G'berg products are the least likely to pursue higher education
Sunday, March 25, 2007
When Senior Tonto arrived at the recently held Amanadehyee
Congress in Legon, he had a special question on his mind.
Tonto, President of the KNUST Branch of Amanadehyee asked the audience at the 2007 Congress' seminar, "How many of you
here are products of G'berg House?" Four people raised their hands. This obviously yielded a "woaaa look" response.
When he asked about Butler, Freeman, and the other houses, there were many hands in the air.
"You mean there are only four people here from G'berg House?," he continued.
"Senior, it is possible that Gberg boys patronise Tech university more. Probably all of them are at Kumasi," the audience suggested.
But Senior Tonto reminded the audience that he is the President of Amanadehyee at Tech, and that he hasn't found any significant number
of G'bergians on that campus.
Only then did it dawn on Amanfoo that there is a shocking lack of G'bergians in the Ghanaian universities.
After agreeing with the researcher's conclusions, attention was focused on
the reasons for the disparity. Amanfoo concluded that G'bergians traditionally have a habit of susbstituting excellence in the
sports and entertainment fields for the "less rewarding" and tedious academic challenges at the universities. And the fact that the owner of
the current Number 1 music video in the nation only recently walked out of G'berg House doesn't help to erase that stereotype.
Some argue that G'berg's sporting excellence must be commended, especially since it was the only boarding house in the country to send 2 representatives to the
2004 Athens Olympics. Chibsah (G'berg '96) captained the national Under-23 team in Athens and Samuel Adade (G'berg 2002)
contributed to the athletics team.
Hopefully Stephen Ampong (S.P., Class of 2006) will mobilize his mates from Guggisberg House to have them invade the universities' campuses this comimg September.
Tonto's conclusions are not based on a scientific study; no scientific data is available to support the conclusions. They are all based on
statistical observations
at the various universities.
