Concert at Sharif University
Apr 8th, 2010 by pedestrian
… wasn’t this pretty.
The Music Club at Sharif University held their annual concert in the days leading to the Iranian New Year – mid March. This concert was held with complete approval from authorities, and near the end, the students read a poem dedicated to their friends and classmates who are currently in prison.
… They opened the doors to the club’s office after the new year holidays to find their office in shambles, and all their instruments broken.
Knowing how underfunded university clubs are in Iran, seeing these instruments like this is even more heartbreaking.
Now, I have a question: I didn’t go to Sharif University – although I have many friends who did – and I myself did go to a public university in Iran. We had so called “Basij” groups, dedicated followers of the “Agha” (supreme leader) and strongly anti-reformist, anti-change. But these kids, for all their weird (to me) political opinions, would never, EVER touch or abuse anyone. They were good kids, nice, young, innocent … like most other 18, 19, 20 year olds. So I can’t help but wonder who is really responsible for this …
I look forward to hearing the first liberated notes the musicians who once played these instruments will sound when Iran is free. <3
The German Iran-blog “Julia’s blog” informs (in German translation) about support for an Iranian female student activist, Bahareh Hedayat, by the European Students’ Union: she has been nominated for the 2010 Student Peace Prize.
Julia’s Blog – URL:
http://englishtogerman.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/iranische-aktivisten-fur-studentischen-friedenspreis-nominiert/
English original report (radio zamaneh) – URL:
http://www.zamaaneh.com/enzam/2010/04/iranian-student-activits.html
I am writing this while traveling on the bus from one city to another (this company had wifi in the bus! pretty cool!) I went to sharif and i have then been in many other universites (6?!?) but I alway remember my shairf time with pleasure, the atmosphere was great (scientific and otherwise). I had a basiji freidn who was running for their office there and I was joking with thim he should get t-shirts with his pic on them and get girls wear them around the uni… he found that funny!.. he fitted into the typical basiji’s sterotype look… it was a surpirse when couple of years later I heard he got a scholarship from the university of Nevada at Las vegas.. from all the places!!
Maria … amen to that!
Publicola … thanks for the info! I hope she is released soon. Awards like this are really useful for getting university admissions, which I think probably 90% of prisoners will want once they are out!
lol roozbeh … I’ve heard of incidents like that too!
But was he the kind of guy who would break into an office and break things? the basijis I met never were.