I'm a second year student studying in Universiti Putra Malaysia and I've been very upset by the administration since the beginning of this semester when they installed new regulations that are unnecessary and ridiculous for an institute of higher learning.

Firstly, they installed a new dress code system that ban jeans or denim from the campus - an item essential to every students' wardrobe. Open shoes, including female sandals, are prohibited based on a really silly reason: the toes creates sexual desire among men.

What is this supposed to imply? That men are like animals? That they cannot control their sexual drive?

The administration enforces such regulation through routine 'spot check' on students. Anyone caught with non-regulation wear will be kick out of class for the whole day.

Not only will this disrupt the student's studies (over minute mistakes), it also implies that our administration are managed by people with the mentality that undergraduates are still (teenage) high school students.

One student even received a fine totalling RM100 for four counts of dress code "mistakes".

Besides, this regulation vary among different location/faculties on campus, depending on the interests of the administration in charge.

It is sad to have an institution of higher learning that is more interested in 'catching' students committing dress-code mistakes, than fulfilling its original objective of providing a conducive and intellectual atmosphere for higher education.

I would also like to comment on the professionalism of the administration staff. It has been a norm for students to spend hours in the administration building just to get a simple job done.

Usually the delay is more than always caused by the 'tidak apa ' culture practiced by staff there, which I think most people would find familiar with government workers.

I experienced this myself when I went in to photocopy some papers, which took me one and a half hours just to make one single photocopy!

It turns out that the one of the person (bureaucracy) I had to see before using the photocopying machine went out for morning tea (at 10am), making me wait that whole one and a half hours.

Firstly, I don't think I have heard of a 'morning tea break' during office hours. Secondly, while I was waiting, I noticed that almost all the techno-savvy computers allocated for the staff were abused!

Not only were the staff not doing their jobs, they were using the computer to play games - 'Solitaire' seems to be the popular game among staff. I find it sad that our (the citizens') income tax are used to buy computers for the staff to play games.

Finally, I would like to look into the university's accounts because I think money has been used unfairly.

Along the roads of UPM, one can see many sights of 'beautification' works in progress such as: road signs, building signs, and most of all, a massive unidentified monument being built at one of the campus entrances.

Sometimes, I just feel like going up to the administration building and shout: "What do you guys think you're doing?!"