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New building for MS varsity opened

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The Speaker, K. Kalimuthu, speaking after declaring open the Si. Pa. Aditanar Centenary Building on the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University premises at Abhishekapatti near Tirunelveli on Monday. — Photo: A. Shaikmohideen.

TIRUNELVELI, NOV.15. The Speaker, K. Kalimuthu, today declared open the Si. Pa. Aditanar Centenary Building, constructed with an area of over 15,000 square feet on an outlay of Rs.1.25 crores, on the premises of the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University at Abhishekapatti near here to house the Departments for Management Studies and Criminology and Criminal Justice.

The Director of the Daily Thanthi and Chairman of Aditanar Educational Institutions, B. Sivanthi Adityan, donated the building with a state-of-the-art air-conditioned conference hall, as part of the year-long birth centenary celebrations of his father, which commenced on September 27.

The conference hall will be the venue for the First International and Fifth Biennial Conference of Indian Society of Victimology to be held from November 18 to 20 with the main theme: `Restorative Justice: A Stride towards Victim Justice System'.

Lauding the efforts of Si. Pa. Aditanar, who founded the Daily Thanthi and ran the newspaper amidst financial constraints in its early days, Mr. Kalimuthu recalled his contribution to the anti-Hindi agitation and his solitary confinement in the Coimbatore prison.

"Mr. Aditanar was the man, who introduced the system of reading `Thirukkural' in the Tamil Nadu Assembly when he was the Speaker," Dr. Kalimuthu said.

Mr. Sivanthi Adityan, in his felicitation, said his father started a college of arts and science at Tiruchendur in 1965 with the sole objective of providing quality education to the less privileged rural population, as they could not afford to move to the metros or even to the nearby towns for higher education.

Now this college has got her sisters concerns — College of Education, College of Physical Education, College for Women and College of Engineering — all started after Mr. Sivanthi Adityan took over the administration from his father.

Mr. Sivanthi Adityan thanked the university administration for having given him an opportunity to donate a `landmark structure' on the university campus in the name of his father.

The Vice-Chancellor, K. Chockalingam, said the university administration was taking all-out efforts to rope in a management expert, now in Chennai, to the Department of Management Studies so that its standard would be taken to greater heights.

"We have also successfully persuaded Prof. Irwin Waller of Department Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada, who is presently advisor to more than 100 governments across the globe, to work in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, MSU, in February 2005 to give an exposure of international standards in the subject to the faculty as well as the students," Dr. Chockalingam said.

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