This is mainly about the office culture, especially their response to the students. Even as today, the office is manned, next the author(from the last article) uses sarcasm, to describe their work.

He says that the office is manned by a truly organized and efficient staff, further he adds to their indiscipline, he says they follow the time of some other part of the world. No doubts why general public hates Government offices.

“If someone needs to visit the office, the author calls him/her “unfortunate”, because if you reach the office regarding your any personal or academic work, you will firstly encounter a sleepy looking clerk who will tell you, “Nale Banni” (Come tomorrow) even before he has heard your plea.”

This was the unfortunate experiences of that time in the late 70s. Imagine you’ve come to the college leaving your village/city far away some 500-1000kms, here you got some academic paper requirement, you go to the office with a light of hope and before you tell something at the office, you hear, ”Nale Banni”.

Author then takes to the academic side of the late 70s. Even then, our college was under rated like of today. The staff seemed to get sadistic pleasure gambling with the students’ marks. He also mentions an important highlight, He says, the class marks are in abundance at the new campus and the main block(Current college place), and the marks are in dire shortage across the road(Mech block).

Then he explains the different branches of that time:

Civil: The Civil cousins taking the initiative and setting up their shops at Kengeri.
Electrical: The Electrical had loosened up their machinery, hence they were warned before they entered their labs.
Electronics: He says that it’s better not to mention about them.
Mechanical: The Mechs having always been the black sheep of the family have stayed away across the river of the traffic(Mech block).
Architecture: Coming to the “infant Arch Department” he says that it would have been better if there had been an abortion.

At that exams were once a 6 months, unlike 3 months of now, He describes it as the “exam mania”. This resulted in an increase of campus violence and created immense tensions in the staff room. During this period, the staff members tended to move around in gangs with bad memories of canine and murderous instincts displayed by the “future enginreers”.

There was very powerful union, association of the students, which even made the staff scared and made them to move in the gangs. This was about the college life of that time. The worst and the best parts. Whatever maybe the comparison, U.V.C.E. was, is, and will stand tall forever.

This article is being written with the reference of an article written in the college magazine of 1975.