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Orgies, rape and Death: The misery that is today’s campus partying


You will agree that the most memorable moments of campus life are those weekends when there was a campus party.

In the days of old, it was the occasion when students would come from far and wide and flock in a particular university for a fresher’s night; when girls left nothing to imagination in their dressing for the party and when the boys moved the waist almost to the knees.

And students would dance to loud music, drink and drag themselves back to their hostels early morning the following day. But that was then.

Today’s’ campus parties are no longer the same. They have become dens of death, fights, and rape cases.

Many comrades have lost their lives in the name of partying and others have been left with scars to show for it. Some students have even confessed what goes down during the so called bashes.

“It was a fresher’s party in 2012 and I was among the ‘freshers’. I had just joined campus straight from the village and didn’t know much.

“I blacked out in the company of my friends only to wake up the following morning in a boy’s hostel room. I needed not to be told all the ‘things’ that had happened. The sheets bared it all,” says Vivian* a final year student at a local university told Nairobi News.

Fresher’s party also sees some male students dump their girlfriends in order to get themselves a fresher (a first yer student). And as ‘operation ponyoka na fresher’ continues, a tear goes to the dumped girlfriends.

However, girls are showing the boys that it takes two to tango by also earning themselves fresher boyfriends.

Ask any student today about their first encounter with alcohol, drugs or sex –and orgies- and most will tell you that it’s during the fresher’s night.

And much more happens during these campus bashes. Some male students’ lace female’s drinks with sleep-inducing drugs to make them unconscious. They later rape them and dump them.

Fights also ensue among students at parties and some sustain injuries or die.

The once peaceful and fun-filled campus parties have today turned into death traps and are marred by horrible experiences.