Khaberni - In a university morning that was supposed to overflow with life, seriousness, and diligence, the campus transformed into a battleground of collision, raised voices, and lack of awareness, posing again the most painful and urgent question: How did the space of knowledge turn into a field of rivalry and conflict? Why do these scenes repeat as if they are a perpetual season and a course that is never cancelled from our university schedule?
Universities were not created to be choked in the corners of brawls, but to rise with awareness and to graduate thought and renaissance. They are institutions supposed to be beacons of the mind, factories of values, and seasons where genuine citizenship and honorable belonging flourish. They are the cradles of the future, and mirrors of the nation that reflect its bright civilized face. When smoke infiltrates these mirrors, it not only obscures the features of the university but also clouds the image of the entire state.
The absence of strict deterrence is the door through which chaos enters in the guise of justification, and the silence that gives violence a chance to speak. When clear penalties are absent, the application of the law slackens, and discipline is replaced by pandering, the exception becomes the norm, and the university's prestige recedes before the power of narrow affiliations. Deterrence is not cruelty, but justice that preserves prestige, restores meaning, and instills in every student the feeling that the law knows no favoritism, and justice is not emptied of its content under the weight of interventions or fear of reaction.
Decision makers must realize that quenching the flame of violence is not achieved by declarations, but by creating a new awareness from within the classrooms. Instead of being content with teaching rigid courses, we should teach mandatory courses in awareness, behavior, and true belonging, instilling the value of discipline and respect for the law, and fostering in them a spirit of national responsibility and belonging to the soil of the nation and its institutions. Knowledge is not complete unless it resides in a disciplined mind and a committed conscience.
The recurrence of student brawls in university grounds, as if they are an unmissable and constant season, is evidence of a deep flaw in the collective awareness, and a culture that has yet to revise its tools of expression. When dialogue is replaced by the fist, and differences by shouting, we manually forge an environment that re-produces the same scene every new academic term. These are not mere passing brawls, but a mirror that shows the size of the educational void we overlook.
As for tribalism, it is not a curse as some depict it, but a value that if positively employed, can be an arm for building not destruction. A tribe that raises its members on nobility, gallantry, and generosity, is capable of also instilling in them love for the country and respect for the law, and being a partner in preserving societal peace, not a cover for those who tamper with it. We need to transform tribalism from an umbrella of wrongful protection into a lighthouse of proper example and commitment.
Belonging to the nation is not measured by slogans, but by action and commitment. True belonging is respecting the institutions of your country, preserving your university edifice, and believing that every stone in the university campus is a part of your dignity and identity. And university administrations must realize that instilling this belonging is an educational responsibility just as significant as any academic curriculum.
Because justice is not built on selectivity, it is essential to neutralize any intervention that empties punishments of their content, and to activate accountability systems to include everyone without discrimination. There is no place for politeness or pandering in maintaining national awareness, as leniency in applying punishments opens the door to a culture of escaping responsibility, and demolishes the prestige of law upon which the state stands.
As for university admission, it must regain its luster based on competitiveness and transparency. The doors of the university must be opened to those who hold the key to merit, not to those who knock on it by name or through connections. Excellence alone is the criterion for acceptance and retention because a university that is fair to the distinguished builds a just nation, while one that rewards the exception will graduate a generation adept in demanding rather than in innovating.
Today, not tomorrow, university presidencies are required to redefine their true role: not merely as educational institutions, but as national incubators that reshape awareness, insulate students from sliding into violence, and instill in them values of dialogue, belonging, and genuine citizenship. They must establish the prestige of law without discrimination, and plant in every student the feeling that the university is their safe home, not an arena for settling scores, and that excellence is the only path to status, not nepotism or partisanship.
In the end, brawls are not a predetermined fate, but a result that can be changed when causes are altered and mentality is replaced, and when we restore to the university its original mission: to be an oasis of thought and not a den of rivalry, to regain its place where knowledge rules, awareness makes decisions, and the academic institution maintains its mission and correct path..!!!
