HOW SCIENCE STUDENTS DEALT WITH US ARTS STUDENTS

THE AGONY OF LIVING WITH A SCIENCE STUDENT

The fight for moral supremacy between Arts and Science students is nothing new. It has characterized different generations of students. When we were in secondary school, the dispute raged.

However, things came to a head when I was in High School (CCAST Bambili). At the time, CCAST had only a second cycle: the Lower 6^th and the Upper 6^th. In the first year, I was in Independence Hall, in Room B8 to be precise. In the second year, I was in Reunification Hall, Room A2.

It was while I was in Independence Hall that the struggle between the science and the arts students surfaced most. In our Room, we were four, two of whom were science students and two arts students. The science students were Enow Mathias Tambe and Tangie Christopher Chwingum. I was arts; so was Ndambi Isaac (later Dr. Ndambi Isaac of the University of Buea but today of blessed memory). 

As non-science students, Ndambi and I suffered greatly at the hands of the science students: Tangie and Tambe. They had an irresistible urge to solve maths problems and balance chemical equations on any book or paper that happened to be around. 

So usually, Ndambi and I returned to the room to find that the science students had solved problems in our text books, in exercise books, in our note books and even on our umbrellas and private documents. I am sure that if our birth certificates and National Identity cards were nearby, they would also have used them. We therefore learned from experience that we must at all times keep all our paperwork out of their reach.

Have you ever been a victim of such and act or have you inflicted it on anyone. If not, do you know anyone who has been involved in it?