University of Oxford bans boozy bashes in bid to curb students’ debauched behaviour
College bosses have stepped in after numerous scandalous incidents including excessive nudity, offensive fancy dress costumes and extreme drunkenness
BOOZY parties have been banned at a string of top Oxford University colleges amid fury at the debauched behaviour of students.
Loutish incidents which led to the axe include nudity, sex romps, downing pints of cocktails and urinating in a library.
It came as pictures emerged online of hundreds of scantily-clad students at one annual party, which are known as bops.
Wadham College chiefs have since ruled cocktails must be watered down and served in half-pint glasses after cases of extreme drunkenness at November’s Queerfest.
Lady Margaret Hall also suspended all bops until the end of term.
In January a student was disciplined after posing as paralysed Prof Stephen Hawking for a “dress-as-your-degree” party.
Last November another student at the same college was asked to leave a horror movie classics-themed bop after turning up dressed as shamed movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
He was accused of trivialising the “lived experience of survivors” of sex assaults.
At Christ Church all party themes are now vetted, while bouncers have also been drafted in.
And Exeter College students were disciplined after being accused of trashing a 700-year-old chapel.
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Last summer students were snapped half-naked in the street as they queued for a bus for the Piers Gaveston Society summer ball.
The secretive club was at the centre of claims ex-PM David Cameron performed an obscene act with a pig’s head as an initiation.
A source said yesterday: “It’s a shambles — giving students a slap on the wrist doesn’t work.”