By: Asanda Maki
The time was 22:30 pm and I was at Fountain Laboratory to finish my Journalism assignment which was due before midnight. I was sitting and typing, put my head phones listening to some music. This lab is one of the labs usually filled by students’ not just students but those taking in route in Extend Studies. It is one of my favourite labs at Rhodes.
Apparently I heard daunting noises….shouting and swearing. It was a group of guys in which some of them I recognised sometimes in this lab. I was extremely shocked to see that these guys were DRUNK! Some of them were acting as if they are not while other you could tell that this one has had “some”. Well it was fine there was no one to stop them; I think the security guards didn’t see them entering the labs in the condition they were in, in order to chase them. They were so irritating because they caused high levels of nose in the whole labs…shouting. I saw other female student panicking because of this unstoppable noise. They packed their stuffs and left the lab.
It was when I saw one of them taking out a “nip of Limosin Brandy” while others were holding glasses of “beer”. The lab was smelling alcohol and a disgusting smell. I was so annoyed and irritated…..”Not that I was thirsty”…..my turn passed and I had a great experience…just that this brings the memory of an experience I had in the past weekend.
Things got out of hand when this guy poured the Limosin Brandy for his friend and guess what happened next…..he drunk the rest like he was drinking a juice or water not a spirited brandy and he couldn’t hold himself he was so excited! And shouting….Voetsek! to his friends. They tried to stop him but he was drunk and uncontrollable.
Even though I am afraid of a drunken person because he can do anything to get a fight …but I was just about to go and tell the guy to keep the noise levels down because we are doing academic work…a Campus Protection Unit guard walked in. He didn’t even ask what was happening rather he saw the situation by his own eyes. He went outside I assume he went to call on other guards to come. Apparently I saw his “drunken master’s” friends trying to escape, some pretended they were sober…the CPU caught the drunkard just when him and his friends were trying to escape outside the lab entrance. Then I heard some of his friends saying he is taken to the Campus Protection Unit offices.
Labels: Beer, CPU, drunkards, Extended Studies, Limosin Brandy, malestudents.
They would sit there all night with books of information; stressing and typing essays due the day before its DEADLINE...this is likely to happen on Thursdays. Because the Main Library, the now called Stephen Bantu Biko Building laboratory and Guthrie laboratory closes at 22H00 pm and they will be chased to leave those apartments by either CPU security guards or the librarian assistants...so they would run to other labs like Jacaranda or Fountain labs and they would fill those two labs like never before, it will smell stuffy sometimes because the air-conditions will be switched-off...its difficult to breathe becuase of the smell. I don't blame them because not all of them have laptops in their residence but because some can't even afford laptops. I don't blame them because they have every right to use those computers..those are public computers...they are even used even by outsiders.
I am ONE of them, i feel the same (should i call it a pain?)...pain. Of course its a pain...imagine if it was you...sitting on the computer screen 24/7 typing a 2000 words essay. But on the other hand..its our own faults...students don't plan, not all of them but i know a few...rather they enjoy writing essays on last moments..guess what..they rather pass or fail. Its not something awkward...it happens here at Rhodes! and not by miracle. They do it all the time...I AM PRAYING TO STOP IT BEFORE IT GETS TOO MUCH FOR ME...."Oh dear God help me out!". I know this is getting to much for them but they seem to enjoy the "nights out" in the labs than the "nights out" at Equilibruim or Rat and Parrot. I am talking about students who spends their "Picinics" in the labs with flasks of coffee, packet of simba chips or chocolates and/or slices of toasted bread from the dining halls..whenever they are hungry. The worst part of it is they would spend the whole night typing essays, in the morning they would go to breakfast...while others are attending lectures. Another annoying thing are students who spends lot of time on non-academic stuffs like Facebook wasting time for others who wants to finish typing their essays....Also its not like in high school..writing an essay here its different because you have to do a thourough refencing...while at high school you would collect information and write it all down and give it to your teacher.....
