Three executive members have been fined by executive for entering the Weir House Ball.

Their actions were held to be subversive of discipline. The members have a right of appeal to the Professorial Board.

Roper Lawrence and Geoff Bertram were each fined 15 - and Ross Jamieson was fined 35 -.

The action followed a letter of complaint from the Weir House Association, which made four points, including a suggestion that executive members should set an example to other students.

Mr. Jamieson said he had entered the ball in jest and that his entry could not have been taken any other way. He was wearing jeans, a blue and white jersey, a bra strap and an ill-fitting dinner jacket.

He felt an amount of "erroneous sensationalism" had accompanied the event. He said he entered the ball about midnight and stayed about 12 minutes.

Mr. Lawrence said he entered the ball along wtih a lady friend and Mr. Bertram, about 11.30pm. He had worn a lounge suit, an academic gown and slippers and had been carrying an umbrella. His lady friend had worn a procesh mask and Mr. Bertram had worn a jersey and trousers and a waste-paper basket over his head.

None of them had partaken of drink or food or had a dance. Mr. Lawrence said he had been in the hall for 30 seconds. Mr. Bertram said he was there about a minute.

To a written question, Mr. Lawrence said he did not intend slaving at the ball.

Answering a question, Mr. McKay said the similarity between the occurrences at the Weir ball and an occurrence at the science faculty ball, for which a student was disciplined, was one of illegal, uninvited entry.