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Liberia: Classes Resume At UL
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The Inquirer (Monrovia)
7 March 2008
Posted to the web 7 March 2008
Rose M. Saulwas
Normal academic activities and operations for the first semester of the trimester have again resumed on the main campus of the University of Liberia (UL) without hindrance.
An opinion pool conducted by this paper yesterday in Monrovia concerning the disruption of classes at the UL by students of the science and agriculture colleges who go to the UL Fendell campus for classes, many were of the view that the continuous strike action by students of what they termed as the nation's highest institute of learning was not appropriate for people themselves who are supposed to be the cream of the society.
Even though the students' strike action was condemned, it was also blamed on the administration of the UL for not paying attention to the plights of the scholars who are paying their money to get a higher education at that institution.
'Why should it always be the order of the day that students must strike on the UL campus before the administration provides solutions to these problems that they know exist?' an elderly woman wondered.
'Must it be that the hierarchy at that school doesn't want to listen to the plights of the students because of their own greedy agenda?' she continued to wonder.
'Let the University of Liberia do what they know they supposed to do to make sure that these disturbances of classes stop, so that they can stop using the ignorance of the students as a pawn in their political cat and mouse game,' she warned.
Speaking to some of the Fendell students on Thursday at the UL main campus, they said they were glad that they were going back to classes and that it is their sincere hope and prayers that the problems that caused the situation of the strike action will not be repeated.
On Wednesday students of the science and agriculture colleges brought to an abrupt stop, normal academic activities at the university in demand for what they called proper transportation system and lack of instructors in their classes.
In an angry mood on Wednesday the students who usually get on the bus for the Fendell Campus converged on the main campus of the UL and commenced the strike action that had students from other colleges fleeing for their lives.
During the strike action students were not permitted to enter the campus. The science and agriculture students verified their action by saying that it was intended to create what they termed as awareness to the many plights that they are facing.
The students on Wednesday said despite several promises from the university administration to address their concerns, the Conteh administration continues to pay deaf ears to their complaints while they continue to suffer.
The students noted that having exerted all efforts to draw the attention of the administration to their plights without success, they decided to resort into a strike action.
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However, after the strike action Dr. Al-Hassan Conteh told members of the press that the demands of the students were been looked into and that they are not going to condone any act of violence on the University of Liberia Campus, even though he did not say what he would do to would be violators.
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