54 SOCIAL SOIBNTIST submitted his doctoral thesis on China's forei^i policy with reference to national liberation struggles. This thesis was approved by his examiners but in the'viva voce conducted among others by a Joint Secretary of the Mimatry of External Affairs, Para-njpe, it was rejected on the latter's insistence. The students' union and the student members the academic council issued a statement detailing the irregufar procedure involved in the rejection and the Committee of Advanced Studies and Research of the School finally approved the awarding of the doctorate. 1 * The SFI unit in JNU has prepared a full paper on this school but for reasons of space it cannot be utilized in this article. 1 • The University at present is interested in subjects like 'pollution* and the environment, which are the concern of advanced capitalist countries. By cpncentratinH on these areas, the university hopes to get sufficient fbreign money to sustain it» programmes. l 19 For typical press reports and commentaries, see Economic Times, 3 May 1975: "JNU Sectarian Radicalism"; Hindustan Times, 5 May 1975: "JNU Doomed t»y Blitc Radicalism'*; Economic and Political Weekly, 26 April 1975: "Tawaharlal Nehru University: Bread, Butter, and Jam Stir". See also Link, 20 April 19^5 for article supporting the vice-chancellor. Patriot, dated 11 April reported that "a group of extremists have taken control of JNU campus in south Delhi and removed certain documents from the office of the vice-chancellor... for political blackmail'^. The report was subsequently denied both by the registrar and thejvice*chancellor in the,press. 17 See Current first issue of May 1975 for a particularly slanderous report that st-udents are carriers of drugs and indulge in sexual orgies! 31 In 1974 the students anct karamcharis of JNU participated in the two bandhs called in May by the trade unions, the second one in support of striking railway workers. The university was closed by decision of the general bodies of students and karamcharis* Moreover over Rs 500 was collected by the students in aid of the railway workers on the campus. Over Rs 1000 was contributed by the SFI unit in 1974 to working-class struggle apart from squad work in colonies and factories.