Glasses Smashed At Student Party

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31982, 8 May 1969, Page 1

Glasses Smashed At Student Party

Shattered jugs arid glasses littered the floor of a large lounge bar at the Bush Inn last evening after a university students’ gathering. A barman estimated that at one time 600 students were in the bar.

The gathering began about midday. The bar was closed about 5‘ p.m. to allow it to be cleared of glass: and shortly before 6 p.m. hotel staff and students were still sweeping’ it' out. The students said they were helping for personal reasons. The students’ association had not ordered them to help. They also said that many other students would have helped but had had to leave. One student, surveying the glass on the floor of the half-

cleaned bar, . said: “It’s nothing but absolute stupidity; it’s absolutely ludicrous.” Several students said the litter was no more than would be found if any group of the same age and size had been gathered in the bar. Another student said that the first glass was broken

about 2.45' p.m. and when that happened a cheer went up from the students. Before that the gathering had been most enjoyable: there had been a pianist, a guitarist and a druinmer, but the bar had become crowded. Another student said that not all the breakages had been accidental. The manager of the hotel (Mr L. Mitchell), when asked about the broken glass, said it was nothing to worry about. "It’s not unusual,” he said. A visit to other bars in the

hotel showed that in all but one there were no empty jugs, either whole or broken, on the floors. In the other bar, where about 200 students and their girl-friends were gathered, some empty jugs and glasses were lying on the floor, but very few were broken.