Five college upperclassmen were suspended Tuesday for pressuring new understudies to pass treat between their mouths as a component of their introduction inception.
Five understudies at King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok were trained for driving 17 approaching first year recruits to bolt lips and pass the desserts orally.
"Passing treat like that puts individuals in danger of transmitting diseases, for example, hepatitis, herpes and sore throats," Suebsakul Sirikaew, an administrator of an against right of passage guard dog page said by telephone Tuesday.
Right hand teacher Somchai Vechagum, the college's VP of understudy undertakings, said Thursday that the five Electronic Technology understudies in the College of Industrial Technology would be suspended for a term.
"We affirm this happened, as they escaped and didn't figure their activities would be a major ordeal," Somchai said. "This movement is wrong. The college has a reasonable arrangement of having innovative rub nong exercises that don't drive underclassmen."
Rub nong, or inception exercises under the belief of SOTUS – Seniority, Order, Tradition, Unity and Spirit – are normal at Thai colleges. Humiliating, debasing and sporadically lethal means are utilized to acquaint youth with the pecking request.
A month ago, an understudy at another college was beaten until the point that his spleen burst.
A tip to the Anti-Sotus Facebook page of the sweet sharing episode was posted Sunday and by Tuesday had been shared very nearly 3,000 times.
Passing sweet mouth-to-mouth used to be a typical initiation action until the point that individuals turned out to be more mindful of the danger of transmittable sicknesses, Suebsakul said.
"Suspending understudies is following the college guidelines and brings issues to light of the issues. It's superior to doing nothing. An unmistakable discipline demonstrates that KMU isn't disregarding this transgression," Suebsakul stated, utilizing the college's acronym.
In any case, the lobbyist is worried about copycats.
"It will be exceptionally troublesome for the movement to be wiped out totally," he said. "After the news fades away, individuals will begin doing it once more."
