Horrific Hazing Still At Large

Hazing, also known as ragging, the ritualistic humiliation of new students in order to join a society is still at large at Cambridge. College drinking societies force and coerce students who want to join the society into performing a series of humiliating acts before being allowed to join the society.

Cambridge drinking societies are all male or all female societies that meet up with other drinking societies on a regular basis in order to attend elitist black tie "formal hall" dinners and drink excessive amounts of alcohol. They are notorious for binge drinking, trashing dining halls as well as their disturbing initiation ceremonies.

Most recently, a drinking society run by a third year maths student called Stuart Alan Cork (also known as "Stu Cork") allegedly forced initiates into wearing pink tights stuffed with Brussels sprouts, slippers filled with dog-food and verruca socks filled with tuna and mayonnaise. Initiates were allegedly forced to then swim across an ice cold river and finally permanently scarred by members of the drinking society with a red hot piece of metal before being allowed to join the society.

Stuart Alan Cork (Stu Cork), president of a notorius drinking society seen here at the front

Stuart Alan Cork, the president of the drinking society in question (aka "Stu Cork" born 11/1988) attended the Therfield School in Leatherhead, Surrey, England and lives in the upper class Surrey area in southern England outside of Cambridge term time. He received a Class 2.2 in his first year Cambridge maths exams and a Class 2.1 in his second year.

Cambridge Conservatives under fire over "elitist" freshers' guide

Cambridge Conservatives chairman at their annual white tie dinner

The Cambridge University Conservative Association (CUCA) has been accused of elitism over their recent publication of their "Big Blue Freshers' Guide". The document, which was given out to new first year students contains informations on how to tie a bow tie, correct black and white tie attire as well as advice to students to "Save water - drink champagne".

The guide was harshly criticized by the Cambridge University Labour Club (CULC) saying "[CUCA] have squarely positioned themselves as a glorified social club for wannabe toffs, social climbers and minor artiscrats".

The entire document can be read on the CUCA website.

Freshers' Week Chaos

A student stuggles to stand up after a night out of excessive drinking in Cambridge.

Fresher's week at Cambridge has drawn to a close for another year and again has shown copious amounts of unruly, antisocial and dangerous behaviour by students. This year freshers' week included a range of events, mostly centered around excessive drinking with many students being pressurized into drinking excessively by other students. The events left many students unable to attend lectures which began on the last two days of fresher's week.

A Cambridge student newspaper reported that 1 in 3 drug users tried it for the first time in freshers' week.

These events are similar to those of last year which resulted in a first year law student having to be taken to hospital by ambulance after she fell unconcious in a bar as a result of binge drinking. She was kept under observation overnight before being discharged the next day.