kolkata jadavpur university on tuesday completed its remarkable admission season flipflop going back to entrance tests for six arts faculty subjects a decision that was first taken on june 27 at an executive council meeting and then reversed eight days later at another executive council meeting on july 4the campus erupted in joy with students deciding to call off their hunger strike and professors veering towards being part of the admission process again but vicechancellor suranjan das categorically said he was against the executive councils decisionthe provice chancellor pradip kumar ghosh and i are not a party to this resolution it is not possible to run the university in this manner i will speak to the chancellor and urge that he relieve the provc and me of our responsibility das said coming tantalisingly close to but just stopping short of saying that he was quitting but he later told confidants that he would stop coming to the campus from wednesday which took both students and professors by surprise as according to them they never demanded his resignationdass response to tuesdays executive council decisionagainst the manner in which it went back to admission tests in six subjects might create yet another complication for this years vexed admission process university officials said it was also diametrically opposite to his stance after the july 4 executive council meeting when he told students that he was dutybound to go with the executive councils decisionthe vc according to those privy to the meetings was not in a mood to take any decision beyond noting university chancellor and bengal governor keshari nath tripathis viewstwo backtoback ec meets end logjamlater when departmental heads insisted on a second executive council meeting on the same day to take the final decision on an entrance testbased admission das asked for the rule book to know whether this was permissiblethe vcs statements and the executive councils flipflops capped an unprecedented admission season fortnight for ju there was a students hunger strike demanding that admission tests be brought back there was a professors sitin demonstration for the same demand there was an open revolt by faculty members against the decision to scrap entrance tests and in many faculties opinion was split down the middle as teachers went against departmental heads and departmental heads went against the university administration all this finally resulted in tuesdays extremely rare two backtoback executive council meetings on a single daythe meetings themselves were not without their share of drama the administrations hand was forced by arts dean subhasis biswas and many other departmental heads making a forceful pitch for giving equal importance to entrance test and board exam marks for admission to english comparative literature bengali history philosophy and international relations english department associate professor and west bengal higher education council nominee manojit mandal was the only one to put his note of dissent vc das and provc ghosh were not party to the resolution and university registrar and engineering dean chiranjib bhattacharya abstained