Oxford students facing fines after smashing glasses at rowdy dinner

A FURIOUS Oxford dean has threatened to fine his own students after they smashed glasses and abused catering staff at a college dinner.

The second-year undergraduates at Trinity College were warned they face a collective fine for their drunken antics at the ‘Halfway Hall’ bash on Tuesday.

More than 200 attended the ceremony which marks the midpoint of students’ university careers, although a source said only a minority had behaved badly.

Dean Dr James McDougall ordered the troublemakers to attend a disciplinary meeting to discuss their behaviour after several other students complained. In an email to those who attended the dinner, he wrote: ‘However entitled you may feel about yourselves, there is absolutely no excuse for this behaviour.’

He said he would ‘impose a fine collectively on everyone who was there, in addition to costs for breakages and a reparatory bonus to the staff who were on duty’.

On social media, a student at the dinner said ‘a minority of the so-called intellectual elite’ had tried to turn the dinner ‘into their version of Sodom and Gomorrah’.