Note to BITSGians

1. Please share your opinions on this petition even if you don't agree with what we propose

2. As responsible students and alumnus, please restrict the discussion and sharing to BITS groups only

3. Let's not involve members of Batch 2015. Let's keep their day 1 memorable for non controversial reasons

Respected Sir,

We the students of BITS Goa consider each other a part of our family and the campus as an important piece of our lives.

We may have now become seniors or graduated but we know this place inside out. We know how it has contributed to our success and what are the most integral parts of the on campus culture.

We gather today to ask you to reverse the sudden decision taken by administration (Chief Warden and Associate Dean SWD without keeping current Council in loop) to allot rooms to the incoming Batch of 2015 on the basis of streams.

Till earlier years, the room allotment was random or on first come first serve basis.

This meant my neighbour could be a Mechanical Engineer interested in designing cars, a Computer Science student who could code the best sites, a physics enthusiast exploring how space could be the next big thing next century, a bio student working on DNA applications etc etc.

Imagine how the diversity of the neighbours could prepare me for the future where I would collaborate with a wide range of people with wide range of visions, opinions and mentality.

Whenever, we need to discuss things of our own stream we do meet our stream colleagues at class or after hours. It is not that we are far away.

Even if such a decision was taken, we would request for atleast a student feedback to be conducted and our Council to be kept in loop.

It's not necessary that anything which works in Pilani/Hyderabad works at Goa campus and vice versa.

We would request you to kindly overturn this decision and put a stay on this and only act on this after considerable and unanimous discussion between students and institute.