Students to face probation after candle wax incident
The disciplinary probe into 40 senior students who allegedly dripped candle wax that caused burns on freshmen from the industrial technology faculty should complete in five days, Luedech Kerdwichai, president of Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University in Bangko
Luedech apologising to the affected students and their parents, saying the 40 second-year students told university staff that they had dripped hot wax as claimed, but claimed the incident was not premeditated or meant to harm the freshmen during the “blessing ceremony”.
He said the senior students were in remorse, and promised not to do this again. They said they had apologised to those affected. He said the university would consider appropriate punishment, possibly probation. It would also provide remedial measures to those affected, including their medical bills and get the senior students to promise not to threaten the juniors.
One of the second-year students told reporters that the action was not part of a hazing tradition, as previously said in news reports.
