponder and see

3lang! 3lang! 3lang!
Why am I chanting 3lang!?
3 things we want our campus to be...
Cemerlang! Terbilang! Gemilang!
Campus elections here we come!
But a clean free election is what we want!

Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!
Let us not only shout this chant
But let us remember this day together!

Strip it off!

The moment the British's Union Jack was lowered down and our Jalur Gemilang was being raised high up in the sky, our father of independence Tunku Abdul Rahman led us in shouting three times of 'Merdeka, merdeka,merdeka!'. This scene of independence stays vividly in my mind although i wasn't born yet that time but yet the spirit of getting independence excites me as i grow older. What does independence means to me? It means being not dependent on others but only yourself,being not influenced or controlled by others. Does that means that we can do whatever things freely in whatever ways we want? Being independent means getting freedom and getting freedom means you are free to do what you want to do but you must be responsible for it. But for now it seems that the definition has change tremendously, the moment you get your freedom means that is the moment you realize you have no freedom or somehow you are controlled by others. For me as a Christian, i learnt how to use my freedom so that it does not go over board my sinful nature. No matter how bad you are, you are still given freedom to choose. Its the same here that now we are all university students who have eyes to see and ears to hear, the many unfair and injustice things which are happening around us. We had heard enough and saw enough and now we want to make a stand here to disagree with the administrators of University ofMalaya. The many injustice things which had happened cannot be allowed anymore because if it continues to happen then University of Malaya cannot declare independence yet though our country had did that. It will contradicts clearly with the definition of being independent and the three times shouting of merdeka will be futile as some of us are still like a frog living in the well. Once again let us make this 48th celebration of merdeka meaningful not only by reminiscing the past but more importantly is the future that is to come.

Merdeka,merdeka,merdeka!May it comes real to everyone

From the hands of the colonizers

I am glad that we are celebrating our 48th year of independence. Even without the colonizers, I am proud that our own home leaders can bring our country into the international sphere and now Malaysia is widely known in other foreign countries. While I do feel proud about that, at the same time i also feel that there are a lot of policies in Malaysia has to be review rather letting the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Certain policies are important in the 70's doesn't mean that there are important now.Apart from that , I do hope to see real democracy rather than pseudo democracy. We get our nation from the hands of colonizer but are there any mini colonizers in our own country. Looking forward for a merdeka where I can have nothing to complain about.

The Silence is Deafening

today is August 30.
today is the eve of our nation's Merdeka.
campus elections will be held in September.
yet there is no news on what's going on.
no news on the exact date.
no news on who's running for elections.
there might not even be elections.
no need to vote.
'candidates' will stand unopposed.
like what happened last year.
unwilling ones cajoled into standing for elections.
or threatened with expulsion from hostels.
students in general, couldn't care less.
as long as my grades are not affected.
as long as i am not personally affected.
i shall not create or go near trouble.

why is this happening?
how did we come to this stage?
when did it happen?
who planned it?
who allowed it?
who sat back and did nothing about it?
who doesn't know anything?
who doesn't care?
what will the future hold for us university students?
what kind of individuals will we become?

Happy 48th Birthday Malaysia.
may your citizens never be sucked into apathy and mediocrity.
may your citizens never be deaf, dumb and blind when things don't seem right.
but may they be a proactive people.
a people with ears, eyes and voices.
may the silence perturb your people.
may the silence be deafening.

UMANY

Undergraduates are prohibited from participating in programs organized by University Malaya Association of New Youth (UMANY). Again, the University and University College Act is used to threathen students.

The content of the poster:
PENGUMUMAN PENTING
Pihak hak Ehwal Pelajar dan Alumni mendapati Program di bawah "Penjelajahan Di Sungai Api-Api" adalah program HARAM (tanpa kebenaran Bahagian Hal Ehwal Pelajar dan Alumni) yang dijalankan oleh pertubuhan haram yang menggelarkan diri mereka "UMANY". Justeru itu, para pelajar adalah dilarang sama sekali menyertai program ini. Tindaka tatatertib menurut Akta Univeristi dan Kolej Univerisiti 1971 (Akta 30) akan dikenakan kepada para pelajar yang didapati terlibat.

Risalah haram (Illegal Brochures)

This poster is issued from HEP to inform the students to stay away from any 'NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR'.

The content of the poster:
Pihak bahagian Hal Ehwal Peljar Dan Alumni Universiti Malaya amat memandang serius perbuatan meneluarkan SURAT LAYANG, RISALAH HARAM, BERITA PALSU , KENYATAAN PALSU DAN MENGHINA piha univeristi, serta bahan-bahan bercetk yang tidak mendapat kebenaran bertulis daripada pihak Bahagian Hal Ehwal Pelajar dan Alumni serta Univeristi. Ini kerana perbuatan tersebut tidak menunjukkan nilai-nilai positif dan berhemah sejajar dengan hasrat kerajaan yang mahukan mahasiswa lebih menumpukan kepada pengajian dan aktiviti-aktiviti yang menjurus kepada nilai-nilai keintelektuan. Oleh keranan itu, disebabkan segelintir mahasiswa yang cenderung kepada PRO GERAKAN PEMBANGKANG, telah menyebabkan imej dan maruah Univeristi Malaya tercemar. Sesiapa yang didapati MENGELUAR, MENCETAK, MENGEDAR dan MEMILIKI bahan-bahan tersebut akan dikenakan tindakan tegas, Justeru itu, pihak Bahagian Hal Ehwal Pelajar dan Alumni menyeru kepada mahasiswa-mahasiswi Universiti Malaya, agar MENOLAK BUDAYA dan PERLAKUAN NEGATIF ini kerana ianya akan merosakkan pemikiran, perlakua, serta penumpuan kepada pengajian dan nila intelektual yang selama ini didokong oleh mahasiswa-mahasiswi Universiti Malaya.Sesiapa yang mempunyai maklumat berkenaan dengan aktiviti-aktiviti negatif tersebut, sila hubungi atau laporkan kepada pihak Bahagian Hal Ehwal Pelajar dan Alumni

Notis Peringatan HEP

This notice can be found all over the faculties in University Malaya forbidding students to join activities organized by IKD (Institut Kajian Dasar), alleging it to be an opposition party's machinery to preach hate propaganda, threatening to use AUKU (PINDAAN) 1975 on students who fail to abide by this warning.