Starting from this semester, its become mandatory to wear the ID Cards around the neck. The teachers have been given bright green colour tags to wear the ID Card and the students maroon. The tags were distributed in the girls hostels today. Better colours could have been chosen for the tags though!
EcoBrigade is the new Environmental club that is doing commendable work in improving SASTRA. After it's inception we are now able to find trees with tree guards planted near frequented places like near the stone benches near Vidya Vihar, behind the Library, in between Nirman Vihar and the girls hostel. We can now find more dustbins and a campus cleanup drive is conducted once in a month. SASTRA is definitely a lot cleaner now. It's also extremely encouraging to find people taking the initiative to plant trees and watering them everyday. EcoBrigade has also tie-ups with various world renowned organisations. Its recent tie-up with Art of Living for the 'Stand-up-Take action' drive to make sure the students play a major role in fighting serious environmental issues like Global Warming has seen bright response.
Keep the good work on!
This year's DAKSH has got loads of new ideas incorporated . One example - the student workshops . Videography, Origami, Rubix Cube and Basic Electrical and Electronics workshops are being offered. Completely handled by students, these workshops, whose registrations have begun today have already seen more than 300 registrations.
It’s been more than a year since a post appeared on Angular View. Lot of important and not-so-important changes have taken place at SASTRA. The cycles have been distributed and they are no longer charged for. So people have taken to cycling and we can frequently find staff and students cycling, especially the girls. However, it would be better if the height of the cycles was increased. There’s a rumour going around that Oriental is going to build a supermarket on campus somewhere between the girls hostel and Nirman Vihar. Vignan Vihar is undergoing renovation so the Chemical Engineering department has been temporarily moved to Jana Chaitanya, the MCA and MBA department to Vidya Vihar and the first years to Viswakarma Joth. And yeah, I’m sure the Mech. guys do have something to cheer about! Mid semesters are being held on Saturdays and this is supposedly to increase the working days. JVC has implemented exchange correction, which means that though we have the choice of choosing our teachers, we cannot choose them totally based on the marks they give because they will be correcting our paper only once in the semester. A new boys hostel called Vasishta and a new girls hostel called Arundhati have been constructed. Girls are no longer allowed to bunk single hours, if at all we need to we need to bunk full days :( The wi-fi is faster these days with a new wi-fi connection for the girls called Student-G. Arundhati and Vasishta also have a new wi-fi connection called ARUBA and people are able to video and voice chat. The campus has a new store above the canteen which has computer accessories and also a printing store. This store, though small is really good. The time taken to give the printouts is really fast and the service is so far good. The canteen is now offering more choice. French Fries, Sandwich, Mini idly, Gobi-65 and loads of new ice cream flavours have been introduced. The professional courier office has been closed and we can now find the courier guy standing outside the office next to a cycle and a van intended to take the couriers. There is a Post Office that has been constructed somewhere next to the guys hostel. The old doctor at the dispensary has retired and now there is a new doctor. He is also bad but somewhat better than the old one. A new basket ball court has been constructed opposite to the library. The college advanced the reopening date and this time it reopened on a Sunday! 25th December and 1st January were holidays but were compensated by working on the consecutive Saturdays following Friday order. The temple is being renovated and a small makeshift temple has been created next to it. Preparations are going on in full swing for Daksh and KurukSASTRA, with less than 50days for Daksh, the organizers are really busy.
For more details on Daksh, do visit, www.daksh.sastra.edu
That’s it for now. Will get back with more stuff. Keep reading :)
Contest DescriptionThe American Centers in India are looking for a new logo! Put your graphic skills to work and win a design fellowship to the United States.
We seek the country’s creative community to help us develop a fresh look, which will be widely displayed on all American Center materials. American Centers are the public face of the U.S. Embassy in India. The American Centers in New Delhi and Kolkata, and the U.S. Consulates General in Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad support activities that inform the Indian public about American policies, society and values. These activities range from speaking tours and musical concerts, to school outreach, workshops and conferences, English programs, and exhibits. Please review the links above to learn more about the range of our activities.
The logo must be recognizable, dramatic and reflect the presence of the United States in India.
The contest will award prizes for up to three designers. Top prize is a design fellowship to the United States.*
*Visa eligibility applies.
All submissions must be received by Jan. 15, 2009.
January 23, 2009-Selection of finalists. Finalists will be posted on our website.
January 30, 2009- Awards ceremony at the American Center, New Delhi
For more details, contact us at amcenternd@state.gov, or 011-2347-2289/2290.
End semester exams scheduled on 28th and 29th of November has been postponed to 15th and 16th of December because of intense rain and inaccessibility. Also the re-opening date have been changed to 17th of December.
You read it right, a full semester can be used for project work. That is the 8th semester. This is not for everyone though. A notice was put up yesterday according to which current second years can take up one extra open elective out of the displayed ten and pursue it for the next semester. This will continue for the all the semesters till 7th. Classes for these will be from 5.30 to 7.00 twice a week and all are 3 credit papers. So the 8th semester can be taken off completely for project work! SASTRA is becoming more of BITS these days... :-)
