How strict is Oxford?

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Reply 20

The answer is probably just to trash people in college, and leave buckets of water/hoses around to clean up afterwards (I believe that's what Magdalen do), but it's not quite the same.

Reply 21

kizer

On the trashing thing, if something is really disgusting/dangerous - squid, broken glass - then yes it's antisocial to do it outside.

But flour? Eggs? Water? If I want to throw these things at my friends, I should be able to.

Reply 22

thomasjtl

The problem is that so many people do it that the mess on the streets outside the exam schools is huge- rain etc. would wash it away eventually, but none the less the council feels that they have to clean it up themselves, at huge expense because they are a council. They then put pressure on the university to put a stop to it- eg. their ridiculous housing policy- the council is supposedly refusing to grant the university planning permission for any more buildings until it reduces the number of students living in private accomodation and putting pressure on the housing stock, while simultaneously refusing to allow colleges to build more halls of residence, on the basis that local residents don't want students in their back yard.