Portions for II CIA - I BSc Pbt/Zoo - Reg:

Dear Students,

The portions for the II CIA will be based on the entire text book - covering all the short stories, poems, essays and the play.

Regards,

Rufus

Assignment Marks - Reg:

Dear Students of I BSc Pbt/Zoo(Reg),

Your assignment marks have been displayed in our academic website HERE, today.

The cut off date for submission of Assignments is closed. No further submissions are entertained. For clarifications and/or corrections, kindly contact me directly or via email.

Regards,
Rufus

Internal Marks - Reg:

Dear students,

Your internal marks for your assignments will be displayed here, our academic blog by tomorrow. Also marks for Rhetoric are being updated. Kindly bear with me for the delay.

Regards,
Rufus

Assignment Marks - Reg:

Dear Students,

Your Assignment marks and

Lottery Scams - Beware...!

How to recognize lottery scams:

DO NOT reply to any emails you receive that claim you have won a lottery that you did not enter. They are frauds. You will lose your money. There is no "free lunch"; don't be foolish and believe a scam! We can not say it any more plainly: YOU WILL NOT BE NOTIFIED BY EMAIL BY ANY LEGITIMATE LOTTERY THAT YOU WON A PRIZE. If you do receive such an email, it IS a fraud, do not reply to it!

Email address ballot: There is no such thing as a "computer ballot system" or "computer email draw". No one, not even Microsoft has a database of email addresses of the type or magnitude they suggest.

Terrible spelling, punctuation, syntax and grammar - Scammers apparently don't know how to use spell checkers. We assume they dropped out of school before that class. They use almost random CapItaLiZAtion and often can't even spell "February" or know that "22th" ought to be "22nd". Real lotteries proofread their emails and use people who can write above the 3rd grade level.

Using free email account: The scammer is writing to you from a FREE email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite, AIM, Gmail, etc.). Don't you think a real organization would use its own email, its own domain and website?

Keep Confidential - Real lotteries THRIVE on publicity - they don't want you to keep anything secret - the publicity causes people to buy more tickets. there is NO risk of "double claiming" because they can validate where the ticket numbers were sold. The scammer want you to keep quiet because they don't want the police or ConsumerFraudreporting to hear about them!

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So, beware! Don't lose your money on scams!

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OSLE-INDIA Study Circle Meet at MCC...:

OSLE-India invites you to the 25th Study Circle

on 11th MARCH 2009 (Wednesday) at 05: 00 p.m

at Selaiyur Hall (Guest Room), Madras Christian College.

Mr. Hopeland Ponniah speaks on "The World of Snakes"

Note: The talk will feature two live specimens of snake, Coelognathus helena (local name - Micro paambu, Trinket snake) and Ptyas mucosus (local name - Sarai paambu, rat snake). Along with the demonstration of the specimens, there will be slides of the work done by Mr. Ponniah over the years. Mr. Hopeland will talk about snakes and also clear misconceptions associated with snakes and their lives. In addition to Mr. Hopeland's talk, there will be a poetry reading session and a small skit (with the snake as a theme) by the post graduate students, Dept. of English, Loyola College, Chennai.

About the Speaker: Hopeland Ponniah is a second year undergraduate student from the Department of Zoology, Madras Christian College, Chennai. He started as someone who was an animal lover with pets that were just randomly anything, then birds in general, then identifying them and then came snakes. However he is a conservationist more than an animal lover today.

Free Communication Skills Course in Campus:

Dear Students,

A free bridge course on Communication skills is offered exclusively for my students (both at the Part II and the Major level), in two sessions, from 12:30 - 2.30 pm.

I Session - 12:30 - 1.30 pm

II Session - 1.30 - 2.30 pm

Students, who encounter difficulties in spoken and written communication, may join the classes, which will be held on all working days ( Monday through Saturday).

Students are expected to bring along the day's Newspaper (preferably The Hindu or The Times of India).

Audio sessions and work-out sheets will be provided to enhance the learning experience.

Regards,

Rufus

II BA English - Oratory Marks:

Marks for the Spoken Rhetoric (Oratory) as part of the Internal Assessment:

1. Lakshmi Narayan - 75
2. Ajit Daniel - 90
3. Riyukta - 71
4. Ankita - 70
5. Ajit Joseph - 63
6. Priya - 75
7. Roshan - 75

PS: Students are expected to submit a write-up of their oratory, for documentation purposes. The write-up carries fifteen marks.
Regards,
Rufus

Our Rhetoricians and their Oratory - Excerpts

Ankita Harihar, II BA English, spoke on the topic: "Boarding Schools: Do you think they teach children to live together?" 

Excerpts from her speech:

Boarding school is not every child’s dream. It is true that a child learns a lot – to be both independent and social, but it isn’t just these two which mould a person. Even though they are groomed into individuals, their relationship with the outside world, especially with their parents does decline. When denied of parental love and affection it is quite possible to get depressed, feel insecure and grow with less self-confidence – these can even turn a person violent because true love and understanding during tender years of growth have not been showered on them.

Children in boarding schools miss out on a healthy life with their own kith and kin. They may even feel like ‘a fish out of water’ during family get-togethers because they hardly get to mingle with their own people. On the other hand, they may relate very well to each other and teachers in the school. So, unless the family ties are strong, one doesn’t grow into a healthy individual. Restricted holidays keeps them away from celebrations and festivals. This creates a vacuum in their relationship with their families which is a cause for concern but ultimately their experiences of being independent drives them to leave the primary family at a very early age. They tend to fall into bad company and pick up bad habits which are hard to give up – this grows out of insecurity. 

On the contrary, for children coming from broken homes and families, boarding schools help them find a place conducive for learning, thus providing security and saving them from mental trauma they would have to undergo if they were to stay at home in an uncongenial atmosphere.

I don’t know how many of you have or have not watched Taare Zameen Par, a part of the movie (where he is sent to boarding school) highlights EXACTLY what a child feels like  away from home. The insecurity, cravings for familial love and affection is at its peak. People should wake up to the fact that children will be children only “once” – they have to make full use of it by showering love and affection on them and of course be strict when need be.

I personally know of a person who was sent to boarding school when he was young and went through terrible times as he felt out of place. He was nearly ten and at that age used to send postcards to his parents with a small stick diagram of himself immersed in neck-deep water – meaning to say that he was drowning and didn’t like the atmosphere. This is the effect it has on most children.

I would like to end with two very valid points, which will be approved of by anyone and everyone; these are entirely true – “Life is relationship” and whatever said and done “Blood is thicker than water...”