The Standard

(The UCU Standard - Tuesday, January 14, 2013) MUKONO, UGANDA ✦ It was the children. “Daddy, daddy,” they said, unable to sleep. “What if the thieves are still out there?” Yes, to add to the rotten tally of 2012, at year-end thieves stole our electric piano, the one my children loved. Six days later, thieves got my bride’s laptop plus valuables from her purse. Two violations in six days from inside our campus home. It took our breath away. Six days.

A fresher unwittingly gives her laptop to someone posing to be from UCU’s IT department. The computer is never returned. An Honours College resident has her laptop and i-Pad stolen through a broken window. A couple of nights later, a camera and money are lifted from the same residence. A pair of laptops are taken […]

Jeans and braided air land a university student in jail.

Muslims and Christians are, in fact, more similar than we often imagine.

If you drive away one good student or one good faculty or one good missionary today, how many will come tomorrow?

To Wanyama Wangah, we give a heartfelt, "Thank you." And to Aggrey Mugisha, we offer a warm "Welcome aboard."

Press accountability is terribly undeveloped in this country. This is why vegetable papers prowl and destroy journalistic ethics under the guise of journalism and with impunity.

The Standard, launched May 7, 2007, celebrates three years of publication.

In Uganda, communities and individuals are stepping forward like never before as champions for maternal care.

"I commend this university for its tremendous work with safe motherhood; for its training and for its sensitizing the public."

UCU's Health and Safety Committee will clamp down on pets who "wander around the campus." They're to be vaccinated and kept "indoors." Spot checks are coming.

Okay, here's a question. There are two new theology professors at UCU. Soon after one starts teaching, it's discovered that he spends significant time mingling with Kampala's crowd of drinkers and prostitutes. The other new professor, who is the cousin of the first, then comes to UCU's classes wearing dreadlocks, torn jeans, several earrings and a rather large tattoo.