A residential school scholar at College of Sydney allegedly had a piece of his ear bitten off throughout a bodily altercation at St Andrew’s Faculty.
The St Paul’s Faculty scholar was taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital by safety officers after the alleged assault on Sunday, October 29, following a social occasion held within the St Andrew’s scholar bar.
NSW Police confirmed officers from the Interior West Police Space Command have been notified and had “commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident”.
Information.com.au has contacted St Andrew’s for remark.
A spokesperson for the Faculty didn’t deny that a part of the scholar’s ear had been bitten off when approached for remark by College of Sydney newspaper, Honi Soit, which first reported the incident on Thursday.
“There was not too long ago an incident at St Andrew’s the place a St Paul’s Faculty scholar was injured. Our heartfelt sympathy and concern exit to the injured scholar, and we hope for a swift and full restoration,” they stated in a press release to the student-run publication.
“At this stage, it isn’t identified if the alleged assailant is from St Andrew’s or from outdoors the Faculty. On the night time, the sufferer was supplied with first support and assisted to the hospital. Incidences of this sort are unprecedented at St Andrew’s.
“[St] Andrew’s doesn’t condone violence and the security of scholars is at all times paramount. St Andrew’s is reviewing its contract with the non-public safety firm concerned in managing occasions on the Faculty.
“St Andrew’s has not been knowledgeable of any authorized motion by the sufferer towards the Faculty.
“St Andrew’s has not misplaced its liquor licence on account of this incident. St Andrew’s is co-operating with the police and the college.”
The coed is being supplied with “intensive pastoral and educational assist”, Head of St Paul’s Faculty, Reverend Dr Ed Sloane, informed information.com.au.
The College of Sydney, in the meantime, stated it’s “very involved by the alleged incident”, and had contacted the affected college students.
“We’ve a zero-tolerance coverage to any type of violence, together with intimidating, abusive or aggressive behaviour,” a spokesperson informed information.com.au.
“We perceive the NSW Police are investigating and the universities concerned are helping them with their inquiries.
“The residential schools affiliated with the College are unbiased establishments with autonomous governing our bodies, and function independently of the College.
“Nonetheless, the welfare of all our college students is our first precedence and now we have been in contact with among the college students concerned to supply assist if required.”
The alleged altercation displays a broader sample of violence on the residential schools, which has prompted a concerted marketing campaign to “Abolish the Schools” and exchange them with $110-a-week lodging to take care of a “actually dire” scholar housing disaster.
A report earlier this 12 months by Honi Soit revealed St Andrew’s college students had engaged in “deeply offensive title calling, gestures and acts of intimidation, misogyny and homophobia” towards feminine college students at Sancta Sophia Faculty.
A 2020 investigation by the publication additionally discovered incidents of racism, sexism and hazing at St Andrew’s had continued for the reason that launch of the Broderick Assessment into Cultural Renewal at Residential Schools in late 2017, and Finish Rape on Campus Australia’s Crimson Zone Report in early 2018.
The latter discovered that one in 12 feminine St Andrew’s college students had skilled tried or accomplished rape or sexual assault since commencing – the joint highest price of all the universities.
College of Sydney Pupil Consultant Council (SRC) president Lia Perkins informed The Australian in August the present construction of schools was “unsafe” on account of sexual violence and “elitist and must be abolished”.
“We wish student-owned and publicly run housing for college kids on campus, within the websites the universities are on, however not run by the identical establishments they’re now owned and run by,” she stated.
Whereas the Greens backed the scholars’ calls, saying “a lot sexual violence on campus stems from [the colleges]”, St Andrew’s Faculty principal Rob Leach on the time stated it was “not true” that schools have been elite or unsafe. He additionally rebuffed solutions that schools have been harmful locations for ladies.
“We’re completely dedicated to prevention and making a tradition the place everyone seems to be protected, but it surely’s not true we’re harmful and it’s not true we do nothing,” Mr Leach informed the nationwide broadsheet.
“However any numbers of sexual assaults is 100 per cent too many.”
Greater than 100 workers and college students from the College of Sydney reported sexual misconduct final 12 months, in line with an inaugural annual report launched in August.
