UNIVERSITY TYRANNY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 7

UNIVERSITY TYRANNY

OXFORD STUDENT'S PLAINT. ATTACK UPON PROCTORS. LONDON, June 16. “It is still theoretically possible for the University proctors to hang people fronj. Magdalen Bridge, Oxford,” says Mr Morris, a student of 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. gid undergraduate arc totally opposed to modern ideas—and the aboltion of proctorial privileges and various petty re strictions.

Also Air Morris urges undergrad uates’ representation on the college university councils. The proposals are causing keen controversy.

Sir Michael Sadler, Master of the University College, says tho proctors arc indispensable, owing to the other duties they discharge, besides maintaining discipline, which, nevertheless, is carried out with considertion. The undergraduates, he says, woiud find that an effective share in governing the university would overtax the time available for studio.