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Pros and cons of ragging in college
Staff Reporter
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College is supposed to be the best period of one's life but ragging can ruin it
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Bangalore:
The beginning of an academic year marks another session of anxiety and apprehension among new students.
They have to face ragging from their seniors, sometimes purely fun and often, going beyond that. Most colleges say, if any fresher is really harassed, he or she can complain in confidence.
Shilpa Sachdev, a first year student of mass communication from Jyoti Nivas College, claims that ragging, although not in a harsh form, exists in her college.
"It is not fun; it is demoralising and a public humiliation. It has to be banned to save new students," she says. Contradicting this view is Rohini Debroy, a first year student from Mount Carmel College, who says, "Ragging, if within a certain limit and taken in the right spirit, can be fun and act as a means of bonding with the seniors."
The Principal of RV College of Engineering, K. Sharma, says, "Ragging is non-existent in our college. We are vigilant and cautious. We value human rights and to protect them, we have thus established a squad comprising select students and a police officer."
The views of the Principal of the St. Joseph's College of Arts and Science, Fr. Amorse Pinto, are no different. According to him, there has not been one incident of ragging in the college the previous year.
He says, "Students indulging in such activities should be dismissed or handed over to the police." It is morally degrading and affects the students mentally, emotionally and in some cases even physically. Humanism should be practised." College life is supposedly the best period in one's life, but ragging can make it the most torturous phase one would go through.
Some students who are reserved may start to despise the system on the whole resulting in depression because of ragging. This will also lead to problems to their families.
Rajeev, father of Karan, a II PU student, says his son went into a depression when he joined I PU as a result of ragging.
He says, "Karan lost focus, seemed lonely, confused and upset. He did not mingle with the other students and had no friends."
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