Vic Uni mob accused of trashing two motels

This comes to show how much people exagerate. I was staying at the Havana Hotel. Yes, I admit ONE of the rooms was really bad but after that room got evicted, the rest of VIC agreed to go in and clean it ourselves. The window that was smashed, we paid for ourselves and that window was smashed when no one was even drinking. The owner seems to think we were hanging from the bars on the second floor, when the drinking was taken place mostly outside. I am not denying the fact that Havana is a great place to stay at because it is. But the judgements against Victoria University are inadequate and by far exagerated.

take the drinking cuture out of Uni's yeah right.

noone really even asked what the students had to say. unfortunitly this may have been a bad case, but i am 100% sure there was so much Exaggeration here.

good on you vic for taking out the sheild though! work hard party hard!!

Neville, you comment with such conviction that clearly you have access to some further information about these events beyond one sensationalised news report, do share.

Haha, I wish auckland uni students were more like this!

I was one of the students that was evicted and guess how much alcohol I touched the entire week... not a drop. How much damage did I do to the place??? Nothing. I went to bed everynight at 10:30pm and saw many other atheletes do the same thing. Don't be so quick to judge the students. This might sound a bit scary, but the hotel manager lied. They overexaggerated.

Classic example of why the drinking age should be raised! These 18-19 yo don't seem to show the maturity required to be allowed out on their own, especially when alcohol is involved. Even the "third motel" mentioned above should be annoyed - how awful to have your livelihood treated like someone's personal dumping ground.

you have to remember this is only a single group of students from a single university. There were many other university's there that did not get in to trouble like this, so judge all students just cause there is a bad bunch from one university.

Where is the collective responsibility? By saying that it wasnt as bad as described the students are denying personal responsibility however they should have tried to persuade their fellows to moderation, instead they duck for cover and cry "Not Me". Guilty as charged and they deserve the criticism.

An interesting side note, either missed or ignored by your reporter: Your article does make any mention that the police and the Uni Games security team were called to the Cleveland. This was not by the owners of the motel, but by Uni Games organisers. This was in response to the "security firm" acting in a menacing, intimidating, and threatening manner to the students who were staying there. The police presence also served to explain to the motel owners that it is in fact illegal to steal customers' bags in order to "make them pay". Would the owners not have called the police themselves if they truly thought there was going to be widespread, intentional damage caused to their motel? Please make no mistake, any damage made to a motel room, real or otherwise, is unacceptable (and should be compensated for), but so is shoddy, one sided reporting that will only serve to aggravate opinions against the oft burnt effigy of students, as evidenced by some comments appearing here already. If you label, stigmatise, and curse a person as a "hooligan", an "animal", or part of a "drunken mob" for long enough, you might just reap what you sow.

awesome. It's that kind of effort that also saw Vic Uni bring home the Uni Games shield. Maybe other University teams should have followed Vic's example