THE PARROT SPEAKS

Vet Students Can Dress Casually on Fridays

The lingering discussion as to whether Vet Students can turn out for classes in their casual wears on Fridays or not has been clarified. This has become one of the major talking points since the new administration, which has made the formal dress code a core aspect of its tenets, took office. The clarification was made by the sub dean (undergraduate), Dr Tayo Ajibade via Telegram in the early hours of Monday. His statement reads:

“Dear all, I had a discussion with the dean this weekend and he reaffirmed casual dressing on Fridays.”

He later goes on to warn the students that the casual dressing “must project professionalism.”

Before the clarification was made, there had been reports that certain students were sent out of class on a Friday for dressing casually.

However, it is the hope of every student that the new resolution has been well-communicated to all lecturers in the faculty to avert any confusion.

Struggling Vet Students Bemoan Ceaseless Mockery and Scorn

Some struggling students have lamented being put on the spot repeatedly for their academic ordeal. The students, who are in dire need of encouragement, have often been perceived as a subject of endless mockery and ridiculous jests. This has been feared for its potential to trigger a vicious cycle as a result of shattered esteem and confidence.

Fury, As Faculty Porters Order Students Out Of White House

The quest to ensure that the students of the faculty of Veterinary Medicine dress corporately has taken a new twist, beyond the confines of the class and offices. The faculty porters, in a somewhat strange development, have now been asked to walk out students perceived to have dressed casually. This gesture has been met with vicious condemnation by most students, who decried it as the highest form of humiliation any student may have to face. This new development was said to include students across all levels of study, and those who have visited the faculty building for other purposes than receive lectures.

Interestingly, sending casually dressed students away from the faculty building seems to be just one of the new directives the porters have been charged with. An eye witness who disclosed to Vet News Organisation under the condition of anonymity revealed that certain formally-dressed clinical year students were intercepted by the porters in their attempt to reach the faculty building between the hours of 9am and 12 noon because they were not supposed to be seen around the faculty at the time.

“You can’t come here because you are supposed to be at your respective clinic postings, and we have been ordered to send you back,” a faculty porter allegedly said.

AVMS President Gives a Cryptic Remark to Students’ Perceived Humiliation

The AVMS president, Mr Caleb Adeoye, while responding to the vicious outcry made by some students, most notably, a Master’s student who was said to have been challenged by a faculty porter last week for casual dressing, remarked that “this won’t continue forever, just for the ‘main time’ while many students comply with the faculty management.” The statement was made by the student president on the AVMS UI WhatsApp group. In the concluding part of the message, he urged the affected individuals to “direct their grievances towards the right channel to prevent further occurrence of the bad scenario in the future.”

A brief analysis of Mr President’s remarks

This won’t continue forever. Just in the meantime while many students (try to) comply with the management.

The students’ perceived harassment from porters would only stop when students awake to the reality that they have to dress formally.

Direct your grievances towards the right channel to prevent further occurrence of the bad scenario in the future.

One of the main reasons the students have a faculty executive arm is to respond to issues like this, and ensure a just representation in the protection of the interest of the students who had elected them into office. But to ask the aggrieved students to unilaterally direct their grievances toward the right channel (the faculty management) is nothing but an outright denial of responsibility.

Vet Students Take Refuge in New Dean’s Promises

Vet students, especially the paraclinical and clinical year students, have taken great delight in the promises made by the new dean to improve the welfare condition of the students by providing good toilet facilities.

For over a year now, there has not been a single functioning lavatory for students’ use in the pathology building, medicine building, public health building and the faculty building (white house). Most students have been at the mercy of the neighbouring faculty of Agriculture toilet facilities. When pressed, the students would have to trek several metres to other faculties to empty their bowels, or may walk towards a nearby bush when micturition is desired.

The students’ toilet at the medicine building has been locked down for almost two years now, while the ones at the pathology building and faculty building suffer infrastructural damage, lack of water and bad maintenance. Only the urinals seem to be in use, while the new faculty auditorium lavatory is mostly under lock.

However, the new dean, in his statement during the dean’s forum held two weeks ago, promised to look into the lamentable condition of these facilities. He said his administration would do its best to provide at least two befitting toilets in each department for students’ use.

In the same statement, he revealed that the new administration has already commenced the installation of a power inverter in the pathology building from which several charging points would be connected for students’ use.