Comitted to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 4 Num 127 Wed. October 01, 2003  
   
Letters to Editor


Lous protest against loudspeaker use in campus


The Dhaka University is the highest seat of education in Bangladesh. About twenty five thousand students study here with an aspiration to making a good career. Among the students, a small minority does engage in politics and some are involved with other voluntary or cultural organisations.

Almost everyday different student organisations bring out processions or demonstration to press home academic demands and political claims. To reinforce their activity or movement, they use (abuse) loudspeakers . The leaders with their activists usually take position in front of arts building. Their yelling and inflammatory speeches merely irk our environment of study. Loud and provocative slogans intensely divert our attention away from class-lectures.

Most of our classes are being held while these unscrupulous leaders call for meetings nearby. Besides, whining of loudspeakers seriously affect both our mind and body. High volume of loudspeaker is detrimental to our digestion and hearing and can make a sober mind excited and neurotic.

Furthermore, often other organisations call for meetings on campus during our class hour. Their annoying speeches through loudspeaker adversely undermine the whole atmosphere of surrounding classrooms. This adverse situation confounds our problem by the day while our study gets hampered. Consequently we cut a sorry figure in the examination.

On the other hand, loudspeaker is also used at the dormitories due to different programmes being held there. In short, loudspeaker hampers our health, mind, concentration in study, and, above all, the overall environment of the campus.

I expect from the student leaders and other cultural organisers that they consider this unbearable and anti-environment situation as a problem and strive to spare us from such nuisances. I earnestly request to the authority to take immediate steps to stop the use of loudspeaker.