Kinnaird College/University has a strict policy of not letting students leave before 12:30pm every single day. This means those who only have one morning class scheduled at 8am-9:30am unneccessarily wait for THREE or MORE hours until they are allowed to leave the premises. In fact, even those who arrive early morning to talk with their instructors regarding various reasons, such as their thesis or even a project, will have to wait until 12:30pm to leave. A 10 MINUTE conversation costs them FIVE HOURS of their morning. The students of Kinnaird are grown women who find it highly unreasonable and insulting to have such rules applied to them like little children.

Kinnaird's own bachelors program aids women, most of whom are independent young women, and these same women are those who are bound by such unneccessary rules. What is concerning is how there is no direct reason for such a policy when NO OTHER university has employed anything remotely similar. Simply being a different gender makes us bound to follow this 12:30pm rule? Are women in other universities of a different kind than us?

EVEN DURING EMERGENCIES, the Kinnaird adminstration does not cooperate. Students must run around the ENITRE campus getting approvals from different heads for just ONE gate pass (which is refused 90% of the time). Sometimes Dr. Khan, the Vice Principal herself arrives at 11am meaning those students with EMERGENCIES in the morning have to wait for her to sign their gate passes and most of the time, these are REFUSED despite GENUINE reasons.

I, myself, have personally had to go through this sicknening and unprofessional process of getting a gate pass to leave at 9am when I needed to go to the hospital. Being able to barely walk due to extremely sharp pain in my ribs and facing short breath, I was FORCED to go to around 5 or 6 heads of departments who all REFUSED to sign my gate pass. I was never allowed to leave. I stayed for THREE hours continously throwing up in the bathroom and could not even get a painkiller from the 'health room' (which cannot even provide bandaids most of the time). 

A certain Head of Dept, made a student wait for over 30 minutes (because of a phone call) before the student could ask for her to sign a gate pass when she was hysterical and crying over having her father hospitalized and her mother anxiously waiting outside the campus to take her. This was REFUSED. She stayed on-campus distraught and inconsolable.

A student with Jaundice arrived for a quiz at 8-9:30am and was refused a gate pass, making her wait with a fever and shivers for THREE HOURS. Dr. Khan instead advised her to go the health room, which was  with its one small bed already occupied.

We, therefore, ask you for your help in supporting us lift this unneccessary, unreasonable and sometimes ruthless and cruel policy for grown women to not be able to leave before 12:30pm. The students of Kinnaird are respectable young women who ask to be treated as respectable young women.