Bastardisation rituals targeted at Australian National University

[brendan]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24321141-12332,00.html?from=public_rss

"Dr Stewart - the stepson of C.P. Snow, whose novels grapple with science, ethics and the wider society - has called for the creation of an independent body to expose abuses in universities. In his Senate submission he suggests that a culture "hostile to the welfare of students" lives on in ANU's department of applied mathematics,"

[humph]

Wtf? That shit's crazy. I've never heard of anything like that.


Applied mathematics, lolz. As if you would...

[/0]

Lol... that sounds really weird. But then, I've heard universities have really weird rituals in general. Reminds me of the bizarre rituals people say those secret ivy league cults engage in.

[bubble sunglasses]

   Initiation/o-week rituals are harsher in different places. My dad had to box later yr students

[cara.mel]

   Initiation/o-week rituals are harsher in different places. My dad had to box later yr students

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and people still went there?
I'd get the fuck away from there myself.

btw, why *had*.

[bubble sunglasses]

 
   
    it was at Cape Town University which was either the only place or the only good place to go in Southern Africa in the 50s and he had a Rhodes scholarship. he said he didn't mind it anyways, except it was really tiring. hmm i'll ask him if there were any other strange rituals

[midas_touch]

That's absolutely bizarre to say the least. This is the first time I've ever heard of such 'rituals' occurring at universities.

[bubble sunglasses]

   well, at some of the Umelb college O-weeks they "pond" you