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SAVE TEGHUT FORUM POSTPONED
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society26331.html
Published: 12:43:02 - 26/05/2012
Saturday, May 26, Save Teghut Initiative would organize a student
forum entitled "Teghut, Mine or Life" at the American University of
Armenia. The purpose was to raise awareness of the disastrous plan
to exploit the mines under Teghut forest.
Agreement had been reached with the student board to hold the event in
Manoogian Hall free of charge. However, learning about the event two
days before the day, the management asked the student board not to
invite the media. However, the event was public so the journalists
could not be turned out. The day before the event the management
of AUA disregarded the student board and offered the initiative to
sign a rent contract to use their hall. At the close of business
the university management informed that it refused to let the hall
for Teghut forest because the relevant operational procedure was
violated besides the AUA policy is not to discuss political issues
in the university. Instead, the university management offered to rent
space at the AUA Business Center.
Save Teghut Civic Initiative thus asks the following questions:
Are the statements of some institutions and organizations on
development of a civil society pretence?
Where is the place where presumably the civil society can be developed?
How can the civil and political domains be separated to avoid their
arbitrary manipulations?
Do students have freedoms in Armenia, who are the universities for?
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society26331.html
Published: 12:43:02 - 26/05/2012
Saturday, May 26, Save Teghut Initiative would organize a student
forum entitled "Teghut, Mine or Life" at the American University of
Armenia. The purpose was to raise awareness of the disastrous plan
to exploit the mines under Teghut forest.
Agreement had been reached with the student board to hold the event in
Manoogian Hall free of charge. However, learning about the event two
days before the day, the management asked the student board not to
invite the media. However, the event was public so the journalists
could not be turned out. The day before the event the management
of AUA disregarded the student board and offered the initiative to
sign a rent contract to use their hall. At the close of business
the university management informed that it refused to let the hall
for Teghut forest because the relevant operational procedure was
violated besides the AUA policy is not to discuss political issues
in the university. Instead, the university management offered to rent
space at the AUA Business Center.
Save Teghut Civic Initiative thus asks the following questions:
Are the statements of some institutions and organizations on
development of a civil society pretence?
Where is the place where presumably the civil society can be developed?
How can the civil and political domains be separated to avoid their
arbitrary manipulations?
Do students have freedoms in Armenia, who are the universities for?