Thursday, October 30, 2008

So much for Human Rights in Jordan!!!!

so today  i thought some talking about transportation to and fro the Hashemite University in Jordan is due. i am a student at the Hashemite University and i think the whole situation just sucks big time. Whether it's the educational situation or the communing one. i don't think the educational system is reparable, at least not on the hort-run that is. so i chose not to even go there. (many) professors are ineffecient, need some academic assistance.need psychiatric counceling at that too! but anyways, i shall return to the bus situation hanging over all of the students heads over here. the problem begins actually far before arriving at Raghadan or leaving the University but i'll start at Raghadan. whereas in most (under)developed and developing countries people stand in a line to get on the bus, we don't! we just stand there and wait for a bus to be (mis)directed in our direction so we can hunt it and get in. a lot (of guys) end up climbing into the bus through the windows rather than the traditional way, the DOOR. some end up trying to pull themselves from underneath the bus's wheels just in time for them to get crunched against the rail inside of which we are supposed to have stood in line in the first place. as we struggle and, literally, beat each other to get into teh freaking bus, the conductor (or the "control" as we call him in Arabish), counts us just like cattle until we are 60 heads in the bus and closes the door of the bus regardless of the limbs and heads sticking in or out of the door. we spend the 40 minutes it takes the speedy, smoking, flirtatious, cheasy, repulsive driver to get us to our destination checking our bodies for bruises and cuts and torn shirts, and of course trying to hold on to something and not end up plastered against the wind sheild while doing that. it's a daily journey of survival and humiliation. some girls even break down while trying to get into the bus among the waves of human bodies and start yelling and crying. not to menion that this (dis)order, observed and even preserved by the police officers usually on duty in Raghadan, is a violation and infringement of the basic human rights in more ways than i care to count and most of all of the "dignity" of humans, coupled with the tyranical and authoritarian educational system and practices at the school itself, this situation start chipping at the students' sense of dignity and humanity and empathy since freshman year. Hashemite University seniors graduate with ZERO sense of humanity and intellect which seems a little bit paradoxical to me considering that the purpose of the education is to produce better generations of  citizens. I'm just SOOOOO mad at the situation and the official disregard of it. it shows the official contempt of our generation and intellect. uuuuffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

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