CAPPING WEEK ECHOES

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 153, 30 June 1936, Page 18

CAPPING WEEK ECHOES

Reference to events arising from Capping Week celebrations was made in the annual report of the Victoria University College Students Association, which was presented at .last night's annual meeting. _ Arising out of disquieting events which occurred at the ceremony last year," says the report, "the authorities this year considered holding the ceremony in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall in the afternoon, admission to'be by ticket. Your executive made strong representation to the board and to the college council, being supported in this by the Haeremai Club and the residents of Weir House. As a result the ceremony was held as in the past, in the main Town Hall in the evening, admission being -free to all. It was a most dignified ceremony. Following on the capping celebrations, certain persons who affected to see improper illusions in some of the exhibits in the capping procession, comImenced a correspondence which appeared to your executive to be fostered by one of the local dailies with the object of exploiting student activities for 'news' purposes. In the circumstances the professorial board required the names of the students responsible for one of the exhibits, and also for the capping book, to the general tone of which exception was taken, to be given to them. Your executive, acting In collaboration with the Haeremai Club, who desired to take full responsibility with regard to the procession, placed the full facts before the board in complying with their requirements, leaving the board, as being entirely impartial in the matter, to judge where the responsibility, if any, lay. The outcome was that one student and the Heremai Club were fined. The professorial board prohibits the holding of a capping procession. _ While the board expressed its opinion that the publication 'Cappicade' was unworthy of the college it resolved that in view of your executive's representation no further action should be taken. Your executive has undertaken to recommend to the incoming executive that some form of censorship be introduced with respect to future publications of this nature."