NUJS Kolkata’s student body has voted to institute a new system of governance to de-politicise the campus but increase friendly intra-college competition.
The decision follows fears that the Student Juridical Association (SJA) could become too politicised, with the new system intended to “promote bonding and healthy competition”, according to one student.
The SJA and students therefore voted for a compromise that would replace the SJA with a system of four representatives from the student body.
Instead of voting for one SJA, students would be allocated into one of four houses, in a system that is popular in schools in the UK and also in the fictional Hogwarts school of Harry Potter fame.
Taking the latter as inspiration but with a legal twist (and it’s not the first time NUJS has done so), the students proposed that the four houses be named after famous US judges: Ginsburg House (inspired by Gryffindor), Holmes House (inspired by Hufflepuff), Rehnquist House (inspired by Ravenclaw) and Scalia House (inspired by Slytherin).
The allocation to each house would happen via an interview by faculty, plus a personality test based on a test devised by Cambridge University-
The interview would also test qualities identified with each of the four judges and each NUJS house: courage (Ginsburg), intellect (Rehnquist), industriousness (Holmes) and cunning (Scalia).
The interview process would also establish political leanings of student members, and allocate them accordingly: conservatives would go to Scalia, left-liberals would be allotted to Ginsburg, centre-left liberals to Holmes, and centrist liberals would join Rehnquist House.
Each professor would get to choose a House and become House Masters, who would choose a student as House Captain.
Those four House Captains would de facto act as representatives for the entire student body and bring grievances to the notice of the administration, in effect replacing the SJA.
Much as under the British schools system, houses would win points for academic performance, moots, social service and sports, with the winning house getting funding for scholarships and moots for their own house students.
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NLS & Nalsar should also implement a system like this, otherwise they will be doomed.
https://swarajyamag.com/insta/nalsar-law-student-allegedly-being-hounded-for-pro-caa-statement-by-varsitys-liberal-students-and-teachers
https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/students-from-national-institutes-issue-statement-in-support-of-caa.html
[quote]Five years ago, I was with a group of journalists in Kolkata covering the last state election. At a meeting with top academics, they castigated CM Mamata Banerjee for destroying academic standards. They said not only seats in good colleges but also academic posts were being sold for cash, and critics were being victimised. [/quote]
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/Swaminomics/ashoka-and-academic-freedom-given-stormy-seas-in-todays-india-funding-must-be-diversified-from-a-few-business-donors/
I think the voting was rigged, can'nt trust technology too much these days
No one has time to give you guys an orientation on everything especially when you guys have made it clear in the past that you don't like orientations.
Hope you guys got it
Hufflepuffs do Human Rights, Ravenclaw does LLMs and PhD, Gryffindor braves it out at law firms and Slytherin provides representation to rightwing stuck ups. LOL[img]https://media3.giphy.com/media/RN2EiHt0AwL9iV7tLI/200.gif[/img]
With love
Goes on to --- wait for it --- allocate students into houses on the basis of their political leanings.
Honestly, which idiot (including faculty member[s]) thought this was a good idea?
"[i]... houses would win points for academic performance, moots, social service and sports, with the winning house getting funding for scholarships and moots for their own house students.[/i]"
So, students who do not have resources, not only have the pressure of performing for their own good, but also have the additional burden to carry their houses to ensure funding for others?
Here's hoping this is just an April Fool's joke which never sees light of the day. In the alternate, students who do not wish to be associated, ought to be given the option to opt out of this disastrous experiment.
Various Moots (most probably ADRs and Debates also) were not alloted to any senior batch and were specifically kept for 1st years, so that whenever they come in the college they may learn mooting.
Recently an all 1st year team from nujs was runner up in DM Harish moot, how was that so if senior treated you guys as untouchables.
You must be in one of those nlu which solely focuses on academic "rigour"