The excesses of male-only clubs such as Oxfords Piers Gaveston and Cambridge’s Wyverns cement the misogyny and privilege of a narrow eliteThis month,freshers arrived at one of the world’s most prestigious universities alert to start a first-rate education. Instead, some will be educated in how to drink themselves into oblivion. The liquid-laced antics of students has provoked an admonition from the master of Gonville and Caius College, and Sir Alan Fersht,who emailed students to decry drinking initiation rituals, stating that it was a “national scandal” that men are “indulging in laddish behaviour and sadistic initiation rights, and … plying women with drink and abusing them”. Welcome to the darker side of Oxbridge. Related: Campus nightmare: female students on the rise of sexual harassment Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com