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Is it just Durham, or is it just Durham that's getting reported?

LGBT students attacked in university Zoom meeting

Durham University condemns 'abhorrent' online posts

Durham University withdraws student's offer over social media comments

Gfamily wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 3:29 pm Is it just Durham, or is it just Durham that's getting reported?

LGBT students attacked in university Zoom meeting

Durham University condemns 'abhorrent' online posts

Durham University withdraws student's offer over social media comments

Having been to Durham in the early 1990s I don't find it hard to believe. There was a sizeable minority of students who took pleasure in flaunting their public school background and family wealth at the locals. The only thing that differed from Harry Enfield's Loadsamoney character was the accent.

And this: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... university

It doesn't surprise me (I went to Cambridge, where I did see some people like this, but not to this extent - primarily because 20 years ago, there was no WhatsApp, Twitter or Facebook).

I applied to Durham. Didn't get the grades.

Clearly dodged a bullet.

JQH wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:54 pm I applied to Durham. Didn't get the grades.

Clearly dodged a bullet.

It was only the minority. But a very visible minority.

I know my daughter spotted a few in Cambridge. Including a certain Theodore Apollo Johnson at his* college's May Ball last year . Her friends had already spotted him as being a particularly annoying drunk before they realised who he was.


*The two colleges alternate and share tbem