POWER OF PROCTORS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1931, Page 14

POWER OF PROCTORS

DISCIPLINE AT OXFORD. “It is still theoretically possible for the University proctors to hang people from Magdalen Bridge, Oxford,” says Mr. Morris ,a student of the Ruskin College, in an attack upon the University’s “tyranny.” Mr. Morris has submitted a number of proposals for consideration by the University Labour Club. These include a demand for equality between men and women undergraduates —in connection with which Mr. Morris declares that the regulation and chaperoning of the girl undergraduates are totally opposed to modern ideas—and the abolition of proctorial privileges and various petty restrictions. Also Mr. Morris urges undergraduates’ representation on the college and university councils. The proposals are causing keen controversy. Sir Michael Sadler, Master of the University College, says that proctors are indispensable, owing to the other duties they discharge, besides maintaining discipline, which, nevertheless, is carried out with consideration. The undergraduates, he says, would find that an effective share in governing the university would overtax the time available for studies.