I found your articles on the elections for student councils in universities around the country very illuminating.

It seems obvious to me that the groups that are called the "opposition groups" stand for fair-play, transparency and accountability and are battling against an administration that is bent on keeping them out. While the ones who seem to be called "pro-government" have the support of the university administration and resort to cronyism, nepotism, cheating and phantom voters.

The university is clearly preparing its students for the outside world where all of the above mentioned negative elements are part of the election process, as was revealed in a recent judgment in a Sabah court. I am so glad our universities are teaching our future leaders so well and instilling in them values that they can emulate when they leave the hallowed halls of our institutions of higher learning.

Finally, I was wondering if lowering the grade point average criterion for election from 3.0 to 2.5 on nomination day at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, thus allowing seven allegedly "pro-government" students to get elected, demonstrates consistency with the ethos in the current government that a lower intellectual ability is not a barrier for leadership.