Rejoice students! Soon Malaysian campuses will be radicalized again just like the 1970s. Dr. Shafie Saleh, in his plea for a "second chance" to continue to run our universities, is announcing a radical change effort. A paradigm shift in our universities. A legacy of his possible one-year tenure. A good long-term effort towards replacing our increasingly rude and problematic members of Parliament who do not represent the general intelligence of their constituencies.

Rejoice students! - Just the right time when Suaram is organising an online petition against student witch-hunt; a petition I gladly signed (#53) with a call for a "million signature march" to end all forms of totalitarianism in our public universities. . I agree with my fellow columnist Lee Ban Chen that we need to stop the "efforts towards the 'bongsai-isation' of our students". One should read his column for a good chronology of abuses on the rights of the students.

Rejoice students! - This is a good idea, for many reasons I will elaborate. I want to also suggest a variety of topics for speakers and students to explore and ways the University authorities can encourage freedom of expression. I think my suggestions will not only help our university students become very good public speakers but also speed up the ministry's desire to see that our students will become "critical thinkers" and "good public speakers" as well.