‘Dope tests’ for candidates, fears of ‘bullying’ fuel concern ahead of RUCSU polls

Arifuzzaman Korban, Rajshahi University Correspondent In 2019, two students died of alcohol poisoning at Rajshahi University’s residential halls. One of them was from the Department of Law, the other from the Department of Economics. In the 2020-21 academic year, a woman from a middle-class family was admitted to a respectable department at the university. She finished her first year as one of the top five students in the department. She then became involved in drugs and fell behind by a year. Now a fourth-year student, she has yet to fully recover from her ordeal. A case was filed against a student from the 2016-17 academic year after he was caught with drugs. He was eventually forced to leave the campus...