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Student pub crawls face ban amid backlash over drunken disorder

Source: The Guardian

Nov 08, 2009

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The outrage after undergraduate Philip Laing urinated on a war memorial has led many student unions to bar Carnage, the firm that runs the drinking events

Participating in at least a modicum of alcohol-induced mayhem is an integral and, some might say, a formative part of the modern undergraduate experience. But the company that tried to turn the formula into business gold is this week experiencing a backlash so fierce it has caused it to be banned from student unions across the country.

Carnage UK is an organisation that organises drinking events for an estimated 350,000 undergraduates in 45 towns and cities every year. National outrage against the group was provoked last week when 19-year-old Philip Laing was found guilty of ending a seven-hour drinking binge, during an event organised by Carnage, by urinating on a wreath of poppies at a war memorial.

Laing, who now faces a jail sentence, was one of more than 2,000 students who attended the marathon bar crawl last month. He told a court in Sheffield that on the night of the incident he had been "the drunkest I

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