Uni.Students arrested for pasting posters

9 March 2011 05:54 am

Eight students from the University of Peradeniya were arrested in the early hours of Wednesday while pasting posters, Inter University Students Union (IUSF) convener Sanjeewa Bandara said today.

These students had pasted posters pleading their Management Department to be made a faculty, Mr. Bandara said. According to him the Management faculty had a majority of the students of the Arts faculty although they were allocated the same amount of funds and resources as the other departments.

“The Peradeniya Department of management is long overdue to be made in to a faculty. In the same way as the Management faculty of the University of Colombo had faced before it was made a faculty,” Mr. Bandara said. According to him these management students haven’t adequate lecture room facilities to conduct their day to day lectures. 

The students of the department launched a poster campaign to bring it to the notice of the authorities, Mr. Bandara said. (Sumaiya Rizvi)