As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, MMU has broken quite a few records in the Malaysia Book of Records as well as the Guinness Book of World Records. Some of the latest ones are:
While some students think it’s a ‘university pride’, ‘healthy normal activity’, or simply none of their business,
a group of students are openly criticising and strongly protesting against, what they call: “the breaking meaningless records frenzy”. Click here for their website.
(Added on April 19th: Click here for an article about them on the Chinese Newspaper Sin Chew Daily.)
Since the formation of the group, numerous posters, flyers, and even banners were pasted and hung all over the campus, including toilets, public tables and tutorial room whiteboards!
Banners are even found in places far from campus!
- hand-drawn banner beside the road.
According to the group, the huge amount of money spent on ‘breaking records’ is nothing but cash shoved down the rubbish bin; and the records broken are merely, quote: “records that can be easily achieved by just throwing in money”.
The website also said that the RM24,000 used to break the world’s longest kebab record could have used to aid people in under-developed countries, followed by showing pitiful videos and images of starving children in Africa.
The group’s actions has no doubt created fierce controversy on whether or not the records created by our university is justified. Students are beginning to think and debate whether records with the tens-of-thousands of Ringgits per unit price tag is really necessary.
Well, in my humble opinion, achieving records is a good means of promoting university publicity, improving students’ understanding and experience towards the subject of the record being made, as well as inducing a sense of love and pride in students toward our university.
However, care has to be taken by the organizer to prevent ‘a bad investment’ – more money/effort spent than equivalent reputation/experience etc. gained!
Records are very meaningful when they prove how strong we are in terms of effort, determination, and speciality; not in terms of finances. I hope and am quite sure MMU will have more records that display the former coming up in the future =)
I’m not sure if any of our existing MMU records are ‘bad investments’, for all I know the records might have heavily benefitted us in ways that were not significantly displayed to our eyes. Well, who knows?
Why not try something like having the ‘largest campus in Malaysia’ or ’smartest student on Earth’ record, or something like that? =)
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