I wouldn't like to sit behind a campus girl

I wouldn’t like to sit behind a campus girl.

By Alon Mwesigwa

Lillian likes her garb. She wears low cut jeans and tops exposing enough cleavage. Wherever she passes, her female colleagues look at her beseechingly as if they have something to tell her.

 The male students can’t help it other than get a full dose of optical nutrition. When Lillian sidesteps them in a group of three or four students, they (male students) chitchat in murmurs punctuated by gales of laughter.

Is she bothered at all with the gales of laughter? No, she assertively goes on with her own business.

However, many male students wouldn’t wish to sit behind Lillian when in a lecture. This is because her pants go down and she exposes her under wears which can’t lend a chance to male students to pay attention to what the lecturer is doing.

Lillian is just a portrait of many campus girls. Most of them are so engrossed with low cut jeans and are determined to walk around all the chances there is to get at least one despite some students operating on taut budgets

Low cut jeans however, make them expose their under wears wherever they sit; on boda-bodas, in lectures, in the library and in the compound.  

The question remains begging in the minds of many male students whether they do it by design or it happens inadvertently.

Whereas most freshers (1^st years) look classy in their dresses within the first semester at campus, they are mingled into the mock-up and they start to dress in low-cut jeans immediately when the 2^nd semester begin.

Bruce, a student at Mak says exposing under wears is part of sexual harassment directed at male students and it has been there for ages but the University has kept mum.

Sharon Atuhaire, a second year student, says she feels derided by her fellows who dress like that.

 “It undercuts our decorum as girls and future parents,” laments Sharon “If I don’t show my knickers, it doesn't erase anything on the way I appear and neither does it add anything.”

Sandra who says low cut jeans are her preeminent mode, insists that it is up to those who wear them to keep pulling them up to ward off embarrassment.

However, some students maintain that Campus is one place people are crazy about fashion. Many students are convinced that dressing is a personal issue and thus, one dresses the way she thinks is the finest.

Raymond who always walks with his camera, wittily vows to start photographing them and post the pictures on facebook.

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When the messenger is beaten

When the messenger is beaten
By Alon Mwesigwa
“You are headed for a tough job,” these were the comments of my friends as we watched news about the journalists that were beaten in the just concluded elections but as journalist in the making, I believe those are the hurdles we are set to face to serve the society.
As Ugandans went out to exercise their civic duty in the just concluded presidential polls and disputed Kampala mayoral elections, we hardly thought journalists would be the target of thugs.
A journalist was shot at during the presidential elections and six others were seriously beaten and injured during the mayoral elections. Violence against journalists is not new in Uganda and the habit is growing steadily. This is one form of intimidation that cripples the work of journalists. Unfortunately, the government has not done much to prevent such violence.
Like many other Ugandans, I am fascinated and bubble over when the economy is revamped, policies changed for the better, and Ugandans helped get out of poverty because of a particular story in the media.
Journalists and the media at large have got much to contribute to the development of this country. Among other things; they check on the operations of government, and are critical in the progress of this country. So, you can guess what it means for Uganda when the messenger is denied the chance to operate freely.
Besides weakening the institutional memory by scaring away those who would be willing to join the profession for the service of the society, Uganda is set for misgovernment, stunted development, illiteracy and high levels of poverty if violence against journalists is not checked.

Media houses need take stern action to prevent their journalists against unnecessary violence. The government too has a duty to prevent this instead of enacting laws set to cripple free media. Citizens alike should give the messenger a favourable environment in which to operate.

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Money for closing a case file at police

I thougt Mr Kayihura pays his officers to serve us. On march 11, I was surprised when I went to a police station in Katanga a Kampala suburb to ask for the closure of a file of which the case had been resolved and the officer that attended to me asked for the money to close the file.

The question remains begging in the minds of many Ugandans whether such officers receive their monthly pay or it is just mere greed that is eating them up???

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Con-men set to milk Mak students dry

Con-men set to milk Mak students dry
By Alon Mwesigwa

Doreen Nagawa, a third year student at Makerere University is uncertain about whether she will be able to complete paying her tuition on time or stand the inconveniences of being denied tests and exams. She has used part of her tuition to pay back her friend's laptop she lost to con-men at the end of last  semester. Scared stiff,she says it will be very hard for her mother to raise this semester's tuition.

Doleful as it is, Doreen's experience is not an isolated one. Many students have tested the wrath of being conned. In a statement issued December 10, by the Divisional police headquarters,Makerere University; shows that a big number
of students have silently been robbed of their properties ranging from tuition, laptops, television sets, and some have been sexually abused.
The O.C Makerere University police post, Mr Tusingwire Julius says the female students are the most vulnerable. Noting that cases of breaking and snatching bags have reduced tremendously, he laments that the issue of con-men is still their biggest challenge. Con-men use all tricks there is to actualise their interests, thus; disguise themselves as to University employees, some claim to be promoting products like Vaseline, some claim to have magical or spiritual powers and
others claim to be able to change exam grades of students or save them of retakes.

"As the semester begins, students need to be extra-alert, be mindful about people that claim to be employees in senate and the transcripts office. students should use the police and report any suspicious persons," begs Mr Julius.

Makerere University, however, has put a group of people in  plain clothings with the help of a group of students to help curb the issue of con-men.

Con-men also kinown as trickstars are not at Makerere  University alone  but also making students in other Universities  have  sleepless nights.
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