Happy New Year!

          
From everyone at OAUPEEPS, we say a very big thank you to the entirety of the management and studentship of Obafemi Awolowo University OAU, Ile-Ife. Through thick and thin, good and bad, setback and success, we managed to stick together as intellectuals, as a school, and overall as a family.

   Despite the hiccups here and there, we are grateful for being able to pull through. 2019 could have been better, but we all hope and pray that 2020 would be the best.

 From the entire team of OAU peeps, we wish everyone a wonderful end to a year and the prosperous beginning of the new year.   

We wish everyone happy resumption in advance, and a wonderful year ahead

Signed 

Pelumi Hassan

Editor-In-Chief

"Payments Will Be Made for The Period of Stay..." DSA

By Emmanuel Dominic

The Division of Student Affairs as regards students who wish to stay in the Hall of Residence during the SIWES/Teaching Practice program state conditions governing the availability of accommodation.

 Firstly,  students who have been offered bed space will be allowed to stay in the Hostel

Secondly, payment will be made for the period of stay according to the regulation guiding staying back in the hostel

Then lastly, letter of undertaking to be written by each student on terms and conditions for stay

Note: This information is addressed to those running a holiday program (SIWES/TEACHING PRACTICE e.t.c)

OAU Students React To New Accommodation Policy

As a result of the special release by the Division of Students Affairs of Obafemi Awolowo University, several reactions have begun to circulate within the student's community of the institution. 

The notice emphasized that stallites will be denied accommodation on campus for this coming session 2019/2020 by not being legible for bedspace balloting which is against the habitual tradition of this great institution. 

The students, most of whom are away from the university campus for the festivities of the season, mostly complained about the new development.

Some students were of the notion that the decision taken by the DSA was harsh and would have negative effects on the academic, health or security of students.

"First, the landlords and agents in Ife would use this as an opportunity to extort the students. This is unfair!" A student who pleaded anonymity said.

A final year student in the Faculty of Arts, Oluchi, also contributed to the issue "I hope the news (about the bedspace) is not true? Where do they want to send us to ?"

Another student in the Faculty of Education, Happiness, said she can't believe the story and she hopes the school authority review the decision to be taken because many students would be immensely affected as they will be subjected to insecurity and housing problems.

A number of students, however, tried to reason with the decision claiming that it was more important for the freshmen to get accommodation on campus that returning students as they were still very much naive to the environment.

While many students remain hopeful, several continue to await further developments from the division on the state of accommodation on campus next session. 

"Stallites Should Note That There Is No Bedspace For Them On Campus..." -DSA

By Emmanuel Dominic

The special release by the Division of Student Affairs (DSA) on accommodation for students on Christmas eve addressed a sets of issues,  which featured -:

*  Students vacating the hostel

* SIWES Students seeking Accommodation,  and finally the brainbuster,

* Stalites not being able to ballot for hostels from the next session.

According to the release, the Division gave students till 31st of December 2019 to vacate the hostel, with their belongings,  as the loss of any property won't be accounted for by the DSA or School management.  

 The school recognized the need for students on SIWES, Teaching Practice and college of health sciences students who have legitimate academic/clinical reasons to stay behind. These set of students were instructed to go through their Head of Department or Deans for possible consideration. 

The last part and perhaps most interesting part of the release was that there shall be no bed space for stallites on campus henceforth, according to the release,

  "All stalites should note that there is no space for them on campus hence, there is no balloting of such for accommodation, for the coming session (2019/2020), as only freshers will be given consideration."

This would be the first time in recent years that this trend would be observed as both freshers and finalists used to be considered for the spaces in times past. Already reactions have begun to trail this release. While some believe it might be linked to the rumored reinstatement of the Students' Union, some others believe that the management might reconsider this stance later on. 

However, things seem on hold for now as most activities are now on hold till after the yuletide. 

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Editor, OAU Peeps News Agency

Larceny In The Moremi Hall Of Residence

By Emmanuel Dominic

Information reaching us at OAU Peeps news agency from a resident in Moremi hall of residence for female students, about a thief who has been reportedly breaking into their rooms,  stealing phones and other valuables.

There is unrest among the residents of Moremi hostel at the alarming rate of the reoccurring event. In an interview with a female resident, she explained that the thief who she revealed to be a guy broke into the hall around 4am this morning.

In her statement;

A girl saw him and shouted "thief" but he was not caught. He stole three phones at block G, room 305. When he was being chased he dropped two phones and went with one. And last two weeks too Wednesdays/Thursday morning too, they stole phones on G 208 too 8 phones in the middle of the night. So it's like it's same guy that came to do the job.

Residents believe that these thefts were done by the same person who they believe is a male student. We urge everyone living in Moremi hall of residence,  to be cautious and be more vigilant.

Election Pandemonium as Zachman Emerges As FSRC Speaker

The in-house election of the Faculty of Arts Students Representative Council was billed to start by 4:00pm. However, it didn't start until till about 9:00 pm as a result of pandemonium that ensued as a result of the credibility and the candidature of some English department honourable.

Two Honourables vied for the post of Speaker; Hon Hope from Religious studies and Hon  Zachman from English department.

At the end of the voting process, Zachman had 17 votes and Hope had 13 votes, in the process of counting, an overzealous person entered the election venue and another set of argument ensued until the school security was called in to restore normalcy the situation.