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Facebook fines for Oxford students
April 18, 2008 4:46 PM
Oxford University has used Facebook to gather information on graduating students behaviour, and then fined them £10,000.
Supervisors used the social networking site to gather evidence on which students had displayed "disorderly behaviour" after exams.
Fines of £40 to £500 were then issued for “trashings” where students celebrate by spraying champagne, confetti, eggs and even raw meat on each other.
Trashings have been a problem at the University for decades with the cleanup costs sometimes running to thousands of pounds.
While it has traditionally been hard to catch the perpetuators it seem the move to tracking culprits online has helped. This year saw a five times increase in the sum of the fines.
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