Chris McGovern, Chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said: ‘If youngsters feel under pressure to engage in this sort of activity in order to ‘fit in’ it is small wonder that universities are suffering from a mental health epidemic.
‘Of course, students should be free to ‘let their hair down’ and to ‘let off steam’ from time to time but there have to be some boundaries too. ‘The organisers of this event have a lot of explaining to do. At best, a lot of Hull students are going to feel mightily upset and exploited and, at worst, some will feel traumatised. ‘Some young people need to treat each other young people with more respect’.
