Oops! In all the excitement of the first day of school, I forgot to get a photo of the smiling, eager students in Business 100. Looks like a great group of 33--only seven young women, though. I am sure they will be happy to pose when we meet them again next week.
The big excitement on campus happened yesterday. We have discovered that student government politics is much more passionate here than in Canada. They actually have political parties. SD College will be having their election in a couple of days. Yesterday, groups of young men were busy recruiting members so great cheers and chants could be heard. However, one of the two parties got word that the administration had disqualified their presidential candidate because of incomplete nomination papers. They were not happy and declared a hunger strike. A group of about 40 sat on the lawn and chanted, blockaded the staff parking lot, and were still protesting at 8:15 this morning. In the end, they have had to put forward another candidate for president but the story made the Chandigarh Tribune this morning.
Such a contrast when we look out another window and watch a group of workers building a walkway to the SD College registration office below us. The area is about 400 square feet, and labourers like this gentlemen have been carrying loads of bricks on their heads to the site and then smashing them into smaller pieces with sledge hammers. This worker is wearing flip flops, and working in humid 30 degree temperatures.
