By IANS,
London : Harassed Indian college students can take heart – �ragging’ at the prestigious Cambridge University too can reach depths of depravity. Known as �initiation ceremonies’, Cambridge tests involve downing excessive amounts of alcohol and can include carrying out degrading and depraved acts often by female students, according to the university’s student newspaper Varsity.
While many consider them to part of university tradition, others such as the National Union of Students have called for them to be banned.
New members of The Wyverns, Magdalene College’s men’s drinking society, have to eat a 15-course meal with delicacies such as a pig’s snout with wasabi sauce and a pint of water with a goldfish swimming inside.
This year’s initiation, which took place last week, featured raw leeks, whole, uncooked squids and entire chillies.
Those joining the Ferretz, an inter-collegiate drinking society, have to consume 80 units of alcohol beginning with a bottle of gin and finishing with a bottle of port, consumed through a condom.
Girls aren’t spared. The Newnham Nuns’ ceremony involves eating liquorice held between a stranger’s teeth and the girl is expected to kiss him when she reaches his lips.
New members also have to put a condom on a banana using only their mouths, the Sunday Telegraph reported.