JMC Dept reverberated for Freshers’ welcome

Bhanja Bihar: The Conference Hall of Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of Berhampur University was reverberated on September 8 (Friday) as second-year students organized a grand party Freshers’ Fiesta-2017 to welcome the newcomers.

Vice-Chancellor RP Das, PGC Chairman DP Patnaik, 
Coordinator BB Mahapatra, J&MC faculties, staff and 
students posing for a photo-op during celebration
of Freshers' Fiesta-2017.

Vice-Chancellor Prof. Rajendra Prasad Das, who graced the occasion as the chief guest, kickstarted the event by lighting lamp in front of an idol of Lord Ganesh. Subsequently, Bhanja Bihar Kula Sangeet, an anthem for the university, was played in the hall to mark the beginning of the celebrations.

In the meantime, the Vice-Chancellor also formally launched Bhanja Bihar Musings, a blog maintained by the students of the department to exercise their writing and reporting skills.

Addressing the gathering, Vice-Chancellor Prof. Das threw lights on the past glory of the department which was established in 1974 as the first of its kind in Odisha. He invoked the students to be serious about study so that they can create a proud moment not only for themselves but also for the institutions.

On the same line, P.G. Council Chairman Prof. Devi Prasanna Patnaik and J&MC Department Coordinator Prof Bibhuti Bhushan Mahapatra also highlighted about the legacy of the department. All the faculty members – Mr. Sudarsan Sahoo, Mr. Harish Chandra Behera and Dr. Hari Krishna Behera – also delivered motivational speeches for the students.

Meanwhile, the Vice-Chancellor in the presence of other guests distributed mementos to the newcomers to commemorate the event.

Besides, the senior students delivered best wishes to the juniors followed by self-introduction of the later.

Lohita Raulo (Sem-III) coordinated the meeting while Soubhagya Ranjan Tripathy (Sem-III) proposed the vote of thanks. 

After lunch, students of both the semester participated in different recreation activities. Mostly, the newcomers were the performers while the seniors were the audience. The conference hall was reverberated with songs, dances and merrymakings. Based the performances, Kajal Maharana (Sem-I) and D Biswaranjan Sethy (Sem-I) were conferred the titles of ‘Miss Fresher’ and ‘Mr. Fresher’ respectively

(A report by Soubhagya Ranjan Tripathy, J&MC, Semester-III, 2017)