to be appalled by this student behaviour?

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Students from Cuths College Rugby club, Durham University held a bar crawl where 1st years dressed up as young girls, 2nd years as Jimmy Saville and 3rd years as police/paparazzi.

www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/22/jimmy-savile-fancy-dress-rugby-club

I've never been ashamed to a Durham graduate before!

Fair enough the university has taken action but I was reading around about the article and the majority of the comments (that don't seem to be from students necessarily) are saying that they are just being typical students/boys/rugby players and are having some fun or congratulating them for lightening the miserable news of the situation. There were only one or two negative comments and they weren't popular.

I'm really shocked. I thought there were be pretty much universal condemnation of these students, not laughter and congratulation.

AIBU?

They will grow out of the need to be dickheads edgy and controversial.

Eh, it's really bad taste and not very funny, but I also can't bring myself to get worked up by it.

Oh. ok, fair enough.

I can accept I'm BU/overreacting. Surprised though because I'm usually on the opposite side of general opinion and thinking off inappropriate things as 'just a joke'.

To me this seemed to far. When I was there we had things like 'chavs and rahs' socials. That was what I'd call bad taste. This one is what I'd call obscene.

Yes I agree but it is the age that they would think it was terribly funny and edgy to shock..

They will grow up.

I think it's in bad taste to deride working-class people as chavs.

I think you're over-reacting tbh. Yes it's bad taste - but part of being a student is about being a bit of a moron sometimes: most people grow out of it. Far worse taste for over-privileged people in posh universities to be dressing up as poor people and thinking it's hilarious imho.

I did say that I thought the 'chavs and rahs' type things were bad taste. I'm not defending them at all. I didn't think they were funny at 18, 21 or now.

But to say that dressing up as a working class person for a laugh is worse than dressing up as a paedophile and his victims for a laugh is a bit mind boggling to me tbh.

Bad taste but reasonably funny in the eyes of a sorts team. Nothing to get cross about. YABU

TBH I was disappointed not to see more people dressed as Jimmy Savile for Halloween.

It's a slight improvement on shitting in a pint glass, I suppose.

I'm at Durham now, and the whole things be blown wayyyyyyyyyy out of proportion.

*been

Is the palatinate article accurate okayhazel?

No surprise to anyone to find a bunch of arseholes in the rugby club, really.

From what I've heard goes on on rugby tours, that's extremely tame.

Sorry, I did LOL at the "attempted theft of a dartboard from a rival college". Brought back memories of everything in bars being chained down

wmittens its not a rugby tour. It's students from the university rugby team on a night out.

oh yes, all the other stuff (dartboard) etc was typical student antics, I agree with that.
Stealing from rival colleges used to be called 'trophying', don't know if it still is. That, I don't have the problem with. Although the point always used to be not to get caught!

Scheherezade it still involves rugby players, and they still have the same mentality.

Palatinate is a load of rubbish - this was a very tame night out really. Little violence, just noisy, angry men and the 'attempted theft' was just bad trophying.
The ban was for the fancy dress, the behaviour didn't help. The behaviour alone would not have got a uni ban - teams do far worse than this regularly. Dart boards can and have been successfully trophied!

I don't know, I'm leaning towards YANBU

I'm an ex Durhamite too and I was pretty shocked to hear about it. All the other stuff that went on yeah, that's par for the course on a rugby club social. But I do think they deserve the ban if not worse for the Jimmy Saville theme. Just dressing up as him is not all that bad but to have the freshers dressed as his victims - well, that is where it crossed the line for me.

So I may not be appalled exactly but I certainly cringed when I read it was Durham and think the punishment is well deserved.

Just be thankful degree students in England don't have a 4th year!

We have shared various buildings with students over the years and some behaviour is appalling ( others are absolutely lovely, we recently had a box of flapjacks brought found as an apology for a noisy party and they have been like mice ever since.)

We have had a close door smashed, children's scooters broken, noisy party, continual buzzing of our intercom ("er is that Jonty's flat" "No it bloody isn't you moron,") Friends have had buggies urinated on and been continuously flooded from upstairs.

Worst time was when a drunk student tried to kick my front door down while I was alone in house with DC. We were terrified.

Dressing as Jimmy Savile is sma potatoes compared to what darling Petronella and Tarquin get up to off campus.