Dear Editor,
While I was a student of the university of Guyana, a regular occurrence would be for our classes to be interrupted by screeching tyres, loud music and cursing by drunken individuals, particularly on Friday evenings when you could look forward like clockwork to your classes in the GWLT being disturbed by these persons, many of whom are not students and are on a raucous campus lime (not organized university events) disturbing those of us who are there for the serious business of study. That was seven years ago and it is sad to see that these same events obtain, as the popular song says, “same script, different cast.”
From all reports of persons who are currently students of the University of Guyana, the person responsible for the death of young Dennis Edghill was one such person, one of those individuals who waste precious time on the university premises disturbing the well being of those students who are actually interested in learning. Further, if one is to speak with any current student they would tell you that indeed what obtained in my time still does today. It is sad to note that the premier education institution in our country has no proper security measures in place to protect our students from the nuisance of those persons who would choose to use the premises as a “liming” spot. When will the university administration do something to ensure that those people who need not be on the university’s premises are kept off?
Or will they not do something until what has been recently occurring in the universities in the United States, the likes of Virginia Tech and The Northern Illinois University, happen here?
The recent and tragic passing of young and talented Dennis Edghill should not be swept under the carpet and be overshadowed by the larger problems we are currently facing in our country as was with the case of Yohance. University students past and present should not rest their voices and pens until justice is served.
Yours faithfully,
Tandieka Stephens
