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5.3.5. How does College involve and encourage students to publish materials like
catalogues, wall magazines, and other material? List the major publications
/materials brought out by the students during the previous academic session.

 College‘s annual magazine Blue and White is brought out every year in collaboration
between student editors and faculty editors.
 The postgraduate students of the Communications Department bring out a one-page
daily newspaper titled The Beacon and a magazine titled Communique.
 UG and PG students have volunteered to run a wall magazine aimed at popularizing
better English usage.
 The Inter-Religious Harmony Movement has run a regular wall magazine
comprising readings from various faiths and the opinions of eminent thinkers since its
inception in 2015.
 Students of the BA-EJP course bring out a fortnightly lab journal that they run for
four issues during their second semester. They also bring out six issues of a weekly
newsmagazine titled Open Dosa during their third semester. They also run an online
web magazine titled www.opendosa.in. These ventures have been running steadily
since 2013.
 Students collaborate with the English Department in bringing out a literary magazine
titled Engster. This magazine is designed, edited and written entirely by students with
inputs from a faculty advisor. Two issues have been published so far.
 Students of the IV Semester General English course titled Consuming the City have
published blog journals documenting the discoveries they have made through
photography, audio-clips, and videos of life in Bangalore. This has been a regular
feature since 2013. BCA and BVC students run similar blog and Tumblr projects
focusing on Social Media, and their interaction with mass media and media technology
as part of their General English program.
All these publications are done by students with faculty as mentors and is as
mentioned in section 5.1.8.

5.3.6. Does College have a Student Council or any similar body? Give details on
its constitution, major activities, and funding.

 College has had a Students‘ Council constituted by direct election since 2011. The
Council is advised by a Governor nominated from among senior faculty by the
Principal. Elected posts in the Council include President, Vice President, Treasurer, a
Secretary and a Joint Secretary. Nominated posts include a Cultural Secretary, and a
Sports Secretary. Its major activities include organizing intra-class cultural and sports
events, organizing the intercollegiate cultural festival, Teachers' Day and other
important College events where students are the main participants.
 The Council Elections are held using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) provided
by BEL and the elections are conducted with norms in place for candidature, election
expenditure, and the tone of campaigning, in keeping with the ideals of preparing
students for life in a democracy.
 College allots a budget for the events that the Students‘ Council has to carry out, but
the Council is free to arrange for sponsorship from different corporate organizations
to fund its activities, albeit under supervision.
 Given in Table 5.15 below is a listing of the various departmental associations in
College.

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