Graduation glee horrors at Junior College

During the past two weeks I have had about four lectures spoiled at the Junior College. Hordes of louts have made it a point to celebrate their "graduation" by spilling out of buses in front of the college entrance and making life hell for lecturers, students, security personnel and senior administrators. They invade the grounds, they use abusive language, they impede access and exit, and insult all and sundry.

Faculty after faculty does this. Last week I could not go out of the college because a bunch of drunken "lawyers" decided to lay siege to the establishment, not realising that they had started their professional lives in a criminal way, even by making lecturers lose money and reputation by not delivering lectures at Tal-Qroqq at the appointed times, by invading establishments with restricted access, by being drunk in public and by using foul language.

On December 4, we had a horde of drunken "BSc. IT graduates" invading the grounds, urinating publicly (there are photos to prove this) and offending our students, telling them they were a miserable lot because they were stuck there and they had made it. This hurt me and the students because it erodes the students' commitment and morale, making a mockery of the sacrifices their parents make. Meanwhile I, and a lot of others, can't teach, for about two hours at a time. I have learned, to my discomfort, that the principal and his assistant had to intervene, possibly facing verbiage. They don't need, or deserve, this.

I phoned the college secretariat a quarter of an hour before my final lecture for the day, hoping to be able to deliver it, telling them that the only solution to this nonsense lies in identifying the bus number (these idiots hire buses for a day) and suing the bus driver personally, because apparently the police have suffered the fate of Chronos. If the police want to know what happened to Chronos they can either phone me at the college, Google it, or... Or the Commissioner can make a statement about this apparently sanctioned mayhem. Meanwhile, the bus driver is responsible for the misbehaviour of his passengers, for allowing them to get drunk on his bus, for illegally parking in a square and for snarling up traffic, as well as for the noise pollution his business is causing. He is also responsible for loss of earnings, and the harassment of numbers of individuals. That sort of court case could run into thousands of euros, so bus drivers should wake up to their responsibilities and liabilities. There will be a court case.

I urge the thousands of parents whose children go to Junior College to support me in putting a stop to this barbarism. These idiots are hurting their children, harming their education and mocking many laws of the state, with impunity and arrogance. If the police were to make themselves visible on obvious days, many of the drunken louts would start their career with a blot on their conduct, which they richly deserve. I am not a spoilsport, nor a wet blanket, and I love seeing young people achieve their objective, but I am totally against this hedonism.