Dunedin Students Warned On Capping Behaviour

Press, Volume C, Issue 29505, 5 May 1961, Page 12

Dunedin Students Warned On Capping Behaviour

(New Zealand Press Association)

DUNEDIN, May 4. The Dunedin City Council has decreed that unless a drastic change for the better is evident on the students’ procession day this year, it will not allow such proceedings to take place in city streets. •The Otago University Council has likewise sad it w’ill ban procesh unless there is a decided improvement in its form.’ says an article tn the university newspaper -Critic” These are not just threats They are promises.” the article says This year could well see the finish of capping as it is known m Dunedin, or at lease the last of the processions. says the article With the coming of the autonomy of the university.

the council was also considering having capping in December If this happened, the Otago University Students’ Association had said that it would be impossible to have any capping celebrations at that time of the year. All the students could do would be to put on a graduates’ luncheon “However. the student president Mr John Cullen has said that the capping week in May need not be lost” says the article. “It could be renamed as -Charity Week and the festivities could take place as usual.”