Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 1. March 3 1968
Foreign student expelled
Foreign student expelled
(By the Editor)
A foreign student has been expelled from Victoria University for cheating.
The acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor I. D. Campbell, wrote this letter to the acting President of the Students' Association:
Dear Mr Bradshaw,
Disciplinary action has ben taken in the case of a student alleged to have committed breaches of the University regulations governing examinations.
It was alleged that on three occasions the candidate took prepared material into the examination roonv written on university paper, and inserted it as supplementary sheets in bis answer book. It was alleged on a fourth occasion he took written into the examination room with him.
The case was heard by the Professorial Board. The candidate appeared before the Board and gave evidence. He was assisted by counsel. The Board held that the four charges yere proved.
The candidate appealed to Council He produced evidence, and he again assisted by [unclear: council]. Council dismissed the in respect of three charges and allowed the appeal on one charge.
The penalty imposed by the Professorial Board disqualified the candidate in [unclear: respect] of the university examinations of 1967 and 1968. Council confirmed this penalty.
This statement of the facts may be made available to students generally.
Yours sincerely
I. D. Campbell.
Professor Campbell would give no further facts.
Transcript
"Any evidence I could give would tend to identify the student," he said. "The student has a transscript of the evidence and may release it if he wishes to."
Chris Butler and Hugh Fyson told the editor of Salient that this letter corresponds with the case of a Gambian student, Fafa M'bai.
They said they believe on the basis of conversations with Fafa that the finding of the University Council was contrary to the evidence.
"I think he would have stayed to fight this and not gone back to Gambia if his wife had not had to go back. She was expecting her first child," Chris Butler said."