Barely a week after it reopened for the fall semester Sherubtse College in Kanglung expelled three students, including a freshman, for drinking and engaging in a brawl with construction workers.

Two of the expelled were Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA) students and one was a science student.

“The college rules states that anybody found under alcoholic influence, getting involved in fights, creating nuisance in the community, and vandalising would be expelled without any explanation or warning,” said the director of the college, Dr. Jagar Dorji.

On July 24, at about 11:00 pm, two construction workers had approached the director saying that a group of students had picked up a fight with them and their friends on the way to the Kanglung upper market. It had sparked off because shoulders had rubbed.

“I was told that about 12 students were involved. While the group had already dispersed I assured them that the matter would be taken up the next day,” he said. “I gave them my phone number.” But within half an hour, the director received a telephone call from the construction workers saying about 20 students had come to their camp near the northern gate of the college. “Upon arriving at the scene I found students throwing sticks and stones at the camp and were also using abusive words,” said Jakar Dorji.

As the group fled into the night the director managed to get hold of three students. Two students had suffered minor injuries from the fight.

The next day the discipline committee expelled the three students who had refused to reveal the names of their friends involved in the fight and from where they had gotten the alcohol.

The director told Kuensel that the parents of only one student was informed because the contact numbers given by the two other students were unauthentic.

Two of the expelled students were handed over to police for threatening to harm the college discipline committee members.

According to a lecturer, one of the expelled students he met in a restaurant on July 28 had threatened to harm the discipline committee members. On another occasion they had also threatened to commit suicide. Source: Kuenselonline