STUDENTS' BEHAVIOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 8

STUDENTS' BEHAVIOUR.

The thanks of the Auckland public should be tendered to Mr. McKean, S.M., for fining one of the University students for the. behaviour that unfortunately is the one outstanding feature of so many student functions in this city. What could there be amusing about such a display of buffoonery as was shown in this case? It is time that someone in authority pointed otfi that a university is a place where we are supposed to have tlie best intellects amongst the rising generation. The New Zealand universities are on a different footing from those in older lands. They are higher; schools for the mass of the people, not preserves for the sons of the wealthy, and the people- who pay the piper have a right to know: that the country is receiving a proper return for their money. Is behaviour such as hasbeen too often witnessed on the Auckland' streets by students who think they are being funny -what we pay taxes to provide? If that is so it were better to close up thesS institutions and put the money into the high schools, where the students are not allowed to think that lack of consideration for other people is a virtue. • ONLOOKER.