delhi times series on all thats happening on campusplease attend classes to avoid landing up in the principals office like me parvin dabasi joined hans raj college in 1992 and graduated in history hons i was also part of the basketball and dramatics society of the college that was also the year when sanjay kumar who is a professor at the college founded the dramatics society we definitely feel proud to have been part of the founding team since i was an active member of both these groups my attendance was a bit low in my first year the college had also sent a letter home about my low attendance since i used to come to college regularly but didnt attend classes my father got furious and decided to meet the principal jk kapur was the principal back then the day he came to meet the principal he saw me walking out of the college he screamed and told the principal thats him then the principal called me to his room and told me that i should attend classesparvin dabas extreme right in top picture and extreme left in the above with his college friends at hans raj parvin dabas extreme right in top picture and extreme left in the above with his college friends at hans raj he adds though i am not in touch with the students of the current dramatics society at the college but i would like to stay in touch with them for the new batch of students who are going to take admission in the college this year i would only like to say that study hard but party harder and please attend your classes so that you do not land up in principals office like me these are the most crucial years of your life so please make the most of these three years making offcampus colleges visible is a challengebccl ajay kumar gautam bccl ajay kumar gautamshe studied in a north campus college and years later she took over as the principal of an offcampus one savita dutta principal of maitreyi college who graduated from hindu says that it may be challenging for offcampus colleges to make their presence felt but those challenges actually push these colleges to do better everyone knows about the colleges in north campus and these colleges like hindu srcc miranda and others have always been popular but for an offcampus college it is always a challenge to make themselves visible we work really hard so that the perception about any offcampus college changes till the last few years not many knew about maitreyi but because of the efforts made by our teachers faculty students and staff we are changing peoples perception about the collegetalking about her favourite corner in the college premises she says that she really enjoys sitting at the open theatre of the college our students also like to sit in our garden area and i also enjoy sitting in the open theatresince she is