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| BCL, Shibir clash at Sylhet college |
| 2010-02-19 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] At least 25 people were injured yesterday as Chhatra League activists clashed with Islami Chhatra Shibir men at the Sylhet Government College in Tilagarh over establishing supremacy on the campus. Ah, can you imagine the stories at the reunion. Good times. Good times... Of the injured, 20 are Shibir men while the rest are BCL activists. Looks like a decisive win for the boys of the BCL... The college authority suspended academic activities till March 10. You're finished at Sylhet Government College! I want you off campus by nine o'clock Monday morning! BCL men vandalised 25 rooms of the Shibir men at a student dormitory and set those on fire. Now they're on double-secret probation ... On information, fire fighters rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control. Yeah, that's...what they do. BCL activists staged protest at about 11:30am after the name of college unit Shibir general secretary was announced for delivering speech at the annual sports function on the college playground. And when they chant "Beat Shibir!", they mean "Beat Shibir!"... At one stage they swooped on the Shibir men there. Members of both the student organisations got involved in chase and counter chase on the playground for about an hour. Hmmmmm...sounds like "West Side Story". I wonder if they sing? The BCL men later chased the Shibir men to a nearby student dormitory, where Shibir activists pelted them with brickbats from the roof. What the hell's a "brickbat"? I'm serious... The BCL activists drove the Shibir men out of the dormitory. They vandalised 25 rooms of the Shibir men and set those on fire. The annual sports function was suspended following the incident. Game over, boys! Game over! Fire service officials said valuables worth about Tk 2 lakh were gutted in the flame. And the fire station has a brand new TV set... Of the injured, college unit Shibir president Yasin Khan and general secretary Nazrul Islam were admitted to a private hospital. It hurts when I do...this, doc. So don't do that. Policemen had been deployed on the campus to avert any untoward incident. You're a little late, boys... |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 It's all fun and games til someone loses an eye |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-02-19 17:10 |
| #1 From www.thefreedictionary.com website: brick·bat (brkbt) n. 1. A piece, especially of brick, used as a weapon or missile. 2. An unfavorable remark; a criticism. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [brick + bat, piece of brick.] Word History: The earliest sense of brickbat, first recorded in 1563, was "a piece of brick." Such pieces of brick have not infrequently been thrown at others in the hope of injuring them; hence, the figurative brickbats (first recorded in 1929) that critics hurl at performances they dislike. The appearance of bat as the second part of this compound is explained by the fact that the word bat, "war club, cudgel," developed in Middle English the sense "chunk, clod, wad," and in the 16th century came to be used specifically for a piece of brick that was unbroken on one end. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2010-02-19 00:10 |