Law camp party cancelled

Otago University has cancelled its law camp after complaints of past excessive drinking, nudity and jelly wrestling.

The student-organised camp due to run this weekend has been cancelled because of complaints about past camps involving excessive drinking, nudity and jelly-wrestling.

Two complaints from parents of Otago law students were received last year. Recently complaints had been coming directly from former students in the wake of the Russell McVeagh scandal.

One Otago graduate told RNZ the camp she attended in 2011 included a talent show in which a female student stripped to her underwear for male students to lick peanut butter and jam off her body.

Other students from camps in the past seven years have described young women jelly wrestling, full nudity and excessive beer drinking.

The camp is held at the beginning of each university year, and is aimed at bonding and creating collegiality among the second year students. Law School Faculty staff have also attended over the ten years it has been operating, with the Dean of the school usually attending.