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If the Uni students in Malaysia are backing TDM in this stand-off, Pak Lah is indeed in deep trouble.. and the road forward in this drama for him will be rough... very rough.

The son in law is of not much help, with no connection and no empathy with the local Uni students, being an overseas graduate from an English medium University in an English-Speaking country, called Oxford. He should try going to Pantai Valley campus and UKM, talking to the Uni students to help Pak Lah's case.

Are we having a one Term PM?

F&H,

I dont think any of that would help. Instead of all of them trying to persuade this party, that group, or every Malaysian to side with Pak Lah, the current Govt should concentrate on the matters at hand.

Indeed, the valid questions need to be addressed. It doesn't matter whether TDM or a university student asked the current Govt such questions, it's real issues, and that need to be addressed.

It's definitely gonna be a one-term PM if the current Govt does not set things straight, and then move forward from there..

Come to think of it, how would the issues go away even with a new PM at helm?

who was the student?..i really salute him/her.. but i did not back neither TDM nor Pak Lah.. both of them have many questions to answer..

Cool student... she/he should be awarded!

Jeff,

In the two pictures you posted, in the picture above, the banner carries a signature saying 'Uni Perdana menyokong mu' while the picture below says 'Uni Malaya menyokong mu'.

Also, if you look at the word 'Uni Perdana' and 'Uni Malaya', it appears to be modified, of a different colour even.

Why?

JEFF OOI says: Malaysiakini Chinese Edition reporter said the original wordings on the banners were: "Rakyat Menyokong Mu". However it has been changed into "Universiti Malaya" and "Universiti Perdana" respectively. "Universiti Perdana" is said to be a synonym to "Universti Malaya" among Malay students.

prem

You guess it right.

The banners were templates prepared for different universities.

Could be made from a political campaign office aligned to TDM

Shouldn't be surprised because the partisan politicisation of the University was started by UMNO,with this UMNO Clubs.

The chicken is coming home to roost for UMNO with all its political manipulations of Universities using Govt powers through the University Acts trying to make ROBOTS out of local University students. And meanwhile these UMNO Ministers and UMNO Youth apparatchiks send their children and they themselves go overseas to get their universities to broaden their brains so that they can come home and narrow down the brains of our local University students.

That's UMNO politics for you... and our Malay and non Malay young minds studying in the local Universities were the sacrificial lambs of UMNO's sickening politics.

I was not quite thinking of "chicken is coming home to roost", F&H.

More of "biting the hand that fed you" or "kacang lupakan kulit".

So yet another of those who competed to bodek Dr M when he was at the top of the patronage politics heap, steering the gravy train here and there, now bends in another direction as the political winds change direction?

I do not subscribe to what the young undergard said, but his standing up to Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is laudable.

I should be clearer about what I mean in the last sentence:

I do not agree with the young undergrad about Dr M "menyumbangkan jasa bakti selama 22 tahun" but his standing up to Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is laudable.

Leithaisor

Those students, especially the Malay students, who got a place in the local universities, are, in real terms, second-class/third class students under UMNO's version of NEP.

The children of influential UMNOputras, were given scholarships to study overseas, and those who were made riched by NEP are able to send their children from their sweatless wealth.
Those Malay students who got placesin local Univs are those whose parents could not get the crumbs of NEP or were not well-connected UMNOputras, to get the equal opportunity of going overseas. Leave aside the poor non Malay students, especially those who are not connected with the MCA towdays, whose parents had to sell houses, withdraw their EPFs, sell off their family looms to send their kids overseas.

Yes, UMNO was the hands that fed these Uni students in the local Univ, but they were fed with unwanted left-overs of the EP from UMNO's leadership's self-interest policies in the name of helping the Malays.

It is now known the NEP only served the top of the heap of UMNO. Even the UMNO Youth Leader who is the Minister of Education had his Univ education overseas, not in the local U, so is the son in law. That shows how much regards they give to the education status of our local universities. They would send their children overseas. Similarly are the children of the MCA leaders.

for the recod, UUCA is Universities and University Colleges Act.

Fir record2, a group of university stduents-- mostlikely sponsored by UMNO, my educated guess which you may disagree with! -- earlier this year presneted DPM with a Meom appealing to the Gomen TO MAINTAIN THE ACT. There is no need for any amendments, it serves them (Govt and these obedient undergrads!) so very well, Thank You!

So this "gracious" offer to review UUCA is just a token -- for the last 2/3 decades the Estyabishment has managed to "brain-wash" the students to the extent such a group VOLUNTARILY ASKING THE GOVT, bin our minds, bind our hands, (maybe in exchange for a scholarship, or free trips oversaes?).

I say RIP, then I.S.Amen to our well-groomed younger gen-half-past6? thanks to BN, oops, UMNO, leadership. A ship ahoy or sinking?

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F&H,

I wonder if we have some crossed wires here... My "biting the hand that fed you" / "kacang lupakan kulit" at Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (not students who got into the universtiy thanks to UMNO). Once a rising star in UMNO Youth and big shot in Bank SImpanan Nasional if I am not mistaken. Now, after enjoying the fruits of [atronage under Dr M, he tried to "memperkecilkan" his old benefactor, and has been put told off by a young undergrad. Serves him right!

How I wish the "jantan" taunt Nazri has something like that told to his face in front of some audience he was trying to impress. Or perhaps replay some not-so-old video of him trying hard to "defend" Dr M or Dr M's ideas/policies when Dr M was still PM.

I do not pity Dr M when all the chickens come home to haunt him, but there is still the fact that he is the elder of people like Ahmad Zaid Hamidi and Nazri. So even if the political winds make it expedient to sway in some direction which does not favour Dr M, still must have some compliance with adat lah.

As for the Malay students in local universities, there is much truth in what you wrote. I have heard of a well-connect Malay girl from a well-off family who could afford to turn down more than one scholarship before finally accepting one which was to her liking. Also heard that the children of a top echelon Cabinet minister (not Hishamuddin) went or still goes to private international school instead of our Sekolah Kebangsaan schools. But those issues are off-topic, so I shall not delve into them.