Bald rag for freshers at Jaffna campus
Twenty five students of the Jaffna University, attached to their regional centre in Vavuniya had a rather harrowing experience when seniors put them through what they claimed was ‘clean ragging.’
They were marched in a row to a hair dressing saloon in Kurumankadu. The seniors told the barber to shave off their hair. Some of them found only one side of the hair remaining on their head.
The barbers at Kurumankadu were happy to take part in the bumper harvest of hair. However, they said it would cost Rs 500 for each student. The seniors appealed to the owner to do something since they cannot return to the campus otherwise and fellow seniors would come down hard on them.
There was a welcome discount. The owner only charged Rs 50 for each student and the group were marched back thereafter.
Another small group also met with the same fate after the seniors marched them to a saloon run by soldiers.