KSU should be given more of Student's House - MP
KSU should be given more of Student's House so it was sad to see the Labour Party seemingly working against the students' interest, Nationalist MP Karl Gouder said.
Mr Gouder was reaction to a call by Labour MP Owen Bonnici for an investigation by the Public Accounts Committee or the Auditor-General into whether government rules were broken when parts of Students' House at the University were handed to the KSU, which then rented them out for commercial purposes.
In a letter to PAC chairman Charles Mangion, Dr Bonnici observed that Student's House is government property and there are strict government rules on the transfer of properties.
It had emerged from a parliamentary question answered by the Minister of Education that part of the building had been handed to the University Students' Council for purposes of administration, he said. The decision was taken by the University.
The Students' Council had then rented out the lower floor to businesses, which paid their rents to the council.
Mr Gouder said that for decades Student's House served as a hub for all student organisations.
Considering the ever increasing number of students on campus and the ever increasing number of organisations on campus, the student body has been for quite a while now feeling the need to increase its physical space on campus.
Apart from commercial outlets, which served to offer study-related services on campus, there was a dire need for more office spaces for all student organisations.
As a result, KSU, together with University administration should find a way to ensure that more space was dedicated to student organisations and to find the correct balance and formula to accommodate commercial interests on Campus, Mr Gouder said.
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Mr J Xerri
Dec 20th 2011, 14:08
According to Mr Gouder "the student body has been for quite a while now feeling the need to increase its physical space on campus", Well if that is the case increase the space by all means. But on the other hand does it make sense that when you are in need of more physical space to go about renting part of what you already have for business purposes?
Joseph E Briffa
Dec 20th 2011, 14:07
I believe the University has every right to allocate buildings on its own grounds for use by students. It seems Owen Bonnici would like to make some noises in typical labour fashion. The majority of students know who looks after their interests and who chased their ancestors on campus and tried to beat them with chains accompanied by a Labour minister who is still in the Labour fold.
Gianluca Barbieri
Dec 20th 2011, 13:36
I have six points to make:
1) I'm a University Student and for me KSU or no KSU, it doesn't make any difference whatsoever. To my understanding, most students are apathetic of the concept of KSU in the first place. All people are interested in is themselves and not the welfare of the student's body which encompasses them in the first place.
2) KSU members are there simply to further their political aspirations through a handful of votes which they interpret as a representative of the whole university student population. Pity, they don't interpret 1/10 of the electorate as being a vote of no confidence in the whole system altogether.
3) Hon. K. Gouder's move to defend the students in my opinion is simply a populist move. Even though i don't agree with the politics of Hon. O. Bonnici, i find nothing wrong with regards to his inquiry in this subject. If KSU did everything according to the book, then it follows that they shouldn't be fearing such an inquiry in the first place.
4) KSU needs to be reformed thoroughly and shouldn't be composed of one student organization with the philosophy "the winner takes it all". It should embody all the factions of the student's population.
5) Unfortunately, the room next to canteen is simply used for recreation purposes for the so called executive of KSU.
6) Puppet organizations such as SDM (PN) and MOVE (PL) should be discouraged on campus. Let's leave partisan politics for once and be open to criticism. We should exemplify our open-mindedness by accepting criticism and not divulging from it.
j brincat
Dec 20th 2011, 13:35
Why only KSU and not the other unions?
The answer is obvious.
(jb)
Mark Cassar
Dec 20th 2011, 12:54
Karl Gouder is absolutely right!
Joseph Borg
Dec 20th 2011, 11:56
milli jidher mhux tal KSU ma jafxux jaqraw imma anqas tal PN....mela din ha tkun it trend l gdid ali nbezzaw lill istudenti mil PL!!! u halluna ghax issa qazzistu lill kulhadd.
FEJN IL PL qalu li jridu jnehhu xi dritt jew xi postijiet lill KSU????
GHANDA jew LE dritt bhala cittadini nkunu nafu kif artijiet pubblici jigu mikrija lill privat?
milli jidher le....u apparentament huwa xi dnub mejjet li ssaqsi xi haga lill gvern rigward xi move li jaghmel....ghax GONZI PN huwa perfett, ma jizbalja QATT, dejjem fis sewwa u li jaghmel dejjem jaghmlu ghal gid tal poplu....!!!! u nieqfu hemm!
Imma milli jidher.....ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS u allura jistaw jaghmlu li jridu!
M Mamo
Dec 20th 2011, 13:28
tibzax l-istudenti mandomx bzonn min ibezzahhom mill-PL ghax ghandna esperjezni bizzejjed il-passat ... u qabel tghidli li l-passat ghadda u l-PL ggedded, saqsi wahda lil Sciberras Trigona x'jahseb fuq l-istipendji
C. Mallia
Dec 20th 2011, 13:52
M.Mamo - u int tahseb li jekk issaqsi l-Gonzi u jghidlek li l-istipendju bzonnjuz u sostenibbli ikun qed jghidlek il-verita ?
Jghidlek hekk ghax isibek bahbuh u int temmen kull haga li jbellalek.
Tarak titkellem tahsbek qed tara Net News, daqs kemm tidher brainwashed
John Borg
Dec 20th 2011, 14:26
Il-lejber mhu se jnehhi xejn minn ta hadd... se jkompli jzid lill tieghu biss. The mre time passes, the more labour shows its true colours. there is nothing new in labour. same old faces, same old ideas and the new faces are as good as the tried and tested old which we have done away with a long time ago!
Richard Caruana
Dec 20th 2011, 14:28
Anki l-bozza lgdida tal-PL il Profs Scicluna kontra l-istipendi, u ghalhekk ghandhom bizzejjed minn min jibzghu l-istudenti minghajr ma jbezzaghhom hadd mill-PN
Dan ta' l-ahhar huwa anke kontra l-isptar u l-medicini bxejn.... wiehed ahjar mill-iehor
John Said
Dec 20th 2011, 15:18
I hope that you are only trying to pull our leg Mr. Borg, since the PL has a lot to answer about land and property, specially to people like me who has got a property which has been taken form us by the then MLP and given as a gift to someone else, with an 18 Euro annual rent, which is not enough to pay one day of the rent I pay for a similar property to run my business from.
Inthom qazzistu lil kulhadd twedu l'impossibli, u qatt ma tlisnu kelma wahda kif ha tpattu al hsara li ghamiltu, hsara li hafna nies ghadhom issofru minna sal gurnata imqaddsa tal lum.
If any student is getting any benefit out of this than let it be, as these are the people who we will depend on tomorrow, an the PN always put the students interests before anything else, as education has always been looked at as an asset, not a treat. If only we had more intelligent and well educated people in Malta, we would be much better off!
Joseph Borg
Dec 21st 2011, 09:00
Mela
1) Jigiefieri two wrongs make one right?
2) Il PL ilu ma jkun fil gvern min 1998 : 13 il sena! imma milli jidher kulhadd NOSTRADAMUS hawn u jaf x ser jigri! hasra li ma kontux tafu x ser jigri wara l elezzjoni ta 2008! kieku mhux qeghdin fiex qeghdin.....ehhh imma insejt li hawn xi erbgha bazuzli li komdi jgawdu waqt li l haddiem medju jibla l kanen! ovvja li l PN ikunu kuntenti! 500 ewro zieda fil gimgha xi tri daktar!!! anki jekk il Boss tieghi itini mqar 1/5 ta dik iz zieda nkun kuntent!
3) jiena kkuntatjat lill KSU bl email li qed nikwota. nispera li niehu risposta LLUM u mhux xi sena ohra halli jilhqu jaraw kif ibenglu.
4) Jiena l PL fil gvern niftakru meta kont zghir u fis sentejn li ghamel fil gvern so ma nistax niggudika, bhal ma nistax niggudika x aghmel il PN fis 60s ghax ma konx nezisti, jiena nista niggudika fuq li naf jiena u fuq l prezent. Issa meta l PL ikun fil gvern imbghad niggudika wara
5) Jekk il PL ghandu propjeta mhux tieghu inutli hafna tpatpit fil vojt, ghandhom jinghataw lill ta min huma.....dan ma jfissirx li JIENA bhal cittadin u membru TA L EBDA PARTIT (i.e ma nhallas ebda tesseri u mbarazz) ma ghandix dritt inkun naf kif johrog tender, meta johrog u kif jinghata.
Jekk fil passat PL/PN ghamel xi haga kontra l ligi ma jfissirx li issa tigi ggustifikata!
Din Hija l email li bghat dalghodu lil KSU: Issa jekk niehu risposta nippublika wkoll dont worry. Mistoqsijiet semplici li suppost ghandi nircievi ir risposti rih by email jekk kollox sar kif suppost ,hux hekk! anzi tant kemm qed jghidulna nikkuntatjaw lill KSU li qed nistenna li dawn they drafted an email li jibghatuwa lill kull min jikkuntatjhom fl inqas hin possibli!
Since on the times of Malta , members form KSU are asking us to cantact KSU directly. I am please requesting the following information.
- When the call for tenders were issued?
- How the tenders were choosen? KSU did or KSU appointed an autonomous board of selection?
- Were the tenders was made public on the Government paper (please quote which paper)
- How many companies applied
- What offers did KSU received for such tenders and why they choose one from another?
thanks in advance