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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume. 33, Number 7. 27 May, 1970
Capping Ball Fines
Capping Ball Fines
One student has been barred from the Union Building until 27 June and another fined $6 as a result of incidents at the Capping Ball.
Students at the Ball were reported to have been throwing food at one another, gatecrashing and throwing glasses from the mezzanine to the dance floor. Some students had refused to leave the Ball when asked to do so and one had been abusive to the Managing Secretary, Mr Ian Boyd.
That Mr I.F. Knobloch be fined the price of one ticket to the Capping Ball, being $6, for refusing to leave the Capping Ball when directed by the house manager.
That Mr P.D. Stevens be barred from the use of Student Union facilities until the beginning of Study Week, 27 June, for refusing to leave the precincts of the Student Union Building when asked to do so by the Managing Secretary and becoming abusive to the Managing Secretary.
That Mr A.R. Bradshaw be censured for his behaviour at the Capping Ball and warned that future incidents will meet with severe penalty.
In attendance at the Executive meeting on 8 May which considered incidents at the Capping Ball were, in addition to the Managing Secretary and the persons named in the motions above, Messrs J. Mowbray, M.H. Fay, G. Sutherland, K. Watson and C. Hannah. Fay was one of the five doormen at the Heart Beat Ball last year who were denied their wages by the Executive for drunkenness, assault and throwing glasses. There was also a suggestion of theft of moneys received at the door at that Ball.
The President of the Association, Margaret Bryson, said after the Executive meeting that "far more than three people were involved in the disturbances at the Capping Ball," When asked about the disparity of the disciplinary action taken against Bradshaw as opposed to that taken against Knobloch and Stevens, Miss Bryson said "Mr Bradshaw was censured for throwing food at supper. He was not fined because he was one of a great number of persons involved and because he claimed to have been throwing food back at someone who had been throwing food at him."
Miss Bryson said that she felt that the Association should aim to be a self-disciplining body and incidents such as those at the Capping Ball should be dealt with fairly stringently. "I don't want to spoil anybody's fun but fun can go too far," she said. "On future occasions of this kind, we will attempt to have at least four members of the Executive in attendance."