Video reminds students of initiation ceremony risks |
02 2008 |
| With freshers' weeks under way in universities up and down the country, many students will doubtless find themselves attending initiation ceremonies after signing up to join a club at the university freshers' fair. While these are often the high-points of the opening weeks of university life, the University of Gloucestershire is currently investigating footage, obtained by the BBC, which shows students being forced to wear plastic bags over their heads and encouraged to drink by another student dressed in Nazi-style garb. The footage records many of the students vomiting before being led around the streets, and suggests that students have to remember their limits when attending big parties in the first few weeks of term. University of Gloucestershire spokesman Paul Drake told the BBC that he takes such ceremonies "extremely seriously" and that disciplinary action would be taken against the organisers. Despite bad press surrounding initiation ceremonies, sports clubs and other societies are good places that students can meet other like-minded individuals who they may wish to rent accommodation with after a first year in halls. However it is not just students who have been caught dressing up inappropriately at parties. Last year the Sun newspaper photographed Prince Harry at a fancy dress party wearing a swastika armband. Clarence House promptly issued an apology outlining that the Prince realised it was "a poor choice of costume".  |
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