Excerpts from ‘The Sky Above - The Mud Below’ of our 1978 College Magazine about ‘additionals’:
‘Amidst our lighted corridors there are dark passages. Among the laughing faces there are some hurt looks. For example the medical student is not academically better off than an engineering college student. His curriculum does not allow for human failing and natural calamities, in that he cannot carry the subjects in which he has failed to the next academic year.’
‘They are suffering a lot. They have lost all their drive for life and sustain their hope with very little practicality. They are like the sick children who must be nursed separately.’
‘Unless the problem of additionals is taken up seriously, there will grow a large population of these students with psychological undertones and political overlay.’
‘Amidst our lighted corridors there are dark passages. Among the laughing faces there are some hurt looks. For example the medical student is not academically better off than an engineering college student. His curriculum does not allow for human failing and natural calamities, in that he cannot carry the subjects in which he has failed to the next academic year.’
‘They are suffering a lot. They have lost all their drive for life and sustain their hope with very little practicality. They are like the sick children who must be nursed separately.’
‘Unless the problem of additionals is taken up seriously, there will grow a large population of these students with psychological undertones and political overlay.’
