STUDENTS’ BEHAVIOUR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22911, 19 June 1936, Page 14

STUDENTS’ BEHAVIOUR

SUPERVISION AT DANCES COMMISSIONAIRE APPOINTED (Special to Daily Tikes) AVELLINGTON, Juno 18. Having recently expressed its disapproval of an exhibit in the capping procession, fined one student, and banned the procession in future, the Professorial Board of Victoria University College, Wellington, ha's been devoting some attention lately to the conduct of student dances, A long-standing regulation prohibiting the consumption of liquor at dances ha*) been reaffirmed, and a commissionaire has been appointed to attend gatherings and pay particular attention to what goes on in motor cars parked in the college grounds. The question arose, it is stated, after the function of the annual New Zealand intemniversity college tournament at Easter. An official of the college is said to have recovered a considerable sum on Imltles found about the grounds afterward. This, was brought to the notice of the Professorial Board, which has decided to assume direct responsibility for the oversight of dances, a function formerly left in the hands of the Students’ Association. The commissionaire appointed by the board has been at one dance to date, and, as bo was in uniform, he was n marked object of interest and curiosity among the students. Another part of his work if> to superintend the parking of cars in the college grounds. At this dance, however, his duties were not onerous, as there were few cars present. He duly inspected them by a flash of a torch in the dark. Rmnd, the organ of student opinion, publishes a humorous interview with a commissionaire, who states: “ I have been a professional soldier for 24 years. 1 neither drink nor smoke.’’ Smad says: "As compensation for a bottle in ones pocket one may now wear a paper cap. Tn place of a glass at one’s lips one lias a squeaker.” Students, however, are taking the recent developments in good part. “Anyway,” said one, “ the ehap is a good-natured returned soldier, and he wears a uniform.”