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Do the students from Sheffield uni still hold the rag week ,if so when does this years start.

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Do the students from Sheffield uni still hold the rag week ,if so when does this years start.

 

RAG as a fund raising activity for Charities continues to this day with events throughout the year.

 

Rag week and its associated events just got too big and too unsafe and ended in the mid 90's.

It was impossible to differentiate between the events planned by the UoS and SHU with the commercial events and promotions organised by nightclubs, bars and pubs.

 

There were several serious incidents which involved serious injury(2 deaths?), public disorder(including cancellation of trams) and issues to do with public safety.

 

Both Student Unions and their Universities accepted that it was just too big and had moved away from its original purpose of raising money for charities.

The public image created was also became very negative.

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Is there still a 'Twikker' rag mag?/

 

It's hardly likely in these politically correct times and if there was it would just be full of jokes about Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. They've just voted to ban sombreros and maracas from fancy dress parties to avoid racial stereotyping.

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It's hardly likely in these politically correct times and if there was it would just be full of jokes about Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. They've just voted to ban sombreros and maracas from fancy dress parties to avoid racial stereotyping.

 

It was the 'politically correct' times of the 80's and 90's that killed it off.

 

Of course the 'political correctness' of those decades is called 'normal' in this decade.

 

Why have Boris Johnson and Donald Trump voted to ban sombreros and maracas from fancy dress parties to avoid racial stereotyping?

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It was the 'politically correct' times of the 80's and 90's that killed it off.

 

Of course the 'political correctness' of those decades is called 'normal' in this decade.

 

Why have Boris Johnson and Donald Trump voted to ban sombreros and maracas from fancy dress parties to avoid racial stereotyping?

 

I was referring to students not Boris and Donald. Last week they voted to ban applause at Student Union meetings and next week they'll be voting to ban something else.

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I was referring to students not Boris and Donald. Last week they voted to ban applause at Student Union meetings and next week they'll be voting to ban something else.

 

So why have Boris and Donald voted to ban applause at Student Union meetings?

 

Perhaps Boris and Donald should let student reps at one students union replace noisy appreciation with the British Sign Language (BSL) equivalent - a wave of both hands, at debates, panels and talks, if they want to. Nothing to do with them.

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RAG as a fund raising activity for Charities continues to this day with events throughout the year.

 

Rag week and its associated events just got too big and too unsafe and ended in the mid 90's.

It was impossible to differentiate between the events planned by the UoS and SHU with the commercial events and promotions organised by nightclubs, bars and pubs.

 

There were several serious incidents which involved serious injury(2 deaths?), public disorder(including cancellation of trams) and issues to do with public safety.

 

Both Student Unions and their Universities accepted that it was just too big and had moved away from its original purpose of raising money for charities.

The public image created was also became very negative.

 

do you know if rag was an acronym is so what did it stand for?

Edited by choogling

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How can a charity get designated please and is it too late?

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It's hardly likely in these politically correct times and if there was it would just be full of jokes about Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. They've just voted to ban sombreros and maracas from fancy dress parties to avoid racial stereotyping.

 

This could make it tricky if/when Lord Mayor Magid Magid visits

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To 'rag' someone is to behave badly and bother someone and is used in Sheffield and elsewhere.

Sheffield was one of the first Universities/Medical Schools associated with charity fundraising. This became Rag Week where people got 'bothered' by loud parties of (medical)students to give money for local charities.

 

The main aim was and is still Raising And Giving -the new acronym.

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