The University of Cape Coast will no longer tolerate the situation where students rush to take to some issues of political interest to court without recourse to due processes of resolving misunderstanding thereby disrupting programmes of the university.
In view of this, the university will be reviewing the Student Handbook to make it explicitly prohibitive for students to pursue issues of political interest in court. The Vice-Chancellor of the university.
Prof. D. D. Kuupole made this known at this year’s matriculation ceremony to admit freshmen and women to the university. The Vice-Chancellor indicated that “Student political activities on campus has reached an alarming proportion that some of them show complete disregard for rules and regulations of the university and even go to the extent of placing positions they want to occupy in the very university over and above the aims and purposes for which they were admitted to the university.” In this regard, he warned that management of the University would do everything possible to safeguard the collective interest of UCC.
In all, the university admitted a total of 6, 247 students for both undergraduate and post graduate courses for the 2014/14 academic year. The figure is made up of 3,876 males and 1, 846 females representing 67.7% and 32.3% respectively.
The Vice Chancellor reminded the matriculants that the cardinal condition for the attainment of their aims of coming to the university was discipline. He stressed that “The academic enterprise thrives on discipline and therefore lawless behaviour is not entertained in the University of Cape Coast.”
He advised them to be disciplined since products of UCC were always seen as change agents wherever they find themselves around the world. He also urged them to be very careful with their personal security even though, the university would do its possible best to provide them with security. He noted that “There are deviants among every human society and there many who are not even students in this university, so be careful of fraudsters and others who snatch wallets, bags, mobile phones and laptops”.
He finally entreated them to study diligently and with zeal and not waste their time on activities that would prevent them from achieving the purpose for which they came to the university.
