UFS introduces Prohibition, Drops Reitz case

Jansen also announced major changes to hostel residences from 2010. He said from next year, the practice of initiation will be illegal and the consumption alcohol in residences will come to an end.
He says any senior student who lays his hand on a first year student will not only be brought before a disciplinary committee, but will face criminal prosecution in the courts.

SHOOT: Sounds like a fun campus. I studied at UFS. Probably the ugliest agglomeration of urban hodge podge I've ever seen. I'm talking about the urbanism of the campus. There are certainly salt of the earth folk in Bloem, look at Ryk, Hansie, Zola, Tolkien...and then also the ANC, Grey College, Winnie and me. One thing Bloem has is a lack of temptation, which makes it a great place to develop discipline as an athlete. I think the place gets an unfairly bad rap from the rest of the country.

clipped from www.news24.com Bloemfontein - The University of the Free State has dropped charges against the four students who sparked an outcry for allegedly feeding residence staff urine, the Star newspaper reported on Saturday. The university's new rector and vice-chancellor Dr Jonathan Jansen apologised to the country for what students Johnny Roberts, Danie Grobler, Schalk van der Merwe and RC Malherbe had done to residence workers at the Reitz residence in 2007. The four made Rebecca Adams, Laukaziemma Koko, Noom Phororo, Nitta Ntseng and David Molete - all cleaners at the residence - eat meat which had been urinated upon. They videotaped the incident. The video showed the four white male students making the four black, elderly female workers down a bottle of beer, run a race, play rugby and then kneel and eat meat which had allegedly been urinated upon. But Jansen was criticised for short-circuiting a judicial process.