bouncers on campus

Bouncers are usually seen in discotheques and protecting celebrities, but there is a more enlightening market opening up for them. Educational institutes are increasingly employing bouncers to sanitize campuses.

To discipline students, St Mary's College, Deshmukhi, allegedly deployed 'bouncers' on its campus, but the strongmen took their job too seriously and assaulted a diploma student for talking to a girl student on Thursday.

Under attack for deployment of bouncers at FTII, institute director Prashant Pathrabe today justified the decision saying it was taken in view of the "insecure atmosphere" on the campus after the students confined him to the cabin but its acting dean resented the step holding it gave the institute the "look of a military camp".

Vice-chancellor Adesh Pal who has hired four bouncers and four armed guards over and above the official security provided to him by the GU reportedly told the NSUI leaders that the bouncers will not be removed.

January is spelled as fun for Nashik collegians. Reason is simple; it’s that time of year when all the colleges celebrate theme-based days and annual gatherings.However, from past few years, celebratory mood of such events is marred by violent incidences.

Stung by last week's protest on its campus, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (BAMU) has hired tough looking men as special security to keep a check on trouble makers.

A dangerous trend of the powerful and moneyed hiring bouncers from Punjab to intimidate rivals is emerging in Himachal Pradesh.

The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) administration engaged the services of four bouncers on Wednesday, minutes before the institute's director Prashant Pathrabe held a press conference where he said he was "mentally tortured".

The zilla parishad will soon send notifications to all schools in the district against the practice of employing “bouncers”.

The Indian Science Congress returns to Karnataka after 12 years -and Mysuru after 33 years -on Sunday. The last time Karnataka hosted the ISC was in 2003, when it was held in Bengaluru. tnn

Tough seems to be the way M S University (MSU) wants to handle any trouble on the campus during the student union polls.

The school principal and management of Kline Memorial School in Bibvewadi on Wednesday said that the parents who had entered the school campus and argued with the lady administrator and security guard had not paid the school fees for three years and the bouncers were appointed on the school

Newly appointed vice-chancellor (VC) of Gujarat University (GU) Adesh Pal has surpassed all former VCs in beefing up personal security.