Attack on Graduate Student in Bangladesh Prompts Call for Improved Women’s Education

June 23, 2011, 11:47 am

A brutal attack on a University of British Columbia graduate student in Bangladesh has prompted calls for Canadian higher education to do more to help women in South Asia, reports The Global and Mail. The student, Rumana Monzur, was viciously beaten during a a family visit to her homeland, leaving her blind and disfigured. Her husband has been arrested and has reportedly confessed to the crime.

Students and educators have rallied behind Ms. Monzur’s cause, with some calling for more opportunities for South Asian women to study in Canada and for increased support for institutions like the Asian University for Women, in Chittagong, Bangladesh. “I think this should enhance our resolve to do more to try to be helpful to individual students who want to come here to study,” said Amit Chakma, president of the University of Western Ontario, who was born in Bangladesh.

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darccity

Nope. Only the handful of BCS bowls make money for the teams playing, because they receive 93% of all bowl revenues!!! The other over 2 dozen bowls pay out chickenfeed and cost the schools big time. It’s called a “reward” but actually is just one more way to cheat the system by getting in extra practice and game time advantage for the following year’s season (as well as making recruiting much easier and productive — both because bowls give player national visibility and give teams visibility to recruit). That’s why a national playoff system can’t be adopted despite these money-losing, sparsely-attended games.
pianiste

That nobody holds a gun to any school’s head is part of the problem. Schools want to participate in these vulgar, sleazy, yahoo-driven circuses. Or at least, as darccity points out, the university’s athletic department–a de facto autonomous fiefdom which can and does tell the spineless academic part of the university to go stuff itself–wants to participate.

As for the “millions in publicity value for the school,” all I can say is, “Go, Crotchgrabbers!”
rkaffer

Did someone say “college” or “education” or “student” or “misplaced priorities”?