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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 18, No. 6. May 27, 1954

[London]

In a special disciplinary procedure instituted by the Student Guild of the University of Liverpool. 150 students were temporarily suspended from the Guild for having thrown stink bombs, flour and soot at the Shakespeare Theatre, thus causing public irritation at the occasion of "rag day." Rag day is the terminal event of the so-called pantomime week during which students traditionally stage demonstrations each year. The theatre, however, had purchased immunity by subscribing liberally to a student charity collection, a fact of which some students knew nothing. In a sort of court martial the disciplinary committee of the Guild of Undergraduates suspended first three, then a further 97 students for a week, depriving them of the privilege of using guild premises, and participating in sporting and social activities. The same evening another 50 students pleaded guilty of having participated in the jamboree. They were Included in the suspension. (The Times/Daily Telegraph, London.)