Following a joint meeting of both academic and non academic staff, Gulu university staff resolved to go on industrial action effective 1st August till the president honours his earlier pledge of raising the salary of a professor to 15 million shillings pro rata.
This however will not affect welcoming of freshers this Saturday since it was resolved that the office of the Academic registrar will stay open. As history has it, whenever industrial actions take place at the beginning of the semester, both freshers and continuing students have spare time to burn, you know what I mean.
Informers intimate that droves of ecstatic continuing students have already travelled back “to welcome” the freshers to campus! This is inspite the fact that continuing students are actually supposed to report a week after freshers report.
When interviewed, one of the renown horny “seniors” who have come back early to “welcome” unsuspecting freshers shamelessly expressed disgruntlement over the way the government is handling the pending salary issue. Though the logic wasn’t quite adding up, he proudly said that working on freshers and eating them up like odii was his way of joining the non teaching staff “to say no to exploitation”!
Another “senior” when asked why he reported back so early responded with a poker face that he was just visiting a relative but later added that, if he accidentally collided with a cute fresher, there definitely would be no harm in it. Lecher just!
To many a fresher, campus is a collection of cool buildings, with cool people who do cool stuff but to the experienced eye, its a damn real hunting ground with crouching tigers and well camouflaged hyenas. Freshers, you remain in out prayers!
