WE’VE ALL had a few nights out that have got a bit out of hand. You know, the ones where you wake up in the morning thinking, “Why oh why did I do THAT?” Or perhaps, when you don’t remember anything at all and have to use the help of your Facebook pictures.
However, I’m sure most of us have never had a night out quite like the one Oxford students had in The Bridge nightclub last week. The club’s manager reported that two students were seen setting off fireworks in the crowded club smoking area.
This prank gone awry prompted a call out from the Thames Valley Police at 12.20 am on Friday 8th February. Luckily no one was injured, although the police report that a 20 year old man was given an £80 fixed penalty notice for his actions.
Meanwhile students at Cardiff have been bugged by the news that their halls of residence have been plagued by an infestation of small, wingless insects.
These insects, believed to be of the bizarrely named, non-aquatic Silverfish variety, have been an ongoing menace for students and are proving difficult to remove. One student has reportedly had her fridge fumigated twice.
The Silverfish have reportedly been spotted in a series of bizarre places including shoes, beds, sinks and kitchen cupboards. The University administration claims to have acted on this using its official pest control contractor, but the problem continues to persist year on year, and it looks as if the residents and their Silverfish neighbours may have to coexist for a while yet.
In lighter news, a postgraduate student at Imperial College has broken the World Record for most kisses given in one minute. Sarah Greasley managed a staggering 127 kisses in just 60 seconds, at a rate of more than two kisses per second.
This is not the only time Sarah has found her way into the record books. She has previously broken three Guinness World Records; most sticky notes on a body, most CD’s flipped and caught in one minute, and most champagne bottles opened in one minute. An impressive series of accolades by anyone’s standards.
Finally, the Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) has served an interim interdict to its newspaper Student, preventing it from publishing its first issue of the term. EUSA reportedly took legal action against the paper for an article consisting of anonymously leaked documents which it feared would harm its ability to recruit staff.
Here’s hoping for no such draconian antics from our own Student Union.