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MMU likes outsiders more than students
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I refer to the letter Conditions at MMU terrible . I, too, have been a student at MMU Cyberjaya for three years, and I fully agree with what the writer has said.

The hostel is in deplorable condition. Other than its seemingly refreshing blue-coloured roof, water is always leaking into the hostel and when it rains heavily, the ground floor and staircases are flooded.

I, myself, fell down the stairs and broke my arm few years ago due to the slippery staircase as a result of a downpour.

And I just cannot understand why MMU, as a university, cannot provide more parking spaces for its students. If they do not allow students to park along the roadside whenever the parking bays are full, just where do they expect them to park?

However, on Fridays afternoons, you can park your car anywhere in the university without it being clamped. This is because there's a surau in MMU which anyone from outside can use to perform their prayers.

To be fair, no one objects to the use of MMU's surau by outsiders, but shouldn't outsiders park their cars outside the campus so that they do not take up parking spaces allotted to the students? The opposite seems to happen with outsiders allowed to park just about anywhere but students being fined if they park by the roadside.

If priorities and special treatment are to be given to outsiders rather than to its own students (even if it's merely once a week), then I suggest MMU be closed to students on Fridays.

We have complained of this to the university's administration and they agreed to 'look into this matter'. I'm extremely disappointed and fed-up with the way MMU treats its students.


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