NOTES 51 right kind of students, particularly from the distant parts of the country and from weaker sections of the community". So a way was found out m the current academic year. The Vice Chancellor sent out a circular to the Heads of Centres asking them to strictly restrict admissions to the number of scholarships available for M Phil and Ph D. This is the same old reactionary method of curtailing students for higher education on the ground of bogus academic quality. Only Futile What emerges from the above report on JNU is that it is futile to build a "model institution" in isolation from the existing realities of our educational and social framework. All the professed aims set out for JNU have so far totally failed in implementation. The University is being used as a progressive facade, an attempt to patchwork the rotten educational system that this country is burdened with. As such in reality, JNU is fast on the road to becoming a parasitical leech on our scarce resources fpr higher education. V C KOSHY