WILL NEW INTERIM SRC PRESIDENT AHENG LEAD UPNG STUDENTS FIGHT AGAINST GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION?
By PNGBLOGS Staff Writers A person can have a PhD yet remain childishly immature and lacking in wisdom. A high level university administrator can have education, wealth and status, but lack personal integrity. All this is becoming selfevident through the continuing saga of former UPNG SRC president Bobby Yupi. Last week, Yupi was lead actor in a self-created primitive action movie we might entitle “Return To The Stone Age”. The event was witnessed by thousands as Bobby led a group of knife and gun wielding wantoks to attack peaceful, unarmed students attending a UPNG forum. What Bobby Yupi did was beyond reprehensible. It was criminal. It was also the kind of event that outsiders love pointing to as evidence that PNG is a perpetually uncivilised nation. Yupi’s actions did immense damage to UPNG’s reputations and that of the students. What on earth inspired UPNG students to elect as their SRC president an individual with such obvious character flaws and ca