Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent)
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I find that difficult to accept because it would not happen on an American campus, but even though this incident did not happen on the campus, they are still students and staff of the university. Unless third level institutions stand up in some way to control this and say if one is a representative of a university and is out of one's mind drunk and bouncing off a wall at 11.20 a.m., it will not be tolerated within the faculty in which one is a student. This is not Third Reich speak, but universities have to stand up in some way and be counted. For example, just because something happens on the Clonskeagh Road and not on the UCD campus does not make it all right. That is the usual pass the buck approach. AAI has a major part to play in making them do this or at least coming up with rules and regulations in this regard. It would not happen on an American campus and certain English campuses.