[Imc-india] Re: Imc-india Digest, Vol 29, Issue 8

[sudip mukherjee]

well u guys please give us a break.is it a fashion
today to talk about animals,in real life and reel
life.how can a plastic bag can do harm to deers.
   as far as taarang is concerned it is IIT man,the
only thing the world knows about us.so if the
corporate giant comes here and throws money at those
students then it is not wrong.i hope some of ur group
are feeling jeolous.
   then a IIT student waits for whole year to enjoy
these days.so it is not ethical to to prevent them
from doing that.they know the best when to study and
when to be brake free.
     is it a way to get cheap popularity to talk bad
about IIT ?
                            Dr Sudip Mukherjee

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>    1. Axn Alert: IIT Blames Victim of Violence
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> Subject: [Imc-india] Axn Alert: IIT Blames Victim of
> Violence
> 	AgainstWomen
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> Hi all,
> Please check out the action alert below accompanied
> by details about
> Friday's incident of harrassment of a woman at IIT.
> Also, please forward this to friends and family
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> thanks and regards,
> Yash
> **
> *ACTION ALERT!!*
> 
> 
> IIT-M Mishandles Case of Violence Against Woman:
> Blames the Victim
> 
> 
> 
> ACTION ALERT:
> 
> Please write to
> 
> The Director
> 
> Indian Institute of Technology-Madras
> 
> Guindy, Chennai
> 
> Email: director at iitm.ac.in and dirsecy at iitm.ac.in
> 
> 
> 
> Protest against the Institute Administration's
> irresponsible handling of an
> incident of use of force against a female visitor to
> the Saarang 2006
> festival by a male student.
> 
> 
> 
> *Here is what happened:*
> 
> On 27 Jan, Shweta, a female member of Chennai-based
> youth collective We Feel
> Responsible, was manhandled by an IIT student (a
> Saarang student
> coordinator) when he was trying to forcibly
> confiscate a video camera in her
> possession.. Shweta and IIT 2 nd Year student Yash
> Jain were involved in
> conducting an audit of the non-biodegradable garbage
> generated at Saarang,
> IIT's annual cultural festival. Yash, who is also a
> coordinator of an
> initiative called Green Saarang, was carrying the
> camera to use it for
> documenting the audit. Other Saarang coordinators,
> who were concerned that
> the footage would generate negative publicity and
> scare away corporate
> sponsors responsible for the bulk of the
> non-degradable packaging in the
> trash, decided to take the law into their hands and
> seize the camera from
> Yash. Concerned about the camera, Shweta suggested
> that the police be called
> to resolve the matter.   This suggestion was
> rejected. When she tried to
> hold on to the camera, she was shoved and pushed by
> the Saarang coordinator.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> More than a complaint against the errant student,
> this is a report about the
> insensitive manner in which the Dean of Students and
> the IIT administration
> treated a woman's   complaint about use of force by
> an IIT student. Rather
> than enquire into the incident and make amends, the
> Dean accused Shweta of
> illegally entering IIT and detained her against her
> will until she parted
> with the video tape in the camera. She was shouted
> at by the Dean, detained
> in the Dean's office with no women staff present.
> Intimidated by the
> atmosphere, Shweta parted with the tape that
> contained no footage of garbage
> from the morning's audit. Shweta attempted to
> persuade   the Chief Security
> Officer to take  action against the errant student.
> However, she was told
> that such incidents are to be expected in the heat
> of the moment. The CSO
> refused to part with the names of the students
> involved. He said she could
> do what she wanted and that he would protect his
> "boys."
> 
> 
> 
> The Waste Audit was a follow-up to a similar
> exercise conducted during
> Saarang 2005 in order to demonstrate the impact of
> the cultural festival on
> the sensitive environment of IIT Madras. IIT Madras
> is located within a
> forest area, and has a sizable deer population that
> is vulnerable to the
> plastic wastes indiscriminately strewn throughout
> the campus. Saarang,
> unlike the   folksy Mardi Gras of yesteryears, is a
> big-ticket cultural
> festival with multinational corporate sponsors, and
> blaring juke boxes.
> Faced with the corporate onslaught, some students
> even question the extent
> to which the festival reflects youth culture.
> 
> 
> 
> The result of the 2005 waste audit was a film called
> Hangover, and a report
> called Trash Culture
>
(http://www.sipcotcuddalore.com/downloads/TC_study.zip<http://www.sipcotcuddalore.com/downloads/TC_study.zip>)
> which not only quantified the biodegradable and
> non-biodegradable garbage,
> but also made recommendations to progressively move
> Saarang to being an
> environmentally and socially responsible festival.
> The IIT Administration
> and Saarang organisers made assurances that they
> would clean up the
> festival. . However, rather than clean up its act,
> IIT-M seems to have
> decided to prohibit filming of the garbage strewn
> around the campus.
> 
> 
> 
> The impulsive aggression of the young student, while
> disturbing, is not the
> primary concern here. Such youth need to be
> counseled and advised to behave
> appropriately. What is most disturbing is the
> attitude and behavior of
> the Dean and the Chief Security Officer. The Dean
> ignored and dismissed
> Shweta's complaints of physical abuse by the student
> coordinator, and the
> CSO first made light of Shweta's complaints, saying
> that in an argument,
> things like this do happen.
> 
> 
> 
> Frustrated by her efforts to seek remedy from the
> IIT 
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Sudip Mukherjee
Medical College
University of Calcutta
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Member: Medical College Scienctific Association

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