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* Saarang: An update
* Election fever
* Calls from the nether-world
* Change of guard
* Is it infectious?
* Money has stopped talking and how!
SAARANG - AN UPDATE
This year the pro-shows that were held were
-Zakir Hussain (no prizes for guessing that one),K Vaidyanathan
(violin) and Shivamani (drums)
-Light Music by Musiano
-Parikrama's Rock show
-This year we also had the premiere of the movie "Conspiracy
Theory".
Except for Zakir Hussain none of the pro-shows were really good.
There was a huge turnout for Parikrama with the OAT being almost full to
the brim.But the show started late and did not live up to the general
expectation. There were fire-works at end of the show, however the rockets
and other stuff was launched from the terrace of Narmada with the result
that the guys who came to the show could not see the fire-works at all
while the guys who stayed back in their rooms could!
This year breaking away from tradition we had a fashion show which
was euphemistically called 'A Festival of Dresses'. I (Coolki) had a
ring-side view as I was right under the ramp clicking away to glory and as
such enjoyed it more than the others. However, all in all it was quite
decent.
Though Saarang managed to generate a lot of sponsorship (amount as
yet undisclosed) it did not have the same flavour as there were quite a
few organising hiccups. For one the venue of the Informal's was shifted
due to which it hardly attracrted any crowd. Also the events were not
scheduled properly with most of the events exceeding the alloted time.
THE BOMB-SHELL-
According to our sources it has been proposed in the meeting of
the Steering committee that from next year onwards Saarang would not be
sponsored and each student would have to pay 250/- towards the fest. It is
believed that by the authorities that this would increase student
participation.
What is a cul-fest without hard-sell???
ELECTION FEVER
Institute:
This year the pg's have been considerably active .One of them
(from Narmada) is standing for the post of the insti Gen-Sec. The other
contestant in the fray is a ug (Kama), also from Narmada and the election
for this post is as such a battle between the ug's and the pg's.
The cul-sec post has gone unopposed (except for a very ephemeral
resistance) to LTTE (Godav) and Jumbo (Alak).
For the post of sports sec. SANDO (present Jam Sports Sec.) is
standing against Dicks (Mandak). It is generally believed that this is
going to be a cake-walk for Sando.
Bebbe (present Jam Gen. Sec.) is standing for the post of Hostel
Affairs Sec and has an opponent from Alak.
Nari (present Jam Mess sec.) is standing for the post of AAS.
The AAS elections are eveny tipped with three candidates in the fray (the
others being from Mandak and Godav).
HOSTEL:
Gen. sec- Bond, Pete and Suman
Lit. sec- Shaggy
Sports sec- Mabbu and Pantalu
Mess sec- Manju
SOC sec - Adarsh and Kolar
SAC sec - no takers as yet!
The elections are to be held on the 16th of March. We will
inform you about the results as soon as they are out.
CALLS FROM THE NETHER-WORLD
from the various IIM's (6-A, 9-B,C&L) Nitrous, Pisku, Bhas, Bhavani, Kaja,
AP, Moods, Chiku, Nikhil and also Aruna.
CHANGE OF GUARD
Dean (Students) Prof. P S Rao is shifting out and in his place we
have the present CCW Prof. B. Vishwanathan. As the new CCW we will have
Prof Shivaprasad.
Also, besdies Dean (students), Dean (Academic Research) and also
Dean (IC&SR) are vacating their posts.
IS IT INFECTIOUS ?
The warden of Ganga has initiated new rules in the hostel. It
seems that nobody can go to Taram's and if anybody does want to go to
Quark after 11 o'clock he has to enter his name in the register that has
been kept with the Security. Also if more than 3 guys want to talk they
cannot do so in the confines of their room but must go to the Common room!
If more than 15 guys want to chat they have to go to the mess!! Also the
rooms are subject to cleanliness-scritiny by the warden.
We at Jam hope that whatever it is, it is not infectious.
MONEY HAS STOPPED TALKING AND HOW
It has been decided by the authorities not to give prize money at
the institute level any more as they feel that students take part in the
events only for the money. They plan to give a dinner (eeks!) to the
winners.
