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Hall day skit leads to suspensions

In response to a complaint filed with the Women’s Cell, six students of Hall-2 have been found guilty[1] by the institute authorities. The complaint was filed by two girl students citing ‘verbal, sexual, emotional abuse and public defamation’ in the skit performed during Hall day of Hall-2. The skit staged, as per reports, was vulgar […]
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Things we learn from course registration data of IITK

Every semester, the office of Dean of Academic Affairs(DOAA) releases statistical reports on course registration data. Here is what Vox Populi found after exploring this data. Total number of courses(excluding thesis, presentation, seminar etc) offered have increased from 327 in the first semester of 2010-11 to 377 in the second semester of 2013-14. Perhaps, this […]
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In conversation with Director: Student Faculty Interaction

Rishabh Jain and Anushank Jain (Inquisitive Wanderers) interviewed Prof. Indranil Manna, Hon’ble Director of IIT Kanpur. The converstaion revolved around the state of Student Faculty Interaction at our campus! What is the status of Student Faculty interaction in the Campus ? Director – I personally believe that it should be very good. It has always been […]
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Speaking out for their rights

It all began with the workers in the institute not getting the minimum wages specified by the government. Meetings were held, committees were put in place but the issue remained far from being resolved. This and a plethora of such problems were discussed in an open discussion session held as part of “Hamara Manch”, a […]
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Students’ Welfare Cell

The Students’ Welfare Cell was established under the Presidential Council in the February of 2014. Ever since, the SWC has been working to address various issues that plague the student body, some of which include – implementation of the New ARC (academic review committee) policies such as minors and double majors, tackle the debacles that […]
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Students gather at HC, demand to meet CMO

Students gather at HC, demand to meet CMO A group of about 40 students, led by Arvind discussion that ensued, the students voiced their Kothari, the President of the Students’ Gymkhana, concerns about the quality of health care services in marched into the Health Centre in the drizzle the HC, apprised them of the incident […]
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Nine New Associate Deans

IIT Kanpur has decided to create new administrative roles (in some cases, it is just renaming of roles), and nine faculty members have been appointed as Associate Deans. They are: Dr. Suchitra Mathur (HSS): AD for Under-Graduate Studies Dr. Pankaj Jain (PHY): AD for Post-Graduate Studies Dr. Jiten Bera (CHM): AD for Faculty Affairs Dr. […]
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Convocation: Is there a need for a new format?

We had our convocation on 18th June, 2014. This time we tried a new format. For the last few years, we had one main function where there will be speeches, a few awards, in some years, PhD degrees were awarded, and then we had two more ceremonies later, one for just giving away PG degrees […]
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