FLASH: ADIOS, PAK GUARDS

In a first for KYUEM, SIX security guards have been fired. Wednesday 16 February morning. With immediate effect. According to a source, the Bursar personally severed their employment as he had had enough of their antics. Which, apart from our recent police case, also include:

1) Female students out cycling being harassed by one of the younger, brasher men.
2) Female students walking in a pack in school getting catcalls. An eyewitness reports another female student (funnily enough, the same one) hounded by the guards while she was in the Cafeteria, mere minutes after they were fired.

Now it is not Veritas' station to pass judgement on the security forces keeping the Big Bad World out, but as school staff are rarely fired, we presume they must have committed one last act of negligence that broke the camel's back.

Anyway, since news has it our security company is facing acute hiring problems anyway, and Dr Ikmal had been scouting for a new security company anyway recently, their jobs were lost in vain. The firings just lessened the protracted, agonizing wait.

We'll sure they'll miss the college. I mean, isn't it a fantastic place? But of course the JPA Scholars* have more intimate knowledge of this.

* The JPA Scholars were dragged off to the Great Hall again for - surprise, surprise - "Sesi Penilaian Kolej Persediaan" with our friendly JPA officer who only seems to materialize AFTER the period of time when we desperately need him, i.e. during scholarship application season. We were asked to rate innumerable aspects of our college on a scale of 1 to 5. Question that held us up: Rate Location of College. Many students couldn't find the "0" on the scale.