These are not kids like some of you would want us to believe....the police are not expected to treat the university students the same way the would treat High school kids.

life is too short to blend in

@nanfor

You seem to suggest other people here have shallow arguments? What is wrong with dressing decently? Why do organisations have dress codes? Some so stiff that ladies can not work without their jackets on..... Until recently,bankers wore uniforms - literally.... Airlines still do. these students are not even being asked to wear UNIFORMS just (as leona said) to wear CLOTHES..... Is that so hard to understand? You dont have to be christian,muslim,hindu or at all religious for your to be decent........do you? How deep is the argument about wearing indecently,advocating for violence directed to innocent motorists or even other students,to justifying burning down of the same learning resources that the student are going to need for their education which their parents are paying through the nose for? and which has taken the institution so long to build? Are these the future leaders we are hoping for? do they understand how many students are going to graduate these few months while they are at home and who will be fighting for the few jobs in the market? someone said that the university students behave as if the university is a destination and he was very right..... they arent there for ever. even if they are not happy with the management,they should see it as a transit point and focus on their goals... ati you burn a whole building and IT Centre coz of 1000 bob!! And we are expected to understand how 'not' shallow their grievances are?????

No one is saying students have to be mistreated,but was that the only channel they had address their grievances?

Some deals are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

Well said that we should learn from the experienced. I went to a public University and this I know:


A university student is a guest at the university for a very short time. One should make maximum use of this time in productive ways such as building friends and connections (these are invaluable once you graduate),testing your limits within legal bounds (dress as you wish,drink till 6.30 a.m.,date the impossibles,espouse radical views including support for lost political and social causes,change religion,) but by all means study for the course you enrolled. Your potential is limitless.
The world out here is harsher than any VC. The bosses,the landlords,the traffic cop- all exercising some form of authority over you. There is no solution to be found in tackling problems 'out here' with violence. And as someone said,everything you do has consequences. It is strange that one hardly remembers any serious grudge with the university administration as you do with family,friends over the years.
Those student leaders are basically stupid loud mouths and agents of political causes and forces that have little to do with being a university student. Good leadership at the university is rare and is to be found in other areas such as religious bodies,profession-oriented groups (e.g. AISEC,engineering student bodies etc) and not the umbrella leaders. These umbrella leaders will be your MPs who at the university were merely practising how to incite,charge and basically hoodwink less learned people,who must be easier.
Approach your being a student as an opportunity rather than with a sense of entitlement. Those facilities have taken generations to put up. It might be the only place you get facilities at such subsidized costs. 'Out here' one earns and pays for everything they got.
Whether you are taking a walk from 'modern green night club' or the girls hostels,or from any gathering,avoid the police- they are decent without uniform and are our brothers and sisters but when at work,pen and paper is not their tool of trade,their brains is not the most active part of their body and they have a particular allergy for university students that sends them into convulsions of violence.
While at it,ji-enjoy. Man,university should be fun.

That the universities are supposed to produce intellectuals to drive our vision of ever becoming a developed country. The same shallow minds who will see nothing wrong with burning dormitiries they sleep in and the library in the cumpus . Was this meant to punish the VC. Imagine you had a company and KU is you main source of work force. would you not fear that one day they will burn the company or its toilets in the pretext of fighting for their rights. WE ARE PRODUCING LEARNED FOOLS

muthuri mwanake

the university has been functioning well without a dress code,same with other universities world wide. so why try to force one. ku is not a work place,where you apply for a job,and therefore you agree to the dress code

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