A pub with no beer

It's a hard hard world, my friends. For some reason there still appears to be an element of distrust as far as students go among the John Citizens of this noble city. A case in point is the recent refusal by barmen at the Royal Tavern to serve the thirsty students who flocked in there after the Bursaries March. I arrived there about the same time as the other students, and was very rudely told that as I was a student I would not be served. I don't like the place, the seats are reminiscent of corrugated iron and the atmosphere fully lives up to the name of the bar (Dungeon Bar). This however is beside the point. After a great deal of hassle with the barmen (and all this is hearsay, I had already departed for the Grand), hassle which included proof of age, which the people were able to furnish and an eventual summoning of the police by one student. As another student explained, students do not call the cops as a matter of course -something important has to happen be-fore this is done. That a student did this is a measure of how important those in the bar considered the situation. When the police eventually arrived the bar manager agreed to serve those students present, so in this respect everything came out Ok. But this again is not the point. Are we students not human beings? Do we not have the right to the same privileges which others not only expect but demand? Why should we be discriminated against? I would urge those of you who patronise the Royal Tavern to cease doing so. Capitalists tend to start losing their sting when they start losing their money.

J G Henderson